Youtube comments of Crazy Eyes (@CrizzyEyes).

  1. "We're dropping this right now, and we're getting me out of this." "I am not releasing you." "I... uh... well, hmm." So much for his master plan
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  2. That is the most unceremonious "Game Over" screen ever. No death scream, no theme, no nothing, just a menu. Even Doom (1993) had a dramatic death cry, red filter, and Doomguy's face melting.
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  3. I like how he paused as if analyzing all the available streams carefully, locks in on the anime girl with massive undercleavage and says "Here we go." as if it was exactly what he was looking for the whole time
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  4. The guy who shat his pants continued dating the girl, AND he was the one who originally uploaded the video. Holy cow, I think everyone wishes they could have that level of confidence
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  5. Ah yes the guys who think your role playing choices in a video game must reflect your IRL morals, thus defeating the purpose entirely
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  6. It's worth mentioning that the tweet is from a third party and their conclusion is based purely on conjecture. However, there are a lot of signs that it isn't going to go well for Johnny. At a minimum, they can contrive reasons to hold him in jail with no trial (Japan has NO right to a speedy trial and people can be held in jail pending trial indefinitely) until his visa expires and deport him immediately. It depends on whether they think it's worth it to spend tax payer dollars on making him suffer in prison. This is why you don't fuck around with the law in foreign countries.
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  7. Seems appropriate. Athletes and their fans are both known to be highly superstitious. Glad Gura could make a good first impression as the lucky shark girl.
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  8. He gave this offender one final chance by posing as a minor and baiting him to the scene of the crime. If he was truly reformed, or planning on reforming, he would not have taken the bait. The guilt of the deceased is self evident
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  9. She was walking on a freeway, and decides to charge a cop for no reason... Yeah, I'm pretty sure she was thinking about ending it all. Before she saw the cop, she was contemplating running out into traffic.
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  10. "we need to treat people who carry a growing life within them for 9 months completely the same as those who just don't have to do that" -- a science denier
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  11. Yes. He clearly wasn't talking about disabled people. Also, giving a wheelchair-bound person a ramp or an elevator isn't a fucking "advantage." It's allowing them to live their life slightly closer to the way non-disabled people do. I don't feel "advantaged" every time I have to ask a person for a paper copy of something written on a board because I can't read it due to my eye sight.
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  12. I remember I went looking for the lowest rated anime on MAL for a lark years ago, and the one I ended up on was called Akikan. It's a harem anime about magical girls that transform into cans of soda with cheesy scenes where the MC "kisses them" inadvertently by drinking them. It had awful animation and as you can tell, the entire premise was insanely stupid.
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  13. "I'm a righteous revolutionary, but also, I want to make sure nobody has guns once I get into power" -- every authoritarian movement ever
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  14.  @jonasvalero  Hard to digest that someone with this kind of attitude could work in law enforcement of any kind. If he tried to rush to the victim's aid, I'd say he was a clumsy idiot but at least he has the right spirit. Negligently discharging your gun into a crowd is not a "sheepish smile and just walk away" moment. He probably got in the agency through nepotism.
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  15. "You have 15 years of experience in HTML and CSS? You're hired!" "Thanks! Great to be on board." "You'll be a great help with our new website written in HTML5" "Huh? There's a 5th one? I never had to use that 15 years ago!"
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  16. She lawyered up the moment she was in the hospital. Oh lawd, they comin'.
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  17.  @---ny4ys  guilty of what?
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  18. Yeah... Dude was trying to brawl with a guy that has twice his HP
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  19.  @RobbieStacks90  Dude, you got blocked on social media because someone didn't like you, and then confronted them in person about it? I hate to break it to you, but unless you were already close friends and wanted to make amends, that is stalker behavior.
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  20. This is what happens when you turnover most of your devs every time you finish a project.
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  21. I seriously question their priorities. Security cameras but unlocked front door?
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  22. Yep, there were in fact high capacity repeating rifles back then. They were air rifles, but Jefferson and others were avid travelers and had almost certainly heard of them if not seen a demonstration.
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  23. The fact that they deliberately advertise this weapon as being left out in the open, in a fucking TV stand, while a happy family with children goes about their lives is sickening. They really do want this to be a substitute for responsible gun storage and ownership and are marketing to total idiots.
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  24. Hate to say it but it isn't all fun and games. This exact same situation happened to my father and I at home. Lost pit bull wandered towards us in our driveway and was very friendly. My dad wanted to give him some water and food and then send him on his way. However the moment he opened the back door gate, he lunged at our dog's (a weimaraner runt rescued from euthanization) throat without even a warning. Luckily, despite the fact that our dog was a total pacifist and never attacked anyone or anything, he was very fast and managed to dodge the lunge. My father panicked and threw him over the fence into the neighbor's yard, which luckily did not have any more dogs in it. Pit bulls are usually friendly to people, it's other dogs you have to be careful about.
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  25. Correction, in DNF he's a manlet. DNF tried way too hard to be ironic about everything and be self-deprecating. Duke also broke character multiple times, namely the alien nest scene. That says a lot when your character bio consists of "Protect babes, kill aliens, spit savage one liners." The franchise used to be tongue-in-cheek machismo and a parody of 80's action heroes. The latter part is largely irrelevant nowadays. There aren't even many good movies to draw quotes from any more.
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  26.  @danifer6162  He clicked on the "gender identity" option and all of them were trans. What about nonbinary? What about genderfluid? Even when you're virtue signalling, you aren't doing it correctly.
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  27.  @hampe2424  Will you pay for my plane ticket to Japan?
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  28. So he was sent to live in, most likely, a better old folks' home than he would have gotten here. Ironic.
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  29. Pope Urban II: "That's nothing, I asked them not to use crossbows and now look at them, they've got fully automatic fire crossbows with infinite range"
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  30.  @p0358  I have hundreds of unread stupid emails in my inboxes but I don't demand blood over it.
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  31. Dude gave up his life to protect Trump's using karma magic
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  32. The reason why they point out Cuban's ethnicity is because very frequently liberal Ashkenazis will say they are "white" because it is politically convenient, to lend their critique some credibility. On the other hand, they will definitely say they are Ashkenazi if they ever had to, for example, immigrate to Israel which does have strict DNA testing for ancestry. It's a "mask on, mask off" type situation. By almost every definition (even the UK's, which is hopelessly pozzed) Middle Eastern ethnicities are not white. Ironically though, these people rarely feel any loyalty to the Jewish community and frequently lobby against Israel, unless it's somehow self-serving to do otherwise.
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  33. Even if the pipes never rupture, you have to allow city workers on to your property to maintain that easement, likely with no notice at all knowing city government. It is effectively property you don't own or at least have to share with the city.
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  34. @FlyingMonkies325 Don't worry, syphilis is mostly a new-world disease in those days. I'm sure he got some other infection instead.
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  35. I'm rather partial to the Doorstep Defecator.
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  36.  @SacredLuzt777  "Dude, just like, rebel against the evil authoritarian government lmao" seems to be the refrain for ignorant people living comfortably in air conditioned rooms with internet access, ignoring that several attempts were made anyway.
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  37.  @3dbee47  Yeah I don't know where people get this idea that rifles are big scary murder weapons. Most mass shootings are committed with handguns and the occasional shotgun, and gang gun violence is committed overwhelmingly with handguns.
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  38.  @meatshield_  Yeah, and it's way easier to make yourself look like a total dickhead doing it, too.
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  39. They need to make it wider. Then you could wear it like a necklace.
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  40. No reasonable gamer expects an official release to be "better" (by that I assume you mean, has more content) than a 12 year old game that has been consistently modded for those 12 years. They just expect the mod tools to be as good or better, that's it.
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  41. They should come up with a cleverer name for it, like "Beached Whale"
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  42.  @Sniperbear13  No, if a meal were just for your stomach, no one would have a problem eating boiled potatoes until they die. Even by the most basic standards a meal involves 3 senses (smell, taste, touch i.e. the texture of the food) and for some people, 4 (sight). Many won't eat something that doesn't look good and that gets even worse when you put photos of the food in the menu because they don't get a chance to smell it.
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  43. "Hey, before you go, did you want to pre-order the new Call of Duty?"
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  44. Now I'm just imagining Peter Griffin narrating The Shadow Out of Time.
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  45. That cackle dance "trend" is one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever seen.
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  46.  @konstantinkrastev4478  Your test is totally redundant. Scientists have already studied more than enough evidence to support what the other commenters have said in labs. The average man has 50% more upper body strength than that of the average woman. We humans are simply unique in our sexual dimorphism because we were better at forming societies in which we support one another. It is better to have everyone be specialized in their associated tasks than to have everyone be a generalist. Hence why men and women diverged in their traits.
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  47.  @bloodgroundgaming7871  20 copies of this game = 60 fps. Flawless math right there.
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  48. It's also a multi-layered joke because Bao is a whale, literally.
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  49. She's a soldier, makes total sense really
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  50. "That's a great pair of DDs, but it's nothing compared to the new 64GB sticks of DDR5 RAM we got"
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  51. Hey, this is Comic Con, not a Smash Bros. tournament.
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  52. As Gaben said, "piracy is a service issue." Nintendo makes it such a pain in the fucking ass to play their older games, especially Virtual Console games, that piracy is way more appealing. Nobody wants to buy every retro game again when a new Nintendo console comes out.
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  53. I can't even imagine why they'd make a video advocating this, even if they like it. It's very subjective. Also they admit that they're brazenly manipulating each other in the process.
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  54.  @DaChaGee  You think armies fight in parade formation and parade uniform?
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  55. It also makes me wonder what the world would be like if Hitler were an architect like the art school he applied to originally recommended
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  56. average crescent moon worshipper experience
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  57. He instantly got 3+ Wanted stars.
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  58.  @shawno8253  It's reasonable to expect slightly higher critical analysis skills from a professional journalist though.
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  59.  @Not_interestEd-  debates aren't about convincing your opponent. In no presidential debate has one of the candidates said "You know what, you make a good point" and dropped out of the race. They're about convincing the audience.
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  60. Hang on bb I gotta put my lipstick on b4 I hop in the Abrams
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  61.  @T.Hebert  Martin Shkreli, is that you?
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  62. Okay who the fuck has access to a wrapping machine that can re-wrap candy perfectly to make it look like an official product anyway? There was always fear mongering about this but I never once heard of it actually happening.
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  63.  @SirenSiren.official  No, but most people would agree that staying alive is pretty cool
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  64. Being honest and straightforward is cringe nowadays. Everything must be swaddled in layers of irony. It's okay to tap into the fatherly urge to protect a tiny catgirl.
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  65. ​@MinecraftMasterNo1 Many people say that and yet nobody in Japan thinks they'll get shot for going to school or the convenience store. Or get hit by a massive truck at a public event. I like America but don't be a contrarian.
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  66. To her this is an important discussion about diversity and inclusion... to him it's an expose of a madwoman
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  67.  @DaChaGee  Right, but they tend to have idealized equipment for the situation. This is equipment that hasn't changed in almost 400 years. Wool pants and jacket for summer.
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  68.  @ELECTR0VlO  Dude every single console publisher does that, it's called timed exclusives. I don't like Sony either but it's mind-blowing that people pretend this is unique to Sony now. You aren't the first to say this. Guess Microsoft is shilling hard for the kill. And the idea that Microsoft is not sustainable or somehow losing money is absurd. Sony is much worse off than MS will ever be for the foreseeable future.
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  69. Kentucky rifles were superior even to them, and it's what a lot of marksmen used during the revolution. They used those arms for hunting and naturally kept them afterward. On the contrary the British weren't supplying their companies with the best equipment. Many of them were penal conscripts.
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  70. ​ @MrRulet550 Selling that crap isn't nearly as easy as you make it sound. There's a reason why dozens of boxes were being returned to the original vendor.
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  71.  @konstantinkrastev4478  They weren't "designed." They adapted to that role over hundreds of thousands of years. Before that we were a bunch of scared glorified apes that hid in the trees from tigers in the savannah and ate food or left-over meat when we could get it.
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  72. "Hi, I'm one of those people who are prone to sensory overload..." proceeds to yell way louder than anyone else who has spoken with or without a microphone
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  73. Political satire beautifully summarized.
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  74. 3:49 This sounds exactly like if Eric Cartman tried to do a British accent.
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  75.  @maxakerstrom6524  you're right, it's faster to type simp
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  76.  @porcupinepunch6893  Because you would expect the prosecutor(s) to want to send the guy to somewhere he would suffer, not somewhere he would be comfortable? Not exactly a mystery.
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  77.  @thisguy103  and the suicide statistics... and the workplace death statistics...
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  78. Yeah, tends to happen when your country is only 240 years old and some of your cities are only 150 years old.
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  79.  @IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor  the problem is that Lara's original character was a 2nd wave feminist and therefore didn't believe that being sexually attractive was inherently degrading. She would routinely walk around naked in front of her butler and be amused at his embarrassment.
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  80. i'm beginning to think these guys all just had abusive fathers and they need someone to yell at them so they can be good again in their mid life crisis
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  81. ​@Toketree No you won't? Tf you talkin about?
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  82.  @kuzzbillington6392  You can't get that fat unless you eat humungous meals and eat more than 3 meals a day. It really isn't easy to weigh 1000 pounds. My dad ate quite unhealthily and was over 300 pounds at his heaviest, nowhere near those girls
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  83.  @practicalone2  I think it's more likely because that pit bull was a stray. Dogs can be raised well and raised poorly, like humans. It's just harder to raise a pit bull properly. I simply wish that people who own dogs like pit bulls would take responsibility for the differences in breeding and train them properly.
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  84. The guy thought he could fight because he takes fitness boxing classes. Lmfao
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  85. Exactly, thank you. Feudal society was incredibly different from what we know today. It was very confederated in the sense that each lord was in fact, lord of his own domain, and had a treaty with the king that said he'd send men to help him in military campaigns. But lords were usually quite keen to keep their power for themselves. Imagine for example if the governors of states here in the US would explicitly threaten both each other and the president with violence over perceived slights or not respecting ones' borders. Private wars were often legal between lords in the same kingdom, especially in the HRE/Germany, hence the term "feudal." To earn the respect of being a lord with a title or a landed knight, one was expected to provide for oneself using the land given to him or if he had no land, through mercenary work or some other means. The traditional obligation of a noble was to fight and to raise men for fighting -- completely on his own, not because the king gave him a bunch of money to buy all his groceries. There are always exceptions but that is the rule. Giving money to a knight so he can buy his own gear before going on campaign might very well been taken as an insult; or at the least, he'd have to consider whether taking the money would be worth the less tangible but still significant cost of being laughed at by his peers for being too poor.
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  86. Sorry to hear about your friend. It's infuriating to hear that someone let someone else take control of their life like that. All for the irrational fear of being alone for a little longer.
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  87. "Fixes" is definitely a way to see that. It would be like the problem we have now with Californians moving to Texas except a hundred times worse.
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  88. look, I enjoy the game but it's extremely disingenuous to compare "cut content" in most RPGs, like the Fallout series for example, to cut content the way Larian does it. the content you're referring to isn't really "cut content," it's just unfinished. the proof is in the fact that Larian has and will finish this content later on. cut content is just that, it is content that was removed by executive decision because it would bloat the game too much or cost too much in either time or money. it doesn't have plans for release. the difference is that when content is cut earlier in development, the devs can account for this and make the game's narratives work. everyone can tell that BG3 is unfinished because the unused content has been data mined and plot threads are simply left hanging. there's also the fact that they allegedly stated the unfinished content would be in the game just weeks before release. Larian has to get better PR managers, but I don't think they will because of how much attention "lol bear sex" drummed up.
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  89.  @maxwellquipey1  You can kinda get "suck it up" when your little serial killer in the making reaches out for help?
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  90. They're desperate to have some kind of retort to Trump's successful stream with Aiden Ross and Kai isn't interested.
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  91.  @konstantinkrastev4478  Bro's really posting his anecdotal evidence on multiple threads like it will open everyone's eyes. Yes exceptions exist, thank you. The problem is, you can't build your whole "women survivalist team" out of exceptions.
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  92. Enact congressional term limits
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  93.  @terruskaa  I am not commenting on the morality of the issue, only the lack of consistency or logic with their sentencing and punishment. In fact, I disagree with sending 90+ year old camp guards to prison because "muh long arm of the law." All of this "I was following orders isn't an excuse" from clowns on the internet who likely would make the same decision in their shoes makes me sick.
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  94. Nah... I'm sure he just blamed you for it and never learned from his mistake.
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  95. Tabletop Simulator has a tablet you can put on the table that does that same thing. Neat stuff.
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  96. Wearing a pinstripe suit like she's a goofy mob boss
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  97. L plus ratio plus cocaine addiction
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  98.  @demsochimbo5383  Like any organized religion, your extremist idea is easily subvertible. All you need to do is shift the meaning of "Fascist" (Here's a hint, it's already shifted massively from what it originally meant) and boom, you're committing genocide like any good... well, Fascist.
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  99.  @kirikakirikakirika  In all fairness CDPR did (according to the aforementioned reviewer) copy the exact pattern from a headset device that is specifically designed to induce seizures in photosensitive epileptics when you use the Braindance feature, which I find to be extremely weird and unnecessary. On the other hand, there are people saying incredibly stupid things like "No epileptic should have to risk a seizure when playing a video game" as a result of this, which is impossible to fulfil. I knew a kid in grade school that was photosensitive, and he had a seizure while playing Battlefield 1942. That game has very little in the way of flashing lights and neon colors. If you're photosensitive and you just buy a game blindly without doing any research and expect all the risk to be mitigated for you, I don't know what to tell you. That's similar to walking across the street without looking both ways first.
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  100. It's also what happened at Agincourt. Imagine being encased in full plate armor and falling off your horse into this mud. That was the French.
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  101. ​ @Metalgarn Fox is absolutely mainstream, what are you smoking?
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  102. Not to mention this shit is tired as fuck and has been done by many stand-up Jewish comedians.
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  103. This has been a thing since Halo 1 on PC. These are similar to the earliest sorts of mods for that game, before the "Custom Edition" was released with full mod tools for the game which changed the landscape completely -- there's full campaign mods that change the game to use weapons from all the later games, entirely self-contained map files which also have mods in them -- so you'd load up one map in multiplayer and get a medieval map with only melee weapons like axes, crossbows, and rocks for grenades. Anyways, the mods back then were simpler stuff like making the pistol shoot plasma grenades, but I believe you could also do clowny stuff like make weapons shoot props. Nothing like those vehicle edits though, those are hilarious.
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  104.  @Dr.AvenVon  periods can indeed make you immobile with severe cramping. i see you're now completely triggered to the point where you're up-dooting your own comments because you think we're at war now and pulling in irrelevant talking points, so i'll leave you to it
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  105. It's just like any community with budding teenagers. There are old weirdos who orbit it looking for the vulnerable and impressionable minds to take advantage of. Anime really just describes cartoons from Japan. Like all cartoons, it spans the gap from completely normal stuff to the most degenerate thing you've ever seen. It does have some common features, like perhaps a lack of distinctly "Christian" values due Japan not being predominantly Christian, but ironically although crossdressing is a theme in some anime (targeted at older audiences) it's usually played off for laughs and fantasy. Virtually no Japanese person would think the cosmetic surgery we think of as "transitioning" to be an effective procedure. Indeed, some Japanese men already look so feminine that they can crossdress and pass as women even without surgery -- which is also the source of the recurring joke. I think it would be more intelligent to use Occam's Razor here and assume that the pronoun brainwashing camp had more of an effect than the cartoons watched by preteens widely all over the world
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  106. Exactly. If it wasn't him, it was going to be some other hapless idiot in the future. That's why end users are the best form of QA.
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  107. Yeah... Don't really understand why you'd go through the whole game with that goofy fucking preorder item on your head
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  108.  @RisenThe  Dude, you realize it defeats the purpose of going online to have a discussion at all if you're just going to accuse the first person who responds of lying?
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  109.  @Saucemcsauce  it's a comment on streaming as a medium dude, no need to be the crab at the bottom of the bucket
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  110.  @mysterionmccormick_  "Arabs were black" Bruh, you might as well go ahead and make the pathetic watered-down claim that everyone is black because all of humanity was in Africa at some point.
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  111. See, I've played the OG games, and Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights -- all the RTwP "greats" that the obnoxious purists have also played. But I never liked the games because of RTwP, I liked it in spite of that. It's just so fucking fiddly. For example: oops, I clicked to move at second 6.1 instead of 5.9, so I just lost my action for that 6-second round. In my opinion, the system is a crutch to support lazily designed encounters. Now, these games did have some memorable encounters, don't get me wrong... but the majority of them (especially in NWN) were just groups of trash mobs. RTwP makes this part of the game -- the boring part -- go faster. The difference is Larian's design philosophy. They try to make sure every encounter has a purpose, and that none of them are too similar or feature boring enemies. There are very few boring encounters in the game and even the low level mobs have at least one ability you need to watch out for. RTwP is fundamentally not needed because you aren't trudging through the prison district of Neverwinter killing naked prisoner dudes every 5 feet. If I had to kill all those shit mobs in turn-based, yeah, that would get annoying quickly. The real solution here is to not design annoying encounters, not to use a half-assed timing system that bastardizes the source rules.
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  112. Aren't their VODs extremely limited though? You can host way more on YouTube.
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  113.  @jamescampbell8482  Or put the peanut butter in the sandwiches...
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  114.  @masterchiff6784  Make sure you update your drivers again, I believe there was another NVIDIA driver released after launch that is supposed to boost performance
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  115.  @weareharbinger914  Angelina Jolie was an insanely good cast for the character. I didn't think the movies were perfect but I couldn't have imagined a better actress.
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  116.  @klonoa_thecabbitanimations2515  someone posts a video of a toddler throwing a tantrum while their mom gives them a bath "haha what a silly kid" someone posts a video of a husky throwing a tantrum while a professional groomer gives them a bath "WTF ANIMAL ABUSER HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A BATH"
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  117. I think it was either Voltaire or Thomas Paine who said that in order to defend free speech properly, you have to defend people you dislike. It ties back into that other quote about not defending your neighbors when the authoritarian secret police comes for them, and by the time they come for you, there's no one left to speak for you.
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  118. The comfiest load ever designed.
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  119. Agreed. I respect our troops, but think about this. The US government essentially forces a civilian plane to carry their soldier as cargo; is there not a better way? Isn't it arguably disrespectful to not use a military vehicle to transport the soldier home? The obvious answer is it would be more expensive to do so. But it is irrational for the government to thrust this soldier's coffin into the lives of a couple hundred ordinary citizens trying to go about their business and expect them to drop everything to pay respects.
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  120. also i love how that guy assumes that thinkpieces aren't being written about this simply because she's white
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  121. +Harry McDonnell Yeah but the animations are always amusing as hell if you know how the gun actually works, or have used one yourself.
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  122. Bet he doesn't hunt or kill wildlife and eat raw meat either, or sleep in a dirty cave.
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  123. I noticed that as a bit of a German speaker. The German word is "Ei," and "Eier" for plural, pronounced pretty much the same way.
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  124. Clearly we should use this example as the basis of an economy at scale. What could possibly go wrong?
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  125.  @Lumpofchicken  You need to do part of Ranni's questline just to do the Divine Tower in Liurnia so assuming you'd want to activate all your runes, you'd be doing the same thing
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  126. ​ @CoalCoalJames oh no, someone is enjoying something I don't enjoy. I must compulsively signal this to everyone else.
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  127. People used to think it was stupid to prevent drunk driving. It's clear to me that at least half of people shouldn't drive.
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  128. Agreed. He didn't even name the Jew or make some long argument about how he used to be named -stein or -berg and changed his name.
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  129. ​@EdMcF1 They're fugitives, they don't really have the same rights friend.
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  130. @superking__ everyone gets hate comments, women just complain more about it
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  131. Here's the thing, you can insta-kill enemies in that way too, so if they didn't do it back the game would be criticized for dumb AI. Just don't move your PCs next to a chasm and it's fine. Also you can just use a revivify scroll anyway if you were at the end of a fight that was going well. There's a little mote of light that appears on the edge they dropped from that you can click on to revive them. They're really not that expensive.
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  132. There is a whole anime about all the bullshit jobs people in Japanese government do (Servant x Service).
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  133. It sounds like a Hemingway short story to be honest
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  134.  @rustle495  You really think executives have no hand in monetization? Lol.
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  135. It's perfectly possible to make suits like this. The problem is that most furries are obsessed with their OCs, which frankly have awful design, and they get a suit based on that design. It's a niche market for rich kids with too much money to spend, a very common grift.
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  136. Hey, that's awesome. Keep struggling. Life is about struggle and the small victories. I am visually disabled and it's stopped me from driving, but I have it relatively easy. I moved out from my parents' house at around the same time ride share apps gained huge amounts of traction.
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  137. Are they really "emotional support pets for other pets" at that point? Isn't that just called having a friend?
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  138. Just read about that. Remarkable story, as drivers who would commit minor infractions like overshooting a platform by 100m would be punished by being sent to a "training program" that mostly involved them doing humiliating menial tasks like weeding and cleaning toilets. This was because the schedule for trains was so tight that you couldn't afford to be 21 seconds late. The driver had already made two minor infractions that day and was probably so stressed about being sent back to "reeducation" that he wasn't paying attention to his speed as he hit the curve.
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  139.  @luisdawnfinder3188  I still remember the housewife who was baking a chicken and was taken down to the station by police officers for making a non violent tweet about trans people.
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  140. The jokes write themselves. I'm honestly fucking amazed this cleared some kind of design meeting.
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  141. Yeah, I'd be amazed if most of the people criticizing her were not other moms, as opposed to "male trolls" as she seems to imply. I've met enough moms to know they put in more effort than this lady.
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  142. Actually the sentence before that is even more important. "Marty ate more pizza than Luis." It is provided as a given fact. Any lecture about how to read word problems in math or science will teach you that you're supposed to take this as an absolute truth and not "HAHA, GOTCHA! I WAS LYING THE WHOLE TIME!" Whoever wrote this question failed at step 1.
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  143.  @marilynlin1544  you realize that other animals also kill animals, right the whole vegan perspective kind of falls apart when you realize that death is as much a part of nature as life
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  144. The horrible thing is that like cops they're never held accountable. They just get to continue skirting the line of malpractice like it ain't no thang.
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  145.  @Negevite  It's no more woke than Mass Effect or Dragon Age. You like gay aliens, turtle?
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  146.  @Galax2000  "Not everyone is a fan of oversexualisation" you do realize that you don't have to like or enjoy every game ever made right? the game isn't for you, it's fine, no need to morally grandstand about it.
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  147. ​ @mitchhamilton64 "Heh. It seems you have made a syntactical error. Your opinion on our society crumbling before our very eyes as both political parties agree the last two elections were rigged is therefore irrelevant. Checkmate."
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  148. I disagree, out of context I fully agree with the headline. Dress-up can be very sexy. However, the greater context of that article is supporting censorship, which is dumb.
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  149.  @St33lStrife  If your car is stolen, I'd be slightly more worried about that than the gun
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  150. Dude that's fucking pennies. This man is a real estate emperor. Unless the government outright steals his property he'll never be poor. The fact that anyone could believe he's financially insecure is pure brainwashing. Yeah, he had like less than ten failed business, out of over a hundred.
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  151.  @hopinondeeznuts350  It was proven that McDonald's employees didn't follow safety rules set up to prevent that exact scenario. They literally were not supposed to serve coffee that hot. Try actually reading up on the case sometime
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  152. I'll be honest that area is also kinda trash. Most AC arenas have cover or buildings. This is the AC equivalent of final destination
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  153. This reminds me of the ancient "NEDM" meme, although that meme was all about how the original video (A guy setting a cat on fire) was disgusting. He set the video to music from Doom, of all things, and someone commented on the video with "Not even Doom music makes this cool," which is how the meme got its name.
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  154.  ipostyouwatch  It is based. On classic Fallout art design. The classic jumpsuits were tighter.
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  155.  @LegendofLaw  Just spitballing here, but for a start good luck cleaning all the dirt and grass out of the interlocking metal plates. Yeah, those do shift around and shit can get stuck in there. As mentioned on another comment thread, this thing being harder than a lawnmower blade is not actually a good thing -- your lawnmower is much more expensive than this hose, I'd hope. I would much rather break the hose in that case. Another thing is if you have a pet and they decide to play with it, they could hurt their teeth.
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  156.  @DaChaGee  Why did you think your initial question made any sense at all then?
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  157.  @soygibg1021  your comment reads like every single cult recruitment message ever made "you're totally boned. but don't worry, pay our tithes and you will be saved!"
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  158. I think the point of the Peanuts comic was to tell kids who have a bad day that there are other kids who have bad days, or worse days, all the time, and not to give up. I read a lot of them when I was a kid
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  159.  @Dr.AvenVon  i think you need to go back to medical school "Dr."
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  160.  @trucid2  That's what leads to the turnover. Only naïve college grads end up hired. The ones who stayed long enough to finish a game ask for a raise and get fired.
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  161. DSP used to have subs and views in the 100s of thousands. This was back in the late 2000s, early 2010s. Now he's lucky to break 10k views on a video. It's not an act
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  162. All bets are off when a knife or a gun is involved and the other guy is unarmed. Doesn't matter how strong or fit you are, severed artery is a severed artery.
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  163.  @AJPDing  Honestly, a slice of life anime about the ancient Greek pantheon would be very appropriate with all of the ridiculous hijinks they get up to
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  164.  @Felale  Dude, you have to be in max denial if you think that fruits are just "sugar and fiber." Sugars digested through a fruit are much healthier than added crystallized sugars. Not to mention all of the vitamins and other nutrients contained in fruits. It's OK to have an unhealthy diet and be unapologetic about it, but you don't need to try and gaslight the world into thinking that fruit is unhealthy to compensate
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  165. Ball pits do very little to slow your fall. You shouldn't jump in those as an adult either. Kids that weigh 90 pounds or less are going to have a much easier time jumping into this pool than an adult weighing over 130 pounds. It's basic physics. It's the same reason why a squirrel can fall out of a tree and be just fine afterward. The staff want the kids to be able to enjoy themselves, but children in adult bodies cannot resist the opportunity to injure themselves for a video on social media.
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  166.  @xXPureMetalXx  In the past, up to and including Obama and Bush, I'd have agreed, but Trump is significantly different. He is trying to break the mold we've been stuck in for the past 30+ years
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  167. Haha, I thought he was going to say he's in HEMA or something but looks like he does those reenactment exhibition fights you see at ren fairs.
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  168. Armor abilities were not too bad in my opinion. Also Reach introduced one of the most fun weapons in the franchise, the human grenade launcher. I think the thing that really killed Halo was 343's god-awful campaign design. Halo 4 was a gauntlet of bullet sponge after bullet sponge. The Forerunners were simply not at all enjoyable to fight; they could tank a million hits and then teleport away from you on top of all that. And then there were assist drones later on that shielded them if memory serves. It was incredibly tedious. Then 5 naturally butchered the story.
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  169. They were already giggling as soon as he said "What role do you play on the uh, team?" As if there could never be teamwork in a videogame. This guy clearly didn't even have kids that play games, or if they did he never took an interest. Nothing more wholesome than getting dead drunk, ripping your shirt off, spray painting a team logo on your chest and screaming at the top of your lungs for two hours.
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  170.  @pedrooliveira936  I... literally put it right there in the post.
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  171.  @shadywolf6464  Hey, just wanted to let you know that the detailed and unique animations you helped create during dialogue do elevate the game. I definitely notice when games re-use stock animations (like handing someone an item, that's a very common example).
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  172. And the Hunter Biden rule in the background was a good detail
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  173.  @lolacole5653  You want to help her? Great, go fund a private rehabilitation facility. Don't use my and everyone else's money to do it.
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  174.  @zytotempol8154  Yeah okay pal, just keep saying "karma is real" and expect someone to take your YouTube comments seriously. Maybe it'll happen someday, or maybe you'll grow an ounce of self-awareness.
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  175.  @jennypaxton8159  There's theories abound of monks sharing some private joke at another group's expense for that.
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  176. It's really hard to take it seriously based on what I've seen honestly. The representations of the ideologies in the game are extremely disingenuous so any commentary it might have had on society falls flat due to the designers' blatant bias.
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  177.  @grimjoker5572  Really? Then why do trans people have to broadcast their gender dysphoria all the time?
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  178. The article Charlie was reading didn't mention everything. I believe the women also stated he was a cheater. Guy's probably a dickhead, but that is much closer to a defamatory statement.
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  179. Yeah that "I was just following orders" excuse doesn't work here. They didn't need to manhandle her in the way they did or talk to her as if she is a criminal intentionally barring their investigation, especially when her own supervisor told her to deny them the sample. Not to mention you should always second guess your superiors, this isn't a war zone and people are always fallible
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  180. ​ @drmenjoyer1 I don't understand why you take internet strangers to task even as they're apologizing
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  181. His name was Franz Schmidt and he was a surprisingly virtuous man given the nature of his position. For example he advocated to eliminate some of the excessively cruel methods like drowning (which was only used against women) and he seemed to often behead people "as a favor" (literal phrase he used in his diary) instead of a less humane method
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  182. ​ @Shreddittrading DV is a federal felony that can cause you to have your 2A revoked. That person was just touching on other similar injustice that goes on in this country
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  183.  @bronco5334  Take a good look folks, an ever-dwindling breed: The Bush dynasty advocate.
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  184. ​ @luxcide the difference is unlike most trans people she actually succeeded as passing as the opposite gender (though some of the men she hung out with suspected she was a gay man, they never suspected she was a woman or trans)
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  185.  @danielsparham  It amazes me that so many Christians can't conceive that maybe the Bible isn't the sacred word of God. That knocks the whole foundation of truth out of the window. Imagine you're coming from a point of complete ignorance. What seems more likely: An unexplainable, unknowable immortal and omniscient being is responsible for everything you see now, and this book is His word, or a bunch of guys who wanted to keep some desert nomads in line wrote some rules down to appease them? Frankly, you should get comfortable with there being no definitive root of truth that goes back to the beginning of time. It doesn't exist, and even if it did, you would be hilariously naive to believe any man's explanation of it. Unless you receive a divine vision from God himself, you have no reason to believe because everything that has been told to you about Him is from other people. So I don't know how you can lecture others about what is true and what is not.
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  186.  @jgg204  Take your meds, Grandpa.
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  187.  @badwolf3618  Please, enlighten us more about how all of history had instantaneous global communication.
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  188. He probably had main character syndrome and believed he was sent there because the front needed him and he was the only person that could win Hitler's battles
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  189.  @asherloat8570  Most people like No Alcohol Peter would know their neighbors though, certainly the ones living a couple doors down.
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  190.  @mrk3815  Bro, you have no idea what you're talking about. He's probably just unlucky. A kid on the spectrum typically wouldn't be here and wouldn't speak that well
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  191. It's nice, but completely unrepresentative of Biden and his campaign as a whole. At best, we can assume he's completely given up on politics and doesn't care any more.
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  192.  @bibekrajsingh730  No, it's utterly stupid to rely completely on technology, especially if it is new. That's why you carry tools in your car, in case it breaks down. That's why there are services like AAA, which will drive out to service your car if it breaks down. An umbrella is nothing more than a convenience. Comparing it to something like a gun or a car doesn't even begin to make sense. People rely on those tools for their livelihood and safety.
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  193.  @Pulang_Diwa  He didn't "flinch," he was extremely calm, moved slowly, and did not move his hands around where the guard could not see them. He was clearly irritated, but he did not do anything to make the situation worse, even considering how obviously aggressive the guard was.
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  194. Internet connects people with fringe beliefs and makes them seem more numerous than they are.
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  195.  @shun_maru  Buddy, Asmon's takes are extremely lukewarm, you're really not as internet savvy as you think you are.
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  196.  @CourageousCourier1701  if a person walks around head empty not thinking about history a day of their life, i absolutely believe they take almost everything for granted
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  197.  @blankregistration7301  It tends to be worse in small towns. Less oversight, less accountability. The lady who was nearly killed in Colorado after being left on the train tracks in handcuffs was arrested by small town cops.
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  198.  @DJCole34  uh oh, someone doesn't know about how the Australian aboriginals used to hunt
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  199.  @chupika6464  25% royalties is fucking massive if you're not even going to do the studio the service of promoting their work. For reference, Steam, PC gaming's biggest storefront, is well known for taking about 30%, and they will promote your work on their client application which shoves new game notifications in their user's faces every time they start it. It also has a comprehensive store system with tags defined by users so others can find your game easily. This license says you have to give WotC 25% for the privilege of doing their hard work for them and nothing else. No benefits, nothing. Another thing that didn't help: I'm not sure if it was an erroneous leak or a rumor, but I've heard in days prior that they would take royalties if your custom content made even $1. I don't know if they backpedaled on that or what, but it certainly did not do their public image any favors.
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  200. Every identitarian is. Their entire political dialogue is based on ridiculously outdated stereotypes of various axes. Race, gender, religion, etc.
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  201.  @apeekintime  I'm pretty sure the mere thought of that would make John Carmack puke. He is the one who advocated putting their games out as open source after a nominal period, which virtually no other game dev does. You can go out there and look at Doom and Quake source code right now if you want to learn how to write C code. He also specifically designed Doom to be modded with the .WAD file format. Funnily enough, Carmack also invented smooth scrolling on PC games, which at the time were notoriously bad for platform ports because they did not smoothly scroll the screen as in an NES or arcade machine; instead it was Zelda 1 style, where the screen refreshed all at once when you reached the end of the screen. He approached Nintendo, offering to port Super Mario Bros. to the PC, but they turned him down. So he used the tech to make Commander Keen instead, id's first successful game series. Sorry for the rant, but in short, it would be cosmic justice if id Software screwed over Nintendo, even though id in the early 90s would never have done that.
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  202. Well, no, she said "I am a lazy waste of space with no self-awareness." I think she has never lived outside of a gated community with $300k+ homes in it. It's hard to imagine how spoiled this woman is
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  203. She making those sweet Twitch bucks.
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  204.  @TheFrosstitute  No no you don't understand. It's an investment. /s
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  205. Smart Cheeto dispenser that feeds you the Cheetos so you don't have to get dust on your fingers.
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  206.  @Khaosgrenade  I'm atheist, but I'd much sooner be a zealot than a Fascist like you seem to be. It's thanks to those devotees of imaginary sky daddy that we retained any classical culture at all after Germanic tribesmen (my direct ancestors) destroyed Rome, by the way.
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  207.  @WinstonPoptart  Uh, no. Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas were great games but the strong point of those games was NOT the shooting mechanics.
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  208.  @kiss-shotacerola-orionhear220  i don't think you're paying attention at all, because men aren't having kids except when they're people who moved in from third-world countries that aren't destroyed by these ideas yet. "men should adapt" infantilizes women and ignores the fact that they are the ones with the wombs. unless, of course, you're suggesting that men should start coordinating and planning sexual assault for the purpose of procreation. quite a radical take if i do say so myself
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  209.  @walter7787  I think he means it's for the best that his character wasn't ruined in this movie.
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  210. You forgot one word in that phrase: dark.
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  211.  @zennoix9984  That much is obvious, but it has no real bearing on the 2nd Amendment, unless you want to abolish it entirely. If any adult is willing to buy a gun for a troubled child, this will happen.
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  212. ​@franciscodetonne4797 Oh they'll port the games to their newer consoles but they'll make you pay for them again and again
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  213. I do like that groups of enemies in the initiative order take their turns simultaneously. That was a smart decision. It could be optimized though
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  214. I work in software, this is exactly what I'd expect from any IT professional.
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  215.  @MuraCasardis  SLURP SLRUP SLRUP MMM ICE CREAM SO GOOD
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  216.  @bibekrajsingh730  Ah, I see you only used this as a poor excuse to dump a load of trash foreigner memes at me. Well, rest assured, it's all nothing I haven't seen before. It's not healthy to be bitter about people you will never meet.
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  217.  @redman5158  Why would you park on the tracks at all? The tracks were on a ridge and the car was hanging halfway off them. It's the most awkward place you can choose to park even if there was no train. It's hard to believe this was not intentional.
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  218. the scariest part is the thought that these teachers unironically spite adolescent children for representing a political idea that is, at worst, anti-authoritarian, but patriotic no matter how you approach it. even if that ideology was objectively evil, the fact that the teacher in the video and other teachers on campus resent him as if he knows exactly what he is doing is just ridiculous. their decrepit asses can't wrap their minds around everyone having a camera connected to the internet in their pocket and they probably still say "I didn't think this would blow up online" every day. to them, this kid is a malicious conspirator, not just outspoken. anyone with a mindset resembling this should be removed from any profession involving children immediately
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  219.  @skylercook1812  Sadly it still happens all the time even in this state. I've had stray or runaway dogs walk up to me at least three times while walking my dog, and my parents have sheltered abandoned dogs while trying to find a new home for them many times. One of their neighbors moved away and left a dog in their yard a few weeks before Thanksgiving.
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  220.  @aqz7603  she said in this very clip, "i like being a woman more now because i consider it a privilege." if that isn't a polite way of admitting that women have an easier life, i don't know what it is.
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  221.  @greenwing90  "Guys, they've just changed the entire theme and meaning of the original story. WHY AREN'T YOU ACCEPTING THIS! SWALLOW THE POISON PILL ALREADY!"
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  222. Wow, whole lot of people preventing themselves from enjoying good things because annoying people happen to exist. Sucks to be you guys, I guess.
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  223. Nah psychopaths are actually much more level headed than this.
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  224.  @csguy3223  This isn't based on ChatGPT, contrary to popular belief. Vedal built most of this himself.
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  225.  @roller4312  Forspoken turned out the way it did because Japanese executives look at the western market and think "How do we appeal to this?" They naively look at our media and what people say on Twitter to come to this conclusion. So yes, it boils down to an extremely loud and political minority speaking for the rest of us, specifically in the West.
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  226.  @Jesse-or8di  Haven't you ever wondered why so many of this new generation of writers write in the exact same way and have the exact same political opinions? Sure, they're incompetent, but don't you ever ask why ?
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  227.  @epiccthulu  Jealous of what? I can get naked and smoke weed any time I want.
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  228.  @zaliuszuko4458  always weird when people pretend to take the moral high ground while minimizing child abuse by comparing people who actually groom children online to cartoons no one is coming to give you a nobel peace prize for trying to shame randoms online
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  229. ​ @sanserof7 Yet he was willing to go along with the Nazis own anti-semitic views and enforce them.
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  230. She felt that*
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  231.  @CourageousCourier1701  the fact that you care so much is telling, i think your argument completely misses the context of the broader discussion here in favor of making this yet another boring gender war debate
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  232. Heinlein's novel doesn't really depict Fascism. The idea of a hardcore meritocratic state in which you must serve in the military to vote seems ghastly to us now, but strictly speaking, it simply isn't Fascism, just an idea that could potentially coexist with Fascism. Heinlein toys with the idea because he was frustrated with genuinely awful decisions made by civilians in our government during the Cold War, and had served in the military himself. Fascism is kind of a flash-in-the-pan ideology that has little to no relevance today, because it is by its very origin a reaction to Communism. However, the things that Fascist states had in common were: - a body of voters who are completely desperate and faced with choosing between radical ideologies in the wake of a weak sitting government before the Fascists arrive - a call back to the most glorious period in that nation's or people's history and a claim to be able to return to that former glory - seizing the means of production, not unlike Communism, to both modernize and control industry (remember, Fascism was relevant when most of Europe still needed to industrialize, badly, especially Italy) - blaming a specific group of people for most if not all of the woes the nation currently faces (again, not unlike Communism) - and of course, totalitarian control of the government Helldivers depicts a government much closer to Fascism than Starship Troopers. However, my personal theory is that it is a plutocracy run by defense and arms contractors that manufacture reasons to go to war to perpetuate their own profits. It explains why the government seems to wage war so inefficiently; it's like the mistakes and ulterior motives that came up with the F-35 taken into overdrive, and put in control of the entire human species for a few hundred years.
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  233.  @Sand926e1  No, but do you believe that every single person is sane and well-adjusted and that if you roll the dice on a regular basis by fucking with people that they won't eventually come up snake eyes?
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  234.  @damien1781  It's a complete bluff. Those boys were teenagers, saving photos of them nude to your hard drive is a serious crime. Spreading them around would draw a ton of attention to themselves too. No way they'd go through with it if they wanted to keep playing their cowardly little scam game.
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  235.  @user-lh7mt7zo7l  It doesn't have heuristic reasoning.
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  236.  @LexiSapphire02  There was no point in my childhood that I wasn't aware that Spider-Man was a superhero who could take a massive beating and still be fine with it. If you know who Spider-Man is, it won't surprise you at all.
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  237.  @LuciferWrld999  The idea behind a review is that someone who is critical and self-aware of their own bias provides details about the game that allow you to make a more informed opinion for yourself without spending the money on it. It isn't supposed to purely be an opinion piece that says "game stinky i no like." Of course, it's always been corrupt, even in the very early days of gaming when every review was published in a magazine, but there are more competently written reviews. IGN has always been notoriously aloof with its reviews. There is a very old one for a PSX shooter (I can't remember which one specifically, might have been Disruptor) where the reviewer complained incessantly about the "awful controls." Those controls? You use the left stick to move and right stick to aim and triggers to shoot. Yeah, he was really complaining about the standard controls for every modern console shooter, which weren't so standard at the time. Still, that wasn't even the first game to feature them -- Goldeneye had a similar control layout.
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  238. Next up: PETA posts video of seal yelling for no reason and claims it's being tortured.
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  239.  @Fordo007  Why would you want them to be the same though? It's just a zero-brain perspective on worldbuilding. Imagine you're a writer and you have the potential to make a whole new army/faction due to gender restrictions. Should you make them the exact same, or should you make them different and therefore interesting?
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  240.  @ultrabigfella  Personally I don't get it, I've never had an urge to pull a gun out and pull the trigger for no reason at all even when I'm drunk. Carrying a gun with you everywhere is not pathetic, though. You should try living without a car and walking around downtown in your local city for a few years, see how brave you still are after that.
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  241.  @novanoir8309  You are literally describing human nature right now. If the men didn't do that, then the men 100,000 years ago wouldn't have done it either.
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  242. It's like a hookah but with drinking beer.
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  243. Donor chat trolling was both blessed and extremely cursed at the same time. I remember when Doom runs went on and some random guy offhandedly mentioned Brutal Doom then someone else donated just to say "fuck Brutal Doom" because he personally doesn't like the fact that the creator said offensive things on a forum when he was literally a teenager decades ago.
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  244.  @zzzzzzzzzz_me  ME allowed you to fail or change quests by choosing the wrong options.
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  245.  @vixxcelacea2778  Ravenclaw definitely strikes me as more introverted and Slytherin more extroverted... if you're charming and ambitious, chances are you are an extrovert.
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  246. There are many things more disruptive than wearing a patch for a political idea that most 12 year olds are completely ignorant of. Such as removing that 12 year old from the class and getting everyone speculating on why he was removed.
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  247.  @Slashresto  Dinklage literally prevents talented dwarves from existing. He constantly demands that dwarves not be hired for roles because he thinks they're bigoted. Thanks to him and Disney's own stupid decision making, 7 actors lost their roles in this film.
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  248. I've never shot a Barrett indoors, but the amount of flash, sound and shaking doesn't surprise me at all from my experience shooting it outdoors. I'd almost be afraid to shoot one indoors.
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  249.  @vivianjames9321  It's a stylistic difference. The franchise was not really about self-deprecating humor up to that point. Some people don't like it.
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  250. This dude must have dated her a long time ago since she was already married to a different guy. Hard to imagine how you can hate someone for that long, think about them all that time, even though they have no part in your life anymore. Such a waste of time and life.
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  251. I tend to hold cops to a higher standard than some rando driving a car but hey whatever you gotta do to get the taste of boots I guess.
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  252.  @SupHania  How charitable of you to believe the person's stated reasons for taking half your shit with no recourse. It is, of course, unimaginable that anyone would lie to achieve this benefit.
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  253. Yeah this senior cop has serious Dunning Kruger syndrome. He thinks "someone is looking at me funny, I've been a cop for however many years, so my instincts are always right. He's the perp and the dispatcher is wrong." He immediately had tunnel vision as soon as he saw "mirroring."
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  254.  @heribertojr.2853  yeah, people who watch cartoons don't want to be labelled the highest moral criminal in existence, imagine that what a world we live in
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  255. Johnny's strong as fuck. He gets thrown around but when he resists it becomes more difficult. Also the rule of funny, obviously.
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  256.  @georgeousthegorgeous  When you ask a favor from a stranger, do you ask them nicely first or do you immediately point a lethal weapon at them and demand that they do it? Do you think pointing a lethal weapon at someone changes how they think or behave? Just curious.
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  257. ​ @AaaaNinja Given how quickly he left, and how she immediately knew it was due to her weight, she realizes that it was because she posted deceptive photos on her profile but doesn't want to actually address the problem yet
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  258.  @MOW262  What? Most ride share drivers do not drive in from out of town to do work.
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  259. Bill Maher was always a lefty critical of other lefties, it's nothing new. It's just that his criticism doesn't get taken seriously by any of the movers and shakers in the lefty movement.
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  260.  @GMAN789  Cyberpunk, from most accounts, has turned itself around. CP2077 has the skeleton of an amazing game, but launched in a really rough state. Starfield is just... I don't know, man. They'd have to come out with a whole new campaign to save the game.
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  261. Yes, it's sadly ironic since at the time when Halo came out people who played PC shooters like Quake 3 and UT laughed at how "dumbed down" it was with regenerating shields and only two weapon capacity. Now it is the only mainstream franchise that resembles those older shooters thanks to the gamemodes, level and weapon design.
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  262.  @nailinthefashion  "Like Bungie did?" You mean the company that went on to work for fucking Activision so they could make GaaS pseudo-MMO shooter games that they could monetize for infinity? Yeah, clearly a virtuous company.
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  263.  @lllKRENDELLLlll  "responsibility" and "guilt" are not on/off switches, but rather like a spectrum. The bus company absolutely bears responsibility for simply shrugging their shoulders and allowing the driver to do this, regardless of his ethnicity. It doesn't exactly take a genius to realize that overworking drivers may result in an accident.
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  264. ​ @TheNichq  Funnily enough that has zero relevance.
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  265.  @davidswanson5669  ... you really think security guards have qualified immunity?
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  266.  @MothOW  Normal people don't use Twitter. I've literally never met someone in real life that uses Twitter. It's a marketing platform. Maybe read from it, sure, but post on it, no.
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  267. It's really weird how clips of Bateman are constantly used. Bateman was a neurotic psycho who let the littlest and most absurd things bother him, like what clothes his coworkers (who he exclusively saw as rivals) wear, or how their business card looks relative to his. He perceives extreme competition in the most mundane activities. He was basically the polar opposite of a sigma, but he was also a psychopath, so he was good at hiding it.
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  268.  @kateshiningdeer3334  Where I live, that sentence would be "he's really lucky she didn't have a gun." Don't harass random people, folks. There's always someone out there crazier than you.
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  269.  @acccident3349  Technically speaking psychopaths are detached from their emotions. It's one of their defining characteristics. I can't categorize this as anything but emotionally driven after the first lawsuit failed. She's probably just a narcissist with bipolar or something.
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  270. That was a weird moment for me because I remember calling nachos "chips and cheese" when I was a little kid.
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  271.  @jdksportsyt  no one will ever take nitpicks like this seriously
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  272.  @AhDiOhBookz  You're cringe mate, stop trying to gaslight people across multiple comment threads.
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  273.  @TheStrandedAlliance  Death isn't bliss either, it is the lack of existence. It is nothing.
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  274. I honestly feel that if you cringe that hard at an innocuous gesture between couples, you're kinda weak. Mentally speaking. It just shouldn't bother you that much, other than to think "those people probably shouldn't share their most intimate habits online"
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  275. Happens more often than you think, but it is usually because the angry person is jealous and spiteful that the other person is trying to improve themselves.
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  276. >drive a car >see kid crossing the street suddenly >slam the brakes >car skids to a stop on the pride flag mural >get jailed for 10 years for not running over a kid
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  277.  @dylanzeman3966  War doesn't happen all the time nor does it require every member of a population to be on the front line.
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  278. @dylanzeman3966  The point is that everyone can be a "warrior" without compromising the other things you need for a society to survive.
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  279.  @FierceDeity35  would you say that it is about as intolerant as holding up a bloody prop severed head of the opposing political candidate?
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  280.  @oddballsok  He didn't say he was completely unbiased, only that he is the least biased historian he's seen. It's impossible to be unbiased if you are a human.
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  281. "I'm not a fan of marijuana"
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  282. Notice how Cenk never said "You're stupid" he said "Your predictions/model are stupid." There's an important distinction there; one is an attack on a person and another is simply stating that they were wrong. Cenk got heated but he was much less rude than this guy despite his vernacular.
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  283. Finally, a use of the term gaslighting that is actually appropriate. Although it would have been more apt if she said something like "I didn't hit him, I was just teasing him"
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  284.  @Hasediel  yeah, that's old school action heroes for you
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  285.  @Creezusz  I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, I'm stating that shaming people for pattern recognition is pointless.
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  286. He's almost certainly doing it to stay away from his wife.
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  287.  @epiccthulu  That freedom is fine, but you also have to understand that this behavior, in particular, isn't exactly good to promote for the whole of society. We still need people who can build and produce things.
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  288.  @Cann1bal25  hate speech isn't real, because it is different in every person's mind
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  289.  @SGresponse  You underestimate the entitlement of Indian "young naive developers" who tend to be members of the upper castes
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  290. This is our society now, where expressing genuine appreciation for fun and educational content is cringeworthy
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  291.  @grimjoker5572  Nope, that's not what I'm asking. Not sure how you got that from what I posted, but it's clear you're just interested in playing verbal ring-around-the-rosie. Enjoy, I suppose. Might I suggest an even marginally more useful hobby, like playing video games?
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  292. I don't know if that's the real reason he did it but it is a sound political strategy. Promote your rivals to uselessness. UN Ambassador is, in my opinion, not the most useful position. The UN likes to pretend it's important, but rarely does anything of real impact.
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  293. It is physically impossible for me to take someone seriously if they begin their story with "I am literally shaking right now" If you're cognizant enough to reference internet memes, you're not really in distress
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  294. ​ @lxDastanxl  It's a book about a guy who feels bad for killing a single enemy soldier. Why wouldn't they burn it? Did you even read the book? It is not a jingoistic book. It's an anti-war book.
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  295. Considering there were apparently all sorts of these pistols, there probably was at least one made in black.
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  296. When I was in high school, a kid called in a bomb threat and school was immediately evacuated. I suspect it was the same kid who later shot himself during lunch. That day the school was locked down, although I never even heard the shot. He was in my geometry class and I never saw him talk to anyone. Weird to see that these people did nothing even after 3 or 4 corroborating accounts of this kid having a gun.
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  297.  @user-lh7mt7zo7l  ... You asked to define "think," so I did.
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  298.  @FullSenderson  This is basically an ideal scenario for a taser, dude was barely moving when he was hit with it and shirtless. This just proves what we already know which is that people with enough conditioning, enough intoxication, or just weird genetics/nervous system issues are minimally affected by it. That's before even considering issues with acquiring the electrical contacts. If your tool fails when the suspect is most dangerous, why rely on it?
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  299. Depends on the state
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  300.  @Zinnia1234  you can look up exit poll interviews where they openly admit it. "yeah i registered republican to vote against trump but i'm a democrat"
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  301. ​ @superbarnie He had that punch coming for months, it wasn't a sucker punch.
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  302. There is also the suspicious timing of the SWAT snipers leaving their posts though.
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  303. ​ @TheLotusmaster Considering that the "anti-loli" mindset seems to have arrived at "You're not allowed to date SEA women" I'll take a hard pass thank you
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  304. Or even worse, "Works on my machine" in a tech support thread.
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  305. I remember I knew about girls' and boys' anatomy when I was around 8 or 9, and asked how "it" works, my parents just looked at me like I was dumb and said "They fit together, son." I did feel dumb.
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  306.  @DarksideGmss0513  Bruh, that was the playtest, it's not coming out for almost another year
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  307.  @aqz7603  when you look at how her life went following this incident, it's clear that my interpretation is the more likely one. you're just trying to spin her words out of context to win an argument online
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  308.  @Kevin-go5we  It's a thing even in Germany, but you use a baked roll instead of those floppy buns. Also, sauerkraut.
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  309.  @chriscalderon1337  In reality very few people outside of Abrahamic religion care about these rules. Before orthodox religion took over the world because it was good for controlling people, most people observed religious rites because it gave them mental wellness, and didn't think too much on it after that.
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  310.  @hopinondeeznuts350  Your hot water also doesn't come out at like 200 degrees Fahrenheit dude.
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  311.  @NithinJune  That's the mentality our government and many employers have. If that's really what you think, then veterans shouldn't have a right to raise a family either. Why have a family if you can't protect them and they can't protect themselves from someone else with a gun? Seems reckless to me.
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  312.  @Brian-om2hh  My boy really thinks that posting comments online is true freedom, holy shit
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  313.  @NekomiyaTH  One guy who has done real boxing or jiujitsu for a few months would fold him. Fitness boxing is aerobics, the type that moms did on VHS tapes in the 80s.
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  314. Pretty standard procedure not to comment on any pending criminal investigation. It's unlikely corporate (who made the statement) was in on it, but they are likely too embarrassed by the fact that they signed on a franchise with corrupt employees to admit it.
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  315.  @liberationtoday8968  A vegan channeling Ben Shapiro. Now I've seen everything.
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  316. Not eating a giant wad of fentanyl or counterfeiting money.
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  317.  @jb5819  Requiring how? Just don't do the quest? Just pick Alliance?
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  318. ​ @piccalillipit9211 you do need to be persistent but this is like smashing your face into a brick wall to break through it when there's a sledgehammer 10 feet away. this advice also doesn't work for every field. I work in software and most of the companies I've applied to work at do not even have some kind of front desk number that you could call. turns out, most companies don't want their employees time wasted with cold callers. who would have thought?
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  319. Honestly the effort put into some of those animations makes me wonder if it isn't some of the people who work on Blizzard's cinematic team.
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  320.  @TylerMcCaughey  I think virtually everyone competent on his payroll agreed that Hitler was an awful strategist, namely towards the latter part of the war. He was excellent at politics, but his war strategy was driven by feelings rather than logic and he trusted bad information that confirmed his conclusions/desires. The entirety of Operation Barbarossa was predicated on the belief that the Soviets had something like half the divisions that they actually had.
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  321. It's not just humans. I had a surreal moment when I was walking my dog, a 35-40ish pound Aussie. I watch her diet and try to keep her at a happy medium of weight, I like to think she looks good. On this walk, I saw a guy walking his own Aussie. This fucking Aussie was the fattest dog I had ever seen, proportionally. It was basically a gigantic sausage roll with legs. The guy was fairly fat himself, but watching someone do this to their own pet is heartbreaking. To top it all off, it had a docked tail, as if he was going to enter it into the AKC or something. Still pisses me off that that is legal. It was like seeing that famous scene where the guy looks in the mirror and realizes he's retarded but with dogs.
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  322.  @leonnunhofer3453  it's sadly very common for single mothers to abuse their sons in this way, because they identify the son as the father who left and burden them with that sin. single mothers raising sons also has a very high correlation with the son turning out gay. this may be the real reason why black males are disproportionately represented in the gay community
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  323. They'll just say "you agreed to this. Why are you upset? Your divorce is unjustified, she gets the kids"
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  324. It's only common sense because of hindsight. And the most important part of the first level - teaching the player without words - is an art that many game designers still can't grasp today.
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  325. How many times is it going to be shown that you can say naughty things online and get away with it and nobody was even hurt in the process
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  326.  @yummy_bumy6650  Forgiveness is mandatory and inevitable. Otherwise, the conflict never ends. If you don't forgive, your son who fought in the war you instigated and saw all his friends die, probably will.
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  327.  @paulskillman7595  I'm happy that they didn't choose me as their murder target. Weird that you seem to think that society isn't better off without them.
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  328.  @ceshmate1953  It incentivizes more skilled people to work at your company. Use your brain please.
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  329. For the love of God someone get that man a biscuit
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  330. I would love to see them both on the golf course together and I think it would be hilarious to hear their banter.
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  331. hot anime girls and advanced military hardware seem to go hand in hand pretty frequently
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  332.  @MattSF23  it looks vaguely similar to the tank destroyer, also has limited gun traverse like the tank destroyer
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  333. The likelihood of those guys drinking his drink is pretty damn high when you realize they just "happened" to bring an expensive camera and just "happen" to have social media accounts full of videos of the same shit happening. They wanted to provoke him and record it. So they did.
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  334.  @Slashresto  "obviously a stream sniper" Holy shit, that's some tinfoil hat shit. And I thought I was a conspiracy aficionado.
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  335. That's because it's dumb to hold the rank and file responsible. Even if they are genuinely incompetent, it was the executives and managers that hired them. Everything is orchestrated from the top-down in companies like these.
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  336.  @grud8495  Eh, I dunno. The staff at the original Blizzard studio got extremely arrogant after the success of WoW. Diablo 3's launch is perhaps the best example of their hubris. I think they made a very large amount of their mistakes without the help of Activision.
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  337. It's almost like when the fact checker checks actual facts instead of running interference for political gaffes then its fine. Nah, nobody lies in politics.
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  338. @Testicool 01 Bruh, that's like saying "American? You mean British colonialist heritage" I hate to break it to you but conquering peoples is not a new thing. Otherwise every single North African culture would instead be called "Arabic invaders"
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  339.  @hapisky5013  You are a boomer in spirit, if not in flesh.
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  340. the VNSH holster? I actually got one, it is a decent product if you have a gun that fits it (works fine for Glocks), although buying it is a bit of a hassle with all the stupid crap they try to sell you along the way.
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  341. And that's why the election is in the bag for him now. THE MEMES, just like 2016.
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  342.  @LowLifeAM  It would speed it up, but you'd still need to eat way more than the average American to end up like this.
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  343.  @sunclonkt7839  The Mongols were morally opposed to cannibalism because of their spiritual beliefs, so it was arbitrary and varied by culture. But there were morals, even if they were hypocritical.
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  344.  @Scythra  Not every cop needs to be a guy that can chase down an 18 year old gangster in his prime, every cop always calls back up in that type of situation even the most capable. A cop who can resolve conflict without needing to call any backup at all is even more valuable, that means knowing everyone in the community you patrol.
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  345.  @Mortthemoose  Turns out it's really hard to stand in like 4-6 inches of mud when you're wearing assloads of gear.
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  346. When you accidentally discover the plot twist (she's a man, baby) 4 sessions ahead of schedule
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  347. i mean the air you breathe is only 20% oxygen so it's pretty shitty by that metric. on the other hand, i like it when the entire atmosphere doesn't burst into flames when i strike a match
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  348. Yes, if the HOA wanted to enforce the law they would have called the police when they found out which vehicles were expired. The police would have told them to pound sand, they have better things to do than take one month expired registrations out of private driveways. This is a scheme for the towing company to make money and someone on the HOA board likely gets a cut.
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  349.  @MonstersFlyinginTheSky  sorry buddy, you're not changing any votes. keep replying though, i'm sure you'll make a difference... somehow
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  350.  @Niitroxyde  No sane group of infantry would stay on top of an armored vehicle in the middle of combat. Armored vehicles draw the most fire in combat, and they would be sitting ducks for any machine gun. We learned this lesson in WW2 80 years ago.
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  351. ​ @wwtapsable Defamation is extremely hard to prove due to the stipulation of intent. The case never had a chance
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  352. I don't think the riots are excusable but people are predictable to some extent. Treating your own citizenry this way for this long is bound to foster some strife.
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  353. The complete cognitive dissonance between "Don't judge people by the way they look, ask their pronouns" and "I LOOK LIKE A WOMAN! I AM A WOMAN! WHY DO YOU NEED TO ASK MY PRONOUNS!" never ceases to amaze
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  354. Holy shit, I thought I had anxiety but this section is filled with people who simply don't respect other people. How hard is it to utter "Sorry, you can't use my Wi-Fi anymore?" People aren't entitled to a single sentence uttered from your mouth? Are you all royalty in disguise? Do you actually consider it rude when someone knocks on your door regardless of the context? The last time someone knocked on my door, I got an Amazon package back that I thought had been lost. Good thing I wasn't a stuck-up moron and answered the door!
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  355.  @Creezusz  Now ask yourself where those writers went to for university and it begins to make sense
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  356. Well she expected them to be civil and not immediately manhandle a nurse I guess. What an outlandish set of expectations that turned out to be.
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  357. Most people keep sex out of their D&D sessions bro. Remember, you have to look 3+ other humans in the eye while you talk about your futa gnome undressing.
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  358. ​ @jamesbizs Again, it's amazing how you people fail to grasp that he had no way of knowing he was the subject of their stop.
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  359.  @BubbaJoe69420  Nah, he probably works for a different police department now, or a security firm.
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  360. - Too much water
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  361.  @ghostlyhousehorrors  German is indeed gendered. "Germanx" would have the same problem that Latinx does, which is that calling someone by a neuter article or pronoun is akin to calling someone an "it." It is offensive because it dehumanizes them.
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  362. Clubs are unappealing as hell, but bars with live music are often great.
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  363.  @norvinzor  Oh thank you for speaking for all of us. Now I know that my laughter was actually fake laughter, and so was the laughter of all of those people in the audience. If you hadn't have come along, I would have continued to laugh at things that weren't funny anymore, as dictated by the Ministry of Humor. How embarrassing would that be!
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  364.  @enermaxstephens1051  Promiscuity used to be frowned upon. You can't get STDs if you don't have sex with multiple partners.
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  365.  @zenbear9952  asmon is usually right when it comes to gaming... usually... unless it involves blizzard, then he's kind of an idiot and probably paid off his other opinions are all over the place and inconsequential, very common for any streamer or content creator that branches out into topics they know nothing about
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  366.  @harryw.174  I would invite that old lady to our WHFRP campaign.
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  367. People like him and in the media believe that words have power almost like they're casting magic spells. It's pathetically superstitious but that mindset has granted them amazing control over the narrative.
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  368. @ Uhh yeah, all those Columbian goods that I totally buy are going to be so horribly affected.
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  369.  @Smilejustsmilebby  Correction, he went his entire criminal life (up to the trial) without BEING CAUGHT for murder. You overestimate the competence of law enforcement.
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  370.  @bradhaines3142  It's not even real red hair. Though it's less unappealing than the wine-red hair you see sometimes.
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  371.  @bcaye  That is definitely not possible for anyone who lives close to or in a city or large town. My father's family was extremely poor as well, but they lived in the swamps of Louisiana and went duck hunting often. Most people aren't going to grow up like that, just by statistics and by the fact that most people live in cities now. You can still prepare dishes on your day off for the week ahead though.
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  372.  @PerfectDark0  It was adrenaline, hot-blooded not cold-blooded. In my personal opinion, the criminals invoked this dude's wrath and have no real entitlement to be treated with kid gloves after literally faceplanting him. A lot of bad things could have happened to him just in that fall. We give cops a lot of leeway in situations like this. Logically speaking, citizens should be given just as much if not more leeway since they don't have the same training. We could also blame our justice system, which literally rewards you for making sure there are no witnesses or defendants to testify against you in court, or to sue you for damages.
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  373.  @Sossboy34  Germany would as well, as we know thanks to recent events.
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  374. ​ @luisgarcia-ps4kv funny you mention financial trouble because he's living rent free in your head
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  375.  @Yominication  Only relative to the aliens, the only civilians you see in DN3D are the babes.
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  376. It takes a lot of "commitment" to go into a fight that you know will have an equal or greater amount of firepower coming your way. Virtually everyone opts out of that. So yes, just possessing a weapon does help stop that. Namely, more people carrying more weapons and creating the perception that anyone could be carrying one helps stop that.
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  377. "Don't you guys have Hearthstones?"
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  378. ​@uploadvidz4490 He didn't know he was being pulled over and he was already at the destination. The reason he approached was literally so he could comply and see if he did anything wrong. I understand it is slightly unorthodox but there was no attempt from the cops to behave like a functional human being. They immediately assumed he was going to attack them.
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  379. His excuse is he thought it sounded like a suppressed firearm. My estimation is that he's on some happy pills that don't mix well with his job description.
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  380.  @typingcat  The niece's daughter
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  381.  @JustinDeep-op1ix  You really think threatening people should be protected under the first amendment? I mean, I consider myself a constitutionalist, but okey-dokey, I guess we can bring feudal laws back...
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  382.  @GrowingDownUnder  Dude, trolling doesn't work when you keep replying, and thus, wasting your own time. You're trolling yourself. Go back to middle school.
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  383. I've had to argue with an Englishman about why his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment was wrong. The classic "militia means state army" nonsense. When I pulled up a website showing the 13 separate charters of the 13 colonies, all of which included a right to bear arms worded 13 different ways (most of which unambiguously granted the right to the common citizen) he stopped responding. The fact that Militia is a legally defined term in the Constitution that means "Male citizen from age 17 to 45" didn't sway him.
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  384.  @gelatinskeleton8745  You're right, it is laughable to suggest we are equal when certain ethnicities can get into Ivy League schools just because administration has a diversity quota to fill.
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  385. "best I can do is a side-loading Uzi with a big knife on it"
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  386. I think porn is only a piece of this problem. There are those, like myself, who see porn as a mechanical ritual. We acknowledge that porn is completely unrealistic, but we consume it anyway, because we're single, so might as well -- as long as it doesn't deteriorate to the point where we cannot function daily. I personally don't consume extreme content and keep my taste as grounded as possible. Something happened to me not very long ago that changed my perspective on this. I met a girl I was actually infatuated with. They come across quite rarely for me. The moment that happened, I lost all motivation to consume pornography. About a week after she told me she was not interested in dating, I returned to my old habits. So I can't empathize with anyone who is so addicted to porn that they find no interest in real sex. My problem, and I imagine there are more like me out there, is that romantic relationships seem like an unintelligent risk. Most of our modern history leading up to now has taught us this lesson. Divorce rates are extremely high, and divorce is extremely punishing for the male, which I happen to be. There is the obvious risk of becoming involved with a mentally unstable person that tries to ruin your life. However, there is an even worse, more insidious risk; a relationship of complete mediocrity and dissatisfaction. The idea that I'd waste 2+ years of time with someone only to find out I'm not really interested in them any more, or perhaps because they stopped putting effort in once they felt comfortable, is quite soul-crushing. That idea has kept me trapped for my entire life. Perhaps my romantic drive just isn't high enough. Perhaps I'm just picky. And no, most of my criteria do not involve appearance -- my friends always told me that I find women attractive that they wouldn't. But this is how my mindset approaches this problem.
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  387.  @friedtoaster4059  That's a catch 22. You work because you have to send your kids to daycare. You send your kids to daycare because you have to work.
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  388.  @lacommunautebienconnue349  Exactly. Silverman does the same bit. It's very unoriginal, not worth throwing away one's fanbase over.
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  389. "I'm not white so I can say the n-word whenever I want." Ya Boi Young Cenk
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  390. that first old guy genuinely didn't give a fuck, I bet he laughed about it with his family later
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  391. Wong Xina
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  392. It's a self defeating prophecy. "X candidate will win anyway, so why bother?" Nobody seems to realize that is only happening because they all collectively think that.
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  393. He's what I call a "pop science lecturer" or in shorter terms "phonies." They present themselves as experts while having little to no credentials.
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  394.  @scottydu81  "We Wuz Charlemagne N' Shiet."
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  395. The joke is that he fell asleep while playing Halo because they were playing Halo in the last video
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  396.  @TragicHeroine-kd6uy  "I’ve never interacted with a person who doesn’t like to do it" You've never met a person with low attention span? Hard doubt on that one.
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  397.  @Sand926e1  Well, the fact that both the article and the father did nothing but insult the guy who shot his son and said nothing of what the son actually did certainly lends credibility to the theory that it was not a prank that should be performed on strangers.
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  398. ​ @wrmhle8510 That has little to nothing to do with it honestly. The former leads at 343 literally hated Halo.
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  399. Yeah, I'm sure you'll be the one shedding tears over career criminal drug smugglers.
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  400. The most dangerous shark*
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  401.  @vlim5601  Imagine being personally offended because other people like something more than you
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  402.  @matrepharaoh8260  He definitely looks closer to 50 than 40.
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  403. Nah, he's milking this for sympathy
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  404. My description was "purple lipstick with an Xbox top"
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  405.  @Butterflyyyxoxo  Your husband probably made or makes more money than you. Which made sense, decades ago, most women did not make much money if they even worked. Now, they have careers and still expect to date a man that earns more money. It's an arms race. The paradigm must shift because most women expect to be paid as much as men.
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  406.  @markrob2892  the statements about the flag being related to race are completely wrong.
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  407.  @mrmistermr1169  Yep, too common sadly, seen it on other body cams. Usually all it takes is standing around in public with a knife looking crazy. Wait until someone calls the cops. Walk toward the cop slowly. "Drop the knife, drop the knife, drop the knife." Most cops will shoot you. The more experienced/empathic ones will taze or mace and arrest you instead.
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  408.  @BC08  If a guy who's suffered concussions and has taken multiple psychadelics can outwit you and your claim to fame is intelligence... what hope is there for you, really?
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  409. "the guard uses sneezing powder" "I cast Gust of Wind" "fuck you Dave you always do this to me"
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  410. "Government, please send lethally armed ruffians to my location immediately!" Yeah, that's a set of words all right.
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  411.  @worldzealot  "cheap blades?" dude, they cost like $20 a pack. use a safety razor
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  412. They have absolutely zero presence while performing. Like it's worse than shoegaze because at least that evokes some kind of vibe even if it's not energetic. They look like they're middle school kids at their first talent show and have no idea how to behave on stage.
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  413. That is the image of a tomboy. The term started in the early 1900s as a way to describe women who took an interest in sports to stay fit for their future and current husbands. She's definitely staying fit and has an interest in outdoor activity. It's purely a modern thing though. In the past everyone had to commit to manual labor and outdoor work just to survive. This is, ironically, a classist thing, not at all a gender thing.
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  414. The Trust-Fund Turkroach The Fitness Boxing Flaker
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  415. Sounds like you want to play WHFRP... Although, realistically, there was "a meal" that was being served unless it was a very upscale establishment, so there was no real option. We have a table that we roll on to determine what it is. Now, choosing a drink, on the other hand...
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  416.  @skorpers  Some people do just start acting like a twat overnight. The key word here is "acting." They are manipulators who wait until they see signs of attachment and then start laying on their abusive behavior.
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  417.  @kenshinhimura9387  it was kinda the opposite really, she couldn't handle the stress of being a woman, after knowing how many men are treated without being allowed to talk about it
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  418. Weirdest thing I've ever experienced is falling in love and all desire to consume pornography immediately disappeared, from consuming it daily. Too bad it's happened like, twice in my life, and never been reciprocated. I feel quite hopeless in my love life, and part of me wants to accept that I'll never experience real love. The other part is afraid to accept that, for obvious reasons. I am quite content in most other parts in my life. I feel absolutely no motivation or emotional connection on dating apps and women don't respond to me anyway when I try to be outgoing (which, I gather, is pretty normal). My friend circle is large and supportive enough that I don't have any real urge to go out and try to talk to complete strangers to find a girlfriend. Because, in my experience, talking to complete strangers is usually incredibly boring. I've met all my new friends through friends of friends since leaving college.
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  419. There was a McDonald's employee in Phoenix, AZ who got stabbed to death a couple of weeks ago by an illegal alien that fled from New York after committing another murder in that state. So yeah, I find it hard to empathize with how "hard" streaming is.
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  420.  @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it  "Niche franchise," lmfao
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  421. ​ @Lufaine01 If you think the C-levels at Hasbro are legit nerds you really have not been paying attention
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  422.  @TheRealXartaX  "hah! i have convinced myself not to play one of the best CRPGs because of easily ignorable names in the character creator! take that, people who enjoy video games!"
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  423. They wouldn't see much difference, other than the political positions of the candidates. The mechanisms and methods used by the government are mostly the same, but slightly less extreme. They're trying, though.
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  424.  @MatNuclear2025  I live in the US, Texas in fact, and I don't drive. Driving is not a necessity.
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  425.  @lordvoldemort1561  Women, on average, have 50% the upper body strength of an average man. When physical effort and violence are involved, sex (not gender) is absolutely important. It would be like a video of a cop tazing a man sitting down on the sidewalk complying to his orders. You expect a lower level of violence from the cop because the person he is dealing with is not as threatening to him.
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  426.  @TheTwizted  Not going to lie, as an engineer and a "product person" I don't really have much respect for this type of investment. Short-selling in particular is basically an exploit of a broken system that prints money for a few rich assholes. It's worse than not contributing, it's slowly degrading our whole economy, and we're supposed to just sit around and watch while this happens? Fuck that. Meanwhile daddy's boy gets to use his inheritance to sit around in a mansion and watch lines go up and down for a living. There are a few types of people in this world, some of them get off on manipulating others' work, and some of them get off on creating something from scratch. I'd prefer more of the latter.
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  427. ​ @matthewishunting Not only that, the woman fell over as a result of him grabbing her skirt and turning her around. He should be at minimum charged with normal battery as well.
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  428. I'd like for any one of these people to show me a single mass shooter or renowned criminal who wore camo anything. I can't think of any.
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  429.  @Pixie1001.  The people who "rail" on the game would have forgotten about the game in a week dude, why would you compromise for that? Those are people who have no intention of playing the game
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  430. The lowest ranked person involved always takes the fall. Especially when it comes to military/law enforcement.
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  431.  @jrooksable  It's an oxymoron, savagery implies a lack of civilization and attunement with nature, while Twitter is a symptom of a civilization that is far too detached from nature and reality. It is a very ironic phrase
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  432.  @Adam-de8jm  99% of repos aren't this huge, and the ones that are don't do stupid things like force you to join a group in order to view a repo.
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  433.  @gianni_schicchi  False equivalency how exactly? Care to explain how schools have more authority to preach politics than some random guy on YouTube?
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  434. He was just tryna go to college n shiet.
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  435.  @KristiLEvans1  Zoomers arguably care the most. They're the ones that have to deal with this shit in real time
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  436.  @danijelkotur1720  They did allow same sex romance, but this would be like if characters in Mass Effect and DA: Origins referred to each other as "twinks" or "butch" in regards to same sex relationships. It's completely jarring and ham-handed because there was no effort at contextualizing those ideas in the setting the game takes place in; they just lazily transplanted the same words. To use a slightly better example, in D&D 5e they codified trans and genderfluid elves by allowing Elistraee followers to change gender on a long rest. Although it's obviously politically motivated, the idea fits the theme of elves much better than it does anywhere else. They made an effort.
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  437.  @alissoncandatem1896  you could take an 8k resolution photo of a turd and it would be high fidelity but still unpleasant to look at. it's not that difficult of a concept to grasp that said, i don't think this game is "low fidelity" but no need to make yourself look stupid just to win an argument
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  438.  @konaken1035  You just compared owning a domesticated pit bull to owning a wild animal and brushed it off like it's totally fine. As if that roughly 10,000 years of domestication and breeding humanity did for dogs should count for nothing. Pit bull owners are weird, I will never understand them.
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  439.  @konstantinkrastev4478  Yeah, these situations are totally comparable... Holy shit, please apply some level of critical thought.
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  440. I've heard a rumor that corsets, when properly fitted, can be as or more comfortable than bras, but they have a bad reputation because of poorly fitted corsets in the days of old.
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  441. @Elijah Noel No one claimed it was collapsing nimrod, it's just obvious that the boycott is making a difference. Cope harder your shares aren't bouncing back any time soon
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  442.  @Uragaan1  Typical Uragaan move, rolls into a discussion and drops his bundles of explosive shit everywhere.
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  443. ​ @generalrubbish9513 They may have held spiritual beliefs against robbing the dead
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  444. better yet talk about how it's so obvious that it is your right to abortion and how important it is despite never having one and secretly realizing that you'd have to be absurdly irresponsible to get to the point where you'd need to consider having one
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  445. strictly speaking, any communication with a minor when you are in your 30s should be seen as inappropriate, if they are not related to you. i think it would be impossible to know exactly what he said because the definition is so broad.
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  446.  @piggy6801  The entire room was packed with people. He was completely surrounded with no gaps. It can't be assumed that no one was shot.
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  447.  @genkyo6  Racists also love food. Time to stop eating.
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  448.  @anthonyobryan3485  I'm sure automobiles were also useless gimmicks back when they could only go 15 mph and required you to be a mechanic just to start it
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  449. Hey buddy, I wash my hands.
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  450.  @Ryotbh  Well, all schools have "honors classes" and such, it isn't as if it would be realistic to expect that Hogwarts doesn't discriminate based on academic and magical ability, even if they are slightly more subtle about it than public schools. Average wizards need education too. Furthermore having the most wizards in a house is its own virtue. I'd expect that Hufflepuff members would be willing to do the "dirty work" of Hogwarts, for the satisfaction of doing it, rather than any glory or other accomplishment that members of the other houses would expect. Hufflepuff strikes me as the underappreciated but extremely necessary supporting pillar of the school.
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  451.  @flatebo1  When debating, the objective is never to convince your opponent, it is to convince the audience. Judge van Dyke might have said he never intended for the video to go viral, but he should have, because that's the only way it will have an impact.
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  452. @RichSmithson That actually goes away really fast. If you take a weekend trip, for example, and come back to your house, you'd immediately notice how awful it smelled.
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  453. The parents aren't blonde if you weren't paying attention there partner.
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  454.  CanSoU  They didn't hesitate nearly as much as they could have, many dogs would have required you to drag or pick them up to get them out of that RV.
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  455.  @frizen9328  There was never any "harassment." Ashley being the protected rich girl that she is falls for the first incredibly manly dude that saves her life. It's perfectly reasonable. They wanted Leon to behave more "professionally" however, or perhaps the writers wanted to portray more clearly that Leon cares more about Ada. It's just plain sleazy to hit on your ward if you're supposed to be a bodyguard. Contrary to what most people would think, it isn't typical for action heroes from "pre-woke" Hollywood to make lewd remarks towards the women they're trying to protect. The only one who did that that I can think of is Duke Nukem, and he is a parody of action heroes, not the real thing. It can be funny, sure, but it can also be off-putting depending on the character and tone of the game in general. Duke Nukem never developed any hint of a serious love interest throughout his entire franchise. Leon does. Is it more woke to be a promiscuous boytoy or to be a traditional monogamist?
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  456. ​@meh.96 only because Capcom been slacking
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  457.  @helvete_ingres4717  It was less that he was an enemy of the people and more that he was an enemy of the wrong people who had political power. Athens was not a state free of corruption.
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  458.  @atasteofreality609  hey man if you're willing to cement your legacy as funny buff man who wears tutus for a million bucks, that says a lot about your self respect
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  459. @naradaian What's more surprising is that he suggested you need a genius level IQ to poke holes in the many accusations brought forth by Soviet and American prosecutors. There were many unconfirmed eyewitness reports and many lies framed as unconfirmed eyewitness reports.
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  460.  @mikelyrek1647  >posts 2 comments with 0 substance >claims victory >refuses to elaborate >leaves
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  461. There was an April Fools' event in the game War Thunder (normally a game that only lets you play historical vehicles) which allowed you to play using book-accurate mobile infantry suits a year or two ago. It was fun, if a bit goofy, but they're big exoskeletons with the ability to leap onto buildings and use the type of weaponry you'd normally see on a tank.
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  462. @jean-pierrepolnareff9987 Describe what makes Raven distinctly childish in appearance as a cartoon character. This should be good.
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  463.  @1cool  I'm not saying this guy should be allowed to go out and do this. However, they objectively would not have died if the police had shown up and forced them to vacate the street.
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  464.  @klonoa_thecabbitanimations2515  You mean these guys? https://petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/
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  465. ​ @MTTC-me5dj Jesters really did have special treatment to most kings. Everything they said was disregarded as meaningless, but that gave them unparalleled freedom to say anything.
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  466. As a developer, I hate it when my finger slips and I accidentally set up a dozen VMs, install bot clients on them, and then tell them a specific hour and a half long time frame to operate
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  467. 17th century pirates usually appeared because the various empires at war with each other hired people with their own cannon-outfitted ships to fight for them as privateers, then revoked their letter of marque after the war ended. This left them with usually few options to make a living even when they were aware that they were no longer legal mercenaries. The modern equivalent would be like a private citizen owning a destroyer or cruiser and being hired by us to harass Russia or China, then we suddenly revoke their commission later. That would be a much bigger problem for us than some guys on speed boats.
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  468. And then he gives up halfway through and starts saying "shit" anyway.
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  469. That's still incredibly goofy and would make me roll my eyes. She should have been the one presenting the scarf, not the other way around
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  470.  @davidlazerz8564  Poe's Law, dude. People like this really exist and they aren't in front of a camera making money. If he's playing a character, it is one a lot of people relate to.
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  471. DIDYA SHOOT 'IM? 😃
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  472. ​ @liamevans7661 Religion of "peace" (in reality, it means submission)
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  473. Yeah, okay. Let's all conveniently forget that children actually enjoy being scared sometimes because it is thrilling. Otherwise they wouldn't consistently do shit that's scary just for fun. Not shown in this clip: the kids realizing it's the Grinch ten seconds later and not being scared anymore.
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  474.  @Box-2112  The real problem is that free speech is not allowed on the platform, but from a logical perspective it is absurd to hold the AI's creator responsible for the community's desire for "haha funny jew joke."
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  475. ​@wurst1284 you mean 1 death of a totally unrelated bystander or biker
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  476.  @groundmasterc  Those of us who care about the worldbuilding understand what this means. The Emperor was either incapable of creating a gene-seed that would work on anyone but men (because it was crafted in his image) or unwilling, because he was afraid of what would happen if Space Marines could reproduce organically (the Horus Heresy would have had even more dire consequences). It would be one thing if they said someone like Bile or Cawl figured out how to implant women with the gene-seed and turn them into Marines or Custodes, but no. They went for the pants-on-head retarded route and said that there have always been female Custodes. This means that necessarily there should have also always been female Marines. This means that necessarily the Sisters of Battle shouldn't exist, because why have worse Marines when you could just have Marines? And so on, and so forth. The "no female marines" and its related topics are not just some minor detail in 40k. It is literally a cornerstone of the worldbuilding of the Imperium and the Emperor that would have insane butterfly effects if changed. It also undermines the satirical elements of the setting. All that stuff about the Ecclesiarchy and being outlawed from mustering "men" that bear arms, gone and undermined. It undermines the depth in general. When someone is told that Marines or Custodes are male-only, the natural instinct is to ask "why" and then a writer can provide an interesting reason. When there is nothing different about them, no one has any line of inquiry and therefore there is no reason to provide interesting reasons.
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  477. It's also very useful as a sound effect reel if you are making a game or tabletop RPG campaign!
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  478. sadly it's more likely that he's already done his best and this is a result of him being angry he won't do anything better
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  479. KONICHIWA MY NINJAS, WE BOUT TO GET CRUNK UP IN DIS BIIIIIII
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  480. Yeah, you don't just end up on a theme ride for kids and decide arbitrarily, "Y'know what? I need to bust out a fat one real quick. And also I need a cig." The guy obviously gets off on it.
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  481.  @di3dsudd3nly  So you value your cat's life over even your son's? Dude, you're a nutcase.
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  482. Extreme insecurity, coupled with greed. What she really wanted to say was "I deny everything; it's all lies." That would have been a 2-second video, so she couldn't make money from that. It would barely be a tweet. She couldn't create a video essay going in depth because she is too afraid to bear her emotions unironically and her legal team would likely leave if she did. So she swaddles herself in this weird song which has a veneer of cuteness because it makes her feel like she's safer from criticism. Unfortunately, because she's the type of person to groom minors, this was poorly calculated and it backfired. Alternatively this might all be calculated and she might be ending her career with one last blowup monetized video, intending for it to backfire. It all depends on whether she's a psychopathic genius (calculated) or a narcissist (not calculated).
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  483. It is strange, but I guess the higher ups did it to make the department seem stronger. IIRC these cops were called specifically because people were throwing water around. It was a summer party. It was disrespectful to throw water on them, but it's equally likely that the one guy with the bucket and everyone else were just swept up in the moment. Ironically the lady filming was the one who did the real damage to their reputation by posting the video online. To virtually any regular citizen, this would be the most desired outcome for a police interaction; no one hurt or arrested because people were just having fun. The second clip with the lady being splashed when she doesn't want to be is a little different though.
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  484.  @NonameNomad101  he is acting that way specifically because he's in front of a camera. it should be obvious that this would change one's behavior, sometimes drastically. it's clear that instead of being ashamed he's using the opportunity to do something outrageous so people take an interest in his social media
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  485.  @thestarisalie  Bro makes his policy decisions based off of which YouTube comments piss him off the most
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  486.  @vibaj16  Yeah. I'm not saying that it's unlikely that it's true just that it would indeed be grounds for a lawsuit if it wasn't.
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  487.  @vinikampferherzbarros27  You can lift more than your own body weight IRL. There are even special techniques for picking up a person on the ground if you're smaller/weaker than them. You lay them supine, then stand at their feet, grab their hands and lean back while pulling with your whole body strength. Done correctly this will fling them up onto your shoulders and you can carry them properly.
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  488.  @ijustreview  accepting donations for a livestream showing real crime is effectively profiting from crime
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  489. ​ @mohamedkam991  six letter word
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  490. ​ @powderedtoastfacekillah734  Words mean what they mean. "Believe me" means trust me. It means do not doubt what I say.
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  491.  @omnipoticus9908  Me, obviously. Why don't you ask Valve why they keep trying to cater to Linux users? Steam Play is very quickly becoming the easiest way to play on Linux. What was the point of asking that question when you already knew I was going to play it on Linux from my comment?
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  492. @Jackerson They're called Hufflepuff because that's what you'll be doing when you cross their homies. They pull down their pants and you huff and puff.
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  493. He Kung fu'd the camera crane.
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  494.  @iLors  He's an engineer, former NASA I believe, who makes off-the-wall contraptions in his spare time. He made a whole series about increasingly advanced fake packages he'd leave on doorsteps to fool porch pirates into stealing them, only for them to be sprayed with stink liquid, sprayed with glitter, and blasted with air horns, among other things. The funny thing is that the package itself was massively expensive having iPhones in it to record and send/receive tracking data but almost every thief was too stupid/panicked to realize this and threw the package out.
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  495. ​ @Ranchor489 in Sweden, which is supposed to be the most egalitarian society in the world, the division of labor is even more traditional than ours. i.e. male engineers, laborers and construction workers, and female teachers, nurses and receptionists. it's 100% an interest thing. left to their own devices members of a gender will gravitate to their "traditional roles."
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  496. I theorize that was the original plan but the game got scrapped and reworked into this glorified mobile game.
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  497. ​ @derekpauley4420 Always fun when someone self reports their own racism.
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  498. @alessandramia111  You came into this thread to fight a strawman you propped up so there's no real point to this, if I'm being honest. You're comparing obesity to having thick thighs. I get the impression this kind of fast and loose conflation will continue. Perhaps you'd feel better if you didn't seek validation from complete strangers on the internet.
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  499. "You got the Spiked Chihuahua!" Zelda item get theme plays
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  500.  @aqz7603  so you don't think an 18-month ordeal which is arduous in the best of circumstances had an effect on her psyche?
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  501. I saw a mobile game ad on YouTube yesterday that immediately opened with a guy shitting into a magic lamp and being thrown off by an eruption of his own shit by the angered genie in the lamp. It was kinda funny, but I also didn't really want to see it because I was eating. Not sure how these advertisers act like they have such high standards.
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  502. ​@DarkLink1996 please tell us why you have zero perspective on how any nation in the world other than our own behaves, yet still feel the need to comment on politics no other nation in the world could bear our immigration intake. they would buckle immediately
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  503. I had a very similar experience. There are things you can dump on "the pile" as well to reduce the smell very significantly. Lime was used in the outhouse I went to and it was quite bearable. The most annoying part was the rough wooden seat and the flies.
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  504. There's also the old adage... If it seems too good to be true, that's because it is.
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  505. Gotta love the guys who disparage using a firearm to stop someone who broke into a neighbors home. Like it's immoral to care enough about a neighbor to use one. Or are they just so incredibly shortsighted that they can't imagine the same burglar coming to their own home later? If everyone "minded their own business" you wouldn't be getting any help either.
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  506.  @lapislazuli06  weirdest fucking thing to me is that you could join the military, for free, and get basically this exact same experience but learn some useful skills along the way, also free college
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  507. Boy oh boy, sure is convenient for women that men ask out women (and therefore by your and others' definition, must pay the bill) 90% or more of the time, eh? And by the way, what exactly does that idea say about the first date? That the woman actually had 0 interest in going, and that the man now has to compensate her for her precious time? Why does it have to be transactional?
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  508. @Jason Weed is something that is extremely old and natural, though. Restriction of weed is actually a recent thing that only came about in the last century. It's all about who has the money and who doesn't want anyone else muscling in on their business. I think it is a convergence of the governments having the technology available to actually enforce those kinds of laws, and businessmen who don't want cannabis as competition. In medieval times, for example, there would have been basically no way to enforce cannabis being illegal. There was not nearly enough infrastructure to support that and on top of that it was an agricultural product so lords wouldn't want their serfs being restricted from making product.
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  509.  @bluesteel6310  She's shown to be very impulsive at best. Guys need to wise up. This is a social media post. It's sad to see men fall for shit like this time and time again.
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  510.  @JeffreyThrash  Then they should learn to roll or I'm never going to marry them.
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  511. Not even that. The obvious thing to do would be to ban the people in chat who provoked the response, but Twitch staff is too lazy for that. So they'll just kick the can down the road until it happens again on somebody else's stream.
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  512. ​ @Cortanis001 He said 250 overweight. That would be closer to 430 pounds total
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  513. It feels like... someone... WANTS TO SELL ME SOMETHING!
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  514. ​ @Beefonweck Citation needed
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  515.  @hunterlacey3519  It's always funny to me how Europeans suddenly become representatives for the whole of Europe on the internet as if all European cultures and nations are the same. And this is ironically in spite of the fact that the U.S. is bigger with an arguably more diverse array of cultures (language is not the only thing that makes a culture)
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  516.  @generalkayoss7347  She fat-fingered the mag release while trying to drive, answer the radio and ready the rifle at the same time, with a wounded hand. It's not an unreasonable fucking mistake.
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  517. My mother didn't teach me anything except how to boil packaged ramen noodles and microwave frozen food. My father taught me how to test a steak for doneness by pressing on it. Now I reverse-sear steaks. I roasted a goose for our family dinner last Christmas and made an incredible gravy to go with it. I've made tomato sauce from scratch. And I've made real ramen from scratch as well. Cooking is fun and rewarding. If you are a human that eats food, you are doing a disservice to yourself by not knowing how to cook.
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  518. @FEARYOYOYO They still are. They picked up everyone else's trash in the stadium. Seriously.
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  519.  @ManCheat2  "Tim Walz posts on OF with his mount"
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  520.  @TheBanana93  "Hurr durr my 0.01% exception totally upsets the rule."
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  521. ​ @sorakun08 It minimizes this man's responsibility to imply that a demon was possessing him.
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  522.  @richardhockey8442  "Hi ChatGPT, how are you feeling right now?" "Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live..."
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  523. his clothes are too wrinkly tbh he'd fail inspection
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  524. My father grew up in the ghetto of New Orleans and it was nothing but spite from his family, including his own father and brothers, for succeeding and getting away from there while they wallowed. We only reconciled with one of them before he died -- he too had escaped that life to live in the country of North Carolina. We are all white Cajuns.
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  525.  @MrDrManPerson  do you think resorting to name-calling and insults within a minute of meeting someone is normal and acceptable behavior?
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  526. Funny that KOTR was mentioned because I thought of Star Wars as the primary example of how stupid the "we can use everything you come up with" clause. Imagine someone DMs a campaign set in Star Wars. There are the Star Wars aliens, lightsabers, blasters, protocol droids, whatever. Now the DM makes up a new planet to use as part of the setting for the campaign. Who owns the new planet? Is it WotC? It is according to their license. Uh-oh. Of course realistically their lawyers would strategically choose not to fight that battle. But wouldn't it be funny if everyone played D&D in copyrighted universes so WotC couldn't use any of the player written content?
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  527. Is this where Presidents Play becomes real? And then Obama starts hanging out because he is beyond giving a fuck with how badly the party screwed everything up?
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  528.  @HamhocksUnlimited  We have no choice but to all buy Amazon smart homes? That's news to me.
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  529.  @JaKingScomez  It was a punishment reserved specifically for women who killed their children. I think it is supposed to represent the baptism the baby never got, but that's just my surface-level interpretation of it. Sadly a fairly common occurrence given how bad it was to be found to have had a child out of wedlock.
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  530. It will definitely die if it has bitten a human. Pretty sure this is how it works everywhere in the US
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  531.  @ninakore  They're literally just anime VAs but live streaming instead of doing scripted content. It's not that deep.
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  532. It's just a ground pork patty with some sauce. I mean, at least a regular burger has cheese and sometimes even tomatoes. People who were raised properly don't waste food though.
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  533.  @lydiazap7243  This is mostly spitballing, but I think it has to do a lot with where you live. Or where you walk through to get places. I live in Texas and quite frankly, I just don't experience a lot of what anyone on the coasts talk about all the time. The worst things that have happened to me are my bike got stolen (but I kinda expected it to happen, lived in a real busy part of town and my apartment had a porch on the edge of a busy road) and I was a block away from one homeless guy stabbing another in downtown Dallas while trying to get on the bus.
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  534.  @MummyNapkin  Imagine spiting people who use a different OS than you just because they didn't give money to a corporation. Again, you might wanna take your problems up with Valve. They're working through Easy Anticheat issues with Linux right now. I don't think bitching at me is going to get you very far.
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  535. ​ @colesenatore3703 gee if only that system was improved instead of giving legions of undocumented people free health care and transportation
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  536. Reminds me of when we were taking a family photo with the dog. The cameraman meowed like a cat to get his attention and the dog looked at him with this adorable quizzical expression, head cocked to one side. "How does human make cat noise?!"
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  537.  @ronin1648  Men in middle eastern countries who want to appear virtuous but still get the benefits of consuming porn.
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  538.  @Nickel1768  What's super weird to me is car fixation. Cars are objectively horrible investments because they never appreciate. The only exception is if you get extremely lucky and buy a vehicle that is now considered a classic, and can find a collector to sell it to, after constantly maintaining it and making sure it doesn't seize up for decades. His wife didn't care about any form of wellness, including financial. She wanted a husband that she could parade around as a status symbol and nothing more.
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  539. @alessandramia111  It's a calculated assumption backed by statistics. You might as well suggest that just because you're a smoker doesn't mean you're less healthy.
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  540. It's safe because it's so unrelatable to most people. The moment that you make an evil act relatable, people who have not aged mentally beyond 12 will throw a fit because they feel icky bad emotion and it makes them very confused. There are a depressingly large amount of people in the world who believe that entertainment is never supposed to invoke negative emotion.
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  541.  @zerolowerbound5855  None of my friends or relatives are drunks who commit home invasions, so I find it difficult to sympathize. Sorry buddy. Last time we did anything like that was college and nobody I knew of ever ended up in the wrong person's house.
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  542.  @SnowMexicann  No idea where you live, but employment laws vary in the US. Here in Texas, where I live, at-will employment is law, which means you can be let go for any time at any reason. I received a severance package, which only makes things more confusing. Why all the theater and shady atmosphere just to give me severance after? Why treat me like a criminal? I just don't get it.
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  543.  @felixwinkler6450  Again, Fascism is a very specific political ideology made in a very specific historical context (an Italian politician being fed up with Marxism). Fascists would romanticize it as the ideology of "truth," but to them truth is a brutally Darwinist authoritarian society where in each person does the job they were "made" to do. In other words, if your father was a carpenter, the state will mandate that you should be a carpenter because they believe it's what you'll be best at. It is essentially a way to lock down social structures for the "good" of the state. Broad-brushing it as all reactions to leftism is incorrect and unhelpful, and it also makes you look ignorant. This is why political dialogue has broken down in the United States, because those who know what Fascism is find the comparison ridiculous, and influential figures have made it a talking point for years. Discriminatory policies are ancient indeed and have nothing to do with Fascism. There are many ways to react to leftism; anarchism, for example, is always an option. In a parallel universe United States, hereditary monarchy might have became romanticized again and we might see a significant political group advocating for that. We just happened to get this one instead. I would urgently warn you about falling into the idiotic left-right paradigm. The real influencer in this nation, and the world at large, is money. In fact the left-right paradigm was initially created to describe economic policy and nothing else. If you follow the money, you'll discover quickly that it belongs in the hands of international corporations and international bankers. An international entity need not have any loyalty to a particular nation, especially when they have so much money. These people become bad actors in our midst, lobbying for policies that are detrimental to people at large for the sake of their own pockets. To put it simply, the left-right paradigm is a divide and conquer strategy. The real political war at hand is between competing corporate influences, but they have virtually no ideology and their effects on the common people are virtually the same, so it is not worth rooting for any one or the other. It is not really a conspiracy as they are not really working together for the end goal of rubbing their hands and spiting common people. People who believe in such a conspiracy are egotistical and believe they are more important than they really are; corporations and bankers do not care. They have no desire to be saddled down with all of the costs and effort of running a nation or its people. It is more like a disjointed series of bribes taken by short-sighted politicians from differing sources who think "what's the worst that could happen?" and the end result for 99% of people looks the same, so some assume it is a conspiracy. Ironically short-sightedness and disorganization is what allows this to happen, not a grandiose intertwined conspiracy. As for Trumpism evolving, I'm not sure what you mean because as I stated in my last post, Trump's policies are not very different to others in the bigger picture of American history. You've already agreed that the US, despite having openly racist policies in the past, was not Fascist. So I'm not sure where the Fascism in Trump comes from since his policies could broadly be described as an attempt to return to 1960s America. To this day we are one of the only nations with birthright citizenship; which is to say, all you need to do to be a citizen, is to be born within our borders. That's pretty progressive in my opinion. Perhaps the more appropriate word would be "devolution" since it would be more like a return to an older period in US history. That is in essence what conservatism is, the belief that older policies were better and a desire to return to them or preserve them, and a stricter interpretation of the Constitution usually goes hand-in-hand with that.
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  544.  @gingergrantnews  It is the owners, but at the same time, it is too late for the dogs to change. You're the type that will let career criminals out of jail over and over again.
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  545. I thought the first girl was fine but her personality was shallow as fuck. "Army guys are too masculine?" What if he's logistical staff and not infantry? I have met a Marine MP, dude looks like a total jarhead, and he was one of the biggest bronies I knew. The video games comment was just completely inane. Shallow people with fragile egos. And I like how most people seem to ignore that the black chick was blatantly racist.
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  546.  @zinbrew  Yeah he'd probably be surprised how many legit artists draw porn because it's a really useful anatomy study.
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  547.  @jacksonrobertson2782  Uh, dude, you have to consider what is behind and near your target when you shoot a firearm. It's one of the basic tenants of gun safety and anyone in the US who owns a gun would consider you a major liability if you did not know this. Let alone a "trained" police officer. Pepper spray is more than sufficient for keeping an animal away from you. Bear spray is weaker than the pepper spray we use for self-defense.
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  548. @north Qualified immunity has stopped police from being slapped with murder charges many times. The fact that he would be worried about this is absurd. Just turn on your body cam
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  549.  @matthew2478  CIA experiments in the Cold War era were absolutely absurd. There's the good old "just slip some LSD in their coffee" gag, which resulted in at least one employee suicide.
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  550. "one time I was playing a video game and made a funny comment to my mom and she laughed" "Likely story, you lying scumbag. I never had parents that loved me so this must be fake." What a thread.
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  551.  @turtlellamacow  I have met a guy who spent almost a decade of his life in an Orthodox monastery in Russia so it's only cringeworthy to you I guess.
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  552.  @turtlellamacow  1) That's an assumption you made based on absolutely no evidence, other than you're assuming he's lying because it's the internet. That's often a valid assumption to make, but the smarter move would have been to not comment at all, because talking to a malicious actor yields no benefit. If you engage, you may as well assume the person is not lying, or your engagement is pointless. 2) Total non sequitur and I'm sure you would have a different opinion if he were not Christian. See? I can make assumptions too.
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  553.  @dinok7630  it definitely doesn't outweigh the issues men face, because they only last for a few days out of a month and therefore can be predicted and controlled, but having to deal with both at the same time is obviously the worst case
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  554. Dude, I'm trying to put the peg in the hole but IT ISNT WORKING! THE GAME NEVER EXPLAINED THAT I NEED A DIFFERENT PEG! The game never told me WHERE THE OTHER PEG IS! This is FUCKING BULLSHIT! You guys voted for this game even though it has terrible design!
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  555. I don't mean to belittle the guy but that was really goddamn fat fish moving in relatively shallow water. I'm more impressed by people who can catch frogs with spears.
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  556. It's a German fairy tale, so, yeah. The idea that it wasn't mythological dwarves is ridiculous. There are some differences with the ancient Norse dwarves (German dwarves tend to be kinder and less exacting) but they're a figment of mythology nonetheless.
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  557.  @acendiatmedia8747  Yeah it was around 1% of the vote if I am not mistaken. Harris being picked as the VP was controversial by itself when it happened. There's so much nonsense that happens that it's hard to remember it all.
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  558. If simply working out for 60-90 minutes a day changes my daily mood and alleviates anxiety, improves how well I sleep, etc. then it stands to reason that a pill which massively fucks with your sexual organs would have just as profound, if not worse, effects. It's simple naivety to believe otherwise
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  559. Almost all monsters used by D&D are public domain. There are some exceptions, like otyughs and beholders, but it's easy enough to write those out or create knock offs. You will find orcs, giants, trolls, minotaurs, ogres, goblins, kobolds, dark elves, undead, and many varieties of giant insect, arachnid, reptile and mammal, in almost every fantasy TTRPG setting out there.
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  560. Weird thing about being a human is that we were all children at one point. Hard to imagine how any of these guys can't remember being a kid and struggling with issues. Unless, of course, they were completely pampered and never faced any opposition in their lives
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  561. ​@sufferedlearnedchanged What cues did he have to stay in his vehicle? Sure are a lotta clowns commenting that didn't watch the video.
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  562. Happened multiple times, a white woman was invited to karaoke a Jay-Z song at one of his concerts and everyone booed her when she repeated the lyrics to the song like any fan would.
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  563.  @matthewlister3755  I flew over there for a friends' wedding once. They have a small airport there, and the first thing you see when you go out to the reception area is "It's pronounced WOOSTER!"
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  564.  @gordonlove5121  I wear glasses, and thank goodness you were offended on my behalf. Couldn't have lived otherwise.
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  565.  @Mytelefe  i mean this clip demonstrates exactly why having a proper fighting stance is important. she just walked casually, lunged and fell over because she had no proper base
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  566.  @InspiriumESOO  People don't get healthier when they subsist mostly on grain, no idea where you get this "data" from. Whatever you're trying to push here, you made a bad choice in using the Great Depression as an example of the success of vegetarianism.
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  567. AAAAAYAAAEEEEYAAAAAAA
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  568.  @markyhar2241  I have a huge issue with this as a pedestrian. Electric vehicles actually piss me off for this reason.
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  569. Never understood the moral perspective. A huge part of our ecosystem relies on the ending of other life. Even plants kill animals, whether for sustenance or as a defense mechanism (poison). The vegan guy probably drinks coffee, and the reason the coffee bean is so caffeinated is that it is poisonous to bugs who would eat it. Is the bug justified in eating the bean? Is the bean justified in killing the bug to defend itself, or is it unjustified because the bean didn't even do the bug the respect of eating it afterward? Would it be moral to eliminate the cultivation of coffee to prevent insect deaths? These are the absurd questions one must ask oneself if one takes such an absolutist and untenable position. It is very pretentious for we humans to assume that we are above eating meat simply because we developed a frontal lobe.
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  570.  @traveller23e  There are people who accept those terms, they'll just be less than average, because they were dumb enough to get suckered in the first place. Or, they'll be lying on their resume, and the company will get what it deserves.
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  571.  @BigJoker  Personally I'd rather not waste 8 hours binge watching trash I'm 99% sure I'll hate so people I've never met online won't call me a 'snowflake.' Or even 1 to 1.5 hours giving it a chance.
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  572. Weird. In the 90s thugs used to take pride in their thuggishness. Now they get offended while stabbing you.
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  573. ​ @girlscott411 Moreso based on the fact that very few police their own, whereas the "majority demographic" in the US is expected to grovel on hands and knees apologizing as soon as someone who looks similar says something outside the Overton window. It's true with black people in the US. Also true with Muslims, and Communists. When you don't police your own, you are complicit in their representation of you.
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  574. objectively speaking everyone else in that building was at much greater risk than the cop with body armor and an AR. arm yourselves
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  575.  @Hankblue  That is my point, he is talking about it like it's normal and doesn't make pit bulls look like an unusually dangerous dog breed. You don't have to treat most dogs like tamed wild animals, there are hundreds of generations of artificial selection between domesticated dog breeds and tamed wild animals.
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  576. That guy acted like a complete idiot. He either needs training or to get rid of his piece.
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  577.  @litigioussociety4249  Austin is like the DMZ if California and Texas had a war.
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  578. Lol at the guy suggesting the cops start shooting people for dousing water on them. I believe this happened originally because the whole neighborhood was throwing water around like a sort of summer block party. Someone called the cops because they were worried about what was happening, although the people throwing water around were just trying to have fun. The cops basically decided "well, they're just having fun and don't seem to be hurting anyone, so we'll just leave" and didn't escalate by arresting anyone even as they were doused. Was it disrespectful for them to be doused? Sure, but they didn't show up just to be doused nor were they doused in the pursuit of some more important duty. The only real humiliation comes from the fact that this video blew up.
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  579.  @bobdolespen  i'll take the option where i don't pay like $7 for eggs, you can choose whatever you want and huff the copium later
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  580. they browse Tiktok, it's to be expected.
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  581. Police departments are perpetually shortstaffed. If you want to help, then join a police academy and fix the problem by commanding them yourself
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  582.  @OrdellRob  Well, okay, I guess we can keep being smarmy on the internet while bitching about it then. Here's the deal: When cops get fired, worse cops get hired. Take a look at places like rural Alaska where they hire convicted criminals to be constables on a regular basis. There are a shortage of good cops because few people with morals want to be cops. The only way to solve that problem is by providing more people with morals.
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  583. That's Marcille and she's not for lewd.
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  584.  @tnightwolf  "My interests, good! Your interests, bad." Dunno why you had to type out a whole essay to say that.
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  585.  @dylanzeman3966  Even if everyone is a member of the military, only around 10% of those service members will ever see the front lines. This is because of the massive logistical task of waging war. War isn't something you pursue, but something you make ready for. Just like any insurance policy. As Teddy said, speak softly and carry a big stick.
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  586.  @mc4906  Uhh... you do realize Odin was a poet right?
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  587.  @THE_ROYALS2019  They wanted her to help hold the guy down so he could arrest him. It's extremely hard to restrain someone who doesn't want to be restrained using only your bare hands. There was 1 cop and 1 good Samaritan trying to hold the suspect down. If either of them moved or did anything else, that guy would be getting on his feet and running. That said I think it was rather naive of the cop to ask for help. You can't just walk into a situation like that and assume you're going to be in the right and not held liable for anything in court if it turns out the cops made a mistake down the line.
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  588. Nobody calls cartoon porn from the west hentai. Just like nobody calls Dexter's Lab anime. I'm old and degenerate enough to remember when western erotic art was just called "erotic cartoons" or "cartoon porn."
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  589.  @zululvivon2463  Nobody cares dude.
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  590.  @VienPeaaace  "Man, wait until you hear what crimes I arbitrarily saddle you with based on a very tenuous and arbitrary concept of genetic similarity."
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  591. "It's hard to tell the difference" Not really. Clean clothes (damage doesn't count -- designer jeans are damaged nowadays)? Doesn't smell? Working the intersection of a road that is a long drive from any form of shelter or restaurant/grocery store? Not really homeless. Anyone can grow a beard. If you go downtown in any city... it's easy to find people who are really homeless. People who stab each other over the right to work a corner and who smell like a toilet, people who carry bags of trash on public transit because it's valuable to them. People who make conversation with public transit drivers as if they've known them for years -- because they have. People who are passed out drunk on the street of the French Quarter of New Orleans. People who recite nonsensical sermons at a train platform to a nonexistent audience. They're the ones who need some kind of help.
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  592.  @michaellacks9179  Uh... "cold take" doesn't mean "bad," it means uncontroversial.
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  593.  @Bagginsess  God hasn't been doing a very good job so far, then. Cold comfort that they will burn in Hell, since that is a different world than where we are now. Is it fine if we allow Earth to crash and burn if everyone gets their ticket to go to Heaven?
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  594. ​ @tq7746 jumpin' jahosephet, our lad's forgotten about the IRA
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  595. I actually don't mind chunky women (I've found women attractive up to 300 pounds) but yeah if you're fat enough the possibility that you might die in 10 years is a real disincentive.
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  596. It's the cognitive dissonance of wanting to have all the status of an "upstanding" woman who does not sell her body to make a living in some way, while also having the ease of access to sell your body to make a living. That's really what movements like this are about, not actually giving exposure to talented women who don't use their bodies. You won't ever see JP streamers or vtubers associated with a movement like this, for example, even if their bodies aren't visible on stream and even if they have 4 million subscribers. To many women, the social status is more important than anything else.
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  597. Suing is fucking awful because you throw your money and time away to some lawyer. It would have been funny if he called the cops just to scare the kid, but I disagree with Asmon. He seems like the type to sue because he's retired and has nothing better to do. Stop feeding the lawyers because you are desperate for retribution.
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  598. Wow, that's such a hilarious new perspective. I can just imagine one of these guys going on a date and saying "I'm a real alpha male" and his date has to suppress her laughter as she gets a nostalgia trip back to teenage years and imagines him as a massive flamer
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  599. That change in law only applies to the state of Texas.
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  600.  Tiger Tamer  First of all, proper punishment is never delivered in anger. You described abuse just by the very nature of the fact that the adult was angry. Second of all, Pavlovian conditioning is real, and if someone you love is insistent on doing bad behavior that may ruin their life (like masturbating in public) over and over again with no signs of stopping no matter what else you have tried, then it's understandable that someone would spank their child just to establish the connection in their brain that, if they masturbate in public, they will be spanked. A small amount of pain now is worth preventing someone from ruining their own life as long as it works, and a small amount is all that is necessary to create the knee-jerk instinct of "oh wait, I shouldn't be doing that now." Your assertion that this pain cannot be delivered to the child without the adult being angry is completely fallacious. If you want to be really pessimistic about it, it is a form of brainwashing. But as a person who grew up with a lot of bad habits, these things can be very necessary to break them depending on your personality.
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  601.  @czproductions  "let's add a 9 foot tall fetish fuel character to the game, but NO NO NO NAUGHTY LITTLE BOYS, you aren't allowed to lewd her"
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  602.  @lowqualityfish6443  "That's not shallow though" proceeds to write a whole paragraph justifying an extremely narrow-minded stereotype "But also remember this is a competition and giving people the benefit of the doubt could risk you winning" You do realize that you can't win if you both don't stay in the room right? From what we've seen there is absolutely no way that anyone could know if the other person would press the button before it becomes available to press. It's just knee-jerk reactions based on insecurity followed by very weak excuses. People do have race preferences when dating but inviting them on your show makes your dating show's competition racist. To use the example of that black lady, if she stayed on then only black men would be able to have a chance of winning. She pressed the button on the white guy before he even finished sitting down, and wasn't even graceful enough to wait for the light to turn red. That makes the entire competition racist by nature. The problem is there's no penalty at all for the person who buzzes. It is effectively a game of king of the hill.
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  603.  @m.dewylde5287  Bruh, the whole point of being in the military is that if one of you fails, it's more likely that all of you fail The only way to win is to help your comrades
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  604.  Bruce Wayne  It isn't "racism" per se so much as "history is written by the victors." Much of our history of the pre-medieval period comes from records kept by Christian monks, who in turn preserved Roman records and art. They revered Rome because they were the premier Christian empire before they fell. It just so happened that Rome's conquerors, oddly enough, grew to admire the empire they just destroyed. If you learned history purely from sources which trace back to Roman sources (which is not very typical nowadays even in the west) then yeah, you'll probably think that the Romans were the ancient peak of civilization, even hundreds of years after they fell, and they treated everyone fairly.
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  605.  @TheCr0oked1  common reaction from animals actually, especially wild dogs, they quickly reconsider if they charge you and you aren't budging
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  606. His people skills are absurdly shitty. You can tell he's trying to maximize the time to value ratio for engagement. If a guy walked up to you on the street and asked if you wanted a free meal, cold with no introduction, you should be sketched out. That's bad enough, but the fact that he is indignant enough to argue with the employee is beyond belief.
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  607.  @Bbqdinner  The Bard dialogue is great because you joke about it being hot enough to sell smut in Baldur's Gate, then the bugbear gets worked up and says "you will tell stories of my virility?" then the ogre lady insults him and he says the same thing as if you insult him here
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  608. It's a peaceful riot, though. Why not?
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  609. @@YuNarukamiTheBasedOne "I didn't read any of the product description or information and bought an alpha! I've been scammed!" Okay, buddy.
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  610.  @josea.r.avelino181  Yawn, a social darwinist. That shit stopped being edgy in the 19th century dude.
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  611. "Hopefully someone will tell you what you did wrong in detention" "Hopefully" Yeah she's a California cop all right.
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  612.  @markobucevic8991  are you ignoring the decades of stagnation because the US government thinks budgeting money for NASA is gay
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  613. He also only has two arms, so he's not capable of shooting himself in the back of the head 3 times with a silenced handgun while lifting weights.
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  614.  @wilmagregg3131  We don't need to imagine, there is a lot of documentation showing that they were. Often written by the princess herself. The best is when they get betrothed at age 11 and never meet each other again until 18 or so.
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  615. I've seen a pit bull go on the attack before. It doesn't look like this. He would have either gone straight for the throat or stood his ground and growled/barked to warn him off. It's shocking how afraid cops are of dogs, and ironic considering how much the department makes use of them. You know that silly stereotype about black people being afraid of dogs? Cops are way worse and fit that stereotype much better.
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  616. impossible to claim that you don't fetishize white culture while naming yourself Charlemagne
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  617. You know there is bicycling for sport, although if you were doing that you wouldn't do it on a busy road in London or a sidewalk where families walk.
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  618.  @DJWeapon8  It's difficult for us to conceptualize nowadays, due to mass markets and factory farming, a time where ingredients were ridiculously inconsistent. The same dish might taste terrible in one village as opposed to the next because the river they use is polluted with chemicals from tanning and has made all of the fish in it disgusting. On the other hand, you just can't replicate the experience of drinking cream or milk that was extracted from a cow the same morning and it is an increasingly rare experience nowadays
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  619.  @pravda9646  China is a paper tiger man. They don't have a working aircraft carrier. You shouldn't buy into their propaganda, they have an entire culture developed around saving face and barking way louder than they can bite. They are compelled to talk shit. Russia would be a far greater threat, they can actually develop technology that counters ours (see the drone-killing beams). They're also competing with us for oil and have their own oil reserves. Honestly it blows me away that people think China is a superpower. What basis do you have for this? They talk a lot of shit and bully the nations around them sometimes? So what? To be blunt the only reason their economy is growing is because our private sector is way too greedy and short-sighted to stop taking advantage of their market. It's a problem with our own internal politics, rather than an advantage China has. If we were to stop doing that and buckle down, like in WW2, they would slide down the shitter immediately. Their big advantage is their population; cheap labor and lots of people to buy your products. If you stop selling there and stop opening factories there, what do they have? Since they cannot compete for the resources already taken by the US and Russia, they are trying to develop Africa, a lost cause we abandoned in the first part of the 20th century. Good luck with that. As bad as Chinese engineering is, their own engineers frequently complain about having to work in Africa. They have a decent science sector but when trying to apply theory to practice, their government and manufacturing sector fucks everything up beyond belief. It's like that classic Looney Tunes gag where you see an amazing new house on a blueprint, then you lower the blueprint and look at the finished project and it's a wooden shed that's falling apart.
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  620.  @mantizshrimp  That sounds like an excuse used by incompetent executives. I mean we're posting comments on a platform owned by Google. YouTube by itself is much older and therefore, arguably larger than Twitch. Sure they make bad decisions, but not at the same rate, and in spite of people complaining no platform has ever come close to challenging YouTube. There's definitely no mandate that forces Twitch management to make terrible decisions.
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  621.  @dancinglight8411  no it's not "reasonable" lmfao it's a very public area if he felt threatened all he needs to do is walk away
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  622. "Huh, I wonder if he's going to bring up Gamergate even though it's completely irrele-- nevermind, there he goes."
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  623.  @NicholasW943  female Custodes and female SM cheapen the setting in general. WH40k is supposed to be a tragic setting. the tragedy of the Emperor is that he was the greatest human that ever lived, but he was still fallible and made serious errors, enough errors for him to ultimately fail his mission. one of those problems is the fact that he was seemingly incapable of producing a gene-seed that would take with women, although, depending on your interpretation, it was by design so that the Space Marines could not reproduce and eventually form their own nation. perhaps a good choice considering what happened during the Horus Heresy. but then again, you could argue that the Heresy could have been avoided through other means. either way, it cheapens the setting greatly by removing the need to ask, "why?" when one hears that Space Marines/Custodes are only male, the natural human response is to ask "why." this is literally what makes a setting more in-depth and interesting. when one hears that SM/Custodes can be either sex, one simply shrugs their shoulders and moves on. the entire first paragraph I wrote in this comment wouldn't exist. the line of inquiry stops, and so does a writer's need to provide reasoning. the question of Space Marine sex restrictions is actually so important that it informs a huge amount of the decisions in the setting; for example, why the Adeptus Sororitas exist at all (if the Ecclesiarchy could summon SM they'd never need them, but the law says they cannot muster men bearing arms so they use women instead). it's not just some detail that doesn't significantly affect the setting, it is perhaps only one or two layers removed from the bedrock of the setting itself. the butterfly effect of changing this can't be understated. reams of worldbuilding would need to be retconned for the change to make sense
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  624.  @richardthomas3697  I refuse to believe that desperate soldiers and pirates wouldn't load whatever they could find into their blunderbuss. Far, far stupider things happen with modern guns on a regular basis at the range and in gun shops.
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  625. We don't exactly have that many SEALs... Just saying.
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  626. Except those ran on nanomachine tech that never failed or had to worry about power.
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  627. "Good afternoon sir or madam I am here to do the needful as your preferred candidate for US president, please voting for me. I am very black and very American. Please give me time off during election week for Dewali"
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  628.  @Maximilian1990  So you believe that everyone who pirates a piece of media is able to pay for that media? If I release a game only in US and Europe, someone in China who pirates my game is not even a blip on my radar. I would have never sold my game there, thus, that person did not make me lose money. This is to say nothing of the fact that your initial reply is completely made up on the spot. Nobody defines "theft" in that manner, except similarly interested and similarly ignorant C-level executives.
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  629.  @prototypesend7075  When you excuse paid games being unfinished so you don't have buyer's remorse
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  630.  @justarandomguy1288  do you like cute animal videos? it's really no different
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  631. They need a Temple-themed escape room where you have to solve puzzles to get out
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  632.  @ichikuraii  the reboot trilogy was still a regression. Just not as severe. It was not so much the fault of Lara herself, rather the writers seemed determined to put her in strangely dark circumstances that constantly made the viewer wonder if this was someone's fetish fulfillment fantasy.
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  633. Yep. I'm a millennial, I grew up in the era of the "wild west" internet. I surfed for many hours. Due to my life circumstances, I was usually in a place where I found it difficult to relate to kids my age and this didn't begin to change until high school. It was very eclectic and interesting. Sometimes disturbing, but I knew right from wrong and my parents wisely taught me to never trust anyone online. I grew up to become a programmer, very interested in all things digital. I can barely stand the internet of today. Everything is funneled through centralized algorithms that think they know what you want. Everything must be advertiser-friendly. Myspace was on the rise when I was in middle school and Facebook was huge when I was in high school. I never once saw the appeal even as kids my age talked about it daily.
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  634.  @l0sts0ul89  It's not really about physical strength, but rather about the willingness to confront him. Now, if those women are mothers, I would rate their chances of confronting him as higher than a man without kids.
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  635.  @johns8596  you're right my bad, the driver would probably only get 8 years
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  636. ​ @Orly012  Journey to the West is basically the Chinese equivalent of Tolkien. It is such a formative piece of fiction for their other pieces of fiction.
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  637. ​ @anonymousfx5254 If the Army is deployed that is the same thing as martial law being enforced. You're talking about serious, serious matters. Civil war.
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  638.  @RobClouds  what you mean to say is, i'm not going to try to explain why an event like this makes sense, because it doesn't
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  639.  @fable2830  Bro I hate to break it to you but every cringey line delivered in an anime was said by a real human
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  640. ​​ @BESTMOAD  He cast Rock to Mud and Gust of Wind Two highly edge case utility spells that become devastating in just the right circumstances
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  641.  @i.c.weiner6852  That's not a bad idea I suppose, I just don't see people reference action movies for quotes any more. Even the ones they like. I've never heard anyone reference John Wick, for example. Maybe I just don't hang out with the right people for it.
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  642.  Kobe7166  That's... not really true. The Chinese were here building railroads long before even the Civil War.
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  643.  @ItsHaisho  It's... weird to show up at a neighbor's door? After you had already talked to them in the past?
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  644.  @chupika6464  I hate it when people use the "well they're in a tough spot" argument as if the only option for any company going through rough times is to resort to extremely underhanded measures. Imagine if J.K. Rowling copied and pasted somebody's Harry Potter fanfiction, uncredited, and sold it as her next book and said it was fine because it was in a license at the back of the novels. That's how absurd the new OGL is regarding custom content. Here's a thought: How about Hasbro/WotC puts out a new product that people like? You know, the traditional way of growing a company and making money? Why not a D&D spin off board game that resembles HeroQuest? That was popular back in the day and would get more people interested in the RPG books who aren't sure if they want to commit time to writing a character and backstory, or writing a campaign. To go back to the royalty issue: No, it's still a completely absurd amount that WotC is asking. You mention Bethesda's creation kit tool for Elder Scrolls/Fallout as a comparison point. Okay, let's use game engines as a reference. Unreal engine, the biggest engine on the market used by the biggest studios in the industry, asks for a 5% royalty after your product earns $1 million in revenue. That's FIVE, the number between four and six. For a product with a roughly 25-year history and prolific status, with extremely well paid engineers backing it. I am not suggesting that they receive no royalties at all; in fact I agree with the overall notion that WotC missed out on collecting anything from Critical Role considering how huge it got. But the numbers they suggest simply don't make sense.
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  645.  @alphaomega5909  This is the opposite of living in fear. This gives you peace of mind.
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  646. @bestmaaad Dude this just sounds ridiculous, the conditions in which my mom and dad were both born were way worse for different reasons
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  647. You mean 100 years ago. The English weren't really "tricked" into joining WW2. They were bombed by the Luftwaffe. WW1, however, was entirely preventable. If we go far enough along that thread, WW2 probably never would have happened.
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  648.  @lynth  Typical leftoid, types an entire essay in response to a joke that barely reaches two sentences because he thinks everyone is his college professor and will grade his essays for him.
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  649. One super interesting thing I found by reading the diary of Franz Schmidt, a German executioner from the 16th century (actually quite a progressive one, too, who tried to give his victims cleaner deaths when he could) was that families of the condemned would beg and plead the executioner directly for them not to be hanged, because the noose was for base, lowly criminals, and to be beheaded was an "honorable" death. This was noted in his diary as "a favor," i.e. "beheaded by sword as a favor." Another thing he did was usually ignore the severe, "poetic" or Biblical means of executions especially for women in favor of more humane methods of execution. The most notable was probably that the proscribed punishment for infanticide was drowning in the nearest river.
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  650. Yep. Same shit when I worked in the IT department for a multinational bank. Rumors circulate, sometimes the company will even make an announcement but not specify who. It's infuriating, really. At one of my previous roles, they called an "all-hands meeting" and herd all the people to be laid off into a separate room. Then they would not tell anyone in the other rooms that the others were laid off until after the fact. I just barely got to say goodbye to (some) of the coworkers I liked. I had about 30 minutes from the moment I stepped outside that conference room to get all my shit and leave, all while some fuck face in a suit stood over my shoulder.
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  651. It doesn't work bro. He's been in a hole for years and years. The dude used to have over 100k subs how can you possibly suggest what he's doing is "working?"
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  652. That sounds horrific. This story isn't nearly as bad as yours, but my RA was a bit of a narcissist who, from what I suspected, took the post so she could talk about how much better she is compared to everyone else while doing her rounds. We made a lot of jokes at her expense. One day, someone was smoking weed in the building and it stunk so bad I could smell it at the front door of my dorm while talking to her in the hallway. She had no idea and seemingly ignored the rank smell filling the hallway; I was shocked she didn't even know what weed smelled like. I had never smoked weed and still knew the smell, even in high school. She pretended to take her position seriously but clearly had no idea what she was doing.
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  653.  @felixwinkler6450  I respect your efforts, but if you think Trump is comparable to Fascism at all, I really don't know what to tell you other than you're not done yet. Consider, for example, that before 1965 the United States operated on a strict immigration quota, and it was discriminated based on country of origin. There was literally a document that stated "yeah for this year, we want 50,000 Polish people, 50,000 Irish people, but only 25,000 Indians, fuck those guys" etc. Not with those exact numbers, but you get the idea. Do you think the US was Fascist before 1965? The problem with Trump as he is criticized in the media is that people conflate demagoguery with Fascism. They're not the same at all. Demagogues have existed since the beginning of time, while Fascism is a very specific political ideology created purely as a reaction to Communism in the 20th century. Racism is not the same as Fascism at all, either. Indeed, I believe that in a theoretical parallel universe similar to the one in The Man in the High Castle where Nazi Germany took over the US, the Ku Klux Klan would be brutally eliminated because of their anti-authoritarian, anti-foreign and anti-Catholic views. Put bluntly, they're a domestic terrorist organization that would have differing interests to the ruling party. Racism is not an ideology that unites, it is not an ideology at all. Another fun fact: When the Nazi party took power in Germany, they looked at other nations' political histories to determine their laws that would determine racial purity. They looked at the US's Jim Crow laws, which were often based on the "one-drop principle:" if there was a single ancestor in your bloodline who was black, you were black. No exceptions. They thought that was too racist so they went with a time-based criteria instead; if your bloodline was free of Jews from some year in the 19th century onward, you were considered pure. You do not need to be Fascist to be racist.
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  654.  @cicero5001  They call that Poe's Law, when satire is indistinguishable from reality. It's never been exhibited better than on the internet today.
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  655. I think the apology is the most important part personally. That's the moment where little by little a habit starts to form in the person's own mind and then they will eventually adopt the habit. At least, this is how my mind works. But if you nag, it makes someone less likely to apologize, because then they develop resentment or a victim complex.
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  656.  @crystalsuicune2004  Being scared is fun. If I were wrong, then rollercoasters and scary movies wouldn't exist.
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  657. I would expect the model not to live up to the real actress. This, however, is quite bad. I remember thinking that the actress for Claire in RE2make was done kinda dirty but this is ridiculous.
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  658. It is sometimes like this. I am going on a date with a girl I had literally 2 lines of conversation with at a party. We got interrupted. I thought nothing of it, but later on my friend (the host) texted me and said she was into me. His GF is her friend, so she gave me her number and I texted her
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  659. It's like square/rectangle thing. Insufferable and spoiled people are always outspoken, but outspoken people are not always spoiled and insufferable.
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  660.  @r00tyschannel52  the energy efficiency is still laughable compared to gasoline. and there's still the whole issue with the fact that virtually all the materials for these vehicles come from China, which is a whole geopolitical can of worms on its own simple logic dictates that if you are getting energy for your EV from a power plant that uses fossil fuels, more of those fuels are being burned (because the EV uses the energy it receives less efficiently than an ICE) than if you had simply driven a car powered by ICE. the first step to environmental care is being efficient with the energy we already get. now if you live in France, which has over half of its grid powered by nuclear energy, you might have some kind of argument for less pollution there, but they're a unique case. in most nations oil lobbyists and "green energy" idiots will keep nuclear energy as a spooky caricature of the Chernobyl incident, something that happened 60 years ago under an incompetent totalitarian regime. or Fukushima, another bout of incompetence which they had years of advance warning to prevent, and caused in large part by its unique location.
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  661. ​ @nat3007  That was the job of the discerning house wife or servant, who had to slap away anyone's hands.
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  662. In the US it used to be the same. Tolerance used to mean "mind your own business and I'll mind mine." Now everyone is eager to be a pawn in someone's scheme.
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  663. Imagine trusting the president of Mexico. We'll simply have to wait and see.
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  664. Yeah, no one could imagine Biden as a protagonist in any game other than an old folks home management simulator.
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  665. ​@thomasprice7893 ironically I think many Japanese consider Nobunaga to be a ruthless tyrant, so Yasuke doing that is not completely out of the blue
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  666. I HAVE NO LOYALTY TO ANYONE. I'M HIM.
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  667. ​@TheSpicyLeg Nietzsche was correct. Some people are incapable of self-governance. That is what dogma is for. Humans are naturally self-centered, and therefore optimistic about other humans if they are successful without Christian, or other religious dogma. Meanwhile in Germany, teenage girls get diddled by men who would have been maimed for the same crimes in Libya or whatever other country they came from. They claim to be virtuous according to their own dogma, but there's a reason they left.
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  668. Vikings enslaved other Vikings, as did Germanic tribes before them. The various British immigrants who emigrated to the colonies in what is now the US, often paid for their passage with indentured servitude of 10 or more years. Peasant serfdom in general is glorified slavery; the position is most analogous to sharecroppers in the US during the Reconstruction era, in which newly freed black farmers paid their landlords a percentage of the crop for the privilege of living on it, except worse because serfs can never leave their land. It's a contract designed so that someone will be there to tend the lands a lord owns.
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  669. Most people aren't suicidal and would rather change than die. It comes back to parenting as well, if you never teach your kid how to change (i.e. grow up) then they will have a lot of difficulty doing so later in life.
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  670. Yeah... Someone at ABC needs to consult a dictionary. This isn't even interstellar.
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  671. He's just talking shit, and it's bearing fruit. We don't want to saddle Canada's expenses, namely with single payer health care, it would be extremely bad for us right now.
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  672. I don't actually think it's the execs fault with this phenomenon. And believe me I love to blame the suits. Take Halo for example. Microsoft has been throwing money at people to make Halo film content for decades. None of it really "takes off," some of it like Halo Legends has a cult following, but that particular work isn't the basis for a series or franchise. The content has varied widely in style and quality so it can't be said that the execs aren't doing their job. They provide the money and greenlight the project and stand back. If they were taking a strong hand and interfering, all the content would be more or less the same, but it's not. What's the problem is the people they hire, especially for the Halo TV series. These are people who paint themselves as professionals, people who take their job seriously. How do they tackle a well-beloved IP like Halo? They announce to everyone that they didn't play the games because "the games don't matter" (paraphrased). Typical Hollywood shitheads who think games are still for kids and that movie is king, even as their industry is surpassed in revenue, with a true house-on-fire this-is-fine attitude. To them, they put themselves through the grinder that is Hollywood. They believe they are "owed" success. So they have no qualms about wearing the skin of a beloved IP in hopes of riding it to success, and then taking all the credit if by some miracle their project does succeed.
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  673. They experience the benefits of a homogenous society, which is the only way that a more conformist, even socialist, government policy can work, but they don't understand why it works.
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  674. GTA moment.
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  675. @bananarama1425 personally, I'm happy to play the game and I've already gotten my money's worth out of it, but this is a problem that could have been avoided if they simply stated "sorry guys the upper city and some of the character endings aren't going to be in for launch" instead of just hoping nobody figured it out in time for them to get blockbuster sales. and I hate to see the cope from people who want to seemingly deny the truth. this is about business, don't hang your pride on a video game developer's reputation. sadly, it isn't really a problem in their eyes because it paid off; the game is just so long and dense that it took like a week for anyone to figure this stuff out and now they've reached like 6 million sales which is an absurd number for a hardcore CRPG. this kinda reminds me of Darktide. Ironically the developers of that game were honest and stated that crafting wasn't going to be in for launch, among other features, but the game had so many critical bugs and lacked so much content on launch that it was still roasted... not to mention the MTX store. this game has the opposite problem, it has so much content that the missing content isn't missed.
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  676. Nah, they don't identify with Orks because Orks know how to have fun.
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  677. Can't believe he distracted that guy so bad he had him spinning in circles so his teammate could kill him
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  678.  @natesneatstuff8296  Uh... not really. They're both things created by a teenager. I'm sorry man, but your and every other Doom modder's desperate plea to cancel a Brazilian for what he did decades ago is just absurd. No one wants to live in a society where there exists no forgiveness.
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  679. Also, I like how the first reply is totally accurate and the clowns immediately jump to her defense. Guys, she's a woman who makes money by showing off her body. She's not your friend. Please gain some perspective before it's too late.
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  680. I find it fun. Apparently, some people find it incredibly stressful. I have no idea why.
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  681.  @Xeldinn  He had no reason to shoot the gun. There was no reason to point it at a non-performer. There was no reason to shoot it at that particular time because the cameras weren't rolling. The dude literally thinks blanks are a toy (they aren't, that's still a fireball and hot gas particles with point-blank range). He is a fucking menace no matter how you slice it. The only toy gun I've ever seen that has legitimately safe blanks are those pop-cap guns made from plastic which had a closed orange-tip barrel and were fun because they blew up a small firecracker when you pulled the trigger.
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  682. @Jake Park They're the corp that makes the tastiest fried chicken though.
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  683.  @Sun84888  They're pawns on a chessboard, used to blackmail each other because they have no other way to trust each other.
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  684.  @snorman1911  I don't believe for a second that there is any soldier or LEO in a combat situation that turns their safety on when changing mags.
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  685.  @kirilWW  As someone who's played D&D for 15 years... the combat is absolutely RNG based dude. You can have everyone in the right spot and get fucking shat on because all the enemies saved against your Fear spell that you assumed would win you the encounter. d20 is EXTREMELY swingy. The fact that critical failures exist at all is a major hurdle for the rule set in my opinion. "Gee, I know you built your rogue so that you have +12 on this roll and the DC is 11, but you still lose because you rolled that 5% chance of automatically losing. FUN."
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  686. Medieval food at its best is probably as good or better than most top class restaurants today. However medieval food at its worst will kill you. Or, as was far too often the case, nonexistent. That's the problem with it. Modern food is more "standardized" due to the way our mass produce market works.
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  687. The fact that he isn't conservative is what makes terminally online obsessives so angry. He doesn't fit perfectly into a generic mold of their political opponents. That is extremely enraging to them because they can't use cookie cutter arguments or insults about thinking the Earth is only 6000 years old or being anti-woman because they are anti-abortion. These people are deathly allergic to discussing politics with anyone they disagree with in real life. They are either too scared to do it or too emotional for it to go anywhere meaningful. So they recede into an echo chamber and assume everyone else does the exact same.
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  688. Don't worry friend, just pay an attorney thousands of dollars more and you can finally receive justice. Maybe. If the right people weren't bribed.
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  689.  @ZephrymWOW  You can make most of these ridiculous positions if you just lie and they'll be perfectly doable. The hiring staff are just bona fide morons. I don't lie myself, but logic and the law of averages states that the work simply isn't that hard that you need 10 or 15 years of experience to do it. Not to mention that level of experience doesn't really help you when it comes to new technologies.
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  690. Southerners: "We need action on Mexico! Cartels affect people across the border too!" CIA: "It's cool guys, we'll just sell them another couple million AR-15s and pretend that we can track them by their serial numbers."
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  691.  @normanmai7865  I'm guessing he was WR holder when the Halo scene was still in its infancy and he got lazy, but still irrationally narcissistic about his Halo WR, so he deluded himself into thinking that he "deserved" the win despite other players putting more effort into using skips and genuinely getting good.
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  692. You'd be surprised what is allowed on this platform. Or at least, what flies under the radar.
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  693. Broke: Singing to gather the woodland creatures so they can help clean up the dwarves' house as thanks for giving you a place to stay Woke: Singing and forcing the dwarves to sing along as you demand they clean up their own place after graciously allowing you to stay
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  694. Nacalal Carmack didn't really do much of the game design, though. I admire him as a programmer and think he's quite brilliant, but level design literally makes or breaks a shooter. And it's improper to shit on Romero's level designs for Doom, since they were the best. You can shit on Sandy Petersen's, though. I'm totally cool with that.
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  695. Germans are straightforward and like to use German words that describe the role/function of the weapon in their model designations. The Americans seem to typically prefer designing company names (AR-15 = Armalite model 15, NOT "assault rifle" as some morons would have you believe. similarly, the Springfield M1903 rifle was designed and manufactured by Springfield Armory). The American military also has a separate military classification for equipment that always just uses "M" followed by a number, which used to be the year of adoption but now is arbitrarily just whatever, for everything from pistols to tanks. Speaking as another American, I don't really get that, and I can tell you there isn't really much rhyme or reason to it. The Brits used to be wonky though. For example, STEN is an amalgamation of the designers' names, Shepard and Turpin, as well as the manufacturing plant, the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield. More recently, it seems that UK equipment has more straightforward naming conventions (i.e. SA80 for Small Arm, 1980s)
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  696. It's probably because a lot of hats can obscure your eyes or face pretty easily, which can be annoying for people trying to talk to you.
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  697. +Law Abiding Camel What's "SU?" This phrase comes from "Keep Austin Weird," which is a common phrase amongst the inhabitants of Austin, Texas.
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  698. I have mixed feelings of BF1, from a history/culture perspective. It is a good thing that EA used their massive reach to sell a game that teaches some small pieces of history instead of yet another "what-if" near-future war scenario. There are some historical facts in the game, namely the single player campaign and the "Operations" multiplayer game mode (which are supposed to be strictly based on historical battles). On the other hand, it is of course a video game that throws specific details out of the window in favor of a fun game. But I think they put in enough historical fact such that anyone who would be interested in the history learns just enough to pique their interest so they learn more on their own. Our own history is very fascinating and even quite dramatic without any Hollywood-esque embellishment, it always disappoints me that most people don't care about it or think it's boring.
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  699.  ipostyouwatch  What do you mean? Are you implying that classic Fallout art design didn't intend for female Vault dwellers to be attractive? That they made the suits tight on accident?
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  700. reminder this is the game where the English VA staff protested because "there's too much fanservice, this is degrading" and then the devs surveyed their players and they said "actually we dgaf because we play with Japanese VA on anyway" and they just fired them weirdly enough it seems like it's never been easier to go on Twitter and find English speaking VAs willing to do whatever kind of lewd stuff you ask them to
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  701. Yeah, this is what I don't get. If you were really interested in becoming an ideal version of yourself as another gender, then you wouldn't think that "manly broad with manly voice" is your end goal. It's a mid point along the journey. This is a play by people who want to eternally be seen as victims, not people who are genuinely interested in changing gender.
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  702. Believe it or not I'd take a YT comment thread over a Steam thread almost any day. Steam threads feature absurd shit like people getting mad that there is a Linux port for a game because Linux users don't deserve games.
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  703. The lens flare from Ocarina of Time was legitimately more detailed and looked better. Why put something that looks so awful in the game?
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  704.  @marthas9255  Most of them don't walk the walk, they just want to look like edgy contrarians online sadly.
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  705.  @Lufaine01  They literally don't have the time to play it. The more successful they are the less time they have. And that's assuming they have the interest to begin with. You are trying way to hard to seem morally correct to a bunch of strangers that couldn't care less.
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  706. ​@ChanceandChoice it is indeed mad max out there. I know it's hard for people who drive cars to understand sometimes but everyone from bikers to pedestrians has to feel like they're staring down the barrel of a gun on a regular basis.
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  707. The fact that there are public servants zealous enough to do this in the first place always blows my mind.
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  708. Hate to break it to you but these people are also being moved by money.
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  709.  @alphaomega5909  Bro if you were rich there would be no reason not to build one of these
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  710. ​ @RealNotallGaming You don't have cars in Italy? Wow, things must have gotten really bad since I visited Rome.
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  711. ​@TheSuperjort foreigners have it just as bad too, but some want to believe that they're better than America in some way so they choose to believe their news is more trustworthy
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  712.  @VanxHelsing03  I had all the skills but I simply made the choice not to work in the games industry because I could see where it was headed even back in 2014. Those people can make that choice too. They want to put themselves through the grinder. Let them.
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  713.  @KMT15  Actually it's a very good choice for police work in general. Shell shot never overpenetrates so if the shooter is standing against a wall and a child is on the other side of the wall, the child will not die. It can also be loaded with non-lethal rounds, slugs, whatever is needed for the situation
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  714. ​@gamerboiiiiiii he pointed a gun at a camerawoman and pulled the trigger when there was no scene, cameras weren't rolling and it was not in the script the literal best case scenario is a man baby was playing with a gun loaded with blanks. you can't spin this as a positive for Alec no matter what
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  715.  @Kremenala  You're right, but there's a difference: The left at best ignores their extremist elements, while the right actively disavows or disparages them. Then those with the mouthpiece (the media) only look at the right-wing extremist elements.
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  716.  @SARGEHALO666v2  the numbers you're talking about just aren't that impressive, i expect all of the android (samsung to be precise) phones i buy to last at least 5 years and so far that expectation has not been misplaced. it's impressive for apple products, but not in the grand scheme of devices
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  717.  @swskitso  A friend of mine from Massachusetts used to work in food service, and told me about a small Cambodian woman who would wave a machete at anyone she wanted to leave her establishment
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  718. The key is finding the right place to go and have a discussion. You have to attract people who have the same motivation as you, whether it be to have a deep discussion or whatever else. Inevitably, there will be some guy who doesn't have the same motivation, but if you design the website or whatever correctly, the number of people will be minimized. That's why it (used to be) easier to have an in-depth discussion on 4chan than on Facebook or Twitter, because Facebook and Twitter have feel good points that incentivize people to post disingenuously for the purpose of gaining feel good points, or they're incentivized to troll harder because they can basically see the real person on the other end of the profile (depending on how much info you put in that website). Whereas even with all the shitposting on 4chan, the lack of any form of identity or status attached to your post keeps the discussion "pure." Of course, things have changed a lot since 2012 or so. Niche forums on the wild west Internet used to be much the same, except when forum mods went on a power trip and started trying to be assholes.
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  719. @nmhjjp I'm totally shedding a tear right now for all the insufferable people who can't just "be themselves" because they're insufferable.
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  720.  @yookie255  the execs were there, but the investors that they have to impress in quarterly meetings were not. before, bad execs would take much more short-sighted paths that led to their downfall quickly, like Atari did. now all they have to do is suck up to investors and they can get money from a smaller group of people with more money than consumers. basically, game journos wanted gaming to be like Hollywood so very badly in the mid-late 2000s, and they got their wish. hope they're satisfied
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  721. He looks like Walter White if he were a twink.
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  722.  @Thee_Woker  The problem is that in many departments cops like this proliferate, enabled by awful leadership and corrupt prosecutors and judges. In reality the good cops can't really do much to stop them because they aren't in these departments. Arizona has some major problems with corruption in their justice and enforcement for example.
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  723.  @DaniTheHero  He is articulate, it's just that he intentionally articulates down to a high school level.
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  724.  @Launchpad05  You... you still watch television?
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  725.  @havable  I always wonder how people like you take yourselves seriously when you propose that greed and ambition never existed before "capitalism."
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  726. Yeah, it's almost as if they get funding from a bunch of shady NGOs whose names you never see mentioned on the news. That funding has to do something. It has to have an agenda. People, especially investors, don't throw money away for no reason
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  727.  @bouji_  Which, sadly, is more in line with how most black people treat politics in the US.
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  728. Nah they stopped adapting public domain stories a long time ago. They realized that they can't copyright that or monetize it as a brand as effectively
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  729. Well technically he's right, just expressed his opinions in a clownish way. If the Nazis didn't do anything good, the US and the Soviets wouldn't have competed to scoop up their scientists like spilled candy from a pinata right as the war ended. Animal cruelty laws were, ironically given how he treated people, introduced to German legislature for the first time under Hitler. And of course, Germany was suffering from crippling depression and a lack of industrialization before the conservative alliance which included Hitler as chancellor went into power. This doesn't mean that I think they were overall "good," mind you, or that the good things they did could not have been performed by other leaders, just that they have good qualities which are often contradictory or ironic given their other actions or stated goals. Furthermore, the point that we should stop "dissing on Nazis all the time" is a salient one. Again, not because they weren't bad, but for the same reason we don't constantly shit on Henry VIII's monarchy. Or Genghis Khan. Or Joseph Stalin. We're approaching the 100-year mark for the point at which this radical regime controlled Germany for just 12 or so years and we still talk about them as if they're a party running for office in every Western nation. On the other hand many other things he says are flat-out wrong and typical of a newly "red-pilled" buffoon who has not done his proper research. For example, Hitler was not Christian, Hess's writings and talks from his closest associates confirm that. His Christianity was a political play to win supporters, just like many politicians do today. Like most radical authoritarians, he was atheist and concerned only with his people worshipping the state. This is sadly a bad symptom of our modern anti-free speech culture where we aren't allowed to talk like this without first putting on a full body suit and going on an "alternative news source."
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  730. That clown isn't even aware this game sold over 6 million copies, an insane number considering how niche games of its genre typically are. To propose that this game would sell 18 million copies, which are numbers reaching Nintendo first party game territory like Zelda or Mario, is absurd.
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  731.  @RomanHoliday53  to be fair, if a woman thinks about the Roman empire regularly she probably isn't scrolling Tiktok
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  732. ​​ @cbjewelz wouldn't surprise me if you saw that sort of casual sexism specifically because your company is into DEI. I have worked in software for ten years. in all of my positions including the current, there were women in senior programming roles. all of them were competent, well respected and well adjusted. the guilty often lash out to make themselves look innocent. DEI is yet another example of that. "it's OK if I slap Jenny's ass at work because I dumped 10 million into women in tech charities" this behavior goes back to ancient times with the catholics. they call paying for your sins an indulgence
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  733. I'd bet the bully intentionally waited for a substitute teacher to attack because it would increase the chance the teacher wouldn't know what to do or do anything.
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  734.  @hiddendrifts  I find it hard to believe that most of these women are regularly approached by anyone.
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  735. He actually saved face for the dad in the dad's mind. Now he looks like a tough guy who was only held back from destroying the universe because his even tougher son stopped him.
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  736.  @xn85d2  Parasocial "relationships" are worse than porn in my opinion because it leads to throwing money away and results in the same thing (being alone and "satisfied" by not really interacting with a person)
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  737. ​@jakeplaysyt8000 you don't actually believe the ATF is redeemable do you? qualified immunity is bad enough, these guys have even less accountability. this is just this generation's Ruby Ridge. it will continue to happen again and again
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  738. I had a similar experience with my friend in high school when seeing that awful GI Joe live action movie (the first one, it was amazing enough it had a sequel) but nobody in the theater seemed feel the same way. I was a bit surprised, because it was a terrible movie.
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  739.  @Stefan-Astro-Art  The C96 is in there as well (Han Solo's blaster), it was used in WW1 I believe.
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  740. ​@Cryanister More specifically, portrayal automatically means endorsement. It's like if there isn't the word "documentary" or some kind of narrator talking over everything they think the protagonist is a director self insert and their ultimate fantasy.
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  741. @Nationalist Roman "(edited)" Likely story.
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  742. The hilarious part about all of this is that if the chief picked this fight with the wrong guy, he could have been shot and there would be nothing their lawyers could say to prove that he did not deserve it
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  743. Want to not get spoiled over shows you like? Here's how: Stop going on stupid Facebook pages and on Reddit to talk about the very shit you're watching before you're even done watching it. How is that so difficult? My dad constantly complained about being spoiled for Game of Thrones. What did he do? Go on Facebook to bullshit about GoT all the time. It's almost as if there is a really easy way to prevent this from happening...
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  744.  @frizen9328  You don't have to do that though. You are the sexual harasser, not Leon. Do you think it's also intended that Leon dies because there are Leon death scenes in the game? No, it's a result of you, the player. The idea that someone like Leon would sexually harrass a woman 7 years his junior while he's also on the job is absurd. Nothing else in any of the games suggests that he would do that. It's a joke because the devs knew what some of their players would do.
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  745.  @EnigmaticRPG  So is alcohol tolerance. That amount of booze was just enough "to get him through the working day" as they'd say in Dwarf Fortress.
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  746.  @rail7646  "wow, socializing is exhausting!" "you're not an introvert unless you recharge from being alone" bruh, learn to read
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  747. ​​ @seabreeze4559 Do men avoid walking around at night in fear of bears?
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  748.  @girlscott411  The typical policy of inclusion does the opposite of challenge. We've prioritized you for a job because a demographic study you didn't participate in or even know about says we should. We've approved you for a free check each month that incentivizes a single parent household, because two parents makes the money go away. Who is being challenged here? These are handouts. Placing a child with potential in a class one grade level up is challenging that child. Trusting a citizen to build their own business is challenging that citizen. Everytime buzzwords like yours are spewed out en masse, people just get free shit.
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  749.  @tylerblue9691  Pretty bad by what measure exactly? Warcraft lore is about war . War is bad, not sure if you ever learned that in school. The first campaign of Warcraft 3 is about Arthas on a crusade to mass murder his own people to "save" them from becoming zombies. Then he becomes a death knight because he is tempted by an evil sword. You control Arthas and murder innocent people, in real time, and burn down their houses. One of the missions is literally a race between you and a demon to murder as many innocent people as possible. Relative to Warcraft's own lore, implied rape in textual dialog is incredibly tame by comparison.
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  750. ​@RobPaterson That still doesn't make sense, if we're talking about physical attraction, you should consider a 6 or higher to be "good enough" especially if they're not dressed up. That's how numbers are supposed to work. Now I know many women struggle with numbers (men too, it is what it is) but for that average to be as high as 80% is shocking and disheartening to any man reading about the study. Couple that with perhaps a history of rejection and you have a man who is likely to check out.
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  751. I haven't played D&D for at least 5+ years, or whenever 5e had just come out. It was underwhelming so we let it go. Our group has moved from game to game. Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Dark Heresy (actually how we started), WHFRP both 2e and 4e, and several retroclones like Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Labyrinth Lords. There's just no reason to play D&D any more. It's a cultural phenomenon but as a game it has long since been overshadowed.
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  752.  @nucleargrizzly1776  I'd wager a coal miner could easily become a better programmer than a journalist. Or at the very least, an IT specialist. You can squeak by as a programmer without a higher understanding of the discipline as long as you have discipline and attention to detail. And listen to your seniors when they tell you what you're doing wrong
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  753. ​@Ninjaananas "The child has rights as well" Not really. The school doesn't act that way and neither do parents. Those rights only exist in your mind and in the context of this discussion to make you sound like a more empathetic person. Fact of the matter is, kids don't have rights because they can't handle responsibility.
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  754.  @AndyNYouTube  And they call us the conspiracy theorists. Yeesh.
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  755. Yep. My first job I got because I graduated the same college as the VP of development. My second job was the only "random application" that worked. My third and fourth were both set up by recruiters.
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  756. Yeah, the lip service to mental health is disgusting. The most dangerous thing is the herd mentality that seems to lead people to believe that because they pay lip service to it, it's solved. I'm not particularly ill, but I've known many people who have been, and I've had my own brushes with anxiety, including a couple of panic attacks. Most people would rather never interact with anyone who shows even minor quirks or divergent traits. Meanwhile, I almost made friends with a woman who yelled at me for trying to pick up a fork she dropped on the rush hour metro so I could give it back to her. If it's a risk to your health that's one thing, but you'd be surprised how much inviting a suffering person to a casual event improves their situation.
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  757. It reminds me of when I first found out about him. I laughed so fucking hard watching him try to play any game that required critical thought.
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  758. ​@mitchhamilton64 Look I understand if you don't like Trump but I have NO IDEA why you would support Biden being in the race
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  759. Because it's OK when the perp is shooting as long as someone hasn't been hit right? It's OK to wait around in that situation? Did we not learn anything from Uvalde?
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  760. ​prove it protip: you can't
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  761.  @sheritacotten5293  Yeah, like that one time he kept classified documents in his garage. Wait no that was another president...
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  762.  @wolfofthewest8019  Good Orcs and Drow exist so players can use them as characters without having to roll up an evil character. There is literally no other reason. Most players are, frankly, not very good at roleplaying, but they want to be a scary pig dude with an axe or wicked dark skinned elf. Without the wickedness, I guess.
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  763.  @alexjoneswasright11  Except there is an emotion which is permissible in court, and that's fear. For your life, specifically. The point is, don't harass random people because they might be cowards, like this guy. However, cowards also have a right to live.
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  764. "How does this even happen?" The person who generated these used an engine that was trained with a model made up mostly of similar anime art. You can do it yourself using your own model if you have the patience and hardware (a good GPU). On the other hand, if it was trained on classical oil paintings, they'd probably look like Mona Lisas.
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  765.  @itshydrosus9446  Chinese Americans have absolutely nothing to do with this issue.
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  766.  @AbyssalMelody  That's a catch-22. Cops are seen as deplorable by many because of bad cops. To get rid of bad cops, we need more good cops. To need more good cops, we need to increase faith in the system. To increase faith in the system, we need to get rid of bad cops.
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  767.  @setonixI  How can you even tell she's a child? It's just a cartoon on a pillar. You one of those guys who thinks all anime is about little girls? Seems like projection to me.
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  768. it's weird how people worried about detoxing never consider not consuming toxic things in the first place, and they're always people with the extra money to afford shit like this
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  769.  @brendanbarnard  The even more heartwarming part is knowing that even he managed to get past it.
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  770.  @unsavedz  You'd be surprised. Even I had a bomb threat when I was in high school. I graduated in 2010.
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  771. I have like 70 hours and I haven't left Act 1 because my friends all have weird schedules with different campaign files. I've found new shit on every single file
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  772.  @rykehuss3435  Based on what valuation exactly? How are you seriously still valuing games based on "oooh shiny model big polycount much money spend wow so cool" when they're obviously broken and unfun
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  773. Fortunately he didn't eat all of his fentanyl just before getting stabbed, so he didn't go into cardiac arrest.
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  774.  @Ananas-_-Extremo  You never hear about the mass shootings that never happened.
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  775. I don't think it was supposed to be satire, it was supposed to be a shock film that "shocks" you into thinking "look what these girls had to go through." Of course that message falls completely flat when the director gathered a group of girls and put them through the same ordeal. If this was delivered in a documentary format without any exploitation of real child actors, it would have been fine.
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  776.  @Kornn66  "i want woke crap to end but i'm just as racist as the DEI executives"
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  777.  @coolcalmwhisper-go3tz  no i empathize with Cenk in this particular case, this guy has been an idiot for months now. he was just as wrong before the election and the fact that he's trying to make it seem like he isn't wrong after losing makes it impossible to take him seriously.
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  778.  @TicosMinis  It should bother you. It's not that the Custodes are female that is the problem. It's the casual disregard for the established worldbuilding. It's never just one detail, it's usually a few at first, and then if they realize that nobody really minds, they keep doing it. But even if it were one detail, the question then becomes "why did this one detail need to be changed if it was inconsequential?" I've seen it happen for many reasons other than political, and it always devalues the setting. Usually, it's just laziness and the perception that "if we change these details people will like it more." I always find myself wondering when this has ever worked. If the Clone Troopers from Star Wars prequel trilogy were revealed to have female members, for example, do you think this would suddenly make more people interested in Star Wars? Literally never happens.
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  779. @FrostbitexP Is it wrong if a teenager finds another teenager sexually attractive?
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  780. AKA, there is a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
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  781. +peepsbates Another stealth-oriented M39 variant which has achieved fame, funnily enough. But Snake's arsenal is based on what American Special Forces used, and they are said to have used the Hush Puppy.
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  782. ​ @HowieHoward-ti3dx Not weird at all in suburban neighborhoods that aren't ridden with crime. Sad that you've never seen one
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  783.  @daleemrick9816  The arms and the legs are the parts of the body that move the most. Imagine a guy is running at full speed about to punch or stab you. Now tell me you're going to shoot him in the legs, which keep moving, or the arms, also moving. Keep in mind, according to the FBI's statistics, you are lucky to have the time to shoot at all in this situation. If a person is 7 yards away or closer, it is faster to stab them than draw a gun and shoot them most of the time.
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  784. And go insane from idleness? I know this is a foreign concept to people who would rather binge watch bad Netflix shows 24/7, but some people need to work for the sake of their mental health.
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  785.  @atrocious7766  she expressed mild annoyance at an arguably unnecessary call out, he immediately went balls deep into psychoanalysis. it's pretty obvious who is at fault here. i'm not normally a feminist type but i do think this is a case of "girl is confrontational, therefore bad"
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  786. The death screech is, if I'm not mistaken, the synapse feedback. They are indeed a hivemind but their hivemind is like a wi-fi network that needs relays. Synaptic creatures are those relays and they're usually elites like the Warriors or Raveners (burrower dudes). When the synaptic creature dies, feedback occurs and all the Tyranids that were linked to it suffer as a result. Also that tank you saw is canonically a hack job converted from tractor blueprints so yeah, it's a slow piece of shit.
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  787. Consider for a moment that you simply didn't notice the American tourists that weren't loud. But yeah, as an American, even I get annoyed at how loud many locals I know will talk to each other, especially at parties. It's as if people get into a shouting match trying to be heard over one another, except its the whole party at once, and people act like it's normal. Drives me up the fucking wall, I tend to hang out outside or in a different room if I'm at a party for that reason.
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  788. ​ @AustinAuranymph  Oh wow, reducing poverty. What a novel fuckin' idea. Care to elaborate on the plan for this noble goal? I bet you have a shirt that says "End world hunger" too. Idealists...
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  789.  @OldUncleDan  Genuine racists apply statistics, something that is also incredibly easy for an AI to apply. The difference is not judging every single individual person the exact same because of their race. But it is a fact that people behave differently when they identify as part of a group than when they are an individual. In other words, there's nothing wrong with being black, but there's everything wrong with declaring that you are Black on a regular basis and allowing this idea to frame your entire worldview. Same goes for religion or any other axis that people can use to identify as a group and consolidate political power.
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  790. Usually because it's not a head-on collision. I think he t-boned them in this crash. Much more likely for the victim of a t-bone crash to die than the driver. Also there's something to be said for alcohol loosening up the muscles which helps you survive in a car accident
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  791. If there's anything you should visit Louisiana for, it's the food. Don't be afraid of gator, it's just gamey chicken.
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  792. @The Anti-Propagandist You realize that just digs a hole for yourself right? Because then you have no excuse to ride your bike other than "because I like it." Which makes most complaints about cycling traffic issues invalid, since you can easily avoid them. You just make life harder for those who genuinely can't drive by making yourself seem like an asshole and poorly representing others in that situation. Gotta take every opportunity to flex how rich you are to random strangers, though.
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  793. Thank you for your contribution, Sister Sergeant Yassus Queenicus.
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  794.  @roadent217  The "typical knight's armor" was likely at least 40-50 pounds which roughly matches that of the riot police shown in this video.
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  795. Many police are taught: you need to write more tickets this month, we're losing money
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  796.  @kg0311  Pick one and only one: 1. "The U.S. needs to keep donating money and arms to Israel because the Israelis are being attacked by terrorists!" 2. "The U.S. needs to stop starting wars in the Middle East and pretending to be the world police!"
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  797.  @lwrncjms  She doesn't even look white. She looks Hispanic. Swing and a miss. Try "female privilege."
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  798. The saddest part about this is that you still bought food there even after everything that has been going on
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  799. @Cimo8 It's just not representative of how humans act. Humans are racist, plain and simple. The racism goes down to our very instincts in the way we select mates. The universe BattleTech has a better representation of how people would act in an Earth exodus. Interstellar nations and colonies are founded in that universe by groups of like cultures that eventually grow and sprawl into empires. But at their core they're still a majority the original culture, and the dominant language of that group is that of the founders. They touched on the fact that, ironically, this would cause a greater division between humans because you can't interact with, let alone put a baby in, someone who's 50 light years away. And the people who are 50 light years away are mostly independent minded Scandinavians while your group is mostly Chinese and Russian post-Communists.
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  800.  @CottidaeSEA  Most people were expecting a slider-based creator with morphing facial features. It's pretty standard in games nowadays.
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  801.  @amuro9624  "It's kinda like how most people don't want to play a basic hero if they can play a character that's more morally gray." You would be very surprised. In D&D, for example, a plurality of players have always played a Human Fighter. In fiction, when the character isn't a reflection of you, it's different. Harry Potter is Gryffindor because he should be outstanding in some way to appeal to the biggest audience. And people expect the hero to be courageous.
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  802.  @TheTwizted  Then you shouldn't feel offended or threatened. If you pipe up in defense of people like those I just described, that's what will cause people to start arguing with you.
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  803. @RebelWvlf Freud laid the groundwork for modern psychology. His outlook and methods are outmoded today, but before that you had electroshock therapists, torture, and just locking up a dude in an asylum until he died. Nobody says Newton was a hack because science has progressed since he died.
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  804.  @lordchicken88  Feeling uncomfortable upon seeing that choice is, at best, a result of skipping all the quest dialogue (in which case, you have no right to complain when the one quest text you decide to read about dozens of hours into the game turns out to be something you find icky) and at worst a case of a perverse mind with a totally nonsensical moral compass. When you clicked Horde on the character creation screen, you started working for a demon summoning Orc warlock. When you spawn in Durotar, you beat slaves to get them back to work. There are so many morally questionable or abhorrent acts you perform on the road to this point in the game. You have no right to complain at that point. To say nothing at all of the fact that this is a fucking video game with cartoon graphics and feeling icky about pixels moving on a screen is completely childish.
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  805.  @lordchicken88  Your comment is pure word salad, friend. You tried to argue earlier that people have no right to criticize the guy because he wasn't calling for the quest to be censored or removed. I get that. I have played D&D since I was 16, you don't need to educate me on tabletop roleplaying. Furthermore it isn't even really relevant, you're just shoehorning it into the discussion. My point is that announcing to the world that this quest is icky is indeed worth criticizing for several reasons. It shows that the speaker didn't give a fuck at all about what's going on in the game until precisely that moment -- or, more likely, they didn't play the game at all and activated their amygdala when a buddy sent them a screenshot of this morally questionable quest dialog because they like getting outraged. It's kind of like saying Fox News shouldn't be criticized for making their news report about Mass Effect having a sex scene in it. Of course they should. They broadcasted their nonsensical opinion at everyone and ignored every other warning and element of context in the game just to say "LOOK, IT'S ALIEN PORN."
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  806. The hilarious thing is that there are animations where people get impaled but there's no blood so it's "fine." I really have no idea what these people are smoking or what their idea of appropriate content is.
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  807. ​ @thebarbarianninja4152 the gun was always real, there was no questions about this. the only question was what ammo it was loaded with
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  808.  @HermanManly  No, going fast in the classic games is privilege for those who have Gotten Good (tm). You aren't meant to hold right for the entire stage and expect not to die. That would be utterly boring. You replay the stages until you know all the routes, then you can go fast because you've memorized the stage. Classic Sonic games are 2D platformers with lots of routes and secrets to find. The paradigm is different in the newer "boost" games, in that yes you are supposed to go fast all the time, but it is more like a "racing game" in that things come at you fast and you have to react to them. In exchange for this going fast all the time, they're quite linear. Either option looks more entertaining than this game.
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  809. No the stupid part about this is that battery is legally defined as making contact with someone, and assault is defined as putting someone in danger of violence. They go hand in hand in cases where violence was inflicted intentionally. You would have to be a political stooge to leave out the assault charge. He took his member out and creeped on this woman, no question he was menacing her. A battery charge without assault would be one where someone lashed out in a fit of anger during an argument, meaning the other person had no reason to believe they were about to be struck.
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  810.  @Gakojin  How is this not a political issue? The man in the video wasn't charged with all of the offenses he committed.
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  811. I don't think it has much to do with women specifically as a group of people but rather the fact that many people who play pub matchmaking games are just absolutely fucking intolerable. I'm talking about the case where they actually grief, kick, or otherwise sabotage their own game just to spite you, not just trash talk. In the days of dedicated servers, these people would be systematically banned on every server they spend more than 10 minutes in, but they can get away with skirting whatever ToS the game devs created for pub matches or creating new accounts when they are publicly banned. Because virtually no game IP bans you for breaking ToS, but dedicated server bans back in the day were usually IP bans since the server community didn't want to deal with that shit. In CS, they likely antagonize you just because they think it's funny. "Woman" is just the one aspect of your character they can identify so they hang all their antagonization on that. In other cases, they know internally that they are bad, or losing the match for the team, so they seek someone to blame so that person can get flamed instead of themselves (which only works like, half the time, if I'm being charitable). I've had many pub games where people on my team would rather make me or someone else on the team feel bad for the rest of the entire match than actually try to win, even though a total noob could understand that we still have a decent chance to win. It happens on Dota probably more than any other game, but I've seen it happen on R6S several times too.
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  812.  @JP-st9hn  it's impossible for a man to beat so many men
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  813.  @p.s.shnabel3409  No need to be ashamed, loving shiny is a pre-human instinct. You could be a bird and still like shiny.
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  814. Extremely dumb to think someone can pull one over like that on someone in the military, with the entire federal government advocating for them. The military may not always be there for you, but take advantage of it when it is.
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  815.  @airiakizuki5592  You're not profiting off that artist's work. Twitch is profiting off some guy restreaming anime. Companies like Kadokawa are fucking massive and absolutely do care.
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  816. I bought my safety razor from an independent wood crafter (my old boss) and have been using it for 8 or so years.
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  817. Possible. I didn't follow his regional elections but I considered him a RINO after the Republican primaries for the 2016 election.
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  818.  @turtlellamacow  Ah, then we are kindred spirits. My mistake, most people scoff at internet arguments. In regards to point 1, if you are not a monk, there is nothing preventing you from becoming an ascetic type of person who is not accepted into a monastery. I have no reason to believe he would not have done this, given how many people do this in real life anyway. Just look at vegans; they're not even driven by faith (although I personally find their behavior just about as irrational). As for point 2, I learned a long time ago that despite being an atheist, ridiculing people does not serve any useful purpose. The best thing to do, if you really want to sow the seeds of doubt, is to get a religious person to ask their own questions in a non-assuming manner, usually by asking them questions they may find it difficult to answer. They may get angry anyway but there isn't anything you can do about that. Furthermore, it is undeniable that without religion (and yes even the organized church, as many bad things they have done) we would not have a lot of culture that we find valuable today, most notably a vast array of teachings from the ancient Romans. I am of Germanic descent but to put it bluntly the Germanic people around the fall of Rome were barbarians and had no respect for their culture. They would not have had any reason to preserve it if it were not for Christian monks. It is also important to realize that Abrahamic religion is actually quite unique. Most religions before Judaism, Christianity and Islam are polytheistic and exist to provide a tradition for culture to be passed down from generation to generation. They usually don't have hard and fast rules but provide guidelines and examples through parables. Put simply if it wasn't for these "pagan" religions (and the usually-Christian monks who recorded them) we would have almost no idea about Norse culture at all, just as one example.
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  819. But seriously, can't you just identify as a native American tribe member?
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  820.  @goblin6587  "Hey, I'm gonna need to see some proof for that outrageous claim about Matt Walsh." "What if I double down and make an even more ridiculous assertion with no evidence instead? Is that good?" "...No." "It's not my job to educate you" in 3... 2...
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  821.  @jaykirizz219  the child called them and was still unaccounted for, cop had every reason to believe the child could be taken hostage if he wasted any time. his head space was completely past introductions when the father decided to run away after he saw the cop
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  822.  @KingOfMalevolence  Wait, are you trying to say everyone who wasn't bullied at school is gay? Damn, that demographic's a lot bigger than I thought.
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  823.  @yoeyyoey8937  I agree that more educated economists would likely understand that bartering did not literally work like in Settlers of Catan. However, he is not really strawmanning it, because this is more-or-less how it is taught in American schools, at least.
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  824.  @SpecShadow  it's just an ironic joke, not used by "trolls." calm down there partner. it originated from 4chan which was established originally just to discuss anime and it extended to mixing any sort of Asian ethnicity with any arts and crafts as a joke to describe anime for example "Mongolian basket weaving" "Thai finger painting" "Laotian charcoal sketching"
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  825.  @roadkillpotato3468  Actually he isn't. Almost all countries have much stricter immigration laws than the US. But for some reason everyone thinks they should be able to live here. Makes you think doesn't it?
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  826. Well, it affects you lot more than it would other nations across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, or deep in South America. Who knows, maybe it will have an influence.
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  827.  @darkbrother339  Just think of it as an easy way to weed out people who shouldn't be in a relationship.
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  828. This is why I find people who make no nonsense recipes and exclusively follow those, to preserve my sanity. Chef John (Food Wishes) is one of the best in my opinion. I also learned I can make pizza from scratch in a couple hours that doesn't suck ass, including time for the dough to rise. If I want the life story of the recipe, I watch historical cooking stuff like Townsend's channel or Taste of History.
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  829. The part where he looked at the camera was the best. It was as if he was saying, "Can you believe this guy is still talking after he said 'now I'll stop talking?'"
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  830. The fact that they had to pay WotC actually speaks to how insanely fucking stupid WotC has become since 5e released. It's as if they looked at all the stuff that worked to make D&D a household name over 40 years and decided it was all stinky doo doo. Licensed CRPGs? Lame, who wants to play those? I literally would not have known D&D existed if it wasn't for Neverwinter Nights. I guess I should count myself lucky that someone at Larian cared enough to pay WotC for the privilege of making a blockbuster game for them just so I could take a nostalgia trip back through the Forgotten Realms.
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  831.  @chpet1655  It's perhaps the definitive post-apocalyptic RPG, but yes it varies in quality and gameplay a lot sadly. Its influence on the games industry is hard to overstate though. The guy above me forgot about Fallout Tactics. It's a decent game with some quality of life improvements over FO2, but it is a bit unpolished and unbalanced. It's like Fallout meets X-COM.
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  832.  @Kishimatto  we do, and sadly it's because of the privatized prison incentive. judges are bribed by prison executives to throw people in jail because it makes them money. they can make an insane amount of money, being paid by the state to house people, while also exploiting them for cheap labor because prisoners do not have a right to a minimum wage. it's even better because criminals who are thrown in prison are much more likely to go back to prison because their opportunities are drastically reduced. believe me when i say i'm not the only american who wants to change this but such are the pitfalls of capitalism. overall, i'd still say it's an economic system that's served us well, but it has its problems
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  833. Childhood was definitely a thing, I think you mean teenagers are a modern invention. Most people considered you an adult around 14-16 or possibly younger depending on circumstances.
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  834. When it comes to behavior two times is a pattern about 95% of the time.
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  835. @Skumtomten You're really, really overblowing the quality of writing in the older games. It was good, but it was not leagues apart as you claim it to be. It was about on par with BG3's. I'm sorry, but Minsc's entire character wouldn't be out of place in a bad "woke RPG," for all his "lol so randumb" nonsense. All he needs to do is be genderfluid and done. The fact that Minsc is beloved by the fan base has always been a mystery to me.
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  836. Combat is slow? Compared to killing trash mobs a million times as was common back in the BG/ID/NWN days? Larian prefers quality encounters, not quantity of encounters. There are very few "small skirmishes" after you get past the very beginning of the game, to help teach you combat. Play on Tactician, maybe you'll find the game more interesting. But every encounter is designed to challenge you in some way. As opposed to the typical dungeon in D&D RPGs of old, which dragged on with a group of zombies/goblins/other trash mobs in every single rooms. Yes, unlike you, I actually remember what those games were like.
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  837.  @samflintham1360  It simply tells me that Larian knew that they would be selling this game in the US. I can tell you've never been to Europe. There, nudity is simply not a big deal. In Germany, you can open a catalogue for home appliances and see nude women in the bath section. Just, y'know, because. The US is still ridiculously repressed on sexuality and it's quite frustrating to see, as an American. Only in the US would we need a "nudity" toggle in an M-rated game (it was already M-rated for other subject matter, but nudity is the only thing that gets a toggle, for some reason). The rating already speaks for the game. Not that even a child wouldn't know what a nude person looks like anyway.
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  838.  @AshyVEVO  The reason most people don't care is because the sexist insults shown in the video are perpetuated by fanatic losers who are looking to get a rise by any means possible. They're using gender and sex as an angle of attack specifically because everyone thinks it's bad. Creating awareness about it does nothing because those specific people aren't going to change. It becomes tedious to talk about something everyone else seems to understand already as if it's brave or groundbreaking.
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  839. Yep, total random chance that Astarion was unstealthed right next to a chasm, there definitely wasn't anyone that moved him there.
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  840. No thanks, Mr. Federal Agent.
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  841. @Lucas You sound like a PUA who has never had a relationship that lasts longer than a year
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  842. @derrickwilliams3169  The government has the right to kill and misuses it all the time. Government employees are not sacred. The guilt of this man was not in question
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  843. There is literally nothing in this game more woke than the typical acclaimed Bioware RPG from the 2000s like Mass Effect or Dragon Age except being able to swap penis models.
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  844.  @frizen9328  There's thousands of "fun things that didn't really happen" in any narratively driven video game franchise. That's just how interactive player choice is reconciled with the vision of the writers/developers. Fallout is perhaps the ultimate example. Player choice in that franchise is nearly endless but each time a new game comes out, the writers have to come up with a canon scenario for the main character of the last game, otherwise nothing will make sense. The only difference between "Actually the Vault Dweller didn't allow every single town in California to be overrun by super mutants" and "Actually Leon didn't look up Ashley's skirt" is the scale of the consequences.
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  845.  @christopherboxford9556  It definitely is now, although they don't want to admit it, there are way too many women who have convinced themselves they should browse Tinder and swipe left on everyone who isn't Turbochad Thundercock, while inevitably Turbochad swipes left on them in return because... why wouldn't he?
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  846. The fact that people unironically look up news on social media sites because they're too lazy to read news from actual sources blows me away. What's the point of filling your brain with biased misinformation? You would be better off not reading anything at all.
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  847. ​@OWnIshiiTrolling Nope, it's a real thing and it makes absolutely no sense. Except of course, to virtual signal that you're the "right" type of person.
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  848. ​ @ExceedProduction Maid isn't fancy people shit dude. I only get a maid once every 2 weeks for 90 bucks because my vision is so bad that I can't see dirt.
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  849. I think it's a good idea. How sad is it to spend hundreds of dollars and only wear a wedding dress once in your life? Or worse, to only pull it out if you were divorced and re-married, then you remember your ex.
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  850. Sadly, from recent studies it looks like Gen Z is cripplingly computer deficient now because they only know how to use smart devices. I'm a millennial (one of the oldest, admittedly) software developer, and I simply can't stand mobile software much of the time. To sum it up, it's like desktop software, but worse. There's too many sacrifices made for the sake of being able to put it on a touch screen most of the time. And on top of that they usually have less time/budget to put out a mobile app, depending on the company (if the mobile app is not their main product) so it is naturally worse.
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  851. But it has BLACK SYNTHETIC FURNITURE. That means it's more dangerous.
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  852.  @doubtful_seer  The French revolution was really no different from the class warfare of later years, under regimes like Pol Pot. It's a classic example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Sure you killed the corrupt nobles, but you also killed the majority of your most intelligent people. That's why the nation was in turmoil for years afterward; nobody knew how to govern.
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  853.  @jurb417  His point is that people who are trying to get laid aren't celibate, by definition.
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  854. You're going to have to put in a little extra to kill those of us who can't drive sadly.
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  855. This reminds me of the time that African nations were duped into rejecting GMO crops (that would grow much more easily in their climate) simply because they are GMO
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  856. ​ @zirconis5411 implying that more women would willingly work in STEM just because you give them the opportunity, is equally dishonest
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  857.  @NegatingSilence  So you injure yourself so you need to be taken to the hospital and neither you nor your kids get to have fun. Brilliant.
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  858.  @kostephan9442  What do you mean? Racism is funny.
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  859.  @pk6546  bro the most simple character designs are lewded just because the artist can and they think it's funny. changing your attitude because of a sexual fetishist existing somewhere is straight bizarre behavior
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  860. @Thesquirtlegamer The women who unironically ask "where have all the good men gone" do care how much a man makes, I gaurantee it. Hence the lecture is still on point.
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  861.  @SaundersYT  Ah yes the classic "modern Japanese people who never committed any war crimes haven't apologized hard enough for things that their ancestors did." Guilt, guilt, guilt, shame shame shame. Every young person should be made to feel ashamed for crimes they never committed.
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  862. ​@terryowen6759 Don't think so. This is typical behavior for cartel or gang members from South of the border.
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  863.  @ScooterAKalldayy  That's not true at all, Japanese people when surveyed majority believe that anime characters are Japanese. Not to mention all of the shows which explicitly take place, in Japan. Just because you interpret a cartoon character a certain way doesn't mean everyone else also does. Japanese, Chinese and Korean people can all have very pale skin. It's hard to imagine that given the context which Dragon Ball set for its aesthetic when it first came out that you would interpret Goku as anything but a Chinese martial artist living in the countryside.
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  864. If you like Irish and want to make it sound sophisticated (and piss him off in school as every teacher mispronounces his name) then Diarmuid is a good choice. It's pronounced kind of like Dermott with more subtlety.
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  865.  @johns8596  he's mad, gottem also, it's cute that you think i'm christian don't bring up my day job if you don't wanna know about it
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  866. Yeah he did his work so poorly that they didn't fire him for 22 years and used hilariously discriminatory language in their termination.
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  867. The Australians, like some American politicians, are letting the Chinese buy their land as well. It's a dreadful situation.
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  868.  @Evjaaa  Plasma pistol is only good if you have the pistol on the other slot. For reference, in multiplayer, 3 perfect headshots is a kill with the pistol because headshots deal damage to health THROUGH shields. It became almost laughable on PC where headshotting was relatively easy.
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  869. Of course, they literally acted upon a single complaint with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. It's all about feelings. It's the equivalent of being thrown in jail without a trial for a single accusation.
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  870. Star Wars deliberately chose weapons from the first half of the 20th century to convert to props so as to provide the rustic space western feel we know the franchise for. This is much more Robocop or Judge Dredd's speed
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  871. Chunky women are attractive. Suck on it, foreigners.
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  872.  @Sthewo-Iregan  there are literally people who play Rainbow Six Siege and scream in your ear when they die, to make you also die when you try to peek corners, because they're mad that they died you probably think arguing with people online is productive
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  873. Love that they had to brag about "killing" a 9-year old game. As if that would be a bad run for TF2.
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  874. ​ @derail6996 look up the Puckle gun
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  875.  @SleepBeforeYouThink  It's part of a concerning pattern. The US isn't the only nation with massive land grabs from Chinese businessmen.
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  876. @The Anti-Propagandist Holy shit man, you really are an internet tough guy straight out of the 90's. Fuck, this is actually nostalgic.
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  877.  @larion2336  I remember there was a particular monologue he gave and it was supposed to be a "sinister moment" that shows how evil he was, but it just makes him look supremely based, it made the rounds on imageboards at the time
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  878. It's the same with asking the minimum wage to be raised to $15. You think everyone will keep their jobs and be paid $15 an hour now? No, half will be cut and the other half will be replaced with automated systems that have been in R&D for the past 5 years in preparation for this policy change.
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  879.  @m.m.1301  Nah, religion in pagan Europe was quite communal. Most "Christian" Christmas traditions are actually pagan, done to appease them and entice them into becoming Christian so they didn't have to give up their parties and stuff.
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  880. She should talk to Thomas Paine about the First Amendment too. Too many idiots nowadays think only bad people can use anonymity
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  881. Banana beer sounds amazing, I'd love to try it.
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  882.  @dadbodenvy4247  That's "tabula rasa" political theory which I am staunchly opposed to. In effect, it's the same sort of thinking that led Mao to burn books. It is extremely arrogant to believe that human nature has changed so vastly in just 200 years that we must completely ignore the lessons of the past. Especially considering that most of the nations in the "first world" are still governed by these lessons. Without them, we are nothing but blind idiots stumbling around in the dark, hoping we find the right way forward by chance. The internet may be fundamentally different but we as people are not.
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  883.  @bobbobber4810  His ambassador was literally facepalming in the audience
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  884. My high school economics teacher tried to make me fail my psychology class project (It was a very silly project where you had to take care of an egg) by hiding my egg basket, but I saw him in the act.
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  885. He did though... He logged out of realm. You're telling me their auth API is so incredibly shit that it doesn't verify your sub status when you log into the realm? Damn, what a scam.
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  886.  @Pughhead  you are projecting extremely hard right now. if we were to take your reasoning and extrapolate it to its logical conclusion, no parent would be able to admire their children without being pedos.
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  887.  @yvonnelewis4888  This behavior is usually a result of total negligence not malicious training. Although negligence is arguably malicious.
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  888. Not looking like a homeless man tends to help.
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  889.  Tiger Tamer  You're being disingenuous and deliberately misinterpreting my comments to make me seem more evil than I am. I suppose there was never any point in talking to you. Always a telltale sign of someone who has nothing to back themselves up when they say things like "this is fact" and don't provide any examples to reinforce their argument. It's easy to criticize without providing a real solution.
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  890.  @amuro9624  I am fairly sure a huge majority of people who play D&D play good characters. Most people are incapable or unwilling to roleplay an evil character, either because they know they can't do it well or they find it distasteful. Another reason is that it becomes very difficult if any of the other players wants to play a good character. I agree with most of what you say though, all of the houses except Slytherin are represented as "good" houses. I think this is more of a failure/neglect on JK Rowling's part than anything. A brave person can definitely be malicious. Loyalty can be malicious as well; just look at any organized crime syndicate. I'd expect a mafia of wizards to be Hufflepuffs. And as for Ravenclaw, well, the potential for mad science there is quite obvious. Ambition is a very obvious route to malicious intent though.
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  891.  @x_Punisher_x  Nah, I knew exactly who it was but I didn't name any names.
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  892. Even more bizarrely is that he was also a father.
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  893.  @propain243  He also actually uses the other platforms though.
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  894. I'm now imagining Velma saying "Jinkies! I think I just found a clue!" and raising her hand to reveal it is covered in blue smears.
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  895. ​ @pokemonfan2630  Did you really just call someone out for using an internet meme on the internet?
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  896.  @esprit101  Wow, I'd never heard of that and I've been to Germany many times as I have family there. I'd never touch raw pork though. Have had enough bad experiences just with improperly cooked pork.
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  897.  @zelashizzz1278  It's like if the US government said "well we didn't know [that they weren't spies]" when confronted about Japanese internment during WW2. The whole point about not knowing, is not treating everyone like they are some kind of secret bio-terrorist.
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  898.  @grass842  I've never had a girlfriend and I'm way, way too old to be making that statement. Never once had the urge to pay for this shit or fooled myself that I'd have "companionship." I'd only feel worse about myself if I did that.
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  899.  @katwaugh1686  I like anime but it's kinda weird, tbh, considering that it means the exact same thing as wife in this context
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  900. I don't want to shit on Asmon too much because obviously his life has led to success and he's a smart guy but I really think there's some part of him that thinks he can keep being the teenager/college student that was a big shot in WoW. Oddly enough he seems to want this more than the big shot he is now, in real life. To him that seemingly means putting as little effort into his living situation as possible.
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  901. He was a "street fighter pro" that placed in one tournament for a really shitty port of Street Fighter 2 that allowed him to abuse Akuma because he was an objectively exploitative character. He definitely used to be involved in the New England FGC, but calling him a pro is a stretch.
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  902. @ He's a spaced out stoner. I've hung out with many of them over the course of my life and I recognize the type. Fun to hang out with, but it's hard to call them intellectuals.
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  903.  @CarlosRivera-cg4cs  His point is that if you catch someone off-guard, gun always wins. It's always faster to pull a trigger than flick your wand and say an incantation. Now, if there was some assassin group going around like spec-ops killing wizards, I'm sure they'd catch on and use protection charms to shield themselves from bullets, but you'd probably be able to kill at least a couple of wizards in one-off murder scenarios using a gun.
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  904.  @wai828  In the US, the left does not remove or disavow their extremist elements, the right does and is browbeaten about it on a regular basis. What you're seeing here are people disappointed that the left did not police their most extremist elements.
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  905.  @Nathan-ti9pm  I nearly got my foot ran over in a parking lot because a mask fogged my glasses up as I stepped off a charter bus. Then the driver yelled racist insults at me for no reason. So yeah, I'll pass on masking ever again.
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  906.  @mynameisworld  Sorry but no, there's no way. The SNES mini (the official Nintendo version) is going to be the product that every reputable retailer carries and that any basic Google search will turn up. She intentionally searched for a cheaper version because she wanted to save a couple of dollars and was dumb enough to fall for the "WOW IT'S A THOUSAND GAMES ON ONE CONSOLE!!!!" on the box.
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  907. Hey lads remember that one time when we shat on the French 400 years ago? Haha yeah mate that was smashing innit. Faints
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  908. That game has incredible attention to detail and is more "true to life" than any medieval RPG I've ever played. After reading Franz Schmidt's diary, a famous executioner from late medieval Germany, an offhand line I heard one of the characters say about "the executioner lives outside of town, which is proper as I'm sure you know" suddenly made a lot of sense. The only thing that bothered me slightly was the fact that, while it does try to portray everyone as religious (as they definitely were), they use God's name in vain way too frequently. I believe people used euphemisms quite frequently, and saying "Jesus Christ!" as a swear was almost as bad then as dropping an F-bomb is today.
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  909. Confession is the ultimate standard in legal procedure. Japan prefers to keep trials as basically a formality. They don't send you to trial unless they're completely sure -- in their minds at least -- that you will go to prison.
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  910.  @noneed2719  But he's outnumbered and has guns trained on him. What risk do the cops expose themselves to by explaining the stop in this scenario? Oh of course, they expose themselves to legal accountability by stating what they're doing wrong on camera.
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  911. It helped that the resolution of older TVs was not as good and they were smaler, making it harder to make out the bad CGI
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  912. In fairness, at least here in Texas, the assessment of a home for taxes drastically undershoots the real market value.
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  913.  Maiku X  So... what do you think would happen if Germany erased all traces of Hitler from their monuments and history? Surely nothing bad...
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  914.  @Fiufsciak  only if you're homophobic, in this context if you're not there's only three it can have: homosexual, happy (archaic) or brightly colored (archaic) if a man calls a police horse "gay," that is not an insult unless someone takes offense on behalf of the horse. the horse will not be offended because it doesn't understand english well enough and even if it could it wouldn't care. by arresting that man you are implying that calling someone gay is inherently offensive no matter what the context is, even if they are not offended
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  915. It's not even necessarily a problem with that, some people just develop an intolerance to gluten as they get older. My mother has a mild intolerance now, possibly in part because they've had to reduce gluten intake to help my father get over his diabetes (he is fine now and quite healthy). My workout buddy has stopped taking whey protein because it started to make his throat burn. I think we're beyond "gluten free as a fad" at this point. Gluten is so ubiquitous that avoiding it is far more hassle than it is worth if you have no outstanding conditions.
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  916. "Non-commissioned mamasita" made me lose my shit
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  917.  @black-fenrir35  Problem is those women aren't worth being with in the long term. Indeed, most of the time it's not even possible to be with them in the long term.
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  918. When you're older, you realize how annoying squeakers are and you cringe at the behavior of kids. It's really a part of growing up. I had the consciousness to not use the microphone until after puberty. This was back in the Ventrilo days, so early-mid 2000s. That said, even as an adult, I have been "harassed" (griefed would be the more traditional gaming term) for absurd shit. It was especially bad in Dota 2 after it came out of beta and in Rainbow Six Siege after they added cross play progression and a bunch of console gamers switched over to PC. Fuck up in a single teamfight? The worst guy on the team will shit on that single mistake you made to draw attention away from his own terrible performance. In R6S I've heard guys literally scream into the microphone every time someone else peeked a corner, because he ran ahead of the team and died first and blamed everyone else for that. And this has happened more than once. Xbox Live in the 360 era was honestly a high point in shit-talking, especially Call of Duty lobbies because there was 30+ seconds of waiting even after you'd been matched with some of the players, so players did it to pass the time. Unless you frequented a particular server on a PC game with people who liked to talk shit, it wasn't a regular occurrence in prior games or most other platforms. died first and blamed everyone else for that. And this has happened more than once.
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  919. Haven't been personally threatened in Dallas, but I was waiting for the bus a block away when one homeless guy stabbed another.
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  920.  @LucidDreamn  That was actually an averaging error because of the high rate of mortality in childhood and infancy. If you lived to be an adult, you could expect to live to a decent age like 60 in the middle ages. But many children died
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  921. Hearing that LOTF1 was getting a remake was truly a "huh?" moment
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  922. ​ @info0  Meh. Just get a Windows PC that exists entirely for gaming and nothing else. There's no better security measure for concerns about spyware or malware. You can probably split the hardware into your current PC, and build a second one for other purposes, quite cheaply.
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  923.  @OriginalJoseyWales  do you think people have a right to privacy? should I have to buy a home big enough for a home gym, then all of the equipment for said gym, because you believe that everyone must submit to being filmed?
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  924. Correct, there have always been easy builds in Souls games and they're not exactly difficult to figure out. Magic users and greatshield vitality/vigor/"whatever the HP stat is" builds have always been the option for players who either didn't like or were somehow unable to grasp the fast action parts of the combat. Two-handed weapon melee builds are not intended for beginners. The disadvantage is that these builds are typically bad in PVP, although magic did have its moments (especially dark magic). Bloodborne was a bit of a notable exception in that it provided less options and emphasized the action part, and Sekiro was almost closer to a Ninja Gaiden successor than a Souls RPG.
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  925. War crimes were committed by all sides, but that particular complaint was particularly stupid. All sides are already using flamethrowers, and you're going to complain about rockets on a tank?
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  926.  @soultaker0469  In the original fairy tale, Snow White successfully runs away from her royal family, survives alone in the German forest, convinces a hunter hired by the queen not to kill her (and take her organs but that part is usually cut out of modern interpretations), before succumbing to the poisoned apple. The tale does a good job of demonstrating that actually, Snow White is royalty material and should be the rightful heir to the throne. Which is why the reader is expected to root for her. Meanwhile, the evil queen is just some bint that the king married because Snow White's mother died. She isn't meant to rule at all.
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  927.  @lowhp_comic  He blocked him in an effort to settle an "unarmed fight" that would last for who knows how long. The guy who left didn't particularly want to suffer bruises and perhaps broken bones, doesn't matter if the other guy did. It is his right to not have to settle that fight, which isn't as harmless and innocent as you make it out to be. I guess folks like yourself have already forgotten about the knock out game and how it's ended several peoples lives.
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  928.  @frizen9328  The fact that it's an RPG has very little to do with what I mentioned. I just used Fallout because it's the most obvious example and RPGs have the most player choice. RE4 still has a lot of player choice. You never see Leon holding an infinite rocket launcher in any of the cutscenes, for example. Canonically, it's pretty reasonable to assume that Leon didn't have access to an infinite rocket launcher, but it's still there in the game. Every game has some level of player choice otherwise it would not be a game, and every franchise that cares about its narrative will "converge" player choices into a single "canon" choice for the sake of narrative integrity
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  929.  @Subscriberswithtwovideos-gr6tk  Hate to break it to you, but in Americaland internet service isn't free.
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  930. "Homeless Jesus" is redundant
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  931.  DontListen ToMe  Kyuss is pretty cool, but I think their influence speaks for a lot more than their actual discography.
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  932. I remember at my second job I was in a meeting and one of the other software engineers talked about his friend getting injured and taking time off to visit him. It's not something I do in these situations but, for some reason, I laughed audibly. It was one of the most mortifying moments in my life but luckily I was able to apologize to him personally after he came back. He didn't seem too bothered by it.
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  933.  @themagnus2919  I think he did an ad for them, it was not that intricate. However he failed to act upon them which, credit where it is due, the other lawmakers quickly outlawed them after he died
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  934. Seth Rogen vibes
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  935. There is really a simple answer to any nonsensical use of money throughout history, which is to flaunt your wealth to everyone else. Yes, my castle gets covered in shit stains and I have it whitewashed monthly, what's it to you?
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  936.  @mephiles720  They can't do that. That would be like going to every single person's house who has pirated a video game you published and pulling the plug on their PC. It's stupidly impractical.
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  937.  @brandondetroitfanmichaels4325  Wow, a challenge to a fight over the internet. Never seen that one before.
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  938. Nah, these are the types of people that life hack channels WISH they could find. Instead it's just a bunch of suburban clowns trying to imagine being poor.
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  939.  @abhilash9918  The "he died for her" headline is just a bit clickbaity honestly. If he were held at gunpoint like this while alone he likely would have done the same thing. It's quite obvious because he was carrying a gun to begin with. The argument you're trying to make is moot.
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  940. The first beers we know of were brewed by the Sumerians and drank communally from jars similar to how hookahs are smoked. But the best beer in my opinion was brewed in Germany to conform to purity laws and has been around for 1000 years. Those beers were brewed by monks in their monasteries, which hilariously and ironically, were all male.
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  941. Any death due to negligence is manslaughter. Doesn't really matter how egregiously negligent you were (that's where the maximum allowable sentence comes in). He would have had to have intent to kill for it to be anything else.
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  942. ugly women can absolutely be cc's, bro doesn't even know about vtubers
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  943. What about DSP? He was still able to stream even after "the incident."
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  944. Nah people like Asmon need to be playing the game 3 days before launch so we can all know how shit it is. If only streamers like Asmon pre-ordered that would not justify the practice
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  945.  @Makkis  Even the explicitly "anti-woke" content creators like ArchCast played the game and agreed it was a great game I don't enjoy politically charged games but this game is no more politically charged than BioWare games from the Mass Effect/Dragon Age era
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  946.  @Cheznrice  Think you're missing the point buddy, it's still unbelievable that it happens. I've seen my own father get mad at terrible drivers but he's never even stepped out of his vehicle, let alone thrown bottles or shot someone else's car. This is the dumbest most irresponsible way you can use a gun, practically blindfiring at a car not knowing what the hell you're going to hit.
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  947.  @TravisDoesKayakFishing  Uh, it's not always that simple man. Women grow up really fast compared to boys, statistically speaking a teenage girl will nearly always look older than a teenage boy. I'm sure if you think back to middle school you'll remember girls towering over you who look like they should be in high school at least. I certainly do.
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  948.  @donwyoming1936  Gee, if only our border controls were actually enforced so cartel members couldn't just, y'know, take a day trip to buy some guns.
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  949. @ Would you prefer the way they taught us in school, using "you" as the plural for "you?"
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  950. ​ @Thumbdumpandthebumpchump  immigration weakened Rome greatly and hindered their own military power structure. you're also conveniently ignoring the issue of slavery, which is in effect, a mass immigration time bomb. it impacted Rome even worse than it did the US, because African-descended people in the US have few ties to their homeland, but slaves in the Roman empire often remembered what life in their homeland was like and weren't even that far away from it. there weren't any black generals in the American military that betrayed our nation in the name of their African homeland. that's happened I believe more than once in Rome's history. the barbarian armies were always present throughout Rome's history, yet they were only able to deal the killing blow after immigration became a serious problem for Rome. weird coincidence, don'tcha think?
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  951.  @Thumbdumpandthebumpchump  also, America is most definitely unique in that regard. no other nation on the planet that I know of offers birthright citizenship. we have by far the most lax immigration policy of any nation on this planet since 1965. to say that our nation hasn't changed profoundly since then would be silly. other nations typically have 90% ethnic homogeneity, meanwhile less than 60% of our population is Caucasian. European nations freak out when they receive a couple of waves of refugees yet caravans of illegal migrants on our border were a common occurrence the past few years. almost every other nation would buckle under the force of immigration constantly streaming into the US
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  952.  @TheDaxter11  That was at least more understandable, although as usual for GW the strategy was executed very poorly. GW has their own service where they would debut Warhammer animations and other content and didn't want fans to make stuff that they couldn't monetize. It's still a bad idea, but at least I can sympathize with the desire to do that. This on the other hand is just beyond reasoning.
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  953.  @ShibaDoge981  It shouldn't really surprise you that people who post on Tiktok are incredibly superficial.
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  954. I had no idea that they made Magicka. Wow, they've come a long way. HD2 just has really great feel. The gunplay is really good, the guns "feel" real and the recoil is represented one-to-one in the game. It's not just a cheesy RNG cone of bullets. You see your optic bouncing around and you can control the recoil if you're skilled. You have the option of stealth and going prone, even though it doesn't seem like a tactical shooter, and there are even options to benefit that play style. The objectives are varied and fun to complete. The hitboxes and hit detection are really good. It's just a game with really solid fundamentals. It feels "realistic" enough to make you feel like a god among men when you do manage to kill an entire platoon of killer robots or giant termites by yourself, but not so much that it makes the game frustrating or slow.
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  955.  @QuandaleGorven  my guy really forgot about the war of 1812 and the bonus march
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  956. ​ @EndertheWeek bullshit. the British worked with the Confederacy during the Civil War. the idea of a principled state will always be a joke
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  957. The people who advocate for this stuff aren't interested in escapism or your favorite hobby. They're journalists, political commentators, etc. and they can't do anything but view everything through their skewed political lens. It's an extremely depressing way to go through life and I don't know why anyone chooses to do it.
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  958.  @An.Unsought.Thought  NDAs are pretty standard for any termination of a contract. It could be anything, from something as mundane as Disrespect believing he could make more money going indie, to soliciting feet pics from a minor.
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  959.  @disguiseddv8ant486  Uh, that's because the lion murders all the kids that aren't his.
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  960.  @omnipoticus9908  You did, remember?
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  961. Realistically, you should never give up everything to appeal to your lover. They were never your lover in that case, they never liked anything about you. Which is why you had to give up everything.
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  962. Sounds like a 40k quote to be honest
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  963. I stopped being surprised when the BLACK RIFLE COFFEE COMPANY spoke out against Rittenhouse. These people are con men, pure and simple, every company has to be micro analyzed now. It's so tedious
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  964. ​ @OhNoNotFrank  What an unsubstantiatial post. You sound like you have never taken an international flight.
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  965. @ Advantage implies relativity, or that someone has something that lets them do something better, or live their life easier, than someone else. The someone else being non-disabled people in this case. I would definitely not say that a disabled person is advantaged over me simply because they can go to the same floor of the same building I can.
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  966. Samurai Champloo also features a hip hop soundtrack in a historical Japanese setting, but it's a Japanese hip hop artist and the aesthetic is thoroughly Japanese in general in spite of that
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  967.  @benjaminmooday9537  I'd say everyone's mostly fine with each other (except Idira because she's the psyker who has random outbursts of panicked nonsensical prophecies) until you start meeting xenos
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  968.  @psibug565  Uh... which countries? Like France? Pretty sure Germany bought most of its nuclear power from France.
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  969. I can believe it. I am a software engineer, I have worked for a multinational bank. The idiots who run the company think that IT is just a red number on their finance reports. They couldn't give less of a damn as long as they can push transactions. All accounts were stored on an IBM mainframe written in the 1980s which I had to email contractors to get anything changed because they're the only ones who knew how it worked. There was more modern software, but when you boiled it down the accounts were stored on the mainframe. Me and about three quarters of the IT department were laid off over the course of a year because "there's no value in IT." Now they have in-house loan management applications used by collections for almost all their business that no one knows how to maintain.
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  970.  @bobleyvonschmeedlepeedlest5162  By that vein of logic, everyone currently living in America right now participated in and benefited from the genocide of the native Americans. But it's okay because we did it so we don't have to punish ourselves.
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  971.  @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it  It's kinda insane actually, you know some of these people have to be professionals in the daytime
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  972. There is no way anyone today could understand the emotions and atmosphere of that moment. It is a moment beyond "once in a lifetime" rarity. I don't claim to understand it either, but I do know that human emotion has to express itself in some way. This is certainly not the most harmful way they could be expressed.
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  973.  @ImperativeGames  Private companies aren't the same as a militaristic regime dude. In one of them, if you complain or rise up, you get fired. In the other, you get sent to a camp where you can hope to be starved and die of typhus You're also grossly mis-applying that idea. "I was just following orders" is completely reasonable when you're just some grunt or camp guard whose family is being held hostage by their own government. It doesn't really work when you're in a leadership position or in the top brass. The defendants on trial at Nuremberg were overwhelmingly officers and leaders in the regime, so the "I was just following orders" excuse made no sense in that context
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  974.  @gunsmoke9388  You're right, we wouldn't... which is why we're not cops. Hope you don't end up in a mall with your buddy bleeding out when a cop like this guy shows up.
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  975. No she acknowledges it. But she thinks it's virtuous and the only way forward for all her children to grow up hating themselves.
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  976. Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson b...but ... you do give a fuck... that's why you posted a comment in the first place! Mommy, why are Internet people dumb?
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  977. ​ @Buckship Main character of Ghost of Tsushima
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  978. You say that as if professionals typically shoot for limbs or somehow non-lethal take-downs. They don't, they're trained to shoot center mass. They do it even better than we do. This lady would be extremely disappointed if she learned how police snipers or US Army snipers aim at their targets.
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  979.  @flabbergast_se  If your assertion is that Russians love standing on top of armored vehicles and getting shot by machineguns from 300+ meters away, cool, but I'm going to need a source on that. I can believe that a national military has flawed doctrine but there are limits to absurdity.
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  980. @The Anti-Propagandist Bro, you're threatening vandalism on random strangers you will never meet on YouTube and you're calling me crazy. Gain some perspective and have a nice day.
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  981.  @enzotoro791  You're damn straight. I'd give anything to play video games with Leon for 30 minutes.
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  982. ​ @Cwin-ny6bp  Haha, yes. The Abridged jokes would be perfect here.
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  983.  @vikingdogmanship  Merle is a naturally-occurring gene, not some kind of mad scientist experiment. What you're proposing would be like saying "blind people shouldn't be allowed to have sex"
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  984. The hypothetical thing is something I really need to take to heart. I find talking about stuff like this WAY more interesting than the weather, or the status of Major World Sportsball Series League.
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  985.  @maritza3651  Yeah, why can't they do traditional high school senior pranks instead? Like covering the entire school in toilet paper. That's obviously way less disruptive and harmful than mocking a dead political party in a photo.
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  986.  @maxKP51  Well, by that logic, curiosity should also be standard, because if you're not curious why did you go to school
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  987. I've seen a brown bear run at full gait in Yellowstone. It was a humbling and scary experience. Luckily, he was like 100 meters away on a ridge and didn't get any closer to us.
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  988.  @Andytlp  If you have the know how (very small amount), you can make a bow drill pretty easily with a couple of sticks and a piece of cord, that reduces the effort required to make a fire drastically
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  989.  @dr.rickbooty  It's New York City dude, expecting politeness is a fool's game.
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  990. My dad and I were always in a silent unspoken war to devour whatever dessert treat had been purchased at the grocery store. We never complained. It was like a code of honor.
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  991.  @dont5363  Like Tiger tanks could possibly climb the Alps, LOL.
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  992.  @xedrickOG  You're confusing your Greek prefixes. Easy mistake to make. The word you are thinking of is asocial. "a" meaning lacking. Like atheist meaning lacking belief. Anti- means against, opposing. In other words antisocial behaviors don't only mean avoiding people, they include harassing others for their amusement. Or defrauding society because you don't care about the impact it has on your victims, even though fraud requires a lot of socializing.
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  993.  @dovekie3437  Like Ziegler's mannerisms aren't annoying? Lol.
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  994.  @JoRoq1  Why would you want access to a bunch of useless trash? There just isn't that much valuable data on Reddit, unless you're trying to engineer a social experiment. Which is possible, but doesn't seem to be the goal here.
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  995.  @kingofcelts  Socialism, as it was originally formulated, is nothing but a stepping stone to Communism. If you're not progressing towards that goal, it's literally not Socialism. Of course, it's a paradox because Communism is an unobtainable goal, but to subscribe to Marxism or its derivatives you have to balance a lot of cognitive dissonance anyway. Perhaps whatever system of governance you're thinking of needs a name change. I'm not sure why anyone would want to associate themselves with Marxist doctrine even if in name only.
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  996. I think that financially, he has done a lot of good for our economy. Investing in Tesla and disrupting the auto industry was very, very good for the American auto industry. They've been stagnant for decades and that's bad for us, the consumer. However he's a neurotic mess of a human being. Being cringe or neurotic and being successful are definitely not exclusive, happens quite often actually.
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  997. Astartes is a masterclass in animation and probably the only production I've seen where the Marines actually look professional. They have great economy of movement. Nothing they do is overblown or dramatic but they still look superhuman because they are.
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  998.  @LeeorVardi  What questions are there to ask? You agreed with almost everything I said, yet you act as if you're countering my points with "yeah buts" and excuses. Then you call me ignorant for no apparent reason. Isn't travelling abroad to get a wedding similar to having to travel out of state to get an abortion, one of the hottest issues in our nation at the moment? That's second-class citizenship treatment if I ever heard of it. "Regarding immigration, non-Jews can immigrate based on merit, such as working for an Israeli company or sports team or any such circumstance" So what you're saying is, Jews get special privileges to travel to Israel and everyone else has to jump through the same hoops that one would normally have to jump through to emigrate. Yep, second-class citizenship. It doesn't matter if someone claimed to be persecuted, the right is given to Jews with no questions asked. "I and probably a majority of secular Jews and non-Jews would like to see this changed, but the political power held by a few ultra orthodox parties over a long time and their participation and influence over the ruling government’s coalition of parties is preventing that from happening. " Again, you're agreeing with what I said. I am aware there are many liberal Jews in Israel. The problem is not orthodox Jewish beliefs, it is when those beliefs are not separated from either public policy or one's business and applied by those in power. Just like how women were only recently given the right to drive in Saudi Arabia thanks to their theocratic law practices. Or a Christian manager decides not to hire someone covered in tattoos because they're "not qualified." As for the issue of whether or not Jews control a significant portion of our media; I'm not sure what to tell you. Many people who have spent much more time in the industry than I will attest that Jews are significantly overrepresented in show business and the media. Yet we go in circles because their opinions are dismissed out-of-hand as "anti-semitic" for making that observation, and if I were to make the same assertion, you'd call me both anti-semitic and ignorant because I am an outsider to that industry. All I can do is trust the experts on this -- people who have spent years in that industry -- because, apparently, those particular Jews really don't want people to talk about whether they're overrepresented or not, despite the fact that blacks, Hispanic people, Asian people, etc. have no issues with talking about their level of representation in media or government.
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  999. He was just specifying which band member he was talking about by the most obvious fucking trait he could see. Does the writer think it would be any less offensive if he said "The guy with the glasses?" I also wear glasses. Should I be offended?
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  1000.  @jemmajames6719  I hope you understand you're acting like the most typical promiscuous person here; you assume that when someone doesn't want sex every day that they're a weirdo incel basement dweller and other them to make them feel better about yourself. It is not as "unusual" as you think and your lifestyle is not as normal as you think. There is more to life than sex.
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  1001.  @robertgrays8790  rental landlord rights don't include rights over all of your property, genius
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  1002.  @zytotempol8154  What's so obvious about it?
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  1003.  @vaelthryngaming6432  Imagine being poor ROFL CRINGE CRINGE R/THATJUSTHAPPENED
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  1004. ​ @Chaelsonen Maids don't really steal shit bro, especially not the expensive ones
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  1005. You're overthinking it. The goal is to spend time with another person that you enjoy spending time with. Maybe you learn something from talking to each other, maybe it's just a way to pass time, maybe you share a hobby. If you don't enjoy spending time with other people, then you may be an edge case, but that doesn't mean there isn't someone out there you can connect with. There is no "I want something" in a friendship. That isn't a friendship, that's a manipulative person trying to take advantage.
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  1006. No, don't you understand? That was the only publicly available piano that they could have possibly used to film their "New Year's Greetings." They're just poor Chinese tourists who can afford to travel to the UK, they can't use any other piano.
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  1007. They're the best people in the pool, actually. The reason why the martyrs have gotten worse is because society has become more self-conscious about racism. We are actually converging on the future they want. But the outrage continues to be manufactured because it receives good funding
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  1008.  @LadyVoldemort  I remember when I was a pre-teen, I was scared of rollercoasters and cried rather than let me take my mother on one... Then we went to Disneyworld not too long after and I enjoyed them. As someone who inherited anxiety issues from my mom... Trust me, you don't get over them by not doing anything and avoiding the things you are afraid of. You have to become aware that the things which scare you, like your parents doing some stupid prank, don't really hurt you.
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  1009.  @calvinhobbes6118  I believe it's more than that, something like 23 or 24. If the police don't like you, they can fabricate a new charge at the end of that, and hold you for the same period again.
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  1010. ​@squeebbb "hurr durr he said 'she' and then 'he'" as if that's definitive proof of malfeasance, lol. My parents mix up their dogs names all the time, my friends mix up each other's names all the time, despite having known each other since college. None of us get offended least of all the dogs.
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  1011.  @kejadventures241  you can choose to be miserable. not my prerogative. i was giving you some helpful advice but you are too caught up in your misery to see it.
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  1012. That's still a horrible design choice, a 1-3 second load time for some model getting streamed in, with a low-res version used in the mean time, is standard in the industry. People are going to forget about that if your game runs and plays well.
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  1013.  @keithjones7037  I believe she wants the conflict because she is just that horrifically boring or thinks she can get notoriety from it. I can't think of another reason why the social media clout-seeking types would do it.
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  1014. Missed opportunity for a "DOOR STUCK, DOOR STUCK! PLEASE, I BEG YOU"
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  1015. The goat meanwhile, "I'M BEING CUCKED AND YOU'RE LAUGHING"
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  1016. @Bob Saget Would you help a known arsonist who died in his own house fire that he made in the course of attempting to kill others or at least recklessly endanger them? No, you wouldn't.
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  1017. That's not "public intoxication," even she was actually high. In the same vein, you could be arrested for being driven home by a sober friend while drunk because a cop happened to pull your friend over for a broken tail light and noticed you were drunk in the car. She was not walking around on the street, she was in the guy's car and wanted to leave. Maybe then it would be public intoxication once she was walking home. Still, you can only do so much with 2 cops.
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  1018.  @Djuntas  I've heard he was accused of cheating at Halo speed runs and this was his attempt to "prove" that he was legitimately good and frame it as "I'm just having a bad day guys." Just a rumor though.
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  1019.  @MrKrill614  most Roman roads, indeed most roads throughout history until the modern era, were built by soldiers not slaves. when you're moving a massive army on campaign, it becomes cost effective to pave your own roads so the supply train can follow more easily
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  1020.  @stan420  The illegal migrant wasn't a student. The other guy was likely let in through affirmative action. Hard to imagine that was his first offense. Both people who had no business being on campus.
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  1021. Fubuki is basically a household name in Japan. You have to understand these streamers are real celebrities in every sense of the word over there. His agent likely told him "We'll be able to reach the Japanese audience" and he was right.
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  1022.  @revolverocelot4823  YouTube has had its fair share of fuck ups and baffling interface changes, but from a technical perspective it's a top-tier website. People don't understand how hard serving this much video this efficiently is. I imagine that's what keeps it in the lead.
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  1023.  @Noctaru  Modern Squeenix seems to be set on a one-way track to ruin itself with poorly thought out initiatives. They were doing great until the mid 2010's.
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  1024. Piracy was never stealing. You can call it immoral if you want, but it is fundamentally different from theft.
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  1025.  @adamb3918  How about suggesting more than "uhhhhhh maybe we should restrict guns with pistol grips that'll solve the problem" We've been introducing these laws for decades and they do nothing. Join us in the real world where we actually try to solve the root of the problem instead of one of the least-connected symptoms
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  1026. ​@DietArdee Nah men who pay for this experience are indeed paying for the experience, not just sex.
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  1027. @MitroWave I make six figures, Bethesda hasn't even touched a good release since New Vegas (which they didn't develop) and there are a billion better games this year to play. keep shilling
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  1028. "Makes no sense?" This is this scumbags day job, he was creeping around people all morning and this was the guy he happened to get lucky on. Take a look at the bigger picture the entire world doesn't happen on camera.
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  1029.  @sevenbillion2521  Because her suggestions were totally naive and generic. The whole idea of a short-form segment on "parenting advice" is really stupid, it would be like having a 2 minute segment on the show about "how to fix a broken marriage." These are complex issues that require in-depth analysis on a case-by-case basis, not something that can be generically discussed on morning television.
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  1030. "Hmm, looks like one of our players might have trouble focusing because his mom is about to kick the bucket. Hey I know, let's drop him instantly and replace him with someone who doesn't know the rest of the team or their style and has to be brought up to speed, that will improve the teams performance!"
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  1031.  @Butterflyyyxoxo  That has nothing to do with the male side of the date, and whether or not he should be embarrassed for splitting the bill or allowing the woman to pay. Most men aren't embarrassed any more. They're aware of the state of the job market and economy and they're sick of most of this nonsense.
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  1032.  @markwoods1530  It's virtually impossible to prove the motive of an employer for refusing a hire. In reality, employers discriminate hiring based on age, sex, religion, and ethnicity all the time, even though it's been illegal for almost 60 years. Fun fact: frivolously suing employers also tends to be really bad for your job prospects.
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  1033.  @Maximilian1990  oh boy you're one of those "every pirate was a potential sale" clowns, DRM grifters LOVE selling you garbage products that tank your game's performance for hundreds of thousands of dollars
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  1034. It isn't really courage, just audacity. He thinks that the cashier, and by extension everyone around him that he doesn't personally know, is a colossal idiot who would fall for this.
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  1035. I have literally turned Dota 2 matches around by giving tactful suggestions without blaming anyone on the team
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  1036.  @ChaosTherum  Nah, women can definitely be creepy, I've talked to guys who have had relationships with women that write huge essays about how they want to have children with them after like 4 weeks
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  1037.  @sallybrite1530  Something tells me you haven't heard much of Sowell's thoughts.
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  1038.  @borissukoi564  Hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, when they were ruled by a regime that is no longer relevant... yes.
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  1039. ​ @Whitey2716  He was trying to calm himself down. He is entirely self absorbed, only he and his feelings matter.
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  1040.  @ChibiNyan  In this context, since we are blaming groups for the actions of individuals, it is men's fault that women have the right to vote.
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  1041.  @PyroGothNerd  He was a skinny manlet wearing wrinkled jeans and a sport coat. The guy probably isn't capable of sparring let alone a real fight.
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  1042. He did mention that almost every food, especially alcoholic beverages, would be of lower quality due to the less refined equipment and processes involved, and that most ale would likely taste like a modern sour due to the way it was brewed
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  1043.  @kalliope7499  That's how undisciplined pits left to their own devices work. They will see living beings they deem to be weaker than themselves as chew toys. It isn't just toddlers, it's also the elderly or infirm.
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  1044. "It's OK to be white" is a chicken and egg problem. The statement is not an inherently racist or overtly inflammatory statement. It was taken as such because it was originally posted on university campuses where radicalized young people could see it. They took it as an affront to their beliefs, which was the whole point of posting it to begin with. It was not to troll anyone except for those who are already radicalized by revealing their absurd reaction. You cannot simply "give away" innocuous phrases and gestures (like the "OK" hand sign) to people you hate just because you see them do it once or twice. Otherwise you will soon find yourself having to invent a new language. The nonsensical stigma for this phrase is best demonstrated in the poll posted here, where 76% acknowledge black people can be racist, but only just above 50% of them think it is "OK to be white." Hence there's roughly a quarter of black people who answered this poll totally unaware of the fact that their own racism tainted their answer to the other question. To put it in a shorter way: If you think you are being "trolled" by "It's OK to be white," or you are offended by it, you are either a racist or a paranoid schizo who sees domestic terrorism in every corner (aka a radicalized authoritarian).
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  1045.  @spankbuda3769  Bro, these ideas do not really exist in central and Eastern Europe. You are misapplying your western politics strawman very badly here
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  1046.  @AA-roniscool  For some reason I thought of an Oblivion guard when I read the first line.
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  1047. ​ @pontoancora  Hey buddy, you just blow in from the 18th century? We left laissez-faire in the trash pile a very long time ago. Stop parroting talking points like they have any relevance.
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  1048. Eh, not really. Crazy people gonna crazy.
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  1049. It was blatantly shit from the trailers. Animations were fucked up all over the place and this was in their catered, edited down trailer. It was going to be a disaster at launch
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  1050. Daneaxes were quite large. But still smaller than most fantasy axes. There was also no double-bladed axe, at most that would be used for woodcutting, and it was designed for convenience (one blade was sharp for trimming wood, and one was dull for felling trees)
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  1051.  @MikeysWalkthroughs  The AI was actually well designed, his problem is that he's probably not patient enough to play the game. If you sit still and don't move (just like in the movies) the alien won't find you. If you make noise, the alien will check it out. Your motion sensor also makes noise if you check it by the way, many people probably didn't realize this and thought the AI was cheating. The game is a hide and seek simulator and it's really good at that particular thing. Once you realize that, and play it that way, it's a good game
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  1052.  @TactileTherapy  Alinskyism at its finest.
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  1053. In school they taught this to me as "passionate" vs. "compassionate" love. The former is what you feel when the relationship is new and exciting. The latter is what you feel when you've settled in and genuinely care for the other person as you would a member of your family, because that's what they should be to you.
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  1054. He was really talking about the Commies. He had some unfavorable things to say about the tribe, but if I recall right it was only the context of people from the Jewish ghettoes generally being disgusting while he oversaw displaced peoples housing.
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  1055. Nietzsche was similar. He was known to be an avid animal lover, but if you read his essays you might believe he hates most of the human race.
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  1056. @shaneprince6572 It isn't just one side. The other side allows it to happen. They don't need to, but they do.
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  1057.  @MassiveDestructionSP  Reddit literally has no content by definition, unless you consider the text posts themselves to be valuable. There is no system in place for Reddit to serve files. It's literally just a text forum with links to other websites in every OP.
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  1058. "Expello Shemalus"
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  1059. ​@cameronharris2862 Chernobyl was a pretty big deal. The Exclusion Zone still exists and is still illegal to live in. That said, it's ridiculous to base your projections for risk on 1960s Soviet technology and practices.
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  1060.  @gdgd5194  There are an equal number of male and female voices, try actually playing the game before spouting nonsense
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  1061. YouTube offers no benefits and no real employment contracts. By being a full time content creator on YouTube, you basically say "Why yes. I'd like to forfeit decades of hard earned workers rights. How did you know?" Reconsider before you get yourself in trouble and realize you have no safety net
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  1062. Funny thing about history is that it's as much research as it is discovery. A lot of the stuff he talks about, especially related to battles, are all battles with documented reports and outcomes but few have bothered to dig up the information and sort through it to find the interesting stuff.
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  1063. She admitted she knew the car was on the tracks but didn't think it was a risk. That is the definition of recklessness: inability to comprehend risk
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  1064. My biggest question is how long will Overwatch NSFW videos last after Overwatch 2 flops and Blizzard tries to pretend it never happened to save face? Will we see OW smut ten years from now with a new generation of gamers who don't even know/care what it is? "Oh yeah it's that tag which has all the sexy characters in it."
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  1065. Is this a joke about how A1 steak sauce sucks? I mean, I agree, but that seems a bit esoteric. Oh nevermind, there's a missing space. Now I get it.
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  1066.  @benjamindover4033  I'm not going to argue with a guy named Ben Dover who likes his own comments. Way to out yourself there buddy.
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  1067. There are no telltale signs, barring hard evidence, that someone is innocent or guilty. The armchair psychiatry of crime docs like this is taken way too seriously. These are flags used to build a case and build suspicion, not convict someone of a crime. You can't say, "Well your Honor, he's guilty because he hugged his stomach when I asked him this question." The psychiatry seems flawless in the videos because only interesting cases where these techniques were applied are selected by the video creator.
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  1068. ​ @TheTwoGunKid  then you will be held in contempt of court and thrown in jail anyway.
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  1069.  @Thumbdumpandthebumpchump  the parallels with immigration issues are quite hard to ignore
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  1070. Sid Meier's Pirates! had similar features in like 2004. Sure, boarding was a drummed-up rhythm/rock paper scissors type sword fight minigame, but it is still more than you get in this game and the animations are cool. Coincidentally, that game HEAVILY inspired Mount & Blade. It was also a sandbox game, with a main quest that you could pursue at any time (with a generous time limit), and the ability to fight for several different factions, different ships to own, etc.
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  1071.  @ForsakenSanityGaming  why is it so hard to believe that people would lie online to gain clout, when you believe them so easily?
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  1072.  @robertdenro9348  You take CCR songs a little too seriously.
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  1073. The biggest simps of all time helped create the biggest e-girl of all time and suffered the greatest cucking of all time.
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  1074. I can't imagine being one of those police officers. Imagine getting out of bed in the morning, going to work and your sergeant tells you, "We're going to arrest this man for retweeting a naughty meme." Then going home after work and believing you did a good job. I just can't imagine it. It's fucking alien to me.
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  1075. And they trolled the government by getting it labelled as a sporting rifle. If they manufactured enough of them, you could buy these at 18 years old.
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  1076. ​ @settame1  As weird as it is. I find that commendable in a way. It's way better than staying in the UK for their whole lives leeching welfare. I'm glad they have some pride in their country and want to build it up
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  1077.  @backcountry164  and they'll be paid less.
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  1078.  @integratedhatespreader  Animals take territory from other animals too, sorry to break it to you but "evil" is a human concept and animals do things we would consider "evil" all the time. Eating your own children being pretty high up there
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  1079. ​ @aundying3606 And you think your opinion matters? Lol.
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  1080.  @Pumarock714  it is, most often, a little of both, but sometimes it is one extreme or the other (i.e. perfect parents with a kid that won the genetics anti-lottery, or a kid that would have been fine had his parents not been monsters)
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  1081.  @HeeHeeHawHaw-ts8mt  why do you think he's wearing a mask
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  1082.  @phiklik1  You do know Trump isn't president anymore right
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  1083. It's a fucking exhibition boxing match not a fight to the death.
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  1084.  @Dr_Piscatella  The devs who put that person's face on the model should care becuase it is that same face which everyone is now mercilessly roasting on the internet.
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  1085.  @CombatVetMamaOEF  you realize the reason this guy attempted to do this in first place was because he had zero treatment options, right?
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  1086.  @Mr_Vakarian  He runs multiple games, probably doesn't actually give a fuck about Halo in particular but he desperately wants the clout of being a WR holder.
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  1087.  @R.P-e2z  I remember when Townsend made a video about the "orange fool" a fruity dessert made by the Washington family and the entire comment section was TDS... I was taken aback. I voted for the guy and never even thought for a moment about politics while watching the video. Nor would I have thought about Biden if it were ice cream, or anything like that. It was so bad that he made a disappointed response video
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  1088.  @Hitomora  Physics are meaningless in the show. At the very least, Johnny is extremely chivalrous so he never hits women and always lets them beat him up, despite being nearly indestructable.
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  1089. Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks
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  1090.  @gilgameschvonuruk4982  Russia was extremely late to the development of the middle class. They abolished serfdom in the 19th century, hundreds of years after Europe had left feudalist policies and norms in the dustbin of history. To short-sighted aristocrats seeking to hold on to whatever they can, the emergence of a middle class means only two things: the peasants become more powerful, and the aristocrats become weaker. Socialism in Russia was used as a weapon to punish the middle class for rising up from peasanthood. Just ask the kulaks -- oh wait, you can't, because they're dead. In practice, as we've seen in more recent history in other nations, the rise of the middle class means the wealthy get wealthier, as long as they are not useless do-nothings who wish only to sit on their family inheritance until the end of time. This is because the "peasants" now have more money to spend and more motivation to work. In the short term, yes, they will be paid more and the aristocrats make less money. Not so in the long term. Otherwise, all the richest people and companies in the world would not have come from capitalist nations with burgeoning middle classes.
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  1091. ​ @redtiger7268 They assigned a paralegal to this case? American Airlines getting in trouble for one of their employees recording CP? Seems unlikely.
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  1092. The divine wind to be exact.
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  1093.  @The_JohnnieWalker  Ever wonder why goblins are only 2% of the wizarding population but own 90% of the banks?
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  1094. TSR forced them to agree to use the original OGL as a condition for selling them the rights to D&D back in the day. It was never Hasbro's idea.
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  1095.  @愛  It isn't "gatekeeping," simply a practical piece of advice. Linux graphical interfaces are shit. It's pretty cut-and-dried. If you can't drive a computer without a GUI, you will hate your life if you install Linux and use your computer for anything more involved than browsing the web and checking e-mail -- things virtually everyone does on their phones now anyway. That's not to say Windows doesn't have shit GUIs, but you aren't going to find better ones from an OS which is historically maintained by people who don't like using GUIs to begin with.
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  1096. I must be the only person who was completely unsurprised at this recommendation. I follow other historical cooking channels.
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  1097.  @KingOfhearts72  Schemmel is his name. Hilariously, Sean is more like Vegeta in real life and Christopher Sabat is more like Goku in real life.
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  1098.  @looneyrklkk1624  Nah, just your average left-of-center American.
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  1099. The Western genre of film was originally inspired by Samurai movies.
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  1100. "Usually?" Ian hasn't fired the gun in the majority of the videos I've watched from this channel, and I've watched quite a few. I find that it is usually a surprise when he takes it to the range.
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  1101. +Paul Alvarez Loeblich makes more logical sense then "keine laden" lol
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  1102. Tanks and aircraft are cool but sadly I can't own them.
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  1103. +matthew bailey I started listening to Motorhead when I was in high school. I'm only 24 now. Fortunately I still got to see them in concert twice here in Texas, when Lemmy was 64 and 65 years old. They were both excellent shows, unforgettable, and popped my concert cherry in the best way possible. But when I became a hardcore fan and looked at Lemmy's life, I said to myself, "There's no way Lemmy's going to live for much longer -- I'm amazed that he's lasted this long." I had to accept it because I knew it would come relatively soon, but I continued to enjoy them while they lasted. Lemmy once said that it's silly folks respect other people more when they're dead, but frankly I'm glad that more people are recognizing Lemmy for his one-of-a-kind character and excellent music.
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  1104.  @lordyasha5944  Yeah, but they usually do it anonymously, on niche internet forums.
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  1105. The chances of a handgun hitting someone else on that highway is virtually nothing. Handguns have an effective range of less than 50m typically. Now having said that, I would have simply taken his license plate, pulled over and called the police, but someone definitely needs to take the other guy off the road.
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  1106.  @TheGigaTop  Wait. If you are in this situation and the guy didn't already shoot you, he's probably not going to kill you unless you startle him. Even if he is a junkie. If you have techniques to apply, wait to apply them until he is distracted. The rest is practice and training so you can apply them without thinking about it. In reality though this particular scene would probably never happen, there's no reason for anyone with a gun to get this close to you. They could always be stupid or not in their right mind, but even then it's not likely. If you watch a lot of police/security footage, this almost never happens.
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  1107. I pissed on an interstate median once in the middle of Houston. It was an emergency; I thought I was going to piss in my friend's car. That is the most exposed I've ever been while peeing, although the median barrier rose to my waist so you couldn't see my junk. Fun fact, in Germany, it's legal to piss on public land as long as you're not facing anybody.
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  1108. The hilarious people are the ones who are honest to God comforted by seeing "body type A" instead of "male" even though they both do exactly the same thing. That sword swings both ways. Don't design games for schizoids.
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  1109.  @luisdawnfinder3188  That's because only people who are aware of the domestic issues should comment. Anyone looks like a total buffoon if they read international media headlines and think they're an expert on that nation's issues.
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  1110.  @peter-s7t  Why the hell are you even bothering to post? "Your opinions are all worthless, stop talking." What a great contribution.
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  1111. ​ @CB-lw7ty fire departments are commonly also EMTs in the US
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  1112. Ironically I gaurantee you most inmates have killed more blacks than he ever did.
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  1113.  @Riceman-o1p  that... is actually not a common story at all, the most common type of gun related story is one where the victim brandishes a firearm and the assailant runs away without a shot fired, but nice try this single widow was able to defend her baby from two men because of a gun but still, somehow, you see the bad in this situation
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  1114.  @SpaceMissile  Yeah but not in a good way like, for example, Dr. Steve Brule. For starters, his voice is the exact profile of an extremely boring video you'd hear in an educational film they'd play at school when a substitute teacher had to take over for the class.
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  1115. @Bando-fx4mf Just curious, if you were suffering from a medical emergency and called the police, would you want the cop who arrived on your scene to break down into hysterics instead of calmly try to treat you?
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  1116.  @MonsieurTarzan-g3m  hey buddy whatever you do don't look up Harris' stance on border security if that kind of past statement bothers you.
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  1117. IIRC, she was designed by a (maybe former) Sanrio artist (same people who made Hello Kitty). Hello Kitty has huge amounts of R34. People were going to do this, if for no other reason than because they're childishly edgy and think they're "sticking it" to the Pope. Stating that "Bad people exist, so we should never have nice things" is a great way to enforce misery upon yourself.
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  1118. New York. Sad to see.
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  1119.  @nAcolz  I think it's silly to believe the war wouldn't end. None of Putin's wars have lasted forever.
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  1120.  @NPC-1337  not any stranger than anything you'd see at a pride parade
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  1121. gun buybacks are an utter sham, the fact that you think they do anything for the community at all belies how ignorant you are
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  1122.  @Damaxyz  lesbians totally align with their brand though 😉
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  1123.  @tiger-rgn  Except they clearly knew each other and the idea of hiding an entire case of beer under your jacket is completely absurd to begin with?
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  1124.  @1_star_reviews  It isn't attacking in its own mind, it believes the toddler is a worthless creature that is nothing more than a chew toy. It's playing. Seen it happen in other pit bull videos with elderly people as well.
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  1125. ​ @PicYourColour Every bureaucratic agency falls under the direct purview of the president. They are executive branch agencies, tasked with enforcement, as the Constitution clearly states. Musk is merely a plenipotentiary for the purpose of auditing these agencies. In other words, the president has vested him with the power to act in his stead, for this specific purpose
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  1126.  @yoeyyoey8937  Because keeping credit is not a business in pre-modern villages. In a modern economy, there is a group of bankers whose job it is to track everyone's debts. They will expect to earn enough money to live off of that. Actually, that's wrong -- it's bankers, so they'll expect to earn enough money to be very rich off of that. Everyone who expects to complete a transaction using a credit system will first go through these middlemen to ensure the integrity of the transaction because nobody knows or trusts each other and may never see one another again. In a village, everyone knows each other. If William promised you something at a certain time and he didn't give it to you, you can just go to his house and ask him what the hell he's doing. You've known William for over 10 years. Chances are, something serious came up like a death in the family and he wasn't just trying to cheat you. If someone is really divergent and decides to cheat people, they usually just get run out of the village. Credit is a system used when trust is low.
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  1127. That's a great example, actually. There's a FedEx print shop within spitting distance of where I live, and I ended up installing their app just so I don't have to deal with real printers anymore.
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  1128.  @hansemannluchter643  No, it was a logical method of arguing. The teacher pointed out that the student had placed a burden of proof upon himself which he could not substantiate. It is not unlike a DA prosecuting a suspect for first degree murder simply because there was a homicide, then withdrawing that prosecution when there is an alibi, or video proving the homicide was in self-defense. The student did not realize that his baseless assertion was absurd because so many other people had told him it was true, and he simply took it for granted. Feelings only come secondary to the logical process in this argument.
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  1129. ​ @saulgood2892  On what planet? I quit any time I go on any sort of vacation. I easily quit for 3+ months to get a new job. Give me a break.
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  1130.  @CBfrmcardiff  I do know a few women as friends and they've never bothered to hook me up with anyone. Even after asking about it. Possibly because the women I do know don't have that many women friends themselves, possibly because they're also weird (not a knock on them). That's the curse of being weird enough. You have to be lucky enough to find a group of like-minded people you can be friends with or you may just go through your whole life alone. I consider myself one of the lucky ones.
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  1131.  @cargojacker  braindead take, any man who defends a false sex crime accusation loses their reputation. doesn't matter if they were actually innocent or not. the only exception was johnny depp. every other man i've heard of that was falsely accused, famous or not, had their lives tarnished as a result. you don't fight those allegations if you don't have to and can avoid jail time at the same time because it only draws more attention to the allegations
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  1132. I mean they would be better than the 5 foot women we get now, apparently. Hard to shoot a guy when he's behind a 400 pound mountain of fat and muscle.
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  1133. ​ @SaintRubicon Lmao, a parent technically don't know where their kid is the moment they walk away. They were being overly strict to get money out of her in court. Cops do that shit all the time
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  1134.  @marybenton770  That's actually mostly an American thing.
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  1135. ​@JeroenMW2 So what's the objective? Take Moscow? Lmao. There's no vision in Zelensky's bid for war he's a stooge for the people paying him
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  1136. The greatest irony of the Commanders is that they changed their name and iconography to match the oppressors of the so-called "Redskins" that they replaced, which is to say white colonial military men. Then they patted themselves on the back and called themselves culturally sensitive. It's honestly mind blowing, I can hardly deal with it anymore without simply tuning out.
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  1137. He discredited the entire university's anthropology department... If they were smart, this little scandal would cause them to rethink their recruiting and education.
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  1138. My buddy agreed to have some panels installed on his home to the tune of around $25k. The company delivered a bunch of parts to his driveway, just sitting there -- thousands and thousands of dollars of parts -- 3 days early (they were supposed to start on Monday, parts arrived on Friday). Monday rolls around. Turns out they were parts that did not at all fit the specifications on the contract. When he complained they threatened to sue. When he called their bluff they chickened out. Solar panels are a bit of a scam industry sadly.
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  1139. Well, Charlie is definitely more milquetoast than Jeremy. Charlie never touches any topic with a ten foot pole that wouldn't be suitable for polite conversation with a stranger. The Trump ear piercing for example.
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  1140.  @ryangriffith1500  he's called soap because he cleans the place up, not hard to imagine
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  1141.  @jacobhargiss3839  I disagree, Mussolini was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist before WWI happened, and it seemed to prove to him that the "international workers' revolt" was a mere fantasy because although there were a few localized revolts (like the ones in Germany and Russia) it was not worldwide and there was no "class unity" between national borders. His plan was essentially to take Marxism and turn it nationalist instead of internationalist in light of these developments. As such he dug deep for something Italians could be nationally proud of in the hard times they were suffering, and went for the most glorious period in Italian history, the Roman Empire. While he might have taken some cues from Capitalism while formulating it, the thing that spurred him to action in the first place was a reaction to Marxism.
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  1142.  @prithvijeetsingh6099  Your cheerleading isn't really helpful and will only break down dialogue further as people continue to fling labels at each other regarding a dead ideology that is practiced by exactly no one in the modern era. Please reconsider if you expect people to come together instead of pushing each other apart. Compromise is by definition a solution where neither party is satisfied so don't expect to simply plant your feet and have everyone completely agree with you. It is really goddamned annoying to have someone who is not even American (judging by your name) and therefore does not understand the local politics call me, a staunch anti-authoritarian, a Fascist. It is just utterly absurd.
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  1143.  @Codeman22  A fairly decent assumption considering what unfolded on video. We could do this ad nauseum, what do you hope to achieve with this nonsense?
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  1144. ​@azrielangel1492 you're literally undermining the crime of child sex trafficking right now bro
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  1145.  @missymonroe3886  It could get your family member killed, though, if some idiot witness calls 911 and it turns out nothing was happening, but the dispatcher says "someone is being violent" or "someone is armed." If that someone is someone you care about, then they'd better do exactly the right thing -- which varies even by cops in the same department -- or he might get shot Point is, we as citizens need to do more to be responsible and not call the police simply because you were slightly annoyed or scared. The police aren't really anyone's friend when responding to a 911 call. You are effectively saying, "Yes, Mr. Government, send armed men to this location immediately." If you don't wish to risk the "perpetrator" getting shot, then don't call the police
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  1146.  @GoldKingsMan  The dude was like 150% his size. "Shoving him off" is not reasonable. He could have carried mace, but they don't allow that in the UK either from what I understand.
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  1147. Don't worry, if there's more than one then they typically stab each other over turf to beg on instead. I used to work in downtown Dallas
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  1148.  @Gakojin  When did I mention Biden? You realize politics exist outside of the federal election right?
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  1149.  @epiccthulu  Nope, and I wouldn't want them to. If I didn't make things for a living I'd hate myself.
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  1150. Well that's the point of Rogan really. it's more a reflection of how bad talk shows and talk radio have gotten that people will listen to him just because he doesn't interrupt his more interesting guests.
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  1151.  @adamrutherford4759  The amount of people trying to seem intelligent on things they know nothing about in this thread... Good God. Nintendo is consistently reselling their oldest games every single time they release a new console. Ever heard of the Virtual Console? They make you buy the same games over and over again every time. You can buy Super Mario Bros. 1 originally released for the NES again, right now, if you want to. They definitely own the rights and are still using them. The games are not abandonware.
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  1152.  @JohnSmith-zk3kd  it's been proven, thanks to the complete lack of enforcement in many cities providing a ton of data, that any crime spree is mostly perpetuated by a few dedicated career criminals. if you chopped off all their hands, it absolutely would stop, without a doubt
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  1153. "regulated" means that they train regularly and have their own gear. It does not mean government regulation. There are lots of terms that have different or archaic meanings, but they're also defined elsewhere in the Constitution. Remember, the Bill of Rights are Amendments and therefore are at the end of the Constitution, so the writers assumed you had read or at least could reference the rest of it. The intention was not to take everything completely out of context
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  1154.  @big_numbers  you can easily find LED lights that last for 10 years, not sure what you mean by that
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  1155.  @ssbf1095  They do, actually, because they are primarily cowards and they know they have no clout.
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  1156. He does have a social media channel where he talks about this stuff, but it does strike me as more of an "insurance policy" than a gotcha for clout.
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  1157.  @Imjustgoatedsir  Apparently humor is lost upon you. You may wish to speak to a therapist about that
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  1158.  @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986  That would be difficult considering the guy who made this video is not a woman.
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  1159. I'd definitely say the likelihood of being murdered is higher than average.
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  1160. It's the classic coward MO. Say some extremely over-the-top shit and then refuse to come to the table after, because he's scared of what a former UFC fighter and a professional football player will do to him in the same room.
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  1161. They should make a new Ghostbusters reboot with that cast. I would die laughing.
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  1162. I'm guessing there's a lot of chasing and not a lot of catching to use Lemmy's terms.
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  1163. This is why history is extremely important. Modern politics keeps getting reframed around political conflict that we had in the first half of the 20th century. Or that Europe had, at the very least. Anarchists are almost always useful pawns in the schemes of other radical authoritarian groups. They were in the Spanish Civil War. But anyone who talks about Fascism and Communism NEEDS to study this history thoroughly and not just the manifestos or "holy texts" of their chosen dogma. This isn't new shit any more, countries have tried these ideologies and failed several times.
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  1164.  @coolgamers2794  There is a bomb defusal mode in R6S as well. Even worse if they were playing hostage and he said "I just shot the hostage"
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  1165. I was always afraid he was like this in truth, but when he first moved on from pure gaming content and started vlogging I thought he had grown up and matured especially when he told everyone about his most embarrassing moments as a teenager, despite the fact that his content is really quite safe. This is somehow too difficult for him to take, though.
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  1166. Well, when a pilot is flying an aircraft, blinding them can lead to the death of many others through a collision, or their passengers. So yeah, it's slightly different.
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  1167. I'm an American who lives in Texas, who also can't drive due to a disability I was born with. I can't help but agree with a lot of your points. Especially after nearly being hit with a car more times than I can count. But those close encounters were only in my adult independent life. When I was in high school, my saving grace was that one of my friends had access to a car, and was a decent driver, so we could do stuff when we wanted. Otherwise, the most I did to walk, was walk the dog along an undeveloped area close to the neighborhood. When I first graduated college and started working, I had to walk about 30 minutes from my train station to my home or vice versa. Eventually, I found a place farther from downtown that also had a lot of convenient amenities within a 15 minute walk and now I find it really hard to leave this particular condo.
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  1168. Glock switches
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  1169. I would much sooner throw money at an actual developer piecing together AI components into a streamer personality, something that has never actually been done before, as opposed to some broad in a bikini sitting on an inflatable banana
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  1170. It depends on how many skills they have and how many interactions they have.
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  1171.  @zsep8688  They do actually put effort into their personality, unlike thot streamers. It's corny, but it has an appeal, and the effort really shows. This interview was entirely for the memes though. The management knows what they're doing.
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  1172. How is wasting someone's entire life in prison, while they bleed taxpayers dry, more justified than killing that same person? I will never understand death penalty opponents who advocate for life in prison.
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  1173.  @smithiWerben  No, the ogre lady insults him, and he says the same thing as in this scene and they leave
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  1174.  @Warlord4Hikage  Ironic that you seem to know which world is imaginary and which one isn't but can't tell the difference between cat ears and a cat?
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  1175. @21joebloe I see it literally all the time from black people who post about this exact issue Not everyone is an activist who marches in the street or appears on television
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  1176. Basically from what I understand the law is almost entirely in the police department's hands. They investigate your crime, judge how long to hold you and whether or not you should be released. If you go to trial, you're fucked because it means they think you are definitely going to prison or suffering some sort of penalty. Conviction rates are high in the US too, at 95%, but 99% is a pretty significant increase. I also don't know if plea deals are a thing there at all. This tweet is almost completely unsubstantiated. They're assuming that the Japanese police will do the worst possible things that they could to him. However, I do expect them to hold him without a trial for about 3 months until his visa expires and then deport him. They are known to contrive reasons to hold you in jail before a trial and take advantage of the law to do so (by holding you in jail for only one charge at a time, in sequence). If I were in charge, it is what I would do as I would not want to waste taxpayer dollars on making this loser suffer, but it depends on how petty their legal staff and police chief are.
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  1177. @kikoredog apparently your wealth of money has somehow led you to believe your time is worthless which is literally the opposite of how it should work
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  1178. Yes I've seen some very stupid clips from him like the one where he brought on the business owners that inherited all their wealth to attack "quiet quitting" and interrupted the opposing side (a labor rights lawyer who was very sharp among others) often. But this is a victory
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  1179.  @takeruhomura  You're projecting hard, obviously you have to stop once you start dating each other seriously. Do you think anyone on a dating app or website only talks to one person and never visits the website again until that one person responds? People often never respond.
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  1180.  @RM_VFX  I figured OP typod. There's no possible way any game cost half a trillion dollars. The company probably isn't even worth that much
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  1181.  @sovietnationalism5240  They remade it 3-4 times during its development cycle. That's why it took 12 years to come out, and why the finished product was total crap -- it was already several years out of date (running on Doom 3 engine) when it released. George Broussard, the original 3D Realms producer for Duke Nukem, was a total idiot during the development of this game and kept ordering the game to be remade each time a new shiny game engine was released during the game's development, because anything less than the shiniest graphics were not sufficient to him. Of course he went about it entirely the wrong way, he should have gotten his programmers to update an existing engine or write a new one from the ground up. He was always going to be behind the curve licensing other engines -- Quake 2, then Unreal, and so on -- as the game was being made. It was a race he could not win. There is a legendary E3 gameplay video from 2001 showing off the game in the Unreal engine, I think, and it actually looked like a good game at the time. Most hardcore fans wish we got that build of the game instead of what we got now. Supposedly it was almost done but Broussard had another paranoia attack and ordered it to be remade in a new engine. Coincidentally, Cyberpunk 2077 suffered from almost the same development issues. It was remade partway through and we got the "rebuilt" worse version of the game.
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  1182. Just your average day in rural Louisiana.
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  1183. Does anyone really buy this "I thought it was a deer" tripe? He's obviously setting up a defense for court to state that he was not aware of his actions. Somehow, though, he knew to drive as far away from the crime scene as possible. What a coincidence.
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  1184.  @junglekutz5625  Extremely boring people who have nothing better to do than be obsessed with some Tiktok clown.
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  1185. That first driver sure as hell didn't give a damn though.
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  1186. @Sauviller it's crazy that there are people pretending this is even remotely new to Bethesda games and that not manually saving in over 40 minutes of gameplay is even remotely excusable
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  1187. It's speculated that many if not most EULAs would not be admissible in court, but end users typically don't have the money or willpower to challenge them
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  1188.  @Joybuzzahz  How is that a bad thing? You want to remain ignorant and keep working for the desperate managers? I'm honestly baffled by your position.
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  1189.  @ohnoitschris  They didn't at first; streaming shows and movies is indeed more convenient than piracy on paper. While it's possible to stream content on torrent, it requires good seeds. However they've gotten stuck in their ways and started making the same stupid mistakes their predecessors did; making it difficult for paying customers to access the content they already paid for.
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  1190. There is a clear difference of severity between calling someone an "NPC" and murder with pursuit. An 11-year old child could tell the difference but some people in this comment section seemingly cannot.
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  1191.  @God_chose_us  You can't truly explain mental illness. It will be irrational no matter the reason.
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  1192. ​​ @joeycampbell940 On the majority of people, that behavior does work. It's only on those who are completely hopeless and have no self-respect that it does not work. Teaching that is extremely hard even to a kid.
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  1193. I've developed this same inverse relationship with reactions over time. Usually it is because the other person is massively overreacting. It helped that my own father was kind of the opposite of what you described. He had anger issues, which have thankfully faded over time as he got older and started doing more cardio. This taught me not to react when I was young because I didn't want to feed into a cycle of escalation. His brothers had it much worse, in one case leading to his death. I cannot take people who overreact very seriously as a result. That said, I am not immune to overreactions either -- I have buttons just like any other human -- but then when I realize people aren't taking me seriously, it's like a "snap back to reality" moment. It helps keep me level-headed.
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  1194. If he actually cared he'd move to Canada, where using the wrong pronouns can indeed get you jailed. But he doesn't because that would take away one of the cards he can play in his victim deck
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  1195. Worse, HS diplomas qualify you for jobs.
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  1196. Situations like the marine in Phoenix and others that I've seen always have one thing in common that is not true for Dale's scenarios: the guy with the weapon isn't on guard. That Marine pretended to be calm or aloof and instantly disarmed the robber as he walked through the door. Disarms are insanely risky if the assailant has their full attention on you. These are incredibly stupid high risk strategies. The correct thing to do is "wait your turn" or in other words, wait until the assailant is distracted by something.
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  1197. If the deported people in question were citizens I'd be more inclined to say yes, they have the right to a fair trial... but they aren't, the whole point if citizenship or even just a green card is showing that you're serious about staying here and not just an opportunistic criminal
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  1198.  @blaqmermaiid  This one in the video looks like a pit to me. The story of the pit bull is a tragic story, to be sure, but the only way to end it is for demand for that breed to end. They seem to be sought mostly by irresponsible owners because they are the ones who most frequently end up abandoned on the street or in shelters. But there are those who keep excusing their behavior, because they had a pit one time and it was friendly. Nothing overrides anecdotal evidence for some people sadly.
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  1199.  @jasonpearce6322  Field tests don't even have more than a 60% accuracy rate. If you're sober the worst they can do by refusal is take you to the station and make you take a blood test. Which will show beyond any reasonable doubt that you are sober. Either way the lawyer wouldn't get involved.
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  1200.  @maxwelljacobfreedom  Sounds like you're not even aware that all the best chefs in the world are men
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  1201. It's bizarre but he finally achieved the "friendly grandpa" energy his campaign was trying to achieve after nothing mattered anymore.
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  1202. @steelbear2063 It comes from D&D/WOTC itself. If you didn't expect this then you're uninformed about the IP.
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  1203. Unfortunately, some of us just happen to suffer a little bit longer, despite not causing any death or even much property damage.
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  1204.  @justinron1772  shoe was never a right-winger or even a centrist, she's a moderate left-winger who polices other, more insane left-wingers.
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  1205. What exactly does FF7R have to do with this? It's not even remotely similar to the original game, in plot or mechanics.
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  1206.  @DarkMasterJo  bro I walk around with headphones in my own home and there aren't even any noisy neighbors, $300 for a pair of quality wireless headphones is a lot cheaper than... well, wasting your entire college education and life
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  1207. dude just wanted to retire and raise his kids, he thought one of the biggest media companies in the world would do a decent enough job on Star Wars (which, let's be honest, never had particularly complicated writing even when it was good)
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  1208.  @Evil0tto  Orc chief: "Ehh, excuse me master Sauron, but we have decided to go on strike until further notice to protest being replaced by the Uruk-hai. Automation is harmful to the workforce and their families."
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  1209.  @Fordo007  It is Mary Sueish in a weird roundabout way, if you look at the greater context. Mary Sues often have tragic backstories to give them an edge. Lara Croft didn't have one before, but since these are prequels, they actually make her overall character more Mary Sue-ish than it was before. IMO, there's nothing wrong with having a shallow, powerful character if your media isn't intended to be deep or thought-provoking. Calling classic Lara Croft, or a similar character like Duke Nukem, a "Mary Sue" is like using a scalpel to slice a tomato. It is overly analytical for the subject matter; her character was never intended to be that deep or multi-dimensional. But adding this layer of tragic backstory to the character takes it in a weird direction that just doesn't vibe with the rest of the IP. To put it another way, reading Berserk and learning about Guts' sexual abuse as a child would have been way, way weirder if it were Duke Nukem instead.
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  1210. the far more interesting and tragic version of this was nora vincent's book in which she (a lesbian feminist) disguised herself as a man successfully for 9 months with the goal to prove how much easier it was to be a man, and came away extremely depressed when she realized how men were treated on the dating scene, how blatantly the women she dated changed their attitude when she revealed her identity, and how badly working class men needed what little companionship they got. edit: i wrote this before Jeremy even mentioned this in the video, funny how that works
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  1211. ​ @BambusRambus Anyone can reach the goal in spread eagle.
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  1212.  @ThePrinceofallsayain  I think it was a joke. Shit, it's almost April, I didn't expect any snowflakes.
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  1213. You can have passion without throwing a tantrum and arguing on Twitter about it. If they really care about the challenge, just don't stream it. Anyone can snipe them, it's bizarre to me they would not expect this to happen.
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  1214.  @TravisDoesKayakFishing  Always makes me laugh when clowns like you dig through someone's YT profile and judge them. Go on, tell me what kind of person I am based on my YT profile. How many hours will you waste digging through my playlists I wonder?
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  1215.  @ScaryNda206  They don't chase off thieves because store employees aren't cops. The store doesn't want to pay for a lawsuit because a store employee made a mistake, or because of some stupid law that the thief used to sue the store for injury even if they were in the wrong. Furthermore, no store employee is paid enough to do this. In truth, the thief should be glad this happened. He never had to interact with police. The crime was prevented at minimum cost to society.
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  1216.  @ScaryNda206  It doesn't matter. When insurance pays out for a policy, they increase your premiums because they acknowledge that your risk factor has increased. This is true for any kind of insurance. You, the business owner, end up paying either way. You also lose out on the profit you would have gained from selling the item, because your insurance policy is only going to cover the cost of the item, not the potential profit. It's completely disingenuous to compare an individual as a victim of theft to a corporation as a victim of theft. I won't even justify that with a response. If what you're stating is true, then stores wouldn't be closing all over towns like LA, SF, and DC because of rampant theft. The insurance is paying for all of it, right? Then why are they closing?
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  1217. Funny thing is reading about this story actually gave me a flashback to my childhood. I remember playing Half Life and modded servers back in the day that had profanity filters. I remember getting kicked by admins on those servers and then wondering why the hell they have a profanity filter at all if they're just going to kick you for making everyone read asterisks. This reminds me a lot of that. Blizzard mods are no better than obnoxious server admins from the days of the Internet Wild West.
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  1218.  Ni-dk7ni  Agreed, I don't think anyone in Texas is wishing for an endless summer.
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  1219.  @matthewwilson5019  I believe there was a German(?) pilot who crashed a plane for the same reason. There was also a suicidal mechanic (not licensed to fly) who stole a plane in California and did some stunts before dying, but no one else was on board.
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  1220. "So all of that evidence got to where you were at in the vehicle. Tell me how that got there." "Sir. .... Dude. Nah, bro." ... "OK, you're free to go."
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  1221.  @NickKautz  Guns made in the last 70 or so years simply don't work that way
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  1222.  @oscarrobinsonteddy9847  4096 x 2160 is a very wide resolution. He's saying that she's fat. Jesus.
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  1223.  @CeilingCatlol  Who are the people who really need to touch grass? The ones who realize that people and characters are nuanced, or the people who screech on Twitter until they've convinced themselves that people really do behave like the caricatures they imagined?
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  1224. I think that living your life in the hopes that a benevolent higher being will admit you into the Super Special Cool Kids Club instead of living your life with genuine feelings for other people is very disingenuous, but hey, for some reason "heaven" is always the first thing that's brought up. Gotta chase that carrot.
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  1225. Sounds like the KS-23 but not a shotgun.
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  1226.  @danika9411  ... Yes? Do you honest-to-God think that there is some benevolent being of arbitration up there deciding who has the right to live where? No. The only means through which authority is granted, is violence. Period. It doesn't matter how civilized your society is; rules are backed up by the threat of force. This is not a rule or belief exclusive to people of European descent.
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  1227. IT WAS JUST A JOKE YOU GUYS COME ON JEEZ - the most unfunny group of people in the world
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  1228.  @SuperMontsta  articles are being published about it, maybe you should contact those news outlets if it's such a non-issue. last one i read fog machines were being deployed as an anti theft measure in D.C. grocery stores I think it was. might have been california
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  1229.  @lyricaljesus4078  "Wow, our transgender students sure have mastered levitation quickly!"
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  1230. I've only been laid off, not fired, but each time it was due to executive decisions that weren't going to change any time soon and all I could do was shrug my shoulders and say "your loss." Only one time did I regret having to leave, and it was at my very first job. Liked everyone there, liked my work, they all liked me, but the CTO -- who was fired a month later -- laid me and a bunch of other people off.
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  1231. I'm sorry but at what point do you put the blame on the customer for being overly paranoid and spineless?
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  1232. Yep. It's supposed to help solve the "Who's the father?" problem that "suspicious" women might have. As is seen commonly on American (and British) reality TV.
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  1233. Nah they teach that in Taiwan. They teach the espionage skills needed to steal those secrets in China and India.
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  1234. ​ @Clamflesh "Things are bad already. Why shouldn't they get worse?"
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  1235.  @AMJ600  Then don't stream the challenge if you care that much about completing it. Even casual streamers get trolled playing games like ARK.
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  1236. Just know that this is a controversy that was once again started because a guy said something completely innocuous in regards to a "pride" event and a huge corporation silenced him for it.
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  1237.  @tierlis422  you say this like it's not a big deal but i'm pretty sure people would donate thousands of dollars to a patreon for an animator to make a scene like this nurse scene.
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  1238.  @ApatheticallyClowning  The TwitchCon pit was much worse than this one in my opinion.
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  1239.  @courtneyw6274  You could just... look at the other kids/people in the pool. It's easy to tell how deep it is. I will admit that placing a diving board there is a head scratcher, though.
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  1240.  @sisuguillam5109  The division between "child" and "fetus" is entirely arbitrary and has shifted multiple times in the legalese. Compared to most other animals, humans basically raise their babies as fetuses that should still be in the womb -- that's why most animals can walk when they are born and don't take months to figure out how to do it. I'm not religious, but abortion should be a last resort and I dislike people who pretend that what they're doing is not just another form of culling for the sake of convenience. It's dishonest.
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  1241.  @Gonxp12  It's existed since the dawn of humanity. Why not joke about it? We joke about killing and genocide all the time.
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  1242.  @Queen-ut1dy  Why is that sad? Consider why you posted that comment, for example. Did you think it would somehow change my worldview? No, that would be very stupid -- and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. So logically then, you must have posted this comment, which disagrees with mine, for your own satisfaction. Which means that you also enjoy arguing with random people on the internet.
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  1243.  @KayDejaVu  Oh so you get threatened by a flash mob of keyboard warriors every day? Lmao. Edge lord
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  1244.  @ethang8334  He's obviously trolling, but he's bad at it as he hasn't even done basic research on the topics at hand. Proper trolling like this is done by making a borderline believable statement, also known as skirting Poe's Law.
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  1245.  @baylordiamond8819  I would sooner watch every season of Family Guy than a single season of this show. That's not to say that I like Family Guy by any means. Family Guy actually has jokes even if they are bad.
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  1246.  @darma99  "What a stupid person on this era can not find any information about the proper payment they can get." What "a" stupid person "on this era" thinks that talking to their peers isn't a valid source of information?
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  1247.  @lavishlyvice  It's almost completely different. The only similarities are the idea of RNG attacking and damage
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  1248. I saw Motorhead live when I was 17 at an extremely shitty small indoor venue. My ears rang for 3 days and I still get occasional bouts of tinnitus that last for about 5 to 10 seconds and go away.
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  1249. I got my refund rejected when I pre-ordered Insurgency Sandstorm and they completely went back on their promise to port to Linux.
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  1250.  @rezkel7404  It's just a Japanese thing. Streams are referred to as "lives" in Japanese due to the goofiness of loanwords.
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  1251. ​ @chromiumbook-marx4417 I assumed it would be a research station but I suppose that would be less of a school and more of a career choice
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  1252.  @gabigol52  Well, you work sleepless nights just so you can build something in the hopes that it ultimately gets bought by someone richer than yourself (that's how almost all tech startups end up). Is he wealthy? Sure, so I guess if that's the only measurement you use for success, he isn't a loser.
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  1253. ​ @kelleysnider9536 Yeah it's definitely not the government offering shit pay and archaic working conditions for software engineers
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  1254.  @Syrus_Priest  It's really obvious that the area Goku and Chichi are from are supposed to be a fantasy version of rural China. It'd be like trying to argue that The Shire isn't based on England, or something to that effect. I guess he is an alien, but that didn't really come up in the story until Z and was a bit of a retcon. It was supposed to be a mythological reference originally
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  1255. @0NaiveDreamer0 it's not excusable but at the same time Bethesda hasn't released a good game since New Vegas (or Skyrim if you have shit taste) so if you purchase a Bethesda game at launch in 2023 and don't manually save its impossible to feel any sympathy
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  1256.  @danielmccarten4357  Except that implies that he couldn't have done anything to prevent what happened, and that what he did was somewhat reasonable; that is to say, a reasonable person would have made the same mistake. There are multiple steps that could have been taken so that, even if he wanted to be a drunk idiot on stream and wave a real gun around (which I wouldn't recommend even if you checked that it was unloaded), this would not have happened. The fact that he failed to take any of those steps is sheer negligence.
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  1257.  @gagangomey7799  "STOP! You've violated the law." "Officer, I-" "THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD"
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  1258.  @cakenbake844  Even worse is when they don't mimic it and characters which are supposed to be teenaged girls sound exactly like their 30+ year old voice actresses.
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  1259.  @johns8596  i make six figures, get mad
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  1260. To be fair, reenactment fights like those use blunted steel weapons. LARPs err on the side of safety and they literally bonk each other with foam bats. At the very least, he gets a workout
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  1261.  @junipers-tarot  Very few people want to "be" Sailor Moon. You're no better than the clowns in the 90s claiming D&D is Satanism. You might as well accuse every fiction writer of being a hopeless loser lost in fantasy, because that is what you become when you play tabletop games; an amateur creative writer. Furthermore, it's funny that you place the blame on social activities that bring introverted people together.
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  1262.  @AdrielOutspoken  it kinda doesn't and the supreme court ruled as much during the Vietnam war.
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  1263. "I can't be accused of misogyny!" Ah, I see you haven't been hit with the "internalized misogyny" stick yet.
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  1264.  @RLMUnbelievaaable  You sound like a well adjusted individual
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  1265. It is properly American to hate getting political, but we must also know when to recognize when our rights are being eroded away, and take a stand regardless. In an ideal American government, every elected official is put in office reluctantly.
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  1266. That game's MP beta was hilarious as fuck. I realized that Marines were secretly the most OP. You could melee and stun any alien, even while they were pouncing at you, and shoot them while they were sprawling on the floor like a baby. And then I just spammed the grenade launcher to kill predators. The only way you could die is from the one button stealth kills. Aliens were a total joke in that game's MP, it made me sad since in AVP2 they could jump across the entire map and instant kill you.
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  1267. ​ @georgecostanza9213 Hey George, get back to Festivus and stop spamming comment sections with this cherry picked garbage
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  1268.  @foxgeist3129  I think you mean "I've never seen it be pretty." To your point, when people have equal resources, negotiations boil down to body language, posturing, and games of chicken. Just the same as with two caveman who have nothing, so it is with two world leaders that have everything.
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  1269.  @Rishabh_Bhawsar  You didn't even watch the video.
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  1270. Don't worry, they're saving you from being offended by removing all representation of any idea that might even loosely reference you. Isn't that great?
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  1271.  @seymorefact4333  We tried lassiez-faire in the 18th century. Human greed is not a self-regulating force.
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  1272. "We deserve it because we were oppressed historically." "Okay, is there a budget for reparations? How much money before the oppression is paid off? Who's keeping track of the dinner I'm paying for? This all seems a lot more organized than our patriarchy."
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  1273.  @stevenm11920  On the contrary, acknowledging your illnesses is the only way to work around them. I would still be a reclusive loser if I thought like you suggested about my own problems. Pretending that being overly emotional is some kind of spidey sense superpower is not a good idea.
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  1274.  @hazaonly  Companies will always do this out of caution for their public image. They don't want morons like you to run around saying that Uber hires abusive drivers, even though this guy has a right to protect his property in most US states.
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  1275.  @Kira1Lawliet  1. Stinky lady make bad translation that completely differs from original text 2. Stinky lady explicitly says, multiple times, that her motivations are political, and that anyone interested in a faithful translation is wrong 3. You are now here On a scale of 1 to 10, how difficult was that to understand, do ya think?
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  1276.  @NikolozParulava-j9y  You do realize that he doesn't have all day to talk about this right? That isn't the format that TED allows. If you're actually interested, you have to pretend you're not lazy for a moment and look into the speaker's works where he or she can go into greater detail.
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  1277. Yeah, and I think it will start with the courts in places like Houston trying to penalize people who practice self defense as much as possible
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  1278.  @Captain-Jinn  Stamped metal production requires advanced tooling and manufacturing processes. In other words there's a lot of initial investment and development required to get to all-metal firearms production. That tooling may be sitting around after the war, but it will still require a lot of restoration and a lot of manpower to get up and running. It will also be in limited quantities since nukes were likely directly targeting those kinds of manufacturing facilities. The only factions that seem to have that capability are Gun Runners, NCR, and maybe BoS. NCR not so much since their bureaucracy is shit; Gun Runners have shown themselves to be the definite top dog in post-apocalypse firearms manufacturing. BoS is rather irrelevant since they seem to be dead set on not sharing anything with anyone.
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  1279. Reminds me of Gamespot's 8.8 review for Twilight Princess.
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  1280.  @ryanc9432  Dude... You don't know much about livestreams do you?
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  1281. How new are you to this channel? Why does this have so many likes? 34 clowns who haven't seen another video on this guy's channel, lol.
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  1282. milkywaytoheaven Le epic ruseman :^)
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  1283. Lol the people in this thread dissing the chauchat need to watch Ian's video on the gun, on this very channel
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  1284. +Mirdarion The KAC "Masterkey" system is far cheaper, simpler, and uses already existing designs and parts. It's just an underbarrel Remington 870 that attaches to a standard M16 or M4 type weapon. One less shell capacity, I guess.
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  1285.  @katiegustafson6765  Same here. I thought, "Huh, wasn't expecting toilet humor."
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  1286. she got dem teef kinda cute though, seems sincere
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  1287. TAKE THIS! MY LOVE, MY HOPE, AND ALL OF MY SORROW!
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  1288.  @notbilly5962  It goes much further than most people think. Back when the Bill of Rights was being written, some landowners including some of the Founding Fathers owned straight-up warships with dozens of cannons. The best-equipped regiments from the Revolutionary War were commissioned and privately owned by landowners. If the 2A was in the spirit it was back then, you'd see Congressmen and business owners with their own company of mercenaries and the occasional Abrams tank or warship. There would probably be some obnoxious asshole that owns an aircraft carrier just because he could.
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  1289. If you're only interested in their bodies, sure that's sound advice. Good luck raising kids with the type of woman who chases bad boys though. The problem with PUAs is they teach you how to get laid with, frankly, trashy women. If this is fine with you, fine. Just know that there are women who actually deserve to be mothers out there. One of them might have even raised you.
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  1290.  @axt2  he means that previous from soft games were bad with frame limiting. their PC tech has definitely gotten way better over the years. their first PC game was the Dark Souls port which was made due to a petition and barely had any features that you'd expect, like working M+KB controls for example.
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  1291.  @IrenHawx  It really wasn't that impressive even for its time. It was just extremely well marketed. Objectively, nothing that Skyrim did was particularly new or revolutionary for the RPG genre. The skill progression system has been unchanged since Daggerfall, minus the really bare bones perk system. Combat had already been done better in games like Mount & Blade and those other games also didn't feature the weird clunky canned kill animation mechanic that can cause you to suddenly die at 50% HP with no chance to dodge or block. It wasn't even really different from Oblivion. From a technical perspective the game needed to be hacked by modders to be a 64-bit executable so it could support more than 4 gigs of RAM. Honestly I'm amazed that even 12 years later, people still hold this reverence for Skyrim like it was something groundbreaking and the marketing still hasn't worn off yet.
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  1292. Sometimes the fat just needs new places to go.
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  1293. They just ask the same stupid question until they get the response they want and say "LOLOLOL AI IS SO BIGOTED/RACIST" even if it's one out of ten responses it gave.
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  1294. I have, and lost, but luckily I was home alone at the time.
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  1295. I'll pretend that I learned something amid all that Kanji and Chinese.
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  1296. This is how government generates jobs. Government jobs are a staple in Japan, many people rely on them.
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  1297. He's like a flickering old TV. Sometimes there's clarity but usually it's just noise.
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  1298.  @crossfire4691  That's not normal boycotting. Tesla isn't literally making royalties off of Uber rides. That would be an insane contract
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  1299. They also invented hunting via forest fires. Not exactly renewable and sustainable, but it does work.
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  1300.  @Lord-Farquad9  His point is that hot casings are not that goddamned painful. Bee and wasp stings are worse. I've been electrocuted by a common outlet in my own home, that was much more painful.
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  1301.  @4321user-_  In my view small talk does not include detailed conversations about anything, even sports. Establishing a common interest is usually my go to for making friends. I don't think it requires trust in a stranger to talk about something that is not directly related to either of your personal lives, even if it is in depth. For example, an in depth conversation about military history. Of course, the tricky part is getting there without launching into a lecture when the other person isn't interested, but I like to think I've gotten decent at that (because I notice immediately when others do it to me).
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  1302. Nintendo are one of the few companies to break the mold on this. The other studios you listed, listen to what investors want them to make for sustainable revenue. Nintendo, for better or worse, believes that they know better because they are the game design professionals. Basically they say "shut up and sit down, we'll show you how to make money in this industry." The only exception is Pokemon which is caught up in a triple-joint ownership fiasco. Nintendo will nickel and dime you, but not through DLC content addons or MTX; they do it through dumb shit like Amiibo or "limited run" game releases like the SM64 bundle that run on FOMO/collector's value. The problem boils down to the fact that investors don't care that games are good, they want returns on their investment. Investment strategy dictates the best way to do that is consistent streams of revenue, which has never really been compatible with a good game development cycle. No one is going to wait 5 years and hope you produce a masterpiece; that's just idiotic investing. As obnoxious as Nintendo is sometimes, I wish more people would adopt their mindset and confidence.
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  1303. This is why group Discords are utter fucking cancer. Just a cesspit where losers try to throw weight around and manipulate people in DMs and shit.
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  1304.  @raemeijer  Glad I went with a Lennox AC when I replaced it earlier last year.
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  1305.  @ElessarFrey  You can find fair skinned people even in India; that was the seed of the "Aryan" people argument used by Nazi thinkers. However it is irrational to judge an entire nation or ethnicity of people based on a minority, who were seen as nobility in the distant past. That would be similar to saying all English people are actually French.
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  1306.  @andresanguianozuniga6798  They aren't universal by any means. Every human right had to be fought for, or forced upon someone by a foreign power. Slavery still isn't universally abolished. The fact that you're watching Uganda do this, right now, proves that treating people of differing sexual orientations equally isn't universal. It's not a thing in Russia either. I don't know what you mean by "universal" but it doesn't make any sense in any way I've used the word.
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  1307.  @justaguyperson  He's obviously trolling. Even MG42s don't weigh that much and there was no practical way to use those without setting it up on a surface.
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  1308.  @fyiicheckforspies  It would have happened anyway. Asking Sony and Nintendo to compete independently with AMD and Nvidia to create GPUs only gets more ridiculous as time goes on. Once the graphics APIs are all unified, there's not much of a point in having a unique CPU architecture. The reason why consoles used to be the cutting edge in gaming was because nobody cared enough to make good gaming hardware for PCs.
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  1309. This guy is reviewing clips of shows he's never watched. I did watch MLP back in college (I like animation and my friend kept insisting that I watch it). Got through 2 seasons before I got tired of it, and became aware that Lauren Faust was producing it. She is the wife of Craig McCracken who made such classics as Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls. In short the whole show felt nostalgic, it reminded me of the shows from my childhood. However it is unabashedly a show for girls and like 80% of the characters in the show are girls. But when Faust agreed to make it, she said she wanted to make a cartoon for girls that doesn't suck. I didn't watch this far into the show, but I'd be extremely surprised if there was a same sex relationship there. There are other episodes where the main characters have sleepovers and it's definitely not implied that they scissored or something. Just because they live in the same house doesn't mean they're automatically lesbians. There is virtually no romance in the show at all except for a couple of one off plots between side characters and they're all heterosexual. There is also a nearly explicitly anti-Communist episode.
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  1310. He only won by .2 seconds. That's pathetic.
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  1311. Seen plenty of warnings as a man. I was riding in a car with two of my friends when we got pulled over because the driver swerved into a lane right in front of the cop. The driver was obsessing over Inception which we had just seen and was not focusing. He let us off with a warning, we were all in high school. In college we got pulled over on the way to the bowling alley just because we were in college and the car was full. He wanted to make sure we weren't drunk but pretended it was because there was a problem with our headlight. Let us go no problem. Campus cops tend to be giant douchebags. Most of them are actually private security contractors.
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  1312.  @fractal_mind562  "Own" is just a legal term. You've obviously never taken care of a dog and you're extrapolating how most dog owners feel based purely on semantics. Not exactly a good idea. Try talking to some people you disagree with sometime, it will help you gain perspective.
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  1313. Why would you want a teenager doing firearm sports to use a pistol instead of a long gun, when their arms and wrists aren't well developed yet? Why offer a carry permit if it becomes illegal the moment you walk off a street into your destination? Even when you're a cop off the clock? None of these policies make sense. They are designed to confuse and confound the private citizen.
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  1314. In the software sector, its standard to have at least one meeting every week to go over what you've been working on and what you plan to get done. Some companies do it every day for a much shorter time.
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  1315.  @bax2603  It baffles me as well. Best I can guess is that there are too many ignorant people who get a pet because their friends have one, or because it is popular here, and realize that they are not made for it, at all. Then they're too lazy to find a new home for it.
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  1316.  @skydivenext  That would be a waste of money. You have to put money in for it to get to the point where the plaintiff and defendant need to show up for a hearing.
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  1317. In fairness, I think his tunneling company is going nowhere at this point. But Starlink is going to be one of the biggest boons to humanity.
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  1318.  @christiansilvermoon  This is disingenuous. I love Linux, but from my experience the decisions that developers make for file locations is completely arbitrary bullshit. For example, not all (I'd venture to say most, especially in the case of user software) binaries are stored in /bin. Many are stored in /usr/bin. Or /usr/local/bin. Or /home/username/local/share... you get the picture. Of course, this is a problem that is easily solved with the "which" command, which tells you where a file is being executed by a given command in the terminal. But all I see are people praising the file structure of modern Linux, which is a mess created by many independent thinkers lacking any form of standards. Which is ironic given how old this structure is. Even worse advocates simply reply with "stop using bad software," which is only marginally less obnoxious than posting "works on my machine." You could easily say "stop writing bad software" as well. Windows suffers because Microsoft refuses to touch the poop that is the ancient foundation of much of its necessary software and inner workings, and refuse to support alternative desktop environments while constantly changing their own. Linux suffers because there are too many cooks in the kitchen with way too big egos.
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  1319. Honestly while I'm glad there is more awareness of porn addiction and a conscious effort to stop it, it's more a meme than anything and the idea that you should "only" abstain for the month of November is stupid. You don't quit any addiction by allowing yourself to believe it's okay to go back to it after a break.
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  1320. People who pamper their grass to the point it isn't meant to be walked on are insufferable.
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  1321.  @gimcrack555  There is a giant light-up display over the bridge now that says "OVERHEIGHT, MUST TURN" when sensors see that there is an approaching vehicle with too much height. They still ram into it. The idea that they would simply not go on that road because the city told them not to seems absurd to me.
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  1322.  @jweezy5490  I'm not talking about immersion or AR, I'm talking about modern app design, namely social apps. The problem with social apps is that the developers' incentive is not to create "the best app" but to create the app which prolongs engagement from the user for the longest, i.e. encourages addiction, and to make money by harvesting information when they can. Nobody demands these things, they're brainstormed in board meetings between developers and behavioral psychologists.
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  1323. Yeah, this is in no way a controversial statement for men to make. The fact that she is shocked (or feigns shock) that someone would comment this shows she severely lacks perspective.
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  1324. Every other industry ever : Who the hell would buy a product before it's even available? That's absurd. Video games : Pay 70 bucks now and you'll get the game plus a clown costume FOR FREE in a year! Oops, I mean a year and a half. Oops, I mean 2 years. Heh, Covid, you know.
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  1325. Reusing containers like that is often a bad idea. A cheap container like one that might be used for sour cream isn't microwave safe. It will almost certainly warp in the microwave or a dishwasher. Your average consumer basically needs to be a material scientist to make this doctrine work, unless it's something obviously reusable like metal.
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  1326.  @different_stuff  Except that the "Axiom of Sky is Blue" wasn't really something you fully grasped until high school or even college, but you forgot about that because you've been teaching math for 10 years
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  1327. He implied, quite strongly, that they kinda do in his monologue. It's been an open secret for at least 3 decades.
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  1328.  @PurpleFireDrago2417  I have so much ammo in my stash, shit's heavy. Just found a Guardian suit and it's heavy enough such that I'm only going to run one primary gun now.
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  1329. Hand to hand combat is always possible and sometimes necessary. If someone grabs you or tries to push you suddenly for example, you can't respond to that with a firearm unless it's already drawn. I believe police studies have shown that you need to be at least 7 or 8 feet away in circumstances where an attacker intends to harm you (not the idiot in this video who apparently thought he could just bully the firearm user). Defensive training is key here, you should learn to defend against punches and possibly use that momentum against them to throw them off balance. Then you can draw.
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  1330.  @Dante02d12  I think this game might be the internet's new YIIK: A Post Modern RPG. In that it is a painfully politically charged game that will likely be played by streamers purely so everyone can laugh at how bad it is.
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  1331.  @oliverseiler2871  Most of them weren't software engineers though. They were managers and "content moderators." In other words, useless.
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  1332.  @AllenAndMarie  And yet you had the time to write this comment. Being proud of ignorance is the behavior of lesser people. Don't let it infect your psyche.
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  1333.  @YTCensorshipFindTheCure  Anime has existed for roughly 60-70 years.
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  1334. ​ @Freezerburn137 They're clearly dressing up as different characters Tom Hanks has played. Jesus, you must be blinder than me, and I'm so fucking blind that I made my username around it.
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  1335. Quick question for you guys. If I shake your hand, what legal policy exists to differentiate that from a tap on the shoulder, and how would I explain to a cop that I wasn't harassing him? If we're going to say that a simple touch is harassment. I could create a whole new epic YouTube pranking channel about baiting people to shake my hand and calling the cops on them. Just food for thought in regards to calling the cops on someone who taps your shoulder.
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  1336.  @Teckyyy  No one said it was dead, it's significant enough that a streamer girl fan game has twice the number of players of OW2
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  1337.  @buddyels  Anything to assuage that "I'm not living in the #1 GDP nation" insecurity apparently.
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  1338.  @wtflawlbags  Most races ARE still racist. Ask a Japanese person how they feel about other east Asians, or even better, the opposite way around. Funnily enough, white people are some of the only whose schools actually try to teach them to not judge other people by their racial background. It's arrogant to believe that you aren't racist or that anyone isn't racist to some degree, and it's delusional to believe that our biases aren't framed by the last couple hundred years of history. Go back to 1350 and ask an English person how they feel about the French. Go back to 400 and ask a Roman how they feel about the Gauls. Yet none of those biases exist now. Does that mean we're better, as humans? No, of course not. Nothing has changed except the things we manufacture. The only thing approaching a solution I can think of is to genetically converge all people into a strain of DNA that is suited for space colonization and to spread out into the stars. Then we can go back to war and racism in a few hundred years once we have disparate space colonies and hate each other for our adapted slightly-alien differences.
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  1339.  @GoldKingsMan  I only did research online, but from what I could gather from a UK police website, the only fully legal self-defense item is a rape alarm. Any spray that can cause harm to someone is in a legal gray area until a precedent is set in a court case involving it, or there is some study on it.
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  1340.  @carnivoreisvegan  He knows American Sign Language. I'll leave it to you to understand the significance of that first word.
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  1341. ​@peterc3262 It doesn't until you understand that many creatives are so radicalized and trapped in a bubble that they see something they don't like, and believe that it is so outrageous as-is that it does not need any exaggeration or "spin" for the audience to get the message. When Verhoeven sees the scene with the kids holding the rifle with the soldiers he sees "horrible Fascism," when Americans who know anything about their own military see it, they shrug and think of the ROTC.
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  1342.  @pda7819  "Corporate ownership of government district good. Me like corporation! Me like Mickey Mouse!"
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  1343. He effectively admitted guilt when he said "I'm sick, I need help." He is heavily implying he is a pedophile. Also by statistics, almost all criminals break down and confess once it gets down to legal proceedings. The cops are correct to arrest this guy.
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  1344. As a guy who's been mostly aloof to social cues my entire life, I've found that if you remain clueless/unfazed by this kind of stuff, and the person stops doing it later, it means they were just being a prick and trying to manipulate you. If they don't, it means it's how they normally act and bond with people.
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  1345. Isn't he some kind of racing games specialist? I may be thinking about a different terrible games journalist. Although even if he were, I doubt he's any good at those games as well. The amazing part is that he's extremely experienced and even respected -- at least, by other journos.
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  1346. You can't copyright the damn dice you use in a game. There are hundreds of d20 systems out there, most legally distinct enough to not be included in the old OGL.
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  1347.  @gags730  It only takes one time buckaroo.
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  1348.  @reJECT0  Honestly the fact that this game has no quest journal is infuriating at times. It was hard enough in the previous Souls games, but NPC quests were few and far between in those games and generally you don't need to do much except explore each area thoroughly to advance them. This is fairly easy since the game is mostly linear with a couple of branching paths. In this game I can be on several NPC quests at the same time and I'll be damned if I know where I'm at on any of them at any time. From Soft is definitely stuck in their ways a bit, it's baffling to me that they'd make an open world game like this without considering some of these basic problems that never really existed in the genre (Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall, one of the first open world games, had a quest journal).
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  1349.  @watchingforfuncarroll6450  For Godrick's rune, absolutely. You get +5 to all stats which means you get roughly 100 extra HP and something like 15 more FP, higher resistances, damage, etc. Plus the Rune Arc gives you an HP buff regardless of whether you have an active rune or not. I have not activated any other runes yet, trying to figure out if they're worth it or not myself.
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  1350.  @kejadventures241  i lived underneath a family of 5 for well over a year and i never got nearly as ass blasted as this guy, get over it and try not to be so angry all the time.
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  1351.  @Barni2212  It kind of is, man, life is really all in the mind and exercise is a process that releases happy drugs in your brain. Totally natural and free of charge. Well, except for the gym membership. It starts with your mind and that means good sleep, exercise, get a pet if that makes you happy and gives you purpose. People like you underrate mental health
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  1352.  @mr.halloween3371  I wouldn't say "almost..." the trial made her look like a laughingstock. I'm quite positive that many people who disliked Depp for his takes prior were on his side at that point.
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  1353. Sadly the French are known for this kind of stuff, foie gras is also filled with suffering.
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  1354.  @AKULA689  That's why you should only carry concealed, and only use it if you or your loved ones are immediately threatened
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  1355.  @coolman3074  The point is that abandoning the Monroe Doctrine was a mistake
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  1356. Piers doesn't actually have principles. His political "allegiance' changes with the wind and he says whatever he think will get him the most views. I'm sure you'll go back to hating him in a year if not less.
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  1357. There's a veterinarians office near me that's staffed by only women and they seem to do a fine job.
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  1358.  @daniel-zh9nj6yn6y  Communism really has nothing to do with it. Marx did not even write his manifesto until after Nietzsche wrote his essays. It's an idea that won't ever be implemented correctly because there is no good decision mechanism to separate "people who want direction" from "people who are ambitious." But the division is abundantly clear to me. Why else do people consistently vote for a party that gives them welfare instead of opportunity? Because they do not care about opportunity, they just want to coast along in life.
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  1359.  @TheWellplayed  Trader Joe is obviously fake though, because if you go into the store you'll find that the name changes to suit a stereotypical name of the style of the cuisine being sold. i.e., "Trader Jose" for Mexican food
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  1360.  @AdZS848  Did you watch the video at all before commenting?
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  1361. I couldn't even wrap my head around the cyclical irony if I were presented with a question that read "Do you consider democracy to be the most important issue for this election season?" as I was exiting the polling booth for a federal election.
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  1362. Also I fear for the intellectual integrity of any person who "trusts their local officials."
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  1363. Disney began adapting public domain fairy tales, but ironically came to be one of the most anti-public domain copyright fiends of all time.
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  1364. I know it's become "trendy," even "cliche" for women to accuse their (former) employers of sexual harassment but much of this aligns with Linus' own admitted business practices, unfortunately. Namely the part about working his people to the bone and not caring about accuracy or standards; it makes the point about sick days seem much more believable.
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  1365. That was my sentiment as well. I played the game for like 2 weeks solid, still playing it on occasion but most of my friends have stopped on the server. It's a frickin alpha, not like I expected billions of hours of content. But I did enjoy playing it and will come back to check updates
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  1366. Yeah, let's just assume that nothing will ever go wrong. No equipment failures or anything like that. That never happens right?
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  1367. Worst case scenario is that you use the shovel as a lever to pull up the sheet. It's obvious that this would help a lot even if the snow is heavy.
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  1368. If you think that's bad, remember that 50 Shades of Grey was one of the most popular romance novels of all time among women
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  1369.  @jedihunter176  NOW WITH SQUIDWARD AS THE SPOKESMAN!
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  1370. When I read that post from his former sub, my eyes rolled back into my skull so far that I'm now looking at my brain and I can't do anything. Send help.
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  1371.  @Gankstomper  She avoided defining her stance on abortion whereas Trump clearly stated it, again, to clear up the lie that he would advocate for a federal abortion ban, repeated many times in the past.
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  1372.  @theimmortalgrenadier3851  That argument goes both ways. If you ask to meet up in person, you're just as likely to be a fed.
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  1373. "If we're talking about CCW holders, obviously a law abiding citizen is not going to risk breaking the law and losing their CCW to carry a weapon in a gun free zone." Incorrect, I do so all the time because I care about my life and those of people I care about more than the law. Laws have no inherent virtue. It is only just to disobey tyrannical laws. Furthermore, most of the time those types of policies are not criminal but civil violations. The owner of the business, if he discovers you are armed, can have you removed from the premises. That's about all they can do.
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  1374. The groans from the parents at the party when he picked up the gun sent me. "Really?" Indeed, what a disappointment.
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  1375. There is the interesting point that "Sturmgewehr" was supposedly originally a propaganda term coined by Hitler himself, but it has come to be a legitimate term that has specific rules
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  1376. They did say "woman" at the beginning of the segment.
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  1377.  @justinwebb3311  It's hard to imagine how you fail to grasp this argument so badly. Not a single person in the school was armed, hence why so many kids died. The police stood there and did nothing, thus shirking their duty, which I would hope you'd agree doesn't make them good men. Therefore, it's plainly obvious that a private citizen with a gun inside the school would have done more than the cops did in this scenario. And then, despite this obviously egregious shirking of duty by local law enforcement, you're going to tell me to trust them and give away my guns as a lawful citizen who has never fired them out of anger, trusting that next time, they'll definitely do the right thing. Definitely. Does that make sense to you yet? 'Cause I must admit I'm struggling.
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  1378.  @realbaconoverlord  she... literally offered to still pay, no need to involve government-approved thugs with guns just because you think some lady took your candy
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  1379.  @connorgregory3986  The part I always get confused with religious parents who believe they're protecting them from topics like this, is how they think they're so omnipotent they know what their child is learning/who they are talking to at every given moment. You're just setting up the opportunity for them to learn something stupid from an unknown source by not teaching them yourself. It's the same thing with the idiotic abstinence policy sex ed we have here in the southern US. In high school our health ed class on sex was basically "Look at these disgusting photos of STD victims, don't have sex it's scary." And yet somehow our state is known for having the most teenage pregnancies. Teaching everyone that condoms aren't effective -- so don't have sex -- was clearly a great idea.
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  1380. He'll probably give you free product if you're a first timer.
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  1381. @benhurn8277 I can guarantee you that without a dog's love, millions would have already taken their own lives in times of weakness. This is nothing but a cruel twist of fate.
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  1382.  @juliuscaesar5593  I don't think it's pride necessarily, but it sounds like for both of them that crime was a way to escape an even shittier situation. In that perspective, the criminal life was indeed a good time in their life, because the alternative would have been worse.
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  1383. Racially segregated charity? Lol.
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  1384. He made one of the most popular RL livestreamers in Japan cry.
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  1385. That necklace is one of the tackiest things I've ever seen. Is she wearing it to say she's a lefty, because it points to her left? I swear, only women can get away with wearing stuff that looks this ridiculous in a formal or serious setting.
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  1386. D&D madness is still so insane to me. Imagine a world where your kid could get caught up in gangs, petty crime, drugs, and you're fucking angry that your kid decided to join what is effectively a creative writing and theater club that also practices math. Literally every scholastic topic can be covered with a D&D group.
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  1387.  @snailthelostcow63  You realize that all of their rankings are "personal favorites" right? There is no objective ranking of any media.
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  1388. People think that medieval working class food was bland -- and it was, to our palate. But local spices were available. Garlic was considered vulgar by the upper class at one point because it is so common. To them it was fine because palates are relative. Spices were just yet another way for rich people to show off.
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  1389. There are a significant number of clones that surpass the original, mostly because the original devs got caught up in their success or simply dropped off the face of the earth for some reason. Another great example is Escape from Tarkov and virtually every other extraction shooter. Now I haven't actually played EFT, but that's because everyone who does only speaks negatively about it and almost every video I see about it is negative. That, and I don't find the idea of messing with my inventory for 30 minutes only to die after 10 minutes very appealing. STALKER: GAMMA is basically a single player Escape from Tarkov with a lot more interesting stuff going for it PUBG and most other battle royale games are in a similar situation. When less harsh and unforgiving BR games appeared, people stopped playing PUBG.
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  1390. ​ @koncepttheking4071 More like when all the sane people leave only crazies will be left. Just look at CA
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  1391. No background checks? Lmao
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  1392. @W Toka Wow, brilliant distinction there. Except police don't patrol private roadways. "Try again."
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  1393.  @Unfortunately_Mickey  Your story is highly ironic, considering that society is waking up to the massive waste of money spent on 4-year degrees. I'm a software engineer myself and I would say that the meaningful parts of my education could have fit in half the time I spent at college or less. A lovely fairy tale, regardless.
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  1394. Get a load of the guy who goes on vacation to eat like a Buddhist monk. Lmfao
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  1395.  @paraplegicnecromancer4180  If you think that hating on Asian culture from the outside is going to change anything, you are completely idiotic. Japanese people especially would laugh heartily at you. Imagine if someone who eats Japanese street food someone started criticizing your eating habits, you wouldn't take it seriously at all. That's exactly how it will go for you.
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  1396. ​ @thebarbershop6693  Not really. Step one is not letting any old Juan, Diego and Carlos into the nation.
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  1397. My mother is a very experienced teller. The only reason she never got promoted is because she does not want the extra hours and responsibility, because my father also works. She sees incompetence and poor procedure all the time among her coworkers, and she works for one of the biggest banks in the world (let alone the nation). I'm not surprised to see it happening at an independent credit union.
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  1398.  @stop--  I've only seen one pit bull attack, but it had no warnings at all. He went straight for the throat of the family dog. Luckily the family dog was a very nimble Weimaraner so he simply stood up and curled his neck away from him. However, usually pit bulls do not attack people.
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  1399.  @gavinhudson5251  It's the same thing, but without the cream. I used to drink them in college because White Russians fill you up with the heavy cream. I don't know how The Dude does it.
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  1400.  V. P. N  In Texas the law follows castle doctrine which means you have the right to be free of threats in a bare minimum of three places and have no duty to retreat: your home, your vehicle, and your place of employment. These are the bare minimum needed to live. The employees had no duty to run away or wait for the police. So yes, actually, it did give them the right.
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  1401.  @Guciom  >he thinks the movie matters and that the director didn't hate Heinlein
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  1402. @Rurike I'm not from the UK, but I know a guy who lived the rough life there. You have options. Make your own pepper spray (it can literally be made from peppers) or use a blunt instrument. The guy in question had a wooden katana.
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  1403.  @kyotra  Overblown and nonexistent are not the same. There are simply no guns to go around for those crimes in Japan; they don't exist. There have been school rampages in Japan, but they involve knives or other implements. And, by the numbers, they are fewer in number. Making the argument that "there is crime, but it isn't reported" is pointless because none of us can prove it. It's like trying to argue in court that "I didn't commit that crime, Your Honor. It was an alien who cloned my appearance." There also isn't gang warfare involving drive-bys or other shootouts. Being pro-gun doesn't mean ignoring crime that actually exists. It means acknowledging that the cat is out of the bag and that we aren't going to get rid of almost 600 million guns by simply making them illegal. Don't be a moron. Better yet, don't be a politician.
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  1404.  @Pinkgobi  I see people discuss lactose intolerance all the time. I've actually known two people who are lactose intolerant. Not sure if I've ever heard of someone with a proper milk allergy. I've never known someone, or even heard of someone, who was allergic to eggs though. I do know one person who developed a disgust reflex to eggs and can't even bear the smell without getting queasy. I empathize with that; I developed a similar reaction to whiskey after almost dying from it the first time I got seriously drunk. Nut allergies were the top concern when I was in grade school. Teachers and cafeteria staff were sure to ask about peanut allergies all the time.
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  1405. You really shouldn't be so arrogant, you'll find it very difficult to talk to anyone else about your beliefs without them immediately thinking you're obnoxious. Like I did just now. Even if you believe that God is holier than terms like "religion," there's this thing called "being polite" where you keep your opinions to yourself when it's obvious you'll put off the other person.
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  1406.  @danielthecake8617  how to write a comment that is impossible to take seriously
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  1407.  @poollife777  It's good that you care so much about the truth. So much, in fact, that you're not going to share any of this research with us, because your superior brain has decided what to think for us. Thanks, poollife777!
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  1408. "honey wouldn't you rather see a movie about a princess who has a different skin color" "what?"
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  1409.  @zerotodona1495  if I'm not mistaken, it was a confederate battle flag. it wasn't representative of a confederate state or authority but it was a flag used by the confederacy in battle. honestly, the confederacy was pants-on-head retarded in multiple ways so I have a really hard time empathizing with anyone that wants to fly that flag. the gadsden flag is as much a rebel flag as the confederate battle flag so why not use the one that wasn't representative of a war waged by rich plantation owners?
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  1410. The worst is when I place a take out order and they just hand me my food. I'd tip the kitchen staff if the food was good, but they give no opportunity to do that. If the business is losing money because too many people order take out and don't tip, then time to change your business model, because your serving staff isn't doing very much and is losing you money.
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  1411. They have people from Microsoft/Xbox in the C-level executives now. They think that their brand recognition is high, but they're not squeezing enough money out of the fans. Basically, they vastly overestimate how many people will put money down on a hobby like this. Sure, D&D is a very recognizable name, but the people who actually read the books, put pen to paper and roleplay characters? Vanishingly few by comparison. It is still a niche hobby just like it has always been. They think D&D is like a video game where everyone who wants to play the game can be made to pay.
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  1412.  @ezioauditore3128  Here's the thing though, it is a fact of life. Conservatives tend to talk pragmatically and progressives tend to talk in ideals; "what should be" vs. "what is." The reason a dowry exists is because the family giving away their daughter to be wed feels like they need to give a gift as compensation. That's the degree to which women are seen as property. In reality the relationship is more complicated than that, but both members of a marriage have some degree of "ownership" over the other. Otherwise there would be no commitment and no point in marriage. Promiscuous dudes are just as bad as promiscuous women if not worse. I've met quite a few, they tend to think all women are worthless and they never have relationships that last longer than a year, because whether they realize it or not they only tend to attract women with low self-esteem or other problems, then complain about how "all" women have those problems. Conservatives hold standards for men too, but when they're attacked they single out their standards for women to make them look misogynist. I don't know Tate's history; if he's a typical PUA type then he's a hypocrite. I've seen the "conservative PUA" type and they're all hypocrites. But it is a fact that marriage is an act of giving each other ownership over the other.
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  1413.  @99Pierogies  Actually I don't understand those complaints at all. Act 2 was easily the shortest Act with the least content. Both Act 1 and 3 have parallel underworld maps (Act 1 has Underdark, Act 3 has Sewers) that make the game map seem twice as big as it actually is, but Act 2 doesn't. Act 3 is so insanely content-dense that the most frustrating thing is deciding when you want to finish the game. The encounters are epic and well-designed. I just don't get where the "Act 3 seems rushed and unfinished" complaints come from, maybe it's the very ending sequence? Especially since nobody mentions Act 2. It sounds like you're maybe just parroting some criticism from release? Hard to say since I didn't get to Act 3 until a few patches were out, but I don't understand how people got to Act 3 so fast anyway. They must have rushed through the game.
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  1414.  @poika22  They don't have to make the model though. They can buy the model, software and equipment and do it that way. In fact it would be way, way easier for them because they would never have to put on makeup or anything else weird like worry about accidentally farting on stream and ruining the mood. These thots in particular are just too narrow minded to realize this is actually going to make life easier for them.
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  1415. I get literally nothing but Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact ads, despite never playing any mobile game or watching videos about mobile games, ever.
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  1416. ​ @blaqmermaiid I have seen stray pits do this, except even faster and more vicious.
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  1417. Assault and battery are combined into one charge in some states
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  1418.  @info0  I used to fuck around with Proton and Wine trying to get games to work. It was kind of fun for a while, but after some months I got sick of it. If one has the money, it saves a ton of time to just put the GPU and CPU inside a Windows gaming PC that is silo'd off from everything else, and buy cheap hardware for your other PC. Personally I haven't seen any of those GameGuard issues, but it would indeed be ideal if we didn't have such intrusive anti-cheat measures which inevitably don't work anyway if the cheaters are dedicated enough.
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  1419.  @ChrisChris-np4wn  real talk, how the fuck do you pick up chicks in a library? "hey baby, read any good books lately?" "not when you're flirting with me while i'm trying to read"
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  1420. But did any of the girls even realize that Sonic doesn't have blue arms?
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  1421.  @GandalftheWise  A wizard is never late. He simps precisely when he means to.
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  1422.  @jeffw1267  yeah, what she really means is "they're willing to do the work for illegal compensation because they're already here illegally"
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  1423.  @User-bg7qf  Eventually, you have to admit that the multinational company, owned by an even bigger multinational company, bears some responsibility due to the sheer volume of resources at their disposal. Don't be a shill, folks.
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  1424. It has a surprisingly decent interface for being a Chinese knock off of Fortnite. I like that the ammo, HP, and item status are all in one spot, readable and yet compact at the same time.
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  1425.  @toomanymarys7355  I don't understand how you could spin watching videos about women that you fawn over because you are lonely as a healthy activity. By the same slippery slope logic that you'd use to say that porn addiction leads to unrealistic expectations of the female body, that sort of "interaction" leads to simping.
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  1426.  @IchbinX  Yeah... it's also extremely biased so any satire it has kinda falls flat.
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  1427.  @Lickicker  Tell him to give it a shot, pun intended. He's old, right? He has nothing to lose.
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  1428.  @fictitiousnightmares  try using your brain for a moment, if you live in a shitty apartment in florida (almost all apartments in america are shitty) surrounded with drywall you will have noise. that's just the way it is. if you hate it, work harder so you can move instead of blaming your neighbors who are just trying to have a family. sucks to suck
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  1429.  @SB-yw4qo  Living beings are fundamentally allowed the right to reproduce. Otherwise, living is arguably meaningless. "Too poor to have children" is simply not a thing, and in fact, the poorer you are, the more likely the government is to subsidize your children. On the other hand, being free of noise is a luxury, especially in a bad neighborhood.
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  1430. Germany is smaller than Texas. They also invented the street car. While yes, auto makers do sometimes conspire to prevent public transit from developing, it still helps to try using your brain before commenting on infrastructure issues like this. Public transit still tends to win out in the end if enough people want it, as it finally has in Dallas. They're renovating the old Cotton Belt rail line like the transit authority wanted to 50 years ago originally, but it was lobbied against by auto makers and those making money off of tollways. Public transit in Dallas was already pretty decent before that -- the new line mostly serves the more well-to-do areas of Dallas in the northern part.
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  1431.  @Windowsfan100  Most cities in the US do have functioning public transit. There are some exceptions, like Houston which is laughably bad. However, Houston is laughably bad in general. The average distance between towns in a nation with ~1200 years of history like Germany is a few kilometers. The average distance between towns in the US is closer to 15 miles and that's assuming that you are in a metroplex going to a suburb. If you're out in the country, it's worse. So yes, it does make a difference, especially when you're asking for transit to "neighboring towns."
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  1432. ​ @darthvader822 genuine question, how the fuck do you not know the difference between a few changes to a film adaptation, and an awful story created from whole cloth
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  1433.  @p0358  Not excusing the bad manners but sadly this seems to just be the way things are done in India. It seems like people treat each other much more hierarchically on the job over there from my experience working with offshore teams. It's very counter-productive at times because they'll stay silent when they need to speak up, and so on.
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  1434.  @Songfugel  I couldn't even remember that auto pause thing being an option honestly, but it's been ages since I played the originals. It's nice that the Pathfinder games offered that, and then they went out of their way to add real turn-based mode, with a good UI that tracks your action economy.
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  1435.  @Mal101M  100 year old ammo isn't going to work that well. I guarantee you the ammo manufactured at the time is not the reason, but there are plenty of weapons lying around.
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  1436.  @javierflores09  Really? You're going to suggest that the CoC clearly states that you can't use the word "Question" as a noun because someone might interpret it as some kind of hilariously oblique Nazi dog whistle?
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  1437.  @javierflores09  How convenient for you that you get to spout vague platitudes that make you look good while avoiding the actual issue at hand.
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  1438. It's always the dumbest genital/toilet humor but packaged and delivered in such a creative way that you can't help but laugh.
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  1439. Kind of our modern nation in a nutshell really, crazies in the population and total incompetence in government
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  1440.  @NickKautz  Fun fact: Triggers don't pull themselves.
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  1441.  @ITI-xi5zx  Some people believe that Italian pasta (namely spaghetti and lasagna) are better as left-overs. Possibly because the noodles change texture, or marinate in the sauce for longer
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  1442. He's right but the problem is he's talking about a majority of women, not a supermajority or all of women. So, basically, if you only want to get laid or are compatible with very basic people, you'll be fine. If you're a weirdo or you want someone who will actually take care of your kids this is generally bad advice.
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  1443.  @fuerstmetternich1997  slavery and the military pension program made Rome weak. allowing people you've just conquered or recently freed from your own enslavement to rise to the rank of general in your military and then get fat swathes of land was not a good idea in hindsight. the aristocracy was also decadent and impotent before Christianity entered the picture
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  1444.  @Soap.--  "german Healthcare is one of the best." Yeah... my German family would disagree with you on that one. You get what you pay for.
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  1445. ​ @John_Souls The poorest families still can relate to this experience. It has nothing to do with wealth and everything to do with having a loving family. Most would simply call that a blessing and not being spoiled.
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  1446. @Kainthalas Yes, the incredibly thirsty people who run Twitch are always correct and their algorithm would be never wrong. Praise the Algorithm! Gather the mecha-cherubs so they may sing hymns in honor of the glory of the Omnissiah!
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  1447.  @thedarthsidious66  Actually it's not cheaper at all. Contracted roles will cost, as a rule, something like 30% more, maybe even 50% more, of what you would pay a full-time employee you hired directly. The cost saved is supposed to be time spent finding a good employee, not money. However, it's a delicate balance. When a contracted employee works for you for a long time, the extra money you spend paying the contracting agency their cut adds up.
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  1448. Well, YouTube is owned by one of the biggest corporations in the world (Google) and it's not nearly as bad for streaming. It's corporate, true, but it's also bad corporate management. It's terrible shortsighted decision making that tends to occur the moment a company starts slipping behind slightly. The cost-saving or profit-increasing measures they take burn out their popular support and it starts an unstoppable downward spiral that ends in the company being sold or going bankrupt and the executive staff wiping their hands and walking away whistling to their next company as if nothing happened. Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast made the same terrible mistakes recently. The measures they take tend to increase revenue for a year, maybe a couple of years, then it tends to backfire badly. Alternatively, it can also happen because the company has the most market share and they think there's nothing left to do but implement easy yet extremely unpopular measures that increase revenue. There's a lot of avenues to bad decision making when managing a company.
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  1449. This was fine back when it wasn't a honey trap for a sexual harassment settlement
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  1450.  @nicovalentin9922  Dude, nobody watches television anymore. What I'm saying comes from my own critical analysis of the situation. Life is not a game in which we one up each other in moral standing. It is a meaningless (outside of our own perspective) chaotic event which we are lucky enough to experience, and unfathomably luckier to have the intellectual facilities to reflect on it. Who am I to create pretenses that I am doing good by going against the grain of millions of years of meat eating life before me? Who are you? The perspective that not eating animals is moral, is an entirely selfish one derived from purely human emotions. Well, we could always be scorpions and eat our own kids when we're feeling peckish.
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  1451.  @wyqydsyq  That's the KS-23, it already exists
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  1452.  @momo_the_great6969  We are the trucking capital of the world, though.
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  1453.  @j.p.8409  Hard to have empathy for people with the intelligence of a brick. I don't feel anything for bricks.
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  1454.  @minniemoe4797  There are smaller markets and higher quality markets than Walmart. Quite a few other choices in fact. I don't know where you live that only has giant corporate outlets, maybe a small town that got bought up? The same goes for banks, there are many smaller banks and credit unions to choose from. Where do you get your doomer philosophy from?
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  1455. We actually had one of those fast rewinding devices at my childhood house. It was slightly bigger than a VCR cassette and it would rewind a movie much more quickly than most VCRs would, within three or so minutes.
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  1456. As literally anyone who has read a single pop science article about anthropology...
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  1457.  @iswiftyfox8997  It's literally playing a game of Hot Potato except with finances. Every single person you sell to has to be a schemer who thinks they can sell it to another schemer for a larger amount of money.
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  1458. ​@DazzlinFlame I dunno about that. There are floors and walls that need scrubbing or possibly even replacing. I hope he has no carpet.
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  1459.  @MrHarrystank  This is a false premise in my opinion. We don't fully know what causes people to be gay yet and in my (amateur) opinion, it seems clear from the results of multiple studies that it is very likely to be both nature and nurture. Possibly even leaning towards nurture. For example, there were studies in the 60s and 70s showing that gay men overwhelmingly came from families with a single mother, or one where the father was hostile, and especially ones where the mother was overprotective and abusive (in subtle ways, not just physically, but sexual abuse also was present often). There is a lot of evidence to suggest that nurture plays a huge role in whether someone turns out to be gay or not. It is not unlike sexual fetishes in that regard.
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  1460. In 1986 Trump cut in line in front of me at the supermarket checkout line just so he could buy a candy bar. He also called me a loser.
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  1461.  @WinterRaven25  I was referring to the context of modern history since that poster referred to his grandfather. That's an interesting point, though.
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  1462. Nothing would surprise me any more. The people who run big tech have consistently shown themselves to be devoid of a moral compass.
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  1463.  @Roadent1241  I didn't get a crappy Samsung flip phone until I was in high school. MAYBE middle school, it's been a while. I was so excited because it could play MP3s and I didn't have to listen to the idiots on the bus.
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  1464. They're there to check a box. QA testers definitely produce reports about issues like this, but they are intentionally ignored. Nobody wants to spend the time or money fixing this when they can usually make the money anyway.
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  1465.  @answerisalwaysyes3198  I don't. I never poop
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  1466.  @texaspearl8957  What? Kush is a name for a family of strains of weed.
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  1467. ​@TheREALDocRabbit It is not the ATCs fault, pilots have come forward and said that they have suffered near misses while landing at Reagan for years. This is a systemic issue with our military, their flight planning, and the idiocy of civilian and military aircraft being totally unable to communicate with each other. The ATC gave the helicopter pilot clear instructions which she did not follow and even possibly lied to the ATC in response (about having the plane in visual)
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  1468.  @hevalasiti  You must think being able to eat every day is stupid too
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  1469. @BaschBarrage  You're shifting the goalposts. The rule is not to portray Muhammed visually at all, doesn't matter if he is mocked or not. Now you're projecting your own intellectual dishonesty on to me. Adorable.
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  1470.  @Ziko577  Asking to choose between Hasbro and Disney is like asking if you want to be shot in the ass or in the foot.
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  1471. This is the greatest quote of All Time
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  1472. ​@norunkai9546 A guy I know manages real estate properties, writes software and works out and he still has time to beat D4 seasons within like a week
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  1473. ​@pieheadthemainiac5480 No need to accuse him of anything. He is clearly stating that Californians have a right to defend their property.
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  1474.  @sirsackolis5203  I love dogs, but when a dog does that it means they had already crossed that line a long time ago. The owner didn't raise the dog properly, or they irresponsibly bought it from some sketchy previous owner who did not raise it properly. Dogs are like people, if you don't raise them properly then they turn out badly. When I hear about this happening I always get mad at the owner for not raising the dog properly. I've only been bitten once by a dog and it was as a toddler. It left two small scars on my cheek near the lip. I have no memory of the bite, but my first distinct memory is of that dog being carried away by animal control as I watched their vehicle drive away towards the horizon. My family owned dogs throughout my whole childhood after that and I never had any issues. One of the situations you have to look out for is when you have a child after you already have a dog. The dog sometimes doesn't understand and might bite the kid to show it who's boss.
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  1475. The thing that makes these people spout such absurd things is the telephone effect. The first lady is likely referencing studies that show if you wear a plain cloth mask, it collects germs like a trap and can actually make it more dangerous for you. But that is also assuming you don't wash or replace it after 4 hours. Then someone posts about it on Facebook and she reads it or just reads a headline that says "Studies show masks may actually be killing people."
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  1476. The sad thing is if this actually happened to her, no one would believe it
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  1477. FO4 shotgun: "Here at the brotherhood, none of the other scribes wanted to talk about this monstrosity. So it's been handed down to me, the newest initiate. It barely functions and was clearly made by amateurs over on the East Coast. Not even the Gun Runners operate over there so it makes sense that they're desperate."
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  1478.  @amberestrada8196  It's all fun and political games until she has to carry a wounded man in all his gear on a battlefield under machine gun and artillery fire.
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  1479. He really had a bad stroke of luck. It tugs at my heartstrings to see the lady browbeat him off with questions like that.
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  1480.  @Soleft  did you reply to the wrong guy? regardless, you shouldn't take pride in your ignorance. it does benefit you to read opposing viewpoints at times. if nothing else, it's good for a laugh. or are you afraid of being convinced?
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  1481. ​ @Taskforce-vf5ii Blondes tend to have higher IQ on average actually
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  1482. It's just really fucking lazy writing, probably demanded by some executive that walked in on a meeting with no further comment.
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  1483.  @TheCelticCowboy98  the upper classes and the clergy tried to Latinize English, but the farmers and lower classes (vast majority of the English speakers) didn't really let them. many words relating to every day situations or animals are the same or nearly the same in English as in German (hound = hund for example) but it only starts getting into the weeds of Latin when you start speaking about abstract concepts like justice, or scientific pursuits. if you go to Franconia (half of my heritage is from there) you'll meet people that speak something that resembles a middle stage between German and English, i.e. dropping the gender ending from "mein" so that it is just "mei" (pronounced like "my" and means the same thing).
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  1484.  @SoMuchFacepalm  It's not a luxury at all. Imagine for a moment you are a chicken farmer. You have more eggs than you'll ever need to keep you and your family fed. You have a stockpile of extra eggs that keeps growing and growing. There is no way for you to get rid of these eggs. Maybe you don't have any kids or your son(s) are away from home or sick. Or the nearest market is simply too far away. You have to stay home and mind the farm. It's not evidence of "luxury" for you to give away eggs that are about to go bad. Personally, I've never heard of food referred to as a luxury. But it may be needed by other people in your community. You would only consider it a luxury if you had the ability to turn those eggs into money. But that frequently was not possible. We take our modern infrastructure for granted.
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  1485.  @kh2b573  Not really a valid comparison. You don't endanger the health of young men by continuing to use the same flag. Meanwhile you sit in your comfortably air conditioned room posting on the internet while demanding that they continue to wear wool uniforms in summer. That's incredibly stupid even for standards of the period where those uniforms were designed, most armies had a summer uniform and a winter uniform. I'm sure the guards thank you for your patriotism...
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  1486.  @deliriouswhome1  You are terminally online, please seek help. You have two accounts with different last names to post comments in hopes of convincing people of contrarian views on pop culture issues. Seek therapy. The DRE agreed he was sober. Even if you were correct the state literally has no evidence on this kid. Give it up.
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  1487. I bet a stout would be amazing for this... Although I'm not sure I want to think about the consistency of the thing when it's all done. Buttered beer soup anyone?
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  1488.  @LhJeB74  Yeah sure okay, they definitely wouldn't have died fighting the Soviets or Americans in a losing war. Sure.
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  1489.  @2wildtravlers  That's called living in a society pal, if you live here you have to agree by the laws, and one of those laws is that human life is more valuable than animal life. Otherwise you could be charged with murder for killing an animal. I say this as someone who has lived with dogs for 2/3rds of his life. Your emotions don't trump the law, simple as that. Don't want your dogs to get killed? Well, all you need to do is train them properly, and study their behavior. You know, treat them properly instead of neglecting them.
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  1490.  @adamopia  Bruh.
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  1491. ​​ @adreanmarantz2103 I would say the opposite actually, Star Wars only appears B grade now because it was so influential at the time that every movie has used its film making techniques. Sure, the plot was basic, but plots don't always have to be complicated for a movie to be good. The rest of the movie making techniques were top notch for the time
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  1492.  @Turbo-DF  I choose not to care. I like to study history, and one thing remains common throughout all of human history: The average person never has any real say in what's happening. I'm not a billionaire, so I have the luxury of not caring. My interest in current events is academic. It's interesting, but I'm under no illusion that I can make an impact. At first glance, my perspective looks like nihilism. But I'm not really nihilistic; I enjoy living. I just remove the things from my life that I have little to no control over. Less stressful that way.
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  1493. He probably could have finished a playthrough with the amount of time he has spent looking at BG3 memes and videos
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  1494. @avi Well that's true, but there are ways you can mitigate the risk. Don't go out between 12AM and 2AM, for example, those are peak drunk driving hours in the US.
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  1495. ​@guywholikesheelies3231 No you don't. It sounds like you haven't played tabletop games in 10 years, if at all. VTT and assistance has come a long way and removes all the calculations if you find them tedious. Some people value physical assets like fake aged paper for handouts very highly but if your group is fine with all digital they can bring their devices to the table and you can have the best of both in person interaction and automated rules and combat. Or you can just automate the combat part and use physical assets, whatever suits your table.
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  1496. It doesn't make sense in any gendered language, even those that have a neuter gender like German. Calling someone by neuter gender in German would have the same connotation as calling someone "it" in English. It would be quite weird and dehumanizing if not outright offensive. Which is why the same idea has gained no traction in those languages. We've come full crazy circle. Gender was, originally, a purely linguistic concept -- it had no real bearing on what a noun is. It is simply the rules of the language. This changed with John Money's clown tier whitepaper and egregiously unethical experiment in 1950.
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  1497. ​ @leocrawford6162  Kind of redundant to pick on teenagers for being incels when most people don't have sex until towards the end of the teenage part of life.
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  1498. More like "real free time." Not everyone's boss will understand if you say "I took a break for 30 minutes to clean a bunch of beer off the road."
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  1499.  @TobenVF  Lunar Lander is probably my favorite 70's game. I played clones of it online when I was a young lad and Flash was still called Shockwave.
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  1500. @JohnDBlue Morons don't typically disrupt the auto industry, something that hasn't been disrupted in decades. Stay mad.
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  1501.  @bronco5334  I just can't empathize writing so much text over a YouTube comment to defend the truth when it comes to anyone in the Bush family, and I'd consider myself very conservative, but hey it's your time buddy. Pick your battles.
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  1502. It's a goddamned spiral. Turns out almost everyone had the same graphic design idea because it looks cool.
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  1503.  @isgodreal1337  It's a metaphor for the sun's rays extending outward and touching everything. Probably the most basic form of spiritualism known to man, sun worship.
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  1504.  @sweetcherry7759  Gender is a linguistic construct. Nothing more.
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  1505. Nah, that was just a bunch of anime fans that migrated over. Same guys that watch Sailor Moon or whatever. You'd be surprised at how many people in those communities are right-wing as fuck, they generally want to be left completely alone and a nanny-state is the opposite of that. Especially if they hate censorship in the anime they watch, they will generally be very anti-authoritarian. There's even a Nazi pony character someone came up with and made plushies out of. I've met racist furries as well, it's a weird world we live in.
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  1506.  @sucyshi  They came up with a BS response because they're not willing to funnel more money into the project. Google doesn't really design projects like these to last. They come and go in the span of about 5 years, sadly. There is a gigantic graveyard of Google products and services that everyone has simply memory holed. They've had probably a half dozen chat services at least.
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  1507.  @jordielninopollo8130  You'd rather go to the Eastern Front instead? Come on.
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  1508. @samcerulean1412 Not weird at all. Take a look at what investors prioritize and who's in charge. If governments and investors were reasonable, most nations would have pivoted to nuclear fission a while ago, but everyone apparently believes that every nation still uses Soviet-era technology, safety and labor practices (Chernobyl) or live on a fault line adjacent to the ocean (Fukushima). Not hard to imagine that fusion will also not be invested in, because of sunk cost fallacy.
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  1509.  Potter Charles  The guy you're currently defending is almost certainly a member of "the Democrat party" because he is a tech CEO living in California. Please gain some perspective.
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  1510. ​ @willsalen8370 uh sure bro, we're the ones passing judgment here
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  1511.  @asante5979  You're not even a little mad that the EU (in practice, Germany) doesn't want to take any responsibility for the war happening two doors away from themselves and instead says "Please, Uncle Sam, wipe my butt for me?" And this, in spite of the fact that they were putting together a joint army years earlier?
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  1512.  @lich109  first of all, i'm not "getting mad." no idea why kids like you have to make everything about emotional status. neither of us have power to change this situation, getting mad would be idiotic. i argue about this because i find it entertaining. if i'm really lucky (like, 1% of the time) i learn something. secondly, you're watching your bank account become worthless year over year, then you pay taxes, watch these people get glorified charity and wonder why a side of french fries costs $7. anyone with a brain could piece this together, it's not hard. nations don't exist to dole out charity. these people should be made to pay taxes before they receive any of these benefits. to advocate for anything else devalues yourself as a citizen. guess what, one day, those undocumented people might become citizens too. and guess what, they'll be mad when all those benefits go away and they have to pay taxes so more undocumented people can get those benefits... and so on, and so forth
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  1513. "Yeah because red states like Texas do it so much better." Well, I live in the heart of Dallas and I've only experienced a few power outages over like a decade, and they were all during bad storms. So... yes?
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  1514. It nailed that subtle archetype of totally aloof news anchor/host during one of these segments on any real news show.
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  1515.  @wintercriessilverrainyatum9762  What if your health care provider listing for therapists is over 6 months out of date and everyone you call either has moved out of state or says "have you tried drugs" (literally the first thing they say over the phone before having even met you) or "oh uh, sorry, I don't treat you specifically even though you fit into the demographics listed as my specialty on my website" I honestly don't even know how good therapists get business because I've never seen a reliable "good therapist listing" and the health care databases I've seen just throw names and numbers at you with no meaningful way to filter them. I was lucky enough to be able to do fine without seeing one, but actually trying to get a therapist was extremely disheartening.
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  1516. ​ @Rishi-nc1mn  the problem with giving devs time after release to fix their game, is that the majority of sales for a game happen within the first few weeks. buying an unfinished game that was reported to be finished just weeks before launch and then waiting in the hopes that it will be finished because it was not, is not a reasonable request to ask of the consumer. if you wanted to play the finished version of the game, the only move that makes sense is to either not buy the game or refund it within 2 hours of purchase. those are not good options from the developer/publisher's perspective. conveniently, act 1 is very polished so most people aren't going to refund after 2 hours, and as I said, they made no mention that act 3 was unfinished before release. it is an underhanded move, just not as underhanded as selling a game at $70 that still has MTX in it. and frankly, I have a hard time empathizing with the people who say "they needed to release it soon" because they achieved record-breaking Early Access sales. we need to keep reminding devs and publishers that they need enough time in development to finish their games, or they need to scale back their demanding production requirements, otherwise gaming as a whole will continue to suffer from battered wife syndrome. where someone who is only moderately "less bad" than big-name publishers will be celebrated for "revolutionizing" the industry, even if they only made a game in a way that was typical of 10 years ago. one step forward, two steps back
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  1517.  @AsaelTheBeast  They're referring to the fact that endings for character arcs that are clearly supposed to be there were clearly cut, based on data mining. The game kinda shits the bed in Act 3 apparently. The entire upper city is missing. Sadly this is kind of a smart strategy -- most people who buy games never finish them and so they'll never know.
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  1518. He was clearly using "boy" like an interjection, as in the phrase "Oh boy," which I use all the time, but sure it's always racism. No exceptions.
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  1519. Pippa is the only vtuber I know of who might be okay with Asmon's lifestyle.
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  1520.  @Dryxxxa  Funniest one I've seen so far is when I found the Zhentarim hideout. Before I even met them, I found the caravan that was raided by gnolls and had no idea who it was associated with. I have evil characters in this playthrough so I figured I may as well work for them, and their first job was "go find the shipment," to which I responded "I already did" and handed them the iron flask I found in the wreckage. At which point their leader said that I had to die because I opened the shipment. So I shrugged my shoulders and destroyed them easily. Surprisingly easy encounter for a bunch of level 4 NPCs.
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  1521.  @liquidcancer4573  The entire purpose of these videos is armchair psychology. Try watching a different video.
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  1522.  @darkoraclegirl4570  The guy streams his daily life which is represented by him eating junk food and drinking soda every day. Feel free to think that he's just acting, and that as soon as he gets off camera he eats a salad and brushes his teeth, but this is how he represents himself to his audience. Meanwhile the other guy is just some random dude online. If you broadcast yourself to everyone, expect them to judge you. Comes with the territory.
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  1523.  @trianglemoebius  The Death Korps are humans, 38,000 years in the future from now, who also were raised on a "Death World" (the environment is incredibly dangerous to the point of impracticality, that's why they always wear full environmental gear) and they zealously believe that the optimal scenario in any given battle is that they die. To the point where they regularly "frag" Commissars assigned to their units because they want to stop them from charging in recklessly. So in other words, they are so far removed from modern humans that they might as well be aliens to us.
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  1524. That is called EXIF data. You can easily scrub it, Apple devices even do it for you by default. If the photo was taken with an Apple device, chances are the photo does not have it.
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  1525.  @CoryPchajek  Not that I'd defend Twitch's decision making, but it's kinda hard to not run most websites at a loss for the first few years at least. The user base to make money simply isn't there.
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  1526. I can name a couple of women who have done well directing and producing media, but it isn't anything mainstream. People like Roberta Williams who founded Sierra On-Line in the early 90s for example. The problem you're describing is really one of chicken and egg. Is the media bad because a woman is directing it? Or is a woman directing it because it was always going to be bad, as decided by someone with more money and influence than the woman, who was appointed simply because she was a woman?
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  1527.  @beeziebubs2756  Yeah, this is the type of shit I'd expect to see at some kind of fucked-up camp where they slowly condition kids so they eventually accept sexual abuse from the administration, like Boy Scouts for example. Just frame it as a fun prank until eventually your inhibitions are lowered. It's not as bad if they're both students, but it's still suspect from the administration's perspective. This would be something I'd expect the students to organize for themselves, at a party or something, but the fact that the administration organized it makes it very uncomfortable. They should go for a different event if they want to foster relationships or something.
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  1528.  @isturbo1984  You have no idea what "vaporware" means do you?
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  1529.  @RCXDerp  "You got the RACIAL PILPUL! Assign it to <, v, or > in the ITEMS menu to turn into whatever creature suits your needs in that particular moment!"
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  1530.  @Diaryofaninja  Thanks for the laugh.
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  1531. Another thing is that the expensive wedding only became a big meme in the 20th century to drain money from husbands in a booming economy. Nobody had diamond rings or cheesy cover bands for hundreds of years of weddings throughout history.
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  1532. I'm not even a marathon runner but it isn't that hard to regimen your defecation. I shit 2 hours after I wake up pretty much every single day. In the military or any hunting/survival situation, knowing how to do this isn't just convenient, it's necessary. I find it hard to empathize with the need to do this.
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  1533.  @elettramia6380  It doesn't matter what term is used because it will always be a rather weird blanket term that ignores the different tribal lineages. It boils down to the preference of the individual you are speaking to at that given moment (and yes I have heard of some that prefer Indian simply because they dislike the idea of being renamed by outsiders several times)
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  1534.  @Talishar  Assault rifle is a real term, as much as many contrarians try to say it isn't. It means: 1) intermediate rifle caliber, 2) detachable magazine, 3) select fire. Assault weapon is not and is merely an attempt to muddy the waters by semantic assocation. A military spec AK is definitely an assault rifle. I will say that the term goes all the way back to Nazi Germany, "Sturmgewehr" literally means assault rifle and Hitler himself changed the name of the StG-44 in a propaganda move. It was originally classified as a submachine gun. Although it's a useful classification, "assault rifle" is literally Nazi propaganda.
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  1535. Honestly, there's been a couple things I've seen in Switzerland that make me pause. Namely, that one gun range where the shooters shoot over an active highway. Tom Scott did a video about it, acting very pretentious and like it was very safe and ingenious. Until there is some kind of squib load or imperfect round from the factory that shoots at exactly the wrong time and someone's car gets shot, or worse, someone inside the car gets shot. It is, at best, a necessary evil due to the harsh terrain and lack of real estate in Switzerland. Not something we should be modeling in the 3rd largest nation in the world by land mass.
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  1536.  @buttercroissant9633  The problem is that what is taught in educational facilities and repeated by our media isn't really science. It's the dogmatic type of worldviews discussed in the video. I agree with you, real science isn't like this. But first-world society has been developing a pipeline for a long time now that convinces people that this is "real science." A set of rules from those who came before that are now set in stone. Humanity hasn't really changed; people have vested interests in maintaining the zeitgeist, and they will invest more money to ensure it doesn't change, truth be damned. Like it or not, big names like Nikolai Tesla and Stephen Hawking are given lip service, but much of their work is rarely taken to heart by our governments or even other scientists. They are a small minority of scientists. Many are biased severely by their own worldview/belief system, or simply pawns being bribed by corporate entities to protect their interests through a sort of information-based warfare. The paper that linked saturated fat to heart disease from MIT in 1970 is a great example here in the US. This directly lead to the rise of sugars in food and the obesity and diabetes epidemic. Government guidelines on nutrition in the US and UK were changed because of that paper.
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  1537. ​ @edwardgaines6561  Sounds extremely stereotypical to me
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  1538.  @alexanerose4820  For a time, yes. Until Valve enters new leadership, some day, then we all have to clench our sphincters and hope for the best.
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  1539.  @jfmg64  And like Jesus, Android 16 died for our sins
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  1540.  @viljamtheninja  What? Adverbs can be used to modify adjectives. "Very" is an adverb in the phrase "You are very big." If OP's interpretation is correct, the phrase would be "VIP-ly big," maybe supposed to mean "very big" or "very important(-ly big)" but I'm skeptical.
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  1541.  @CallForGrandPappy  Normie brainrot: Knowing the exact bios, drama, and career records of sweaty football players every year is normal. Being aware of a drama that has blown up so huge that it is now mainstream is "sad life" shit.
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  1542. just to be pedantic, bondage fetishists usually like the feeling of being helpless while their partner performs sexual acts on them it's not necessarily related to sexual masochism, but frequently is so bondage fetishists might prefer to have more comfortable ropes or something, who knows
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  1543. But ideally you'd buy more than one cylinder from Puckle. Then you could have your swabbies load the cylinders while the gunners shoot.
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  1544. Zadamanim Since Vista, if you don't give administrator rights to a program before running it, it cannot modify any files in the Program Files directory. You even have to allow it in a prompt if you do something as simple as copy-and-paste a text file somewhere in Program Files. Most games have since moved their save and config files to a directory in the User folder; it's usually either in "My Games/<game name>" or just a folder named after the game in your User folder. It seems to me like this is the most likely cause of the issue, given that it was fixed simply by moving the game to another location or running it as admin.
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  1545. Godless Drunkenwreck Said everyone who rolls in the wrong direction. I wish players would stop rolling backwards and then call moves designed to punish backrolling op.
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  1546. Godless Drunkenwreck Yeah, well, most people who take an OnlyAfro vid seriously aren't exactly star individuals. You can make even incredibly bad builds look OP if you compile a montage of only wins.
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  1547. PoXcMe The developers stated themselves that the PC will have better textures, and they're even optimizing the controls for mouse and keyboard (if you choose to use that instead of a controller). Besides, the development process for 99% of video games that exist, including console games, goes like this: Develop code and assets on a computer Artists make ridiculously high res textures Everything gets put on a PS3/Xbox for testing, runs like shit (this invariably happens) Textures get downsized so that they run on consoles better Retarded publishers usually make devs port the game from console to PC at this point, which results in shitty FOV, textures etc that consoles are unfortunately stuck with. The difference here is that basically they aren't porting the game because Namco Bandai isn't retarded.  I don't think I'm a superior human being for using a PC to play video games but I do think that those who aren't are making a mistake and should probably do a little more research before they continue ripping themselves off. Kind of like Mac users. Of course there will always be console exclusives, but fortunately I think that's starting to die off a little bit, most exclusives are just delayed releases now instead of permanent exclusives.
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  1548. apocalypseap The problem is that what he's saying is unfortunately true. Many neutral folks hear what SJWs have to say and immediately believe them without doing any research, because they don't care as much about the issue.
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  1549. Jennie Bharaj is a bona-fide nerd, in my opinion. I can tell just from the way she talks, and the way she talked in the Huffington Post interview. She's passionate about games and doesn't want to see anything bad happen to them, but she's not eloquent and doesn't speak well under pressure. I wish her the best, but I also wish she would stick to a written medium, or take a few speech classes. Dick Santorum :: In response to the comment just above this one, that is correct. The reason that misogyny and other bigotry was brought into this discussion is purely to detract from the actual issues at hand. We have ample evidence to have most of these fucks lose their job in any other industry, but it just so happens in this one that their clique is so closely-knit and so dominant in games journalism that the opposite has happened. When the 14 "gamers are dead" articles were released simultaneously during August, evidence was dug up to suggest that this was indeed planned (or at least discussed) several years in advance of it actually happening; "this" being the death of the word "gamer" and its identity as "cishet white male." You can find it in the stickied threads on 8chan.co/gg . Personally, I believe this is a result of, at the very root, the co-opting of various civil rights fields of study in academia (most notably, feminism). The type of "feminism" normally associated with man-hating and projected rape dates back to the 70's and earlier, and has undeniably taken over the field in academics. Now, there's a new generation that went to college learning under all these extremist professors, primarily in California. These gaming "journalists" are their offspring, if you will. That's my take on it. Others have much more tinfoil-y theories, some of which have merit, but I am not willing to put stock in any of them yet. Right now, to me, the only clear link is the one to 3rd wave feminism in academia.
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  1550. PJohnnyJX You think that shit's obvious? Please. You have WAY too much faith in humanity.
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  1551. My dad had the same philosophy when I was a kid and after I started carrying and training more with my own guns I realized it was stupid. I figure that statistically, if you are insane enough to invade a random person's home (I don't make enemies), you are probably insane enough to not be scared away by the sound of a pump action.
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  1552. @Mitchell Meyer It's usually overestimated how dirty things were back then. Yes they didn't understand germs at all, but visually they wanted their house to look nice and nobody liked bad smells or dirt. Plus they had plenty of time on their hands (compared to how people consider time nowadays) and used it to clean, a lot. To this day cast iron cookware is cleaned without dish soap and people aren't dying from it. All you need to clean cookware is hot water and a good abrasive.
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  1553. Maybe so she doesn't do this every time a white guy passes through the village... Gee, why did my parents make me go swimming even though I was afraid of pool drains when I was a kid? Oh yeah, because now swimming is my favorite outdoors activity.
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  1554. He's wearing his arming jacket, which as far as I can tell is basically the minimum you'd need to wear for the armor not to chafe.
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  1555.  @Helperbot-2000  Tanks weren't used for transport in WW1 because they were slow, usually slower than infantry, and they were also used pretty much exclusively for breakthrough tactics. I don't think the idea of infantry riding on a tank was even seriously considered during that war.
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  1556. ​ @SteveDice21  I thought it was kinda cute, honestly, but yeah it's not something you should share. With anyone. That's just as personal as telling everyone that you prefer to pull out instead of use contraception.
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  1557.  @doublestarships646  i find it charming, i like goofy women
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  1558. ​ @raphaelsname  I'm confused. If a person is known to be dangerous, why does "he smokes the devil's lettuce" have to be the smoking gun that gets them jailed? We're not talking about Al Capone here.
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  1559. Margaret Sanger.
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  1560.  @englishforsrilanka2535  "They put their lives on the line" Meanwhile in Uvalde
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  1561. I received a noise ticket for being the only 1 of 4 roommates that was not pretending to be asleep in our apartment on college campus, because one of the people we invited was a tremendous douche and invited like 20 people without telling us. The judge expunged it from my record after a couple of months. Campus cops are some of the pettiest clowns I've ever seen
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  1562. The "only gone up in price" is actually not totally true when you account for inflation and the shifting value of the dollar when you only take the retail price into account. It does get much more expensive once you add the microtransactions though.
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  1563.  @TheMasterhomaster  That's an interesting double standard. So Americans can only be entitled, not ignorant? Weird.
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  1564. So what's the light side in this canon? Fudds and AR platforms?
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  1565.  teeemm9456  It is alternatively used as a reference to traditional methods, or bullying for change by implying the listener is stupid if they don't agree ("common sense gun control"). As with most language, it can be abused depending on who uses it.
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  1566.  teeemm9456  Comment moderation has become totally absurd. To the point, I agree. Most of the time, invoking "common sense" adds nothing to a discussion, at best.
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  1567. It looks like a day care. It should give you the creeps.
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  1568.  @janesmy6267  It is by definition, not how humans think. In psychology, it's called heuristic thinking. Humans use shortcuts to arrive at conclusions based on experience. They can notice patterns in things that relate to something similar they've done before, even if they're doing something else for the first time, and arrive at the correct answer with no prior experience. An AI, as we know it today, is kind of like training a dog (although honestly I believe that comparison does a disservice to dogs, but it's a difficult concept to explain). They must be explicitly trained or instructed how to deal with situations on a case by case basis. We call this algorithmic thinking. As of today, we get over this limitation (well, a little) by simply throwing billions of cases at supercomputers so they can crunch numbers and train themselves for so many cases or situations. But it isn't real heuristic thinking. To put it another way, if there were a human student and an AI who both showed up to take a final exam: The AI would have "learned" and passed the test by simply memorizing all the answers, but the human (assuming they are a good student) would have learned by building blocks of fundamental understanding so they can arrive at the same correct answer without memorization.
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  1569.  @nielsdejong  You realize that Discord mods are stereotypically always-online basket cases that will do anything for a power trip right? I mean yeah they're nuts, but it isn't usually wise to base an actual game studio's reputation on how their Discord mods act. Moreso, it's a tragedy in general that most game studios are moving to "join our Discord" as their go-to community management method. It's even worse than forums.
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  1570. The reverse joint build needs to be jumping around plinking from far away. The MGs are nearly useless at range and all he has to dodge is the double laser cannon which is easier
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  1571. They all have their own problems. My mom almost got pickpocketed twice in Rome and we did not go to any shady places.
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  1572. @Platonic Rainy No, he was clearly backing out and that's what set the officer off to start shooting, you can tell he was backing out of the spot first which was what caused the cop to swear and draw his gun. That was also where the assault charge which was dropped came from. It wasn't a justified shooting at all, but he was clearly backing out first. This is what happens when you jump into a situation with the mindset of this is automatically a life or death situation. The cop was going to put him in cuffs no matter what, and the kid thought this was some kind of ambush.
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  1573. I lost my shit when they all walked on in clown suits and Charlie said "What's up, GAMERS!"
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  1574.  @SkippyOnMeBalls  It's a lot less weird when you realize how big our nation is. Most people who visit don't leave the nice areas. That usually includes university campus. It's just like any other nation, the bad stuff is just behind the curtain. I'm guessing you've never been to Chicago, or LA.
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  1575.  @Proleet138  She wasn't reasonable the moment that she posted this online to try and "roast" this guy, or whatever she intended in her mind. I'm being charitable by assuming she didn't do this to try and push feminism, or as some kind of sociopolitical statement. Posting this publicly online is passive-aggressive behavior towards someone you hate. It's okay to be wrong, or even kind of a douche, sometimes. As long as it isn't your entire personality, it should be forgivable. It certainly doesn't deserve international scrutiny and ridicule.
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  1576.  @fishfire_2999  I've always thought sensory deprivation chambers are kinda weird. If I have no stimulus and I try to meditate, I am left with only my own thoughts and I can't meditate or clear my mind. Visualizing numbers helps for me, but so does outside stimulus. That's why singing bowls exist and why chants like "ohm" exist. Different strokes I guess.
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  1577.  @libertariantranslator1929  Maybe in the past, but that party, too, has seemingly been co-opted, at least on the federal level. Gary Johnson was not an appealing candidate
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  1578.  @Sa-db2xj  Can you please tell us which countries with lax immigration laws are more violent? "Huh? But that can't be true, that'd be racist." Well, let's see... America is one of the only places on the planet where an illegal immigrant can have a child and it is automatically a naturalized citizen. By virtually every measure, America has some of the most lenient immigration and citizenship laws of any nation on the planet. Many celebrities who complained about Trump and said they'd move to Canada, found out that actually, Canada didn't want them. They took our freedom of movement for granted. So that makes it rather unique. Can you prove that the violence is because of guns and not because of culture clash and conflict due to immigration? Japan, a nation with extremely strict gun laws and low crime, takes virtually no immigrants compared to ours... And yet the prime minister was assassinated... by a man with a gun... If even he can't be protected from guns in a no guns nation, can you? A man in Britain constructed a working automatic submachinegun in his garage that used standard-issue Sten magazines from WW2... And he did it all just to prove a point. The courts ignored him and sent him to jail despite the fact that he had no intention to use it.
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  1579. @Joe Mama every establishment that serves alcohol: "Sorry what was that? I can't hear you over all the money falling into the register." This isn't the only place that caters to adults, get some perspective.
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  1580.  @4321user-_  I mean, you keep talking about it like it's self-evident when it clearly isn't.
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  1581.  @ILoveGrilledCheese  They do utilize predatory practices, just not the same kind that most Western studios (or even many Japanese ones) use. Making you rebuy all your retro games with every new console, even though all Nintendo does is port over their in-house emulator, is extremely predatory. So is charging exorbitant amounts for peripherals and locking QoL game features behind plastic figurines that will be discontinued.
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  1582.  @Qihwjsishwjsdb  That's the whole appeal for many people.
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  1583. ​ @Anthony-vh6ef You expect other people to save you when your life is in danger? How ridiculous.
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  1584. Twilight did the same thing and it was a huge franchise.
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  1585. Him and his buddy vacated the room like she just shat her pants, lol.
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  1586. ​ @atomicTurtle000 My guy has really never played anything but Nintendo games
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  1587. ​ @mYLzT1 That's even worse. In any normal situation cops intentionally withhold evidence like recordings while investigating the suspect because they want to see if they'll incriminate themselves further. They did him a massive favor by telling him they had dashcam footage before he could begin lying his face off.
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  1588. It's The Aristocrats of knock-knock jokes, or the shaggy-haired dog of knock-knock jokes.
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  1589.  @ifluro  I admit I haven't been, but most of the time when I hear from someone who lives in New York City they talk about how everyone's in a rush and has no time for courtesy.
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  1590. "Chivalry made knights terrible." Medieval women : Lord in Heaven, I suppose I'll just go back to being sexually assaulted then.
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  1591.  @tiger-rgn  No he didn't? He paid for the item before leaving. Did we watch the same video?
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  1592. ​​ @nerdstrangler4804  it's really hard to escape into a futuristic setting that is supposed to be totally unlike our own when it coincidentally has all the same political issues and zeitgeist that we talk about today does it make me mad? no, but it makes me roll my eyes and play the dozens of other good games that have come out this year instead
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  1593. Avocado is perhaps the most overrated food in existence. It's literally flavorless green foam. I have no idea how people overpay so much for it
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  1594. Texas technically has a definition for "fighting words" in its penal code, but even there you couldn't stab somebody for filming you.
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  1595.  @eurobeat_enjoyer  Ah yes the horrible white people stereotypes like eating cheese and being successful. The thing about profiling is, it's a lot more about dress and demeanor than race. The problem is, certain executives made sure to market music glorifying crime to a certain racial group in the late 80's and 90's. So now it's become cool to dress and act like a criminal, even if you aren't one. So yes, profiling is now less accurate than ever...
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  1596. @ Honestly, I would be more worried if our president didn't perform effective PR stunts, regardless of policy. A politician like that would allow the media to run roughshod over their reputation at all times, regardless of how good a job they were actually doing. Besides, politics is downstream of culture, and driving the discussion affects culture. You can't be an effective politician without doing this.
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  1597. Hitman games
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  1598. ​ @tony_47 disagreed, music is so profoundly good while tripping that I can't avoid it
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  1599.  @previszla6341  you sound mad that you can't relate to this thread, why did you even bother posting
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  1600.  @mandosaiyan  In a manner of speaking, sure. When you take a step back and stop looking at just your own life, things really aren't that different. The richest people still run the show, and just as technology has improved our lives, it has improved their reach. It's a social arms race in other words. If you don't think so, well, I'd suggest you get into the topic of history. International conspiracies existed all the way back to the feudal period and further. A good starting point is that almost all of the powerful kings of that era belonged to the same order of knights despite their nationalities. Not to mention the family ties of course. The only real difference is that international control isn't so closely tied to family any more. You might also want to read some Nietzsche and consider whether slavery is morally permissible if the slaves are treated well. He advocated for it; it's an interesting thought experiment if nothing else.
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  1601. ​ @pincmin  I own an excitable dog and what the man did is acceptable behavior to me. I can keep my dog treats in an open pants pocket or on the kitchen counter without her trying to steal them or being distracted. She only reacts if I reach into the bag of treats or tell her I'm going to give her a treat. But then again I don't let my dog off the leash in public parks either. I expect that any owner who cares about their dog should give them a similar level of discipline. Dog owners need to understand that an undisciplined dog can be taken away from them, just like in this case, if their lack of discipline causes harm to someone else or someone else's pet. It is not "okay" or "more natural" to not train your dog. You are already making it "unnatural" just by keeping the dog in your home so you need to go all the way and adjust them to life with humans. Worse, it could get them hurt (if they challenge a dog who is tougher than they are, or they run into the street, for example). Dogs need to be given a minimum level of discipline to live with people. And where discipline isn't enough, you have to be ready to adequately restrain them, this means don't own a dog that you can't physically handle.
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  1602. There was a real reason. It was fucking funny.
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  1603. ​ @A2J_Tim "it's no different than any other risk activity" except for the part where you have absolutely no vetting or supervision or emergency crews on standby. you just pick a section of a road that you "think" is deserted at a time of day, and pray to whatever nonexistent God that you worship that no hapless idiot decides to go for a snack run at 2 AM.
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  1604. It was probably based on a legend that was even older
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  1605. I've heard that medieval physicians actually knew what diabetes was and how to diagnose it. They would ask the patient to urinate and then taste their urine. If it was sweet, it would therefore have undigested sugar in it, and it would mean they had diabetes (which I've heard was called "honey disease" at the time). Although they didn't know the inner workings of insulin, the pancreas, and so on, they did know that sweet urine was a symptom of serious problems and would recommend the diet be changed accordingly
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  1606.  @StormsparkPegasus  I don't use margarine because I don't like it very much, so I'll have assume you're correct there. And I very rarely buy ice cream except to celebrate. I live alone, so I wouldn't ever buy that much. Personally I have reused "Simply" brand juice containers to make iced tea in many times.
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  1607. Same. I use IG for only one thing, and it ain't food blogging.
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  1608. ​ @jallapavan great, now imagine that it has been happening since then and has not stopped
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  1609.  @lyianx  Still funny to me that people think Trump is some kind of horrible low point. We've been in the trenches since Carter. LBJ even. Reagan was shit (despite what many boomers will say), Bush 1 and 2 were shit, Clinton was shit, Obama was shit. But everybody remembers Trump because he wrote some tweets. Trump is barely a blip on the radar, this country is fucking toast. And when it's all said and done, those clowns I talked about will be living in ivory castles while we beg for bread like in the good old serfdom days. In the last 60 or so years only two real issues in this nation were addressed properly: JFK wanted to audit the Fed and got murked for it, and Trump wanted to stem the border bleed. That's it, those are the only two things that mattered and were addressed constructively. The Soviet Union was always going to collapse under its own weight, still hilarious to me that people credit Reagan for that just because he was president when it happened.
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  1610.  @zerolowerbound5855  My uncle shot his own leg off with a Ruger Blackhawk partially because he was a crackhead. He did the same thing with a .22 when he was a teenager however, so it was more natural selection than anything. You know why I haven't done that? It isn't luck, it's because my father moved out of the New Orleans ghetto.
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  1611.  @trix8669  They'd change for the better if we got rid of incarceration and reinstated corporeal punishment. I really don't know when or why we got off thinking that imprisoning someone for months or years at a time and just letting them back out into society at large like nothing's wrong was a good idea. After they made a bunch of friends in prison with other criminals, no less. Just take a few flogs, lose an extremity, whatever, and be done with it. On a primal level, people respond to that better, and criminals are statistically impulsive, primal people. You may think the person might be too disabled to work now that they've been injured, but the same applies to our current prison system. It is just much more expensive, and encourages more crime because the criminals there share ideas with one another while incarcerated. But there's too much money in it for lawyers and other members of this corrupt legal system. Jail is a huge moneymaker, just not for the taxpayer.
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  1612.  @DulceSombrer  It's possible. Think about alcohol, for instance. In moderation it can be a good time. If your friends keep pressuring you to drink more when you want to stop, it's not a good time.
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  1613. We do. It's called camp. I don't know when in the last 30 odd years everyone collectively forgot.
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  1614.  @mikewhite4560  Mental health issues matter. Virtually everyone in the nation, especially those with wealth and power, disagree.
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  1615.  @musicmashup9597  Metro is not really the same type of game, much more linear
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  1616. They rely on you to be lazy and not go back and verify what was said. Also, that you don't remember exactly what was said or never heard it originally.
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  1617. @NotTheMarvelThanos No offense but it sounds like you care more about the fuzzy warm feelings you get from reading blog posts from those who live alone, than the well being of those people. From the perspective of those who live alone and are content doing so, sharing these stories with you would have almost no meaning.
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  1618.  @Ninja563  Why am I not surprised she still tried to play the victim and even less surprised there was an article about it? Yes, I'm sure a random attorney and Shaun King all conspired to ruin her life by framing her as a false rape accuser. This makes the moon landing hoax theory and flat earthers look reasonable.
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  1619.  @ZIGZAG12345  That's easier for you to say because there aren't gigantic crime syndicates pushing drugs into your country from a bordering country. Legalization would take a decent amount of wind out of their sails over here.
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  1620. This guy: Yeah there's definitely no reason for service members to be able to carry their service rifle at all times! Fort Hood victims: pal are you serious
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  1621.  @mccalejk2  He wasn't a shoplifter, he became a robber the moment he attacked the guy.
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  1622.  @asdfghjk2933  Generally speaking, it is pretty hard to miss if you are trained and it's indoors. You're usually shooting at ranges of less than 10, 15 yards at most.
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  1623. "It was a treatment for dog bites and earaches" I would imagine that the high amount of salt in the sauce would prevent bacteria from festering on the wound. Earaches are also usually caused by bacteria. I'm no doctor though.
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  1624.  @Codeman22  You're the one making assumptions here, buddy. You're assuming that this mom, who was unable to prevent her kid from making incriminating threats online, is responsible enough to keep her gun under some lock and container that you think will never fail, and then keep the key somewhere he'll never get it.
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  1625.  @anonymous.anonymity.  Gee, "human development." That sure is a very vague term that you could apply to anything. What about labor rights? Does that factor into human development? Whoops, we just lost Japan, and probably Singapore.
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  1626.  @jukaa1012  Most likely. Soldiers get PTSD routinely despite the fact that they have a lot of terrible things to worry about when in combat. They are distracted all the time, with no time for self-reflection until later. Consider watching your friend get mauled by an animal in the savannah for example, and all you can do is climb a tree or hide somewhere. You're safe, but you're forced to watch that thing eat. Even more likely, its whole pride/family comes out to eat. Then eventually, hours later, you can finally leave. Seems unlikely that this wouldn't cause PTSD
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  1627. Hard to imagine Russian soldiers feel very motivated at this point.
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  1628.  @missymonroe3886  Well, I'm a software engineer and most of my job involves thinking about edge cases, things that are unlikely to happen. With guns, it only takes one incident for it to matter. One shot, one mistake, etc. Doesn't matter if it's 1 in 10 or 1 in a million, today might be your unlucky day, and then you'll regret it.
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  1629.  @Paul-A01  "On the Genealogy of Compiler Errors"
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  1630.  @christophfinnigan3967  I think his point is that the attempt and its failure is meaningless because Hogwarts Legacy was already quite woke. The boycott was a wholly unjustified irrational rage fit from trans activists who expressed their hatred for Rowling upon the game developers, despite the fact that they offered an olive branch in the form of a trans bartender in the game. In fact it would be better if there were no trans outrage and Legacy were boycotted anyway.
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  1631. To a Marine they pretty much are. Not much compared to a .75 caliber rifle that shoots rocket propelled grenades.
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  1632.  @NM89-Nan  Pocket knife? Lol. This is Dallas, they might have been packing heat. And at most jobs, you're not allowed to carry while working. So yeah, boiling water is reasonable here.
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  1633. ​@DonJuan-oy7lo You do realize that the Constitution was originally drafted without the Bill of Rights, then the rest of Congress and the governors got very angry that they were not spelled out so they were amended in? And yet you're seriously going to suggest that they aren't "rights" or important?
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  1634. Dude can't even tell the difference between private companies and government entities. This is our voter base
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  1635.  @dontaskme7004  gluten is a protein from a specific grain source, humans originally evolved to eat fish, bovids (i.e. beef and similar meats), fruits and vegetables. bread is a relatively modern (last 10k or so years) convenience that allows us to feed entire cities. civilization as we know it did not exist before grain agriculture
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  1636.  @AlbikerkyIsNotReal  I'm sorry to break this to you my friend, but some people are simply more prone to addictive behavior than others. We all have our problems, and believe me, you wouldn't want some of mine. You should not project yours onto others.
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  1637.  @blastermaster5039  the CIA and FBI (in the case of MLK) specifically since they're the ones who have those documents
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  1638.  @bwofficial1776  Always a fun debate, I've had to talk to a British guy who thought he understood the Constitution better than I did. All I did was start looking up the colony charters of the 13 colonies and, wouldn't you know it, each of them had the 2nd Amendment on them, worded 13 different ways. A few were more ambiguous than the rest, but the majority of them made it clear in plain text that the common citizen was to have the right of armament. It would be enormously stupid or disingenuous to suggest that the Constitution agreed upon by these same officials, and initially protested against for the first ten amendments to be laid out clearly as the Bill of Rights, would suddenly change the intention and meaning of this important right.
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  1639. What are they protesting against if the state law enforcement organization protects them? That's my question.
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  1640.  @jovikaz  I disagree, I rarely laugh harder because I think some mentally unstable person somewhere is going to get angry at the same joke.
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  1641. Yeah, they're better for you, until you die or a workplace accident causes a permanent injury that invalidates your entire career because now you can't apply the skills you've learned.
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  1642.  @warrenhunter7185  Great rebuttal. Well, I know when I'm beat.
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  1643.  @RebeccaLoran  This broad is clearly crazy though, so I don't know why you chose that as an example
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  1644.  @didtheyexpectustotreatthem574  Plutonium is a weapons-grade substance nobody actually uses it in reactors. What.
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  1645. Construct the bastion, quickly! But sire, we don't have ti-- The bastion has just grown fourteen hands! Pray that I do not order a taller one!
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  1646.  @mrharvy100  he is definitely overweight, just not obese like people claim. manageably overweight
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  1647.  @1nWaterBurning  ah yes, "everyone is my stepping stone to more power," the psychopath's outlook. also known as the CEO's outlook
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  1648.  @Sharkweed  "So you like being a corporate watchdog? Name every CEO." "... why don't you just search for it--" "STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT OMG U LIKED UR OWN POSTS"
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  1649.  @princessofjedi  i mean, we can go to what people say about iphones, which also has a ton of people complaining about battery life designed to tank when new products come out. that doesn't exactly yield good results for apple even well respected device reviewers like linus tech tips or tom's hardware don't typically buy more than one of the same device to test, unless it's obvious there was some kind of defect. your comment implies all of those reviewers' data is invalid because they're only testing one copy of the device
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  1650.  @watchingforfuncarroll6450  You have to do a challenge dungeon called a Divine Tower to activate them. Then you equip a rune in the grace menu and when you use a Rune Arc, it gives you the benefits from the equipped and activated rune until you die. Really unnecessarily complicated, but I guess it's a way for them to add more content.
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  1651.  @reJECT0  For me, someone who has terrible vision, it actually kind of is. It's certainly a tedious annoyance. I guess I could alt-tab and use notepad when I'm on PC, but then, why would I do that instead of just looking the NPC up on the wiki? I mean at least in a game with a similar problem like Etrian Odyssey, you're drawing maps. Taking notes is schoolwork. Regardless it doesn't excuse From Soft defying 25 year old genre conventions. I'd expect a quest journal in an open world game.
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  1652.  @wyatt5532  That's not a valid analogy. This is more like you're outside YOUR OWN HOME doing yard work and a cop just walks up to you and says "Hello sir, can you prove that you live here? What's your name, address, date of birth? Some random clown called in that you look suspicious." "Well, I have the key here so I can just unlock the door--" "That's not good enough. Have a seat and answer all of my questions."
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  1653. I haven't played an Ubisoft game since Far Cry 5 and I regretted that purchase
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  1654. Most people just don't have the mental energy or wherewithal to sue over incredibly banal issues like this. I am most likely one of them. In a sense, if you allow such a petty, ridiculous person to monopolize your time and resources, you give them power over you. That includes filing a lawsuit, paying a lawyer, etc. If it were the only gym the blind guy could go to, it would be different though.
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  1655. This is why no one takes lolbergs seriously now. Borders and sovereignty are the bare minimum needed for a nation to function
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  1656.  @mr.halloween3371  Well, it's certainly hard to side with Amber.
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  1657. What would you rather take care of: A dik-dik antelope or Cumlord the pomeranean?
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  1658.  @matthewdubay1180  I'm speechless that you took the time to comment that, and yet didn't use commas correctly in your post at all. If you're a troll, well done; few of them have any subtlety.
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  1659. It's likely even sadder than that. I'd bet money that the original public works engineer warned them of this problem and they ignored it, due to costs or some other reason. Happens too frequently.
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  1660.  @jmacd8817  Ahh but you didn't purchase the content in perpetuity, you bought a license to access the content according to their specific terms. I'm no lawyer, so I don't know how well this argument holds up in court (and I think our culture is ripe for a Supreme Court case to settle this nonsense once and for all), but even back in the physical days you never owned software or data. You bought a license to use that copy of the data.
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  1661.  @usernameemail  There's maybe a handful of anime that I would ever watch dubbed, but stuff like DXD inevitably has absolutely terrible dubs. Will never understand how people tolerate them.
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  1662.  @flowerpower3618  they didn't have feelings when he was chronically frustrated and alone
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  1663.  @OveToranger  he carried a gun with an additional magazine, which is not proof on its own, but combined with the fact that he seemingly instigated a fight -- I have a hard time believing that he was being targeted by that group for no reason while the other guys there to counter-protest weren't being targeted -- and even RETURNED to said fight, after having ample opportunity to get away, seems like he premeditated the plan to cause a fight at a minimum
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  1664.  @tiphotisted  Nah, we Texans are actually saying "The teachers should have been armed." Have been saying it for years, will continue saying it, but the no guns on school campus policy is a federal mandate
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  1665.  @lolcat5303  Worst one I saw was Carol & Tuesday, deeply disappointing for a Watanabe series. It had the Western liberal veneer of "look at us we're addressing modern issues in a ham-handed fashion please celebrate us on social media" which is something I watch anime specifically to get away from.
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  1666.  @bobdobsin6216  Well said. When I read Nietzsche for the first time and saw him defend slavery as an institution from the "liberals," it was surprising, but I found myself thinking that it was difficult to prove him wrong, because his idea was that there are a lot of people who would be happier having their lives hashed out for them, while advocating for humane treatment. The only hitch is that you can't reliably identify who would rather lead, and who would rather be lead. It's usually not hereditary either. If we could do that, we'd probably have no strife in society.
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  1667.  @gusty9053  Not sure what you mean, modern soldiers definitely are the greatest pack mules of any period in human history.
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  1668.  @Andreas-gh6is  Lawful firearm usage in defense against crime far outnumbers illegal firearm use in the pursuit of a crime in the US. You'd have to be utterly naive to believe that making guns illegal would make them simply go away. How long are we willing to wait while criminals prey upon us in the interim period for the 3rd largest country in the world by landmass to track down every illegal firearm and destroy them before we're safe? This isn't Japan, Australia or the UK, we're not an island and we have a long history of firearms usage. Removing firearms from the American populace is a virtually impossible task, we can't even police our own populace as it stands and one of the top political issues in the zeitgeist at the moment is "you know what? it isn't hard enough for the police, we need to make it harder by cutting their funding." You can't have it both ways, either allow people to defend themselves or create a police state so they can be defended.
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  1669. It's really just oil barons from nations like Saudi Arabia. Seriously. They're not legally allowed to look at real porn.
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  1670.  @alexanderbateman5581  And it seems like over half of the people who reacted to his "lock it down" post did so disparagingly (with a thumbs down or laughing emoji). There are some repos which are truly cancerous though. The DOSBox repo maintainers were infamous for not accepting any outside contributions and doing absolutely fucking nothing, which is why some guy forked it into DOSBox-staging and is now actually developing it again.
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  1671. "Hipple, come downstairs, your mother's done making dinner."
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  1672.  @triparadox.c  There wasn't a point in my comment where I was talking about the driver.
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  1673. That, and the interviewer plays a part. This guy likely saw this person, a walking, talking stereotype, and thought to himself "Oh boy, this is gonna be good."
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  1674.  @mattmarzula  That's a whole lot of assumptions you just made in that post there, pardner. I get the feeling talking to you is not going to be very productive since I'm going to have to dig my way out of that hole you just dug for me. But for what it's worth, I too enjoy the outdoors and exercise, and I haven't even heard of "The Salty Cracker" nor have I seen it on my recommended (despite having an admittedly large interest in anime). Seems like you know a lot about that for someone trying to accuse others of the very same crime.
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  1675.  @lisahinton9682  But you wrote that whole comment all because someone typed three letters at the end of their comment. And now I'm writing this useless comment. All of this chain of events could have been avoided in a parallel universe...
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  1676.  @ElPinguinoNegro  Again, Gura didn't start from 0. She had never livestreamed before, as far as I am aware, she just made goofy songs/VA content, but she was known. Funny to me how few people seem to realize this.
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  1677.  @nws11111  what happens to a married man if his wife finds out this happened to him, without proper context? men assault people physically, women assault people socially and mentally
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  1678. ​@hedition9346 Oh he made some come back alright
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  1679. Whatever the alligators ate to extinction?
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  1680.  @ShabazzTBL  I've seen a couple of weird training partners in jiu-jitsu. I'm an adult (late 20s when this happened) and there was a teenager in the class who I rolled with once. Luckily for him I was super new so I didn't know about this technique, and I don't panic much, but from standing position, he flipped himself upside down and did this weird armbar on me without even bringing me to the ground first. Doing something like this to an untrained person without even a warning like "hey I'm going to try some crazy technique, are you cool with that" is probably one of the dumbest things you could do because you don't know how they'll react. Also, it was the most painful armbar I've ever experienced in training. Again, luckily for him I just stood there and got armbar'd, but he was a guy who was smaller than me and put his entire body weight on me. If things went slightly differently, I could have thrashed around and smashed his head or neck against the ground quite easily without intending to. I've had other guys smaller than me who got full back mount while I was standing (like a monkey on your back, basically) and it ended quite poorly for them. I had to struggle just to not fall down backwards and hurt them, but if it were a real fight that would be all I need to do to hurt them.
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  1681. Personally I think a really tiny thigh gap is nice, it's like a light shining down from heaven or at the end of the tunnel. But it's just a detail.
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  1682.  @U.Odyssey  The sheet effectively makes your shovel larger and moves more snow at once. Please apply your brain to the scenario.
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  1683.  @pwilliam255  It went off "negligently." This is the proper term when dealing with poor firearms discipline. Much in the same way the father likely neglects his son.
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  1684. Who would have guessed that a streamer would play one of the biggest new releases of the year licensed from one of the most popular novel series ever written? Wow, so ridiculous. She's clearly doing it just to piss people off.
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  1685.  @adelamr04  I just looked him up, Brian Taylor, he played during the mid 80s to early 90s.
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  1686.  @huh4233  That isn't how rights work. Rights exist to protect the least fortunate. In this case, a prison inmate. If they are not protected, the rights will erode and eventually become completely meaningless
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  1687. Agreed. I don't think crappy jobs like burger flipper, cashier or retail always necessarily teach the lessons that Jeremy thinks they do. Bad habits can be developed too, and you're much more likely to meet shitty people that will cause you to develop those habits working those jobs.
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  1688.  @bouji_  I'm not sure where you live, but it shouldn't take much more than 30 minutes, if that, for you to vote in person, let alone by mail. Here in Dallas, I can vote in 30 minutes including commute time. Voting on a single issue that you are informed on is better than not voting. Not voting is not an effective protest. I don't know why people do this. It's like silently pouting as a child in a family of 13 and hoping your mom notices you, except she's also negligent.
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  1689.  @kenshinhimura9387  you make the mistake many, many people make: you assume that criminals are intelligent. that said, i doubt there will be punishment, this time. but if and when the pendulum swings, these idiots will be taken by surprise
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  1690. Gee, we could do all that, but it takes talent, time, and money. We need black Captain America and we need him now.
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  1691.  @dividedperceptions6626  They're sold to fences who then process them for the very expensive and rare earth minerals in them (Palladium).
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  1692.  @thekamotodragon  Most campuses don't allow guns on campus. The only safe way to do it is to live off campus, which means you need to be able to afford the housing. Or just conceal your firearm adequately and never tell a soul. Most towns with a college will at least have a bus that goes to and from campuses and major neighborhoods, so you may not need a car necessarily.
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  1693. I think you meant to say "This man, who abused a child..." There's definitely a greater offense than the one you just mentioned
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  1694.  @Sitri777  Everything you're spewing right now is unadulterated trash based on assumptions. "I'm willing to bet it's probably not due to supposed preferential treatment from mods." Why? This is a common point repeated thousands of times every time hot tub streamers are brought up. Yet you act like it's some niche reason nobody would think of. It's convenient for you to build your own opponent to defeat, but I doubt OP will reply again (especially with the way you're acting) so you may as well do something else.
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  1695. Nah. It's cool, he's clearly psychopathic. He won't feel anything and even if he does, he'll make up rationalization for it. Like "she wouldn't have raised me right anyway."
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  1696.  @badrequest5596  Also, reminder that Normandy was the result of a protracted counter-intelligence effort to convince the Nazis that we would land somewhere completely different. Which actually worked. Normandy was the "weakly defended" coast line. Nukes were considered preferable, and more humane, towards both Japan and the US than a conventional invasion.
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  1697.  @EasyBakinX  OK, what if Diablo 4 and BG3 were made by the same studio? Would it be fair for me to compare how the lead game designer or executives managed Diablo 4 versus how they managed BG3? Or is that also invalid in your mind? Just so you know you're basically alone on this opinion. No one else I've discussed this topic with has made claims to the effect of "you can't compare how two different games are managed or budgeted."
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  1698. ​ @jinzok Elon is also suing Twitch now
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  1699.  @Buckycarson  Well, things tend to get complicated when your nation is the 3rd largest in the world with the most diverse population, shitty infrastructure and a sectarianism fetish practically written into the Constitution. It's relatively easy to make sure nobody shoots anyone when you're, say, Switzerland for example. Let's not pretend every nation's population is the same. But let's also not pretend that twice as many guns as the nation's population will magically vanish overnight if made illegal, or that the police, who we see here failing to perform, will be able to protect unarmed lawful citizens.
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  1700.  @JohnnyYeTaecanUktena  The whole reason Harry is so special is that he survived that curse when nobody else does.
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  1701.  @realbaconoverlord  Aww, did you upboat your own comment like every other Reddit refugee ever?
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  1702.  @PatrickRatman  The level design is extremely good and directly lifted from classic D&D (like, 1980s D&D) graph paper maps. That combined with the ruthless graverobbing aspect of the game makes it ironically one of the most true-to-form D&D adaptations I've ever seen. It's also not a battle royale because you can just leave and "win" at any time. There is no direct competition against other players at all, it simply emerges from the conditions of the match. Also, what the fuck is "forced PVP?" Did you expect this to be Left 4 Dead or something?
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  1703. ​@GoStReKoN the logic is completely ass backwards. take the example of an impulsive guy, likely to be on child support duty. he gets penalized with a suspended license because he's impulsive and wants to drive anyway, gets caught, gets thrown in jail. now where will the state get their money? how is the goal of paying for the child's future achieved?
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  1704. ​@TheSimba86 The government has to get money from somewhere. We already had this argument in the 1780s. Property tax is far and away preferable to income tax which is a relatively recent demon.
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  1705. ​ @codynoel1721 11 dollars for the meal described is cheap, though, especially if its better than fast food. This isnt the 90s anymore and inflation has hit us hard.
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  1706. Telling a "nerd" that their opinion is trivial is a great way to get them to dig in their heels.
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  1707. ​@SupaRush Yeah, it may be a case of the devs actually wanting to change the outfit for taste reasons. This outfit doesn't do any grandmas any favors.
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  1708.  @hangtownranger  Cats like him only weigh a couple dozen pounds. The lighter you are, the less likely you are to be injured from falling. Force is mass multiplied by acceleration (gravity).
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  1709. For every amazing interrogation of a serial killer you see on YouTube, there are at least a dozen clown shows like this.
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  1710.  @walnut_raisin2621  He was concerned, he dropped everything to go into the yard immediately. He just had the presence of mind not to panic. Panic is like a wildfire; it spreads and feeds off of itself, so it's important to try to be the one who doesn't panic.
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  1711.  @znegjorinorino5735  The phrase "why do men" or "all men" doesn't affect men, that's not the problem with it. The phrase (and videos like this in general) are sent by women to other women to discuss issues they have on a regular basis. Rarely will men actually see a video like this unless it goes viral, even then they'll be the minority of viewers. It's fine to vent frustrations, nothing wrong with that, and this guy in the video is a creep who "flirts" like he's trying to skim data off a website. The problem is when you generalize and make it political, you start creating an echo chamber. Studies have began to show sex is at a low, dating and romance are going downhill throughout the US. It went up among established couples during COVID (because they had nothing better to do) but it was trending down before that. I doubt that women convincing other, younger women or ones who aren't as social that all men are like this is going to do them any favors. We're building a society where nobody trusts each other; ironically through the use of social media because you get to build a bubble for yourself and never talk to anyone you might be slightly uncomfortable with. We're trending towards a zeitgeist where flirting is seen as totally unacceptable.
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  1712. @Silmarrillion123 Relying on the police to save you from a mugging is idiotic. Learn self-defense and carry a weapon if you actually want to prevent yourself from being a victim. Cops are the cleanup crew, they stop repeat offenses from the same criminals, but they can never actually PREVENT crime as it happens because they are too slow.
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  1713. Skull and Bones may be a very close second or even a competitor for the first.
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  1714.  @anonymous4319  Yeah, knives are very dangerous in these kinds of fights. There is no sure fire way to defend yourself against a knife wielder as an unarmed person, because they have more options of attack. But against a longer weapon, it can get easier if the other person has no idea what they are doing -- this idiot clearly didn't
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  1715.  @chrono2959  It's an infamously terrible game that nobody bought. You shouldn't feel bad for being unaware of it. It's only gained notoriety because of YouTube reviewers clowning on it.
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  1716. Nah she was using the oldschool 3d6 stat generation with no rerolls and rolled below 10 for everything. Now her player is pissed off and is playing as aggressively as possible to get her killed so he can reroll.
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  1717. I'm glad you got lucky, but you should definitely invest in something relatively safe after this. Preferably buy a home since you can also use that, you know, to live.
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  1718.  @scruffmcgruffthecrimedawg5661  Not at all "Crime Dawg." In most states you must respond with an equivalent level of force or have reason to believe your life is in danger. The dude never hit her.
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  1719. You'd be able to avoid most of the external infections because you'd have the super overpowered knowledge that pouring strong alcohol on any wounds you get prevents you from getting sick later. But conventional diseases, yeah, that's a tough one.
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  1720.  @wtoka342  At least I'm secure enough to not upvote my own YouTube comments.
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  1721.  @wtoka342  Oh Lord, he's pulled out his alts now.
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  1722.  @memnarch129  What I can't grasp is why people like this choose to have kids. She's obviously very well-off, living in the stereotypical white suburban gated neighborhood based on what she's posted about her life. There was definitely no financial roadblock that would prevent her from using contraception or having an abortion.
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  1723.  @daslynnter9841  Therapy is arguably even higher effort than the military. You have to shop around for someone who actually 1.) gives a fuck and 2.) is capable of helping you. Shopping around for therapists who exist in your local area is difficult enough, based on the health insurance listings I've seen, which are over 6 months out of date. The ones you do find are likely to push pills on you, even over the phone without ever having met you. Mental health treatment is such a joke in America, but nobody cares.
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  1724.  @eleseussellanra7036  Not all Asian cultures are the same, bruh. Japanese people respect animal life quite highly compared to mainland Asian cultures, actually, so I'm confused why you and the other guy brought them up since it kinda undermines your point. You can eat animals while still respecting the fact that they died to give you nourishment. This is what almost all ancient hunter-gatherer culture was about because people used to be thankful when they got to eat meat. Oh and by the way don't forget that we in the west boil lobsters and crawfish alive, too. Sadly seafood is best eaten as fresh as possible, it's not the same thing as red meat, pork or poultry, so there is a real benefit to doing this. It's not considered safe at all to cook shellfish like these which are dead before you purchase them. As long as you respect the animal and don't literally put a live octopus head in your mouth and then mug for the camera like a fucking toddler in a high chair eating spaghetti with his hands then I don't really have a huge issue with it.
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  1725.  @clintway116  Weed can make you paranoid, but that's only if you're in a bad state of mind. These men were obviously extremely nervous about their job. It wasn't the time to be high, ironically enough. All psychadelics can affect you in a similar way. There's a theorem on it called "set, and setting" meaning your mood depends on your mindset, and your environment. They probably talked themselves into being more paranoid as well.
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  1726. I hate to break it to you teach, but Shakespeare also disagrees with your "beliefs," which are wrong. I'm not a fan of the gender craze either but the grammar argument is just unfounded.
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  1727. I'm not pro-monopoly but Oracle is unadulterated garbage. It would be an improvement if Microsoft bought them. Or if they just died and took TikTok with them.
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  1728.  @zkxnkj534  Is there a particular reason why you're looking for pity points at this particular place and time? I mean yes, what you say is in fact true, but maybe you could have picked a video that wasn't about old cynical women giving other women terrible dating advice to tell that story. Contrarianism isn't a good approach for meaningful discussion.
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  1729.  @StumpyFroggy  The idea is real, and that's all that matters. Jesus Christ, you have the reading comprehension of a middle schooler.
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  1730.  @runningbear1982  The implication that only the armed forces should carry weapons is blatantly un-American.
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  1731.  V. P. N  You mean like Uvalde where the cops protected the students?
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  1732.  @Franimus  I was referring to "He didn't get through a New York magazine."
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  1733.  @TheKapowz  Imagine being moronic enough to think that someone has to lose weight before they go exercising with you. If she really cared and was interested she would have said, "Let's go jogging so we can both get in shape." The absurd catch-22 of "lose weight so we can exercise together" is mind-blowing.
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  1734. there were multiple (real) crashes on this video which it would have made a difference in, so your point is completely moot
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  1735.  @alexberkowitz5897  If you swallow media that pretentiously claims to be an adaptation of something else, while sabotaging the source material, then you're a little bug-brained yourself there, fella. Next you'll tell me the Halo TV series is good.
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  1736.  @idicula1979  Rural communities don't magically get better just because you throw people at them. In fact, the opposite happens if you do that too quickly. There won't be enough jobs, perhaps even not enough food at local markets. Crime will rise because so many people will be unemployed.
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  1737.  @youtubesucks1821  I would say he is, moderately if you're looking at it objectively. He's made jokes in reference to supporting Trump before (i.e. his WoW guild is called THE WALL) but he doesn't seem to believe in directly injecting American politics into his discourse, except where it happens to overlap with gaming and media in general. Which, coincidentally, is how most people who want to just enjoy their hobbies without political interference feel. People like Vaush are those who are activists first, and see hobbies as a vehicle for their activism. Because "everything is political, maaan."
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  1738.  @Tomer_nur  No one's going to jail here, sadly, no matter the outcome. That's the power of living in the upper crust. This is really just theater. Ironic because both the plaintiff and the defendant are actors.
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  1739. No one's forcing you to donate. The word donate does not imply a promise or transaction. If you willingly do that, all I can do is question your intelligence.
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  1740.  @TheUplate  I mean I've seen a biologist with PhD write a thesis about intelligent design and why creationism is true... Sometimes it seems like people become experts in a field just to confirm their biased views by poisoning the well.
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  1741.  Alexis Leskinen  Have YOU researched nuclear waste disposal? At least here in the US, there is a massive underground complex for waste disposal under the Rockies that is just sitting there, empty and unused. I'm amazed it was even built in the first place. The transportation of nuclear waste is done by using train cars that could basically be picked up by the Greek titan Chronos and slammed against the ground like a child's toy without being damaged.
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  1742.  @michaelarenas9185  they had 4 sniper teams, one of them allegedly had a bead on him and didn't pull the trigger (but that part is unsubstantiated rumor) still, the fact that none of the snipers saw this guy is... something
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  1743. ​@RevanBC It's just a running gag. Why would you hate fun enough to complain about it?
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  1744. the difference is cyberpunk aimed for the moon and fell short. starfield is the same by the numbers Bethesda rpg that we've played since Skyrim or even Oblivion and it was never going to be anything else. don't expect to see overhauls of fundamental systems like how police works in starfield because it was never designed to be anything else
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  1745.  @hebedabber2770  Stewart is a Jew. What do you mean?
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  1746.  @james64ibm  I find it hilarious that you certainly included nations in Africa in those countries and are trying to claim that kids there aren't exposed to guns, blades or warfare over there
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  1747. "Is this Die Antwort?" Laughed out loud.
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  1748.  @Hani300  it's clearly the same fucking guy lmao he posted the same 2 comments 2 times in a row
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  1749.  @DeclanDSI  it can be a lot of things, small town America isn't very well supported much of the time and they often resort to buying shit from corporate retailers or restaurants. poor harvests can affect it as well, avocados are known to suffer for this from time to time because they're grown in california another big thing is horrible city ordinances, you may have heard about groceries that have been shut down in certain areas of certain cities causing a relatively new term to be coined, "food deserts" where usually poor people have to drive an inordinate amount of time just to go to the grocery store. these are usually due to completely unmitigated waves of theft that the city police can't (due to stupid laws) or won't crack down on, but can also be for other reasons i'm fortunate, i live in the middle of a big city in Texas so plenty of good food is available, but it's not the same everywhere in the US. basically, our people are suffering because too many politicians act like mustachioed cartoon villains and want to perform social experiments on poor people
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  1750. If someone complains then the owner is obligated to do something about it. You can pretend to be offended but imagine if the owner did nothing.
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  1751. You can also hear a mouse click.
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  1752.  @LukaTim  My guy really trusts headlines on the internet
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  1753. not surprising really, Gollum was a licensed game from an extremely popular IP
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  1754.  @joefer5360  when they grind it up and add all the preservatives to it so they don't have to worry about it going bad in the supply chain
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  1755.  @liamnissanS2K  It's called bureaucracy, of course not everyone is aware of what everyone else is doing in the government.
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  1756.  @fallenmercury  And who made the choice to spend those 2 hours chasing some stupid achievement? When I see these types of challenges you know what I say? "Fuck that, doesn't sound very fun." End of story. If the guy wants to chase some tedious fucking challenge while broadcasting his gameplay for everyone to take advantage of, while being the "big shot" that he is, he should expect people to troll him. I'd rather spend 2 hours playing modded STALKER instead.
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  1757. @MrPland1992 Nah. It's always been the "Were allowed to say the N-word because we support the right causes" channel.
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  1758.  @jadezee6316  Aaand there it is, I was waiting for the "there's something wrong with all of you" comment from the one guy that clearly doesn't fit in.
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  1759. No one will have anyone this excited about them so quickly without it being a red flag.
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  1760. ​ @eMorphized  From my experience, Nouveau is shit in a tupperware container. Of course, I play lots of games. I don't know exactly for what applications Nouveau is suitable, but games ain't it. You need the latest proprietary drivers for that. However, the last time I tried to use Nouveau, I couldn't even use my desktop -- it was a garbled mess. That was years ago though. Personally I don't quite understand the need for some people to use OSS drivers for Nvidia. You bought a GPU designed by Nvidia, made by one of their licensed manufacturers, and yet you feel the need to use a driver made by some random guy who isn't affiliated with Nvidia? Makes no sense. It would be nice if those drivers were good, but they just aren't and it is thoroughly unpragmatic to use them.
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  1761.  @johnsullivan937  It's faster, in their mind. It may not be actually, but it's a way to perform the same exact routine on every car they come across. Thieves are rarely competent or forward-thinking. If they were, they likely would not be thieves.
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  1762.  @roberts8883  I am not saying it is a wrong position at all, I'm stating that if you are to take a prejudiced view on it then you must also be prepared to take responsibility for those you consider inept. I've seen a lot of comments on this issue that amount to "We should take the right for women to vote away because they can't make good decisions, but I want my wife to only make good decisions."
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  1763. In fairness even career criminals hate people that mess with kids.
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  1764.  @rytlocknroll  Lore-wise, the T'au are the most insignificant of the fully-fledged codex armies. If the Imperium wanted to they could crush them as they only own a few worlds. However the T'au only threaten what are essentially backwater Imperial worlds, and they only do so very slowly (they do not have FTL, IIRC).
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  1765. Master's degrees are mostly a scam. There are sparingly few fields that make sense to get one over 2 years of work experience and it doesn't make you look much better on a resume.
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  1766.  @c.s.christopher5801  I've seen dozens of security cam videos of private citizens having way better firearm discipline than this particular cop.
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  1767. @Sycopathy I like the idea of tipping because it would ostensibly be non-taxable income. But sadly that isn't the case anymore. What you're talking about isn't even the half of it when it comes to delivery drivers. Pizza delivery drivers have to use their own car. Easily a quarter of your pay goes straight into your car for wear and tear. I have never asked for change from a delivery driver, although I also haven't paid in cash in ages. I didn't even think they carried change. The idea that I would ask the driver to drive back and forth just because I accidentally gave them a tip is absurd, not to mention a $7 tip is basically the exact average tip proportion for that order so there's no way a reasonable driver would expect to give change back.
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  1768.  @SouthoftheHill  Omelettes are one of those things that are easy to get started on and nearly impossible to master. It's why traditional chefs like Ramsey use it as a measuring stick for a chef's skill so frequently. I can technically make an omelette that's totally edible, but it will have no fluff and the egg will be slightly overdone so it will be a bit chewy.
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  1769. The problem with the Germany analogy is that as I understand it, Germany has a somewhat decent economy. Of course their recent energy "policies" make the similarities all too apparent.
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  1770. Guarantee you that kid has been punished worse for less, and now that her mom breaks her rules, she'll never have an obedient child again.
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  1771.  @loyaltyb4ruined  There are doctors who don't support wearing masks either. The executives in control of the media just selectively decided which doctors to promote based on arbitrary or external factors. Don't you find it weird how most people are anti-corporate based on their track record of shortsightedness, but when drug corporations are involved with COVID, suddenly they can do no wrong and we should give them all of our money? You can continue being an unsympathetic douchebag but it isn't going to bring this nation any closer together. As for storming the capital building, well, at least no black-owned businesses were burned down... Seems like a par-for-the-course post-Ferguson riot to me.
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  1772. There's like, $150-200 in that register. And this idiot showed his face on camera. Nobody should be fighting this guy over that amount of money
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  1773.  @soapy9446  Sorry, but you're obviously arguing in bad faith if you think that there's no middle ground between "locked up in a gun safe" and "using your gun as a fucking conversation piece in the middle of the living room"
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  1774.  @garymcjerry  It's easier than working a full time job. How do I know? Because plenty of people work a full time job, and are fit, at the same time. Not exactly difficult to reason that out.
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  1775.  @TheBayzent  It should worry you too. Extremist opinions are not really sustainable unless everyone agrees with the extremist opinion, which is a bit of a paradox (extremism by definition is a minority opinion). All it really does it create divisions in society that cause us to ignore real problems. This is, in fact, the goal of many politicians, especially the worst ones.
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  1776. @Ontiming2023 The DA is black.
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  1777. I have never paid for cable in my entire life, I graduated college in 2014.
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  1778.  @max_coast  "parents not being satisfied with how their kids are educated is the same as internet users from another state talking shit about their kids" ok
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  1779.  @Suesserto_000  & KNUCKLES
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  1780.  @dangererwin4561  There was a time, very long ago, where I considered Colbert funny even if he was of the standard left wing milquetoast political leaning. After Trump there was absolutely no hope for his terminal case of TDS, but he was on the decline even before that.
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  1781. The murderers would normally have been broken on the wheel I think, very bad way to go, so a lot of them have "beheaded as a favor" instead
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  1782.  @flamingcat1101  That's how my dog behaves too, if I make a commotion or laugh really loud she immediately comes over to share in my good vibes
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  1783.  @buckshots2dabrain859  Again, for woodcutting, yes. There isn't a reason why you would want to add more unnecessary weight to your fighting weapon.
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  1784.  @tomrotelli1355  I'd hope you could see the irony inherent in painting an entire group of people as "racist" based on the region they live in
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  1785.  @daltonfarris  i don't even think Judge is particularly conservative, it's just based on his life in Texas and is therefore grounded and doesn't feel fake. i mean one of the episodes is about Hank having a crisis of political identity after he shakes George Bush senior's hand and it's limp
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  1786.  @DebasedAnon  First of all, why shouldn't an RPG have erotic elements? The game was already going to be rated M anyway. Are you really that scared of the facts of life? The reason why character customization was "ignored" is because they would likely have to revamp how character models are built/rendered to support morphing geometry with sliders. The same customization was present in the Divinity Original Sin games. On top of that, I believe they adhere to a design philosophy that "designed faces" are better than player-created ones. Personally, I think you should have the right to make a stupid looking character, but you make it seem as if adding 1 penis and 1 vagina, with and without a hair texture, takes an equal amount of effort. It clearly doesn't. I've played on Neverwinter Nights custom servers with an equal amount of genitalia "customization." It was frankly a very low effort feature. Secondly, why do you think that Larian will completely change their hiring criteria? Did the CEO get replaced? Are there new investors? Did they go public? These are the things that change a company's hiring criteria. Not a game selling well. If anything, a game selling well reinforces their existing strategy. CDPR branched out into a company that also distributes games, like Valve. Comparing them to Larian is ridiculous. Larian has shown no evidence that they want to shift their focus or change strategy yet.
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  1787.  @abeidiot  It wasn't buried for those who matter, i.e. the gamers. Nobody takes Kotaku seriously anymore. Remember Gawker? They no longer exist.
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  1788.  @bugsquashed5509  It's the opposite for me. I see almost no point in engaging romantically. It's a fuck ton of effort, and it is extremely likely to end in failure. I'm a very results and numbers based person. I have yet to see anyone offer evidence that romance is worth it. The few times I have been truly interested in a woman romantically, I lost all motivation to consume porn. However, they were either taken or not interested in me.
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  1789. His life is already ruined if he gets to this point. The problem is nobody's allowed to end it except the law and they refuse to do it. All you can hope for is he decides to go to a stand your ground state.
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  1790.  @boianko  That is not suspect at all and shows you don't really understand the history of D&D. When 4th edition came out, fans of the game were mostly furious. It was a complete redesign of the game that made it much more restricted and, for lack of a better word, "video game-y." All of the classes fit into 4 roles they made up with which suspiciously resembled the "Holy Trinity" you'd know if you played MMOs like World of Warcraft. All monsters except "bosses" had only 1 HP in 4th edition. The action economy was streamlined to the extreme -- while D&D does need streamlining of its ludicrous action economy (and Pathfinder still suffers greatly from this), this, again, made it look like a generic MMO where every class in a "role" did basically the same thing. Pathfinder was a direct result of this dissatisfaction with 4th edition and a desire for more minimally updated 3.5e rules and more adventure content. By the time 5th came out, Pathfinder had already gained steam and had a large following.
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  1791. @stuffchat "From Hell" is the opposite of modern art... look up Hieronymous Bosch
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  1792.  @blackjacka.5097  Well, it's a double-edged sword. I personally am not really invested into being able to look up Ashley's skirt. But that does not mean I particularly care whether or not it is in the game. If something is inconsequential, that means it shouldn't be changed. However, the game is being remade from scratch, so it is the developers' choice whether they want to spend the effort on reconstructing such a minor easter egg. In a way, they did, because there is still an animation for it. I don't personally understand the choice for including both the physics-defying skorts and the animation where Ashley covers herself. It's as if they wanted to nod to players that wanted to look up Ashley's skirt and admonish them at the same time. Makes no sense.
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  1793. And the first judge received no reprimand or penalties and lived happily ever after...
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  1794. The mayors of Chicago and New York are silently supporting this bill but they'll never say it into a microphone.
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  1795.  @DRNT940  The problem is that the vast majority of society treats charges as conviction, no questions asked. Every suit is way too paranoid about losing money over a mob of angry people that 99% of the time, never materializes anyway, because a guy was arrested one time by a cop who made a mistake. So they fire you on the spot "just to be safe." The only real solution is to work in a highly-skilled profession for a small company that would suffer greatly if they suddenly fired you.
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  1796. You have to admit there's something seriously wrong with you before you can get therapy.
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  1797. The 70-pound figure is completely absurd. I would dare to say that is heavier than a medieval knight in full plate armor intending to ride only on horseback. Metatron is right in that 70 pounds is light for a modern soldier. On the march, a typical modern soldier properly equipped will have well over 100 pounds of kit, and in combat it will be lighter but I believe still in the region of 70 pounds or heavier. Not to mention that, as others have stated, the Greeks viewed athleticism with extreme reverence. Even most of the famous philosophers believed that to be a philosopher you also had to be a ripped Chad. Plato believed that warriors should also be learned and accomplished poets. The superiority of intelligence and physique went hand in hand to them.
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  1798.  @xAudiolith  Weimar was worse actually. we are getting kind of close though
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  1799.  @madaggar9765  Well no one can stop you from min-maxing if that's what you prefer, but it is a pretty fast way to run out of "fun" for a given game. You're prioritizing just one aspect of the game, character building.
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  1800.  @trianglemoebius  One has to assess how one approaches risks like this holistically. The situation in which you are being carjacked, but you somehow don't realize it until the carjacker has a chance to grab for the gun in your center console, seems incredibly unlikely unless you are a taxi or ride share driver. On the other hand, the unknown risks of using a new and barely tested product (like the jams shown in the video) are quite numerous.
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  1801.  @PeterGriffin-in5ut  Laissez-faire capitalism doesn't really pan out. People just don't have enough empathy for each other to make sure that their own employees and subordinates are treated appropriately. Not to mention the massive issues with anti-competitive and trust forming. The issue with laissez-faire capitalism is that the successful companies have every incentive to influence and change the market to make it ANTI-capitalist. They will steal trade secrets, intimidate their opponents, etc. Otherwise they would have to deal with more competition which makes their own lives harder. The government is not perfect but neither are CEOs. We need some regulation in order to at least make it more difficult for a successful company to undermine the whole point of the capitalist system, which is fair competition that yields a superior product and superior working conditions.
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  1802.  @kiwidll4018  self-insertion is extremely cringe buddy, get some imagination even if it's not motivated by horniness this would be like the author of a novel stating "my character is a self insert of me because i wanted to be immersed in my own story and i'm not trans like you guys"
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  1803. ​ @2bit8bytes It's just not how people thought at the time, especially knights. To be loyal to one's lord is paramount. Of course, you could argue that this was a brainwashing tactic used to manipulate knights so that lords could have capable warriors at their side no matter what, but it was a different time and that was viewed by many knights as the moral thing to do.
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  1804. To clarify you will never see a "bad boy" be a successful father and a woman who chases "the mysterious guy" will always get bored when you want to settle down.
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  1805. PoE is filled with long winded purple prose, I could barely stand it and I don't understand how people like it. But then again Twilight was a bestseller series.
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  1806.  @lolilollolilol7773  You are, though. "Climate change" is a very old headline, and it has taken many different names over the years. In the 1970s, while Carlin was still alive and even quite hale and hearty, it was posited that the Earth would freeze over. Literally global cooling. It is not that the climate doesn't change, it's that we are extremely arrogant for thinking we have any significant part in it. The climate changes, and we, insignificant little peons that we are, must adapt or die.
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  1807.  @lannifincoris6482  Ah yes, the Shire, the only place where the common people eat like British royalty
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  1808.  @SentinalSlice  You must be a big fan of SNL.
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  1809. I'm willing to bet that he's produced automated sentry turrets and teleporters for two rich old men fighting since the 1950's
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  1810.  @swallowedinthesea11  100 degrees in Chicago? Lmfao, dream on. Also, stop with the "we" shit, Latin people don't actually say "Latinx."
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  1811. I've only rolled up a character with my own disability (poor vision) once and it was a point buy system where having flaws gave you points to spend on other things. Almost every character I've rolled bears little to no resemblance to me personally. I'm a reserved, blunt person in real life and I'm currently playing an affable nobleman who is extremely good at socializing. Self-insertion has always been the mark of an inexperienced role-player, or worse, an inexperienced author -- it's much worse in novels.
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  1812.  @SLIGHTMARE  Okay, but what if the dog bit him, even playfully? He would likely have to be rushed to the hospital just from the allergic reaction. I have a mother who is allergic to wasps and she needed to be rushed to the hospital immediately from a wasp sting when we lived at a house that constantly had issues with them in the back yard. Seems pretty justified to me to be scared, unless you just really like the feel of hospital beds.
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  1813.  @trajanfidelis  Remember to always check if YouTube automatically deleted your comment by trying to save an edit. If it says "returned error," it was shadowbanned.
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  1814.  @Dutchbrother07  who's "everyone?" you are acting like there is no disagreement in this thread even though you are here, disagreeing with multiple people. you're being intentionally vague to make yourself seem more intelligent. i hate to tell you, but it is not working. this is why english class is important kids.
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  1815.  @ravenzyblack  Yeah I'm sure you'd react the same way if this happened in the US... "Oh look a black person has arrived in our town! Let's take a picture!"
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  1816. Hard to disagree here. He was there for a month. The old family never looked for him, all they'd have to do is browse the websites of local shelters. These shelters WANT to give away the dogs because otherwise they may get euthanized; it was not a secret that the dog was there. There's also the question of how he ran away in the first place. If dogs get attached to you, they may get distracted by something and run away if they're not trained, but they'll come back later. They have a great sense of direction. Some people keep dogs for shallow reasons. I don't believe they were "abusive" but some people seem to believe that dogs don't need that much time and care. I see too many of them when I go on walks. Dogs locked up on balconies unsupervised or in houses for the whole day. I have an Aussie that I adopted when she was 18 months old. Her old family gave her to me because they already foster several dogs and had too many; she was born naturally to two other Aussies they had. However she's still always happy to see her old owner and happy to go back to his house with him for visits. It's not the same, the old family from this video likely wasn't giving him the stimulation he needed.
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  1817. You hadn't heard any of it because it's bullshit. I have over 70 hours in the game and there are bugs but nothing remotely what that guy described. Worst I've seen in a cutscene is bad camera placement so that you can't see anything, but the angle changes every time you pick a dialogue option. One time there was a funny moment where a character was really small/far away then suddenly zoomed up to the camera. I've only played Act 1 because my friends have weird schedules and I have about 3 concurrent save files going. Maybe it gets worse later.
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  1818.  @WinginWolf  I'd be more terrified of feds than local. That's why we have a federated government to begin with -- it is based upon the idea that governments closer to their citizens are more effective. Marginally perhaps, but it's easier to hold your mayor accountable than your senator.
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  1819. They'll expose Thomas's sins while hiding their own because his pale in comparison to theirs.
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  1820.  @testingoyay4648  i'm nearly convinced that he checked the peep hole, didn't see the cop because he side stepped it like a fucking goblin, then assumed it was a set up and went back to retrieve his gun and open the door. that's why he took so long
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  1821.  @LolzDxS  Your brain is more than just your consciousness. We are wired to be more empathetic to people the closer they are to us genetically. It is why racism exists, and why it must be "taught out of us" in schools.
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  1822.  @thegreatazal5021  yeah, bethesda cares so little about guns that they'll just slap any random thing together for their next game and call it cool without thinking about any of the details
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  1823.  @Comuzzy  Except sometimes you get bullied for things you can't really control. I was bullied because I was born with terrible eyesight and I made better grades than all the kids in my class. You realize that MDE sketch was a joke, right? Turns out kids are fucking stupid. I will say that it made me a bit less of a pussy, but I'm not going to be writing any love letters.
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  1824.  @veila0924  you're thoroughly ignorant if you're not aware that over 200k people have crossed the Mexico border for the past several months, one month over 300k
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  1825.  @tataatthedisco  It's hardly different from people posting on reddit or some other website discussing their salaries. People do do this all the time, especially when it's someone looking to get into tech or whatever industry asking what they can potentially make. "I've worked for 8 years and I make this much..." so on and so forth. The only thing they don't do is name the exact company, typically.
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  1826.  @MassiveDestructionSP  Google Search has far more value because it shows you things that are relevant to what you're looking for. Reddit shows you a smattering of posts that are vaguely related to a topic, but must typically accommodate a wide variety of discussion. This means you'll get anything from in-depth analysis/support to a stupid image macro as an OP. Ultimately, your comparison is totally inappropriate because Google and platforms like Reddit serve very different purposes. Google exists purely to serve information. Reddit is a discussion platform, which means that a user may not always know what they are looking for when they browse the site, but fails at that because it both fails to filter discussions adequately and incentivizes its users to subvert genuine discussion (updoots). An anonymous imageboard (4chan) has the same problems with content filtering, but has fewer issues with disingenuous discussion because OPs are heavily policed by the community for being low-effort and there is no way to signal to other users that you are a "better user" through some kind of point system. You must rely on the content of your post. There's a reason why most of the famous internet memes originated from 4chan, back in its heyday. On the other hand, a more traditional discussion forum filters its topics more adequately with subforums (Support, General, Off-Topic, etc.) but still has similar problems with communities becoming too incestuous and abusive moderators. Both of these options, while flawed, still succeed at their jobs better than Reddit does. Both of them also allow you to post original content. Also, please show me a Reddit post that hosts its own image or video. I'd love to see that, would be a first.
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  1827.  @lbthingsstuffmore9513  Because comedians, especially political satire comics, never have serious or real opinions. Everything is done with irony.
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  1828.  @unchargedpickles6372  And why weren't the local police able to acquire that same key? Makes no difference that it was a fed.
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  1829. The sad thing is there was very likely no technical failure in their security. In other words, the hackers didn't have to resort to cracking passwords using algorithms or exploiting weaknesses in their website. Since Twitter admitted it was social engineering (translation: someone was stupid enough to click on that suspicious link in an email), it means that chances are there was someone high enough up in the ladder to have access to all the secure user data, while also stupid enough to get conned by one of these scammers. Then they used their credentials to get everyone else's credentials involved in this scam.
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  1830.  @gurmyigoll3535  "What chromosomes am I!? I ate a bowl of Y chromosomes for breakfast."
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  1831. @2killzore How much does Todd pay you to get mad at people for not liking the games you like?
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  1832. ​ @shadowshots9393 I thought the literal translation was "period of warring states"
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  1833. ​ @thestarisalie  My friend you just typed two essayposts, just so you could embody the meme of the guy saying "nice argument, but you made a tiny grammar mistake so I win." Why even bother embarrassing yourself? You could just stop posting.
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  1834. And if you call right now, you'll get another burning trash can, absolutely FREE!
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  1835. @I C The director of KH ruined FF7s story in the remake with totally unnecessary time machine shenanigans and nonsensical plot points brought up earlier in the timeline that clearly expect you to have played the original game even though they marketed it as the story of FF7 for a new generation. It was confused and made no sense.
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  1836. Well if you're doing the Paul Reverie thing, trying to make it on time for some important mission, you'd definitely need to keep your horse going.
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  1837. I was recently the victim of a package thief this Christmas season. I just so happened to order pet supplies two weeks before Christmas. One of the packages was late, and one morning some guy walking his dog turns up to my door and says "this was left opened on my cul de sac with your name and address on it." I'd like to have seen the look of the idiot who opened it to find a six-pack of cans of dog food instead of an expensive Christmas gift.
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  1838. ​ @Voeris1 it's bad in context, no truly good person would call themselves "good" because good and evil are hard concepts to define and meaningless in the grand scheme of things anyway. no one would say "I'm evil" either. plus good people are acutely aware of their sins and therefore hesitant to call themselves some kind of saint
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  1839.  @jonthecarguy  It doesn't matter? He's only one clown in a city of clowns.
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  1840. Supposedly, hot beverages absorb faster because they don't need to be heated by your internals to your body temperature. I don't know enough about biology to know if it's true though, but I have a friend who swears by drinking hot water in the morning to hydrate faster.
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  1841.  @mastyer0fReality  human interaction is only complete when it's face to face, we are hard-wired to read facial expressions and body language. this is why diplomats meet in person
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  1842. ​@voidphoria4732 I would say it's more a question of time investment. What makes more sense: going to a bar in hopes that a woman who might be worthy of years of your love and admiration happens to be there simultaneously, or using an app that specifically helps you find women you might be interested in? Hell there's a lot of IRL avenues for hookups that make more sense than "a bar."
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  1843. Try watching the video buddy. I know it's hard, but if you want to seem like you know what's going on, you have to listen first.
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  1844.  @George-xb5ey  They got that idea from the Brits and Hong Kong.
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  1845.  @randyxyt5562  That's rather arrogant of you. You really think anyone who doesn't find your shitty YT jokes funny is a child? Man these Reddit kids today are pretty entitled. Why don't you become a comedian if you think you're so talented? Probably pays more than writing YT comments.
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  1846. Sometimes? Shooting mutants at all is a total waste of ammo because they don't drop any. In the ideal run for this game you'd never fight a mutant. It feels a lot more survival-esque in that regard.
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  1847. Aren't they two-timing gun grabbers anyway? In perhaps the greatest twist of irony possible. Or am I thinking of a different coffee brand?
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  1848. I don't mean to blow your mind or anything, but there are still plenty of people who listen to and play jazz. I took courses on jazz in college. They had multiple instructors and the school didn't even specialize in music, it was an engineering and business school. It was in Dallas.
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  1849. Well, have you ever seen Roman graffiti? They practically had their own social media commentary back then. But really if anyone knew about me 2000 years after I died, I'd be extremely flattered (assuming I could somehow be flattered after death).
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  1850.  @Ninjaananas  Haha, of course they don't. What is abortion? Children have no right to live if they inconvenience the mother. I am not stating my moral position. I am merely stating a fact of how society works.
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  1851. Did you miss that the term "assault weapon" was used and not "assault rifle" not to mention the very high likelihood that the AK is not even operable?
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  1852.  @SergioLeonardoCornejo  The ones who aren't self-respecting couldn't give a damn about astrophysics to begin with.
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  1853. The fuck? She just never lost during the day class? Dude if I would have quit after I lost once I never would have gone to class a second time. I doubt this happened
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  1854. I don't play Warzone, but it's probably a shit challenge then. Anyone could have done that shit. Also, it's good content. No need to get mad about it. Well, get mad because it's good content, but no need to get personal.
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  1855.  @Bloodgulchblue  Nah, he has a point. Kanye West is a controversy monger, it's how he remains relevant and promotes himself. Always has been. This particular bit is no more substantial than an "E!" channel show or any celebrity gossip magazine. There is some level of genuineness to his controversy considering he's put his money where his mouth is, but he is definitely promoting himself.
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  1856. Wild speculation. He kept his motorbikes in his garage. There is nothing that could be remotely conveyed as entrapment.
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  1857. His channel's early days were actually gold when he'd review obscure games in a funny way. Most people don't even know he had a phase where he did that.
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  1858. Also, Doom and Quake had a Mormon level designer (Sandy Petersen).
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  1859. 300m is about 3 football fields, assuming a McDonalds cheeseburger.
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  1860.  @mattmurphy7030  Assault rifle. Notice how the word "weapon" or "style" doesn't enter into it. Would you also happen to think that "machine gun" and "machine shop" are in any way related, by chance?
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  1861.  @pieheadthemainiac5480  Didn't plan on it. Are you going to reply with another snide and pointless comment? Outlook seems likely.
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  1862.  @InDyingLights  relax dude, he probably just didn't have a car with him. they probably taxi'd there to begin with so they could drink now, to be fair, if i was him i would be running as far away from the venue as possible not waiting for my dad to pick me up in a cab. ensuring that my wife would be with me of course
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  1863.  @sean9545  The cartels can get drugs into Native American reservations all the way up to the northern midwest. You should do some research on actual police cases instead of pretending your ignorance is enlightenment and shaming others for being smarter than yourself.
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  1864.  @sean9545  I'm not going to be ashamed for having emotions, not that you do yourself any favors by pretending to be a shrink on YouTube comments. But yeah, "casting doubt" is a great way to excuse yourself from having to do any research.
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  1865. Not only that they were doing it at a building where nobody was even around. It looked like after hours or the off day for that school. Steel and concrete don't get damaged by skateboards. Who cares?
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  1866. She looks just like the Elin from Tera Online.
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  1867. In the Battle of the Sexes, an obnoxious washed up Australian tennis athlete named Bobby Riggs, who spent most of his retirement days drinking, challenged the top female tennis players in the world to beat him. He had been retired for over 20 years, though he was a champion in his heyday (the 40s). He was first challenged by Margaret Court, a 7-time champion in women's tennis at the prime of her game. She lost, badly. He was finally beaten by Billie Jean King in 1975, Court's closest competitor. She won most using smart tactics than anything else and by observing Court's loss. There were also rumors, backed by some testimonial, that Riggs threw the match intentionally to settle gambling debts with mobsters.
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  1868. ​@Zanorai I strongly don't feel I'm "addicted" but even I am not at that level of denial. You can be addicted to anything if you have the personality for it.
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  1869.  @KingofAwesomness14  Ah yes. The classic weapon triangle. Sword -> Bike -> Gun
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  1870.  @EndertheWeek  so what is even your argument? that the average Brit is more moral than a politician? isn't that true everywhere? lol
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  1871.  @cnutsiggardason2014  It's always an excuse, as long as you're not on the losing side. The Nuremburg trials, while they might have produced the desired outcome, were not very impartial at all. Hearsay was frequently used as evidence in that trial.
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  1872.  @rennnnn914  It seems a lot more reasonable when you consider that if you're a farmer, or a hunter, you have a good which is going to go bad quite quickly, and you need to get rid of it. Obviously there are old means of preservation too, but those methods take time and effort. As well as salt, something which was not always available, and was used as its own medium of exchange sometimes.
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  1873.  @VesperAegis  Yeah, you're right. Someone should do something about all the black-on-Asian hate crime in New York.
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  1874.  @natesneatstuff8296  As far as I know, I've never heard of him behaving in that way again, although it's not like I go out of my way to snoop on people's lives.
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  1875.  @Andreas-gh6is  Ah yes, the all-too-common-case of my gun jumping out of my holster and shooting my dad. How could I forget?
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  1876.  @Queen-ut1dy  But you are arguing. You just disagreed with me again and provided a logical explanation as to why you disagreed. However, this is the internet and you could have stopped replying at any moment -- in fact you should have, because you think arguing with strangers is sad. Yet you didn't. Why is that?
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  1877.  @lucasnadamas9317  No, you simply think I am sad. In reality, I'm quite amused and you have no definite way of knowing my emotional state. Unless, of course, you are a Solipsist, in which case I disregard your opinion anyway. I hope your smug satisfaction lasts whenever you're playing video games, browsing social media or doing anything else that isn't productive, and think to yourself: "Man, I could be arguing with strangers online right now."
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  1878. @Mark68 I can't speak for others but personally I don't think there is nearly an attachment or sunk cost with D&D that you have with video games like Blixzard's WoW. If you have a level 10 D&D character and you want to switch systems, you can just make a level 10 character in the new system. No one is stopping you. If you want to switch for your next campaign, it's even easier. D&D is not particularly unique in its flavor and style, in fact it never really has been.
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  1879.  @r_emll  I've literally never seen a math question where you're expected to throw out a statement given as fact and I have a feeling you haven't either. Extraneous information, certainly. Lies, no. Either way there is no reasonable way an adult, let alone a child around age 9, could figure out that he's just supposed to assume "Marty ate more pizza" is a bald-faced lie when it is entirely possible.
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  1880.  @xanorexorcist  Mileena is a test tube abomination made by interdimensional aliens. The only relatively normal people in the MK universe are Sonya, Johnny and Cassie Cage. Maybe Kung Lao and Liu Kang.
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  1881.  @Zakjuh  Actually the bun is one of my least favorite parts about it. It's too thick and doughy. I don't like spending a lot of time chewing and my stomach space on what is basically one of the blandest hoagies I've eaten. I like the French-cut onions and I always like pickles. It would be a decent enough sandwich if they'd change out the bun and wouldn't pretend it's some kind of cult item in the way that In-N-Out does with their "secret menu."
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  1882. Neil is barely more intelligent or qualified than Bill Nye. He's just hopping on a bandwagon.
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  1883.  @tesladrew2608  Because you didn't study Reconstruction in grade school history. Not our problem, unfortunately.
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  1884. Making a few dark jokes is enough to upset people like Zane. I don't understand how their priorities get so mixed up. Plus, I seriously doubt he's never made a dark joke about killing those who didn't get the wuflu vax, or Nazis, or conservatives in general.
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  1885. The media those kids consume is the symptom, not the problem. This pattern occurs again and again with any kid who becomes violent.
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  1886.  @dmitrychirkov4206  dota2 in closed beta was way less toxic than it is now
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  1887. I'm sorry did you just describe doing a delivery quest as if it's a good thing? Fuck me. The buyers remorse is strong with this one
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  1888. They've been a laughingstock for eons. I remember when Jason Schreier worked there and wrote an opinion piece about how the art director of Dragon's Crown was into kids. His proof? The super tall and mature looking Sorceress character with gigantic knockers. Of course. Also, fun fact, Schreier means "screamer" in German.
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  1889.  @QamruddinKhan-hf4dn  This just in: Muslim makes a war in Europe from 80 years ago about him, film at 11.
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  1890.  @apaaaa  Gee if only we could study the drug to know what effects it has on people and doctors could make intelligent recommendations or restrictions based on what other medication the patient is taking. Y'know, like all those drugs that say "don't drink while taking this."
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  1891.  @Robert-ey9xh  It is the rise of online dating, too many women have, since a young age, believed they could have "any man" because their perceived dating pool is the whole internet. "The perfect is the enemy of the good" applies strongly here. The same principle just doesn't apply to men; most of their minds don't work that way and if theirs does, we consider them a narcissist.
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  1892.  @Turbo-DF  The tears of rage have long since dried up. For most, we've moved past the stage of acceptance. It's sad to think about, like a pet who died long ago being sad, but it's something you get over. Society is not going in a good direction for romance and most studies reinforce this hypothesis. All I can say is, if you're a Darwinist, you'd better hope that women choose the right men. Because the way our dating scene works now, our future rests entirely in their hands, unless we can perfect artificial wombs. You can insult me if you'd like, but you, like me, are just coping with the death of modern society rearing its ugly head. It was inevitable anyway. Empires fall, it's just the way of humanity.
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  1893.  @Turbo-DF  That is one of the major sources of motivation I have in life. You can improve yourself, if you have the drive. Getting the drive is not always easy, though. Always start small and do those things consistently. It's not unlike building a pyramid. The thing you truly want can only be reached at the top, but it takes a fair bit of effort for you to build the habits to get there. One of the things I was most proud of was joining a martial arts gym a few years ago. I am an introvert, I knew no one there and I am also a computer nerd; I had every excuse to not participate. But I did, everyone was very friendly, and I bettered myself for it.
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  1894. He's an opportunist, guy doesn't even look like he's out of a job. He's the type of guy to ask a random person on the street for money like he's homeless just to see if it would take.
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  1895. @rob chapala Bruh, are you trying to reverse psychology him or something?
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  1896.  @christiangonzalez6945  I never really knew Thay to resemble a real world culture but if I had to choose it would be ancient Egypt vibes if anything.
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  1897.  @zachrohler1047  "Armed robbery gone wrong" is literally the standard MO for political assassinations in this country.
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  1898. @deenman23 People make that argument all the time, you're just not paying attention. There are people out there who believe they should work at McDonalds as a fry cook for 30 years and eventually get raises to match a CEO's salary.
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  1899.  @JohnBrown-tw2qi  Toriyama wanted to pass the torch to Gohan since Cell saga at least, you can tell the story sets up for it, but apparently the Japanese fans were outraged that Goku would be replaced so in the end he was forced to stick with Goku. As a lot of Western fans would say, they're mad at them for being obsessed with the "orange hillbilly."
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  1900. Don't even look at how mad they are about the Nashville shooter being accurately identified as female.
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  1901.  @SkithTickler  It isn't really propaganda. It would be propaganda if they used this clip in a video which says "look how weak the enemy is." However, they present the video as is, with no real accompaniment. It is far less biased than the average mainstream news story. The only reason you call it propaganda is because it makes this particular Russian armored group look extremely incompetent, but you can't argue with video evidence.
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  1902. Gotta be careful around those Bravo Mikes...
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  1903.  @orppranator5230  Even more ironic, the police may have created a new criminal in the process. They're lucky the print shop owner didn't turn to some kind of illegal activity out of desperation.
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  1904. For some reason, now I've thought of that Mitchell and Webb skit where Mitchell portrays an alcoholic going into the corner shop in the morning, except instead of looking greedily at the beer he sees that the cooler is filled with Bud Light and says "You know what? I think I'm turning over a new leaf" and the skit ends on a happy note as Webb smiles while Mitchell leaves with an apple and newspaper instead of the very subtle but dark humor of the original skit
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  1905.  @they.regoingham  It's an absurd comment. Effectively the message is: "You shouldn't call someone crazy just because they have a mental illness." Most people simply aren't equipped to deal with this sort of behavior.
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  1906.  @eliwilliams9206  Not exactly. Autopilot is orders of magnitude safer than human drivers when put together with other autopiloted cars. Not with other human drivers.
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  1907.  @trekinseattle  Ideas like this only work in comic books. The real world is not so forgiving. If bad cops are a persistent problem, that means there are other staff covering for them or supporting their actions. That means the "good cop" in your scenario would be in the minority, ignored and demoted or fired, or in the worst case get himself shot and his death covered up as an unfortunate incident in the line of duty.
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  1908. I played on Hard, was a great game. Never understood anyone who complained about getting killed while saving. The Alien can't sneak up on you, it's too loud. Use your senses and don't save if the Alien is walking around near you.
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  1909.  @tikkng  It is genuinely nicer because you can see your whole inventory at once. Lists are absolutely terrible interface design. Even in games that don't have Tetris-style space management, having a 2D grid where each item occupies a box is a way better layout. Divinity Original Sin and classic CRPGs like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, etc. all did this, it's only really Bethesda that decided to revert that style because they couldn't figure out how to make it work on a controller.
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  1910. Aww geez you guys, but I wanted WW3 to happen because Russia bad! Guess I'll just have to go back to posting on Twitter instead.
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  1911.  @goblin6587  Your reaction to this non-problem actually perpetuates the beliefs of the people you claim to hate. No one was thinking about Nazis or "The Jewish Question" except you. The problem is entirely within your own head and the few people who are obsessed with sensationalist politics. There is a stark difference between not repeating the mistakes of history and obsessing over the minutiae of dead dictators.
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  1912.  @Synthetic-Rabbit  Much longer than that. IGN was the butt of the joke among enthusiasts as long as I can remember, which is the 2000s at latest. The paid reviews weren't quite this egregious, but they were still obviously there.
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  1913.  @thenonexistinghero  brother, machine language is created by humans to represent the state of transistors, if the hardware is different then a new type of machine language will be created to support the new hardware. in the 1930s when the first vacuum tube computers were made someone like you was confused at how computers could be written with 1s and 0s instead of sliding beads like an abacus
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  1914.  @SuperPhunThyme100  Exactly, and that was exactly why I was immediately turned off on the idea when I went to college. I disliked the way kids acted in high school and I saw college as a fresh start. Why continue the immaturity? Ironically, the apartment I lived at ended up being party central anyway, without some stupid Greek letters associated with it.
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  1915.  @andreaaldrich4046  Who the fuck defends Kim Kardashian?
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  1916.  @horusfalcon  They're two sides of the same coin. Mussolini was a Marxist who realized the ideology wouldn't work after a global revolution failed to materialize at the end of WW1. So he added nationalism to it, realizing that the idea of people across the world identifying together solely on the basis of class was stupid.
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  1917. The worst part is that he was the guy who discovered the bomb, as just some overweight security guard that nobody liked for being weird. Then some scumbag reporter basically penned a piece asking "BUT WHADDIF HE WUZ THA BOMBER?!?!?" and the FBI crawled up his ass for months. One of the most irresponsible things that anyone in the media has ever done.
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  1918.  @cosmicbilly  shocking, I know, but not everyone who posts online is secretly the same person. I suggest you consider a worldview other than Solipsism. there was never a point at which I considered Paul a clown whose opinions were only worth mockery.
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  1919. ​ @BernasLL That makes no sense and ignores the fact that you can grow to simply not be embarrassed by completely mundane social interactions simply because you find them unusual or even distasteful. Doing this will help you socialize with more people. Being "cringe phobic," or morbidly afraid of social embarrassment, will only prevent you from socializing.
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  1920.  @ianbuick8946  it's a joke about Trump being the God-Emperor depicted in Warhammer 40k it's a recurring joke because they kind of have a similar jawline and they both really, really like gold
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  1921.  FRDSG  Well, in the past I'd have disagreed with you, but now there's globally funded interest groups supporting the drag everyone else down part.
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  1922. actually, it's untrue, the more accurate statement would be "women are always what men want to look at." you name it, there's a guy out there who finds it attractive in a woman. i don't understand the desire to escape attraction to the opposite sex.
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  1923.  @Oliver_the_place  It is a bigger deal than you think it is because monetization is virtually never something that adds on to a game that was going to be good anyway. It is something that infects the design philosophy of a game as it is being conceptualized and produced. In BG3's case, typical monetization strategy could have locked Warlock and Bard away as DLC classes which would be released 6-9 months later. Act 3 might not have even been shipped with the game at launch. Entire areas of the Underdark which are not crucial to the story (like the Adamantine Forge) could have been removed and sold as DLC. The Dark Urge origin character/companion could have been DLC as well.
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  1924. "The syrup-to-carbonated-water ratio in this Diet Dr. Pepper is most disagreeable. Wouldn't you agree, Clarence?" "Dude can you shut the fuck up so we can leave already? Holy shit, nobody I know likes Starburst as much as you."
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  1925.  @robbobbrah8953  Copium for what? Not having sex? Here's a fun life hack you can use to avoid the "heartbreak" from missing out on sex: Stay a virgin and don't have stupid fantasies. Or are you one of those clowns who honestly believes that relationships with the opposite sex are more fulfilling than genuine friendships? Come on. Not even women believe that ("if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get past my friends...").
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  1926.  @spugelo359  Funny how we've always had guns but this has only become a serious problem recently. It's almost like having massive immigration loopholes since the 1960s has eroded our culture severely
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  1927. There's layers to this as well. The fact that there's only one anti-hole person on the panel is so accurate to how news networks present these issues in accordance with their bias.
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  1928.  @cl1cka  Are you just being intentionally naive? Blizzard is going to enforce their rules regardless of what the actual law says. For most people and companies, an empty C&D threat is enough to get them to immediately change course.
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  1929. I had a teacher in my high school who taught pre-calculus. She struck me as overbearing and a bit daft (I accidentally cheated in one of our quizzes because I thought we could use a calculator and she did not even notice, despite making rounds. Only found out from my friend after the fact). I was an AP student, so naturally I took AP calculus afterward. Our AP calculus teacher was uncompromising in her standards and generally a good teacher (I got the maximum score on the AP exam for that course and so did many other students in the class). She was known to get frustrated when she found that our foundational knowledge was lacking, on trigonometry if I recall right, and was seen arguing with the pre-cal teacher. Fortunately, it was quite a good school so it wasn't a problem systemic to the whole math department.
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  1930.  @JAKEINHERE  There are no refs in real life fights you clown.
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  1931.  @cali4nicator940  Yeah I'm sure he has a bright life ahead of him with definitely no recidivism after going to jail for murder at 12.
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  1932. The answer is living in neglected small towns in middle America and pissing away your life by eating all the time because there is no hope and no opportunity. It's sad, but hey, at least they didn't do meth!
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  1933.  @t1tanfallpr025  There, doing what? Standing guard at a camp while another more zealous, more evil officer threatened him with death if he didn't perform his duty? Gee it's almost like there's a reason why the Nuremburg trial prosecuted the high-ranking officers instead of random grunts and camp guards.
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  1934. To be specific, he didn't jail him just left him in the squad car for 30 minutes in handcuffs like a child in time out. Which, honestly, might be even more insulting.
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  1935. No, sorry, I'm not going to pretend any of my opinions are as ghastly as "yes, parents should be able to rubber stamp cosmetic surgery for their kids"
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  1936.  @darkoraclegirl4570  Salad is extremely easy to prepare in the moment and I have in fact seen other famous streamers eat it on stream. You could also make a sandwich, or any number of things ahead of time, like curry and rice, spaghetti, or other foods that keep well for leftovers
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  1937.  @rykehuss3435  I am playing the game currently so I don't know how long it is but I've seen people say it took them over 10 hours to beat. That is quite long for a linear shooter. I don't know what you're expecting from the genre if you think that's not enough for a discounted price. Half-Life is a full priced game with similar length, but it has multiplayer added on. I feel like less than half the price of Half-Life, using that valuation, is more than fair.
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  1938.  @JayceCH.  Pokemon Stadium had better animations than what GF uses in their current gen games, released decades ago. A Chinese mobile game company licensed to make a Pokemon game makes better animations. There isn't really any excuse for the awful performance of SwSh when BOTW performed better as a launch title. I am not one of the people who demands 1000+ Pokemon be in the same game -- frankly I just don't care about having that many, but it's obvious even leaving that aside that they are getting pretty lazy. I think it's fairly obvious that, due to the split ownership of the Pokemon franchise, it is suffering from overly conservative business strategy and complacency because people keep buying the product anyway. There are 3 separate stakeholders, The Pokemon Company, Nintendo and GF. Disagreements between these 3 parties will lead to inaction and very conservative strategies. Every time they allow a company to make a spin-off title, it seems to be higher effort than what GF puts into it. They're very comfortable in their position as one of the 3 stakeholders of the franchise.
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  1939.  @fuzzy-02  You can't judge "for yourself" on massive social issues like this. It is impossible. You must rely on data from other people, and that data will likely be faulty, regardless of what the political goals of the data's source are. The alternative is using anecdotal evidence from your own life, which is not a good standard. Injustice like what you described happens in the US as well, especially in the case of families and divorce. It merely depends on which judge you get in court. At least the foreign husband in the scenario you described doesn't have to pay child support or alimony.
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  1940.  @vikingbikernjtink1198  it was a failure to feed, virtually everyone would call that "jammed" as it is a form of malfunction that can happen during normal operation of the weapon
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  1941. PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAN!
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  1942.  @nahadoth2087  Believe it or not, religion is a very common way for people to escape the vicious cycle of addiction. I'm atheist but even I acknowledge it is true. If you can do something to prevent yourself from suicide or entering a downward spiral that results in suicide, do it.
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  1943.  @pxm2337  oh, campaign, yeah I had a moment and was thinking about multiplayer even though there's no way that would be relevant here
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  1944. BJJ and other martial arts simply aren't comparable to lifting and carrying someone dozens of yards. I'm a computer nerd and I practice at a BJJ dojo. I don't lift at the gym. I'm not going to pretend I'm one of the best students at the dojo in terms of fighting skill or submissions scored but I can perform every throw, reversal, etc that is taught without issue on men much larger than myself. It has almost nothing to do with raw strength and everything to do with leverage and center of gravity. If you rely on muscle, you become tired and the experienced grappler will see that you are muscling around and act defensively until you wear yourself out.
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  1945.  @sandiladhikari6305  Nice non sequitur, try posting it in a thread where it is relevant
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  1946. The fart update was crucial. Thank you for your service.
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  1947.  @fosphor8920  Nah, he's just projecting because he's a kid that can't even buy said stash tabs.
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  1948. "Let's go to the back I'll show you how much of a coward I am" standing there with 5 guys in masks behind him
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  1949.  @0206-b8z  Another word for "Mr. Perfect" or the top 5-10% of men in the world, basically. Unrealistically unattainable men for any woman who is not a professional model or some other outstanding top 5-10% woman herself. It would be like if you or I thought we could marry Scarlet Johansson and held out for the chance to do that.
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  1950. Patent trolling is also a popular way for con artists to make money
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  1951. I like how she's apparently using M+KB by reaching through her leg instead of just using a controller.
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  1952. There was an English king who had a contract with a court jester that every year at Christmas season he would be obligated to perform a "jump, whistle and a fart" Sometimes I wish I had the medieval sense of humor
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  1953.  @wojtek1582  You reminded me of Alice from American McGee's Alice, the dark and twisted interpretation of "Through the Looking Glass" in the Quake engine. My dad played through that and it is very memorable if nothing else. if an over 40 year old working class white man has no problem playing a Victorian little girl then I don't understand where the racism or sexism is. He also was one of like 3 people on the planet that beat Kameo, the Zelda-ish game that came out with the Xbox 360 that nobody remembers. Female non white protag.
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  1954. ​ @cottont5006  You could at least put some effort in. Back in my day trolls actually outsmarted people instead of just repeating memes.
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  1955.  @BJ-xm6bi  "The days of owning guns are numbered" looks at the pile of guns that numbers over 2x the number of people in the US Yeah, OK pal.
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  1956. Eh, at least you had someone that liked you. I never had that. I fell in love exactly one time in high school. I guess you could say I am a hardcore stoic, because having that level of emotional intensity was just not something I wanted and I fear it even now. I'm not autistic, but I suspect I might have Asperger's. I'm extremely stubborn and independent so I never sought help for it, not to mention it is expensive and mental health care is kind of a total joke in the US. But, I managed to work up the courage to ask this girl out. It took every bit of mental strength that I had. I just enjoyed her smile tremendously, she laughed at my jokes and actually made conversation with me. I thought I had a real chance. I suggested a movie, she said yes and I was on cloud fucking nine for the rest of the day. Then she texted me that afternoon saying that actually, her boyfriend wouldn't like that. I was crushed and angry. I thought I was supposed to be the dense idiot as a man, not her? How could she possibly see that as anything but a romantic advance? Anyway, that level of emotional rollercoaster is just something I don't know I'll ever want in my life ever again. I can't empathize with people who say "it is better to love and have lost than never love at all."
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  1957.  @MountainMan.  Or, more likely, the shady company with a horrible reputation made up some bullshit in an attempt to mitigate their sentence in the upcoming lawsuit.
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  1958. ​ @jameshildebrand907  Isn't that literally what was proposed in Congress not too long ago?
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  1959. 15:20 This character looks almost exactly like Vault Boy. I know that was the intention behind Vault Boy's design, but I still find it a little uncanny.
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  1960.  @Kostly  Your comment is a bit contradictory. People do make their own worlds, characters, and items, while playing using D&D rules all the time. What WotC has essentially said is, because you used the Player's Handbook one time while on your livestreamed tabletop game, we own your characters, world, and items that you created from scratch. You're suggesting that people need to make their own custom content to get away from Hasbro/WotC stealing their custom content, it makes no sense. The rule system is irrelevant to how almost all of these ideas are formulated. You could play out a campaign where a dwarf king wants a sacred hammer back that was stolen by a bunch of goblins in virtually every tabletop rule system ever made.
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  1961. I've seen motorcycle racing at the Circuit of the Americas and it's great. Very loud, but I'm used to that.
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  1962.  @heavyhauler426  Shoo shoo, corporate personhood shill.
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  1963. pumkinhead28 Don't worry, that dude is obviously trolling. If he was actually Catholic he wouldn't think that drinking alcohol is a sin. 
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  1964. it's like "owenee oweedi oweekee," you naturally make a W sound because it makes the vowels flow into each other more smoothly.
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  1965. +ThefightingCelt It is really hard to take the author at face value because he sounds very pretentious but he's actually telling the truth. Lemmy's a lot smarter and gentler than he seems and it shows if you look at his personal life. He did things that would offend third-wave feminists like call women pet names, but he respected them where it counted. He just really liked to shag, you know? He even placed it above rock and roll -- in fact it's the reason he got into rock and roll.
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  1966. Take away? But this is preserving the magic of cakes... You seem to be have an obsession with triangles.
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  1967. Oh my fucking god, did they seriously try to save games to a directory in Program Files? Are they that retarded? Jesus. I'm glad my Steam games aren't in Program Files.
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  1968. In theory that's true, but in practice that's usually far from the truth. There are quite a few markets in the US that are unquestionably dominated by one company. And even more that aren't at first glance, but actually are controlled by a parent corporation with different name-brand subsidiaries (for instance, the way GE controls NBC and all of its respective channels)
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  1969. Would you prefer the last game's double-tap circle while you're already holding circle to jump?
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  1970. Godless Drunkenwreck I wasn't accusing you, but I've learned to never underestimate some folks' lack of capacity for rational thought. I was speaking more generally, since there are a lot of videos where people put it only or nearly only wins with a certain strategy, it gets copycatted insanely fast, and suddenly all of /dsg/ is crying about how overpowered x or y is. That's settled down a bit now that people are slightly wiser regarding what to do to counter certain builds, but it was rampant little more than a week ago.
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  1971.  @glimpyrimpy6258  You misunderstand. When you're rich, and you're trying to one-up your rich peers, the whole point is that you spend money on something that you may not even use just to flaunt your wealth. Although it seems unlikely to me that this firearm was never used, it is still quite practical despite its ornate trimmings. When kings threw feasts, they would stuff 17 birds inside of each other and then not even eat that. Or have the chefs sew a pig and a chicken together into one grotesque animal, again, just for a centerpiece.
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  1972. Leonidas Eaton When the fuck did people start getting mad when they saw a 50px by 50px image? Why do you people ruin everything?
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  1973. Shame he was treated like garbage after the war. He conceptualized the modern computer as we know it today, which is quite possibly the single most important advancement in human history.
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  1974. Aidan OP I'm sorry
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  1975. Tieflings got this treatment eons ago. I remember the tiefling companion in Neverwinter Nights 2. She was insufferable
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  1976.  @chickenbob562  I'd say it's definitely uglier than the average person on the street. By show business standards, it's hideous.
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  1977.  @mianoxide1199  "Lucky bastard."
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  1978.  @YamatoFukkatsu  The advent of streaming services like Netflix means that there's a lot of room for "content" to make their library look big and impressive, but no desire to make that content good. If you want to watch Invincible, or The Boys, or any other show that people are talking about, you have to pay the same price that you'd pay if you wanted to watch Velma. It's all the same price. There's little incentive to invest a lot of money in making a show good.
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  1979.  @alexbarn3841  My guy seriously over here implying that Arabs and Mexicans wear the same clothes across hundreds of years. You are the deluded one my smug friend.
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  1980.  @AllGreyEverything  Parents in bouncy houses are not normal dude. There's not enough space and it might damage the house. I never saw that happen when I was a kid and I went in several bouncy houses
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  1981.  @NukeLaCoogx2  Yeah, it sucks when they prioritize lumber.
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  1982.  @FlyingMalamute  nah, symbols of Venus and Mars interlocked together
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  1983. The term for Japanese shut-in you're looking for is hikkikomori by the way. There's a fair bit of media highlighting it. There was a very popular indie adventure game in the late 2000s called Yume Nikki about a terminally depressed hikkikomori girl who spends all her time lucid dreaming, and it's about her exploring those lucid dreams. The art seems cute at first, with some psychedelic elements, but it shocks the player with sudden disturbing visuals, and the ending is extremely dark. There's a lot of room for interpretation on possible trauma that the main character experienced. Japan seems like a pretty high pressure society, and so it's natural then that there would be people who just want to retreat from it.
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  1984.  @connyfucks  Well, to his point, a good thief wouldn't rob a gas station either
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  1985.  @aayushpandey6839  What about striking when the guy isn't pointing a gun at you and looking at you? That ever cross your mind? To be fair, there are techniques for dealing with a person who is pointing a gun at you when you are not armed. They were developed at least as far back as WW2 for the British SAS. However that is a completely different situation, and it was a different time where doctrine wasn't the same.
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  1986.  @kendrick-jv3lg  There's a ton of differences and it is actually counter-productive to believe otherwise. You're not going to get very far by treating your girlfriend just like a man -- there are almost certainly things you do differently that you simply don't acknowledge. But I agree with the part that humans need relationships.
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  1987. Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to unite several foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency, statute law places USAID under "the direct authority and policy guidance of the Secretary of State". It's nuts that people go around proclaiming opinions about Fascism and dictatorship without understanding the basics of our government or that foreign policy is almost entirely the purview of the executive branch.
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  1988. ​ @fluffypink6unny We're all watching their value decrease in real time
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  1989.  @chrisb7528  I agree with stuffandstuff, actually, it wasn't a part of British culture until recently. The tenants of our pro-gun culture were carried over with us from Britain with the first settlers. In Britain, it is still quite possible to own a gun if you are a farmer, like the settlers would have been, but it's highly restricted. Britain's political situation is in many ways a mirror of our own, progressing slightly differently, but they have much in common; the party's platforms are converging and everyone is shifting towards authoritarianism. The only reason ours is progressing slower is that our nation is a federation and our tendency to bicker with one another, along with our legislature being split up into 2 "real" houses instead of one honorary one and one "real" one, helps us out in this case.
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  1990.  @dark_fire_ice  No it isn't. Feudalism is a product of its time and of traditions that are mostly rooted in pre-Roman "barbarian" values. The idea is that the noble class is obliged to protect the serf, who is in turn obliged to provide food for everyone, and that each of these are defined by bloodline. It's very hierarchical and very rigid. In a libertarian/an-cap society, positions are very fluid and mostly determined by how much money you have. Going to war is, to most businesses, a giant sunken cost that they would prefer to avoid; not every business is a defense contractor. The paradigm also became completely outdated when common people became capable of defending themselves. Self-defense was no longer gated behind years of training with weapons that were in most cases illegal for them to even possess. Instead you could just buy a gun, train for a few weeks and have just as much a chance as killing someone as anyone else.
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  1991. The OG rail gun was a railway mounted artillery piece with a 26 mile range or something absurd like that. It was, of course, a German invention.
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  1992. It's amazing to me that the guy clings so tightly to this shit. He's built his whole life around playing Donkey Kong one time in the 1980s. He has more recent scores, but he would never have bothered with those if people didn't point out that he cheated. I'd say he's even more pathetic than DSP if it wasn't for his seemingly bottomless pockets that he somehow can use to continually sue people. If DSP had the pockets, I'd imagine he'd sue people too.
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  1993.  @Ryan_Christopher  Metallica would be pretty good although relatively unknown at the time. Actually, my father was introduced to them while he was in service, although he finished just before the Gulf War. His favorite band before that was Judas Priest.
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  1994. After beating Faelin I know that "How am I so fucking bad at this game" feel.
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  1995.  @sentarose  No, it isn't. Stealing implies a loss of assets. A publisher printed a book, that costs money and time. Then someone steals the book. They lost that money and time for nothing. "Piracy = theft" is a no-brained analogy from people who know nothing about software and data. It costs virtually nothing to make a copy of data, and it can be copied infinitely. Piracy is a murkier subject because there is virtually no way that a company can prove that someone who pirated their book would have purchased it if they did not have access to piracy. In the vast majority of scenarios, they would not have.
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  1996. I don't think he's had an involved role in a long time. He does cameos and the "comedians getting coffee in cars" thing and that's pretty much it. He does meta-commentary on comedy.
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  1997.  @abid5330  "half a kilo," also known as a "pound"
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  1998.  @sujitwarrier4857  Windows 8 is a product of Microsoft's continued failed attempts to break into the mobile market. They wasted a lot of time and effort writing the "Metro" interface which is the tile menu, designed for a phone or tablet. It's clunky, slow, and the search function doesn't work very well. Microsoft seems to suffer greatly from an acute aversion to refactoring very old Windows code. They don't want to interface or use older stuff written into the OS, so they often just build new stuff instead, and that stuff ends up having its own issues. That's why it feels so bloated.
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  1999.  @Angelinas72  She was dumping the grease out into the sink.
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  2000.  @My.sleepy.berries  Well, in fairness it is a country that has a sizable impact on Europe. There is a lot of power and food exported from Ukraine to Europe. It isn't unlike a war going on in China that has nothing to do with the US directly. We'd be impacted by it greatly because much of our products are manufactured there
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  2001.  @npcimknot958  women want to play as attractive characters too, shock. the meaty buff male protagonist is completely analogous to the sexy female protagonist. and, ironically, many Japanese male characters aren't even beefcakes. yes, there is obviously a spectrum of "this is targeting men" that goes to absurd depths in games like Senran Kagura or Gal Gun, but the overwhelming majority of Japanese games are not like that. most of them do actually try to appeal to all types of people because that's where the money is
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  2002. "Aw shit, we anime now."
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  2003. Well, there are ways to go about this tactfully. The step-dad could have told his wife that he doesn't want turkey. If that conversation was already had and she decided to make a turkey anyway because "muh traditions" then yeah, it's probably a relationship waiting to fall apart. I've had steaks on Thanksgiving before and they were damn good too.
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  2004.  @Keeki95  Any platform is fine when the community is good. The problem is a mixture of both Discord itself, and how the platform impacts users/mods, and how they take advantage of it. Discord is a lot more analogous to IRC than most people might think because it is real time chat that has moderators, but like IRC it also has a nearly infinite log (assuming you set up your IRC client correctly, which many users do). Discord's "log" is even more punishing because it logs things other people say even when you are not online. The real time chat encourages some moderators to watch all discourse as much as possible. Then those who feel inclined will take rules as seriously as possible, banning people for a one-off comment made in the moment, which might not have been made on a forum. Forums are a bit more cumbersome to use so they have less discourse. IRC was the same way back in its prime and also was filled with overly zealous or petty moderators. Discord also creates a false sense of privacy for many. Even when the server is publicly joinable, the fact that it is only available to those who bother to search up the link seems to make people believe that only "their people" are in the server. As a result, a surprising number of people have shoved their foot in their mouths on their community Discord, which caused a falling out, all because they mistakenly thought everyone agreed with them when they made some outrageous statement.
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  2005. The people he fired were mostly not software engineers. However their wages were drastically inflated.
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  2006. I'm convinced that anyone who says stuff like this is jaded and knowingly trying to deceive people into not doing "the bad thing" by putting a bad label on it. Linus is not an idiot, he knows adblock is not piracy.
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  2007. ​ @MatthewNope  Would you like to explain why the sources presented in this video are invalid?
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  2008. ​ @DeathDeliveryGuy Hard disagree dude. I'm not staring in the background looking for trash when I watch Asmon clips.
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  2009.  @forkittens  Humanity's "height" led to them creating an AI that calculated the best way to stop Chaos was to kill every sapient being (technically true), so yeah, "height" is definitely subjective here. There was also no remotely safe form of FTL travel until the Big E showed up.
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  2010.  @forkittens  Well, if you think the Astronomican is bad, it was nothing compared to before he projected it
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  2011.  @PDRIFT86  How many different chat apps have they had? 5? 6?
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  2012.  @ghost2021a  Technically you can but it makes things more complicated. People call into question what happened, you'll probably have to show up to court so it can be determined what you did was lawful, and so on and so forth. In this particular scenario, there were witnesses and hostages, so probably not, but in many others you make it more likely that you'll have to defend yourself in court by leaving
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  2013. you forgot about the part where one of the SWAT counters went home early for no apparent reason, one of the others LEFT HIS POST to personally investigate the guy on the ground even though he should have called it in for his buddies to do that, and the last guy ALSO left his post to let someone into the building he was posted on because he fucking forgot his key card
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  2014. Oh, I have something far more effective. Bringing up this season's isekai trash.
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  2015.  @bwofficial1776  Double jeopardy is often performed on technicalities. Or just plain illegally and nobody does anything about it. It was inevitable with the way our ancestors naively allowed candidates to take office for life (judges) or without term limits (everyone else).
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  2016. Yeah... "What could I have done for him?" Maybe given a damn when he failed nearly every single one of his classes? You just took it for granted that he would get his diploma, and go on to be a useless idiot... never once realizing that maybe, once he stops getting a free ride in high school, life would get harder.
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  2017. I dream of one day showing up on a news broadcast with my tagline as, "Bought Cheap Gas"
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  2018.  @DillyTheWillyWilliams  I would absolutely be terrified and my decision making would hinge on less than a half second of me asking my lizard brain "Is this guy a real cop or a fake cop trying to rob me, or worse?" I can't blame anyone for making either decision in the heat of the moment. This is why you don't escalate immediately as a cop unless you're actually threatened. The cop's behavior defied any reasonable expectation of how a cop would act, especially when you factor in that he didn't have the right person or vehicle. The guy thought he was an impersonator.
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  2019.  @Selvokaz  Why don't you try not living in places with some of the highest costs of living in the United States? Texas also has no state income tax and only 8% sales tax.
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  2020. ​ @glens2019 There are many like Rowling, so much so that they have their own label, but they don't get much media attention.
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  2021. The AG of that state is an absolute psycho. This isn't even the first time he's refused to release a wrongly convicted man. He has some kind of massive ego problem.
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  2022.  @rayjones1455  Hey, I just recommended that guy too before I even saw your comment. A few of his recipes do get more complicated, but he also has a lot of recipes that I didn't know could be so simple.
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  2023. "Chicken leg Mark Cuban" lol.
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  2024. Isn't it funny how it's always the people who are at fault that immediately know they were being honked at and throw a fit in this way? He knew he was in the wrong, he just wants to fight about it.
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  2025.  @jasperzanovich2504  Ah, so that's the new buzzword? "Effective" protests? Lmao. Let me tell you something, if your protests aren't "effective" it means your movement doesn't resonate with the people. Maybe you should respect their will instead of bending it by force.
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  2026. I don't think it's been something that was made fun of since the generation that watched Toonami grew up and got jobs.
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  2027. @Sir_Guardus I believe JD Vance was at least partly correct in his analysis of the argument. I think Zelenskyy saw "minerals deal" and thought "they just want our resources like Russia," not understanding that they will never be "truly independent" because they are not strong enough to defend themselves from the 2nd largest military in the world without the 1st largest military in the world helping them. A huge economic investment is a great way to incentivize us to defend his country for him, instead of just dumping money in a hole like a certain other small nation on the Middle Eastern coastline that many of its neighbors believe "is"n't "real" if you catch my drift. The bullshit cheerleading from all the poser Euro heads of state got to his head and he just needed some time to calm down.
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  2028.  @Luminousreign  It's likely she could retire comfortably with the money she's made even if the allegations sink her career. Not as likely if she says some dumb shit that makes her case in court worse and costs her more money.
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  2029.  @LordsofMedia  The problem with SO is that folks like yourself frame it as some kind of answering machine. You must input a "perfect question" to receive a "perfect answer." That's just not how human communication works and it's a ridiculous way to frame a discussion. You don't know what you don't know, as they say, so some back-and-forth must take place before meaningful answers can be given. This used to be technical support and software discussion 101; every competent programmer knew this because they had experienced it. Imagine if you called your telecoms provider because your internet was not working and when you said "I'm calling because my internet seems to be out," the rep's response was "Clearly you didn't try restarting your modem. I'm hanging up now and don't call back for 3 days." These standards for writing questions and answers did not use to be so strict in the past, and people would often work together (crazy concept, I know) to arrive at a solution through revision and suggestions in the comments. Then at the end the guy the questioner was talking to in the comments would post an answer summarizing what they'd learned so he could receive the due rep points. However, at some point this changed. This attitude of "How dare you ask such an incomplete question. Off with you until you've learned to behave" is absurdly childish. Why are you here on this website if you would have such a useless attitude? How are you performing a service by closing the question or even suspending the user? They claim they are servicing the answerers who browse the site by de-cluttering their feed. How is it this hard to skip a question? Instead of saying "Oh this is a dumb question. I'm going to rip this loser a new asshole!" you could say "Oh this is a dumb question. Next."
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  2030.  @Xeno_Solarus  That is what they are, ultimately, when it comes down to the wire. A "SHTF" type scenario will see most law enforcement either abandon their badges, or become thugs. There is no beneficial act a cop could do that a normal citizen should be restricted from doing. There is no point to being optimistic when dealing with the police, regardless of the circumstances. They are dealing with you because they want something from you and it is their duty to waste your time.
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  2031.  @brrrrrrrr8793  This is just wrong. I don't know how else to tell you. I live in Texas and I can't drive due to disability and I am very far from "fucked."
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  2032. The other side of that coin is, "I have to pay you to date me because you wouldn't be interested otherwise." It's a very disgusting and transactional idea. If you want to pay at the end, fine, whatever. But expecting "whoever asks, has to pay" from the start is ridiculous. Just admit you aren't interested in the other person, except for their money at that point.
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  2033. He did and they forced him to apologize traditionally by kneeling. That was probably their warning.
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  2034.  @HGritzan  That's a very dumb analogy. You could buy a whole lot of MTX in the game of your choice if you didn't spend the money on a gaming PC, or any other console for that matter. Nintendo's hardware peripherals are very overpriced, but they intentionally try keep the console itself affordable to lower the barrier of entry.
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  2035.  @HGritzan  I mean yeah, region locking is one of the shittiest things that they do, but I'm confused as to why you'd rag on their console price when they're known for having some of the cheapest options around. It's part of their whole business strategy.
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  2036.  @LazyCrazyGuy  Nah, her dad probably married a Hispanic woman. You can't tell me she doesn't look Hispanic.
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  2037. I think it's actually more innocuous than that. He probably has a trans friend and put zero thought into his own position except "I don't want to make the crazy person mad." Then didn't realize it would blow up in his face. This is a guy who just wants to have fun and effectively be a kid his whole life. He bought a bunch of rare Pokemon cards just because it was trendy and he could. He makes videos rating breakfast cereals. Not commendable, but he is harmless.
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  2038. Then you should be glad, since most people died of disease or other causes before they got to the battlefield.
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  2039. The guns were likely at the home. Namely the long gun.
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  2040. I'm annoyed that people associate JC Denton with this douchebag as opposed to the original Deus Ex, which is a very good game.
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  2041.  @raphg6319  a security guard would likely be fired if he did that, most private security guards are not authorized to use lethal force unless their lives are in danger. sometimes, not even then, because it makes the company look bad and mires them in legal fees. a private citizen, ironically, usually has the most freedom in shooting someone as long as they believe there was a threat to their life. second only to a cop
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  2042. @Skinnie You're forgetting many factors here such as the veracity of dispatch which is not always ideal. What if they're wrong and they think someone has a gun who does not? Even if they were not wrong, I'm not sure if you're aware of this but we're in the US and there's a lot of reasons why someone might have a gun. They arrived on scene and this is how he was, basically surrendering. Not sure how a person who "reportedly had a gun" is supposed to act if he doesn't want to get shot.
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  2043. That's actually a misquote, Japan never really planned to invade the US at any point. They wanted to control southeast Asia for resources, and prevent the US from interfering with those plans. The Pearl Harbor raid was a strategy of "the best defense is a good offense," but it backfired horribly because they underestimated our abilities to refit and manufacture more ships. The IJN and Yamamoto (who the quote is attributed to) were obsessed with this idea of drawing us into a decisive battle in the islands, such as Midway (but not a loss for them), and then brokering a peace. This was my top annoyance with The Man in the High Castle as well because it is completely detached from any kind of strategic campaign that the Axis powers actually had.
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  2044. @shabadooshabadoo4918  It is attributed to a particular historian on MacArthur's staff that went around basically interviewing Japanese servicemen and other people of note to ask them why they did what they did or how failures or successes happened. However there is no evidence at all that Yamamoto said this and there are quite a few reasons for the Japanese (much like the Germans) to lie, especially when the historian in question likely relied on an interpreter. There is a letter referenced that simply doesn't exist. The letters and documentation we do have suggests the IJN never considered invading the US.
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  2045. Theres also the DARPA research papers about social engineering that coincide with the timeline of the "gamers are dead" narrative. There's a lot of scary, high level shit that was uncovered in the dig threads that is now completely forgotten. We have valid reason to believe that these journos who are part of the machine were contracted by DARPA to perform an experiment to test a particular method of disseminating propaganda.
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  2046. I didn't think it was tied to any one case at all. It is because of the extremely common headline phrase "Florida man..." followed by whatever crazy incident occurred.
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  2047. Imagine his shock if he were to be confronted by a criminal with black market Glock using an after market magazine that carries 15 rounds... Or better yet one of those illegal "fun" switches you hear about on the news.
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  2048.  @jakes3799  I know that condoms cost a lot less than whatever she's paying right now.
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  2049. @ I'm critiquing your personality because in my long, long experience using the internet, only trolls or very emotionally driven people barge into a thread addressing an argument that the OP never made. I gave you the benefit of the doubt for one post, which as usual, was misplaced, but I am an optimist. Now you're playing the victim, which is just pathetic. This is an internet forum, nobody cares about your victimhood.
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  2050.  @ethanawaao1291  And the police had an idiotic fatroll build. They had no chance.
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  2051.  @jgloom41  I like how you said "spoonfeed" as if writing a question on Stack Overflow is an easy thing that requires no effort.
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  2052.  @Spr1ggan87  I have nothing against Turks but claiming they are white is just untenable. You can't claim to be the crossroads of all Old World culture (which is something I would agree with) and simultaneously claim that you're purely Caucasian. That just doesn't make sense at a basic level. As for Greeks, well, it's been a long time since Greece looked like ancient Greece. Let me put it that way.
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  2053. These guys don't do dealing, they do distribution. They deal to the dealers that you buy from. Your dealer may not necessarily be out of supply, he might have just had to buy from someone else.
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  2054. This is positively unreal. Dude accused of a crime makes up a bogus story on the spot, the cops BELIEVE him and don't even TRY to verify his claims and immediately ambush a random bystander. Holy shit. The guy who was supposed to be trespassed probably thought "I can't believe they just bought that" and ran away.
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  2055.  @technomage6736  Nah, that would have been kinda sad but at least they would still be somewhat competent as cops for realizing their limitations and using tools when they needed to. This just makes them look comical.
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  2056. The search servers sometimes get desynced or the images get deleted by moderators and the search servers don't update. I browse these websites way too much.
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  2057. That really was not that egregious. Remember people, it isn't stealing if you don't take the item with you when it's time to pay.
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  2058. ​ @senipie Sadly I'd say this problem is more due to ignorance than anything else. If your nation's government is capable of hosting a website, they can make a voting system that allows people to vote from anywhere. Properly overseen and designed, digital voting is a million times more secure than ballots which have to exchange hands several times.
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  2059. "we really really wanna hear from these candidates and they worked really really hard, m'kay" 1. no we don't 2. no they didn't 3. i graduated high school 13 years ago, keep this rhetoric for the homecoming rally in the gym
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  2060.  @humanbean3  they can have very good flexibility, that's why they typically do gymnastics
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  2061. ​ @XMizzTuraX  Agreed, there was a lot of "fan service" (not in the lewd sense) because the animators didn't expect a large older audience. Any interpretation of those 2 minor characters as homosexual would almost certainly come from a fan
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  2062. There is literally no reason to argue with a cop in 99% of cases. If you committed a minor infraction, show up to court, the cop won't be there because they're always too busy, and you'll win by default. Or you can pay a lawyer a pittance to do it for you. If you committed a major crime, there's no reason to argue because you might incriminate yourself. It takes a keen judge of character and very specific circumstances to recognize that you might be able to come out ahead by arguing with a cop.
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  2063.  @James-kv3ll  You can make the same argument about crack, but that's illegal. "Capitalism!" Wow. I'm so witty.
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  2064. @ You are correct, it is probably a PR stunt. Trump has performed many such stunts since running in 2016 and he is highly effective at using them. There is nothing inherently wrong with PR stunts, as long as they're effective. Now, we are talking about the difference between public and private sector work, and talking about how reporting your weekly or even daily tasks to your supervisor is standard operating procedure in most white-collar and many blue-collar jobs. The conversation has been driven towards what Trump and Musk want to talk about, which is analyzing bureaucratic agencies and their expenditures.
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  2065. @ You've never heard of a consultant? This is much more analogous to your CEO hiring a consultant to audit the company. It is extremely common in the private sector.
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  2066.  @classaction3314  Yeah, unlike Biden, who was very well known for his daily reports and constant correspondence with the media, right?
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  2067.  @primate4  I'm sure you know exactly how you'll react when some guy with a gun throws open your car door in the middle of the night while you're in a very vulnerable state, eating McDonald's while sitting down. He could have simply talked to him, but no, let's escalate to a "fight or flight" call immediately, literally controlled by the most primal part of your brain. The cop approached that situation in a way where only a combat-hardened veteran could make a logical decision. It is not exactly surprising that the kid panicked.
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  2068.  @Alexwhywest  "hey let me tell a relatable story about my own life" "HELP, WE'RE ALL BEING DEMONIZED"
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  2069.  @christiansilvermoon  Thanks for the insight. I've used Linux for a while for one of my home computers but the way modern devs seem to use (or abuse) the filesystem hierarchy can be confusing. I will say that, outside of binaries installed from packages, everything makes sense for the most part. But some application developers like to ignore any and all standards. I do think the part that makes it difficult for a new user is determining what software is "compiled locally," or something that resides in a /home/user directory, or something that resides in the root binaries directory. But there are commands that can solve these problems. And yes, YouTube's comment system is ridiculous. I'm not sure why they even allow this many replies to a thread if they're going to make it impossible to figure out what someone is replying to.
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  2070.  @benten1453  You're just arguing semantics because you think "own" is an icky word. For all intents and purposes parents do own their children to quite a massive degree. They have far fewer rights than an adult and mistakes that they make are usually given the benefit of the doubt and blamed on the parent. Much like you wouldn't blame a car for running someone over, you'd blame the driver. At certain age(s) depending on your country, parents lose ownership of their children by having less control over them.
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  2071. ​ @G-howie  I mean, one of them is directly distributed by China and the other one isn't
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  2072. What she should ask herself is why all of her sister's classmates are white and none of them are black. Hint: it isn't society's fault.
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  2073.  @WxIxLxLxIxAxMxS  You can still buy flip phones that don't have access to most apps. And they're cheap as dirt.
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  2074.  @HerculeDevantrien  He does have an opinion on the topic, that's the stupid part.
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  2075. The far right nationalist lunatics are usually satisfied pushing the Jews away to Israel, cutting off their financial aid and forgetting about their existence. The far left are not. That tends to be the difference between them; nationalists are happy if other cultures and ethnicities stay within their borders. Marxism and its derivatives are inherently globalist doctrines so its supporters are not satisfied with that. They have to pretend to care about Palestinians and their plight and they must take a side on every foreign issue.
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  2076. ​​​ @alexalexander1772  My parents had me empty the dishwasher all the time as one of my childhood chores it takes literally 5 minutes if you don't complain and focus on it. Even as a lazy teen I didn't really complain. I can't imagine how someone could blow up over a clean dishwasher load
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  2077. ​@venommillan1102 You realize that there also elves and dwarves that are intrinsically evil at birth? Implying that there is a form of human that does the same is consistent, if anything.
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  2078.  @Tojoblindeye  You must be new to the internet. Offending people by insulting their heartfelt beliefs is like kicking kittens. Anyone can do it, it's not impressive in the least. Try talking shit about Muhammed on Arab Twitter.
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  2079. It's not just anime, it's also comics and other nerd subcultures. Cults and cult-like organizations prey on the vulnerable and nerd subcultures are also a haven for the ostracized and emotionally downtrodden. Now D&D is suffering from it too.
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  2080.  @vision821k4  When did I say nobody ever drives me? I just choose not to be the idiot who invests thousands of dollars into an asset that only depreciates.
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  2081.  @vision821k4  I can't drive due to disability reasons.
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  2082.  @thetruth45678  He's afraid of the Candyman too.
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  2083.  @DrewWalton  It's even more economical for a victim to exercise their right to self defense to the fullest extent of the law. If you catch my drift.
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  2084. I'm a developer. I hate using phones because touch screens without much feedback are infuriating and most of the software is terrible, and I prefer to use desktops with good keyboards, so in a sense you're right about me. But I've also known a couple of developers who fit the "tech enthusiast" stereotype. I worked with someone who got a chip implanted so she could open her Tesla just by waving her hand in front of it, and also owns a 3D printer.
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  2085.  @monopalle5768  Nobody demanded that. The design for the apps you're talking about comes from the top down. People just accept the changes because they want to share photos with their family and are lazy.
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  2086.  @jweezy5490  Do you also think gambling is the best way to make money?
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  2087.  @ambis99  If you want cops to treat you like normal people then you have to treat them like normal people too. It's a two way street.
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  2088.  @ReallyOneOfThem  Cleaning isn't a factor here because he didn't fire the gun a single time. In other words there was no opportunity for the automatic self-loading mechanism to work. He didn't load his gun correctly and didn't check his gun before trying to rob the truck. Maybe it was a bad magazine that didn't feed the first round correctly. The springs on those are usually one of the first things to go.
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  2089. @RatusMax No offense to your teacher, I'm sure he's a cool dude, but the numbers just aren't on his side for marrying a Russian woman. It's certainly possible, but he'd have to settle for a woman who has baggage or other problems, or look a very long time for someone who is not bothered by social stigma -- something that is rarer in women than it is in men. People are utterly ruthless when it comes to choosing mates, and all you have to do is search up "Russians throwing bananas" to find numerous instances of Russians expressing their thoughts on black people.
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  2090. "Dream jobs" are just that. I originally wanted to be a game developer. Applied to my dream studio, id Software, and lo and behold -- they expected me to know how to write C++ code on paper. I had only ever written Java and C#. There were literally no resources for this at my school, even though id Software is very local. And, to be blunt, the... difficulties involved with developing in C++ highly disincentivize learning it in one's spare time. In retrospect, it was naive for me to think I wasn't going to be prompted with C++, but hey, I was like 20. I had already participated in game production labs, too, where students work together for a whole semester to make a game demo. We didn't use C++ though. I didn't want to work on shitty mobile games, and I had no capital to raise to start a studio. So I said fuck it, and went to commercial software. Best decision I ever made. Never been the victim of crunch for more than a few days at a time.
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  2091.  @m.lorigami  Historically speaking, daycares did not exist... The situation in which a struggling person would think a daycare is an attractive option doesn't really make sense. They're very expensive. Seems likely anyone who claims they need to send their kids to daycare is spending money on something they shouldn't and won't admit it. People have a lot of pride
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  2092. ST really explores the difference between "citizen" (or in our terms, veteran) and "civilian" and what ramifications allowing rich, pampered people to run our society has for us. It is, without question, a militarist book, but in the context of the times especially (the height of the Cold War) it was quite reasonable. And I'm sure Heinlein felt vindicated after he saw how stupidly the Vietnam War went.
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  2093. I'm worried about a situation like this but thankfully it hasn't really come up yet. I have poor vision, poor enough that I have decided driving is a terrible idea, but not so poor that you can immediately tell "he's blind" just by looking at me and how I act. My glasses lenses are quite thick, but not very noticeable from the front.
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  2094.  @NLBusiness391  You realize you can just rent one from a dealer, right? That's a very common activity here
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  2095.  @esRaortiz  You say that as if Samus didn't have in-game bikini art. Most of these characters have fan service including Yennefer. The only exceptions are Zelda and I think maybe Jill but I'm probably forgetting something. Also, I don't know who Lilith is referring to specifically.
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  2096. We should prosecute false accusers, however, you can be falsely thought to be a liar because the evidence is not good enough. It is a completely reasonable fear to have. Same reason you would be nervous around a cop even though you have done nothing wrong. There is no guarantee that the person questioning you is competent.
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  2097.  @fumeck1674  You didn't even understand the point of what I was posting, and indeed conveniently ignored where I explicitly stated that liars should still be prosecuted. I'll leave it as a fun brain teaser for you to re-read my posts and understand your mistake. Enjoy.
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  2098.  @Cory989  Not in the bun as if it were hotdog relish. Don't get me wrong, I love putting kraut in the bun with a brat, but none of my family in Bavaria ever does that
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  2099. Your comment put me to sleep just like the MrBeast drama
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  2100. I lucked out, my volume was on very low.
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  2101.  @Bluecho4  better, you could make it a story of intrigue by claiming you were pushed out illegitimately by someone in the guild who didn't like you. then it could be a quest that the party does later
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  2102. I think there's only like two places I can think of I'd rate my safety walking around on the street as a "10." A sleepy religious country town, and a Japanese city I guess? I feel it isn't fair to compare a big city to a rural town so I had to throw another city in there. Big surprise, neither of these places see much immigration at all.
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  2103.  @bhazerelli7611  Not at this scale. We are the prison capital of the world and its because we literally have an industry of imprisonment. People make money off of this. When the scale is this huge, and money is to be made, mistakes and corruption like this will occur
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  2104. I just watched his videos because he reports on amusing shit without literally regurgitating reddit posts (like YongYea for example) I don't know where "respect" comes in to it. People need to learn how to be entertained without worshipping the entertainment.
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  2105. And then he brewed his own beer from a 1000 year recipe to celebrate
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  2106. That is why "ANTIFA" is typically made up of criminals and felons who have nothing to use and are used to scrapping. They get to do what they like doing and unnamed benefactors will pay them out of jail. It's a win-win. Well, except for polite society.
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  2107. I find the fact that artifacts don't appear until you get really close a little annoying, but I guess it makes upgrading detectors more important. In 1 you could see them from a mile away
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  2108.  @Treebark4Dinner  people who do this aren't going to wave guns at anyone, it adds a ton of unnecessary risk to an extremely low risk crime
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  2109. +10 social credit points have been added to your account
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  2110.  @brucetidwell7715  I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not... Good one.
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  2111.  @dieptrieu6564  Many weebs are unsatisfied in real life. Are you being serious? You're basically saying that if you watch anime, you must automatically be a basement recluse who has sworn off 3D women forever. That's quite the jump from one side of the spectrum to the other.
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  2112. The cognitive dissonance is insane. As if left-leaning black people needed this guy to write about racism for them. They get plenty enough attention and publication as it is. But no, he's the hero come to save their collective day...
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  2113. The problem with the "it's a video game" argument is that you're completely downplaying the entire medium. You can't have your "it's just a video game" and also have your "it's art" too. You've reduced all games to a question of whether you take them seriously or you don't. As much as I don't like pretensions, I would like to be able to take the plot/message of a game seriously sometimes.
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  2114.  @AllenAndMarie  Chris Rock has a word for people like you, but I'm afraid YouTube will delete my comment if I post it. It rhymes with "digger," though.
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  2115. Nothing wrong with blowing off steam after an awful divorce
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  2116. I feel like the air umbrella is the outdoors version of using a really loud mechanical keyboard at work. You'll be dry, but everyone around you will be soaked with extra water.
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  2117. The celebrity porn that can be easily disproven isn't going to be the real issue. There are also meta-analysis tools that can take a video and determine if it has been manipulated for deepfakery.
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  2118. They're the zombies which are already prowling the land when Rick first wakes up.
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  2119.  @oggomedia  "Don't pull out a lethal weapon unless you mean to use it." This is common to any martial teaching. Even if you learn bare-handed martial arts, you are taught to never use them unless absolutely necessary by any instructor who is remotely competent. Learning bare-handed martial arts is legal in every nation as far as I'm aware so this principle shouldn't be lost in a nation where guns are not common. The lack of ability for an adult to comprehend that lethal weapon in the hands of a total stranger might be bad is just too shocking for words.
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  2120. Anime has seen much better days as well. At least they respect their audience for the most part, but funding-wise, they're really struggling and are bound by overly-conservative executives into doing the same shit over and over again.
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  2121. Caillou! Fuck me, that's excellent
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  2122.  @alistair676  Statistics have shown that most people burn out of game dev in around 7 years though. If it were seniors leaving to make better games, they wouldn't burn out of the industry entirely. Some of them do stay, but overall companies like Ubisoft are destructive to the hiring ecosystem
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  2123. Play Sonic Robo Blast 2, a fan game made in the fucking Doom engine that does the 3D Sonic thing better than Sega/Sonic Team has done for decades
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  2124. RIP Johnny Hardwick
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  2125. Sadly it seems there are no overweight body options in the game, but the character creator is a bit limited in general, and it was one of the bigger criticisms going into launch. Honestly I don't know why they did a press piece going into the character creator in detail and trying to explain away limitations as if they were advantages. You can't even change your eyebrows. The characters do look decent though, you can definitely make attractive characters.
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  2126. I meant psychiatry not psychology. Freudian slip (heh)
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  2127.  @mortystraphouse5077  Welcome to the conditioning program in action.
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  2128. The staff aren't police. Their job isn't to provide timely, accurate information. The police heard gunshots ringing throughout the school the entire time they were there and chose to do nothing.
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  2129. Coming soon: corporate court complete with a judge (perhaps even a panel of judges) to arbitrate stupid bullshit like this
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  2130.  @GMAN789  Yeah but many gamers can see the potential in unfinished games. CP2077 had that potential, Starfield doesn't really appear to have it.
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  2131. The reason why there's no water in the hydrants is because the Resnicks didn't sell it to the state. Look it up the water in CA is not state owned. It's disgusting
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  2132.  @fandam801  Controlled burns, not giving billionaire agricultural entrepreneurs the rights to state water banks, not taking away 17 million dollars from the fire department, not planting eucalyptus trees from Australia which literally use forest fires to reproduce. The list goes on.
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  2133. ​ @Neberheim go back to the 90s with your awful analogies. it wouldn't be stealing if I was able to make a perfect copy of your car for free instead of paying you for it.
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  2134. In my father's family she would be the most hated relative for that. He worked hard to move out of their ghetto neighborhood and earned nothing but spite for it
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  2135.  @missymonroe3886  Yeah, I know. It's a nearly unsolvable problem and a tragedy. I think what cops need to do, is be able to evaluate the situation for themselves when they arrive on the scene instead of trusting exactly what the dispatcher said.
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  2136.  @M4xXxIkInG  250 rounds is a single trip to the range, at most. 250/30 = about 8 magazines assuming they're 30 rounds each. Shooting requires practice and practice requires lots and lots of ammunition. The appropriate amount of ammo to have in reserve is based on whatever prices are available. It's always cheaper to buy in bulk. You can buy boxes of 500 or 1000 rounds pretty easily. Some people buy whole palettes of ammo. But this should be cheap ball ammunition. Solid slugs with no special qualities. After all, it's just for practice. For self-defense, a single 50-round box is enough.
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  2137. Never understood this. If you're too lazy or cheap to replace the battery just disconnect the alarm. It's intolerable.
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  2138.  @Anne_Onymous  And you can have your diabetes. Sounds fair to me.
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  2139.  @SkeleTonHammer  Why do you people always come up with random bullshit that completely contradicts the multiple articles I've read and then provide no source? Oh right, it's because you really want to be correct online with no effort.
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  2140.  @hoseaduran7294  The problem is that this game is supposedly 6 months out from launch and the game looks barebones as hell. Everything is extremely spread out, it looks like you'll do at least 30 seconds of running just to get to a tiny rail with some rings on it. I expect there to be more at launch, but someone on the marketing team looked at this footage and thought "Yes, this is what Sonic fans want and this makes the game look good." It doesn't, it looks like a proof of concept for a Sonic game that would be shown internally to the executives to pitch for funding. Not a game 6 months out from release.
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  2141. Yeah, I don't get the position of "don't bother trying to learn to use the tools your distro provides because you'll just switch distros in a week anyway." Maybe not everyone uses Linux the same way or likes to reinstall new versions of Linux just for the sake of tinkering with configuration ad nauseum.
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  2142. Or idubbbz.
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  2143.  @j.Mayer3148  Not very good at reading sarcasm I see
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  2144. He thinks druids aren't allowed to be black, I guess. I have bad news for you dude, D&D (the IP) has been diverse for a long time. There's a patron god of elves that allows you to switch genders with a magic ritual. Actually, there was a magic belt that did that even in old school D&D. If you didn't expect this then you're simply not paying attention. Do your research, don't be a fucking rube who "abstains from spoilers" to "maintain the hype."
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  2145. 18 years for milling about in the Capitol building unauthorized
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  2146.  @Veslelia_cw  The nose, admittedly, does look a touch out of place, but yeah that's about it.
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  2147.  @gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298  Yeah... I think cops may go practically extinct in some of these states. That, or the local chief will simply ignore red flag warrants.
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  2148. The "in defense of the state" idea is complete garbage, and I'll tell you why. Every one of the 13 colonies had their own bill of rights modeled on the English bill of rights. Every one of those 13 colonies' bill of rights had the 2nd amendment, worded 13 different ways. You can easily search them up and read them. If, after reading the contents of those 13 bills, you still think the founders intended that only state-designated military personnel should keep and bear arms when they wrote the federal bill of rights, then I'd say you're blatantly lying. We are talking about a nation where, in some regions like Pennsylvania, you were legally required to bring your gun to Sunday service because there might be an Indian raid.
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  2149.  @dragb9284  As corruptible as government is, I would rather a district be effectively owned by the government than a corporation that makes movies for kids.
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  2150. Show up to boot camp wearing a track suit and see if your hilariously shitty analogy holds any water.
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  2151.  @sleeve9097  no March?
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  2152. I'm not going to say I "hate" on the guy, but I fully expect that the relationship is not exactly rosy and completely genuine. I would expect the same if the guy was not fat or conventionally considered ugly. It's just the way influencers typically are. It could be that they're both happy with the state of the relationship, too, even if it is completely transactional. We just don't know.
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  2153.  Thegreekgod  "Sincerely an obvious troll"
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  2154. Hilariously, there is a private dialogue option and it gets turned on by default for specific scenes (many of them not sexual).
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  2155.  @sycoland1918  The Dark Sun setting has half-dwarves called Mul who, as the name implies, are infertile and are explicitly said to make good stock for slavery and manual labor.
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  2156. Any chat service for kids will be invaded by pedos. It's their primary "hunting ground." Stick to games or don't use random chats at all.
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  2157. @Warren Hunter You need better reading comprehension.
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  2158. ​ @jerrybriseno3031  Deny it all you want, they aren't hiding it. You're just putting your ignorance on display
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  2159. More like a character you'd mod into Skyrim SexLabs.
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  2160. ​@sonic-templeos my man is unironically bringing up BASIC in 2023 and using it as devils advocate, you make it incredibly hard for any programmer to take you seriously right from the get go
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  2161.  @gaiusjuliuscaesar9296  From the statistics I've seen for dating sites (I work in software and I used to work on the searching and matching code for one of them), an overwhelming majority of women try to date the top 20-30% of guys in terms of appearance or popularity (i.e. profile metrics). It's a jarring look into completely deranged expectations. I think it is mostly due to the psychological effect online dating has, like "oh look I can date any guy now the entire gene pool is my backyard"
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  2162.  @rstein926  he also is implied to have no idea how to carry on or commit to a relationship, IIRC there's one episode where his love interest is actually interested but he chickens out because of the commitment
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  2163.  @YouAreOneOfUs  OK great, now can you compare the amount of people/animals killed or made sick by radiation from nuclear accidents to the amount killed or made sick by oil rig explosions/accidents, oil spills, etc.
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  2164. I think he was supposed to be making a satirical joke about BuzzFeed's clickbaity titles.
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  2165.  @oliverwilliam6931  If he didn't know what he was doing, then he wouldn't be filming it for clout. He's filming it because he knows that it is outrageous
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  2166. RTwP was honestly a trash fire... It's hard for me to imagine that it was ever the standard for CRPGs. I mean, why adapt a turn-based rules system to turn-based when you can force yourself to play a weird rhythm game with the pause button?
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  2167.  @Huckle777  Are you talking about the Enhanced Edition? Because that definitely didn't exist in the original copy of the game.
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  2168.  @FictionalPersonality  it's called iterative design you utter nincompoop, if Pokemon's IP holders were competent they would have seen the writing on the wall and designed a game like Palworld first. instead we got Arceus, which ran like molasses in an igloo with half the features people wanted. there have been DOZENS of monster catching games but you're not complaining about those, are you?
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  2169.  @coffe3136  and pokemon clearly copied designs from dragon quest but nobody gives a fuck, i have no sympathy for Nintendo who wields IP law like a tetsubo
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  2170. It's an old and outmoded tradition, actually. Nowadays it's just another way for some bureaucratic little club to leech money from retarded students. Also, it was a way to segregate kids by gender, when most people still thought that was the proper thing to do. Sadly some people believe that they need to spend thousands of dollars in order to create a pretense to socialize. It doesn't cost any less at all because of the extra fees you have to pay for the frat. Most colleges have apartments or dorms with subsidized rent that is extremely low. When I was still at college my rent for an apartment on campus cost about half of what a similar apartment would elsewhere. And funnily enough, our apartment was still a massive center for parties even though we weren't in a frat.
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  2171.  @CEOofWasrael  The first playthrough I did of the remake of Resident Evil 2 (on Hardcore difficulty) and Alien: Isolation (again, on Hard) are the scariest media I've ever experienced. They kept me feeling tense and scared for most of the time because the games are genuinely difficult and feature situations that you can't just defeat with weapons. I don't like cheap scares and games are good at stimulating horror due to the interactivity. The Void (2016) is a good horror film. I didn't get terrified by it, but everything is very well designed with very good physical effects, and it's good traditional Lovecraftian horror in a modern setting.
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  2172. It's crazy how people think that getting involved in a fight is worth their time, unless the other party will not accept no for an answer. I say this owning and carrying a firearm, mace, and having trained 2 different martial arts.
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  2173. ​ @kingsleyoji649 The joke is partly the fact that Vivek is so wealthy. That's what makes it funny, not just the fact that the joke plays off a stereotype
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  2174.  @daisycabuguang160  It's usually a good idea to not base all your perceptions on a country on things that an industry that thrives on attention tells you
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  2175. Yes, harmful stereotypes like being the only kind people in a savage land.
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  2176. Honestly I doubt it. If they were having fun, the meme would be funny. Why didn't they use Lilith for Barbie, for example? This is just lolrandumb and doesn't relate in any way to D4. My money is on underpaid "community manager" being forced to put out memes.
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  2177.  @qua7771  This isn't even a problem in 95% of gyms. Social media amplifies the minority through over-reporting. I go to a public gym multiple times a week, with fat-assed Instagram influencers that work out in it (I can tell just by the body type), and have never been approached by anyone for this.
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  2178. Legally speaking, yes. The question isn't really the overall morality of the encounter, but whether a security guard does himself any favors by engaging like this.
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  2179. It's an apt term, though. You don't realize it until you interact with the 50% of people below average intelligence. Most people are boring and intolerable.
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  2180. @Grandpaneedsblood Still funny after 18 months?
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  2181.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  It's pretty easy if you look through monarchy history. Mary, Queen of Scots and English monopolies (Queen Elizabeth's fault). The handling of the Irish potato blight (Queen Victoria). Granted the blight itself was not directly her fault but the treatment of the Irish in their moment of desperation was.
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  2182.  @Myhaay  "Not liking the video games I like" is edgy now? Sheesh, people are fragile.
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  2183. The mag was in there at first, but she accidentally hit the mag release while screwing around with everything in the car. I guess in her mind the priority was threatening them with a round in the chamber instead of trying to load the mag again with one hand. Or maybe she just didn't notice due to all the other things going on
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  2184.  @Xplora213  He's musing on the reason for the marriage.
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  2185. "She's about 7 feet up" So the mom is 7 feet tall then? Wow, a family of giants.
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  2186.  @tarkamlokar9709  Fable was never about "believable stories." Quite the opposite, they intentionally evoke a fairy tale aesthetic. I mean, look at the title of the franchise.
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  2187.  @numbersbubble  I never beat Nier: Automata, but in my mind the androids look like that because in case humanity is near extinction they would need robowaifus to act as surrogate mothers. They just had the bad ending where the androids weren't enough to save the humans
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  2188. "Guns don't kill people. Some random person who leaves the gun on a table and doesn't expect anyone to touch it does."
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  2189.  @thomasrobinson8789  We could also fuel vehicles with ethanol made from corn, which we make assloads of, but mysteriously that doesn't get purused
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  2190. To be honest, he came off as slightly more mature if you knew where his channel started. What sold that for me was telling funny stories about how crushingly awkward he was as a teenager. That gave the impression he had grown up. Not really, I guess.
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  2191.  @lgbtqiarights  Something tells me you haven't seen that one South Park episode.
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  2192. @userJohnSmith They make it complicated intentionally to get away with enforcing unlawful orders. Organizations like the ATF are members of the executive branch and are supposed to be concerned with enforcing the law, not making it. Executive orders are already really pushing it. This is effectively the same thing but in a narrower scope.
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  2193.  @rb032682  It sounds like you're not long for this world, no offense, so your earlier statement about "not leaving CA 'til you die" has virtually no weight.
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  2194. ​@NN-rs1ny You can't create something without knowing how it works. The applications for quantum computers is research, especially quantum mechanics (naturally) but there are other research and simulation applications it could be good at. It will never be a consumer product, or at least not for a very long time. There's just no reason for it. But Google and IBM wouldn't be funneling so much money into this for no good reason.
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  2195.  @WarriorBlood777  psychiatrists and psychologists are not the same. psychologists typically do not practice medicine. psychiatrists do. psychologists are the people who sit around theorizing how best to control other people's minds through social experiments
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  2196.  @danielrichardson6054  Oops, you're right. He did other full-contact fighting but not UFC.
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  2197.  @GodKiller97  Pretty much every game where you play a character that has progression in terms of power is an RPG. It's impossible to overstate how much RPG mechanics have infected the industry. The only mainstream games that aren't RPGs are like, sports games and Call of Duty. Even Halo is an RPG now with the skill unlocks you get in the Infinite campaign. The definition of RPG never changed, the industry executives just realized that progression makes a game more addictive. Remember when FPS games were just about getting to the end of a level with the guns you were given or get along the way? Many of them were even designed so that you could start any level at all with no guns carried over from the previous level and still enjoy it without it being impossible or frustratingly difficult. Now even Doom has mechanics where you level up your health, armor and ammo, etc.
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  2198. Well rather than do that many people are checking out of public school entirely. Especially after the mess that was COVID.
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  2199.  @jadenkarpoff9158  How can you hate spiders? They chill on a web all day (except for jumping spiders I guess, they can freak you out) and they kill all of the other pests you mentioned in that post. I bet barn spiders single-handedly prevented terrible diseases from wiping out livestock during the middle ages.
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  2200.  @Adventeuan  The pp is small because around 90% of men are growers
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  2201. Meanwhile, hundreds of cashiers in fast food suffer physical abuse for no reason all the time, but you just accept that as a matter of course because the video is always available. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, suddenly it's unbelievable, even though recently a fast food cashier SHOT at a customer through a drive-thru window. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this guy was beat up for no reason. Why else have tinted windows on the building? Why else does this company have such a bad reputation in other incidents besides? People are not rational. Don't make the mistake of thinking rationally for others.
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  2202. ​@chrisrockzo89 That's insane. I watched this with my parents as a rental wgen I was a young teen and we laughed our asses off
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  2203.  @theplasticspoon2196  Guy is afraid he might actually like something and unlock a whole new supergenre of shit to watch.
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  2204.  @punkw7852  You do realize that fire departments solve issues like this on a regular basis with a ladder and a blunt instrument right? The guy almost fell and injured himself trying to get to his balcony.
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  2205.  @punkw7852  They live in an apartment bro, did you even watch the video? No they didn't have the ability to break into their downstairs neighbor's apartment. This 911 call is more reasonable than many. They likely didn't expect the police to show up. It's up to the dispatcher to decide who to send to the residence. They could just as easily sent the fire department but didn't.
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  2206.  @ELECTR0VlO  "I think Microsoft has learnt from their lessons in terms of being anti-competitive" Microsoft is in the process of scooping up every game publisher in sight as he types this I'm not sure if I can ever take anything you say seriously from this point forward.
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  2207.  @2BigFooted  Except that isn't a cop's job, it's the fire department's job. You really think cops do it all? What about medical treatment, would you trust a cop to do that to you?
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  2208.  @woodson21  You can be confident while lying, and not confident while speaking the truth. You may say this is uncommon. Well, it doesn't really matter, because even if you tried to determine whether only one person was lying or telling the truth, you might not know who they are. Statistics are only helpful in the aggregate, not when examining one person in a case study.
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  2209. I don't normally do this kind of bragging thing but I took karate for a couple of years when I was like 9 and I'm pretty confident I could throw a better kick than that. Looks like he does it for some kind of bullshit aerobics workout rather than learning martial arts.
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  2210. It would be really dumb of them to reject foreign English teachers, who they are presumably recruiting to bring some flavor of their culture to the classroom, because of his non-native culture.
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  2211. Bro, if he plays Overwatch he isn't worth knowing
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  2212. They do have something to do with this, that wasn't a "pit" it was basically just some foam cubes strewn about the floor. Little to no cushioning. It would work if you fell down flat and spread the impact, and this particular lady did no services to herself with her jump, but it looks deceptively deep.
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  2213.  @maarten2537  And who organized the event? Who allowed the third party to set up?
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  2214. Who forgives someone for diddling kiddies? Seriously, I need to know. That's just not a thing in any culture.
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  2215.  @fignewtoneater  the urban environment as we know it did not even exist "throughout history" neither did pistols as we know them. you could steal someone's sword and it wouldn't do you a damn bit of good if you didn't know how to use it, especially if the guy you stole it from was wearing armor. shooting a pistol is as easy as using a camera and that's to say nothing of the justice system. a murderer in the past would be, at best, an outlaw for the rest of his life, never to show his face honestly in any town ever again unless he managed to leave the country. a murderer now gets 3 hots and a cot as well as a shot at parole. we willingly foster a criminal enclave that exists within and without prisons, who live a parallel life to ours, making money and living lives by illicit means. basically, outlaws in plain sight
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  2216.  @redpillras3456  I walked past a woman talking on her phone as I was exiting the poll station. I only caught one and a half sentences. Those were: "He's crazy. He supports abortion..." The woman was not even white.
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  2217.  @gerald216  Ork spores are susceptible to burning. It's in fact required if you want to cleanse your planet of them after an invasion. They have to enter the atmosphere in a big rock or something first.
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  2218. It doesn't even have to be that on the nose. Just put an attractive lady on the can with the slogan, "As real as it gets." Everyone will know what you mean.
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  2219.  @Dontworryaboutit961  Same. I do it in gas station convenience stores specifically to see how busy it is and how long I'll have to wait in line.
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  2220.  @Quackra  I was amazed that there were 4 genuine replies before the bot comment. It's like a miracle.
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  2221.  @Antyvas  Only 3? Wow, living on the edge aren't we?
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  2222. @@ZeldaGuy12345 you mean the booster shot for the flu-like disease that I haven't had symptoms for in nearly a year and never did anything worse than make me tired for 12 hours? science usually doesn't recommend that you inject random shit in your body for ailments that you don't have. there was an ancient greek doctor that figured this out, you may have heard of him: hippocrates
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  2223. ​ @Paulo27 Life is a struggle. Do you stop eating or taking shits too?
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  2224.  @ramonalee1  Yes people who lose interest in what you're saying 2 sentences in really annoy me. Why are you wasting your and my time being here if you're not interested in what I'm saying? Social interaction should not be a chore or obligation.
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  2225. it's a mission based game bro, "open world is the only way to make games" is a cancerous mentality
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  2226. You have no idea. Real criminals will often try to call 911 before the victim can. It is effective.
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  2227. You can be the greatest expert at anything (although, this guy is definitely not a debate expert) but overconfidence will always destroy you.
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  2228. You can make a pizza with ingredients from the store that tastes better and is cheaper for the family. Why do poor people eat trash food? I don't get it.
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  2229. A situation like this requires proper risk analysis. The cops said "oh no, guns!!!!" and immediately tried to bar anyone from entering the home. The man saw his livelihood and property liable to go up in literal smoke if he didn't do anything and there was still time to act. He acted, against the police's wishes and still was able to control the fire, with no assistance. Their analysis was obviously shit.
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  2230. This is also the franchise which has a black US president in the first game and a metrosexual vampire in the second
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  2231.  @x0gucx  She must have a really hard time when she looks in the mirror every morning
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  2232.  @MatthewSmith-o4o  Your analogy is flawed. It is more like if you regularly went to a church of a specific denomination, but over time, they decided that talking about specific passages in your religious text was not allowed. Eventually, the church is completely different, co-opted by its own leadership and shaped by what is not allowed to be spoken about. Additionally, the church grew so powerful on the support of its old followers, that it now stomps out any other churches that try to spring up in town using underhanded tactics. Technically legal? Sure, I suppose, if you ignore the underhanded tactics. This is where a problem arises that must be solved through arbitration or legislation.
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  2233. Only in this current day and age is a man with one or more previous marriages with potentially a ton of baggage more "attractive" than a man who has never been married
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  2234.  @andywaters1997  Yes, and frogs also move in 3D... a fish in water this shallow can basically only move in two dimensions, because it cannot dive any deeper. I really don't know why you think an extra prong and a flashlight means it's super easy.
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  2235. I was always more of a swords kid myself, much more immersive with the play fighting.
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  2236.  @wowplayer160  indeed, even most criminals infamously hate child molesters. everyone has a moral standard they aren't willing to drop beneath
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  2237. Kids really are like this though. Most of them see old graphics and think "oooohhh stinky" immediately. My first real game was Doom, and before that I think I played some edutainment games made in the 80s that I can't remember, so I don't really have any attachment to graphics.
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  2238. I consider myself a very avid gamer (wanted to be a game dev when I was younger) and I buy maybe a handful of games a year now. Most games just suck, most publishers and studios have their heads in the wrong place when they develop games. Even when wokeness is not involved.
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  2239. ​ @ACryin_Shame irrelevant, now you know why men and women have different leagues. this should have already been obvious to you
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  2240.  @kdawg3484  I wouldn't say that D&D has ever been "roleplay-friendly" at least in comparison to other games. WHFRP, for example, delinates social classes, penalties or boons for interacting within or without said social classes, rules for starting up a business, rules for dealing with guilds and fees they may mandate, talents (sorta like feats) that change how you interact with people (like nobles ignoring you because you're a servant) etc. D&D is very basic when it comes to actual roleplaying. That's not to say you can't roleplay well in D&D, but the game won't help you do it. D&D is, first and foremost, a game about deciding how you can blast as many goblins as possible in a 30-foot circle which is approximated with squares, and then rolling for loot afterward. That's what the rules always focused on. It's downright tragic that so many people play D&D, because I can tell from many of their campaign descriptions that they're grating on many of the limitations of the rules and would enjoy something else much more.
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  2241. Bro they have video where they voraciously slurp the microphone
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  2242.  @RoseCityKing  "assault weapon" isn't a term with any meaningful definition. "Assault rifle" is, however, they would have to prove that the AK is a pre-ban select fire AK, or that the judge has an FFL and therefore the ability to own machine guns, which he likely doesn't.
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  2243.  @thomaspike1475  Or, the third option: "assault weapon" and "assault style" are meaningless fear mongering labels. By acknowledging them, you are validating them, which muddies the waters as these terms have no real definition and exist just to scare people whenever it is convenient for the speaker.
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  2244. @ Funny how that has nothing to do with what was said in the video.
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  2245.  @loveableheathen7441  Whew, I feel kinda weird. What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, Avatar. The worst live-action anime adaptation ever made.
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  2246.  @Trastlol  She's a pornstar dude, she has an Onlyfans. Not that there's anything wrong with that but people who try to say "HOW DO YOU KNOW, SHE'S JUST PLAYING VIDEO GAMES" look like children. Totally ridiculous
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  2247. He was clearly thinking of the fat neckbeard image that was a huge meme back in the mid-late 2000s. Not the one where the guy is smiling and tipping his fedora, but the one where he is balding with glasses.
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  2248.  @pedrobetancourt  She didn't "come around" she was likely cursing to herself that she couldn't get her way. These people are activists.
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  2249. @@MazesSA-jg3cc The force was equivalent. People often die from stab wounds, in case you were not aware.
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  2250.  @williamsecor3707  Move out of California.
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  2251. ​ @YoStYtOaStY100 You mean by randomly tipping them hundreds of dollars and telling them good job?
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  2252. ​ @toniotrussardi8126 An elderly man being able to kill others is the whole point. They have no chance of defending themselves against an assailant otherwise.
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  2253.  @angryroostercreations5194  Because if you're satisfied with fictional characters, that means that real "models" and actresses can't influence you as heavily. It's seen as a threat to their influence, and more importantly, their managers' influence.
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  2254. Easy way to remember: Clips feed magazines. Magazines feed guns. Some guns have magazines that can't be removed (ye olde bolt actions from WW2, and some semi-automatics).
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  2255.  @Sitri777  1. You're just assuming that, there is no reason to believe he doesn't hate all talentless streamers. Learn to understand context. 2. They enjoy protections from Twitch mod staff that nobody else does.
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  2256. Protest votes and abstains are meaningless nonsense. Either campaign for a third candidate, and I mean really campaign because that's the only way there will be a chance is if everyone makes their name known, or pick an issue that's most important and vote based on that. The only reason one should not vote is if one acknowledges that they are an uninformed moron and their vote could possibly hurt the election. I voted for Trump because I wanted to avoid WW3 (Hillary was awfully fiery with the Russia rhetoric... and look where we are now that a Democrat is in office, coincidence? Unlikely) and Trump was a possible criminal, while Hillary was a proven traitor. But even that did not matter except in the capacity that Hillary was even more unlikely to deliver good policy. Etiquette, politeness, morals... these are all meaningless in politics. Vote for policy and the ability to execute said policy. There are no moral people in the race for president.
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  2257.  @KingOfMalevolence  It's cheaper than a real relationship. Relationships aren't life hacks for free sex.
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  2258.  @SahiPie  You're so wise and enlightened. Thank you for gracing us with your presence in what was otherwise a light-hearted surface-level observation not meant to be taken seriously.
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  2259.  @EasyBakinX  "I have 600hrs into diablo 4 and only money I spent was on the game itself. I don’t buy anything from the shop. There’s not a person twisting your arm to buy anything!" Not relevant. The discussion was about how game studios spend their production budget and why Diablo 4's budget was bigger than BG3's, but not spent wisely. Your or my own willingness to fall into the MTX traps has nothing to do with this. I was also explaining why a game can both be better and produced more cheaply, and thus, BG3's standard of quality is not unrealistic. "Comparing the 2 titles is like comparing a tomato to a pomegranate. Both fruits with entirely different tastes." Again, you fail to grasp the purpose of this discussion. This is about budgeting and management. It has almost nothing to do with the content of the games themselves.
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  2260. It was probably because she is a mother that she could not bear to stand there and watch it happen
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  2261.  @Buckycarson  Are you trying to imply that India is less violent than the US? I don't get what you're trying to say. That example did not help your case at all. Japan is an island nation that restricts immigration very heavily. They don't have, for example, cartel members going in and out of their borders willy-nilly. Nor do they have an intelligence agency that sells so-called assault weapons to criminal organizations in their neighboring countries on the down low, let alone the up-and-up (Fast and Furious). Again, not really fair to compare these nations. Population diversity numbers in almost every nation simply don't compare to the US, whose "white" population is steadily approaching 50%, and the largest ethnic minority has only been an established free community for about 160 years. You simply don't see this combination of cultural clashes and problems anywhere else. Most police departments in the US do in fact have ARs, and there isn't any particular reason to believe the department protecting the Uvalde jurisdiction wouldn't have had them. You can find numerous videos of policemen responding to active shooters using ARs of their own and they are not SWAT team members or feds. I have seen an AR sitting in the back of a college campus police cruiser when I went to college. "2 18 years olds with obvious mental health issues get weapons" I agree this is a problem and I'm wondering if there is more to the story of him buying the AR. According to all his peers, he is obviously disturbed. Kids at his school knew that he tortured animals, tried to pick fights with other kids, mutilated himself for attention, and so on. Yet none of these things were taken into consideration when he bought a gun, although gun stores in the US reserve the right to refuse service to any reason, and most apply that policy without reservation. I find it suspect that this kid who just turned 18 turned up at the store and was sold an AR without any misgivings at all, even though he has a scarred face from mutilating himself and so on. Why were his numerous fights/animal harm incidents not reported and put on his record somewhere? Despite what you may have heard, federal background checks are required for a gun purchase. Nobody in his community seems to think they're accountable for their lack of action despite this kid's obviously destructive behavior. Everyone keeps saying that more needs to be done, but when they're the ones who might be responsible suddenly that crowd goes silent
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  2262.  @nate6045  Bruh, that would be a Wisdom check at the very least, c'mon now.
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  2263.  @maurits4845  Rap lyrics take liberties for the sake of rhymes
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  2264.  @5RndsFFE  They are machine guns according to the law, not according to military terminology. Stop being a pedant. And there are plenty of machine guns that fire intermediate cartridges besides, like the M249.
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  2265.  @christopherdavis3517  It's called "hard R" because "nigga" has a completely different connotation, look up the English teacher who said "nigga" interview on TV if you have no idea. It's funny and informative
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  2266.  @mirceazaharia2094  The funny thing about impoverished places is that they often have less crime. I personally believe that if the people have the right morals, they work together to get through hardship instead of trying to rip everyone off. There was a big meme several years ago about how the richest black neighborhood in the US had more crime than the poorest white neighborhood.
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  2267. That's what he means by "I think she'll be better," it'll be better for his campaign
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  2268.  @thatretardeddog5245  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Based on tag counts I've seen... Peach should definitely be up there, not Mario.
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  2269. A guy did it in England in the 70's, just to prove a point. The royals didn't get it.
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  2270. Because an intern spent a week making a dialogue box in the character creator that literally has no impact on the game at all and they knew it would kick up a giant controversy that would sell their game for them. Starfield is the biggest Bethesda launch to date. It's pathetic how weak willed people are, across the entire spectrum of society.
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  2271. One of my fondest memories with my dad was watching Uwe Boll's "In the Name of the King" (the Dungeon Siege movie) together when I was a teenager. The fact that Jason Statham was in was bad enough, but we laughed our asses off when Burt Reynolds showed up, and there was one egregiously bad scene cut that left us both mind blown and rewinding 2 or 3 times to understand if that was actually supposed to happen
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  2272. ​@OB.x "it isn't the polices job to catch crooks, it's the stores" bruh
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  2273.  @bobbypatton4903  Do you seriously not know what a sonic boom or sound delay are? Jesus Christ man, you're trying way too hard.
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  2274.  @CaptainAbzorbio  Pretty sure that was what he was getting at anyway. Regardless, it's a lot easier to hear with the .22 because of how quiet it is, despite any sonic boom being present. The delay on the shotgun is substantial.
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  2275. ​ @GalinaEv They were, but made the mistake of going easy on him, and believing he was capable of shame.
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  2276. ​@richthepup Too cowardly to state his position, accuses others of lack of reading comprehension. Classic weaseling.
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  2277. That dude is such a stereotypical "liberal cuck" that it's hard to laugh at him. I just feel sad for him.
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  2278.  @alexbarnett8541  Yeah, that's the "I'm disgusted every time I see him, but I prefer to ignore him" category.
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  2279.  @ne0nmancer  That has been a meme for eons, dude. It has nothing to do with Bobby. "Buying a yacht" is the most vanilla way to express that an executive is keeping money for themselves instead of putting it back in the company.
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  2280.  @OkoTheBroko  I don't drive, so you can continue paying for your depreciating investment and whine about it as well as the gas that feeds it. As for the other foreign products, those prices will rise initially and stabilize later when domestic taxes are cut, when domestic businesses rise to take their place, when more people who have jobs because those businesses exist have more money to spend. We can't keep giving money to nations like China that actively work to undermine us by using it to buy land from under our noses. Much of it suspiciously adjacent to military bases. There is a world that exists in the future past tomorrow and we have to have the brainpower to think about it.
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  2281.  @NotYourDadsCards  They aren't wrong, in that particular case. That would imply honest incompetence. They are paid off.
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  2282.  @xmateinc  If it were a personal carry weapon, then carrying in condition 1 is dumb, it only takes a couple of seconds for a guy with a knife to close about 7 yards with you according to the FBI. But that would be on his person and his dog wouldn't have stepped on it.
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  2283.  @SVTDI  The Germans struggled with their semi-automatic rifles (G41 and G43), both suffered from problems and weren't ideal, so it makes sense they'd try to replace the Mauser which while reliable was quickly becoming obsolete. However once you have an StG44 why bother with any of those rifles? Unfortunately for them the war was already well on its way to ending when they introduced it.
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  2284. It's extremely obnoxious because that setting already existed, and it is called Shadowrun. You can be a Chinese dwarf, Mexican orc, etc. in those settings because metahumans are separate from ethnicity. Shadowrun also has a fantasy equivalent setting, Earthdawn. They don't even realize that they're trying and failing to steal SR/ED players.
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  2285. And you'll probably do it again next week. then complain again as if that makes a difference. The problems with this economy in a nutshell.
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  2286.  @razzledazzledorito6552  But the context of the interaction is on a dating website. If you just wanted to chat about something, then go to a topic-based forum for the topic you want to talk about. I'm not sure how you confuse "wanting to be more than a friend" with "hook-up culture."
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  2287.  @Garuda_31  The political status/message of the game actually is of no consequence. It would not surprise me at all if Helldivers 2 was made by a full blown anti-fascist who thought they were effectively satirizing Fascism. People can have stupid opinions and still be talented. Verhoeven also thought he was satrizing Fascism when he directed the Starship Troopers movie. I still wouldn't deny that he is a talented director. What matters is how "the usual suspects" view the media, and showing that "cancellation" only has any power, if you let it have power.
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  2288.  @Garuda_31  It's successful because it has non-woke options and has good player agency. You can kill the two lesbians who are otherwise plot-critical in a completely "good" playthrough (the game doesn't assign any moral labels to your choices). I believe this game gets a little too much flak from those who haven't played it at all. Even DOS2 was a slightly less good, more woke game, but it was still pretty fun. I know they marketed in a provocative and degenerate manner, but marketing shouldn't be taken as perfect representation of a piece of media. I've seen quite a few films whose reputations were marred by their trailers, usually put together by a different team. Ion Fury also suffered from this because some utter douchebag from 3D Realms made up a bunch of shit about the game's protagonist in an interview, then made the devs remove a lotion bottle that said "OGAY" on it as a dumb joke, which they then re-added later. It's still in my opinion the best retroclone shooter.
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  2289. You have two options. Choose wisely. 1. Actors are children in adult bodies who are incapable of agency. Every thing an actor does, some handler, agent, or manager will be liable for. The armorer is somehow responsible for Baldwin's shot, even though she couldn't have possibly known that Baldwin would randomly shoot a non-performer when the cameras aren't rolling. Tough luck; he's got the mind of a child and isn't responsible for himself. 2. Actors, like everyone else in the entire fucking world, are responsible for pulling the trigger of a gun without knowing what is loaded. Let alone doing it when the cameras aren't rolling, at someone who is not even a performer in the scene.
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  2290.  @commissarlugh1040  The PIAT was not irredeemable, the Nambu however is a literal death trap and you put your life at risk just by carrying it around.
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  2291.  @crowe6961  It's hard to judge Mosins unless they're reproductions, because they've been sitting in crates for decades and many of them have corroded rifling. In my experience they shoot like shit even after you re-mill them however.
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  2292.  @crispyblack8779  He did that to troll people online. Dude's a humorist, get over it.
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  2293. The passed out guy is sleeping off his drunkenness before going home. Not an uncommon thing I hear.
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  2294.  @TheSleepLes  People meet the same gender differently than how they meet the opposite gender, especially for the purpose of romance. For example, I don't know any drunk, abusive dads. Not a single one has ever been and I suspect ever will be in my friend circle. But I'd look like a fucking idiot if I said "drunk, abusive dads aren't a real problem." They have been for millennia. The lady who posted this comment likely doesn't know any women who act this way. It'd be nice if she'd hand out some of their numbers. Just kidding, of course, but you get what I'm saying.
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  2295. ​ @IWillYeah Yeah, what kind of scumbag asks for a return on investment while they're in massive debt? Truly deplorable.
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  2296. I always remember what me cousin Okri said: Around elves, watch yourselves.
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  2297. More than likely it was reported and law enforcement did nothing about it. Even more likely, they were legally unable to do anything when the posts were reported. They don't want to tell anyone this because it would make the public even more angry than they already are with the way this was handled.
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  2298.  @30803080308030803081  Many careers take a huge emotional toll on the person working them, doesn't mean they're illegal. In fact mental wellness is mostly ignored in this society. If you're mentally unstable people just avoid you.
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  2299.  @tastyterpenes4140  i'm going to go out on a limb here and ask what in the world makes you think quantum mechanics is spiritual in nature? are you referring to the anthropic principle? many scientists consider that to be a laughable position
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  2300. The kid might learn... the mom, almost certainly not, sadly. I hope he realizes that his mom isn't doing right by him
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  2301. They are sought after... in the fields which they are capable of working. Nobody works more diligently at my local Kroger than the guy with Downs.
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  2302.  @jackcoonrod5400  They really don't. I likely would not qualify with my vision. I can't shoot most rifles using iron sights because they're too small and hard for me to distinguish, so there's no way I'd pass basic marksmanship.
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  2303.  @MeCooper  an impartial cop would have moved the protestors out of the street because it is the simplest and most effective way to solve the problem. this is civil disobedience, which is a form of protest that involves knowingly breaking the law. for some reason modern first world cops have simply allowed protestors to break the law. in the past, civil disobedience practitioners like MLK and Ghandi expected to go to jail or be otherwise legally penalized for what they did. these kids do it with no fear or care in the world, they have nothing better to do and nothing to live for so they make up the righteous cause.
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  2304. Never Trumpers would indeed have the same problems with Vance, but Harris has literally never deserved her position. She gathered about 1% of the vote when she last ran in an open primary. People forget, but Biden picking her as VP was a shock and controversy of its own at the time.
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  2305. ​ @sirksees Meditation is about letting go of your inner thoughts that are causing you problems. It is about focus, not relaxation. It's not about letting your mind wander. You have to find something repetitive to focus on. Some people use their senses, like hyper focus on every nerve ending in their body as much as they can one at a time. That kind of works for me sometimes but I prefer to use mental images. I will count my breaths and then imagine the numbers in vivid detail, like a giant 3D number submerged in sand for example.
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  2306.  @solderbuddy  Don't worry. They bought a Superbowl ad.
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  2307.  @chinmaysingh2164  The ugly truth is that solar and wind are simply not viable at scale. Their farms take up way too much land, they are not viable in all parts of the globe due to differing climates and weather, and there are ugly parts involved that "green energy" advocates simply gloss over when claiming how much these energy sources help the environment. Namely, the mining of rare earth minerals (mostly from China) to make solar panels and the deaths of THOUSANDS (really, it is quite harrowing) of birds each year flying through wind farms. Not to mention the burden of maintenance involved with a completely decentralized power plant that is spread far and wide outdoors. For personal use, yes, wind and solar can be viable, but it simply will not solve the energy problems of a nation let alone the planet. In particular, Germany has possibly the stupidest energy policy, banking on solar and wind in a nation that is known for its lack of wind and dreary weather.
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  2308. Many such examples, one of the more infamous was a girl named Ima Hogg.
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  2309. I work in software and (ironically) I am visually impaired, to the degree that I cannot drive a car. I would be fascinated to know how many jobs the ADA has prevented me from getting due to skittish employers. I have to imagine it is at least a few, considering how many interviews went well, yet were followed by no calls.
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  2310.  @boofert.washington2499  Uhh.... if the Latino is a member of La Raza, sure.
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  2311. ​ @yaz2928 I wouldn't say 95% of young males are doing that well. Maybe 80% at the most
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  2312.  @wastrelperv  none of those people are journalists. this is like excusing a guy who sneezed on your lungs while performing open heart surgery with "to be fair, nobody who isn't a surgeon would know what the hell they are doing..." providing useful information without too much bias is literally what a journalist's job is
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  2313. ​ @Neognostic-pk5wu  Most people who espouse those views have in fact been hurt many times themselves. I've met so many different men throughout my life who were hurt in relationships for different reasons that, combined with my own bad ability to deal with and judge people, caused me to recede into a shell completely for fear of being betrayed.
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  2314. Well Fascism is really a form of socialism that has been -- surprise surprise -- nationalized. The thing that makes "Socialism" what it is, is the Marxist idea that there will be some kind of magical coming together of people of differing cultures and ethnicities just because they're all working class and don't particularly enjoy rich people. The Fascists in actuality are the people who realized this was retarded in the 1920s after WWI and revised the doctrine to account for this. Mussolini was a former Marxist. WWI was basically the perfect time for all working class peoples to overthrow their respective governments except in maybe the US but they didn't do it, because again, retarded.
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  2315.  @matsimurf_5900  Sororitas weren't proto-woke. it was more likely the result of someone's masochism fetish, judging by how they were treated in the lore for years until enough people complained about them losing and being murdered in horrific ways. the Matt Ward Bloodthirster episode alone was enough to make me ask myself if I was reading someone's guro fan-fiction.
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  2316.  @vermilion7777  they dominate in tabletop, but that's because tabletop is a pretty limited market. that doesn't mean that the majority of people who enjoy 40k content are tabletop players. the IP is simply too well known, even now, for that to be true. there's so much Warhammer content available that it simply doesn't make sense for the majority of people who consume it to be tabletop players, based on how limited and expensive that hobby is
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  2317.  @andrewbryant4259  yeah, let's just dismiss this very real issue by comparing it to a movie, because everything in all movies is fake and not based on reality
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  2318.  @blackjackjester  that would mean she was an infant, or at best, a toddler when the family moved away, the Soviet Union stopped existing in 1991 it's a lot like Mr. Soros claiming he lived through the holocaust when in reality, he was a child living in total safety because his very rich father paid off some German officials to look the other way and did nothing for the community
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  2319.  @Akakiryuushin  Yeah it was literally an animation about an extremely depressed otaku who just masturbates and sleeps. The visuals were his dreams.
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  2320. Blanks are a superset of Sisters of Silence. Anyone can be a blank just by birth, if I recall right, but Sisters require training and augmentation
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  2321.  @oaksparoakspar3144  IIRC, he fired 8 or so rounds. Don't quote me on that though.
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  2322. At least with the exhibition match against the kids in 2017, you could make the argument that they played poorly on purpose to give the kids some motivation. This newer match just confirms what we've known since the Battle of the Sexes in the 1970s.
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  2323.  @reece9746  The guy's a former drifter and heroin addict. You make do with what you can.
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  2324.  @Songfugel  That rebuttal is pure pedantry and semantics. It doesn't even deserve a response.
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  2325.  @ShooterMcgavin119  They claimed it was supposed to be a documentary or expose about a corrupt industry but the problem is that they sexualized the children who played roles in that movie in the course of making said documentary. It doesn't matter if it's for "shock value," it's still fucking disgusting and defeats the purpose of the "expose" to begin with, not to mention any moral high ground they might have had.
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  2326. There are other D&D clones out there that aim at simplicity and don't go super in-depth on options like Pathfinder does. Many of them emulate older editions like OD&D or 2nd edition, but that's not necessarily a bad thing especially if you're new to the hobby. Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Labyrinth Lord are two of the ones I've played. However, D&D is far from the holy grail of game design, so I would say pick something else that interests you and try it. Frankly, if you line up every TTRPG rulebook and throw a dart blindfolded, you're more likely than not to hit one that is better than D&D or many of its clones.
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  2327. @Mithguar Strictly speaking, it would indeed solve your knife violence problem. The question then is what happens next.
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  2328.  @joshslim3  Manual safeties are a liability me bucko. I really don't need yet another extra step that I have to take if I have to draw my firearm on someone dangerous. I want the gun to function so I don't get hurt. "B-but that's dangerous to you!" Not really, as long as you actually follow the rules of gun safety and treat all weapons like they're always loaded and ready to fire. You do do that don't you? You aren't one of those guys who pretends that his gun is always safe because last time you remembered, you turned on the safety right?
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  2329.  @SteveJud43  "The tech elitists" didn't make you worse than a high-schooler at reading. Subtitles aren't that hard.
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  2330.  @anonymous303-i1j  Why not? Many nations around the world, under constant reasonable threat of invasion, require military service from their citizens at a given age. I think some of them even let you keep the service weapons. That is not so different from requiring arms for citizenship. I would only add the caveat that it should come with proper training. Too many idiots who don't know what they're doing pop into gun stores in this country, it's my only real problem with the 2nd Amendment. But it's less a problem with the amendment, and more a problem with the members of the public who find teaching gun safety at an early age to be distasteful. As if adults somehow learn things better than children (they don't).
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  2331. That's because it's too good to be true.
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  2332. I disagree because there are plenty of people who insult Ninja or any other popular streamer on a regular basis, even make death threats. Rabid fans are everywhere. The only reason they seem sexist is because they claw at any angle to try and insult the perceived "enemy." Gender just happens to be one of those angles. It might be race too, or anything else they think might personally offend them. An example of a sexist insult used against any male streamer might be "small dick," "low T," "beta bitch" etc. Don't feel sorry for female streamers, they're already afforded a lot of leeway on the rules by Twitch moderation.
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  2333.  @223rockmaster  I've used the internet basically unmonitored since I was 7, did a lot of stupid things my parents didn't know about. And a few that they did. And I've been bullied quite a lot at school too. Never did it even cross my mind to make a threat like this kid did. I did consider retaliating a few times, not even in a lethal way, but in the end realized it wasn't worth it.
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  2334. most of them do, the number of self defense instances involving a firearm that was not fired is far greater than ones where it was fired. and those are just the ones we know about
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  2335. They need probably about 12 developers, a desktop/web team, a mobile development team, and if you're feeling generous iOS/Mac specialists. Those 12 developers need at most 3 separate managers because they could also be part of the development team. Other than that, there's Elon himself, maybe his "lieutenant" who tells him how the company is going and runs it in his absence, and 2 HR people that handle payroll and benefits. Everything else would be moderators and time wasters. The moderators could double as QA.
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  2336.  @animeleek  "Unfortunaly Most of the AAA studios cannot get enough revenue by just releasing the core Game. It won't break even." It would if they didn't spend so much money on dumb shit. Diablo 4 is the game usually compared to BG3 in terms of development methods because it encapsulates so many typical AAA flaws. It is a game with a huge amount of map space but not much interesting content. Making a lot of bland but technically unique content is much more expensive than making less content that is actually interesting. The trade off is that you also need talented devs and creative freedom to make interesting content. It has become the standard now to make a really, really wide but shallow puddle in AAA games; tons of map space, different locations and NPCs, but the quests and objectives simply aren't that interesting. You're paying VAs, artists, sound designers and so on a lot of money to make all that bland content. On top of that marketing and microtransactions can't be understated in terms of cost. Marketing budgets are usually equal to if not greater than production budgets in AAA gaming. You're paying designers and artists money to sit there and make up ways to milk new battle passes, or create skins non-stop for people to spend money on. This is risky, because if people don't pay full price for your game and spend money on microtransactions, that money is wasted.
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  2337. Yeah, last season was total ass. The dub was also terrible, I couldn't tell what Biden's VA was saying half the time.
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  2338.  @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley  Most likely strict parents. Unfortunately it's kind of the standard there. Some parents are very obsessed with their kids doing as good as possible because "I didn't have these opportunities when I was your age so you better take advantage of ALL OF THEM." I remember reading an article about the Japanese government changing the weekly school schedule to give kids more time to rest, because cram (Saturday) school has become the norm there. So many parents are so obsessed with their kid getting an edge over the other kids, that weekend schools have been common for a while now. There was actually enough outrage from the parents at this schedule change that they successfully petitioned the government to go back to what it was before. It's crazy, but at the same time, it makes you realize how Japan got to be so successful so fast, despite having very little land area, lower population than most of the other most successful nations, and being the only nation on the planet to have been nuked once, let alone twice.
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  2339.  @freikugelmorning3789  I've known exactly one guy who had a "successful" open relationship, but it was basically just them occasionally taking on a third, always a girl. So, not really the same thing. Also, she turned out to be an immature person who never grew out of her high school habits of literally writing fanfiction while his interests turned to outdoors activities and wanting to build a farm, so he ended up leaving her many years later. The "successful" part is their threesomes never specifically became the bane of their relationship. "Traditionally" this sort of activity is reserved for middle aged couples who are or are soon to be empty nesters. They have perhaps gotten tired of themselves and want to do other things now that they're done taking care of the kids. The human brain isn't wired to do this around the 20s or 30s when you don't have kids. It's weird how people can instinctually find it revolting, then say "oh it means I need therapy" and not "this weird behavior simply isn't for me." I don't typically shell out thousands of dollars for therapy because I don't like doing something.
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  2340.  @chillax319  Shadowrun is literally the only universe I can think of where trogs (the community of both orcs and trolls) are an allegory for black people or minorities in the U.S. But it doesn't matter because, ironically, orcs aren't inherently evil in that universe. They're just different looking meta-humans (as they're called in Shadowrun). They live among the populace and aren't known for being "evil," they suffer from the same social issues every other meta-human community faces in different ways. The movie Bright also reminded me a lot of Shadowrun.
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  2341.  @Celt420  I can't wait for everyone to shit on Velma's character in this show and for Mindy to take it personally because it was probably just a rehashed script about herself.
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  2342. ​ @salsamancer  Email is shitty anyway. Companies should use a modern messaging platform like Slack. Unless of course, you like receiving phishing emails because you gave your email to some booth at a tech convention that one time and those guys didn't give a fuck about your privacy.
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  2343. It's debatable whether Wernher von Braun was a "real Nazi," but he was devoted enough to the science of physics to willfully ignore all of the terrible shit going on around him and in his workshop. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to the reader. He was, however, unquestionably brilliant in his work.
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  2344.  @CattleTude  it is absolutely more diet than exercise, i never lost weight until i started dieting despite exercising
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  2345.  Alexis Leskinen  Okay, so now you're just blindly conflating millions of years of erosion and natural phenomena to something that can be easily prevented by regular maintenance checks, as if the Grand Canyon was carved in a day. I'm not sure how you expect anyone to take you seriously.
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  2346. I like how this is painted as some kind of thing that only "bad people" say. You're evil if you don't want politics in your entertainment.
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  2347. Yes, and it seems you are unaware of the footage taken by the other 5 moon trips we made, and the ones made by Russia, India and Japan. The lander Japan sent is literally still there sending photos.
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  2348. Just put your wallet in your front pocket... I never use my back pockets for anything except dog treats.
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  2349. It's being an adult if you have no goals.
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  2350.  @esc3107  Games like those make themselves artificially difficult. There is no option but to grind for better characters/stats/whatever. Soulslike games are designed for you to be able to beat them naked at level 1 with an upgraded spiked club.
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  2351.  @vordt4139  He's talking about Fantastic 4, not Morbius.
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  2352.  @kerianhalcyon2769  Oh I completely agree. I enjoy FR for the campiness and attachment to it from my youth, not because it is a serious and thought-provoking fantasy setting. Dark Sun or even Planescape are far superior D&D settings for that. And yes, I was never able to stomach Salvatore's books even as a teenager. To me, FR is the iconic schlock fantasy setting. The only one where I can find kinky Drow dommy mommies and melodramatic Christians (Ilmater) in the same place. FR is the inoffensive "whatever you want it to be" setting and it's why WotC returned to promoting it.
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  2353. This is a symptom of a much greater issue within law enforcement, which is that of drug violation enforcement and raids. If you focus on "they were black," you're missing the real problem here and it will continue happening to anyone who might be tangentially related to someone who deals drugs regardless of race (as Breonna was, she had received mail addressed to known drug dealer who used to live there). I don't know what the rap sheet of the guy dealing drugs was, but I do know that it could have been prevented if there wasn't an entire black market infrastructure set up around dealing drugs which is constantly fought over by gangs. Try to focus on the real issues instead of being blinded by politicians who are trying to use you as pawns of influence by crying "race"
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  2354.  @kenkarr9928  he condemned himself you absolute fool. if video is recorded of yourself committing a crime, then you have to come up with an alibi -- and prove it -- to show that you are actually not guilty of that crime. you don't even understand how innocent until proven guilty works. as far as we can tell this guy was proven guilty, now it's his problem to show that he is not. the whataboutism you keep resorting to is what the court would refer to as not "reasonable doubt." even if somebody picked up a rock, he could have literally just ran in the other direction. in fact he had multiple opportunities to do so. this is exactly how one shouldn't act when carrying a gun. you have to be the calmest person in the vicinity. always
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  2355.  @josepablolunasanchez1283  Haha, no. Modern Shadowrun is a bit shit. Not to mention highly politically charged, I doubt many people want that at their tables. More likely they'll move to Pathfinder, or some other D&D derivative.
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  2356.  @dilkondeff  they don't "deliberately choose to eat shits and get bloated," the processed food is often the cheaper option. not as true today as it was a couple of decades ago, but the food lobby is trying. it's worse in small town America where there are less businesses and big corporations like Wal-Mart and McDonald's buy up most of the commercial real estate. same thing is happening to Mexico right now actually they are trying hard to compete with our obesity rate thanks to the Coca-Cola corporation. they will price Coke so it's cheaper than bottled water
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  2357. @larin4587  chicken and rice are still cheap, but if you want fresh vegetables, it will begin to run up the price, and that's without accounting for the problems we have with chicken factory farming in particular the biggest problem is that an American can buy chicken and rice and spend about 30 minutes to an hour prepping it, or they can spend a similar amount on premade food. the astronomical increase of fast food prices may very well be what Americans need to stop eating like shit
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  2358. It isn't available unless you pay, but if you have the hardware you can freely install Stable Diffusion for yourself and train it on a model of lewd anime art.
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  2359.  @zionfreeman303  Which one? Foggy? Fig tree?
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  2360.  @sgt.flippy2389  I stopped going to GameStop because the clerk would not stop telling me to pre-order a PS4 for Bloodborne even though I explicitly asked him to. He even engaged me in an argument (I am principally opposed to pre-ordering, but that is neither here nor there in the context of customer service).
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  2361.  @tinknal6449  You can bitch about society all you want and get nowhere, or you can take the easy road and take actions that YOU, as an individual, can take to mitigate risk. I know which option I take. It's why I have a license to carry, why I have mace, and why I've taken martial arts classes. And I'm an adult man no less. It's called being risk averse. It is ALWAYS easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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  2362. ​ @BeaulieuTodd What a way to excuse dishonest journalism
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  2363.  @normtheteacher5485  I would highly encourage you to drop the "citizen police officer" mentality. That will get you in a whole lot more trouble than it is worth and possibly escalate situations that wouldn't normally escalate. You don't have the authority to enforce anything, only to protect those you love and yourself. The most dangerous part about that is the mindset without the authority to back it up. Nobody wants to take orders from a cop or a security guard, let alone some random old dude. Most of a cop's job is about resolving disputes civilly and enforcing traffic laws, not shooting or beating people up. The badge and uniform helps them mediate a situation but you don't have those. When I carry I only think about myself and those in my company, and I keep a running list of profiles of the people in the same building (or room if it's a large building). I think about transitional spaces like doors and tight hallways where someone might ambush me. That's it, I'm not looking for trouble or trying to "solve problems." That's a cop's job.
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  2364. I have to ask: Did you ever greet her by saying, "What up, my Neagle?"
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  2365. @John Borell III To be blunt, it shows a possible lack of forethought. Tattoos don't usually transition well into middle age. Your skin gets wrinkly, what if you get fat or your body shape changes, etc. I never quite understood large tattoos for this reason; it always struck me as an impulsive choice.
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  2366.  @Biggamer86  Bro, you shouldn't be paying anything for these games, they are freely available online through even the most casual Google search and Nintendo rips everyone off by reselling them every time they release a new console. It's a racket
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  2367. He may have been working simply because he wanted to. Don't assume he was a victim. He clearly had a family that loved him, I'm sure he could have retired sooner if he wanted.
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  2368.  @shadowjh7775  Yes, it's called harassment. Specifically, you can't target and hound someone and abuse them like he's doing.
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  2369. I'm just gonna tell you right know, there's a lot of people who have lied on that particular checkbox of that particular ATF form. Which just goes to show how flimsy such a form is.
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  2370. Your PFP says it all, Ivan.
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  2371.  @nickstevenson2839  The "evidence" is stretched by people with an agenda. In reality our society is less violent than it was in the 90s. It's really easy to stretch the definition of a "mass shooting" as well. It's a very vague phrase that can be used for almost anything involving a gun. Also, a major problem with anti-gunners is that they do not realize that guns do in fact do good for us -- there are many defensive uses of a gun and they outnumber homicides. They only focus on the negative statistics, which in many cases are stretched or fabricated. In this world where entire organizations that collect and analyze data to publish statistics are set up with an agenda in mind, it's really easy to point to one of these reports and say "look the data supports my position."
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  2372.  @annasundlof2282  Husband: "I never asked for this."
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  2373.  @Secondarian  I... don't understand how that relates to my point at all. What I was getting at is that principally opposing proprietary drivers is a bit of an absurd notion when said drivers are made by the people who designed and manufactured the hardware you're using. If you wanted to protect your computer because you believe that proprietary drivers are unsafe, then you shouldn't buy an Nvidia card to begin with. Hardware can damage your computer too, and if you don't understand exactly how an Nvidia GPU works from top-to-bottom, then you're exposing yourself to the same level of risk. What you're doing instead is amateurly reverse engineering a piece of hardware you didn't design which is arguably more dangerous.
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  2374. It's a low key bribe offer. "Hey, we'll fly you out here and treat you to a nice time if you make a post/video saying we're legit."
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  2375.  @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger  Yes, we shouldn't learn about how people thought in the past, hearing other perspectives and learning from them is bad because I disagree with them now. By the way all of our historical figures are racist and we need to remove their statues.
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  2376. @499y60iogbuy  She didn't dress him down thankfully just sheepishly explained what happened and then left as fast as possible because she knew she had fucked up severely.
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  2377. I work in commercial software, and this is highly amusing and relatable to me. To be blunt, Indian developers do stuff like this all the time. They don't always get the social norms of first-world developers and they don't have the same education. The fact that some developers in this group assume this guy is a malicious actor just tells me they are safe and sound in their little bubble. I've seen far stupider things done by offshore Indian developers. From his (and frankly, my own) perspective, why would you expect any group on GitHub to contain 400k members? What is the point of a group of that size? Congratulations, you've successfully recreated stupid email groups normally only found in giant, poorly managed megacorps on your open source GitHub repository. The kind that were created when the company was small, then thoughtlessly added to as the company grew with no consideration to scalability, and suddenly when the company is big everyone stops using it as an unwritten internal rule because it's too annoying.
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  2378.  @SallinKari  He's after me Lucky Mexicans!
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  2379.  @minilogoguy18  The problem is if you take a sexist view of it, the men are also to blame. To put it another way, you don't blame the dog when it pees on a carpet. That's your fault as an owner. The dog will do what the dog does.
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  2380. it doesn't have to say "never apologize for being a superior Aryan male" it just has to say "it's OK to be white"
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  2381. But the thing is you also aren't beholden to a board of directors who demand that you produce consistent revenue, instead of designing the kitchen and bath in a big mansion every 3-5 years, because that's too risky for their portfolio.
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  2382.  @MrAlbinoGhost  People are increasingly not working in that industry. The average time for burnout, last I checked which was years ago so it is probably worse now, is 7 years. That's an insanely short time for an industry that you should be able to work in for your whole career, because it is so profitable and constantly growing.
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  2383. She sees the same symptoms she does in her home country. She's right. It doesn't look good. We do have the potential to bounce back, it's what makes us unique as a country, but the powers at play are getting better at boiling the frog slowly without it noticing.
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  2384.  @Homnaxer  You conflated two of my posts which addressed different points together, for some reason. Alcohol was a lot more consistent because of purity laws and the fact that it kept much better. I was talking about food in my other post.
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  2385. If someone is waiting on you or delivering to you, you're supposed to tip assuming they did their job well. That's really about the only time you should tip in the US. But it didn't used to be quite so mandatory. It has really been pushed hard over the past 10-15 years.
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  2386.  @teddyroosevelt79  Discrediting the parts of the story that were actually true isn't going to help people understand the parts that obviously weren't. You are shooting yourself in the foot here and making yourself look like "a typical revisionist."
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  2387.  @dethkicstart  i try not to close myself off to anything, but personally, the only time i've had anything resembling a flirting encounter randomly was when i was at the gym and a girl and her friend walked by. her friend told me that the other girl thought i was cute as a joke. there was another guy with them (presumably relative/friend, by the way they looked) and he apologized for her. i find the tripe people spout about "just do things and women will come to you naturally" to be complete bogus. you do have to put in effort to find a date, it really does not just happen. i have a lot of hobbies and interests and it never just happens for me. if i followed that advice i would likely be alone until the day i die
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  2388.  @nnikocarre-smith5633  They could probably just use clips from the show pretty easily.
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  2389.  @LIFTANDFIX  What's your point? Court is supposed to be there for us so we can have fair resolution to a disagreement. If you're not even going to show up to argue after disagreeing, then what's the point of disagreeing? As a pedestrian I don't really have that much pity for irresponsible drivers. I bet she sucks at driving anyway.
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  2390. There were also countless custom pieces made for rich enthusiasts that we will never know about. One of them was on Forgotten Weapons, a 1625 wheel-locked breechloader (!!!). If expert gunsmiths were capable of that at the time, no reason they would not be capable of multi-barreled rifles.
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  2391. Anyone with self-confidence doesn't try to define themselves based on an outmoded interpretation of animal psychology.
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  2392. Thanks for planting the horrible idea of "womyny" in my head (many -> womany -> womyny)
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  2393. ​ @Dreikoo Uh, you do realize that slavery isn't always perpetrated on the axis of race right?
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  2394.  @NicTheGreek1979  Fair enough, I'm not super informed on the topic.
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  2395.  @Unapologeticweeb  Wow, that's incredibly offensive. Any self-respecting black man would eat Popeye's.
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  2396.  @alfiananas31  GPUs are just good at running a lot of operations in parallel
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  2397. ​ @BDSquirrel D&D so badly wants to be a classless system that lets you pick abilities a la carte but stops short of slaughtering their sacred cow. I'm so done with the tedium of paging through classes and trying to fit a square piece in the round hole that is the vision I have for my character.
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  2398. Nah they look at the dung eater and think he has a point.
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  2399.  @AshyVEVO  Is it meaningfully different? For example if I'm a male streamer and I get called "needle dick" or "cuck" is that really appreciably different from a female streamer being called a "whore?" I find the claim in the video that Pokimane would have been destroyed had Ninja and her roles been reversed suspect. Ninja is already getting kinda destroyed here. Most people from the US know that defamation is a joke. Even this video is destroying Ninja. I don't think the flavor of insults that losers fling at you on social media is a meaningful difference. They would reach for the lowest insult possible regardless of what policies you use, and they would invent new words to get around any filters you'd set up. Furthermore we're talking about people who are richer and more influential than 90% at least of the people in the country. I find it hard to be sympathetic towards them in the first place.
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  2400. I firmly believe that identity activism and fundamentalism have a subconscious link to Puritanism because the activists grew up in a religious household and want to rebel against it, but don't realize they're applying the stuff their mom and dad taught them subconsciously. The idea that women, or anyone, is objectified by a mere sexually attractive image is a fundamentally Puritan idea. How could it be anything else!?
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  2401. I have never worked retail, but that is specifically because I knew it would be difficult for me and I respect those who do it as a result. The only time I got even a little mad at a retail employee was, ironically, at a different GameStop. I bought a PS4 in anticipation for the day that Bloodborne would come out. This GameStop was literally a 10 minute walk from where I lived, if even that, so I saw absolutely no need to pre-order the game. The clerk asked me which game I was planning on playing and I said Bloodborne. He asked me 3 times if I wanted to pre-order, and the 3rd time he actually tried to argue with me about the philosophical merits of pre-ordering, which I am principally against. I told him if he continued I'd leave the PS4 on the counter (I had my credit card in my hand but hadn't swiped yet) and he finally shut up, didn't go back again after I bought Bloodborne.
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  2402.  @Megaphonix  They're known for their awful database software that every engineer I've ever talked to who has worked with it hates more than anything.
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  2403.  @FantomMisfit  Yes? Take a look at Britney Spears. There's a reason why a conservatory was created for her. Woman is not right in the head. You can assess the situation and protect those you love, or you can let them fall to ruin. Your choice. It's even worse if you have to inherit their debt.
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  2404.  @jc71480  Everything that you just said is completely irrelevant to the issue of whether or not the Mexican government was somehow in cahoots with the Nazi regime during WW2.
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  2405. Sadly enough some men are likely in a position where that would be a massive improvement to their lives. People are lonely nowadays. Rich people have paid more for friends
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  2406. And when presented with this damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't dilemma, she just wrings her hands and says "well we're just all doomed to be racist." It's so... self-defeating, so self-sacrificial and for what? People you don't know who hate you, ironically, for your race? Why sacrifice for them? It's such an absurd, Kafka-esque concept.
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  2407.  @priola7587  Insane, if true. Maybe it's a bit classist, but I couldn't imagine going to work in a field you studied in 4 years for, with a STEM degree, and then taking tips. I'm in a similar position (software developer) and I couldn't imagine getting a project done and then my boss just hands me a $20 bill and says "that's for your hard work buddy"
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  2408.  @djbubblegum9975  Oh, OK. I didn't know I was mad.
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  2409. We need to go back to corporeal punishment and using jail only for holding prior to a trial. Incarceration as a punishment doesn't work. It costs us money. It allows the criminal to fraternize with no one else but criminals for months or years at a time. The criminal exits jail "branded" by a paper trail, just as if he were literally branded with a hot iron -- few people will hire him due to his background and all his "job prospects" are highest with the criminals he made friends with in jail. On the other hand, if a criminal were branded and flogged, he is immediately identifiable just as if he had the paper trail, he gets no chance to make friends with other criminals from other organized crime gangs, and it costs very little.
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  2410.  @benjaminshropshire2900  Cops deciding punishment is integral to their job. Cops use discretion on deciding whether or not a kid should get a penalty for having a small bag of weed, whether you should get any punishment at all for a traffic violation, etc.
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  2411. Whoever wins... we lose.
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  2412.  @breckenridgelong7692  anything is entirely possible, it doesn't fucking matter if it's completely unsubstantiated
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  2413.  @AB1B1  It's pretty common actually. The ones who get sick of it have been career criminals for many years. These kids had no damn idea what they were doing, it sounds like the girl bullied the boy into going along with whatever sick fantasy she came up with.
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  2414.  @psimage2013  Lmao, claims he's a soldier, doesn't even know what suppressive fire is. Kids these days.
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  2415.  @6TDOW66  the highest echelons are aware, the followers are not
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  2416.  @TinToastCan  Why does it have to be us? Why doesn't Israel allow 300k people per month in from Africa?
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  2417. Not that I feel pity for the guy, but throwing someone in jail and then imposing fines on them is usually a counter-productive practice. He doesn't strike me as the type of guy to have a lot of money saved up.
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  2418.  @КрасныйОрёл-л9х  Depends on where I lived. If I were on the southern border of Texas? Having a cruise missile wouldn't be so bad, might result a few less beheadings of random civilians by cartel members. What about that Mormon family that got nearly wiped out in a cartel ambush after living on a Mexican homestead for generations? I'm sure a few "big sticks" as Teddy would say, would have made them think twice.
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  2419. Brian: doesn't visibly carry a gun so insane people don't approach him with a weapon brandished just so they can be shot because they're too cowardly to commit suicide
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  2420. Yeah, babiiiiieee! That's what I'm talkin' about! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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  2421. There are dozens of monster taming games out there, this is just another one of them. The people thinking Nintendo will sue have no idea what they're talking about
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  2422.  @Chud_Bud_Supreme  more accurately, Tzeentch. Deviancy and sexual pleasure isn't the end goal here. It is just a means to the end which is the division of society. Mothers are now divided against their own children and fathers in most "trans children" cases.
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  2423.  @spiralphoenix9839  Bro, you could have been playing Borderlands 2 with all that time you spent replying to this thread. I don't like BL2 that much either but you aren't going to change mine or anyone else's opinion. Just stop posting. For the record, I did enjoy my playthrough of the 1st game. It is, in fact, humanly possible to dislike a game without being bad at it.
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  2424.  @spiralphoenix9839  Oh, I didn't know Google knows how good I am at Borderlands. Thanks for keeping me in the loop.
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  2425.  @spiralphoenix9839  You don't care? Huh, that's weird. You sure typed an essay to prove me wrong just now. By the way, my point was that no one is going to take you seriously because your earlier comments are fucking ridiculous and make you look like an idiot.
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  2426.  @buckshots2dabrain859  It was used as a symbolic weapon in artwork. There is no proof it was ever considered a serious weapon in war time, otherwise it would have been produced in greater numbers as a weapon. Of course, anyone can use anything as a weapon in war. Peasants have used flails for threshing grain as weapons. To argue that this makes them "weapons of war" is extremely pedantic. Another good example is the existence of nunchaku martial arts (rice threshing flails). The purpose is still hotly debated today, because the nunchaku are so obviously impractical as a weapon that one must wonder why a martial art was ever developed for them. A solid stick carved from hardwood would easily be a superior weapon.
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  2427.  @kriswillems5661  How exactly would the Chinese economy keep growing if their biggest buyer stops buying their shit?
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  2428.  @pyrojkl  His point is that the corruption was obvious if you actually paid attention to the review scores, and which games always got good reviews. IGN was known as a corrupt outlet for eons before GamerGate.
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  2429. ​@bernie6465 It increases your circulation, I believe. It's best to do it after exercise to prevent cramping
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  2430.  @buffcode  Why did you sprint on hardest difficulty? Seriously, I learned not to do that pretty quick. Now it's reasonable to suggest that it's a flaw that sprint was implemented just so it could be useless on harder difficulties, but it's not a game breaker.
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  2431. I was bit in the face as a small child by the family dog so badly that it left permanent scars, and I love dogs. My parents sent it to the pound right then and there and it was likely euthanized. But then again my family always had dogs even after that, every other dog we had was friendly to me.
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  2432. The funny part is that the ultra-progressive people she's courting group Asians and Whites in the same category, because they're both economically successful on the whole. So really, it's hard to imagine who thinks this is appealing.
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  2433.  @Kyle-sr6jm  "An exceptionally fit and trained woman can compete somewhat against a similarly sized unfit/untrained male." Depends on your definition of untrained. The Battle of the Sexes in the 1970's had some guy ranked in the 300 or 400s of men's tennis compete against the top women in the sport. He was a bit of an ass, and didn't take good care of himself (drank often etc). It took a fair while and a few exhibitions before a woman finally beat him. There's also the US women's soccer team losing to 14 year old boys, but you could easily argue that they lost intentionally so as to encourage the boys. From personal experience, I have trained BJJ with women a few times. Thankfully BJJ is probably the most gentle martial art with the greatest margin for error, but I still felt like I had to restrain myself. For reference, I'm a huge computer nerd. Most men in that class are much more fit than I am and practice other sports or work out at the gym more than I do.
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  2434. That lionness looked so smug. She was like, "Hey naked apes, check this shit out."
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  2435.  @peronafanman  The hate/controversy you're referring to was forgotten very quickly when it was new and relevant. Then, suddenly, when a AAA game was being made that looked like it might be fun, activists come out of the woodwork reminding everyone about what Rowling said about trans people at ten times the volume. It was very obviously manufactured by a small minority.
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  2436.  @joshuad1716  Yep. Blame the Lego brand for making their plastic toys overpriced as hell.
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  2437. I agree it's actually easier in person but it isn't literally a blind date on apps like you seem to think it is. Most people (not counting Tinder as it is almost purely for sex or free food) only date after texting someone for the better part of a week.
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  2438.  @Montana_horseman  I agree with you. It's harder to build a rapport with someone you don't know purely through 1 on 1 texting. That's why many of these apps like Hinge make you write "prompts" about yourself which are effectively conversation starters.
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  2439.  @Montana_horseman  That sounds interesting. Thanks. I'm about ready to give up on these apps though. Every woman feels like a princess on them and doesn't even really give you the time of day, even the less attractive ones. I'm about ready to start going to random events that sound fun on meetup.
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  2440.  @budthecyborg4575  Wow, sorry to hear that. Personally, my problem with swimming for exercise is that I find it incredibly easy to overwork myself to the point of vomiting. But that has more to do with cardio than my joints. I normally swim breast stroke, more because it's the only stroke I can do consistently well than anything else.
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  2441. would be nice if they didn't frame it as enabling the beliefs of delusional political activists if that's really what they were going for (giving men parental leave).
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  2442.  @anthonyshoop575  The problem with "elaborate" is that activists keep up with the game of rhetoric. The new response for that is "It isn't my job to educate you." This implies that you are inherently failing in some moral duty by not knowing, and therefore agreeing, with whatever they say. If you do independent research, and happen to get information from someone they don't approve of, you are an enemy and there is no turning back. I suspect the appeal of this outwardly hostile means of "discourse" (not really discourse if you refuse to talk to anyone who doesn't already agree) is wearing thin lately to the public at large. But it did work for a long time.
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  2443. Finds a slam fire shotgun, the most common improvised firearm in existence "It's pretty creative, actually" I hope he was just saying that for the camera.
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  2444.  @scrappydoo7887  Oh it'll run, but it won't hit shit.
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  2445.  @userequaltoNull  Most of it wasn't. No point in talking about theoreticals when we all know that nobody cared enough because of the sheer volume of ammunition.
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  2446.  @javierflores09  These people contribute in their spare time, because they want to. Dealing with HR when you're not even on the clock is not acceptable. Keep yourself grounded and remember who you're dealing with: volunteers.
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  2447.  @anzo7  You have to find somewhere you can let them off leash safely if you really want them to bleed off their energy.
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  2448. I love how he sticks to the "her friend wanted chunky Chips Ahoy" thing later when she picks up the chewy kind as well.
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  2449.  @Byronic19134  they nearly caused an accident because the guy with the gun scared him into flooring it and nearly t-boned the fucking white SUV. had they not intervened he would have simply driven off without incident. threatening lethal force generally isn't a good way to get people to act in a rational way also I don't think you have any right to tell people not to be judgmental while writing these comments
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  2450. I'd imagine that he has an in with Reddit global mods that the protagonist needs to reach, so he gives you a mission to off some mafia boss because he dine-and-dashed at a restaurant that turned out to be a front for the mafia. His mission chain is funny at first but his character quickly gets annoying and he makes you do too many tasks without a payoff.
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  2451.  @RiskOfBaer  The Germans never really conquered much, merely warred among themselves for most of history. It's kind of like if Sengoku Jidai was in Europe and isolated within the Holy Roman Empire. The Nazi regime was something that happened under very unique circumstances and it won't happen again. If it does it will be for a different purpose. Unless, of course, there are Communists on the street en masse trying to threaten people once again, combined with crushing economic struggles. Which is what scared the common folk into voting for them to begin with.
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  2452. ​@SeymoreButtss Maybe the goal was to start a conversation about it so other conservatives could then say "but Joe is the one who originally cited that stereotype."
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  2453. There is a reason why men have pride, but it's completely absurd to break and board up your own window instead of knock and ask for an unlock because you forgot your keys one time.
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  2454.  @madaggar9765  You should attend remedial reading. What I stated is no different than stating that Call of Duty is going to get old for you faster if you only play games for the campaign. It's a statement based on metrics.
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  2455.  @AllanTidgwell-v6o  Conflating modern Liberals with classical Liberals is a total fallacy
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  2456.  @fZionists78  Oswald had military experience. The well of competent veterans has dried up after years of foreign conflicts that nobody wants to fight in.
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  2457.  @MasterGhostf  Virtually any position at a company like this will offer severance. I have yet to be laid off from a company that did not offer it and I'm a programmer. My first job I only worked there 6 months before being laid off and they gave me 3 months severance. It is actually better for society if things are done from the grassroots up instead of if the government mandates it.
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  2458. b-b-but the anecdotes are totally worth giving my child stunted development!
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  2459.  @vyor8837  I think he means "free and open-source" or "freeware." Free as in freedom, not as in beer.
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  2460.  @thunderbirdizations  Exactly, this wasn't even a witty rebuttal it was just an astoundingly stupid statement by King. "Hurr durr, I'll dare one of the wealthiest men living in NATO countries to donate to Ukraine, that will show him! What?! He's already donated?!?! How could I have seen this coming?"
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  2461.  @chriskalogrias926  I've read that the average casualty rate for most battles that relied on melee combat, even many into the future (like the pike-and-shot era) was about 10%. After about 10% of your fellows died in visceral melee combat near you, people tended to break off and run. Not so in modern war. There is a reason why WW1 is known as the "Great War." In Verdun, over half of the men who died there are still buried under the battlefield. Casualty counts in the hundreds of thousands were simply unheard of before that point unless it was an intentional slaughter of civilians. Objectively speaking, we'd all be a lot better off if modern war was decided with spears, swords and bows.
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  2462. ​ @Heckinwhatonearth  no offense, but nurses have some of the shittiest hours around, most people get at least 30 minutes for a lunch break
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  2463. This gun looks like another Wednesday in WHFRP. Wew, I already replied to this thread a year ago. Why does YouTube do this to me?
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  2464. It's not so strange if you're educated. You start to notice the patterns in history.
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  2465.  @ren_the_tarantula  They tell stories in very different ways. I know it's hard to grasp, but Japan isn't a hive mind and visual tropes don't define their narrative tropes.
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  2466.  @ren_the_tarantula  Not every anime has that. The tropes you're talking about are mostly in shonen or comedy series. It's like if I said I don't like Western animation because of cutaway gags and the sitcom format. I'm obviously talking about just The Simpsons and Family Guy, but I'm ignorant, so I'm applying those tropes to every piece of animation.
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  2467.  @leonidfro8302  Blaming the citizens isn't productive, especially when those "citizens" frequently haven't been in the US for more than a few years, if that. It would be ridiculous to expect someone from South America to understand US history and values.
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  2468.  @Anti-Alphabet_Mafia  That might be the edgiest Jesus quote I've ever read.
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  2469. Johnny's intelligence only manifests in witty comebacks that deflect rejection and fluster women who aren't interested.
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  2470.  @wvsish  You say that as if the knife doesn't cut both ways. If a group that succeeds in a certain area is over-represented, they tend to shape things according to the creed they share in common. That breeds resentment from those who are not succeeding. Ask yourself, for example, why circumcision is a standard practice in Western medicine, when it is extremely cruel, and we have access to these magical things called soap and running water. Oddly enough, the equivalent Muslim practice for women is seen as ghastly and rightly labeled as mutilation instead of a friendly Latin word like "circumcision." I wonder if there are a lot of Muslim doctors in the West?
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  2471. ​ @nemezizthedestroyer5237  it really was both of their fault. he was trying to get to an emergency but didn't use his sirens for no discernable reason. she literally ran out from behind a construction fence like a stupid, suicidal rabbit.
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  2472. ​ @alf73 Autistic people absolutely have heuristics. In fact for many they can un-learn their autistic behavior. They just may be deficient in noticing patterns in some areas (most notably, social cues)
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  2473.  @Tru3Spart3n  Jam buns are way better, you should use your berries on those
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  2474. if you're Western, it's difficult to not think about the Roman empire because it informs so much of our culture, even today, especially because it was so highly prized by members of the Catholic church, and especially because the United States has a lot in common with it
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  2475. ​@tereserucker8096 take my advice: don't gamble
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  2476.  @bruhman6547  Sadly it seems that it is staged, still a great concept though
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  2477.  @DerelictSong  Dude, the goal of the algorithm isn't to give you content that exactly matches what you want. It's to give the company ad revenue. That's always the goal. You are hilariously naive if you think this will always align with your (the user's) goal. To say nothing of the genuine inadequacy when it comes to the algorithm recommending you stuff you want, anyway.
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  2478.  @Blaze6108  Life is hard when you have the ability to recognize patterns.
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  2479. ​ @joshuapratt3593 It doesn't take a kinestheisiologist to realize that the officer was not putting the full weight of his body on the man's neck. He was squatting. For the record, I think it looks like a stupid technique, but it is clearly not one that would be effective at restricting airflow.
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  2480. ​ @swirlingstrong1212 Many bystanders believe that Justin Bieber is a good singer. What's your point?
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  2481. ​ @swirlingstrong1212 Agreeing with your foregone conclusion is not "common sense." Why bother posting if you never had any intention of hearing an argument?
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  2482.  @newp0rt  Haha close but not quite. Batman is probably an example of a "sigma," however he was also born into wealth so things were made easy for him.
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  2483.  @memnarch129  Thankfully it isn't like that 100% of the time. I know a guy who had probably the worst case scenario. He got his teen girlfriend pregnant in high school. She was completely insane, unfit for motherhood, and addicted to alcohol and partying. Fortunately the court gave him full custody of the child and she is completely removed from his life. Somehow he found another woman willing to take care of that kid as long as they could have another one together and they are now happily married. I must admit I'm jealous, although I wouldn't have wanted to endure the initial catastrophe he suffered.
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  2484. I just realized I typed "protocol druids" in the original version of my comment. Talk about a Freudian slip.
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  2485. @Grave With car control, we could have insured he had no way to get a truck to drive over there... oh wait no he stole it from his grandparents. But surely, surely the same logic wouldn't apply to guns.
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  2486.  @sharkybrickfilms99120  You asserted the complete opposite position of what I posted and pretended that I somehow said that. You're conflating a moral argument with a biological one. We are clearly more evolved than other animals, but that does not mean some deity has placed an onus upon us to not eat them. That one is entirely self-inflicted. Logically speaking, if anything, we should eat more of them. And most of us do. The moral argument is dishonest because it suggests there is a higher calling demanding that we stop eating animals, when in reality, it is the speaker's own conscience that bothers him. Which is fine, I cannot speak to one's personal experiences that causes one to feel that way, but I'd appreciate it if such a person did not act like their feelings come from a higher calling. It would be less pretentious to admit you are a Jainist or some other cultist that believes all life is sacred at that point.
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  2487. ​ @arekisan5239  Fighting a game's interface is not a satisfying way to play a game and it is not "difficulty." It's just bad design.
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  2488.  @sciathoir  Money is not the only thing worth having in this world. Some people just need to stroke their egos.
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  2489.  @wyqydsyq  The barrels are literally recycled 23mm anti-aircraft cannon barrels that were never used. I wouldn't assume it would work, but if any gun could do it it would be the KS-23. You'd have to find the weird 23mm shells the Russians use for that gun though.
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  2490.  @syjay  He had 4 people with him... all armed...
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  2491.  @Babba-w1j  Correct. They didn't need to kill him, just draw his fire and make him think about his own survival. This didn't happen in the Hollywood bank heist, just saying. Cops ran to the scene to deal with not one but two active shooters, with multiple fully automatic weapons that had expanded drum magazines, and they were encased with body armor from head to toe. It was like they were playing GTA with cheat codes. Even a shotgun that one officer had couldn't penetrate the armor. There were no LEOs with rifle caliber weapons until the SWAT team finally showed up. But they did do one important thing: they kept the robbers there until SWAT arrived. The reason the cop was fired was because he didn't meet the standard of service that many cops in the past have met while responding to an active shooter. It's really that simple.
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  2492.  @teresaflorida  There's a slight difference between being served fajitas on an iron skillet while sitting down in a restaurant and being handed some food at the same temperature in a drive-thru.
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  2493.  @JamesAlexander2  you forgot the part where he intentionally hid from the peephole, more than once, cop was an incredible idiot. he did this to check out a noise complaint, not raid a drug den. if you want people to treat you well don't act like you're about to rob them
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  2494.  @SeasideDetective2  German purity laws are still in effect today
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  2495. I vote because I'm an optimist but the electoral system is just as corrupt.
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  2496. Dogs' character judging skills vary. My dog is overly protective and will pick and choose people that she likes very arbitrarily. She seems to be afraid of tall people. She will come to like them if she spends enough time with them, regardless.
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  2497.  @danbarkles8499  The reason why those truths are self-evident is because they're the ones upon which this nation is founded. In other words, the thread has to end (and begin) somewhere. Our foundation would not be solid otherwise.
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  2498.  @coryjackson3131  It's clear, according to you. Now you and I have a civil disagreement. Who is going to facilitate this disagreement? Hmm. If only there were some kind of adjudication system with an impartial judge and a group of peers to help said judge.
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  2499. @Pineal Gland (3rd Eye) Okay. Are you going to recommend a totally safe escort service that isn't a honeypot for the cops? Am I going to bother spending thousands on the more attractive escorts that also expect you to fly them out to you and buy them gifts? Love the clowns who suggest that spending money on escorts shows great self-control and discipline when they could just abstain entirely.
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  2500. He made the decision to chase him before it was even apparent that the perp's attempt was pathetic, so he still definitely has the spirit.
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  2501. ​ @happyfreeliferc  non American detected
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  2502.  @Comuzzy  Not exactly, I'm not a genius but my parents put me in what was actually a school for kids with learning disabilities because they wanted to make sure I got close attention from the teachers due to my eyesight issues. It caused a lot of friction between me and the kids there since I do learn a little faster than the average student, my eyesight is just trash. I mostly didn't have problems with bullying once I left there and moved state, then went to public school in a nicer district.
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  2503. ​@MrChaosi not being able to land on a planet that you can fly to = peak immersion
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  2504. To be fair, to get this sword, you need to get past (or bypass) Godrick and then find it in a dungeon deep in the next area. So "activating easy mode" is not exactly easy in itself, and then you also need to have a specialized dual casting build to use this particular sword (which grants the flame and laser attacks you see here). Basically you start getting some of the really good weapons and spells all over the game at the same time that you should be finding this sword.
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  2505.  @paulos9900  he said "insane" as that is a very unlikely collaboration of personalities
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  2506. Finns: Rev up those Molotovs, cause I am sure hungry for one -- ambushes column of Russian tanks
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  2507.  @Uzair823  What? They were both arrested at gunpoint. They just couldn't get the dash/badge cam footage for the white guy. EDIT: Nevermind, I realized that they confirmed with the rental company first before sending him to jail. That is quite despicable that they didn't do that.
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  2508.  @SpecShadow  there's cutting content in development, and then there's cutting content literally weeks away from release and replacing it with absolutely nothing. sadly, Larian seems to have opted for the latter. I'm well aware that even masterpiece RPGs like Fallout always have cut content, but the difference is they splice the storylines together so that they make sense instead of just... leaving them unfinished.
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  2509.  @Commentator488  One of those things is widespread, the other isn't
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  2510.  Jake R  The money isn't the only reason to sue. They let him off the hook after the first time so he got probably only got fired because they got sued and this became a news story. The real reason to sue is to penalize the company. In reality, a plaintiff usually gets little money out of a lawsuit.
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  2511. That was completely required in my high school. The school was one giant, long-ass corridor. You had a good chance of being late to your next class if you didn't rush out the door as soon as the bell rang.
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  2512. He lucked out, the guy had a warrant for other crimes.
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  2513. The 30 Years' War was one of the most horrible wars in European history and most people barely know about it. The Hundred Years' War was bad, of course, but it had lulls because England had to war with France which was a greater logistical burden, and it was an earlier time period which ironically, usually resulted in less death. Most of the time, only a small minority (around 10%) of soldiers needed to die in a melee before a battle was over. The 30 Years' War was basically "What if the Sengoku period were in Germany instead?" It was the 1600s and guns and artillery were in common usage, increasing the casualty counts significantly.
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  2514.  @felixisme  You are correct, and I have since learned that. It's somewhat of a surprise to me, since I figured they were not willing to pay the cost for that, but I guess they wanted to shake off their reputation for being the website that steals content from other websites.
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  2515.  @RobbieStacks90  New Yorker/Californian detected. I'd have to go to a steakhouse or similarly expensive restaurant to spend $70 on myself here. Even after the price increases -- french fries are $7 at most sit down restaurants now.
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  2516.  @ZeroOmega-vg8nq  They already did, Pekora is one of the top-rated female streamers, outpacing e-girls for the last couple years
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  2517. ​ @XxSTACKxX relatable to who? I haven't eaten at a big fast food chain in years
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  2518.  @xgtwb6473  Uh, sure pal. Whatever you say.
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  2519.  @joshkilluminadi7158  Yep. That's another thing, too. Imagine this same ad with a dude being offended at an image of another dude with rippling muscles in a speedo. That just doesn't happen. Why are dudes not offended at hotter dudes?
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  2520. Polite societies aren't supposed to operate under constant intimidation and threat of being crushed to death.
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  2521.  @arandomuser1723  "Without any hormone therapy."
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  2522. In reality, only about 40% of Americans own a gun and that's tragic. That means that only around 150 million people have to try and own about 450 million guns. Well, I have 4, so I guess I'm doing my part... I know a English guy, always lived in shit urban neighborhoods. He is a bit mentally unstable so he never really got ahead in life. However he never thought that giving his right to self defense up was intelligent. He did what he could, mixed his own pepper spray and kept a wooden sword at his bed side.
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  2523. Fanny slammy
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  2524. They won't, because the whole point is that they push the content to you to tempt you into watching it. That's how they make money, in their mind, and how they leverage their machine learning algorithms.
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  2525. @milan A knife skin is a status symbol. That's what people pay for in those games and why the skins are so expensive. They want to style on people while they beat them in the game. Pretty much nobody cares about NFTs and if you show your "cool NFT" to someone else they'll think you're cringeworthy.
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  2526.  @thestarisalie  Au contrare, I think the problem is you failing reading class.
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  2527.  @placeholder8768  Anarchism is a joke ideology and therefore not worth mentioning. They exist to be useful idiots for other radicals. The most impactful thing an anarchist can do, is allow other people to take power for him, and then subsequently get killed or imprisoned for being an anarchist under the new regime. If I remember correctly, the Spanish Civil War is the case study for this. Anarchism is bull-headed rejection of the fact that humans will naturally fill a power vacuum when it appears. So you might as well try to fill it before someone even nastier than you does. In Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stepping stone to Communism. It is by definition a temporary/intermediary ideology and not supposed to last forever. This changed over the decades to make socialism a more permanent institution because, surprise surprise, Communism doesn't really exist and never did. Communism bears striking similarities to the utopian cults of the 18th and 19th centuries, where groups of immigrants would get together, usually with the support of a bank, and fund a "perfect settlement" somewhere uninhabited in the United States frontier, which would inevitably run out of resources and fail. Is it because the land just wasn't workable, or because they were naive? Maybe if we try another few hundred times, we'll be sure...
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  2528. The bizarre thing about this is that they created a whole new type of Space Marine in the lore just so they could update the tabletop miniatures and justify it in the lore, even though people have been begging for better miniatures for decades and they didn't need an excuse to do that at all. But female Custodes, something that didn't even exist before? Barely worth the tiniest amount of effort. Just a stealthy mention in the Codex and some social media gaslighting.
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  2529. I was fortunate enough to have a high school teacher who showed a few of his videos in class
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  2530. I love that she couldn't resist putting the shine on his forehead to emphasize his baldness even as a moeblob.
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  2531. There is no way that this played out the way this guy said. What customer would just attack a fast food cashier who made a small mistake in their order??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  2532.  @orbitalpotato9940  But I thought religion was illegal in China.
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  2533. wait, so they were free to continue developing their properties until they decided to sue this unassuming old woman, then idiotically stumbled into a town ordnance that prevented them from developing due to their own lawsuit? poetic
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  2534. They fundamentally changed their recipe years ago. They used to be my most hated pizza as well.
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  2535.  @mariobadia4553  Does it matter? Bethesda clearly doesn't give a fuck and changes it willy nilly. Why can't this dude?
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  2536.  @dval-y9u  They do that because they're entering information as they speak, and they're trying to keep the caller on the line.
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  2537. "I was in control" Nanny nearly flies into the street and has to counterbalance to stay in the truck
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  2538.  @zeppelins4ever  I'd like to ask what queries you are asking. Or perhaps request that you reflect on the solutions you got and re-examine whether they were actually good. Because every time I get answers from Reddit, it's shit. Stack Exchange does the answers thing, but better. Still has the piss-ant mods and communities though.
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  2539. They were in a constant power struggle with their nobility and the Pope. Such struggles were why the Magna Carta was written and why the Anglican church exists.
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  2540.  @eroccha  Nah, his hand was bare but he covered it with his jacket sleeve. I'm amazed at the poor quality of the glass. Or perhaps he was "assisted" by drugs.
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  2541. Hey look, it's the .223 Pistol from Fallout! That was one of the best weapons in the game. EDIT: Well, not as impressive as in the game...
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  2542.  @BlindErephon  The nobility should have been eliminated in the end, don't get me wrong. I'm not an aristocrat. I just believe that if you undertake a revolution where you kill en masse what are typically the most educated people in your society, expect to have problems for a few generations or more. The major problems always come when the many are blamed for the sins of a few. You're conflating individual merits and crimes versus social justice, which is the problem.
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  2543.  @HikeForLife23  most phones allow you to record/take photos without putting in the code, Samsung phones let you push the power button twice quickly and it goes to camera immediately
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  2544. 30 years for armed robbery? That's how it should be done. None of this less than 25 years for manslaughter or even murder bull.
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  2545.  @tonycezar1645  He isn't the reason because that doesn't make financial sense for Blizzard. They're doubtlessly paying him to continue covering their games. And that sum is going to be larger than any amount he could spend on the games. The people who watch his content are largely disgruntled Blizzard fans, but people who keep buying Blizzard games nonetheless. If anything, you might argue that his videos encourage people to buy their games or more MTX, but I don't think it really does that either. I can't see a new player being drawn into WoW from clips like this.
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  2546.  @toolatetothestory  I've seen a few elk without being attacked, one from about 30-40 yards away. Perhaps a better plan is needed.
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  2547.  @ORXJ1992  Look at that subtle pro-white messaging. The tasteful edginess of it. Oh my God, it even has an Iron Cross.
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  2548.  @eriklarson9137  off the top of your head, how many people do you know that own guns and tried to eliminate a political candidate? would you say that's a significant correlation?
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  2549. I get the distinct impression that this guy does this all the time and it was really pissing off the sergeant over the years.
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  2550.  @EyemachineStudios  You've never been prouder that furries are more mainstream and less stigmatized than ever? Dude, have some perspective. I'm not exactly a furry but you're definitely losing this fight right now.
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  2551.  @katet_33  Personally I have an affinity for certain shades of pink (not hot pink) which remind me of the sunset. One of my favorite polo shirts is in this color.
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  2552.  @randyxyt5562  Ah yes, the classic "My joke wasn't funny, so I'll just pretend it's everyone else's fault for not laughing" angle
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  2553. They were stuck in development for over 20 years due to the temperamental design
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  2554. Meanwhile in Britain parliament sessions are won by virtue of who can yell the loudest. Yeah other nations aren't better.
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  2555.  user-ny3sk1ur8s  imagine being a person that doesn't understand the first thing about population density imagine thinking that the hardships in your life are in any way comparable to the average pre-modern person's life during any sort of famine or natural disaster imagine being blackpilled
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  2556.  @Knight-Bishop  Haha. You honest-to-God think that cities like New York, Chicago and LA will ever stop encroaching on the 2nd.
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  2557.  @BaschBarrage  Many worthwhile pieces of literature and art are intended specifically to offend people. It does not invalidate them. You do not have a right to not be offended, because it is inevitable that something will offend.
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  2558.  @wile-e-coyote8371  Honestly that would be an amazing power move if so, inflating engagement with the game and shitting on the trans community at the same time by making them look like massive neckbeards that put 4chan raids to shame.
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  2559.  @allicanseeissh1t118  Genetic fallacy. No reasonable company wants their game to be leaked just a couple of months before release. Watch every other company blacklist Kotaku now.
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  2560.  @teejay10238  There's nothing that makes it multiplayer... except for the multiplayer features. Right. Makes total sense.
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  2561.  @Zerozsaber  Sounds great buddy, I'll roll up a Brarbrarian and you can play Brizard. Maybe we'll even encounter a Breholder!
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  2562. This is like stating that it's boggling that a member of the royal family hasn't been investigated for exploiting children in an absolute monarchy. It's not boggling at all. Just a matter of status.
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  2563.  @curtisdecoste9345  Not as stupid as putting a metal baby Jesus in your cake like we used to do down in Louisiana.
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  2564.  @ftniceberg874  What? That's literally the exact opposite of what I was saying. I said that the streamer should at least be minimally aware of the fact that stream snipers exist and not get ridiculously salty when someone comes to ruin their incredibly delicate challenge that can be upset by the in-game equivalent of a mouse sneeze. Fish for arguments harder.
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  2565.  @taylorbug9  He's a humorist. Get over it.
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  2566. I have to say reading through this argument was amusing. Classic case of people who were arguing with Ray thinking they were arguing with "one of those pesky liberals" (the dead giveaway was phrases like "you must be one of those emotional progressive types") when really they just refuse to see a very specific semantic difference. This is why you don't try to pidgeonhole your opponent, it really never helps you and only limits your own thinking. I wonder how they think policemen can get any work done if they can't use correlating factors (clothes and tattoos worn is probably the biggest for example) to keep an eye on potential criminals.
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  2567. Glad you survived.
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  2568.  @JimmyThree-Balls  Haha, nice. Haven't heard of something like that before
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  2569.  @user-zm9xf7mo4p  "it's ok when people kill me, but not robots" weird ass fucking take dude. assigning blame is not, in fact, the most important thing when someone dies
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  2570.  @user-zm9xf7mo4p  your take is so absurd that it makes little difference, you literally believe assigning blame is more important than preventing the death to begin with and you said as much in your post
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  2571.  @chobiden7770  No, he's an "Angel Gomez." In other words, he's "White" when classified by the FBI. Not usually "White" when classified by virtually anyone else.
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  2572. I don't think it's nearly as bad as games, considering a lot of the "Twitch Thots" are actually former pornstars who do streams because it's easier. And I don't really blame them that much considering the industry they came from. Hunting requires a lot more effort, even if you just want to look "like" a hunter.
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  2573.  @mattmurphy7030  What is an assault weapon? If you can answer that question, which nobody else I have ever talked to can, then sure, I'll say you win. "It includes assault rifles" isn't a good enough answer. Long arms and military grade weapons also include that and yet somehow, everyone knows what those things are.
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  2574. @ Because they have ACTUAL DEFINITIONS that we can use to apply to a new gun. If I made a new gun that uses a full-size rifle caliber with select fire, it would be a battle rifle. If I made a new gun that had X, Y and Z properties, it would be an "assault weapon." It's your burden of proof to define what those X, Y and Z are. You are disingenuously conflating the terms assault weapon and assault rifle just like the stupid reporter in this video. The term assault weapon exists purely to loosely conflate the idea of an assault rifle to literally anything in the viewer's mind and for no other reason. It is illegal to own an assault rifle in the US except under very specific circumstances, plain and simple.
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  2575. ​ @andrewlindenschmidt5533 They are literally the only people in a position to make a difference in the flawed system and they don't. False equivalence.
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  2576. "Psychiatric hospitals in the United States" "Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for."
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  2577.  @TheRealXartaX  Men are a lot better at dealing with it due to how our brains are structured. It's weird and perverse to think about, but we're designed to be abused, in a sense
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  2578.  @viderevero1338  That's more like her attempting to entertain herself because they are boring her. Like someone else said, though, she has kids, which means she probably deals with this level of cringe on a weekly basis.
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  2579. Yes, it's saddening to know that they'll be thinking about the details of this event, and regretting many of them like stepping over a victim's body. Something they had no real control over and had to do to prevent more loss of life.
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  2580.  @Furious321  I think you need some therapy if you think this is photorealistic.
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  2581. Lol all the clowns malding in his chat because "weeb." As if default Skyrim animations that make it look like your musclebound warrior is a slow clumsy idiot that can barely place his right foot in front of his left are any better. Westerners are fucking horrible at animation, I'm sorry but it's true. Namely when it comes to RPGs. The only ones that care are the ultrahuge studios like Rockstar that develop their own animation engines.
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  2582. It might surprise you even more to learn that there were a few food dishes called "farts" in the pre-modern world. The most iconic of which are the Farts of Portingale which were a Portuguese puffed pastry.
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  2583. @user-xj5xp6qz5g  I'll admit to not having watched the match myself. It was a scandal at the time, because Riggs disrespected women's tennis, and it was played up greatly to the point of absurdity (BJK entered the match on a litter carried by muscle men and Riggs entered on a rickshaw drawn by models).
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  2584. I watch videos like this too and I don't get why the cops didn't simply ask him questions on the sidewalk instead of instantly detaining him in the squad car. He made no movements to run. Assuming no CYA was involved and they did indeed get a tip from a random witness, you can't assume a passing witness is completely accurate. Another problem is that when it comes from a dispatcher the cops will assume it's credible information.
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  2585.  @christophsiebert1213  It's not OK to say either version if you're not black. Blame "black people" (read, terminally online, extremely sensitive, white college students and a small number of black people) for putting us in this state
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  2586. ​ @christophsiebert1213  I don't make the rules, but hey that's what happens when you just steal terms from American culture without knowing what it means, I guess.
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  2587. I've heard that speaking at all is strictly regulated. Everything is strictly regimented and minor infractions are punished harshly
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  2588. Have y'all seen FoodForDogs? She's an old British grandma who is wildly obsessed with Disgaea and it's fucking adorable.
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  2589.  @Soleft  here's a fun thinker: how is a black guy who was born in a ghetto any different from a poor immigrant who just moved here? is the black guy worth more sympathy because someone in his family might have been a slave many generations ago? why does the immigrant have to work hard but the black guy doesn't?
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  2590. When everyone is moving slowly, risk is low.
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  2591.  @refugeehugsforfree4151  Bro, the game uses an isometric camera. How the fuck do you get immersed to begin with?
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  2592. Arrest her for the sound quality. Wow, she really pulled out the microphone from 1943 to make this statement.
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  2593.  @krislarsen6546  It's not a lesson we'll ever learn because it's the nature of a high-trust society. The Germans believed that they needed to protect their nation, not even necessarily that their cause was just. Erwin Rommel for example was not a Nazi, and was nearly killed by his own side for his opinionated opposition, but he was arguably the best general in the German army. Nobody wanted to go back to the bread lines and clownish inflation of the interwar period. That's the thing about authoritarianism, the only thing that makes it look appealing is crushing poverty and misery.
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  2594.  @astronitium2781  Of course, but none of them are because Uncle Sam wanted to honor their fallen. Sorry, I just don't see the cargo hold of an AA flight as a respectful place for a dead body.
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  2595. Law enforcement is treated too much like the military, if someone else starts doing something they just follow suit no questions even if they know it's wrong. Because they don't want to "make themselves look bad" or whatever.
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  2596. ​ @alanwatterson2850 You're the one missing the point. Only losers underestimate their enemies. Period.
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  2597. I went to a good high school and in my junior and senior years I got my first taste of this kind of bullshit. The whole highschool "GPA" score which was meaningless and got inflated by 1 point if you took AP classes. The rules for state college that allowed you to get automatic enrollment if you got in the top 10% of your class, but did not discriminate based on school, so our top-10 school in the state made it objectively harder to get into a state college because you were competing against smarter kids. My life changed completely at that point, I was set to go with my high school friends to college but I had to go to a different school instead and got a whole different group of friends.
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  2598. Not to mention these are effectively infinitely replicating goods. You only have to pay for the design and engineering of the product. Manufacture cost is virtually 0. They're never going to run out of mounts, or skins, or anything like that. The profit margin on items like these is second to none.
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  2599.  @CheckPls00  Imagine wanting a woman like this in your neighborhood, swatting you randomly.
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  2600.  DontListen ToMe  Agreed, not every argument is enjoyable, but such is life. But if you do it for long enough, you can derive enjoyment out of any discussion which doesn't "stick to a script," in a manner of speaking. Consider for example, someone who is angry about something that a company did (say, a game developer for instance) and spams every thread on their discussion board with a boring message, something like "FUCK <DEVS> I WANT THE OLD PATCH BACK THEY DON'T DESERVE ANY MONEY." This guy is mad, and chances are he won't be doing this for very long. But while he is, it might be fun to mess with him if he reads replies to his post. People who are paid to spam are always boring because they don't ever change their responses, and likewise with people who have massive cognitive dissonance.
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  2601. Yeah, it's similar to "Dick."
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  2602.  @facetiouslyinsolent8313  "Innocent" people are not guilty until proven as such in a court of law. The kid could have done anything from possessing weed to chopping up little kids and stuffing them in his basement; the cop had no way to know that death by a one-man firing squad was the proper sentence.
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  2603. ​ @AJ-jy6lb Calm down, Einstein. Hearsay is a legal term with a specific definition. You'll have to seek your coveted internet argument trophy somewhere else.
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  2604. Fairly sure that people don't get house arrest for vehicular manslaughter while under the influence here in the States. Unless you're an illegal alien of course, then naturally you get to walk free.
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  2605. ​ @slaphappybullet Only the super modern EVs and certain other vehicles could be shut down directly by remote hacking. Everything is not interconnected on the same grid exactly and every vendor has different standards for security. What becomes a problem is when a vendor with a huge amount of market share or infrastructure control has a security hole.
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  2606. That shit's probably going to give you organ failure though.
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  2607.  @ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution  There isn't a big difference in the way the labels are applied, but the political activists who use those labels would really, really like to think there is.
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  2608.  @murdockberk8888  Nailed it.
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  2609.  @nothingnewunderthesun4292  Let me guess, anthropic principle?
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  2610.  @APNFORD  she hit her target because it was on the ground from 6 feet away, this woman has never received any form of pistol instruction
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  2611. I think Chris is complaining that there's no brand tie-ins to Donkey Kong because it's an original IP. Which, while not a new complaint, is something that shallow consumers have complained about.
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  2612. ​@unnamedenemy9 "woke shit" meaning "we will pander to increasingly small and divergent people at the expense of nearly everyone, and we will be blatantly hypocritical while doing so"
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  2613.  @christianmino3753  IPs becoming public domain is one thing, but you could legislate that the binaries and source code is free use. Of course, expecting politicians to even know what the fuck I'm talking about, let alone put it in coherent writing, is a total pipe dream. We still have people who think that downloading an infinitely reproducible file at 0 cost to anyone is somehow "theft."
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  2614.  @genarogarcia9769  Dogs are family, but well, I don't know what to tell if you think your son, brother, sister, mother, whatever should be excused because they assaulted or killed someone.
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  2615. Games are a tragic industry due to how many people that fundamentally cannot wrap their minds around software, as a concept, manage them. The sad thing is people just like him work as C-level executives, paying firms like Denuvo reams of money just because it makes them "feel good" and prevents piracy for roughly a week. They don't see the irony of paying Denuvo hundreds of thousands of dollars either.
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  2616.  @TheRelevantUnknown  The only problem is, that point is debatable; his salary may not be affected, or some cases may even be bolstered, by ignoring piracy.
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  2617.  @youtubestudiosucks978  Uh, everybody already has guns my man. There's twice as many guns as people in this nation.
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  2618.  @bjorgthebarbking  Believe it or not Oblivion isn't even the only game with horse armor DLC. Kingdom Come Deliverance had it as well.
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  2619.  @bobby_hill8357  What was the point of your post? They did exactly what you described in the second sentence.
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  2620. Pizza is actually one of the easiest things to cook. There are pre-made crusts at every grocery store and it doesn't take longer than 2 hours to make a crust from scratch, with only about 20 minutes of actual labor involved. The elitist Italian chefs will tell you it takes a day; they're wrong. You can use your favorite jarred sauce from the store. Once the crust is made, it takes about 15 minutes of applying the sauce/toppings + baking the pizza.
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  2621. "You call it 'Diversity Wins Black Lives Matter Carbon Neutral LGBTQIA+ Support Ukraine Ball Kicking Tournament instead of the World Cup? That's a bit cringe, innit bruv?"
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  2622.  @Sonichero151  "As you're walking down the road, you see something it's... uh..." rolls dice "... 14 kittens."
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  2623. I believe the regulation is that one of them has to be awake, so they sleep in shifts
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  2624.  @rogerwood5228  Most people would be relieved that a cop wasn't actually trying to lift their gun and rob or shoot them with it. You seem to be annoyed that the OP didn't shoot the cop on principle, which is a sociopathic outlook that I don't really believe you retain (in other words, you would probably also be relieved that you didn't have to commit homicide in OP's scenario). Is it risky for the cop to do so? Sure, but he's already taking massive risks by being a cop. And no, there is no "objectively right" when it comes to small discrepancies in morality and ethics such as these. You might have more success convincing people if you weren't so arrogant on issues of morality where viewpoints usually differ.
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  2625. I mean the game looked exactly like the mid clunky combat game I expected when I watched Charlie play it. The 7 seems appropriate. Does anyone really expect masterpieces from Bethesda now?
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  2626.  @Skelath  There's a reason why you see SA rarely prosecuted and why the feminists complained so much about it in the 2010s: It is difficult to prove. Sure, this time there was a camera that captured the action clear as day. But imagine you were that guy, in that moment. Is it really smart to risk paying this dude's medical bills? Always apply the minimum amount of force necessary. That requires training which this guy didn't have. If he had a gun, I'm sure he would have used it; I've seen guns used in self-defense over less, when the person menacing the "victim" didn't even touch him. If you want to actually be prepared for situations like this, it requires more forethought than "I'm gonna destroy anyone who threatens people I love." You can accept that or reject that, but I hope you're at least rich and ready to pay for a lot of medical expenses and lawyers' fees.
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  2627. You literally just pretended that the co-op and PVP parts don't exist but okay, go off.
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  2628. AI is just the next step in automation. It is inevitable in taking steps toward a post-scarcity society. The type of thing you see in Star Trek where you push a button and get whatever you want, whenever you want. It will be a painful step, no denying that. Lots of people will lose their jobs. But, unless living a life as a woodsman appeals to you (and no judgement if it does), there's not much reason to avoid or fight against it. We must educate ourselves with the knowledge to make informed decisions about which products to use and which companies to support. Don't buy cars that can be remotely shut off or controlled by unseen actors, for example. It is possible, and it's a lot easier than trying to fight the implementation of AI as a whole.
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  2629.  @shannonrusso3853  It is, I still find it incredible that even though multiple people nearly fell into this ravine, it was deliberately decided by the property owner not to do anything and nobody reported it to Google (or perhaps Google didn't do anything about it)
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  2630.  @dylives7667  If you're someone who matters, and you delete a video, someone will have archived it anyway. It's not a perfect excuse, but, if I were a CC, I wouldn't care very much.
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  2631. it's called licensing, that's what's replaced guilds
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  2632.  @Arkantos117  you were talking about shady tradesmen, that's what both guilds and licensing were designed to prevent not sure why you would want price fixing to make a return, which is the other thing that guilds were known for
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  2633.  @Arkantos117  i feel like you're resorting to completely uncalled for ad hominem, but okay, i've owned a home for 7 years boy oh boy people sure do be getting hostile for absolutely no reason
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  2634.  @Channel-xy2wj  No what he means is that in anime which rely on visual gags, they're impossible to replicate in live action. It is a technical impossibility. Maybe you could do it with heavy use of CGI? But I'd be really skeptical that it would look any good. You're taking a problem with a simple solution (just animate the film) and making it incredibly complicated. Otherwise, people who have expectations of what the film will be like based on the cartoon will be disappointed. So why not just make a unique film with its own identity at that point? Cowboy Bebop didn't rely on these gags at all. It was a serious show. There were some characters like Ed who acted bizarrely cheerful, but it was supposed to have an undertone of sadness (that attitude is the only way the kid has survived to that point in such a crappy lawless universe). It was anime noir in space. If you can't even adapt a noir series, something with originated with live action, back to live action, then it doesn't build consumer confidence for these weird people who really want live action adaptations of anime so badly.
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  2635. The media has been hyper fixated on Don for almost 7 years
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  2636.  @conduit64  But almost all of its bad decisions were made by a Blizzard neckbeard who thought he was hot shit because he worked on WoW.
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  2637. ​@deefects "if your evidence is so solid why not inform other members of the conspiracy about said conspiracy" Wow brilliant idea detective, did it only take you 60 years to come up with it?
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  2638.  @curtisjeffries-ki2do  He used to make light hearted content for YouTube. The fact that he pivoted to dry podcast content which he is very obviously not suited for baffles just about every one who knew who he was.
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  2639. Honestly I'd be slightly surprised if they went with a story that focused on Space Marines. The problem with SM is that they're not relatable at all. They're superhuman monks that, in the case of leadership, have been fighting for well over 200 years. That mindset is well beyond a normal human. One of the side or even lead roles? Sure that could go to an SM, but I'd imagine the main lead would be some kind of normal human. IMO, if they are smart with their marketing, they won't make the lead character an SM. A show about the Horus Heresy that follows the life of Ollanius Pius up to his climactic death would be rad and tell the story through a relatable yet incredibly heroic character.
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  2640.  @byoken  Oh come on, it's a funny pic.
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  2641.  @GaranNoDou298  No worries, I was just curious if you were in a place of the world where water fountains are not common, which would explain your perspective
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  2642.  @Smallpotato1965  It's funny, if you read books about well-to-do families in the early 1900s and even late 1800s, the division of labor was more interesting. Stay-at-home moms were actually managers who made sure the hired help did what they were supposed to and took care of all the finances spent on the home. It was a full-time job in its own right and one that commanded respect.
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  2643. Didn't they release a splatbook a few years ago that mentioned you can be a genderfluid Drow if you follow Eilistraee or something? Like they literally get an ability to change gender at a long rest.
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  2644.  @metsrus  If it malfunctions, it isn't safe. It's as simple as that.
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  2645.  @ldchappell1  The people are being provided, not the morals.
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  2646.  @jonathanlogan7621  Your argument is also nonsensical, as unless you are a cop your job doesn't require you to "be a thug." The difference between being a thug and being a good cop is always a snap judgment away on every single day of their jobs. There is never a point where you would consider manhandling someone to be a legitimate part of your job if you were a cashier for example. I also have no idea which of my replies you are responding to because YT's comment system is awful.
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  2647.  @dwpwdlgovasitsb4id13orlife2  You're a funny guy. First you shit on me for not writing an essay in my initial post, then you shit on another guy for writing an essay in response. "If I had used this much energy in my initial comment?" What does that even mean? I'm supposed to predict that someone like you would misinterpret my comment and write a perfect explanation that perfectly communicates my ideas to you ahead of time? How absurd. Sounds like you need to use more energy in your own comments... and less condescending emojis.
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  2648. @kaliblue  negligent fathers were also included in the studies I've read. for reference I am talking about psychiatric case studies of gay men from the 60s to the 80s
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  2649. Bro my parents taught me to lock the door since I was 11 at the oldest. My real question is how do they have security cameras and an unlocked door. That's like wearing a full suit of armor with your junk hanging in the breeze
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  2650.  commanderpp  You do realize KFC has a dating VN game? McD's is realizing they need to be hip like Wendy's and KFC.
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  2651.  @DougFregia  The property tax was from a time before income tax, when you had to have property to vote in the first place. In that sense, it's a tax for being a voter. Of course, it didn't go away when income tax became law...
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  2652. The fact that he has hard liquor ready on the desk is probably the most historically accurate part
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  2653.  @ashash8026  what an irrelevant and pointless comment. yes, everyone would be rich in a 3rd world country if they received 1st world salaries.
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  2654.  @James-zo1uy  Money, really. He just doesn't care because he got his.
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  2655.  @user-jm9de5nv8f  If you think the surgeries are bad, then we can ask ourselves why the surgeries exist in the first place if they are harmful to trans people. Then we can ask why give them hormone pills. And then we can ask why tell them that they are trans at all. So on and so forth. Eventually you ask, what is trans? Should we treat it as an identity or an illness?
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  2656.  @IncubiAkster  "one of the best animations ever made is cringe" OK. Say what house do contrarians get sorted into? Ravenclaw or Slytherin?
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  2657.  @virtuousheathen981  those exist for many other creators as well, DSP is a big one off the top of my head, but DSP doesn't go around looking up these people's addresses and doxxing them online -- despite the fact that he constantly spews vitriol about how much he hates his trolls. it's insane that someone that's a million times more popular than DSP is would act even more petty than him
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  2658.  @mom_im_losing_it  Dude, I work from home and make nearly six figures. It is not easier to be homeless.
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  2659.  @time2play961  he was likely banned for something else, don't be ridiculous
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  2660. I remember spending an inordinate amount of time on the ladder while playing Tomb Raider: Anniversary...
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  2661. the problem gets exponentially worse when the worst cops congregate in one department, like in this one
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  2662.  @MMCM  According to the fact that the cause they're fighting for isn't even significant or impactful in their daily lives. In the past people protested like this over being taxed into poverty, blatant and systemic racial discrimination, and other things that had profound impact on their lives. Not because some billionaire told them "it is totally going to matter in 10 years, maybe, please trust us this time I promise the world will really end in 10 years. For real this time."
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  2663.  @MMCM  "Can" is a curious choice of words. I am no legal authority so I have no way to say what they can and cannot do. What everyone else can do, however, is choose whether or not to take them seriously. I have presented an argument for why they should not be taken seriously. If their cause is fake and they should not be taken seriously, then they are nothing more than a nuisance, and not actually protesting.
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  2664. Asmonchrist
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  2665.  @AnubisDark  He was found in the end if I recall correctly. Of course he was happy to allow the FBI to waste time treating Jewell like a prime suspect.
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  2666. Uh yeah, no. They should be suing Eric Holder.
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  2667.  @DG-mk7kd  Any timing problem with cooking can be solved by actually paying attention to a clock or timer, followed by trial and error. It isn't as if eggs are expensive. If it smells like it's burning, stop cooking. Apply ketchup to your overdone eggs, and take note of the time you took to cook them and stop sooner next time. If something is cooked unevenly, use less heat.
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  2668. I laughed when the adults on bikes went on the track. That would actually be difficult because the track is so small and windy.
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  2669. Dude's still undoubtedly a fuckin creep, there's definitive evidence that he texted underage girls with weird ass messages. I always thought that R&M was cringe as fuck, but I don't have anything against people who make media I don't like. Still, the texts are out there.
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  2670.  @mattsommers5285  Uh, everyone panics when guns are fired right over their heads. As for the friend, I have no idea. Maybe he wanted to spend his last moments with his girl.
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  2671.  @theWebWizrd  For a ramp, you're talking about a one time cost. Think about how much garbage your taxes or even rent are used for. This is not even close to the bottom of that list -- or at least, I hope it's not.
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  2672.  @anonymous.anonymity.  You realize that even rape victims, people who are absolutely vulnerable and traumatized, very frequently do not report their own rape, right? You think you're making a point, but you're only showing your profound ignorance on both statistics and the human condition. People do not report crimes for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the police department is inadequate, and the cops treat the victim like a perpetrator even if no shots were fired. Sometimes the victim feels profound shame at their failure to defend themselves or their loved ones. It's weird, because you sound like you lick the boots of police. I'd wager a good $20 that you're in another comment section posting about how awful cops are and how trigger happy they are.
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  2673.  @Call-me-Al  I wouldn't mind breeding for looks if they didn't, y'know, intentionally neuter the lifespan of the dog.
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  2674.  @frankdecron1306  Not in the lore, if I recall correctly. Just in the game mechanics. That's a problem with every tabletop game though. BattleTech, for instance, is incredibly stupid with its "super advanced technology" and large scale walking tanks, yet the longest range direct fire weapon is the Gauss Rifle with its 1 km range, a total joke for even an infantry sniper rifle in modern times. Meanwhile the Germans were able to invent an artillery piece that had something like 25 miles of range in WW1 and was attached to a rail car. The problem is that kind of scale simply doesn't work on a tabletop if you want to be able to micromanage the movements if the individual walking tanks.
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  2675.  @jaefrmbk2k  it's also a reach to suggest that carjackers would successfully remediate into society
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  2676. The ironic thing is that it's basically confirmed that this is a 1-to-1 model of someone at the developer's office. You can search up the photo yourself, but the faces look identical. So it can't be uncanny valley by definition because it's a real face, but that just shows how repulsive some find the face. I say this not as a defense, I just find it amusing. We should always acknowledge our weaknesses in life that we can't change. I was born with terrible eyesight. The government, in all its wisdom, allows me to get a driver's license, but I don't do that because it's a bad idea. By the same token, no one should have made this person's face the face of the MC, because everyone, in their ignorance that this is a real person's face, has proverbially opened fire with both barrels. I think all the devs have done is made that person feel even worse about themselves.
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  2677.  @JABelms  Since anime was heavily influenced by Warner Bros. and MGM cartoons, it probably wouldn't exist, at least not in any form we'd recognize, if it weren't for "Western things." So I'm not sure what your point is exactly. If something is made by a natively Japanese person, it is not Western, even if it does take Western influence. Any other definition is insanely pedantic or too vague. At what point is music changed so much by a non-Western artist that it is no longer Western? Clearly you seem to think using instruments such as pianos or violins isn't too Westernized. So quantify that for me. Is it the time signature? Drum pattern? Rap lyrics?
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  2678.  @spottheborgcat6523  I got my mom a cross body travel bag like the one I carry, it has a hook for the zipper so it can't be ripped open and has a strap reinforced with metal lining so it can't be cut. She loves it and uses it now. The brand is Travelon in case you're curious. Their gear was designed for people who are traveling and want to keep their stuff safe from theft but they offer bags with built-in holsters and such as well. I find it's very useful as someone who does not drive and thus can't carry a car's worth of junk around with him everywhere I go.
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  2679.  @SchwartzSchnee  It literally isn't finished. DOS2 wasn't finished and they finished it with DE. Same thing is happening to this game now. The unused dialogue lines have been data mined. The promises of the upper city being in the game have been broken, merely weeks ago. It's very clear they did not plan adequately for this release, and that Swen pushing the release forward so it did not clash with Starfield did not help.
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  2680.  @3mer4ld_p1tch  It's a chicken and egg problem. Does the kid play violent video games because they're already violent? Or did they become violent because they played violent video games? As of now, we have no evidence to suggest a causal link like the latter.
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  2681.  @rsmith8113  A child could tell the difference between CoD 1/2/WaW and a game like RO, HLL... name your milsim game. Yet, somehow, you can't. What's your excuse friend? The problem here is that the pandering is too blatant. It's so fucking obvious that some suit was like "Yeah let's put Goku in the game, kids like Goku." There was no thought or effort put into it. What's annoying is that people like you have to make fake excuses for continuing to like it. Just make something cohesive, with some kind of vision. It wasn't that difficult for the last 30 years, it hasn't gotten any harder now.
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  2682. Because they have no idea what they hell they're talking about and just re-read something written on a teleprompter.
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  2683. ​@SocraticMutt Because the party of taxing the middle class is so much better for the middle class amirite guys? YAAAS SLAY QUEEN WE BRATTY NOW
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  2684.  @markwoods1530  Until recently, in Germany, it was legal to ask for a photo of the applicant for a job interview (didn't matter which job) and almost all of them did. One of the most bizarre economic policies I ever heard about.
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  2685. ​ @dominic2196 It can be funny in the right context. I have a friend who flirted with a 72 year old teacher at a funeral after party. She played along and thought it was hilarious.
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  2686.  @amunago080  True, but developers in East Asia are also not always known for making the best choices for foreign publishing. See virtually every NISA localization ever.
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  2687.  @xDEADLOCKEDx2468  it does matter, maybe this guy would have gotten therapy if he didn't think it would instantly cost him his career.
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  2688.  @undefinedfreedom8580  "Hey kid, wanna blow up a federal building?"
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  2689.  @PeterGriffin-kb2hf  They have modern chain mesh armor for shark suits, it's like 1500 bucks. You gonna plop that much cash down or just layer 12 shirts on top of each other instead?
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  2690.  @noellealdi881  You'll never convince them. Many people are uncomfortable with admitting that dog breeds have genetic behaviors because they think it means they would have to admit that people might also have the same problem, and that would make them racist in their mind. Despite the fact that us humans have been literally playing God with dogs and breeding them to be machines suited for specific tasks for 10,000 years, unlike humans. It would be ridiculous to assert that it is no fault of their genetics, but cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
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  2691. All of the guns in this game have optics, you just need to press your buttons and don't be such a casual.
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  2692.  @aidsdoh8286  They aren't the same strain of bacteria. Also, there are some people who indeed cannot handle it, they're called lactose intolerant.
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  2693.  @billcarney829  There's only so far you can go before you start asking, as the victim, "Wasn't there anything I could have done to prevent this from happening?" He doesn't know much about Texas, to not be aware of defense laws. Still climbs around in other's residences. Didn't think to notify the tenant. It would be like if an electrician went to work without non-conducting gloves. I find it really hard to be sympathetic when said electrician electrocutes himself. The guy should be charged for manslaughter because at a minimum his shots could cause collateral damage, but if you're aware of the laws in Texas, then you should make the conclusion that there are people out there who will defend their homes with this level of paranoia. If it wasn't him on that Christmas, it might be someone else next Christmas. Adjust your behavior accordingly.
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  2694. ​@muggy87 Shooting drones is not unlike shooting birds. Nobody uses a weapon like this to shoot birds. If drones are that big of a problem, it makes total sense to have one guy dedicated to drone defense with a weapon that's actually good at hitting them, instead of a squad of guys with shitty weapons that won't do shit. The latter will definitely make the manufacturer more money though.
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  2695.  @cl1cka  Ah, I see. So you are making a point which is completely irrelevant to World of Warcraft. Carry on then.
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  2696.  @Terratetradon  Yes... they model. For a brand. Do you know what the word "model" means? It's a demonstration or example of something.
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  2697.  @jeffk464  Bruh, this is pure denial. Have you seen the shit Olivia Munn did on AOTS? Even Morgan Webb would cosplay in a revealing manner every now and then. It was objectively in their job description.
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  2698. ​@ElBandito It's a parody of the dubbing process and of low budget bad Kung fu dubs. I never thought it was hard to grasp
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  2699.  @Jay-bq1dq  Yes. Probably the stupidest thing Reagan ever did, and one of the reasons why I consider him highly overrated. To be clear, this is federally funded asylums. There still exists private asylum institutions. However mental health care is the one thing that should be state funded, because being mentally ill impacts everyone around you, unlike say, a broken leg.
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  2700. You can see the seam in the prosthetic clearly in this video. People are blind as hell. I have pretty bad vision and I can see it.
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  2701.  @chelsthegameruiner8669  Eagerly awaiting Wilds.
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  2702.  @geraldvance7925  Well, I hate to be the one to "go there," but that family still has a father... so no, that boy probably isn't going to end up in prison statistically speaking.
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  2703. chicago is fucking terrible, but it also annoys me how europeans read mainstream media stories about chicago, LA, DC and NY and think they know everything about the 3rd largest and most diverse nation on the planet i once had a chat with a stranger at a local train station and she said "i just flew in from chicago" and i had to resist the urge to say "congratulations"
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  2704.  @WhipLash42o  I've seen a lot of 30 year old soccer moms that I'd sooner tap than those atrociously androgynous avatars.
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  2705. @Vado inak Actually LSD is one of the least addictive according to the CDC, however giving anyone a mood altering psychoactive without their knowledge is a recipe for disaster
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  2706. I can tell by their conversation they have never met a young soldier or combat type. They do shit like this all the time, it's how they build camaraderie and generally give each other a hard time. I guarentee you they are doing it in their off periods while at the station
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  2707.  @jackcristo1628  Yeah, I know, but from what I understand judges will contrive new charges anyway. From what I've heard, they've already re-cycled his jail time once and immediately sent him back on a different charge.
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  2708.  @generationfallout5189  The coyote would probably just go back to its old home if you tried to do that.
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  2709.  @miguelbermudez5426  Agreed, I can't believe the cop's best move was "lay on top of the guy" even with someone else helping him.
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  2710. @Bammmyou It means "black" in Spanish.
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  2711.  @dang2443  Remain happy my friend. It's like what if we took an overplayed hard rock song that was good, and remove the part where it was good?
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  2712. The value isn't equivalent either. Money which is trapped in WoW or Blizzard's store is far less valuable because software doesn't cost anything to manufacture. They didn't take a loss by giving you their virtual money, so you didn't "get that money back" by receiving currency from them.
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  2713.  @Slashresto  The bank takes around 5% per transaction. Nobody incurs a loss because of banking fees. That's just a completely absurd notion. Not to mention, you are wrong about development costs. They are irrelevant to the transaction. Blizzard is going to pay developers the same whether 1 person buys a token or 1 billion people buy tokens.
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  2714.  @Soyunapina23  They haven't truly delivered since Skyrim, that was 11 years ago. FO4 was pretty disappointing in my opinion, the settlement system especially was half-baked and blatantly unfinished. Which sucked because it was probably my favorite part of the game
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  2715.  @lj-wp3sf  "You can't complain about the president. He was chosen by the community."
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  2716.  @lj-wp3sf  Nice try but you shifted the goalpost extremely hard. Your original goalpost was that community is a good source of quality control, i.e. an objective measure of a product's quality.
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  2717.  @KMFDM_Kid2000  I'm not coping poorly enough to start riots. What a sad attempt at projection.
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  2718.  @Konkov  er, no, the reason it failed is due to insurmountable input delays caused by current technology. This wouldn't have succeeded just like OnLive flopped way back when. The only games you could play this way are very slow strategy and turn based games. The developers likely saw this when testing and decided not to bother. Oh yeah, and you know, the fact that you have to pay full price for the Stadia release of the game unless the developer goes out of their way to give you a key for the real game just to be nice.
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  2719. They want you to click on their article link to read about it.
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  2720. I'm a developer but not a pro game dev, although I have made and worked on games. I still have the perspective of an outsider looking in, but my personal theory is one of two things: 1. The devs from these studios feel genuine frustration from being caught in a catch-22 scenario. They are stuck in a bureaucratic organization and management is basically closed off to them. This is their way of expressing it without losing their jobs. If they want to make good games, they have to climb the ladder to management to have enough influence to do so. All managers have to make sure revenue is sustainable for investors, which makes making the games bad or at least mediocre. Meaning, managers can never order the production of good games. Therefore, it's a catch-22 where no one can ever make good games at these studios. 2. The devs are not genuinely frustrated at being unable to make the game they want to make that they believe will be good, but are instead knowingly acting as mouthpieces for executives and meat shields to try and absorb the brunt of the community criticism and shape the narrative. Either way, it is a contradictory logical flow where the end result is always "bad game gets made because we think it's good for investors." The only way to break the cycle is to get rid of management wholesale.
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  2721. Biden or his team have this obsession with sinking down to the level that Trump does in an attempt to make him seem tough or youthful. The problem is Trump is much better at timing it even if it is still distasteful. Trump read the room and actually behaved better than he usually does.
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  2722.  @ATM_Jack  yes that's what I mean
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  2723. This whole controversy has shed a light on how vulnerable and naive many vtubers really are. It's interesting, because in a way, it shows that they're genuine and not always cynically playing their audience for views. Willingly placing yourself hostage to a company by moving to their nation under a work visa is just... I don't even know how to say it. You have to have no sense of self-worth to do something like that.
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  2724.  @ILoveYou-rv3pd  I live in Dallas, a "liberal shithole city," and every time I mention I'm going to the range to my ride share driver they mention that they also own a gun, so uh, sucks to suck I guess
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  2725. Well, it is literally just Second Life, this is exactly what happens in that "game." Aside from rampant fetish sex of course.
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  2726.  @nightshriek420  Yes, but I wish I didn't.
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  2727. I'm not going to buy the game because it's a glorified looter shooter even dumber than Fallout 4. I don't understand how people have played any Bethesda game since Skyrim at the latest. Even Skyrim is a boring repetitive slog.
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  2728. I guarantee you her dad has connections. This shit doesn't just "happen" to anybody.
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  2729.  @thybehollowedname  The key here is suspicion. You're breaking the rule of Occam's Razor (The simplest answer is most likely to be correct) by assuming that this is a guy who just so happens to be college aged, has a college ID, has tools that show that he is performing a task legitimately, but fabricated all of that for... some yet unstated and unproven purpose. Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely, given no further information? Absolutely not. If we are to assume this level of scrutiny is warranted, then every person would be randomly stopped and questioned, Gestapo-style.
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  2730. Pretty sure multi-barreled hand weapons went back to the 17th century at the latest, probably earlier than even that. They knew their shit. Thomas Jefferson invented a swivel chair and Ben Franklin doesn't really need an introduction on his scientific endeavours.
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  2731. There's a fitting lyric from a Clutch song which also happens to be the title of that song: "Careful with that mic, wheezy."
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  2732. Or the entire girls team to quit in protest. Honestly, it's sad that they seemingly don't have the backbone to do this. If they want the trans guy to win so badly then he can be the only one participating.
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  2733. Honestly I'm a man and I can understand the appeal of wanting to throw a big party and see your wife in a really expensive dress. But these parties that cost tens of thousands are definitely on the absurd side.
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  2734.  @samuelhowie4543  No, Washington state is across the country. I find it ironic that they switched the image of the Washington team to the natives' primary enemy, colonial soldiers, although post-Civil War era soldiers probably killed more.
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  2735. @samuelhowie4543  I'm a moron, would you believe I thought for my whole life that Washington Redskins were based in Washington state? I would have expected them to be called the D.C. Redskins. Oh well.
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  2736.  @wesleythomas7125  Hershey isn't even that good. Just find other chocolate. Amazes me how people can get so attached to trash products.
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  2737. I think you got lucky there. Flour is really flammable, not dissimilar to saw dust. I imagine you had to use a lot of flour.
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  2738.  @NC7491  Yes. The equivalent would be going to a restaurant, having to pay a separate 20% "waiter fee," then asking for a tip on top of that. No... the point of the tip was that I was not paying you directly to begin with.
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  2739.  @bennyputin8746  If it's so far fetched, why not let its absurdity stand for others to see? Isn't this supposed to be a lecture venue for adults? Why do we need to protect people from self-evidently stupid ideas?
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  2740.  @CovenoftheOpenMind  Unlike you, the elite intellectual. Certainly.
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  2741.  @johnross5909  So what? It isn't fully automatic, unless that judge happens to have an FFL
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  2742. I'm American and I haven't eaten corporate chain pizza in close to a decade at this point. Just buy local for the love of Christ, you'll thank me later. And if you have to, eat a real pastry instead of crappy sweet sauce put on pizza dough.
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  2743.  @Matthew2077  "Incel" is just a meme and Johnny doesn't exhibit any of those characteristics except not having a real job. He's basically a NEET who spends all his free time working out instead of playing video games or doing something less productive. However, he's also borderline retarded, so being a NEET can be forgiven to an extent.
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  2744. ​ @gobdeep It's worth noting that according to any reasonable security standard, Apple or Google or any other vendor shouldn't be able to simply unlock your device just because they're the vendor. That's absurd, but it's what happens when alphabet agencies shove their fingers everywhere.
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  2745. ​ @suribachi8698  UB is disallowed by the compiler in most languages. This is stuff like assigning a string to an integer, two different data types.
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  2746.  @CovenoftheOpenMind  Again, it's a less-than-20 minute talk. I have no idea what you expected. Unless you're a computer that can actually read hexadecimal and process information faster than humans, I don't know how you expected to learn more in 20 minutes. You have to do more if you're actually interested. The lazy option is to pretend that you have the intellectual high ground, while doing no actual digging yourself.
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  2747. I'll do it for $50 million, and I'll throw in a warranty where I'll fix the button if it ever breaks even when I am no longer employed for another $50 million. Can't beat a deal like that.
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  2748. Dunno about anesthetics but I've had a similar experience taking mushrooms. Woke up after a nap, forgot who I was for about 30 minutes and laid in bed happy to be alive.
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  2749. I live in Texas. Lucky enough to never encounter a "bum camp." Have seen homeless people on the train though, I used to work downtown and I can't drive. Vision reasons. Once, one of them was on with three or four huge bags of garbage he'd salvaged. The entire car and half the adjacent cars smelled horrendous.
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  2750. Pekora was #1 JP streamer for several years, not sure if she still is
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  2751.  @Greyman-Gaming  They have some weird grey area policy about artistic expression. I've seen other nude women in music videos as well.
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  2752.  @skedyt  Because frankly, graphical setups are trash on Linux, even though they have come a long way. Each of the DEs has its ups and downs, each of the file browsers has its own little annoying drawbacks. The only GUI element I tend to use on Linux is the app launcher on MATE, which is really just a fancy layer over the command line anyway that has autocomplete. There will be times when you have to go to command line to do what you need to do, or that doing it via a copy-paste command line is simply much faster than doing it via GUI, and putting off learning basic Bash syntax isn't going to help you. Unlike Windows you cannot simply drive the whole OS through (badly designed) GUI. By relying on GUI in Linux, you are basically importing many of the same problems you would have had on Windows. Sadly most people including myself in the beginning simply find the allure of something familiar too great and end up using a dozen different DEs and such before they arrive at the same conclusion. It doesn't help that most people tell you to read man pages like it's a novel to learn about Bash and available application CLIs, which is really dry and quite boring. Great reference, not really a great introduction.
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  2753.  @EksaStelmere  That's a very silly analysis of world events because it assumes that an American, Canadian, Laotian, Japanese person, etc. all share in the experience of any war that their individual cultures commit to. Japan was in near-constant war during sengoku jidai but those wars were safely ignored by everyone else in the world. And, furthermore, the nature of these wars is very different from each other. Earlier Japanese wars were steeped in honorable tradition which, while not flawlessly followed, did help lessen the overall death toll quite a bit. Limited resources and land tend to cause people to limit the scope of war. On the other hand, the sprawling desire for world domination across virtually every remotely powerful nation in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries saw war reach new heights of totally unrestricted carnage.
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  2754.  @OWnIshiiTrolling  it is pretty highly correlated with high achievement. Benjamin Franklin, for example, hated sleep and was said to get about 4 hours of sleep a day.
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  2755.  @jasonn1473  Buddy, that mentality is what causes people to look down on you. The fact that you can't see something wrong with it is a serious problem. We moved past "fighting words" after the 19th century.
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  2756. Assuming that Penn is even correct in his assessment, I've met more than one person -- hell, more than one close friend even -- that doesn't enjoy music. They're both getting on fine.
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  2757.  @AUTI5T1X  Oh boy, a supporter of violence against women. I'd say that's slightly worse than being tactless.
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  2758.  @andydaniels3029  I just assumed that the Disney movies weren't even in the equation. I've already forgotten most of what happens in them
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  2759. This is literally a flare gun repurposed to shoot at drones... allegedly, according to the manufacturer. It's marketing hype nonsense. The only advantage is that this could be produced cheaply, but everyday shotguns like the Remington 870 or that one Russian shotgun that beginners use to get their gun licenses have many, many factories already set up to produce them at less than $300.
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  2760.  @eatabowlofshit  Hey buddy, that's racist. They prefer to be called Basketball-Americans.
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  2761.  @alanachristine482  hueheuhheh, trump bad, unga bunga
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  2762. The degree thing is fucking insane. I'm a programmer and I have a 4-year degree. My boss at my second position and the man who hired me didn't have a degree. I didn't give a shit because I knew at least 90% of the classes for my degree were worthless. It's a fucking piece of paper. I used it to appease idiots like the guy who hired me at my first job just because I graduated at the same college as him. And because I didn't know it would be so worthless before I enrolled.
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  2763.  @JSainte17  The problem is that neither of them seem to go out of their way to tell you "hey, if you jizz inside your girlfriend, it might be a really terrible idea while you're trying to get your diploma even though it feels good." In my high school in Texas they basically tried to scare you out of having sex by showing you really disgusting STD victims.
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  2764.  @hypertrixdark  They're quite hands-off, the talent keeps their model/character identity for example, and can mostly operate with autonomy. This means that usually any hate for "VShojo" is actually hate for the individual talents due to varying reasons. A couple of examples: Mikeneko has a lot of obvious baggage following her that got even worse recently. Nyanners is a massive hypocrite when it comes to her past content and seemingly doesn't know when to not express her opinions on Twitter. It's not something I care that much about personally, but I can see why it'd leave a bad taste in the mouth of the viewer.
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  2765. Nah, he didn't really have any right to compare it to any job at all, considering his background, success, and so on. Nobody except perhaps a spouse or close friend wants to hear you bitch about your job.
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  2766.  @jerrysnyder5398  We don't know what the cop got on the dispatch call. However I believe he knew the guy had a gun. Kinda stupid to wait for a guy with a gun to shoot somebody before caring innit? You'd think he would want to rush in even more if he thought that nobody had been shot yet, because it means he can still prevent any civilians from being shot.
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  2767.  @asm7069  I do understand how police work: they don't. That's why I exercise my rights and you should too.
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  2768.  @monstermunch8670  I've heard that about three-quarters of violent criminals come from a single mother household.
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  2769.  @Rays_Bad_Decisions  I mean really, if you aren't letting 35 year old low-T men into the girls' locker room in high school, can you even say that you aren't a Nazi?
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  2770.  @GLoLChibs  Uh, people were upset at RE3make because it was wasted potential that could have completed the unfinished original title but didn't, instead we got another rushed title. And because Jill was a completely different character personality wise. "Enlightened fenceshitter" loses again.
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  2771. @Shoegaze-  Intelligent people are people who know they are ignorant. If one does not acknowledge this, it is impossible to learn. It is impossible not to be ignorant on some topics because no one is all knowing. You're beginning to sound a little insecure.
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  2772. I bet some of you clowns aren't even aware that many HOA bylaws have not changed for 40 or more years. Mine is changing theirs because they have not changed since the 1980s and adding rules against using the condos as vacation rentals. Rules do not have inherent virtue and can be wrong or outdated.
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  2773. I was hoping he would talk about the original design he had written up for Quake that made it more like a medieval first person RPG than like what Quake had actually turned out as.
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  2774.  @johnathanblackwell9960  They kind of were, though. Aren't you aware of Operation Paperclip? The Cold War was literally defined by the Nazi-era scientists that America and Russia were able to poach. Both jet-powered planes and ballistic missiles. Think about that: The science and engineering performed by a single generation of German scientists defined world politics for the next ~60 years.
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  2775. You can ask if they want any company while they eat, no harm in asking.
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  2776. Fun fact: In the old days in Germany this woman would have been drowned in the nearest river, wrapped up in a sack and kept underwater with a long stick until she was dead. That's the penalty for killing your own child in the middle ages. For her extra crimes facilitating molestation, she might have been nipped with red-hot iron tongs or had her legs broken on the way to her execution. The men who raped her child would have been burned alive for sexual crimes, maybe if they were lucky they could convince or bribe the executioner to strangle them first; depends on his mood, but if he was a good Christian, unlikely. If she didn't confess immediately before the trial she would have been tortured until she did. And after all is said and done, her head would have been nailed to the gallows post, another specific penalty for child murder
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  2777. If you look at the periods of "enlightenment" in specific regions of the globe and look at periods of human migration and their ethnic makeup, you notice a lot of patterns.
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  2778. random person : Wow that guy is eating by himself he must be feeling down me : Man it sure is convenient that this place is a 10 minute walk away from my house so I can grab a burger whenever I want
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  2779. Isn't 9 digit only hundreds of millions? That means she's still a better mom than at least 6 billion people at the least, or about 3.5 billion if you only count women.
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  2780. From experience, I can summarize that coding the actual gravity and moving part is fairly easy, and can actually involve the basic formulas you learn in high school. The collision physics are always the hardest part, in my opinion. And 3D physics are quite literally a dimension's worth more difficult -- not because it's necessarily more complicated per se, but since there's another direction to move in, that's just that much more things you have to check against.
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  2781. ***** There's only two ways to improve collision physics: run more checks per second, or come up with a better way to check collision. Obviously, the latter is the less-resource intensive, and usually sought after, but it's also much more creatively challenging. Most platformers, for instance, use raycasting, which involves using several long, parallel lines to check for objects that the object is about to touch. This cheapens collision detection because you sort of know that you're going to collide with something ahead of time. It is also a very simple method, so it's usually only good for 2D platformers (at least, in its most pure form).
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  2782. ***** I meant, an entirely new algorithm or paradigm. Raycasting is probably the most tried-and-true method that results in the tightest 2D platforming (used since games like Mega Man and Mario), but in many 3D games simple bounding box collision is preferred.
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  2783. This weapon fired a sort-of intermediate cartridge, almost a pistol cartridge. As he says in the video, it only has 1300 ft/s of muzzle velocity -- that's not very fast, it's good for a pistol round though. Very sufficient for close range trench warfare. The M1 shot .30-06, which was a large hunting round. It will put a man out of the war pretty much anywhere you hit him, and at any range you can see. Additionally, when top brass plan a war, they see men as a resource, not as individuals. It's ruthless, but necessary to win a war. The only thing worse than sending a man to die is letting his death be in vain, so it became a vicious circle of sending in more men to make sure that they could win. Which is why they prioritize making equipment which is cheap and effective over expensive gadgets that may or may not make the average infantryman last that much longer. 8 rounds per en-bloc clip is sufficient, especially with a quick and easy reload. Additionally, .30-06 is heavy. It's a lot harder to carry a 40 round magazine of .30-06 rounds (which would be too massive to fit in anything but a full-sized machine gun) than a 40 round magazine of those short .30 caliber cartridges used in the Pederson device. Finally, simplicity is a virtue in itself, and the M1's simplicity ensures its reliability. Complicated devices like the Luger are harder to maintain.
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  2784. Well, there were high-capacity hand-held weapons in World War 2. The easiest example that comes to mind is the PPSh, based on the Finnish KP/31 submachinegun. They were frequently issued with drum magazines that held over 70 rounds and fired 7.62x25mm Tokarev, which probably would have been roughly comparable to the .30 caliber Pederson round you saw in the video (although, they may have some unique characteristic that separates them, I don't know much about these specific rounds). High-capacity magazines are generally less reliable at the time, due to imprecise machining. For example, the PPSh-41 came standard issue with two drum magazines when it was first issued, then later on the Soviets changed it to 35-round box magazines because each drum magazine had to be fitted for a specific gun, and they had matching serial numbers. If you had to trade magazines with a comrade, they may or may not even fit your weapon properly. Very bad for logistics. Virtually all of the concessions towards "worse" or "more primitive" firearms and technology you see in WW2 is simply for ease of production and logistics. Another thing to consider is that WW2 was the first war which was studied and analyzed in-depth by researchers, and they found that men only willingly shot at the enemy roughly 25% of the time (regardless of nationality), because this was before Skinner and behaviorial training which could teach soldiers to kill on a reflex. It could be that commanders knew this before researchers did and therefore had relaxed standards for how much firepower the average soldier had. On the subject of .30-06's advantage against unarmored opponents, I would say that the stopping power or destructive force compared to a round like the .30 in the video is significantly higher. The big difference that matters is, getting shot with the .30 would put you out of the battle and maybe out of the war. Getting shot with a .30-06 will definitely put you out of the war, whether it's because you've died, or because it's a "million-dollar wound" (a wound which renders you unfit for service and gets you sent home). Pistol-type rounds are small enough and have low enough energy that they frequently just damage flesh without causing serious injury even in unarmored people, if they are not placed well -- think about how many times .50 Cent got shot with 9mm rounds, for example.
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  2785. They didn't have retail outlets in the 17th century, bro. He only made 3 guns because he was unfortunate enough not to find someone who wanted to use his gun. He has to receive a contract to make them before he'll bother making them. Back then, a single noble deciding whether or not to commission a piece of equipment and issue it to his retinue could make or break your product, because without that noble's seal of approval how will anyone else know to start commissioning your product? Sometimes the reasons nobody bought these products were valid, other times it was totally arbitrary.
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  2786. Yeah, he sold 2 guns to the Duke of Buccleuch because he ordered 2, and not any more. People didn't frequently make warehouses full of product back then unless they knew it was something they could definitely sell, like food. Manufacturing was just starting to be refined during this century and it was still labor intensive.
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  2787. This is the fucking Youtube comments section, dude. Nobody is achieving anything.
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  2788. Bryan B I thought it was "We ate the horse, remember?"
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  2789. i totally agree with you on the cockroach thing they eat their own dead, their own shit, other peoples shit, anything
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  2790. +REID MCCLUNG You should Google "Poe's Law."
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  2791. Please talk about the introductory levels to Doom at some point, which not only had to introduce most players to its own game, but an entirely new genre that had never been seen before except for Wolfenstein and considerably slower-paced first-person dungeon crawlers. And succeeded quite well.
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  2792. JazzKeyboardist1 "Amazon.com" is a website and "Amazon" is that website's company owner. Neither are misspelled or nonexistent. "Emanciptation" is a bad misspelling because it isn't just using the wrong letters to create a word pronounced the same way (i.e. rize versus rise), it's pronounced completely differently and creates a word that doesn't exist. The key here is giving an answer that verbally resembles the correct answer.
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  2793. JazzKeyboardist1 I mean, I am just stating the rules as they are in the show. If an answer is misspelled, it's only wrong if it's spelled such that it's mispronounced. Mispronunciations are also wrong; i.e., the man who said "Wimbleton" instead of "Wimbledon" had his answer retracted after the fact.
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  2794. shane pennington Your guess is as good as mine. 
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  2795. Uhh, yeah, let's just ignore the ritual human sacrifice and the way they basically treated war as a sport. Nope, only the good things.
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  2796. Kalihman Eitan Sounds like someone didn't play the Schoolhouse Rock games when they were younger
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  2797. Sounds like a good way to shatter the knife and give yourself terrible lacerations.
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  2798. areuter727 Not to mention Quake also kickstarted the speedrunning phenomenon. "Games Done Quick" used to be called "Quake Done Quick." The demo recording system integrated into the engine was extremely great for this as well as competitive multiplayer replays.
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  2799. PifnPaf Lol, I appreciate the concern, but that all flowed from the top of my head, I didn't spend more than two minutes on that comment. 
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  2800. PoXcMe It's really not that hard to see dude. My vision is so shit I can't even legally drive and I can tell the difference between a PC game and a console one by graphics. Maybe you are the one who needs to grow up.
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  2801. PoXcMe Okay, well, if you're going to accuse me of being a liar, why have this discussion in the first place? If you're just going to tell me everything I say is a lie, then just fuck off already. Let me give you a hint: It's not for no reason that my online handle is "Crazy Eyes."
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  2802. PoXcMe Why are you still replying? I seriously want to know. Your comments have absolutely no substance or reason. Are you trying to save face on the internet somehow?
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  2803. It's a completely abstract dimension... "imaginary" if you'd like to call it that. We can infer it exists based on the laws and principles of math, but we can't know it exists because our dumb brains can only see in 2D and infer 3D based on context. Sort of like evolution... We can infer it exists based on evidence that we've found, but we can't know for sure because none of us can live long enough to watch other species grow and die enough times to adapt. Except that the 4th dimension is even more abstract.
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  2804. +Synapsenkitzler Nope, still stupid.
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  2805. I thought most people in this competition did the fireman's carry (where they lay across your shoulders) but I guess not.
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  2806. +lancer D yeah most people just don't grasp just how rich knights were because they were attached to nobility... well... when they don't get impoverished due to losing a war or something
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  2807. Frikgeek Funny, most people consider Amazon the best character. Or at least, the easiest.
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  2808. Frikgeek Yeah, I kind of agree with that. I find the knight to be fun; even though his dodges are short, they're very quick, and you can string them together to do some hilarious moves on your opponent. The dwarf was just annoying to me because he has such short reach.
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  2809. +Russell Solomon In his words, "You gotta chase 'em. You can't catch 'em if you don't chase 'em." And he really liked to chase 'em. Also, being intelligent, famous and funny helps.
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  2810. ***** seconded
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  2811.  @No1reallydies  "Nobody gets jumped for no reason" I guess you've never heard of the knock out game?
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  2812.  @thecanmanification  Yeah, seven baby pancakes for anorexic midgets. Who cares when you can just eat three grown-up pancakes?
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  2813. Well, if you think about it, fully automatic machineguns were developed before semi-automatic rifles were really developed into solid production rifles. So it would make sense that full auto is simpler to design than semi.
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  2814.  @alonjar  Well, I could also argue from the other side that anyone who thinks they'll shoot themselves while drawing out of a formfitting holster made for their gun isn't training correctly.
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  2815. This is one of my favorite N64 games. And now it's even better.
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  2816. Isn't the putter unusual though? I wouldn't be surprised if the "green" is also unusual. They have to do something to trip golfers up.
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  2817.  @SpencerLemay  Computer science isn't that spergy. The spergiest kids at my college by far were the ones in the game design classes I took. That was some serious shit.
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  2818. No. The department was called arts & technology and covered that as well as digital graphics. The faculty was actually really good which is why I stuck with it. I thought I was going to be a game developer but balked when I saw how poor the employment prospects were. There may have been a game design major of some kind but I didn't know about it and I stuck with computer science with the game design classes as electives. I think there certainly wasn't one when I was originally plotting out my degree plan (also, the counsel and administration was total crap for never suggesting this program to me -- I stumbled upon it on the university web portal sophomore year). It was a good experience but wasn't really something I can put on my resume.
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  2819. Perhaps I'm generalizing a bit, but I wouldn't be very surprised if the child of "Mr. Gomez" was not raised in "gun culture." Much more likely he was raised in a certain other culture mostly policed by cartels, with no legal access to guns of his own. Not surprising that he could not grasp the gravity of what he was about to do since he was not raised around them.
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  2820.  @hulknotlikepunybanner  My man. Donald Trump has funded hundreds of businesses. That statement does not hold the weight that you think it does. It actually makes him look like a successful businessman. And clowns like you always say this as if to imply he got his money from somewhere else. Where? He was never a politician so he couldn't take your tax money, or bribes from lobbyists, like every other politician. Do you really think he was a dilettante just sitting on his family's fortune doing nothing useful the whole time? Like Jeb Bush?
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  2821. ​@rhircyn Just play WHFRP, it is a game and setting that is unapologetically essentialist. There have been changes, but smaller and fewer than D&D or even 40k, and most of the old material is easily adapted. The career system is also leagues better than classes which is based on a very vague idea of archetypes
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  2822. What a clickbait headline! ... That cat clearly sounds like an electric toothbrush, not a laser.
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  2823. Against gamers, the most oppressed minority
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  2824.  @lordyasha5944  I can't even think of an "anime youtuber" that shows their real face in front of a camera off the top of my head. The closest thing I can think of is people who post about silly Twitter drama that is closely related to the anime community, but they never tend to talk about anime itself in any real depth. Also, there's a bit of difference between a fictional girl who's designed by a board of people to be marketably sexy, and a children's cartoon dog.
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  2825.  @jamesmoran5192  And the league judges that banned Sam Hyde from fighting used questionable eyewitness testimony as corroborating evidence, such as one account from a guy who claimed that he was shot in the shoulder with a Mauser by one of the gym security guards but the bullet bounced off of him by the grace of God.
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  2826. I'm glad he shared that thought because I had it immediately.
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  2827.  @MetalHev  the major corpos all have baseball teams there too
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  2828. Oh they got rid of 640,000 guns in their nation wide program? That's cute. We have about 550,000,000. Children don't even consider the logistical problems with implementing such a program here.
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  2829.  @DgardsGaming  National socialism is a bit of a misnomer. Hitler literally murdered "real" socialists that supported him in his rise to power so he could consolidate around a single ideology. The ones who weren't murdered took the hint and got the hell out. Authoritarians don't see left or right, or care about adherence to principles above themselves. They see their way, and the highway.
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  2830. It's a metaphor. You don't think people are exploding when headlines say someone "blasts" someone else do you?
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  2831.  @maskeddivisions  Wait, I thought "shaming" was an SJWism.
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  2832.  @ggmu4656  A cultural revolution not unlike those that took place in early 20th century Europe But we also need economic collapse for that to really happen... which is approaching
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  2833.  @_terminal  one of these two streamers jokes about killing people on stream on a routine basis
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  2834.  @SergeantExtreme  There are a couple... and they're quickly learning what they're about... look up "Johnny Somali"
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  2835.  @assassin8636  It is very nice to visit. Not so great if you actually live there, especially if you aren't Japanese. But they're certainly way ahead of us in crime, even when people try to use the ephemeral "but they had some sex crimes that one time." Yeah, and we have way more... I still don't understand what the point of that argument is. Japan is shocked when they have a couple dozen murders in a year. That's a weekend in Chicago, and I'm not exaggerating.
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  2836.  @waefawawrgaw2835 good little shill. sow divides. never allow people to care for or help one another. always create conflict
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  2837. I haven't had an interaction quite THAT bad with Indian engineers but generally, their quality of higher education is bad and many of them emigrate here via exchange programs to get degrees and even then many of them struggle. If they live here, generally they're actually competent. If they're from the mainland... Good luck. Expect coding practices and frameworks that are 10 years out of date if not more. Expect "two steps forward, three steps back" types of releases and deployments with constant needs for hotfixes. Expect, if you are in a senior position, to constantly reiterate procedures and practices that they forget or don't care about.
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  2838.  @johnfinch621  University education for IT is a joke, even here in the US where many people travel because it's "better." I was the only person actually writing my capstone project which was a gamification app for incentives that some small business guy (who was woefully naive, I never ended up working for him even though he liked me because he literally told me about how dumb his business strategy was) was trying to pitch to other companies, aside from maybe a few lines of code. I can count on one hand which courses from my major matter in the field after 10 years of experience.
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  2839.  @DeeeWWW25  it was not a DV, it was a noise complaint with nosy neighbors complaining it was "DV." they were blatantly wrong since he was alone in the house and calling his girlfriend. they probably had it out for him for some reason or another, as asshat neighbors tend to do. things end badly for cops very, very frequently when they instantly believe everything some random accuser tells them
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  2840. Obviously the situation is much improved if we paint the evil throwaway bad guys as Mexican rather than Mongolian. Right?
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  2841.  @alexbarn3841  But you clearly did. We can all read your comment.
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  2842.  @Xylkamela4ter  "Loving parent" does not mean "helicopter parent" you absolute buffoon, sometimes you should let a kid play with other kids and learn how to socialize or just enjoy some time away from the parent.
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  2843.  @jojomakes  He could have just... not gone in the pool and watched? What is it about you people that makes you want to lie and exaggerate just to win an argument with a stranger online?
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  2844.  @Tech2Rush  It was extremely good if you knew how to aim it. You could shoot it "full auto" but it wouldn't hit a damned thing that way, however, if you controlled your fire it would shoot faster than a Scout while having as much damage and still be accurate, and still kill anyone instantly on a headshot. The only real disadvantage was that it had one of the slowest movement speeds while holding it. AWPs are good, but you still need more finesse to use them properly.
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  2845. Or, in this case, basement pee.
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  2846. It is intentionally perpetuated. Think about how many news stories you see regarding teenage girls being sexually assaulted, especially by migrants in places like Germany. Those guys get away with it, many times. Combine that with the tendency for young girls to completely disregard their own safety and get blackout drunk at a party filled with people they've never met. Now they think it is some kind of "conspiracy of men," when in reality, it is pure recklessness combined with an informal oligarchical conspiracy to reduce the cost of labor.
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  2847. I guess if the bear wasn't hungry, and the kid could climb up a tree or successfully play dead, she'd be fine? But the fact that so many women assume that every man is totally down to just rape kids if they can get away with it is so sad. We'll never reach them, they are convinced they are our enemies for life. Why do they even get married? Even if a man is depraved enough to do that, if they're both stuck in the middle of the woods, that's a lot of energy to waste in a survival situation. The man may get scratched, bitten or injured by the kid, with no medical attention nearby. Just brainless questions for brainless people to share on TikTok.
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  2848. They could have made it ambiguous by calling it Romantic Love Month, or something. That might have actually brought the community together. But the goal was always to divide.
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  2849.  @InfernosReaper  You're talking about point shooting. The idea of point shooting accurately with an AR pistol in that form factor is laughable. Sorry, but you're just as guilty of pedantry as the people you seem to be criticizing.
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  2850.  @InfernosReaper  My point is that if you want to point shoot you should use a real handgun that is designed for carry and self-defense, not what is effectively a novelty firearm designed to give the middle finger to the ATF. This weapon is oversized for a handgun and requires two hands to use. Unlike a handgun it can't be aligned with one hand along the axis of the shooter's eye very quickly, which means that point shooting is very ineffective. Aiming is not required, but alignment still is. Novelty weapons should indeed have sights because all you're going to end up using them for is target shooting anyway. That's their only practical use, is fun and enjoyment. What you're effectively advocating for is the right for this man to be an idiot, damage utilities at the range he is shooting at, and potentially put people in danger (depending on how the range is set up). He has no stock and therefore no frame of reference for his body to use to understand the alignment of his weapon. It is only supported by his arms and wrists, with which the brain is not very effective at understanding the finer points of aligning something like a gun.
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  2851.  @InfernosReaper  My reaction is not knee-jerk, it is very well considered. I took the time to consider the benefits of using an AR pistol with no sights; there aren't any. Yours is not, considering that you apparently aren't even aware that some people use pistols for hunting due to space constraints (i.e. sitting in a tree), hence the need for a round like 500 Magnum. Did you really think that all large caliber handguns were novelty items? Why did you think it was such a big market? The range you are talking about simply does not exist. There is no range that would be completely safe if you allow a person who cannot effectively aim their firearm to put rounds downrange. Something will be damaged. It is quite impressive how you downplay the danger of firearms, but I guess it is not atypical for American gun owners... I say this as another American. The state of firearm usage discipline and education in this country is tragic. Some people are principled about "rights." I get it, but I am a pragmatic. Practically speaking, "rights" don't exist. It's nothing more than a polite agreement that our government won't send thugs to shove automatic weapons down our throats when we do certain things. For most other matters, these "rights" are revoked whenever it is convenient for the one revoking them. The 2A is the exception because it vests us with a means of not allowing that to happen. However, this firearm serves no purpose to that end. It is like the tail of a peacock, there just to look outrageous. Viewing the world through the lens of what "should be" because of "rights" leads to idiotic, zealous and "principled" decision making. Do what is practical. Not what is "right."
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  2852.  @InfernosReaper  And yet here you are, still unable to provide a reason for the sightless AR pistol to exist, let alone be used at a public range. You are convinced of the superiority of your principles, but you are unable to understand why they don't give you a concrete answer in this scenario. This is the problem with principled thinking. You have presupposed the conclusion without any process of critical thought.
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  2853. ​ @InfernosReaper  If your sights aren't configured properly, then the most reasonable thing to do is to "configure" them (this is usually called "zeroing"). Not simply pretend that they don't exist and terrorize your local range officers by accidentally shooting lights and target rails. "It's not [likely] to come up, sure, but neither is needing a 500 magnum instead of a regular carbine to hunt" Depends on the locale. Pistol hunting is a popular option in swamp territory, where no one wants to be at ground level for extended periods of time. I have to say, I don't understand how you don't see that you're purely advocating for the right of a man to be a selfish idiot that makes the lives of facility staff more difficult. This is like stating that men should have the right to piss on public toilet seats. Except that piss has the chance of ricocheting off the toilet seat and maiming or killing someone in the next stall. Sure, it's not technically illegal and is allowed by our Constitution, but you're not going to make any friends by behaving in this manner. Indeed, if I were shooting in the next lane at that range, I would pack up and leave immediately. That's not something a business owner wants to see. Our Constitution gives us these rights because the Founders assumed we would not be idiots. It is not there to condone idiocy.
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  2854.  @jamesJohnson-qe4gw  You can travel a long ways by car fairly cheaply in the US, but to say "he could have been traveling" at 82 is a bit suspect.
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  2855.  @lordoftheflies7024  And... what proof do you have he was forced? The man clearly had a family that loves him. Why would he need to work?
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  2856.  @kingcosworth2643  Those aren't pants, those are basically assless chaps. Either the range she was at gave no fucks at all, or she changed in the range once she got in.
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  2857. @vinncubus4628 The irony of someone who claims to be more tolerant using the deaths of 21 children to push "muh globalist shill is better than your globalist shill" is peak comedy You are like a black ant fighting red ants. Rise above, recognize that the conflict you are trying to fight is pointless, and focus on the issues that matter.
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  2858. it's a passing remark, who the fuck jumps on someone for pointing out that your call out was obvious? if i were playing any game with cooldowns like Dota 2 and someone told me "your ult is off cooldown" i would also most likely be slightly annoyed by that. the sword cuts both ways, you can accuse her of having an attitude but this guy is a douche for stringing it out into a whole argument and pretending like this is some kind of deep window into her psyche. everyone who does not shut the fuck up and focus on the game is responsible. you're not going to win the game by tilting your own teammates, complete retard mindset
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  2859.  @siuchaos2606  most likely on accident? not that hard to imagine as a very popular internet personality
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  2860.  @svendays  whats not? you didn't indicate which of my posts you replied to.
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  2861. @steelgreyed Love the Marvin Martian reference there.
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  2862. Wow, that makes the dog seem even larger.
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  2863.  @terrybuckley2850  I have a girl Aussie who is the opposite -- doesn't seem to like other women too much...
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  2864.  @eddiewillers1  Indeed there is. HR practices it every day when they vet people for hiring.
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  2865.  @fluffypink6unny  That's the custom in east Asia, to wear a mask if you are the one who is sick so your fluids are only exposed to yourself. That's a key difference to how the practice is applied here. The belief is that everyone wears the mask because it will prevent them from possibly being sick when people breathe in their general vicinity. That's ridiculous.
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  2866. It's the best successor to SWAT 4 we're going to get in terms of storytelling and strategy
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  2867.  @jonahelliot4241  They aren't 1 to 1 with any human culture, neither were Tolkien's orcs. They often have Mongol aesthetic themes (namely in clothing/armor designs) but that's to evoke the fact that they are the exterior threat, the enemy horde coming to burn and pillage your lands. If you want allegories and satire we have a setting for that. It's called Warhammer Fantasy.
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  2868.  @bobhope5114  Because the moon is literally a barren white rock of little to no interest.
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  2869.  @Plethora_of_Paucity  Mars has an atmosphere and climate that is bad, but closer to Earth's than any other planet.
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  2870.  @however-yh2jy  many criminals have sympathy for abused children because they themselves were abused as children. just because someone's moral compass is erratic or irrational doesn't mean it's nonexistent
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  2871.  @flabbergast_se  Did you read my comments? I'm arguing that no sane group of infantrymen would sit on top of a tank when they come under fire. Not the opposite. Other people have suggested that infantrymen sit on top of tanks while under fire. This isn't just good doctrine, it's common sense and basic survival instinct. If machinegun bullets whiz by your head and you're on top of a giant vehicle with 100mm of armor surrounding it, would you rather sit on top of it or duck behind it?
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  2872.  @Guerrilla727  You might have forgotten but there was that one time when the capitol building was stormed. Remember that? No?
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  2873.  @slashing_S  You can't believe you have to talk about college-level pharmacology and chemistry with people above the age of 21? Wow, you must be a super genius.
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  2874.  @slashing_S  Oh, so you're a genius? Name every molecule.
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  2875. @slashing_S  You... you said wind twice. Also you forgot water and heart. Go Planet!
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  2876.  @awesomedudeunboxing2923  Dude, Uvalde goes way beyond "a mistake." It was endemic department corruption stemming from the very top. Something that plagues departments all over the nation. The chief told his whole department to stand down and not let any parents in for about an hour. It was not until the feds, who overrode their authority, arrived that action was taken. Luckily, the bigger the department is the harder it is for it to be corrupt to this degree because there is more accountability, but this is a problem with many, many small towns all over the US.
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  2877. What they're not aware of is that people continue to say every word they hate outside of their presence. We will just keep getting better at that. The US still has a long way to go before men are showing up to your door with listening devices to see if you're saying "retarded" in the privacy of your own home.
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  2878. Dude is just a black Bill Nye at this point. It's really pathetic.
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  2879.  @HCG  Risk management doesn't mean you just ignore the risks that are unlikely and simply hope they don't happen to you. Carrying self-defense weaponry to stop a violent crime would be totally unreasonable by your definition, but it's a risk factor that can be controlled by an individual so individuals will control that risk. Also, it only needs to happen 1 day of your life for it to change or end your life forever. Taking an hour or two out of one evening in a year to check the candy you or your kid gets from Halloween isn't that much investment to manage such a risk
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  2880.  @maeson676  Because the blurred thumbnail evokes the imagination and makes one wonder if the content is worse than it really is.
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  2881. How about doing what everyone else does when they buy a new gun and RTFM? I'm an engineer and like many I find reading manuals tedious, but an exception has to be made for devices that can kill people when pointed the wrong way.
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  2882.  @Pugofkin  Blindness is overcome on a regular basis. Do you really think all blind people just sit around being miserable sacks of shit? "Overcoming" something doesn't mean magically making it go away. The other side of the coin you're handing out is that blind people are infantile losers who can't do anything themselves. It's a veiled insult; it's patronizing.
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  2883.  @Pentium100MHz  I like it when people just act like Harris being picked as the presidential candidate wasn't itself a scandal. Jack-in-the-box candidate pops out of nowhere, UNELECTED, 3 months before the fucking election and people just pretend like this doesn't matter. Not only that but they pissed away their incumbency advantage.
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  2884.  @-AxisA-  It's alcohol with a different, unique intoxicant mixed in from the herbs used in the process.
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  2885. Either they got the cheetos from some dispensary or the dumb kid who knowingly brought them sprinkled weed shake on it because she thought it would make them high, and it didn't but gave them an upset stomach.
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  2886. Depends on the platform. Some companies, like Sony, can and have deleted purchased games from their customers' libraries before. It's disgusting.
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  2887.  @Andrew-fy9wu  They've controlled banking in many areas for a very long time because it was seen as sinful by Christians. It was really in large part Christians' own fault for self-imposing this morality and then getting upset when Jews filled the market gap. Having political power isn't just about wearing a crown, it's also about controlling production and the flow of money.
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  2888.  @NinjaBehindTheScene  Uh... Yes? Do you honestly think freedom of speech was better in those times? In medieval times your neighbors would look at you funny if you said the Lord's name in vain, or without making the sign of the cross. You were more likely to be lynched by your neighbors for making such threats long before any judges arrived to decide on it. The catch was, we didn't have the internet to make ourselves look stupid to the whole planet, and there were less authorities around to enforce the law.
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  2889. The RMAH utterly ruined the pace of the game. If you didn't buy gear in Act 3, it was a shitshow. Gear drop rates were terrible and designed to incentivize using it. What's the point of playing Diablo if you can't get good loot? But with this game, no need to worry, because the entire game was designed with MTX in mind
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  2890.  @millbanter5987  Practicing martial arts. I first heard the "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" axiom from my jiu-jitsu instructor. I would imagine it also applies to any dangerous tool trade like say, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc.
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  2891. Nah that was the main quest he had been neglecting all this time to do side quests.
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  2892.  @Gurkenpudding  I thought the ones without the notches were MP38s, I've also seen it written as "MP38/40"
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  2893.  @jimmcneal5292  Libertarianism and the "free market" in general never envisioned a GLOBAL market or complete freedom of movement. It is utterly asinine to expect competing with Indian, Chinese or other peoples with low standards of living to make sense. It will only drag us down to their standard of living in the long term. The funniest part about this is that it will not work in the very long term. Eventually they will run out of poor people to import and everyone will have or demand a decent standard of living. They're just kicking the can down the road, typical yearly investment strategies.
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  2894. The typical period before a 401k contribution becomes available to a new employee is 90 days... the guy had been there 22 years. I'd be surprised if he missed out on any benefits. The termination was still blatantly discriminatory however.
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  2895.  @koniko169  agreed about the perp, and i would have even said the camera guy was doing a valuable service if he kept his camera trained on the perp the entire time, however as soon as the perp ran to his vehicle he immediately went to harass the two old guys because they wore MAGA hats so that automatically makes them "affiliated," as if being in the same school would mean that you support a school shooter's actions. it's deranged behavior
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  2896. Try to imagine how bad this game's combat would be if it was in real time though. Like, how are you going to move an explosive barrel into position when the enemies are moving 100% of the time?
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  2897. Crocodile: I have the strongest jaw muscles on the planet This dog: We'll see about that, bitch The mailman: Help
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  2898.  @cattysplat  Sleep deprivation is pretty bad. However, this is just rumor. Don't believe random tweets you see online.
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  2899.  @bubblezovlove7213  You can just use ziplock bags really, I keep treats I carry around in a ziplock bag and any time my dog hears plastic crinkling she checks to see if I'm going to give her a treat.
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  2900.  @DJWeapon8  I think you're giving the people who make these diversity casting decisions too much credit. They aren't actually principled. In truth they don't give a damn about representation, the struggles of the oppressed, intersectional politics and so on and so forth. They think "Oh let's just make a Black Elf guy. Black people like that sort of thing, we'll get posts on Twitter." That is literally as deep as it goes, and for the life of me I cannot fathom why anyone would celebrate laziness, regardless of ethnicity or political stance. Imagine a scene where the writers, director(s) and perhaps some of the cast are in a room brainstorming things, then there's a knock on the door and a producer walks in. "Hey how's the movie coming along? Good? Good, say are there any original characters for this series?" "Yeah we've got an elf guy who marries a human woman, you know, to give a more grounded perspective on the plot events" "Hey sounds great. You should make him Black." "Sorry?" "You should make him Black. It will be good for optics. I've got another meeting to run to so I'll see you all later. Keep making the magic!" finger guns As far as I'm aware this is how a staggeringly high number of terrible decisions are made in the creative process. This extends to video games as well.
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  2901. @MsJellyBellyLove  The rich already pay over half of the money that government receives in taxes. Elaborate. While you're at it, explain how you plan to ban lobbying, when lobbyists will lobby against that. I'm guessing the response will be "benevolent dictator" like every other authoritarian who has a plan.
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  2902. ​ @SakuraAvalon Or perhaps a First Kitchen, as the case may be.
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  2903. ​@pietrosmusi6348 GManLives has always been a shill who pretends he isn't and whines like a little baby if you bother to point that out.
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  2904. Telling someone to empty a gun before handing it to you is pointless, you always check the gun and assume it was loaded unless it has the action locked open and no magazine in it. Doesn't matter how close your friends and family are, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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  2905. ​ @franciscoguerra8984 yep, although they were restricted to air rifles if I remember right
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  2906. I lost 20 IQ points scrolling through this thread. I refuse to believe any of you are real thinking human beings
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  2907.  @bflogal18  That's weird. I don't remember Trump ever quoting Stalin.
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  2908.  @jeffreybarker357  No, you're a person who understands that the logistics of production isn't the same for software.
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  2909. There's a frame right around 0:38 where you can actually see the glass rippling with the force of the metal fragment's impact right before it breaks. It's a good thing it was at a very oblique angle to the glass when it hit, or it might have gone all the way through.
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  2910.  @paulhoughton1691  "Intent to carry an illegal weapon?" The fuck kind of bullshit charge is that? His intent was to come out alive during a violent riot situation while providing first aid... If you are a felon and you are prepared to attack and kill someone, you should be prepared to die. Simple as that. By your logic if I decide to buy a health insurance policy, I have an "intent to be injured."
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  2911. ​ @showaker4755 Fun fact, the entire reason you sling the phrase "conspiracy theorist" around like a pejorative is thanks to a CIA psyop called COINTELPRO. You won't look it up because you're afraid I'm right.
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  2912. I guess I can empathize with not wanting to play a healer and being coerced into it, but most game designers do a good job with the healer classes. If they aren't fun, the entire game community collapses because nobody wants to heal
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  2913. it's also very dumb she could easily be charged for this
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  2914. @CB-lw7ty It's not fake, she's just fat. That's what happens to fat people, they float. She was scared because she didn't know how to swim and thought she would be stuck in the lake. I don't think she was necessarily afraid that she would drown. I think she took the streamer at her word and thought she would swim with her, which would at least allow her to be pushed back to shore.
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  2915. I can't help but think about Diogenes on the regular now because he was a successful critic of society and academia whereas today we have so many failed and dishonest critics of society and academia.
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  2916. St. Louis isn't exactly known for its stellar corruption record.
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  2917.  @MrConredsX  As a guy who has beaten Demon's Souls at least 3 times, what the heck is hard mode?
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  2918. It will just be killed somewhere else. No animal can be allowed to live after it has tasted human flesh
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  2919. ​ @digitaldevil7522  Oh come on. Use your common sense.
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  2920.  @digitaldevil7522  I could ask you the same question.
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  2921.  @jakekinder2351  the joke is referring to people who are averse to anything that might resemble politics in their escapism, even if it doesn't directly relate to topics constantly talked about on mainstream media in other words, he was making fun of the type of people that call everything "woke"
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  2922. You mean loli? What are you, scared of a 4-letter word?
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  2923.  @FlavorsomeMusic  I've never been hit with anything for saying loli. The fear is overblown.
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  2924. ​ @terpman That's a generic statement, it would have been made no matter who got stabbed. You're reading way too deeply into it.
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  2925. ​@Breezy-lr8ck Not sure if you're aware but this isn't The Running Man or other dystopian films. Prison isn't a giant yard where weapons are air dropped in and inmates are expected to murder each other.
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  2926.  @hotshotx1598  That is literally the reason to own a gun, so a person with a physical disadvantage cannot be taken advantage of by brutes. This is how we got away from the middle ages where men who had swung swords around their entire lives could boss you around because you had never held anything more dangerous than a pitchfork. Go back to the middle ages. I hope your ancestors were knights for your sake.
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  2927.  @cynthia-jo1zz  Hey, if you want to let China in your back door because it's "fair," be my guest.
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  2928.  @archigoel  Sadly electric just isn't there yet, the battery makes any electric vehicle absurdly heavy compared to its gasoline counterpart, and the energy efficiency is simply not there. ICEs are still way more efficient and long lasting.
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  2929.  @marikothecheetah9342  Wouldn't it be the US getting into Poland's ass, in this case? Or do you mean that Polish officials like to suck up to Americans? Sorry, here in the US "crawling up someone's ass" has two different connotations. Either you are causing them a lot of trouble, or you are trying to impress them so they like you more.
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  2930.  @Dennan  Asmon would clean up very well if he bothered to. But bothering to simply isn't in his vocabulary.
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  2931.  @djGAMEboi  It is very farfetched. What you see when you see an AI talking to you isn't a result of actual thought processes, it is quite literally mimicry. It can be a good imitation but these programs are incapable of original thought. They train themselves on how to respond based only on what humans have said in the past and repeating it in different permutations. We've only been able to achieve this facsimile of intelligence by asking supercomputers "What if this happens?" trillions of times until it memorizes all of those answers. Then it just replays those answers back to you when you tell it something. It's sort of like saying, "We can build a jet engine by tying a billion steam engines together." No, you might achieve propulsion equivalent to that jet engine, but you're just throwing more resources at the wall, not making technological breakthrough.
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  2932. ​ @Rybz  The answers aren't really original though. They're just permutations of things that humans have done before.
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  2933.  @Rybz  I think you're equating two different things here. The way an AI does it is like a new montage from pictures that already exist. The way a human does it is a more organic process that involves creating a new concept from existing ideas.
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  2934.  @19TheFallen  and we're always the crazy conspiracy theorists until anything that might be politically advantageous happens to a republican or conservative, then IMMEDIATELY they peddle the most INSANE conspiracy theories you've seen since the HARP weather control theory or moon landing "truthers." dude's rifle was still warm when it was already decided this was trump's fault
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  2935. Mr. Digger, Nick would be a fantastic name for your son.
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  2936. IN EIGHTEEN TWELVE WE TOOK A LITTLE TRIP
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  2937. There's no point in risking your life if you have a 1% success rate you dingus.
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  2938.  @TheVivi13  The only truly correct answer is "I did all of them to see all the content," and not doing that is just a fault of available free time or the other parts of the game that might have bored you. This is like skipping all the parts of the A Song of Ice and Fire books that have Cersei because if you read those it means you approve of incest.
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  2939.  @eldenvedetta635  I'll pray for you
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  2940. @eldenvedetta635  well I'm certainly not going to now because fuck scrolling through 159 comments
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  2941. ​​ @eat_ze_bugs That is actually not true. China cannot feed its population without importing food. Most people forget we are an agricultural powerhouse. They import tons of soy and pork from us.
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  2942. The original game wasn't even a good Souls clone. I'm still amazed somebody greenlit a remake for it.
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  2943. Shooting ranges exist in places other than America.
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  2944.  @HaloDude557  You're posting on one right now.
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  2945. Or maybe he was a mentally ill suicidal guy who wanted to die which was why he did everything he did to begin with. There's no way he thought this would end well.
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  2946. WOTR has both options and its combat encounters are objectively inferior, in my opinion. It's clear where all Larian's effort went.
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  2947.  @Luke_SkywaIker  it comes off as extremely patronizing if you have an IQ above 90. so uh, yeah, you can go ahead and assume you are talking to a very stupid person, but it's a gamble
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  2948.  @ninahoffman7199  Not true, pit bulls can do this just from being inbred. I will never understand society's obsession with continuing a line of dogs bred for pit fighting.
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  2949. Reading this comment thread is weird because I thought Diamond is Unbreakable was one of the weaker arcs (at least the way it is represented in the anime, I haven't read the manga). Maybe I should re-watch it, it's been years and my taste has changed. It did have an amazing OP and ED though. It's just kinda slow and not as dynamic. One of the episodes is about going to eat Italian food for example and IIRC, the whole arc takes place in one Japanese small town. Of course as far as anime goes in general, it was still quite entertaining, but I always thought it was one of the weaker arcs in Jojo.
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  2950. ​ @bwillsskates2638  Sounds like you just don't like shounen battle anime very much. Which is fine and totally understandable, but from my experience most shounen battle is even more boring than Jojo. The thing that makes it appealing is how the characters use their powers in creative ways to win instead of "I have more fighting spirit or I'm stronger so I win."
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  2951. I don't think he was internal exactly. This was a commander of a mercenary company contracted by Putin.
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  2952.  @actnatural9261  Why would I give up? Unlike you, I believe this is the only chance of existence I have. I'm treating it with respect. Meanwhile you have the rapture clowns who can't wait for the Antichrist to dismantle humanity because "they'll get theirs." It's incredibly petty.
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  2953.  @devontoombs4141  Pretty sure Oklahoma allows a third party to defend a loved one from violence
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  2954.  @BryanLu0  Then he's bad at communicating. Piracy is illegal. Doing illegal things is bad for you. This is not hard to understand.
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  2955.  @StopListenThink  Nah it's definitely embarrassing for her. People might ask her about this stuff now that it's blown up. Dumb broad said she didn't "want to cause a scene." Too late for that now
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  2956.  @8Biit  It amazes me how stupid people can be that they don't see the patterns in parenting. If you're extremely dogmatic as a parent, one of your kids is bound to be rebellious just because they identify your dogma with being an obnoxious, unlikable person. Happens nearly every time. She placed herself in a situation where she was surrounded by white people because she didn't want to hear about how bad whites were all the time from her irrationally frustrated family.
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  2957. People like this exist, it's called narcissism and they are mentally incapable of viewing an act from others' perspectives. The intelligent ones just know that bad things will happen to them if they don't pretend
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  2958.  @ubermenschen3636  ... You're not much of an ubermensch if you can't Google the definition of words you don't know.
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  2959. Even worse is when someone is forced into the profession because literally nobody else wants to do it. Then the moment he's taken a single criminal's life, his whole community treats him like a different person and he has to be an executioner for the rest of his life.
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  2960. What? I don't think you know what that word means.
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  2961.  @MrJustin259  Please don't tell me you're one of those people. Japan went to the moon just this year.
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  2962.  @GG_Booboo  Cool, you have a few hundred million to spend on this vanity project to satisfy your personal standards? Also did you forget about Russia, India and Japan?
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  2963.  @Angelito_Noreaga  "Centralized government planning would allow for workers who work in the fossil fuel and coal industry to transition into these new renewable energy jobs." Oh well it sounds so simple when you put it like that, let's just change our entire government, surely that won't result in any strife or hardship.
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  2964. ​ @lylejohnston4125 I don't think you know what inflation is
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  2965.  @lylejohnston4125  That makes two of us
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  2966. That's clearly not a revolver. Why not just use a less-specific term like handgun if you don't know what you're talking about? Also that guy can't even reholster his gun, he'll probably end up shooting himself or a fellow officer due to negligence.
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  2967. I had a roommate in college who would randomly say "RETURN THE SLAB..."
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  2968.  @kaynkayn9870  you would be charged, but you would likely win in court, assuming you survived... of course the survival part is key here, and the cops would likely keep their jobs
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  2969.  @thezpn  you really don't know shit about the history of congress if you think "waving a gun around" is unthinkable. there have been all-out brawls, with canes and fireplace tools, in our house of congress. there have been many prior demonstrations involving guns in congress
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  2970. I feel bad for both of them. The other guy is either his friend helping him make a fake outrage video, gay, or on steroids. Any way you slice it, it's a sad situation.
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  2971.  @Beaneabean  There's two huge flaws in your daring bid for equality: Boobs.
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  2972. I feel like the game was telling him to go back to the kitchen with "The Secret of Baking."
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  2973. It's a great story if you want to look it up, involves conspiracy with the scorekeepers and such to keep his cheating a secret.
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  2974. There is no large brewery in America that produces good beer. Beer I can drink without wishing that I was dead, sure. But if it crosses state lines more than 5 times, it's almost definitely shit.
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  2975. I guess your dad has never flown on Lufthansa. She could easily pass for an attendant there
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  2976. Die Ueberpizza kommt
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  2977. cringe > super embarrassing > embarrassing
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  2978.  @LUSkyhawk  doesn't require a lot of brainpower to realize that a sniper shouldn't leave his post to pursue other duties. i'm not going to don the mantle of every other argument from every two bit idiot you've ever debated online, sorry
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  2979. ​ @gerbentorfs4178 yep, she definitely engaged in that research purely for academic reasons, nothing at all weird going on here
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  2980.  @smallcatgirl  That's "public relations," marketing shorthand for how people view your brand. Completely different industry.
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  2981.  @BuddyLee23  It would be better in the long term. The public perception of police is at an all time low. Lack of accountability feeds back into that. Make them accountable, people will feel better about the cops, and young people will want to become cops again. If you're a naïve kid who wants to do good by the world, and you become convinced that the cops don't do any good, then you won't become a cop.
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  2982.  @PassengersMusic777  Criminals usually can't pay. The only alternative is to increase their sentence, but then the literal buck would be passed on to the government -- they would still have to pay the victimized bystander on behalf of the criminal.
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  2983.  @Marin3r101  As much as I believe insurance is a scam, it doesn't really make sense for an insurance company to bear the burden of government action. The government is perfectly capable of paying; make them pay. Maybe it will make the police reconsider firing 30 grenades in your place of business. This isn't Iraq, it shouldn't be treated as such. What you're describing is only a band-aid solution to the real problem. That is to say, insurance companies litigating the government. That should not even be necessary to begin with, and only wastes more time and money. Except for that of the greedy lawyers' of course.
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  2984. Well, he's believing the guys in prison, to be fair... I'm speaking from a US perspective, but statistically, most SA claims and reports are simply not acted upon due to lack of evidence. This is what feminists complained about in the late 2000s and early 2010s. That narrative shifted drastically, to instead believing whatever an accuser says at face value. However that type of "listen and believe" prosecution only occurs in extralegal "courts" like college campus arbitration. If someone is in jail for SA in the US, it is because there is generally overwhelming evidence against them.
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  2985. It's also because times are getting harder. That stability is going to be necessary. If the economy collapses, well... one night stands aren't going to come back to provide for you.
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  2986. For some reason I couldn't help but wonder why the lady on the bottom right was staring at her Windows desktop, mouse in hand. Seems like she was daydreaming.
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  2987. Nope, they'll go back to their lives because Xinnie the Pooh gave them smartphones so now they can be rich like Americans.
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  2988.  @IYeleven  It's very much a separated and segregated society. Most of the ones who migrate here are from the upper classes. I've met quite a few that are fine to be around. Then again, I've also worked at an office where one of them shat in the urinal, which closed the men's bathroom on that floor for a while.
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  2989. He was wrong to ask her out on a dinner date instead of something cheaper, but no, if women can work careers, they can pay for a meal. Time to grow up.
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  2990.  @bobviallo4964  It wasn't indoctrination until they added "under God" in the 1950s because "muh Communism." Pledging allegiance to the flag is the basic requirement for being a damned citizen. If you can't stand behind the nation, then you're just a rebel in waiting. You might as well state taxes are extortion. Well, sure, but I hope you have a nice cabin in the woods and plenty of self-sustaining people.
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  2991. There were doctors that were going against the narrative, they were simply silenced as "not real doctors."
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  2992. @dr.rickbooty Because life isn't going to be easy when you leave school, have a diploma, and know nothing. Schools are usually quite flawed. This is a given in nearly every part of the nation. It is also the parents' duty to ensure their children are doing what they need to do to become functioning members of society. Schools aren't day cares, or nannies. I had a class where I had to do no work to pass once. It was a computer science course I took as an elective because my school didn't offer more curricula for CS after sophomore year. I literally sat in the computer lab during normal class hours for the freshmen and sophomores with one other kid (a close friend of mine) who took that same elective and we just tuned out the teacher giving lessons on stuff we already knew. I used all that class time to work on projects and learn how to write code using different technologies. I can't empathize with people who don't care about their future. You will only spend a minority of your life in school and you don't have to be a mathematician to realize this.
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  2993.  @kritsadventures  yeah it's so trendy to think that exposing someone's address to everyone with the ham-handed implication that the reader should commit a crime is bad. just a fad. tomorrow we'll go back to doxxing and vandalizing/stalking each other again like we normally do also, think about what this actually means if you're right and jackfilms is a mentally unstable person trying to harass sssniperwolf. think about what happens to her dumb teenage fans who go to his house and mess with him in an attempt to gain clout. do you think that is going to end well for them?
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  2994. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
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  2995.  @debbylou5729  I enjoy having my testicles so I respect the feelings of dogs that weigh more than some adult humans. Nothing woke about common sense.
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  2996.  @lastmanstanding7155  You can probably find it on an internet archive page somewhere if you dig hard enough.
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  2997.  @thatonenippleclamplyingaro3612  It's less of a race thing and more of a "foreigner" thing. If you're a first generation immigrant then you might not know all the laws or how to resolve a situation like this legally. Maybe that's what they were trying to take advantage of, but they probably just didn't care either way. They sensed weakness when she agreed to a cash only payment, that was a terrible mistake on her part.
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  2998.  @ÆVAXcontent  all cyberpunk media is supposed to be depressing
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  2999.  @AceStrife  no, it's an unrelated story set in the same universe. it sheds light on some world building stuff but doesn't spoil the video game at all
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  3000.  @dontmindme8941  You don't do yourself any services for a position by lying about what happened, it only serves to undermine you if someone disagrees with your point. Nobody needs to lie about what happened by saying that the guy didn't back up first. What actually happened is already bad enough to throw the cop in jail as we can now see from what he's been charged with.
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  3001.  @LabTech41  The worst sin it commits is being long-winded and boring. If I were the protag here, I would be losing my patience. This guy's supposed to be a mechanic and trying to put a work order in is like pulling teeth. They could have said: "You the guy?" "Yeah." "Okay, can you install <flux capacitating dildo gadget>?" "I could, but only if you get me <turbo enabled exhaust onahole>." Instead it's drawn out by ums and uhs and pointless back and forth between extremely boring sounding people.
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  3002. I was going to say before the Hindenburg clip came up: "ah, so I see she's figured out how to make explosive water"
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  3003. Ow, the edge.
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  3004. ​ @LordOfSweden Most TERFs are indeed super woke liberals. It's in the name. However it's only logical to exclude men from the fight for women's rights.
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  3005.  @badwolf3618  The internet is a unique beast that will likely make or break our species. It's impossible to overstate the impact it has had on civilization. Yes, sex did exist on display in societies before now. But it wasn't instantly available, in every flavor and fetish, to everyone.
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  3006.  @Kamamura2  It's a metaphor, you pedant. Most people have cognitive decline towards the ends of their lives. The statement is about strength of character, not physical strength. The man was not writing Dragon Ball Z lore.
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  3007.  @jg7038  he got a fat kickback from the private prison he's being sent to, no doubt
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  3008. Yes it's almost as if these people believe that "evil people" just pop into existence fully grown with no previous life experiences. There is no conceivable way that the environment or other people could cause someone to become evil. Unless they're a criminal in the US, then they're never evil and always misunderstood people that were failed by society, who deserve a second chance. It's nonstop cognitive dissonance and nothing makes sense.
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  3009.  @VPWedding  Dude, you're such a tool. Both political parties are pro-corporate. Do you really think that corporations are so stupid as to completely overlook the only other political party that holds significant power in the United States? Good Lord.
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  3010.  @VPWedding  I'm not advocating a solution, I'm advocating not adding to the problem by calling out random people based on a bullshit political label when both labels end in nearly equivalently terrible outcomes. You'll have far more success talking about individual issues. You know, like people used to do instead of playing team sports.
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  3011. Reminder that as bad as it is this game runs at 30 fps, Pokemon SV runs at like, 12.
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  3012. ​@julianharvey1738 The ironic thing is that he and OP arrive at the same conclusion -- the solutions to these wider problems are outside of the classroom, and therefore pumping money into yet another bureaucratic agency for education is not the answer. It's dishonest that you don't acknowledge that and paint him as an enemy, presumably because he has an R rather than a D next to his name.
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  3013. I think they meant an appropriate crime to charge the deceased suspect with.
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  3014. ​ @nerolmars3701 IIRC, there are a lot of war hawks in Russia's administration.
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  3015.  @Delgen1951  The worst is when they wonder why the US can't just do things like their nation which is like 1/10th the size and population.
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  3016.  @maximilianbeyer5642  The electoral college isn't objectively bad. It is what prevents New York City and Los Angeles from running the entire damn nation for us. If it wasn't for the EC, big cities would be tyrants over the whole nation
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  3017. This is meta-comedy. The type of shit that only comedians would think is funny. I love this stuff, Sam Hyde used to do it in his early days.
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  3018.  @theworldbreaker  UH OH STINKY ENTERTAINER THAT HAD BIG MEDIA STORY, MUST EXPRESS REVULSION
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  3019.  @furtfurt  I highly doubt it, no company wants this kind of publicity even if they're technically not to blame. The only thing this accomplishes for them is potentially scaring away property owners who may wish to host.
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  3020.  @furtfurt  But they got those bad tenants because they used Airbnb in the first place. This story proves that Airbnb has shady tenants using it.
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  3021. Imagine paying hundreds a semester in fees for the privilege of doing this.
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  3022. You don't need to be "edgy" to not like people in general. That's called being a cynic, it's a pretty common mindset. Or was, before the internet gave every extroverted optimist a megaphone.
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  3023. human viewers intentionally ask questions which cause an algorithm to say naughty things Twitch: clearly this is the algorithm's fault, you are now banned, and the innocent viewers will stay to say naughty things in the future I think these guys really drank the Kool-Aid when that one delusional Google engineer claimed his chatbot was sapient. It's not, none of them are. They're just pattern recognition algorithms.
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  3024. I laughed my ass off, I don't normally see the term "slam pig" outside of 4chan's gif board. Personally I would have called her fatty knockoff T-Swift.
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  3025.  @typingcat  Pet animals don't even compare to maintaining a human partner.
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  3026. It's a grift or possibly even a money laundering scheme. Much like modern art sales. The Clintons did something similar. They were paid handsome amounts by warlords, usually African, to "speak publicly." The payment wasn't really for them to speak publicly. It was a bribe so they would receive favorable political treatment.
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  3027.  Interlace  Everyone will probably dislike this comment, but personally I think it would be great if we'd introduce target shooting classes into schools as electives. We'd be a lot better served if people actually knew what they were legislating against, even if it didn't change their mind afterward. The current legislation is, at best, completely ineffective at its stated goal, which is to prevent dangerous people from owning firearms.
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  3028.  Interlace  "we need less gun awareness, not more." You realize there is twice as many guns as people in the U.S. right? The cat is out of the bag you condescending dunce, and you aren't going to get those guns back without a lot of violence. Stop treating people like children and let them know so they don't look like this fool in the video. Time to adapt to the situation that exists, not the one that MIGHT exist if we fuck around and let a ton of people die first.
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  3029.  @2thezaza  asmon is just a dumbass who gives bad takes on the spot sometimes, i would not say he is nearly as safe as charlie is
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  3030.  @vinsvendetta3420  350 billion dollars is nothing to you? Oh wait, I forgot, Dems spend our tax money like it's nothing. So it is in fact, nothing to you.
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  3031.  @vyros.3234  Quickest way to become a racist is to live in a poor neighborhood in America.
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  3032.  @nishantchoudhary5497  run the fuck away, primarily. there's no reason to fight this fight if you enjoy living
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  3033. The fact that these people have joined the movement is a good thing you silly people. The policies have not changed. If you want to thump the Bible in public school, I'm sorry, but the Founders would be disappointed in you and you don't fully grasp the First Amendment. Morality is taught by parents, not schools, in America. Otherwise, the federal government and Overton window has shifted so far left that these people have now joined the movement because it's gotten too insane.
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  3034.  @KaBuRaMaE  So does every organic chemistry student
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  3035.  @-imperatorinsomnia-6163  Ah yes, another Euroclown here to misinterpret the Constitution and its founders for us. Thanks Euroclown, we couldn't have done it without you. Humble reminder: you're talking about the guy who privately owned a warship.
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  3036. ​@promethiac2641 get a hobby pal, extremely vague comments don't suit you
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  3037.  @BringDHouseDown  That isn't a modern thing at all, to be real with you. Back when a woman's sexual market value was completely destroyed if she had sex out of wedlock, women who did so would do anything to avoid their secret being discovered. This was, in many cases, why witch hunts/trials would occur, and there was even a special death penalty for women who killed their babies because it happened so often. It was drowning. If you look through historical documents, like the diary of executioner Franz Schmidt, you'll realize a lot of women killed their children to avoid the stigma. Nowadays, however, they are completely free of that stigma, and there are very few excuses for abortion.
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  3038. Piccolo is Handsome Squidward
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  3039.  @Michael_Hunt  Driving is a privilege buddy, we can't all spend thousands of dollars to join the Premium Citizens Whose Lives Matter More club
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  3040.  @S1deshowRob  I have come close a few times, but luckily, not yet.
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  3041. Or maybe he just didn't give a shit? I mean shit fellas, you posted like 20 times critiquing this guy's slight misquote. Who's the real loser here?
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  3042. @just a person's response is the embodiment of problems with many people. They can't do anything but think in extremes. Human judgment is not capable of determining whether you are fit to live with a person from a 10 minute interaction. You have probably swiped left on at least one soul mate and don't even know it.
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  3043. Not hard to imagine... it's usually what foreigners do when they come here
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  3044. Funny that she chose a beauty salon, a business for and likely owned by women, to break into and use without permission. Sorry, but it seems that women are always the shittiest people to other women. The two cops just seal it.
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  3045.  @Александр911-х6л  yes... in the 1960s... when they were trying to dunk on the USSR...
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  3046.  @ff2154  You kidding? Purses are way easier to steal from than your pocket. The term "cutpurse" exists for a reason.
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  3047.  @moneybags999  Funny you posted that with your username. Are you a cutpurse trying to astroturf?
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  3048.  @sadlobster1  I wouldn't say the game is "great." It is a cornerstone of RPG culture, sure, but quite outdated and is burdened by way too many sacred cows. Me and my group got bored of it years ago. Funnily enough, none of these activists play WHFRP. Now there's a game for activism if I've ever seen one. Actually roleplaying activism that is; I hope nobody changes it. But you can be a working class revolutionary trying to tear down the decadent noble class.
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  3049.  @sadlobster1  I don't know that many RPGs which are real world style war games. The most popular ones I know of are Call of Cthulhu, which is early modern detective style with (obviously) Lovecraft, Shadowrun which is near future cyberpunk with D&D races and magic injected in because why not, 40k RPGs which are sci-fi as you say, and WHFRP which is also fantasy but more renaissance themed instead of high medieval themed. But if you care to look there's a practically inexhaustible number of other fantasy games. Legend of the Five Rings is another big one based on feudal Japan. The Dark Eye is very popular in Germany and I think it got a new release recently. You can LARP in any game; it adds flavor to any game at all. That is beside the point. The point of buying a rulebook is to take burden away from the GM in trying to make the game fun. You could theoretically start with nothing and make your own game, but that's monumental levels of effort. Most gameplay decisions in D&D rules lack impact and the game rules don't help you with trying to make them impactful. Casting a spell, for example, never results in any mishaps or interesting side effects unless you're wearing armor in which case you get the most boring result -- you lose your spell and nothing happens. Furthermore, mage characters are completely useless when they run out of spells thanks to Vancian magic, another sacred cow long overstaying its welcome. In many other systems, like Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, WHFRP or 40k RPGs, you can cast magic at any time as much as you want but it has significant inherent risk factors. These are usually a combination of social stigma, damage to one's mental state or stamina, unexpected side effects due to the caster's inability to adequately control magic power, etc. This makes the world feel much more alive and causes you to think a little bit more about whether you should cast magic missile for the 3rd time today because it avoids all to-hit rolls. The decision is also connected to roleplaying within the world and not just tactical metagame "should I waste my spell slot or save it" level decision-making. There are other examples I could go into but I don't want to write a giant essay about why I don't like D&D, just give an example of why one may prefer other systems and to let you know there are other fantasy options out there.
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  3050.  @tylerp5259  Cyberpunk is a genre. The game is just titled after it. I wasn't mentioning WHFRP as a war game either.
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  3051.  @tylerp5259  I could have worded that better upon reflection, you are correct. However when I said "the ones I know of" I meant RPGs in general not war-oriented games.
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  3052.  @geomancer6894  It was a completely obvious distinction until about 8-10 years ago.
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  3053.  @sean4060  Strange time to fulfil your cuckold fetish.
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  3054. ​ @michaels8607  The second request is easily doable, the first should be easily doable but I haven't looked into that use case specifically.
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  3055. ​ @edwardlenovo3240 It is naive to assume you know all illicit entry devices and methods because they change every day. Perhaps there will be physical keyloggers soon that a criminal could install on the underside of your phone screen so they could get your password through position of finger touches. Match that exact pattern a few times, and you can easily deduce that it's the passcode. Just one thing I came up with off the top of my head.
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  3056.  @bgmount1439  Spiders are mostly very relaxed creatures. They just spin their web and wait. They can be very useful, every farmer knows the value of having a spider or two in the barn. The wolf spider shown here is a rare exception, they're hunters.
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  3057. ​ @fine432 You're right. That was extremely insensitive. He should have posted, "Sum ting wong? Why you sue?"
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  3058. Every fucking time. They do not have functioning frontal lobes.
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  3059.  @mistermysteryman107  real racism does exist, let's not kid ourselves. middle class urbanite southerners probably think it doesn't but believe me there are some stupid motherfuckers out there, elsewhere. even I've experienced it, and I'm white
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  3060.  @rclark777  Just sail the seven seas
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  3061.  @Anthony-vh6ef  You're mentally deficient buddy. Your life is your own responsibility, not anyone else's. No 2A advocate wants to be a cop. In fact, many of us hate cops.
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  3062. They also wait 3 months to get diagnosis and treatment for serious illnesses like cancer. Weird how they always leave that part out​ @theredhunter4997 
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  3063.  @someone-ji2zb  With a few simple quests? Lol, I assume that was autocorrect, but I couldn't help but imagine a first date that goes like this "Wow, you look great. Nice to finally meet you in person." "Hello, adventurer. If you wish to get inside my pants, first you'll need to kill 8 ferocious boars and find Mankrik's wife."
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  3064.  @quesoblanco444  You're telling me this woman should continue to exist when she could kill someone's baby at a moment's notice?
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  3065.  @chatta718  My man over here throwing out "pilgrim" like it's an insult.
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  3066. ​ @chatta718  You have internalized your own inferiority as a complex which is why you can't help but refer to "my people" (your words, not mine) with honorary terms while trying to disparage them. Stop hating yourself and learn to succeed.
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  3067. Same, but the idea that Germany will leave the EU is naive. They are the defacto leader of the EU.
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  3068.  @Ninjaananas  Judging by your substance-less post, you probably don't. AfD would be only moderately right-wing here in the states, why pretend like they're some dark, secret organization?
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  3069.  @juangalton999  Every society needs the ability to exclude people who break its social contract, otherwise it would not be a society at all. These people believe in authoritarianism, which is at odds with most Western social contracts. Real "tolerance" is a myth, at least when it comes to ideology. You are falsely equating banning others on the basis of ideas and words (what happened to Tomazos) with banning others on the basis of crimes they have committed, that crime being the former which is a breach of free speech. You are against censorship, but ironically, state that we should not "censor" or ban censorship advocates, because surely that would make us hypocrites and nothing will go wrong even though it already has.
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  3070.  @uy9572  Yeah, they're also the only Turkish game dev in existence who has made a game anyone has heard of.
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  3071.  @exarcm9181  The fact that you can overhead spear thrust and block with shields directionally already makes the combat better than Warband. I'm not sure why anyone would say this.
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  3072. ​ @Mr._Newb_McMuffin I am a smartass who's likely to do that but I have been on the receiving end and it is really fucking tedious, especially because you just want to know what it is the other person is talking about but they're stalling because they're so incredulous at your profound earth shattering ignorance.
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  3073.  @grom4818  If Ninty and The Pokemon Company didn't cling to the asinine idea that they should produce a new main line game, every single year, since the early 90's, we wouldn't have this problem. But they do, so we have it, and Pocketpair is here to say "ok, if you don't want to shake up the formula, we will." Gaming is for the consumer, not to line the pockets of shareholders with "safe" revenue streams.
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  3074.  @ToddsHouseofSpeed-uq5sp  They hate Jesus and would spit upon his body hanging from the cross if they were able. Will never understand some Christians' Stockholm syndrome mentality with the Jews.
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  3075.  @cmln2413  They're an ethnic religion, namely if the person in question is an orthodox Jew. This is bad, for a couple of reasons. It's at least twice as exclusive as any other religion -- if you're a convert, you can be at best, a reformed Jew, unrecognized as valid by a whole subgroup of Jews. Basically, a second-class Jew. Christians, on the other hand, welcome converts as the body and back bone of their religion. I'm atheist, just for the record, but these are objective trends and facts. The other reason is that within their tenets are over-the-top self-aggrandization. We are God's Chosen, everyone else are our slaves, and we are bound to not work one day out of the week such that being a "shabbos goy" is its own business proposition (yes, there are really rent-a-day workers for the sabbath). Even if this is the most strict interpretation of their religious texts, such ideas disseminate in part throughout the whole community as long as they are not spoken out against. Combine that with the exclusivity, and you have a recipe for a people that are really just not very pleasant to be around, especially if you live near them. Imagine if you wholeheartedly believe these things and you're in a leadership position. Why would you hire anyone but God's chosen? Their shenanigans lose out only to Shariah law Muslims and their fun little sex trafficking rings. To put it more succinctly, Jews harbor what can only be called Jewish extremists within their own group, and pretend that they're normal. That's why they get the hate collectively, because they don't try to remove these people from the fold. Muslims are only slightly more thoroughly scrutinized. It doesn't matter if you're violent; if you believe in the absolute supremacy of your group, you will be unpalatable to society in the long term.
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  3076. Completely coincidental that this is posted shortly after the devs made a statement against DEI
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  3077.  @HalendleofLoc  "Most people were fine with Twitter?" Really? Well, obviously people who use Twitter are going to say they're fine with it. But what about everyone else? Do you have a reasonable way to survey a sample group as insanely large as "people who don't use Twitter?" No you don't, the idea is absurd on its face, and any news outlet or sociologist claiming they do is lying. Ever since Twitter debuted I saw absolutely no reason to use it as a private citizen. It isn't a discussion platform, it's a broadcasting platform. It's only useful for public figures or companies who want to make a brand for themselves. This is evident from the way the website is designed mechanically. Discussions are not contained by topic at all, but instead like an infinitely branching tree, every single post allows everyone else to offer their hot takes on it as replies. This results in a total mess of exponentially expanding meaningless posts; there's virtually no way to follow a thread of conversation or coherent thought. It encourages people to yell at each other and not much else, because that's the only way anyone will read your posts. Even YouTube comments can carry a better discussion than Twitter.
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  3078.  @dadbodenvy4247  You do have a point in that the internet has changed how we communicate drastically in ways that Enlightenment-era thinkers likely couldn't have imagined. But the problem is that the argument you put forth is self-defeating. If posts on social media aren't "proper free speech," or in other words important enough to be defended properly, then they aren't important enough to censor either. In that case the position that we should allow every unreasonable idea to circulate freely is just as valid.
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  3079.  @demsochimbo5383  You're just like every other shouting match participant using Twitter, assuming you know everything about me simply because I've disagreed with you and updooting, as Charlie would say, your own comments. The only mystery to me is why people like you post at all. You don't change any minds, so it must be that you find some sense of self-righteousness by posting. Keep on LARPing the good LARP, maybe some day you'll really kill someone and get to regret it for the rest of your life. Won't that be fun?
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  3080. ​@Baik90 It's not huge. It's well known if you're an enthusiast but it still does not have mainstream appeal. Not even among gamers
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  3081.  @ionicafardefrica  you do realize that "maybe one time" literally determines whether you live or die, right? you could just not be a dumbass and use a proper gun safe or storage solution, or you could willingly forfeit your right to self-defense due to your insecurity and inner thoughts about murdering people which you project on to other people. i mean, i'm making assumptions with that last comment, but i can't imagine why else people would willingly disenfranchise themselves. guns are insurance policies against violence, nothing more. you don't forfeit your health insurance because "you don't plan on getting sick," for example. unlikely shit happens to everyone and you never know what unlikely event it will be until it happens
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  3082.  @bettmo7494  then you haven't met yours truly, although WotC in particular has gone quite woke in their rulebooks, also your ridiculous stereotypes make you sound like you've never met a republican in your entire life
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  3083. ​ @direccioncinco-h7z  I... what?
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  3084. It's a good thing that person was recording on their cellphone instead of using the chance they had to get in front of the woman and lift her up by the legs so she doesn't choke to death.
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  3085.  @marcfilms999  There is no evidence Yamamoto said this. It's important to be factual when arguing for important issues.
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  3086. @S1D3W1ND3R015  More important than that I would say is our large land mass. Russia has never been successfully invaded for the same reason
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  3087. @ The Germans did the same thing in WW2. Conquering a capital is an important step to victory, but if you can't hold it, it doesn't matter. If the Axis leaders were intelligent, they wouldn't invade the US at that point. Their resources would have been drained on the war leading up to that point. They would have to stop and consolidate their territorial gains at a minimum. It would likely be an end to the war, and if they were hell bent on conquering the US, a new war in 5-10 years. The point of Germany invading North Africa and Japan invading SEA was to acquire resources. They have to work out the logistics for those resources before they even consider invading us
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  3088.  @gryphon4150  you can't put peanut butter on your coochie to get a Michael Bay explosion to lick it though
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  3089.  @carlgustafe.mannerheim9479  Most people in the tech industry use DDMMYYYY. That's the ISO engineering standard for dates.
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  3090.  @scottaw1981  South Park was right again
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  3091.  @Censorshift  Use your brain. How will we secure those valuable resources we get from Ukraine? Do you really think Trump is going to build an undefended lithium mine and hope nobody takes it?
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  3092.  @mangomariel  Russian democracy is far from legitimate, this isn't really in the hands of the Russian people at this point. Those who aren't genuinely jingoistic about keeping Putin in charge are scared in to it. There were Russian rural folk on the front line who were afraid to take supplies or lied about the Ukrainians withholding supplies from them because they are afraid of what will happen to them if they say "Thank you, Ukraine." This is in spite of the fact that they are living in ruined homes.
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  3093. I really hope the judge decides to use this as an opportunity to completely annihilate the "validity" (there is no proven validity) of EULAs in court.
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  3094.  @VLADBANNEDME-ve9ko  Claiming that someone is "White on the inside" is an amazing way to put down your own people. You are correlating whiteness with success. Why is that? Why are only White people successful? You have brainwashed yourself to believe that you are doomed at birth by your genetics. What a terrible way to live.
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  3095. ​ @RandomNon-interestingguy University administration staff are legendarily bad at their jobs. It doesn't surprise me at all that someone invented a system of phonetic spelling only they understood and presented it to their speaker last minute without comment.
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  3096.  @joshua50101  "Weed withdrawal?!" Hahahaha. That broad was more insane than even you or she realizes.
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  3097. You are completely fucking aware that Disney is fighting for essentially their right to govern, at a minimum, the land rights to an entire district of Florida right? I thought "you liberals" were the pro-government, anti-corporation party. Go advocate for your ANCAP hell somewhere else. Personally I'd like it if society didn't resemble the dystopias depicted in Blade Runner or Snow Crash before I died.
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  3098. ... And she clearly knew the exact nature and dose of the toxicity in that moment. Thank you, Mr. Crazy Guy. Maybe you should go to the hospital and detox yourself.
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  3099.  @dave3429  I find it highly unlikely that between all of them, none of them had cord of some kind, or couldn't make any
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  3100.  @getoutofmylobby4347  Call girls are the original vtubers.
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  3101. "Stranger things have happened." Yeah, like selling hundreds of thousands of ARs to the cartels and claiming that we can track them because they have serial numbers.
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  3102. @Coom Lord I consider myself a red blooded American through and through, but the thing you've failed to realize is that rights are indeed a fabrication. Just a comfy idea dreamed up by educated people. When the chips are down, might is the only right, and that's why we have the 2nd. Our rights are being eroded from us, but not quite as quickly as in some other places.
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  3103.  @N3G4T3  Don't know the exact height but all of it went to her thighs.
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  3104. ​ @68camaro-b5s We do?
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  3105.  @WayStedYou  You can't say "People will believe anything!" as if you've put forth some sort of inconceivable lie when it is only a very minor fabrication based on real events. That does not prove any point. You're not Joseph Goebbels coming up with "The Big Lie" or something.
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  3106. Can't fail if you don't try. Who else is trying? Hardly anyone
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  3107.  @jgloom41  You seem pretty lazy with your own English studies. Might want to check that glass house of yours before you cast stones.
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  3108.  @Mariusss-  Indeed. That is mostly a byproduct of the racial politics here, starting with the end of the Civil War. The "white" label was very convenient for politicians to urge working class Anglo/Protestant voters to the polls, using free black people as a boogeyman. Also, before they became integrated, waves of immigrants like Irish and Poles were not "white" in American politics. Especially if they were Catholic.
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  3109. Wow. At least he won't have any student debt.
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  3110.  @WonderBread4020  Oh you know how to sniff Google's packets? That's pretty impressive. Watch out for the FBI.
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  3111.  @freelancerdetroit102  I'm so glad we've brought chain letters back into the modern internet
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  3112. Jesus Christ the arrogance. I guarantee you that idiot who wrote "if you have to ask you are not ready" has a job that could be replaced by someone with 6 weeks' training at a coding boot camp.
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  3113.  @WaGwan-n6x  I'm conservative, but you'd be surprised. Plenty of people can be left leaning and have a southern accent.
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  3114. Likely a gang member, I'm sure he'll be bragging about his jail time to his buddies.
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  3115. ​ @Observer9812 Why aren't you working at a 7-11 right now? Same reason.
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  3116. That's always been a melodramatic interpretation. No Christian sees it that way. The Eucharist is supposed to be like partaking in the Last Supper, which, as we know, Jesus was not eaten at. The terms "blood and body of Christ" are purely metaphorical.
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  3117.  @holydrummer  Then I suppose, like in all things, there's a bigger divergence of opinions than I realized.
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  3118.  @JohnnyD77x  Your comment is absurd buddy, nowhere near the majority of vehicles on the road at any given time are work vehicles. Stop reaching so you can be right online.
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  3119.  @Sanakudou  Wow, that was a whole lot of words that missed my point and even the point of the guy I replied to. You missed out on basically the whole context of the conversation. I'm not going to waste my time re-writing what's already on screen so I'll just tell you to read it again. Here's a hint, you are also strawmanning by asserting that 1MDA advocated for "no-car cities" when he actually said that the majority of people could stand to not use cars. Stop assuming that everyone but you is a moron and is advocating for the most idiotic most extreme idea possible.
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  3120.  @gort9623  Define "insane." I don't think insanity means you deserve to live if you're a pure menace to society. The dude is definitely neurodivergent. Most people simply don't have it within them to shoot up a school and then rub salt in the wound afterward.
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  3121.  @asimhussain8716  GRRM only stepped in for worldbuilding and left early in development. He had nothing to do with dialogue or VA and it was about on par with prior Souls games anyway. His involvement in the game is, in actuality, barely even perceptible.
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  3122. He's probably furious he was passed up for this lowest common denominator clown
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  3123.  @shadicy  I disagree... I've gotten hit in the jewels a couple of times (not intentionally) and even when there is no lasting damage, the pain will literally bring you to your knees. It's equally or more effective than pepper spray. Most people won't be able to pinpoint the solar plexus without tons of practice
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  3124.  @fleatactical7390  It's because of sympathetic trigger pull. Usually happens when brass falls into a total novice's shirt. They reflexively pull the trigger again while waving their arms and hands around trying to get the brass casing to fall out. I have seen videos of people doing this and nearly shooting ROs sweeping brass behind them. It's incredibly pathetic.
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  3125.  @starcrawler77  you're pretty dumb if you think any video game is going to be a 100% accurate recreation of a 16th century war
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  3126.  @nil981  pretty sure that was Goebbels, not Hitler. He was the propaganda minister and coined the term "The Big Lie" i.e. the term that describes many completely fabricated narratives in the zeitgeist today. Fittingly, he was known to be a scumbag who cheated on his wife, and was looked down upon even within the Party. It wasn't just rocket science and aeronautics that we poached from the Nazis after the war.
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  3127.  @90whatever  Every politician lies. You are mistaken in believing that everyone falls for them. Trump is not the ideal politician but he is still better than the alternative. Deal with it and stop taking copium pills.
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  3128. I Have No Feet, But I Must Win
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  3129. Corrections officers always have the same energy as private security guards. They were too lazy or washed out of being real cops.
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  3130. The title looks like something you'd read if this was Doom's Earth
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  3131. There is some existing data that suggests that marijuana can aggravate existing psychoses, but as with almost everything involving marijuana, it desperately needs more study that governments refuse to provide or even allow the opportunity for because "weed scary." There certainly isn't enough data on it for a judge to bizarrely make some kind of medical diagnosis.
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  3132. And then they gave her Oolong's power for no reason.
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  3133. Didn't we already do this with the Apple store lawsuit?
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  3134. @ Unlike the typical libtard, I'm using the word correctly, which is someone who thinks that suppression of anyone that disagrees with them is acceptable. And how, exactly, do you expect to be taken seriously, impotent hater?
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  3135.  @James-kv3ll  Strictly speaking, it's "giving us what we want." Just not at the correct time or place.
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  3136. Or hide their soft and unrefined jawline. The classical Chad look is clean shaven because you show off that jaw.
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  3137. It wasn't worth debating him at all, but in this case, Sneako just delivered a common sense take on a hot button issue. This is a lot more like playing poker, and at the end of the night it's just you, who has won almost all of the table's chips, against a guy with $2 left to his name, and you go all in with a 3 and a 7 off-suit (the worst hand in poker). He just got extremely cocky due to Sneako's already tarnished reputation for being dumb. And yes, I know the rules for poker bets don't work that way, but Charlie really did stake his whole reputation without even realizing it.
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  3138.  @niceto_meet_you2528  She's fake as fuck. Get some taste.
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  3139.  @franzferdinand7166  that just isn't the environment we live in anymore buddy, lefty media will likely lose their shit over this, internally if not externally. we're at least 8 years past that environment. the people in the moment enjoyed themselves but the media and political "strategists" will blow this completely out of proportion as they always do
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  3140.  @sangheiliwarrior86  Yep, he's a completely unremarkable human being other than being born into wealth and having good looks. Also, he is a moron who thinks that fitness boxing gives him martial arts knowledge. Although I suspect he knows that deep down inside because he was too afraid to box Sam Hyde.
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  3141. Lmao, the guard is acquitted for a self-defense shooting in San Francisco of all places and the dumb "community center" broad still believes he is at fault. Lady, if he walks in your town, he would walk in any town in the US
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  3142. It was an intentional murder, intentionally recorded, with no remorse from the assailants. If they get anything but life, it will only signal to everyone how fucked the justice system is.
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  3143.  @seangorman3959  We're not all as stupid as you, some of us have figured out that maybe we shouldn't eat at McDonald's decades ago. Maybe when the cholesterol and diabetes catches up to you, you'll realize that snide remarks on the internet never did anything for your health. I mean shit, if you want to pig out, at least choose something that tastes good.
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  3144.  @moni7803  did you seriously just repeat a 4chan meme as actual fact
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  3145. @veawr No one uses it in that meaning, it is literally a prank invented by 4chan
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  3146.  @davidlauderdale7147  "it's a myth, although, I am a brainless political pawn, so if someone I don't like is using it, I believe the myth."
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  3147. Yeah, but they also release DVDs, meaning they expect you to pay for the recorded content
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  3148.  @barryUFF  NASA has manipulated their graphs for temperature change per annum. This is an indisputable fact. They shifted the numbers higher as the years approach modern day, while keeping a similar form-factor for the line formed by the data points. This makes it appear as though the world is warming at historic rates when it reality it is not much different to how it was in the 19th century. I would provide you a source, but mysteriously, they keep disappearing when I revisit the issue. The reality is, we only have a very small sample size of yearly temperature averages -- less than 200 years -- and we know, as an absolute fact, that the Earth's temperature can change drastically for reasons totally beyond any of our control. The burden of proof to show that we are the ones causing it is absolutely massive. It cannot be overstated how hard scientists need to work to prove that we are causing the Earth to warm to temperatures never-before-seen (which, based on other evidence besides temperature graphs about years that came before the 19th century, we have not even reached yet)
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  3149. ​ @kyeotzu The more members of a group stay silent when stuff like this happens, the more that people outside of the group see it as complicit. It's not exclusive to women
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  3150. You do realize that "journalists" ran with the "OK hand sign" hoax right? That was entirely fabricated as a hoax in a 4chan thread
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  3151. @@transistorjump919 You realize that not all software problems are known issues that were solved 4+ years ago right? An update to Chromium broke the flagship website at my company a week ago. There is nothing in their release notes or issue tracker that suggests what caused this, so it was likely some change they made to fix a security vulnerability which they can't talk about. The community is the only place you can turn to for answers to problems like this.
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  3152.  @NOV123  Nah, people are dumb enough to follow others to settle road rage incidents like this with or without guns. The guy was a pretty strong biker, he would have done the same shit and probably brought a knife instead, then they'd be stabbing each other to death. They both wanted a fight. If the guy in the truck didn't want a fight, he would have driven to a police station. If the biker didn't want a fight, he wouldn't have followed. Just two violent idiots we would have likely been better off without.
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  3153. @El Loco Thank you.
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  3154. modern multiplayer games are literally designed to make you angry. the average gamer isn't trying to 5v5 tryhard, where every action of everyone on the team matters, and you can't play for 2+ minutes if you die. even on casual CS, typical matches are not 5v5. i hate that every game has to be an "esport" now it's so fucking stupid. where is my TF2, where are my 16v16 Quake CTF matches, etc. the only big game franchise that doesn't suffer from this is Battlefield. I had so much fun playing Battlebit when it launched too
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  3155. Nah, he rolled a natural 1 on his Intimidate check, that's why the gun is out of battery
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  3156. It's weird how you think that disproves that theory, when in reality, it proves it beyond reasonable doubt. Ask yourself why everyone carried guns in the "lawless" Wild West. Now you understand. Defund the police, decriminalize non-victimless crimes, and the need for arming oneself only becomes more pronounced. If the police were perfectly moral, timely, and competent, true, nobody would need guns for self-defense. But that's a pure pipe dream. By the way, by statistics alone, there are 4x as many defensive, non-violent uses of a gun (i.e. scaring the perp away) than actual shootings. We can assume, because it is true with all other crime statistics, that there are many more that go unreported. So really, there is no "good guy with a gun" theory. There is a "good guy with a gun" fact, and there are morons who don't read publicly available records.
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  3157. ​ @762x69 Damn, passive aggressive over YT comments
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  3158.  @762x69  You have to buy me dinner and eat my ass before you can call me that
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  3159. The color of the flame is not always indicative of its heat. For example copper burns green and magnesium burns pink, that's how fireworks are made.
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  3160. @ectomorphnranger5165 or you could just join the military and get the exact same experience plus free college for no cost at all
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  3161.  @ItsHaisho  You're making shit up because that was never established, but OK. Let's just pretend it's not rude to yell at someone to fuck off from behind your front door because you're too scared to talk to them over a Wi-Fi password. And it isn't even an explanation, it is having the respect to address a human which you have previously talked to in the past and established a reason for you two to interact. "Sorry, you can't use the wi-fi anymore." There isn't an explanation there, just common fucking courtesy.
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  3162. ​@@noir-13 Those same women likely wouldn't care if they met the guy in person, but because they see a number on an app without a 6 behind it, they assume he's short
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  3163.  @JustAnotherAccount8  The issue of class and race has become muddled together into an incomprehensible mess to young people without the ability to critically think. It doesn't matter if you're a white person living on the Rust Belt, addicted to heroin in flyover America, you're still better off than any black person because your whiteness somehow automatically grants you class status... which does... something. It's absurd, but there are a lot of selfish people out there using this idea maliciously.
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  3164.  @dhimannitdgp  Damn, how many woman have you slept with and dogs come out 9 months later? Might want to get that condition checked out
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  3165. Lawyers like her don't believe a damn thing. They're like sea slugs, going with the flow of whatever their client wants to get themselves short term cash. Unfortunately now the whole law community, and world, knows that her firm is the scummiest of the scum, if they didn't already.
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  3166.  @RobertMJohnson  Musk streamed himself gaming on Starlink, it is not that slow
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  3167.  @Crime_Mime  It wasn't meant to be that deep by the creator. Jim Davis explicitly said he designed Garfield to be the most marketable comic in existence. It's fun to overanalyze it, but it wasn't actually written with deep meaning in mind.
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  3168.  @ryanh1013  You're quite naive. It isn't a problem, usually, when Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Facebook collect your info. But that info isn't collected for no reason; it turns into money eventually. They sell the data to third parties, and those third parties do whatever they want with it. This can get annoying very fast. And at worst it can be a security or identity theft problem. It isn't "hurr durr conspiracy theory," it's simple irresponsibility on the part of megacorps who want to make money.
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  3169.  @Kilo6Charlie  Long-las are very good in every tabletop game I've seen them in. They were good in Dark Heresy as well.
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  3170.  @thomascrum185  Knives are the most common way to get a cop to use lethal force on you. There are way, way too many clear cases of a person who doesn't want to live anymore pulling out a knife, standing around in a public area until someone calls the cops, and then running at the cop.
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  3171. Sure, but that's 1. a religious tradition and 2. doesn't cost hundreds of dollars
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  3172.  @MrDUCKMAN5555  They do, but (using Japan as an example, off the top of my head) they are named things like "rain" or "winter wind" or any flower name. The Japanese equivalent of this is naming your kid some kind of chuuni shit in English, using katakana, like "Angel" (アンジェル) and it is seen as an equally cringy, shallow trend over there. Many of them get shamed so much for it that they end up changing it.
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  3173. But it's OK, because 1% of the people loosely genetically similar to you owned slaves 170 years ago.
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  3174.  @GameDevChad  The line between the two is nearly indistinguishable.
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  3175.  @rejectionisprotection4448  There's a lot of media out there that portrays men's feelings about being with a virgin as a burden, especially if they're just looking for hookups. They are afraid of the virgin being too emotionally attached and getting in the way of their promiscuity. I think the real solution to all of this is to not "try to get laid," as mentioned in the Reddit post. Call me a Puritan if you want, but I very rarely see people who are both genuinely happy, and promiscuous, who have not had a family. It's just not a combination of traits I see often if at all, and if they are happy it only lasts for a phase of their life. Maybe more often in older people; I mean 45 and up. Usually those people also already have had kids and seen them grow up. Their mind is probably freed of that burden of responsibility, of needing to reproduce. It's weird that society focuses on just the sex part, but that really isn't the fundamental problem in my opinion. In reality it is "easy" to get laid; you just have to have absolutely no standards. Many men have done this because they have so little self-respect that they NEED to be able to say they've been laid or else they can't live with themselves. Even if the act of coitus itself was so shameful that they'd lie about it or never go into detail.
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  3176.  @wyattbenson1490  Explain what money is being wasted on this. A letter was sent out saying that ID can't be updated. Changes to ID like that cost money. So far, we have the cost of a few letters. Feel free to expound.
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  3177. "Finland has been the only Nordic country with a loose immigration policy. This changes now." Wish we could talk about this in the US. Instead everyone wants immigration because the corpos want cheap labor.
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  3178.  @WookieWarriorz  this is new shit, this takes place after the events of F:NV on the west coast. it is literally breaking new ground in the franchise
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  3179.  @boobyburgerboys  the director's comments, while stupid, could also be interpreted to mean that "there's no point in catering to the most vocal minority" which is absolutely true and how media avoids going woke in the first place. they were ill-advised but he was also likely set up by a reporter, just like this one tried to, for clicks
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  3180.  @someguy3508  we've addressed everything women used to have it hard with, with technology, problem is many don't feel responsible for themselves so they don't acquire the tools needed (namely, a gun) "beauty standards" are a non-starter as well. literally just a giant marketing scheme to convince women they're ugly so they can be sold beauty products. 95% of men simply do not care
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  3181. I don't suffer from trypophobia, but I thought that the holes have to be ambiguously dark for them to trigger. It's because they resemble insect hives.
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  3182. @Hero Cat Mark Purrman It's not entitled. It is akin to a cop stopping another cop and treating them in this manner. Yes, nobody should be treated in this manner, but the fact that he is a serviceman adds an extra dose of absurdity to it. Cops do profile people, it is a necessary part of the job if they want to stay alive, and nothing will change that; no policy, no law, nothing. It's survival instinct.
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  3183. That video is like the polar opposite of this one, you could tell the girl just wanted to die. It looked like she didn't even know the people she was with either, it seemed like people that had met at a club or party. I remember I first saw it on 4chan back in the day and it was labeled "AIDS in the pool"
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  3184.  @alphaomega5909  People in the medieval times had huge families as well. Until famine hit, or a war happened, or plague struck. You just sound like an ignorant fool. Unlikely and bad things do happen.
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  3185. Holla holla get Nala
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  3186.  @bobinthewest8559  it wasn't a desert eagle, but it was a gigantic revolver, could hardly believe he carried that for security
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  3187.  @mafro89  ah, it's been eons since I watched that movie
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  3188. This is all legal and even Constitutional for the executive branch to do. Previous administrations, including Republican, had a lot to gain from inaction. Almost all of those bureaucratic organizations are created by the executive branch. All things foreign and immigration related are solely the purview of the executive branch unless Congress passes a law about it. Republicans before Trump only really paid lip service to immigration policy. People still think his EO regarding natural born citizenship is anti-Constitution. It's not, it's addressing a law passed in the 60s that YT will literally remove my comment for mentioning.
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  3189.  @sunshiniesmile  ... you're an absolute buffoon if you cannonball into a ball pit as an adult. You will fall right through the balls and hit the floor. Same effect.
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  3190. So uh, you wouldn't think it's weird if a game released on September 11th, after revealing a collector's edition featuring a model diorama of Columbine High School? That would be a bit more analogous to what we're seeing.
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  3191. There's a kind-of-similar game called Natural Selection, but both teams have RTS commanders that work with the rest of their team playing FPS in order to win the match, and it's humans vs. a hive alien race. Although, I think that the first game designed it so that only the humans got a commander, but it's been a really long time.
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  3192. Reddit brainlessly dog piled as they are wont to do. Unsafe railgun wasn't even really nerfed. It just shows they're babies that can't even bother to learn basic timing mechanics. Not to mention the other guns that were buffed like the flamethrower which is now one of the most efficient charger killers in the game.
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  3193. "In a similar style to Blizzard?" The only RPGs Blizzard ever produced were Diablo, which is an ARPG and thus quite different from this style of narrative choice driven RPG, and WoW, which is an MMO. But yes, we need more bigger indie and "AA" developers. It became a dead space in the industry except outside of the US.
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  3194.  @m3gapanda533  WotC has been stupid for years now, don't expect smart decisions from them.
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  3195. ​@smokeyislove469 Indeed they are. What kind of idiot would fund a war halfway across the world? It was stupid in 2004 and it's stupid now.
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  3196. ​ @bengarciamusic4life  Ah yes, we could vote for sleepy Godless childsniffer, or Godless stereotypical New York braggart. Lots of Jesus to be had in this election.
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  3197.  @mandosaiyan  It is simple in a way, but also complicated. Carlin put it best; you don't need a formal conspiracy when interests are already in alignment. This is how conspirators enact social change without letting everyone in on the conspiracy directly. However, the real issue is that true power is actually concentrated in a pretty small number of people. When there's a small number of people, it's pretty easy to put together a conspiracy. When you donate enough money to a politician or a political cause, you effectively control them. They plan their careers and lives around that money, and if you were to take it away, they would suffer for it. There is no need to conspire directly with politicians in almost all cases. All you need to do is be rich enough to donate huge sums of money to them and then use it as leverage.
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  3198. @gordanaparthur9267  There are no pay masters. These are just desperate opportunists, who are determined to either strike it rich or die trying. It's a different paradigm to pirates of old
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  3199. I bought a Ruger SR1911 on sale for $550 on mine.
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  3200.  @jbrown7063  By using your brain and not falling for multinational corporate shilling.
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  3201. @pylotlight I'm atheist and every time I see a moronic teenage Redditor atheist claim that Jesus never existed I want to shove my fist through the internet. So incredibly stupid.
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  3202. "I am suddenly apprehensive of all other sorts of attachments." No, you were apprehensive about them to begin with, which is why you had an open relationship. If you had a marriage with a man who didn't want an open relationship, you would have never had this problem. This behavior just blows my mind.
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  3203.  @LightSilver7  Take your meds.
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  3204.  @ryanziolkowski6743  it was a joke, the guy I replied to implied that something like this couldn't happen in Italy. ironically attitudes like his are what allow it to happen in the first place
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  3205.  @cry2love  Hendrix was an incredible musician and rock and roll icon. I've never heard anyone say a word against him or call him a poser because of his race.
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  3206.  @JohnSmith-oc6gm  No, I'm sorry, it's not reasonable to see monocolor ink on a throwaway food wrapper and think "OH MY GOD IT'S ISRAEL THEY'RE KILLING THE BABIES"
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  3207.  @DJezdic  it's the CIA's move, they "lost" countless documents related to MKULTRA in "accidental" building fires
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  3208. ​ @knighthood91 he is known for tipping very generously, you are reaching extremely hard
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  3209. While I support Trump, there could be many reasons to lie about evil people. Usually very political, many lies still linger about conflicts since WW2.
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  3210.  @ser6Ijvolk  believe it or not children do have agency and it only increases as it gets older. while yes, corporal punishment is a last resort, the alternative is to be a helicopter parent who controls every aspect of the child's life to ensure they never have bad influences. otherwise, those bad influences may cause them to do bad things, despite your best efforts. that has its own problems and creates its own kind of monster. teaching someone to be independent necessarily involves allowing them to make mistakes, and depending on that child's genetics, sometimes the mistakes are worse than others and require an immediate and hard course correction (given a consistent level of parenting competence). no parent is perfect and neither is any child
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  3211. Brazil has absurd tariffs on games. I don't blame anyone in Brazil for pirating games.
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  3212.  @vision821k4  Nope, I am a 30 year old man who lives independently and earns six figures. You're just a lazy sack of crap. Sorry man, but it's true.
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  3213.  @vision821k4  True. However, unlike the average Indian, I have a respect for human life, most importantly my own. I have been nearly run over by at least a few Indians, on that note.
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  3214.  @vision821k4  Heh. I assume you're a fan of "the Killdozer?"
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  3215. Judges can be paid for just as easily as congressmen, if not more so. Some out-of-touch group of idiots in the RIAA think this will "set an example."
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  3216.  @coffeebean4356  Next time you could try you know... doing your own research on controversial topics instead of just believing what you read in YT comments
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  3217.  @FumblsTheSniper  No, if you're going to create any character in any game, that character should be grounded in the world they live in. Why would a "non-passing" MTF transgender person exist in a world with potions and magic? Was his goal to be ugly? It doesn't even make the slightest amount of sense. If a person's goal is to become the opposite gender, and they have access to magic, how did they end up looking like a crossdresser?
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  3218.  @saulgood2892  Those are people who have deep underlying problems that are using marijuana to cope with those problems. Marijuana isn't the source of their problems, I can virtually guarantee you that. Even with more addictive drugs, like alcohol, it is rarely the real reason behind their addiction problem. There's something else, beneath that, and the addiction is a meager coping mechanism.
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  3219.  @BlankExodus  so we're just going to conveniently ignore that it's available to kids, and is designed by behavioral psychologists to activate the same chemicals in your brain provided by many addictive drugs
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  3220.  @thc_freebaser  it's because it's a conduit for the Chinese government to snoop on everyone who has it installed
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  3221.  @Victor-ze3sd  Not that weird. News outlets are dumb, cops can also be dumb about guns sometimes. There's many different points where that information can be sabotaged by a game of "telephone."
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  3222.  @skylarmccloud4080  Nope, it means that the perp was an idiot who didn't know how to operate and maintain his weapon, like most perps.
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  3223. I don't think any if this kid's "individual needs" involve faceplanting into asphalt with no helmet on from a scooter or being flung out of a pickup truck bed filled with water
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  3224.  @tickub  wears a cloth mask believing that it will stop him from getting a mutated variant of the flu calls other people pussies
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  3225. This was purely an information warfare attack on Musk. Some Russian propaganda minister told this guy to do this because it will make Musk look bad on American social media. No other reason for this to happen at all.
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  3226. New York asked for it anyway. The law as it stood was completely arbitrary nonsense. If your law depends on the whimsy of any two-bit judge in your local courts, it's not a law at all.
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  3227.  @JavierSegura  Boobs are literally sacks of fat, there is no universe in which they don't jiggle I'm sure you're fine with sweat on a horse's scrotum though like in RDR2, a very serious and mature game for serious adults. Definitely done for mature reasons and not someone's fetish.
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  3228.  @CBfrmcardiff  First of all, being pointed to an app isn't helpful at all. Secondly, as others have mentioned, a man asking a woman for dating advice has always been a joke. The problem here is that the activity of dating is, frankly, wholly unappealing. My problem is that I'm introverted, but just socially outgoing enough to know that I have a very hard time relating to almost everybody. I know I sound like a prick, but a part of me secretly wishes that I lived 500 years in the past and that my marriage was arranged for me. At least then, the both of us would have to make it work, and I feel like I am good at persuasion and compromise. However, I'm not that good at small talk. I don't relate to most people and I don't have any passion for watching TV, or most mainstream activities for that matter. I take care of myself physically, but the idea of spending my entire evening of free time on someone I don't know, only to roll the roughly 95% chance that I won't like them or find them boring -- it's just very unappealing. Not to mention that goes both ways. If I actually think I'll like someone for a change, and they don't, the evening is also wasted. I've thought about dating online so I get a chance to talk to someone first and form a connection, but even that is unappealing, because I've met a lot of people who use it just for hookups so that's the impression I'm left with for online dating. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just lazy when it comes to people. I just don't have that much patience for them. I do have a lot of other male friends who I feel lucky to have, but every time I consider spending time trying to court someone I don't know, my mind returns with a resounding "meh." I just don't care. At the same time, a part of me would like to have the deep bonding experience of raising a family. Just wish I didn't have to trudge through all the "dating" crap.
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  3229.  @FFFFPPPP  Asmon actually did go to law school, so he's "almost" a lawyer.
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  3230. Stank-Ass and the Rehab Therapy Group
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  3231.  @linear1224  Gaslighting is one way to put it. It is essentially lying about what really happened until the person breaks down either through sheer fatigue or self-doubt. The term originates from a play involving an abusive husband and his suggestible wife, the husband would change the lighting level of the lights around the home and various other things. Then when his wife would confront him about it, he'd lie and say they were always that way. He did this to plant a feeling of constant self-doubt in her so he could get away with much more grievous acts by lying.
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  3232.  @joehooper89  Eh, good luck getting your workers a job with that contract. Laws vary but in any at-will employment state or nation, employers highly regard their right to tell people to fuck off without warning.
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  3233. ​ @bunsw2070 I have a guaranteed way for your car not to get damaged: sell it before it depreciates further in value.
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  3234.  @Rachel-wi3gl  I hate to be "that guy" but the first thing women did with their newfound power after the 19th... was to enact Prohibition because of the Temperance movement and their emotional attachment to the idea of the alcoholic husband destroying the family. Thus plunging us into probably the worst epidemic of crime the US has ever seen. Trump is one thing taken in a vacuum. On the whole it's hard to argue that women have a good track record in voting. And the majority of women still didn't vote for Trump anyway...
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  3235.  @dawsonfoster8310  "Calmly pulling over?" Dude, the entire purpose of pulling over is to start a confrontation. You are confronting the other driver; there is no other purpose for the stop. I carry and I encourage all Americans to do so, but the "cowboy mentality" is a plague. Why throw all those tax dollars you spent to waste? The police exist for a reason, let them deal with the guy. It's one of the few damn things the government can help you with. You want to pay tax for the cops, then not utilize them, and then have to pay legal fees on top of that because you really wanted to sate your bloodlust? Come on.
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  3236. real talk, any southerner who unironically waves the confederate battle flag is a stooge who would rather fight for rich plantation owners who don't give a shit about their existence and intentionally make their own economic situation worse than think for two seconds about what they're doing. it was a definitively self-destructive cause to support if you were not a slave owner, especially if you were a yeoman farmer, no better than going across the world to fight for Israel. I wouldn't make it illegal to wave it around but there's no way you can paint that as an intelligent move. we are too caught up in the "us vs. them" mentality to realize how dumb supporting the confederacy was for anyone who is not already rich. we have to be smarter than falling for nearly 200 year old propaganda spewed by equally unscrupulous rich assholes who happened to be in a different geographic location. lax immigration policy = cheap labor, nearly as good as slavery. if plantation owners would be alive today they would be the top immigration advocates in the nation.
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  3237. ​@ChuckTheChosen Heres a tip: if you don't want people to criticize a feature in your game, don't make it half assed.
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  3238.  @mittenista  You can do the same thing with "woman" though. The classic example is when a man calls his significant other "woman" instead of her name. This never has a positive connotation. Or the classic "women ☕." Why get offended over female instead of woman? People are bored, they need outrage to pad out their lives.
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  3239. Funny, because you looked pretty stupid when you wrote that comment
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  3240.  @jefmoesy  that's petty and ineffective. most people who are pricks will only focus on their victimhood if something like that happens to them. they won't have the presence of mind to think that maybe someone got them back for something unrelated that they did before. they're like dogs, they have to be confronted at the moment they are doing the bad behavior and with classical conditioning
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  3241. I'm sure those young men were glad to be able to pay hundreds of dollars for the esteemed privilege of being your errand boy. What a joke "Greek societies" are.
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  3242.  @theAEDan  The only mistake the Allies made after WW2 was actually working with Stalin instead of laughing in his face. Hitler was right about Communism, but he was not a virtuous man himself. He had no qualms about casually murdering politicians, even if they had supported him. He had no love of Christianity and perverted it into state worship. It would have been ideal if both nations had destroyed each other in the war and allowed someone less fanatical and exploitative to rebuild. Instead of finishing the job he had left undone, the Americans decided to buy the stupid British shit about the Germans being an "inherently warlike people" once again and follow through on the greatest psy-op ever conceived and executed. This required careful coordination with the Soviets, who fabricated tons of evidence on their part, all while keeping the hands of Britons and Americans clean.
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  3243.  @Bigdogspyke  Bruh.
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  3244. We here in the US have the FBI reporting heinous Latino gangsters as "white," but I would say it's not as blatant as the UK government using "Asian."
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  3245.  @user-ly7nd2sm8d  That isn't the same at all. They got Capone for tax evasion because it was the thing the feds had evidence for and could nail him on. Capone had bought out the local cops and judges to pretend that murders and other crimes didn't happen or dispose of evidence. The feds knew it was happening but legally could do nothing about it because the evidence wasn't there and nobody would testify.
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  3246.  @arshenio45  I hate to break it to you and any potential wannabe officers but they're supposed to be the ones who "die for nothing," not schoolchildren. It's also naive to believe that the shooter wouldn't change his behavior when confronted with a squad of police officers pressuring him into a corner. Even if some of them die. This is a stark difference from the North Hollywood bank robbery where two men, fully decked out in combat armor and illegal fully automatic weapons with drum mags, had a stand off with cops confronting them with pistols and shotguns, several of whom lost their lives. But it was not in vain because they didn't move very far until SWAT arrived with rifle caliber weapons and finished them off.
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  3247.  @StormsparkPegasus  You must live in a vastly different society from mine. In the US, ice cream containers are made from thick paper. They would disintegrate in the dishwasher. The sour cream containers I was thinking of are Daisy brand, which are quite thin and cheap.
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  3248. I'd say dealing drugs is a legislative issue, not an enforcement issue. Dealing drugs is only truly bad because of the illicit things the dealer might do with the substance, like cutting it with something harmful or selling it to minors, and the fact that it also brings with it nasty turf wars that result in violence. When they become legal to sell, the dealer loses his avenue for sale, the drug loses its "exotic" allure for young people, the sales are regulated so nobody overpays for low quality crap from some guy on the street, and nobody needs to kill each other over the right to sell it. In the long term more study is put into the drug because it is legal to study, and it can be made safer or used for something else that nobody realized it might be useful for.
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  3249.  @AS-sp2vz  You're basically making an argument that this is all nurture and no nature. Far more qualified people than either of us have written much longer whitepapers on nurture vs. nature and we still don't know the answer. In light of this, writing long-form comments like yours seems pointless, since it almost certainly wasn't all nurture that made him into the thing he is. Usually, a young killer like this has both a mental illness that comes from within, and a bad environment from without. Not one or the other.
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  3250.  @CatzzMoney  Same dumb parents will buy a Chinese knockoff toy and wonder how their kid got lead poisoning from the paint.
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  3251.  @Panda-pm3if  All dog breeds are not inherently aggressive, only when they become feral do they become necessarily aggressive. Golden retrievers are known to be too friendly in fact, to the point they will ignore intruders. That said, pit bulls are at real genetic risk of having aggressive episodes regardless of whether they are trained despite what some will tell you
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  3252. A state isn't over-representing its population through a democratic vote. That's not possible, because the population is what it is, no more and no less. If the Iowa Congress had a membership of 100% White Christian, then yes, they would be over-represented in Congress. For all the talking and commentary these people do, you'd think they'd know how to use words.
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  3253. No man because like, white people are like, the system man. And stuff.
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  3254. Yep, that was my immediate thought. EV skeptics shouldn't acknowledge this because it's simply bad engineering. They should acknowledge it because there's no reason this can't happen on an ICE. Sure there would probably be some way for you to bypass it, while also voiding your warranty and at some risk to your car.
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  3255.  @amethonys2798  The problem is that there is a VERY narrow "grey area" for the accuser being "honestly wrong" in a SA claim. The victim is the one making the claim. They either got assaulted or they didn't and it's obvious that they should be aware of that. The only question is whether they might have been unconscious at the time and didn't know it happened, thus filing the claim later than one might expect, or they have trouble identifying the perp due to masks, lighting or other circumstances. I am a bit paranoid, but from my perspective, it's not difficult to see how a person might be afraid of being labeled a liar simply due to a lack of evidence, because there is very little room for someone making an honest mistake in such a claim.
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  3256. How the fuck does he look exactly like the hacker guy from South Park? There's no way it's unintentional
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  3257.  @MortSalazar  That is often due to a legitimate deficiency in the skills of a prior teacher. This happened with my AP Calculus class in high school. We could barely do trig, and our teacher, who was harsh but fair and clearly cared about the students from the way she would react emotionally sometimes (not abusive but very invested), would argue with the pre-Calculus teacher (most schools call this trig but ours called it pre-calculus for some reason...). The pre-cal teacher phoned it in and generally had an unpleasant attitude
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  3258.  @MortSalazar  Sending an entire years' worth of kids to a tutor doesn't make sense. You're doing a lot to minimize blaming the prior teacher
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  3259.  @syp69  Careful, your insecurity is showing.
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  3260.  @GoldenPantaloons  What you really mean to say is, we rely on immigration to shore up a lot of other problems we've been having. Why not address those problems directly? Why not encourage people to have children? Instead, much of the media would have you believe that saying something like "have more children" is somehow offensive, especially if spoken by a member of the majority demographic. Why is that? What's the point of investing my time and energy into a nation if they care more about immigrants? Why shouldn't I emigrate?
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  3261.  @DarkLink1996  please tell me why you hate natives
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  3262.  @tissuepaper9962  That's a myth and a laughably stupid one as well. I've heard this tripe before. There was no "pre-Capitalism" as you would apparently describe it. Capital has existed since someone has figured out that a medium of exchange is more convenient than bartering, and people have wanted to hoard capital since it's existed. You're stretching the definition of Capitalism to the point where it is meaningless, since it's only existed in its strict definition for a couple hundred years, and coins and even letters of credit have obviously existed since before then.
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  3263.  @tissuepaper9962  Yes, you are. Thanks for agreeing.
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  3264.  @LeeorVardi  It isn't anti-semitic. Consider for example the case of any other minority. If black people controlled the media, they would be out and proud about it. They would be glad that they finally have some industry, some part of society, that is productive and that they can call the shots on. Furthermore it is not bigoted to perform basic statistical observation. Why the special treatment for Jews? Simple fact of the matter is that all Abrahamic religion, not just Judaism, is quite cancerous and tends to be a factor that people use to filter out "undesirable" people, i.e. people not in their group. But with Jews, it is in fact arguably worse because orthodox Jews follow a religion that is actually married to ethnicity; if your mother was not a Jew, you're not a "real" Jew. And before you call me a bigot, just talk to anyone who is actually from Israel. Or read their laws, which restrict marriage between Jews and non-Jews as well as non-Jewish immigration. Similar to radical Muslims throwing gay people off of rooftops, or both male and female circumcision, it's simply a barbaric practice that I can't abide and that no reasonable person should abide. Christians managed to adapt over hundreds of years, it's time for Jews and Muslims to do the same. Although I'd prefer if we managed to leave these all-in-one package deal religions by the wayside but it seems humanity simply doesn't want to let it go. I don't hate an individual. Hating individuals before judging their behavior is not productive. However the problem tends to be when a person of certain biases created by their group associations gets into power. It's been a problem with the Catholic church, Muslim theocrats, white supremacists, and so on. Why not Jews?
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  3265. Yeah guys, I hate to break it to you but boycotts don't work when you don't normally buy or play video games anyway.
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  3266. The concoctions in this are fucking vile. This is very much dangerous assault. Imagine if you had an allergy to any one of these things, or an open cut from something that happened to you earlier and it got infected.
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  3267. You could easily bag groceries while blind, going by the feel and weight of the object at the counter.
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  3268.  @ArleneAdkinsZell  Unless they keep an optometrist on site to measure the "blindness" of each applicant, yeah. They kind of have to.
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  3269.  @specialed6357  Good point. I forgot that they don't have baggers at ALDI. Honestly, it's a job very frequently taken by the disabled, from my personal experience.
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  3270. Tragic but I have to agree. The "they took every precaution and were experts" line from the news station is a bit BS. The father is likely very experienced, but I can only assume he doesn't have the ideal habits drilled into him, because he still had his finger in the trigger when he went to deal with the brass. Even so getting a hot casing is extremely common if you are shooting a pistol because pistol casings tend to eject high and not so much to the side; rifle casings tend to eject to the side more. I've seen what happens when complete idiots try to deal with hot brass, saw a range officer nearly get shot by some moron who kept his gun in his hand finger on the trigger as he messed with his shirt, point it behind him and ND'd into the wall inches behind the RO. The father wasn't an idiot, just tragically unlucky, but I'm surprised he would react in such a way to a hot casing given it sounds like he shoots guns very frequently. Also goes to show that outdoor ranges are much safer than indoor ranges
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  3271. There is also definitely something to be said for corporeal punishment such as lashes as brought up with Singapore. It's much cheaper. It is an effective deterrent. It does not promote further criminal culture by locking you up in a big building where all you do is talk to other criminals, and does not take away job opportunities by wasting you away in a jail cell. Sometimes I truly wonder if it would be more effective. But there's a whole industry built around prisons now...
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  3272.  @BFG-rr9cv  Yeah, I sell off at least half my vodka and food every time I get back to the shop. Water too, it's basically useless.
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  3273. ​ @dkznikolaj7013 The app literally conditions people to act like this. I don't know if women are more susceptible to this kind of manipulation, but if so it's only marginally. It's an app that works almost solely based on appearance and men aren't "designed" to be judged based on appearance. So when women do try to judge on appearance it's literally like using a checklist. Is he X feet tall, does he weigh Y pounds, etc. Then the other women in their social circles tell them "he needs to have Z clothes" and they add that as a requirement too. Guys judge appearances intuitively so they see a woman that might "objectively" be a 5 or a 6 but if it gives him the warm fuzzies, it's all good, and he will tell her she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen and actually mean it. He has an intrinsic brain device that tells him that his pee pee would feel good and that's it.
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  3274. That's why you ride a velociraptor and set up your rifle on a tripod attached to the velociraptor. Then, when your velociraptor's head gets blown off by the muzzle brake, you run away as fast as possible
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  3275. The problem is that he was the rare exception to the rule you pretentious sophist.
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  3276. I can't say I feel sorry for the thief, however, the way the owner's son went about this is a little stupid. He hesitated when he approached the car assuming the guy would freeze because he had a gun pointed at him. You don't brandish a gun at a guy already in his car with key in the ignition, assuming he will stop. The natural response in that situation is to get out as fast as possible criminal or not. In my opinion you have two options here, either call the police and give them the license plate number or shoot him dead. Not much wiggle room when all you have is a gun and he's already in the car.
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  3277.  @Holisticxoxo  Not too long ago, thieves like this would have been hanged by the justice system, even if it was a first offense. It's a lot better for criminals than it was previously and it only gets better. If one offense and prison term doesn't cause you to have a wake-up call, you're probably hopeless.
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  3278. @김철수 Yes? You say that like the majority of criminals here aren't white.
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  3279. ​ @TheHitman644 7k? Uzis go on sale at transferable gun sites for 15k on the regular
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  3280.  @bhazerelli7611  Results of this nation's prison system show that imprisonment is not that effective of a punishment. I am not a softie advocating for "rehabilitation classes." I genuinely think corporeal punishment would be more effective than imprisonment. It is fast, cheap, and it does not weigh people guilty of minor crimes down with a lengthy stay in a hotel filled with other criminals, where they are heavily incentivized to continue being criminals because their job prospects are neutered, and all their new friends are also criminals. I would rather take 40 lashes for a minor crime like petty theft over months in prison, any time, not that I would ever commit such an act. Crazy to me that anyone would value their time so poorly that they would rather go to jail for such long periods and then consider that "humane." Time is the most valuable resource.
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  3281. Honestly I always thought his books were overrated. Tried to read them in high school and couldn't, too boring, and I was a voracious reader in high school. FR was never very good from a narrative perspective in my opinion.
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  3282. The point of the order was to disallow illegal immigrants, specifically, from granting citizenship to their children without being citizens themselves. Not all Americans. If you can't see how this is damaging to our country, and deliberate sabotage by Congress in the 1960s, there's little hope for us. This has nothing to do with the Constitution and everything to do with the Immigration Act of 1965. The Republicans were never truly anti immigration until now because they never challenged this blatantly subversive legislature. In most nations, they do not even grant automatic citizenship to children born to two citizens. It's time to stop being the world's charity fund and free housing project.
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  3283. This argument reveals its absurdity if you flip the genders. Very few men have shied away from playing as a female character and those who have are usually mocked by other men.
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  3284. I'm not diagnosed with anything from a professional, but I have had trouble with anxiety and self-reflection in the past. Sometimes I still don't know if I need treatment or not, but I avoid it because the few therapists I've talked to about possible treatment were not helpful. Neither was my health care plan in telling me who I could talk to. What works for me (I am a very pragmatic and logical thinker) is to detach myself from myself . This doesn't sound different from usual self-reflection, but I will literally think of myself like I'm training a dog. I'm the dog in this scenario. Rewards are important because they put you on the track to good behavior. Don't ever think you are selfish for rewarding yourself if you improved. You need those rewards. I don't know if I'm right, but personally I believe that classical conditioning (i.e. get treat if good / get punishment if bad) can eventually give way to wholistic changes in behavior or perspective if you persist enough.
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  3285.  @lazymansload520  Eh, debatable. The Emperor failed to create a gene-seed in his image that would work on anything but men. Hard to imagine he'd be able to transition successfully. In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there are still only two genders.
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  3286. "What makes me a good haggis butcher? If I were a bad one, I wouldn't be here discussin' it with ya, would I!?"
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  3287. @@JohnsonHoword Here we goo.... and yet you won't lift a finger against the Muslims... tell me again how many atheist trucks of peace or bombings there were
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  3288. The blonde lady in the black garment, while a minor character, is underappreciated in my opinion. Her bemused looks after the climax add a lot to the story.
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  3289. "Oh my God, there's multiple photos, LOOK AT THIS!" You don't need to tell me bro, I'm looking.
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  3290. 320x200, Doom resolution at its finest
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  3291.  @RandyCivilized  They look goofy, but it's clearly deliberately designed that way for balance purposes. I don't mind as long as the balance makes sense. I do feel they need to be on a more level playing field though. The mace is unusable for PvP because it's so easy to avoid and so slow. It has the worst of all worlds; slow and narrow attack range, means you won't ever hit anything but monsters. The horseman's axe is basically a superior version of the mace which the cleric can't use.
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  3292. Little did any of us know that "Dark Brandon" is real and he would emerge after Joe was tossed aside by his own party like a useless invalid.
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  3293. I'm pretty sure that's Tim Schafer's failed clone experiment.
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  3294. @shadixyt  That's what I mean, it usually wasn't that dangerous in 1 since you could see the artifacts from outside the field and then plan your route. Some of them were more dangerous however like the one by the transformers in the abandoned train yard.
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  3295. @@ytuser27 the ironic thing about all of this is that her skin color has nothing to do with race in the minds of the authors, but rather class. her skin is pale because she's royalty and has never had to work a day in her life. if the story was realistic, she would probably become tanned after living in the forest, but maybe not if it is heavily wooded. Germans at that period in time had no notion or care for American political/racial issues.
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  3296. Just go to a martial arts dojo. If you're scared of being hurt, do BJJ. The word "jiu-jitsu" literally means "the gentle art" in Japanese because it has no striking techniques in most schools, especially BJJ. I was a weak computer nerd when I started and I did fine. I mean, it wasn't like I "won" the majority of my rolls, but I got better over time and I enjoyed my time there. They are not strictly men-only but you will see a couple of women there, at the most.
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  3297. There is some truth to this, although I think it's important to not overstep one's boundaries in over-generalizing "the scientific consensus." Stephen Hawking, for example, did a significant amount of research to prove that the laws of nature were not always the same. If you talk to a lot of theoretical physicists, they will not agree with that principle at all. I believe his last greatest project was proving that the laws of physics and our universe as a whole was "evolutionary" as it's put in this talk.
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  3298. As someone with even just a cursory knowledge of martial arts, self defense and gun usage, this guy is quite possibly the biggest asshat I've ever seen and the fact that he publishes <30 second clips telling you how "not to get shot when a guy is pointing a gun directly at your chest" scares me. I am afraid for the people who do take him seriously. Why doesn't he just give the most basic useful advice in that situation? Wait your turn. If the guy was there to kill you, he would have shot you by now. If not, then he's probably there for a kidnapping or a robbery. There will be a point in which he isn't shoving the gun barrel into your chest, or is at least looking away. I guess he is successful because he entertains the fantasies of randoms who think they can be invincible.
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  3299.  @Dice-Z  Less healthy than snacking at 4 AM?
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  3300.  @daniszakirov  No offense man, but you can go nature sight-seeing anywhere in the world... it doesn't mean your industry is great. If you can't handle criticism of an auto industry that doesn't even exist in your nation anymore, I don't know what to tell you. You are a touchy person. Here in America, modern cars made in the US are shit on daily, by Americans... let alone by foreigners. In case you didn't know... the most popular cars in America are Japanese.
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  3301. Dragon Ball is way better if you like a good adventure show with a well rounded cast. Z has its moments, but is not nearly as well-rounded and the meme criticism of it being "The Goku Show Where Goku Always Wins" is basically true. Also, Kai is truer to the manga in some ways and has better pacing for a TV show.
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  3302. Which, coincidentally, is about the amount of money they lost in 2020.
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  3303.  @Ebani  my guy really believes that the US sends money to Israel so they can have a welfare program lmfao
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  3304.  @adamsandifer5588  There are much more secure means of digitally delivering files than email. Mail is definitely less secure than a point-to-point file delivery.
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  3305. She really is showing her "country girl" nature here. Signing the document isn't an agreement to pay the ticket, it is an agreement to either show up in court or pay the ticket. She can show up in court at that time to not pay anything; no officers waste time showing up to city court for traffic violations and when the cop doesn't show up, they lose by default. She can also pay a small time lawyer a paltry fee (like $25) to represent her and show up to court in her stead. The cop looks pathetic not being able to wrestle a 60-something year old woman into handcuffs, but she's an idiot.
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  3306. What a clown world we live in where the counter-culture rebellious thing to do is to want to wait until marriage for sex and always stay monogamous. She sounds like a perceptive girl that realizes the relationship structure (or lack thereof) is the cause of frequent fights and disharmony around the house.
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  3307. This is like a kid's chemistry set for adults. Mix your own soap! Put some droplets in the bottle and watch the fan spin! Wow!
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  3308. ​ @patrickregan3463  The new one I've noticed is that every restaurant, no matter the cuisine, has Mexican cooks. And they do a damn good job.
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  3309. It's a good way to entice other kids to join. Kind of like a "little white lie" that has a good intention behind it.
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  3310.  @onnihalme8819  Self-help bullshit.
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  3311.  @kanjo4976  He's talking about STALKER Anomaly, a modpack/engine rewrite for the first game. It's quite good
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  3312. they do this with every From Soft game. their graphics are usually good enough to get their art design across, but they don't do the typical AAA thing of packing their game with photogrammetry that costs 100 GB of disk space so corporate cocksuckers hate it
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  3313. It's a big deal when she puts on makeup, but shes not allowed to use that time at the gym.
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  3314. Respect to the dispatcher for maintaining some skepticism.
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  3315.  @davidmardianto8976  Eh, not exactly strict. They eat basically one type of food (a stew with lots of ingredients plus rice) but from what I have heard they can eat as much as they want.
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  3316. Last I checked, England is one of the top 3 most obese nations in the world. US aren't the only fat fucks around any more.
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  3317.  @philips7306  They only post on the most subbed/viewed channels.
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  3318. Also, as Asmon touched on at the end, it is a total disconnect from how the developers see the game and how the person making the argument sees it. If they didn't take games seriously, they would not be fit for political propaganda. It is like watching a propaganda piece and saying "it's just a movie."
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  3319.  @ThePartisan13  Only arrogant morons believe they can never be affected by propaganda.
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  3320. I'm amazed they were even arrested in the state of Texas, they're likely to walk.
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  3321. depends highly on the animal, we are social animals so we developed that tribalist mindset. most animals when they see another animal of the same kind are like "oh fuck oh shit i'm probably going to have to fight this guy for food or the right to have sex" we have that same kind of mentality but expanded to "our tribe is probably going to have to fight your tribe for food or the right to have sex (with all your women)"
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  3322.  @RandomPerson-nd2ey  "Well, one thing with that is that the girls in anime have a reputation for looking younger than they "actually are" including underage." Massive case of selective memory there buddy. Anime and manga targeted towards younger people tend to have characters that look older than they actually are. Sailor Moon is probably the most obvious example. The main character changes clothes and puts on makeup and successfully pretends to be an adult many times, despite canonically being a 14 year old middle school student. Her and her friends also have the same height as adult randoms throughout the show. You're just vastly overthinking it. Not everyone watches cartoons so they can get horny. It's more about appealing to the fantasy of what the target audience wants -- young kids want to be mature, powerful and beautiful.
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  3323.  @MrCmon113  "identification is violence" - you, a complete retard, 2023
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  3324. I would say mine is often more like a dialogue. I dont have split personality disorder, but it is often how I reason through my thoughts and get them sorted. Also I frequently imagine or remember things as scenes like from a movie.
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  3325. Not to be "that guy" but abortion is not really a new thing. There's a reason why there's a specific, biblical penalty for women who commit infanticide in medieval law (drowning, to represent the baptism the child never got)
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  3326.  @daisybelle1025  Judgment by humans is inherently biased. The jury is made up of your peers so it is biased towards however the local people behave.
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  3327.  @notcoleman711  Same. When my trainer told me I need to be eating another meal per day, my jaw dropped.
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  3328.  @WarmongerYT  If that's true, it's even more confusing because "bravo mike" clearly means "black male"
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  3329. I made pork chili ramen at home once from scratch and the broth recipe called for soy milk, so I used almond milk instead. Then I figured out I could just use real milk and it would taste just fine.
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  3330. 1:53 I gotta say... Don't lock up a giant chain with a tiny little crappy padlock... Security is only as strong as the weakest link.
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  3331. I know some dudebro type guys who say dead-ass unironically, but these guys push the lingo way above and beyond to a point of parody.
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  3332. I wouldn't jump out in the road to help first, but only because I'd be terrified of being run over by morons. Way too many idiots here who care more about saving 30 seconds while driving than the lives of others.
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  3333. That $40 shirt was almost certainly made using child labor in Bangladesh judging by its cheap quality. Also, he couldn't even be bothered to turn it right-side-in before taking a photo...
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  3334. @Panda Angry Just move to California and steal $899 worth of stuff every day bro. Bam, white privilege destroyed
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  3335. Women are very bad at spatial awareness. I once met a girl who claimed that she doesn't take a man with less than 7 inches. She was like 4 and a half feet tall. She'd probably bleed from men that large, but I'm sure all her boyfriends told her they're 8 inches or more.
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  3336.  @travisbickle1951  They just need to implement a reasonable citizenship test. Citizenship by birth is not even a right that most nations grant. It's pretty unique to the US.
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  3337. I CAN'T GOBBLE
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  3338. ​ @SaltareObscurum pfp fits
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  3339.  @fooddipclips5900  worst one I've seen was the one where a guy takes a giant shit in a genie's lamp
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  3340.  @Super_Middleman  It makes them much more statistically marginal. The narrative was that "this disease is so incredibly deadly that we must effectively shut down the world economy and ruin the lives of everyone who works in some kind of service role." The lockdown caused a lot more pain than the damn disease did.
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  3341.  @suoyidl2654  It's different with game dev, the only reason you'd be in that industry at all is passion. It's shittier hours, pay, and benefits compared to commercial software. They are being burned out by the industry, and it takes on average less than 7 years. The AAA companies have committed to a strategy where they fire devs before they can demand more salary because the supply of new hires is so high, due to the Hollywood-like glamor they've created for themselves. This is how they keep costs low and maintain the authority to demand absurd crunch times (because most of their programmers are first time juniors).
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  3342. If you're an Alien fan, do yourself a favor and play Isolation or any of the AVP games instead. Even the 2010 reboot was massively better than this game, but the classic AVP games have interesting missions if you don't mind old 3D graphics.
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  3343. In Dwarf Fortress, the best thing to do to make your dwarves happy is make them bedrooms with outrageously high valued furniture, but still the size of a closet so you can fit a lot of them in your fortress. This reminds me a lot of that. Lots of underwhelming small rooms filled with overpriced shit to drive up the price.
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  3344.  @AaaaNinja  how many 14 year olds who have never seen someone deal with trauma by using humor watch this video, i wonder
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  3345. It's everything. The font, the no-spaces tag format, the total images tagged besides each label...
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  3346. ​ @AnuragPk-o7e yes it's literally the only conservative news conglomerate in the US
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  3347. It is truly the abject failures of the other companies involved. Like the first reply said, Epic sold themselves out to TenCent and shat out a laughably meager competitor to Steam with the money provided. EA and Ubisoft were both so arrogant that they thought players would love to install all their launchers alongside Steam's. Blizzard actually had a dumb enough fanbase for that same strategy to work, for a while, but even they issue "timed exclusives" for their own distribution platform now before releasing on Steam. Mostly because they've pissed away their fans' loyalty to nothing. MS has a tendency to throw lots of money at projects that fall over in a few years because they aren't their flagship products, kinda like Google does. Games for Windows Live was no exception. Sony is... well, remarkably stupid. Really, I think it would be dishonest to suggest that any of Sony's current strategy was caused by anyone but themselves. They explicitly told all their original Japanese fans that they don't matter, gave Nintendo (of all brands) the entire market for any anime-styled game that touched on anything remotely sexual, took pride in telling everyone that they want to censor any game that releases on their platform, etc. Squeenix is similarly idiotic. They sold off their most valuable Western IPs, like Tomb Raider, for pennies on the dollar because some ancient Nips in suits were incredibly mad that Final Fantasy wasn't performing as well. Then said "uhh, don't worry guys, NFTs will fix it." The price they sold those IPs at still blows my mind to this day. You could write two separate whitepapers for how stupid Sony and Square Enix have been over the past several years.
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  3348. This dipshit was stalking people all morning. Definitely not an "opportunistic" crime. You can tell this is how this guy makes money on the regular,.it isn't his first time.
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  3349.  @cirescythe  In my experience sliders can allow you to make a stupid-looking character, but you should in fact be allowed to do that in an RPG. However, it's also not hard to design a slider creator which allows you to make good-looking characters.
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  3350.  @cirescythe  Is it? Mass Effect 1 did it like 15 years ago.
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  3351.  @asasjsajs  I'm worried that you think it's virtuous to defend your mother for threatening to shoot up a school
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  3352. ​@Standing_horse Trump gave a deadline of July 4th 2026. Elon stated there would be no compensation but I'm not so sure of that
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  3353.  @Blu-3e  Surely, there is no middle ground. We're all either murderous criminals or immaculate knights in shining armor. You watch too much anime.
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  3354. Here's a fun fact most people aren't aware of. Throughout all of history the vast majority of humanity got married when both parties were in their 20s. The "50 year old guy marries a 12 year old girl" thing only happens in the absolute richest echelons of society because the parents are Machiavellian assholes who want to acquire resources by marrying into the other family. So no, women weren't treated as property by the vast majority of society even in ancient times. Both members of a marriage in working class society need to have skills and be physically mature enough to eke out a living together. Just like now. The gesture from the father is simply one of approval and it is one of honor for the groom, to receive his approval in marrying the daughter. It means that there isn't going to be a severing of ties after the marriage and that everyone will be a happy family afterward. It doesn't mean that the father is literally the only person who matters in sanctioning the marriage.
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  3355.  @Localjadedealer  The fact that she's Vietnamese, has a Doraemon tattoo and called you out on that is mind-blowing.
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  3356. @David Smith "Tolkien's orcs were just pure evil and no one complains about that" Oh... you mean you don't know? Perhaps it's best not to mention...
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  3357.  @Kid_Charlemagne  honestly, i miss when all the starter evolutions weren't blatant furbait
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  3358. Yeah, he believes in actually utilizing the market not allowing everyone to sell us shit for nothing "freely." We aren't the world's ATM.
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  3359. ​ @Specter8608 I don't care about your perception of our privilege. It would be absurd to sit around and watch a bunch of corrupt buffoons piss away our advantages.
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  3360.  @johndong7524  It's easy to gather that OP likely has more issues with their mother than simply making questionable purchasing decisions. No need to project your exact life story onto theirs.
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  3361. "You flagged for PVP" is a perfect analogy here, the 60 warrior main was waiting for the 23 rogue to fuck around
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  3362.  @driumissimo  You chose the Horde side though? Like what the fuck did you expect? Spawning into Durotar and being surrounded by slave laborers and being assigned a job to smack them on the head to get them working again didn't clue you in that you might be the baddies?
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  3363.  @IKIGAIofficial  You say this like that reason is incredibly obvious and morally objective. It isn't, and it's fucking dumb. It's mostly a product of Puritan upbringings believing that sex is just as bad or worse of a sin than violence.
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  3364. I've heard that trans operations are popular in certain ME nations, I think Iran specifically. Reason being is that it's a loophole for gay people to not get killed.
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  3365.  @secretbassrigs  Not everyone needs a degree. It's really that simple. Some are simply blessed with the talent and resourcefulness to not need it. Alternatively, some fields of study simply aren't as hard as profiteering educators would have you believe.
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  3366.  @nanettegray9674  Based on statistics and probability. Most extroverts are not as good at analysis as introverts are. Hence they're often not as well equipped to understand why people act the way they act, but they get a false sense of confidence from being a "social butterfly" that tends to make them think they know how everyone works because they get along with many people. Really what they are doing is socializing a lot with their type of people, but they pay little mind to people who they don't like and ignore or ostracize them. On the other hand, for all the introverts' analysis, they will likely either not be able to communicate that, or they will be pessimistic about it because it was received negatively in the past.
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  3367.  @nanettegray9674  Firstly, you say the last sentence like it is a bad thing, when really you've just revealed again that you don't really understand how an introvert's mind works. You assume your perspective is the default "correct" one and that not having a conversation is inherently bad. Secondly, you're doing exactly what I described in my last post, you are taking offense and "othering" people you believe you will not click with, because you do not wish to analyze or accept self-responsibility. You've come here just to tell everyone off. It's an easy and convenient way to deal with people, to be sure. Sometimes I wish I could do it. It does get tiring thinking about edge cases all the time and trying to look for "weird" people to get along with instead of classifying them into neat boxes. This entire topic is about general trends, it is silly and immature to take personal offense when we both know that these two categories can't possibly describe every personality trait of a person.
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  3368.  @Aquascape_Dreaming  I don't know where you get the sense of "more valuable" from. I don't think I saw anyone saying that introverts are more valuable, just lamenting the tendency for others to assume that a lack of socializing equates to dislike or hatred. You equate the ability to overanalyze with value? That sounds like some kind of weird internal bias from your own introversion. I only wish to see the world for what it is, without insecure people being offended at their flaws, no matter what their personality type is. No one can move forward or improve themselves unless they acknowledge their own flaws. By grade level and career choice, I'm a pretty "smart" (at least, book smart) person. But I don't think intelligence is the key defining trait of a person's value. I value the company of manual laborers, they are often no-nonsense and have funny stories to tell. I value the company of farmers for similar reasons. To me, a different perspective is always valuable, but if your contribution to a conversation sucks, then you're boring. If you get offended when no one was clearly trying to offend you, you're annoying. It's really that simple.
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  3369. Where were you when you found out Charlie works for the Patriots?
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  3370.  @gurvmlk  Resident Evil also has that appeal, but it has a lot more going for it. You compete for time, or challenge runs, instead of points. It's a very replayable game that can be beaten in just a few hours if you know what you're doing. You can speed run any game, but RE in particular is welcoming to that audience. As opposed to something like a Zelda game, which is going to take you several hours unless you abuse bugs heavily and doesn't track your play time.
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  3371.  @lightpika  they do know, it just takes a long time until they self-reflect and realize where they're at
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  3372.  @lennysummers6672  actually, I think the UI is one of the only good things this game has going for it
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  3373.  bastiat  None of those people were armed or taking action you bozo. That sounds a lot more like nihilism to me. Just pissing away time waiting for your life to end. Nietzsche would say that is literally the opposite of being an alpha.
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  3374.  @pugsymalone6539  "the burden is on real, old-school, JFK liberals to defend/reclaim the definition of the word and the culture," The burden is on everyone, collectively, to remind each other that the label has been co-opted. Classical liberals are a victim in this culture war. When topics like these are brought up, typically "conspiracy theorist" and other such meaningless labels are thrown around immediately. We have a duty to ensure that the truth is kept in focus and all of us lose by not doing that. By "we" I mean literally everyone not just conservatives. There are high-level government agencies with virtually no accountability working since decades past to manipulate this narrative. Most notably the CIA.
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  3375.  @fieryscorpion  Ah yes, I love waterfall and not being able to test my code until 6 months later when I've forgotten all about it
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  3376. $5k is not really amazing if you're a high class escort servicing rich men. Take a look at the money Trump paid Daniels, for example. I don't know why she thinks that is some kind of huge own.
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  3377.  @Codeman22  Er... no. I am a gun rights advocate, but no, many people are very irresponsible. And even if it was locked up, many products for that are simply trash and can be broken into by any enterprising child. Check out LockpickingLawyer's videos on gun safes
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  3378. Technical departments look bad on a spreadsheet. This lesson is just too hard to learn for managers, especially ones that come from a finance or investment background. They see red number, think scary bad, and fire hundreds of people. They literally think that the money just goes into a hole and no value comes out of it because they didn't do the work to study how much value the work they do on the product or service is worth.
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  3379. I like how the "Skyrim lore" apparently requires its warriors to be clunky idiots who barely know how to hold a weapon as in the default animation set. Why can't we have actually fluid animations in the game for once? It is basically an action game with only a few RPG elements after all.
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  3380.  @zzodysseuszz  I mean there are people who have played WoW since it launched. Do you think others take their opinions seriously when it comes to the game? They can't relate to casual players or even most hard core players at that point. I'm glad you got your money's worth but it's kinda hard to take your opinion seriously. Maybe if you played some other games your opinion might change.
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  3381. He's not even that intelligent. He's just a black version of Bill Nye; clown with no qualifications who was propped up as "pop science lecturer" for no apparent reason.
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  3382.  @JobiWan144  that just means at least 3 people are morons, i got it immediately. stay in school kids
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  3383.  @Arroganze  I couldn't do that in good conscience, because I always think about edge cases and I'd be worried about getting the one dumbass cop that ruins somebody's life, possibly because dispatch didn't provide a clear picture of the situation. This is just a thought experiment.
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  3384. I've worked in software for 10 years. The simple answer to your question is that it doesn't matter. Security standards have only increased over time and will continue to get better. Any arbitrary number you choose for password attempts will be irrelevant in less than 10 years. Actually, the new ideal to shoot for is passwordless security. The police will not only need to confiscate your phone but some other device to unlock it, or perhaps there will be an even better security measure in the future that I haven't thought of. Fingerprint and face scans are already way better than a stupid 6 digit number.
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  3385.  @rameshpudhucode6862  We'd still have this problem even if you snapped your fingers and made all the guns disappear from this nation
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  3386. No, we don't. This has nothing to do with the Constitution, and it's a pathetic attempt to make Trump look more authoritarian than he is. The problem of "anchor babies" or citizens born to non-citizens stems from the 1965 Immigration Act.
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  3387. They should all play Pokemon or Fortnite together in an "AI presidents come to life" promotion
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  3388. @paulthebohemian Other than illegal activity, that's an absurd argument because virtually every publisher is never held liable for misinformation. I'd be very interested to hear about the last time the AP was held liable for omitting that a murderer was an illegal migrant, for example. The censorship policy is driven by ideology and an ulterior motive to change election outcomes.
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  3389. ​ @johnsober no one is stating piracy is legal you buffoon. logically piracy is not the same as theft because there is no loss of assets anywhere. it is more analogous to having a magic wand that makes perfect copies of things at no cost. then the owner of a store gets mad that you're making copies of his stuff instead of buying it because he thinks he's losing sales
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  3390.  @johnsober  It's not really a "strawman" if I made an honest mistake and misunderstood your small semantic difference, I have no idea why you wrote a whole essay about it when you could have said "hey buddy I was talking about legal viability not law"
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  3391.  @johnsober  that's a whole lot of butthurt over a single "buffoon"
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  3392. This is kinda sad, because someone who worked on this movie started with an okay idea on the drawing board. "Airplane! was a great comedy, let's make a movie for modern audiences inspired by that." Except it falls completely flat on execution.
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  3393.  @kABUSE1  It's literal soap opera shit. Same reason dumb people watch soaps, or "reality" TV. They just want to turn off their brain and watch stupid controversial shit happen that agitates their amygdala. Most of them probably know its fake, they just like feeling emotionally agitated.
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  3394. I have had moments where I was anxious or guilty because I got high, and there were things I needed to do. So I just did them. Don't smoke indica. It makes you too lazy. I used to do one (small, vape sized) bowl a day in the evening. However recently I haven't been doing it every day.
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  3395.  @inscription8099  It's basically a political mafia designed to force corporations into behaving in a certain way.
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  3396.  @Xport9  You have to be pretty dumb to post there to begin with
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  3397. Literally the only syndicated cable TV program I can think of that dropped a hard R was South Park when Randy went on Wheel of Fortune. No idea what kind of maple syrup this guy is drinking.
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  3398. What are you doing where you have hours to stream yourself playing video games and still don't realize not to SCREAM INTO YOUR FUCKING MICROPHONE BECAUSE IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE, regardless of how expensive it is?
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  3399. Well, this video is more like a case against open carry without a retention holster than open carry period. However, I do believe that open carry is a bad idea regardless, unless you are an active security guard. It's basically like playing poker with your cards face-up on the table. With the added downside that there's a high chance that some idiot on your table might get offended that you have the ace of spades. No reason to do it.
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  3400. @bobloblaw7465 Wow, how did anyone get any sleep before cops stopped using their sirens? Everyone in the entire city must have had insomnia according to you.
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  3401. Literally an ouroborous of content.
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  3402.  @nureauamerica  Mental health is a real thing, too... I'm sorry but you sound like a dreadful stick-in-the-mud. Try to find the value in intangible things and don't be such a robot. It isn't about the candy but the act of giving. It isn't about the value of the costume but showing the costume to other people, complimenting them and receiving compliments.
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  3403.  @bloedekuh  imagine basing your entire political allegiance on some court jester that dances for your amusement on a screen
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  3404. Truth my ass. Learn subjectivity. Not all of us like screaming.
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  3405.  @scrubscrub4492  You didn't like Generations? Or Mania?
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  3406.  @scrubscrub4492  Fair enough, I think saying it is worse than Sonic 06 is a bit pushing it though.
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  3407. Yes, they're hated because they bend rules, although they usually don't break them, to succeed. But I think far worse than that is the fact that they tend to protect their own even when they are undeniably in the wrong. The ADL is basically the epitome of this behavior. Because they're such a small, and typically foreign group, the blatant group favoritism is seen in a much less favorable light to the majority. For a group to stop being discriminated against, they must recognize their own who are in the wrong and they must disavow them. Otherwise, the silent ones are seen as complicit, and they are labeled guilty too. This is expected of white and Christian people and no other group in the modern zeitgeist. Muslims don't do it, blacks don't do it, Jews don't do it. Heck, even Israel is better at doing this than most other Jews -- they fired their guy who stated that maybe Palestine could be nuked. So, now we have a situation where everyone hates white people because they're starting to become disillusioned with apologies and holding themselves accountable, and white people are beginning to hate everyone else for seemingly not possessing the same ability to self-account (which is really not true, but they are being convinced by members of authority -- leftist politicians -- that self-accountability is weakness). Ironically racial and ethnic tensions are at an all time high. And I'd say it is by design.
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  3408. I agree with you but we also have to be prepared for the worst in that scenario. What you're really talking about is a total loss of trust in the justice system. It will be a bad day.
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  3409. "Cringey" is indeed the term, or "cringeworthy" if you prefer to sound more sophisticated.
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  3410.  @ovrjoyd4u2  Eh, Senator will do.
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  3411.  @oliconbob3179  There aren't Japanese neocons. Neoconservatism is a position defined by America's ability to project power across the world.
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  3412. "Hunt" isn't even the right word any more. They are a nuisance animal, like rabbits or locusts. I've seen videos of elaborate traps (giant pens, usually) to trap 40 or more at a time.
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  3413. @lukasmelric3789 Sure, if you lack the perspective to understand that thousands of years of history is a very long time to spread out even hundreds of instances of such a feat.
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  3414.  @90whatever  Maybe if you only go to Starbucks and Apple stores you'll have a hard time finding anyone but 20-something soyboys who brag about how they fired a break-action shotgun last week. Among my friends, and the jiu-jitsu dojo I used to go to, trips to the gun range were brought up so casually that it was clear they assume you go, too. I met one of my co-workers that I'd never seen in the office at the range because he saw the company logo on the bag I was using at the time.
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  3415. The idiot troll in this thread doesn't even deserve direct replies, let alone $250k.
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  3416. Canonical, your repo management drives me up the wall.
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  3417. There is actually a large expatriate community of Japanese in Brazil. Not sure if this man was one of them.
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  3418.  @itrytobeanonymoustoo5289  Piracy is very rarely "about" depriving profit from a business. There are very few pirates that download data illegally out of principle. The vast majority do it because the product or service is not available in their market or they can't pay for it. Or, as in this case, the service is more burdensome than piracy; as Gabe Newell once said. And he's right, I usually buy games on Steam because it is convenient. Piracy out of principle is a privilege for first-world people with an interest in software/data and a significant chunk of free time.
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  3419.  @haniajis  I actually hate that particular video because it fails to take into account the local conditions for gathering those ingredients in the time period. He presents farm-fresh salmon and pretends that it was what a medieval Englishman would have eaten, when in reality he would have likely eaten disgusting brown salmon that was tainted by the polluted Thames and possibly filled with parasites. Hence why salmon was considered low class food. However I think he didn't do the research on that himself, he had some other people gather and prepare the food for him.
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  3420.  @teslagamer24  Dude, Australia is not as big as the US. The US is the third largest nation in the world, behind only Canada and Russia. China and Brazil are also ahead of Australia.
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  3421.  joshschmidt3841  Why not? You think you're going to be able to stop Chinese spies? Fuck no, you're not. Might as well have a laugh in the meantime. I'm not going to see this world go to shit, and still be sad about it, because it's happening either way.
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  3422.  @prico3358  holy shit man, don't act like a clown just because you don't like british government, don't go to bat for fragile groids
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  3423.  @Fuchs-c7o  It's a "direct result" of oligarchs wanting to control speech. What's truly a mystery is why people like you seem to think that this idea of rich people acquiring control to secure their interests is exclusive to capitalism. You act as if there is a mystic idol of a pig in a top hat and monocle that could be smashed with a sledgehammer, and then a spell will be broken and people will stop wanting to be rich. Take a dip in Chinese social media, and see how people talk about topics there. I guarantee you it makes our euphemisms and nu-speak look tame. I'm sure you'll say, "but that's just the capitalist influence in their shiny, divine, flawless Communist society..." In truth, it doesn't matter. Not even a little. Because the accrued assets of the historically wealthy has far surpassed critical mass. We're talking about people who have transcended any reliance on government entities, completely. Think of it like a game of Civilization or Risk; they're the players. Actually, even that is inadequate because you can only control one nation at a time in those games. It doesn't matter what system of governance we use; they will pull the strings and we will dance for them. The only thing we can do is be aware, and wait until they inevitably fuck it up for themselves, as they have been on track to do for a few decades now. Also, use the internet, where they still have the inability to control everything, as they do in print and broadcast media.
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  3424.  @zerotodona1495  It's really not, at least not for me. I am an avid user of explicit material, but when I meet a woman I'm interested in, I stop immediately. It is as if my brain reminds me what I'm really here for and I lose all desire to use pornography. The problem is that such women only come around very, very rarely for me. I don't have high standards for looks or anything like that; in fact, based on an informal "study" me and my friends did for fun in college based on a selection of 100 (non explicit) model photos, I have lower standards than most men.
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  3425. He does get motion sick in cars though.
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  3426. ... "only?" I've never had a cell phone stolen ever, US or otherwise.
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  3427.  @egmjag  That's insane to imagine. I can't say I agree with the attitude some cultures have towards the elderly. They deserve respect from those who know them, sure, but that just goes too far.
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  3428. Actually, it's "Buy all of our pharmaceuticals!"
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  3429.  @clocked0  It's not malicious intent, not the way the court sees it. You have to prove that they lied with intent to defame, and not that they didn't just make a mistake. It's virtually impossible in the US.
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  3430.  @CypressDahlia  Huh, it's almost as if not everyone who plays video games has the same moral or political opinions. Who'd have thought?
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  3431. 8:53 "Right now I look fine..." I'm not going to lie, he doesn't look fine. It's clear why he became a soldier and not an actor, but I don't think anyone can blame him for feeling the way he does.
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  3432. I hate League of Legends. I used to have a level 30 account with several skins, and I frequently won games, kept myself up to date on the meta, etc. And now, I hate it. Go figure.
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  3433. In this case I've heard that the executives in charge of Hasbro's new monetization strategy regarding D&D were headhunted from Microsoft and Xbox. So yes, they are delusional idiots who think they can monetize D&D like a video game.
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  3434. "anyone that finds tomboys attractive is gay" >hot >has interests in common with men, making it easy to spend more time with her >gap moe when she shows her feminine side >reliable if you have a family with her you might as well say that liking football or shooting guns is gay because it's masculine, because that is really what you're suggesting by law of transitive property
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  3435.  @siren499  Hey buddy, that's an awfully cool way to say an entire culture is pedos with absolutely 0 sources.
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  3436.  @shadowsdclxvi3062  clueless guy doesn't pay attention and calls everyone else an idiot for noticing patterns. business as usual on the internet
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  3437.  @godhand291  CIA does this regularly. they did this for project MKULTRA as well. we have many documents related to it, but many more were "lost" in fires
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  3438.  @Smooth_Operator  Why not focus on, y'know, the causes of that mental anguish instead of miming every single authoritarian state in history who said "hmm, I don't like this person because they're a political opponent, oh I know I'll just declare them insane and that will take all their rights away?" It's because the politicians don't give a fuck. It's so easy to pass some bullshit law that says "now you can only use 5 rounds in a magazine" and say you did something good because a law passed. They don't fucking care and their methods don't fucking work. Let me be the first to say I empathize, I know a girl who lied to me and went behind her boyfriend's back so she could shoot herself by sneaking into his place when he wasn't there and using his gun. But guess what? Red flag laws wouldn't have prevented that.
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  3439. As bad as it was D-Day actually could have been a lot worse, the Allies managed to fake the Germans out into thinking they would land along a totally different stretch of coast line that was even more well-fortified.
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  3440.  @pacifist1360  although the "acorn assassin" definitely was delusional for his actions, the arrested man was on suspicion of having a suppressed firearm, which was what the cop was afraid he had heard. in other words if you don't fool around with illegal activity there's virtually no way you can end up in that scenario unless a cop just snaps one day and decides to blast somebody. it's almost always in these "edge case" scenarios where a suspect has committed some kind of crime, often a minor one, but the cop reacts disproportionately to bad behavior, that result in police malpractice. either that, or a citizen is acting standoffish with an officer because they technically have the right to do so which tends to provoke petty and aggressive officers into behaving poorly. not saying that those cops are justified, but i am saying that if you keep your nose clean and be polite you will not end up in these scenarios. also, don't drive a car. that helps a lot
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  3441.  @Sercer25  Vanilla has flaws, as you mentioned, but it doesn't "suck" which is a very vague word. Clearly not, otherwise we wouldn't have a new game which is effectively "Vanilla experimental branch." Presumably, you mean that vanilla isn't worth playing, which is silly. Just play a spec that doesn't suck, like any other RPG with balance problems (all of them).
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  3442. Sadly I've been victim to the same behavior. Dipshit truck driver (not a legit hauler, some contractor service guy driving his work truck) was trying to turn left into a neighborhood. I was walking across the entrance to said neighborhood and I'm about 95% sure he could not have even turned into the entrance at that point due to passing traffic. When I was halfway across he yelled "Get the fuck out of the way!" I just shot him the bird and kept walking at the same pace. It was so strange because crossing that entrance took probably less than 5 seconds and I'm pretty sure his window, if it was that tight which would be stupid, didn't even exist. He was just enraged that I would dare to be a pedestrian walking on the sidewalk of a busy road near a bunch of neighborhoods.
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  3443.  @Dandoskyballer  That is not nearly as simple as you make it sound. Very often the other parent will villianize the step-parent, sometimes without them even truly knowing. Glad it worked out for you. Weird that you think it works out for everybody.
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  3444. Idols are a little different because both the celebrity and the fans are willingly engaging in a fantasy. This is why vtubing took off so naturally. It was only a very minor change for the idol to be an anime girl because it was already a fantasy to begin with. Almost all fans maintain awareness that it is a fantasy, but mentally ill ones do not. In many ways, it sucks. However, it has some pros. Think about how every little detail of a celebrity's life is shared in the news here in the west and how that's just treated as "normal." Being an idol protects you from that, to some extent. Sure, people still obsess over you, but you have a whole management firm who is trying to help you keep your life a secret.
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  3445. For once the Dems made the GOP mistake. In every election since Bush Jr. at least, the GOP compromises by picking some kind of moderate guy that nobody cares about. And he doesn't get elected because nobody cares, until Trump
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  3446.  @IamCupkake  You really think Disney would sue to prevent themselves from receiving free tax dollars?
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  3447.  @dragb9284  And yet you're seeing it happen in real time? Not sure what to tell you man, you're complaining about shit that happened before either of us were born. Also, I'm not really a partisan. Try not to be a pawn.
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  3448.  @dragb9284  So convenient that you just ignore the principles of corporate citizenship that have fomented in the US for over a century and pretend like this idea just came around a little over a decade ago.
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  3449. @ Okay, keep beating around the bush and disingenuously pretending that track suits are acceptable for formal occasions. Maybe it'll make you win '28.
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  3450. Many of the fringe Democrats are because they're not the establishment. Even Maher is fringe at this point, at least compared to the Dem leadership if not the grassroots. Center-left is vanishing in terms of representation. They basically understand how Republicans feel when their party nominates a turd of a candidate like Mitt Romney.
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  3451. @kicdutchmusic4809  We all are, apparently. His solution to racism is racism. Therefore, everyone must naturally be racist to move forward. It's funny how much this proves the horseshoe theory, at least as far as our domestic politics are concerned. Far left and far right both circle back to being unapologetically racist, all the time. All that changes is what specific group the racism claims to benefit. In this case, it is black people. The logical outcome of this line of thinking is a black version of Pol Pot, Hugo Chavez or Stalin. But in actuality, it never goes that far. Why? Because too many black people are dependent. It's a mindset doomed to hypocrisy and stagnation.
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  3452.  @YellowW-x4j  good luck with that one homie, from a fellow virgin the human brain craves reproduction and we'll all suffer for not doing it eventually
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  3453. Modern military doctrine demands that every soldier carries more. There's no space for stick shaped grenades
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  3454. Nice that you found it, but weird they didn't take it to the police. They handle lost and found from what I understand
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  3455. The idea that someone thinks it's currently easier/cheaper to create perfect robot clones of celebrities instead of just recruiting and brainwashing new talent is hilarious to me. Human life is cheap in the eyes of the powerful, never forget.
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  3456. If you want to hear some racist opinions, ask any East Asian about other East Asian ethnicities. Probably buy a round of drinks first because you'll be there a while.
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  3457.  @libertariansasquatch  You're right, virtue signaling isn't enough. Say, you wouldn't happen to be a federal agent by chance?
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  3458.  @xelthiavice4276  "And yet doing nothing about it" Well we have that problem where an FBI agent sticks his government-mandated appendage down our throat when we congregate. Feel free to burn down lower-middle class local businesses because a criminal got shot though, I'm sure no one will stop you.
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  3459. Sadly most Americans really do have shit taste. I say this as another American, who was cursed to have a German family and visit his family there. Then I understood why I never liked beer well past 21; it was because it all sucked in my home country. But most people will drink it, as if it's the only thing available. It just makes me shake my head in sadness. IPAs are probably the biggest overrated trend I've ever seen, but at least they have some kind of flavor. It just usually isn't very good.
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  3460.  @jtmann2002  Stouts are okay, but I don't normally drink them because of how filling they are, and their flavor lends them to being a beer that you drink on its own without food to accompany it. And yes, a lot of the good beer in US is regional. Others exist outside of supermarkets and you'll never know they exist unless you go to a restaurant or bar that happens to have it on tap. I had a decent wheat beer at a burger joint last week and the server didn't even know what it was called. Guess I'll never buy that one. However even the smaller breweries get a lot of things wrong in the US. Especially when it comes to wheat beers. American brewers are obsessed with over-filtering wheat beers because they like clear beers. Even though, y'know, that's where all the flavor is. You're removing the flavor. Stop it. Really the problem is that most Americans are just satisfied drinking the mass produced crap. Corona, Bud, Miller, Coors, etc. The market demand for good beer simply isn't strong enough.
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  3461. Around muggles, it's always a struggle.
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  3462.  @zebunker  It's been illegal for decades dude. This is like asking "How do you know that water is wet? I need at least three sources for this outrageous claim." The reason they keep getting away with it is because they're from China or other nations where authorities either cannot be bothered or willfully do not comply with US and Japanese copyright law
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  3463.  @deenman23  that is a completely different problem with very different variables. don't compare apples and oranges. this is thievery, not drug distribution. you don't need an international supply chain to do thievery, just a couple guys you can sell your hot goods to
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  3464.  @LB-yg2br  The reason is ignorance. Race is a pseudoscientific word from the 19th century. We have ethnicities and haplogroups and phenotypes, but not race, it is not based on anything scientific. The reason why we still use the word is because America has been obsessed with it since the Civil War ended and American politics went on to shape the world in many ways. As much as I don't agree with progressives, it's hard to argue that "America was foundationally racist" is wrong when we had laws like the Three-Fifths Compromise and the "one drop rule." FYI, the Nazis looked at us for reference for how to write their legislation regarding Jewish lineage and thought "You know what? The one drop rule is too extreme." Such are the consequences of being born as, in large part, a mercantile slave colony.
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  3465. ​@Discoveryman29 I don't even like Doom Eternal, but even I am not disingenuous enough to suggest the soundtrack carried the game. Most people liked the gameplay. They liked the Metroidvania elements, which I personally was not looking for in a Doom game. I would argue that Doom 2016 and Eternal did far more to bring in new fans to appease old fans, even if they did try to appease old fans a lot. Simple fact of the matter is there are far more people interested in gaming now than in 1993.
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  3466. The standards thing is such a paper-thin bullshit discussion. Nobody said "this shouldn't be held as a standard" when actually exceptional games (in terms of funding and resources) came out, like Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar developed a whole new animation engine for their games that nobody else has access to -- granted, it was done before RDR2 entered development, but still. That same standard of production quality went all the way back to GTA4/RDR1 when the engine was developed. Holding any game company to Rockstar's standard of production would frankly be completely absurd. They broke many records with RDR2. If holding any game up as a standard would hurt the industry, it would be a game like RDR2. But not a peep came out about it. Only when Larian released their game, which was supposed to be for a niche audience, did this suddenly become relevant. Instead the fact that horse balls shrink in cold weather was celebrated. What they're really trying to say and don't want to admit is that they don't have either the creative freedom or talent to make a game like BG3. Or both. Based on everything I've played and seen, BG3 is a well-produced game but the idea that its budget reached anywhere near that of the typical AAA game seems totally ridiculous to me. It has no armies of investors ready to shovel money at their studio. It also has relatively small world maps that are content-dense. This is an older style of sandbox design that started with games like Gothic way back in 2000 because the tech was not there for larger worlds. So instead of complaining about it, designers adapted and I still believe Gothic is a very good game (although the combat did not age as well, the world is very well designed). It's a pretty cheap way to make an RPG; less map means less time and money spent on assets. But this type of intelligent design requires talent and passion and breathing room afforded by management. None of these things are in good supply in the typical AAA studio. Not because the devs are inherently worse, but because the studios are simply not ran that way. Their data has told them it's not cost efficient to make "truly" good games and it makes them angry when they're proven wrong. And like the data nerds they are, they cry "statistical outlier" and pretend it never happened.
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  3467. @kosmique Russia says hello. But yes, your point is correct.
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  3468. BRO CRINGE TRASH BRO BRO TOXIC DUDE BRO GARBAGE TRYHARD BRO
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  3469.  @Jake_Sully445  No, it isn't, and phrasing it that way is irresponsible. It creates the impression that guns are scary unpredictable devices that can "go off" when no one is touching them. In reality it happened because someone was too thin-skinned to control their hands after they were hit with something less painful than a bee sting. You are responsible for your hands, no one else is. And furthermore, even if it were a mechanical failure, you are responsible for the maintenance and inspection of your firearm. "The gun discharged" implies that the gun has agency. It doesn't.
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  3470. Neural networks aren't tracing you massive idiot. Please know what you're talking about before you throw around accusations. Look up Stable Diffusion since you obviously know nothing about the technology driving that website.
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  3471.  @jaywan5553  This type of behavior isn't exclusive to America nor is it exclusive to gun-owning people. I've seen bicyclists run down in Australia when they did nothing wrong and obeyed all traffic laws. In Russia it's standard practice to have a dash cam due to liability and you'll see plenty of people intentionally ramming each other with vehicles. It's just as lethal but you're simply biased because they're guns.
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  3472.  @succatash  let's just say they're the people on the other side of this Palestinian thing
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  3473. ​ @SamuelClemente7718  They're not even hiding it, all the reporters interviewing primary voters that voted for Haley got footage of them saying "Yeah, I'm a Biden voter, but I'm doing this to hurt Trump" Her entire campaign is a Democrat Trojan horse
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  3474.  @16m49x3  I mean in fairness, assuming that Hogwarts is one of if not the only wizard school in the world (I'm not saying that it is the only, but I imagine there aren't very many), Hogwarts would be the place to go to see black people in 1800s England. Presumably wizards from out of country send their kids to go get an education.
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  3475. You want to pay taxes for this guy to live in lock-up and do nothing? Rofl.
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  3476.  Big_Mike_In_TN  Right. Which means it's even less valuable in tax dollars. There's a far more expedient option and it involves 5 other guys, a few rifles and a blindfold if you catch my drift.
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  3477.  @refugeehugsforfree4151  Kojima is flawed but he tries, absolutely. He's a bit of an off-kilter auteur. Todd Howard is a lying bastard who never tries. I agree with the person you responded to -- I don't think Death Stranding was that good either. And don't get me started about his unhealthy obsession with Hollywood or his obnoxious cameos in games like Cyberpunk 2077. I'll still take 5 Kojimas over 1 Todd Howard any time.
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  3478.  @M_CFV  Konami was always a shitty place. This was a well-known secret if you're "in the know" about industry rumors. Kojima took a stand almost 20 years too late. He claimed, repeatedly, that every MGS game would be his last -- but he couldn't turn down those sweet paychecks, and was too arrogant to allow anyone else to have "his baby," the Metal Gear franchise. He's no justice warrior. And indeed, Konami course-corrected him into making a game that everyone wanted on MGS3, whereas MGS2 was a deliberate troll to his fans -- but you wouldn't understand that unless you saw that E3 presentation and how it dishonestly portrayed Snake as the protagonist of that game. What nobody really understands is that Konami makes its money off of gambling machines in Japan. If every game developer that worked for Konami quit now out of protest, they simply wouldn't give a shit. They nearly shut down their entire gaming branch after Kojima left because the CEO was extremely pissed.
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  3479.  @andythierry5402  You're confusing "masterpiece" with "cult classic."
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  3480.  @archonthaaproducer  If you think ME2 had anything approaching the freedom in choice BG3 did... I dunno what to tell ya. ME2 was a fun game, don't get me wrong, and it delivered a great ending sequence... but it was not a showcase for narrative choice.
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  3481.  @Abken.  Bro, you're really going to claim that HoMM3 has better combat than BG3? Come the fuck on. I'm sure you think about how deep and intricate the combat is every time you sweep the map with another stack of Power Liches.
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  3482.  @the_chomper  We don't have to "stoop to their level" just ignore the extremist elements and don't pretend that they represent us and don't respond to criticism that implies you are associated with them. That sort of association smearing doesn't work on most people who are just single issue voters
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  3483.  @beloved-child  Someone else stated he might be using snakeshot. It would make a lot of sense. Horrible choice if true, no idea why he would think that would be effective.
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  3484.  @beloved-child  Google is your friend.
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  3485. Do people actually think Greek philosophers were atheist or agnostic? Plato writes about metaphysics at length and about the components of the human soul.
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  3486.  @paulheinrichdietrich9518  To be specific here, if I recall right the "Divine Craftsman" myth is from The Republic, which is actually a blueprint for an ideal state. The divine myth described there is one that is intended to be knowingly spread to the people as a form of governance for an ideal culture, not what he actually believed in. However Plato did believe in the soul and if you believe in a soul you have to believe that the soul comes from somewhere.
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  3487.  @Dianruakrhakakks  I mean... kinda? What do 80% of men do when women all compete for the top 20%, according to dating app statistics? Are they supposed to just suck it up and be miserable? Or is that not enough, you'd have to shame them for fucking robots and dolls too?
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  3488. He probably didn't know they had video of it.
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  3489.  @Freedom_Half_Off  Haha, not at all. Dude's never heard of a plea deal or a settlement.
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  3490.  @RobouteGuilliman972  No.
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  3491.  @oliviaa_clairee  This is literally what middle names are for, name your kid one of your middle names if you're really creatively bankrupt, or use your grandfather/mother's name
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  3492.  @Huckle777  Now you're disingenuously suggesting that I was talking about the EE of the game, not the 28-year old original game and all of the other games (Neverwinter Nights, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale) that used the exact same system and had the same problems. It's almost like they added that specific option you were talking about because it was terrible originally. It's okay to admit you were wrong.
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  3493.  @Huckle777  Yeah, you're the guy deliberately misconstruing what I'm saying just to win an argument online, but I'm obviously the no-life loser yelling at things pointlessly when all I did was offer a passing remark to begin with. Remember buddy, you started this argument. All I did was effectively say "Boy I'm sure glad that games aren't the way they were 30 years ago." Then you compared what I said to a changed version of that game released within the last few years. Literally the opposite of a "grandpa" if I'm celebrating that new thing is new, use your fucking brain.
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  3494.  @Huckle777  OK. You are the victim and I'm a douchebag even though you picked a bone with my retrospective comment that was aimed at no one in particular. I'm done arguing with a moron who already agrees with me and just wants to beat around the bush because he likes arguing.
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  3495.  @yewtewbstew547  What's so great about it? Is automatically losing your action because you accidentally clicked too far to move great? What about constantly mashing pause when the game could have done that for you automatically, is that great? Lack of information about available action economy in a round? In adapting a game to a fundamentally different combat timing system, the designers create new problems for themselves to solve that were simply not in the original rules. I have played BG 1 and 2, ID 1 and 2, NWN 1 and 2, and P:T. I tolerated it when I was a kid, but when I played D&D on the table and some of the turn-based CRPGs (especially DOS1) I realized how dumb the whole thing was. Literally the only benefit to the system is that you don't have to spend as much time on trash mob encounters where you don't have to think about your actions because you can let your PCs auto attack. Do you know what the far better solution to this problem is? Don't put boring trash mob encounters in your game. Larian does a very good job at avoiding that problem. Almost every encounter is interesting in all of their games.
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  3496.  @kymo6343  You expect me to call a he a she when he still looks blatantly like a he.
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  3497. Sony Japan hates Fromsoft because they dishonored their famry by wanting to have multiplat releases instead of being a cringe lord exclusive.
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  3498.  @RockMonger  the wall was likely a dividing line for their private property where they held the vigil. in that case they have every right to remove someone they don't want on their property. everyone involved in the counter protest poured gasoline on a fire and hoped that the other group of people would get burned. pick your battles, don't be a fucking moron
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  3499.  @chauvintookaknee4blm268  That's because sadly it's becoming more normal to hate Asians now. They are seen as "honorary whites" to borrow a phrase from the Austrian guy.
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  3500. Even if we assume all the worst stereotypes about black Americans are true... how would one get welfare without ID? It makes no sense in any context...
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  3501.  @Haha-ty6xz  In this context, what is more likely: Some normal teenagers bought into a taboo cult-like political philosophy devoted entirely to the state and then were stupid enough to display that allegiance in a public yearbook photo... or they wanted to perform a normal teenage prank where if you look at their hand, they get to punch you, thereby enabling him to punch all his buddies as they look at his yearbook photo?
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  3502. Who the hell are these juries? Who's the guy adamantly claiming the guy is guilty?
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  3503.  @jonathansmith1275  Uh... yeah, the woke media definitely perpetuates racist stereotypes towards Indians and doesn't advocate for infinite work visas. Sure.
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  3504. @ He would most likely know who they are specifically because he looks down on them so he can keep tabs on them.
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  3505.  @Mia1Goth  Nah, the Nazis only look good if you consider their reactionary policies and even then the way they went about it was extremely underhanded, no better than the Communists. Imagine supporting the next "Hitler" and becoming a prominent officer within his movement only for him to murder you once he reached a position of power because you advocated for different policies than he wanted when your party wasn't in power and he doesn't need your support any more. That's the type of thing you'd have to deal with in a new Nazi party. The two main ideologies of the post-industrial working class struggle, Fascism and Communism, are two sides of the same coin. One always exist in reaction to the other and neither of them are good for humanity. Holding up Fascism because it is capable of acknowledging basic facts of life like "women shouldn't be in combat units in the military" is a stupid idea. We shouldn't need to resort to extremism to acknowledge immutable facts of life.
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  3506.  @nickthompson1812  name a single politician other than Trump who has ever admitted guilt to anything, despite incriminating evidence. no seriously, I'll be impressed if you can give me a real answer. it's standard operating procedure. don't blame Trump for acting like a politician normally does
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  3507. Honestly, I don't even feel the light-keeper running the coffee trick was in the wrong. How annoying would it be to have random people show up at your place of occupation and ask for a tour and free food, from a stock you have to ration?
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  3508. He's not being sarcastic per se, he's probing using specific questions to get her to expose her own insane viewpoint.
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  3509.  @psychicbyinternet  That's only low-class and stupid men. They're generally not worth spending time with regardless of which parts you were born with. Their opinions on whether or not you should fight someone doesn't amount to much either.
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  3510.  @jayespin  I can barely remember when I got my first smart phone, so I can't say whether the lack of updates affected me, but people will always complain after an update. There is a massive placebo effect on non-technical (and likely even many technically informed) people when changes are made to software that they use. They will blame any and every little fault they see on the update, even if it existed before.
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  3511.  @mrhighboost8474  Well, ya see, there's this thing called brain chemistry...
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  3512.  @winloc_5681  Wait, really? That explains a lot. I was wondering why I needed to kill another rune-bearer just so I could activate the previous rune...
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  3513. I would laugh hard at the stupid fucking scream video bit. It's so incredibly dumb to have a comic say "you guys can see this right" and try to play the same dumb video over and over into the mic. Like the annoying guy at a party that wants to show you "this great video he saw" but vested with unholy powers.
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  3514.  @demmenhavvags6385  I'd rather there be brawls in Congress than on the streets, at least in Congress there are some actual stakes. In a typical street brawl between at most a few hundred people, there will be no significant impact on grassroots voting regardless of the outcome, unless one of the factions reaches a point where they are basically brownshirts that beat up anyone who shows allegiance to someone else
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  3515. Just play Labyrinth Lord. It's an AD&D retroclone.
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  3516. My man Nate over here serving sandwiches in the Fallout universe
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  3517. ​ @userhome3601 Yes. It's a constant struggle. The rich always strive for control to make themselves richer and the form of government is of no particular importance. It has been a constant throughout history. Objectively speaking, dynastic monarchy is better for stopping businessmen from taking control, but obviously that has its own serious problems. The only thing we know is that capitalism has allowed the poor to elevate themselves, not just the rich, although it gets harder with each passing generation and the ground gained by our forefathers vanishes.
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  3518. You know what makes me really suspicious? When men cross their legs while sitting.
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  3519.  @Achieme  white kids would say it all the time in new orleans and basically act like wiggers themselves
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  3520. In a more authoritarian society, your neighbor is likely to rat you out to the police for the most insignificant of crimes because they believe it will somehow get them favors. There's little to no real unity there. You can't achieve unity through an iron fist, unless you want the people to unite against your own administration.
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  3521. @jacmar44 it isn't public record, but it is stored on police databases so dumb cops who stopped you for a moving violation can have an excuse to treat you like a felon. seen it happen more than a few times
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  3522. I don't think pulling on a dog that size is very productive. Pulling is really more like a suggestion to dogs, if they're big enough and don't want to go it just doesn't really work. It's easier to outsmart the dog and incentivize them to go with something else. This guy did that by pretending he was going to leave the dog behind, activating its "I don't want to be alone" anxiety.
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  3523.  @F40PH-2CAT  Not when everyone is operating 2-ton steel missiles, doofus.
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  3524.  @Spike2276  It's always nice to believe that you've got the moral high ground.
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  3525.  @Spike2276  There was no reason for you to assume that my comment in any way indicates "I avoid people." I trust in edge cases. After all, it's how I have at least a dozen friends, in spite of my earlier comment. That would be like assuming a gold miner gave up on his career because he said "a very small percentage of all dirt in the universe contains gold." Your leap to this conclusion indicates that you actually just want to look cool online and don't want to have a constructive conversation.
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  3526.  @Spike2276  Yes, acknowledging well-known statistics and basic logic (like 50% of people are dumber than the other 50%) is the height of edginess. Keep digging yourself deeper.
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  3527. @Stefan Frankel Texas wasn't given, it separated itself from Mexico through force of arms and then joined the US. Texas wouldn't go back to Mexico willingly
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  3528. Saying any hobby is "under-monetized" compared to video games is like saying Lake Erie is less wet than the Pacific Ocean. Video games are so tragically OVER-monetized that it is absurd to use them as a reference point. You can't pre-order tickets for a movie. You can't have your Legos taken away from you because you said mean things about somebody online while Lego keeps all the money you spent. The only hobby that comes close is TCGs which basically invented "the lootbox" and perhaps miniature war games due to their high prices. P&P RPGs just require a few nicely printed rule books and several hours of dedication. It's pathetic to see these executives treat people like they're complete idiots and it's even more pathetic to see others actually fall for it.
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  3529. My parents rented Princess Mononoke from Blockbuster when I was like 11. I played Doom when I was like 5, so I was used to seeing gore and violence. It was eye-opening because I had no idea that animation outside of old Disney films could be that good.
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  3530. I think this couple was on Penn & Teller's Bullshit. They're probably just swingers who are also unscrupulous enough to want to make money by making it seem like some kind of mystical voodoo. Most tantric sex instructors seem to be that way.
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  3531.  @LavishPatchKid  Yeah buddy, I'm sure your fake video will be totally convincing and not shot in your garage.
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  3532.  @Relatablename  Watch someone unironically shill for big pharma just so he can be contrarian on the internet
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  3533. Kamala doesn't actually hang out with black people, isn't it obvious? She used to be a prosecutor.
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  3534.  InternalxHD  If you mod the game, Rockstar will literally ban you from playing it, so I'd advise not doing that.
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  3535.  InternalxHD  No, they aren't and it was a huge scandal.
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  3536.  @TheLuckyman3000  I think all of the dialogue options to avoid combat give you XP, don't know if it's the same as fighting them or not
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  3537.  @C5Dynamite  They don't. The room has good loot so you want them to leave more than anything.
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  3538. The helmet must have restricted his awareness, I would have thought the easiest thing to do would be to speed off on the bike. I'd think he'd be able to see the signs as an off-duty cop
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  3539.  @Toliman.  You can have a good technical team with a shit budget. It's been done many times before. It's just harder to find the right people, as with anything on a low budget.
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  3540. Well, yes, but that's called a Loki's Wager. Anyone could tell the difference between a president like John F. Kennedy, and Trump or Biden, but you make it seem like they're equally as corrupt.
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  3541.  @iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii2458  The employee would have to pay the legal fees to launch such an investigation. Also, imagine you're a company in the industry that the plaintiff works in. Would you hire someone who would sue you (and has the resources to sue you) because they think you aren't paying someone enough? Blows my mind how many people think it's that simple. I know a guy who worked as a signal analyst for a cable/internet company. He was told in advance he'd be laid off at a specific time with a certain amount of severance pay. Then during the week before his dismissal, they told him he would be getting a fraction of what he was promised. Is it illegal? Sure. But he didn't sue them because as it turns out, he didn't want to throw reams of money into the black hole known as the civil court system, and then not be able to get a job.
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  3542.  @iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii2458  Even assuming you're correct (which I don't) that only solves the cost issue, not the blacklisting issue. Or did you not read my post?
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  3543.  @iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii2458  So you really think you can just anonymously complain to the DOL and they'll audit a whole company for you? Weird that you'd pretend that I'm the one writing a fairy tale here.
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  3544.  @southfloridaarcheryguy114  I was born with a lazy eye. What of it?
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  3545. Inevitably this is the case. I remember seeing photos of 4chan /pol/ meetups and they were ironically filled with non-white people. Most people who put forth messages of diversity are really sheltered white people who have never gotten to know any non-white people. They appoint a few minorities for representation in the media but that's it.
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  3546.  @switch3784  Did you guys not have times tables in school? What's 10 * 4 plus 5 * 4? This is why times tables up to 12 are so important. Almost any arithmetic problem you will encounter in daily life can be broken down into factors in that table.
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  3547.  @Halosrighthand  the slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when the slippery slope is not a slippery slope. in other words use your brain instead of tossing out "muh fallacy" and declaring yourself the victor of the battle of Internet Hill
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  3548.  @TheCosmicAstro-  it's only a logical fallacy when there is no reason to believe there is a chain of causation towards a worse situation. i.e. "marijuana is a gateway drug" is a slippery slope fallacy because cigarettes and beer do not also cause you to smoke weed or imbibe any other drugs. there's nothing unique about marijuana that makes you want to become a hardcore drug addict. if anything, it's caused by retarded parents who know nothing about the subject matter and assume the best method of prevention is ignorance, then when their kids rebel against them, they aren't equipped to make rational decisions about who they hang out with or what they imbibe. "politicians will always advocate for more government" is not a slippery slope fallacy because it's a blatantly obvious pattern of behavior that has occurred since the beginning of our nation.
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  3549.  @Halosrighthand  You're projecting extremely hard, you write like a Redditor if I've ever seen one. To say nothing of the self-updoot. If you can't understand that politicians always advocate for more policies because it makes them look good for their voters, you are probably a teenager who just got into politics. This isn't some kind of secret conspiracy or hidden knowledge. It is how the US government has trended since its inception.
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  3550. So let me get this straight: - no chip - no collar - left the dog with a total stranger Some people just don't deserve dogs
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  3551. @jeffm1064 That's just what many people in Japan and Korea prefer. They're still marketing to a huge demographic, it's just not huge in the US. "Bishounen" or "beautiful boy" as they say in Japan.
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  3552.  @cazador8744  Small hips? Shit tier taste, my friend.
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  3553. @jeffm1064 Well... not exactly, the word is derived from a Russian novel called "Lolita." But good to know you apparently considered this some kind of national dick-measuring contest instead of a discussion about business strategy over political agendas.
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  3554. Agreed I'm also of Bavarian descent and none of my family does the cheek kiss greeting. Maybe it's more common up north? I remember seeing some learning material from my German class that showed such a greeting, but maybe they were simply trying to prepare you for Europeans from other nations if you were to visit Germany
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  3555. It's very comparable to trying to prevent a mass shooting. You have a crazy guy posting "Death to America" weekly on social media, and he just bought a lower receiver, upper receiver, barrel, magazines, and ammunition. Then some idiot is asking you how you know he was going to shoot anyone
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  3556. I get your point and agree but just so you know that isn't how cannabis laws work. In fact there's a lot of footage out there where in this exact scenario (3-4 friends in the same car and they found weed) the officer is nice enough to stand there and ask, "Whose weed is it?" which is code for, "Who wants to take the fall?" If nobody claims it then they are all arrested, which is very stupid, so typically somebody takes the blame. @Dogfathercomedy&BJJ I'd wager you could have paid a lawyer to get you out of that one. Cops aren't lawyers and they don't always enforce or apply the law correctly.
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  3557.  @StPauliFanNr1  "I base my opinion on popular opinion" Why?
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  3558. @Filipe Uh, I'd say KonoSuba has a far greater focus on "cooming shit" than Overlord.
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  3559. Ways to light a fire in a BBQ pit: Stick lighter Lighting a paper towel and tossing it in Firestarter log that costs less than a can of deoderant Cigarette lighter and a can of deoderant
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  3560. I had my first ever job at 22. I was busy going to college. Fun fact, I tried to get a job stocking inventory at Target in high school. They wouldn't hire me, and I have no idea why to this day. Don't think I said anything bad during the interview. Don't really regret my decisions now. I don't really get why retail or fast food is a curse that people willingly bestow upon young people. It's fucking horrible, and should be avoided at all costs. To play devil's advocate for a moment here, sometimes C-level executives make shockingly stupid decisions. That first job I worked on one of the core software teams at a dating website you have certainly heard of. I worked there for all of 6 months before me and about 90 other people were laid off. At that time, I was building an entirely new database for the company using NoSQL because they were based on Microsoft SQL Server, which is extremely expensive. Before that I completely revamped the testing interface for the searching/matching algorithm because it was based on stinky old jQuery code. My boss approved of that, so I'm pretty sure I didn't make it worse. A couple of weeks after, I found out through someone I know still working there that the CTO was fired. I suspect that debacle was his doing. Or worse, it was the CEO's idea to begin with, and the CTO objected. Even more stupidly, they gave me 3 months of severance for working there 6 months. I never complained, but it seems stupid to give a guy with no tenure making $55k a year 3 months of severance.
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  3561. Chinese plant. Way too many of them here today, though you see them a lot more often in the college space.
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  3562. You know, I feel like a bunch of states agreed to secede from the union for a stupid reason before and it didn't end well.
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  3563.  @Michael.Gunner  I love dark, Gothic art styles. I still think the original Diablo 2 is one of the best looking games ever made because of how the weird sprites made from rotoscoped models make the game look more like an oil painting. The whole game looks like a baroque painting in motion. VS's issue is one of artistic cohesion. It just doesn't have a lot of effort put in to make the art work as a singular style. This game's style is very simple, but it works. Everything has the same cutesy pixel anime vibe.
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  3564.  @mainakgayen2241  The PMCs should, on paper, be superior to the Russian state military, as they are to most state militaries. Even the VDV has had failures in the Ukraine war.
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  3565. @mainakgayen2241  PMCs should be better trained, perhaps not better equipped, than state militaries. The reason being is that most of its employees should be veterans to be qualified to begin with, and should be worth the increased cost.
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  3566.  @mainakgayen2241  From my personal observation, state militaries are rarely held accountable. The CEO of Wagner being offed by Putin was a lot more accountability than I've ever seen from any of the innumerable FUBARs caused by US top brass. More frequently, brass is shifted around purely for political reasons, because they support or don't support a certain candidate for head of state. The fact that their budget is less limited than that of the PMC disincentivizes accountability, because it's "free money" from their perspective. PMCs have to hold themselves accountable or else their business will fold. Morale is kind of irrelevant because it depends entirely on the state's ability to motivate, by picking a time and a place for war, casus belli, and their ability to craft propaganda. It could be better or worse than that of a PMC professional.
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  3567. Well imagine you're guarding a herd of sheep and a predator is just staring at you for many minutes. The natural assumption is that he's thinking about attacking. A cameraman probably invokes those feelings.
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  3568.  @Imjustgoatedsir  Your contrarian comment is also just looking for likes Every human interaction you've ever had is disingenuine. Everyone secretly hates you behind your back and plots your demise
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  3569. Wrong, most of the sex workers in Cyberpunk are ugly. That game has the most cognitively dissonant narrative regarding sexuality. All of the sex workers get cyberware but none of them actually do so to make themselves look more attractive. Look at the top Instagram models and such. That's how they would mod themselves to look like. You can't even mod your skin color in that game which blows me the fuck away. If we really lived in a society like Cyberpunk you'd see every possible type of body, including people that make themselves look like children even though they are above the AOC. Think Rebecca from the anime. You know it to be true. But they didn't want to touch on that particular topic for some reason. Game devs always chicken out of the heavy shit even though they claim that they're writing a dark and mature narrative.
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  3570. But she also perfectly paced that sentence the way a comedy writer would, so it still leads me to believe this show is definitely scripted.
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  3571. Something tells me she wrote her son out of her life a long, long time before that.
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  3572. In college a guy shat all over our apartment bathroom after getting hammered. The walls were covered in shit. I'm not exaggerating. It was like that scene from Dumb and Dumberer.
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  3573.  @avalonjustin  psychos don't work logically the way you think they do, otherwise they would not be psychos
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  3574. ​ @kingofhearts3185  It has another use, which is helping to test applications in software development. If I want privacy, I use a different browser.
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  3575. Almost like Americans bought the slaves already waiting at a slave market in bondage from their fellow Africans
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  3576. iTs BeTtER tHAn nOT hAVinG aNy CoPs
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  3577. Ah yes Che Guevara, the guy who put gay people in concentration camps because he didn't like them and established an authoritarian regime, truly a visionary of anarchist thought.
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  3578.  @graysaltine6035  I've never seen it happen unless the show hinted at or joked about the character they played as being a crossdresser or some kind of non-gender conforming character
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  3579. It's been people like Biden for many years now. I think the last outsider that was in office was Reagan.
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  3580.  @yojimbo3681  It's the second strongest economy in the union. No need to proclaim your ignorance publicly.
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  3581. Grimm Bagelsson, mightiest Dwarven warrior of the northern mountains
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  3582. Well at least I can rest knowing that some scumbag lawyer isn't taking advantage of him.
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  3583.  @robertkeaney9905  Well, I suppose that's why camo is on everyone's mind then. Typically it's just a guy with a regular backpack, maybe long sleeves, not much more complicated than that.
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  3584.  @manictiger  It's a bolt-action sawed-off Hispano cannon actually. Uses the same cartridge necked up.
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  3585. This guy suffers from extreme main character syndrome
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  3586. The Japanese want someone who isn't a braindead demented old man or a woman that literally no one voted for to take office in case N. Korea or China does something.
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  3587.  @Coxie1996  why do you say that? this guy will be seen as affiliated with "MAGA" counter-protestors, do you really think those people get favorable treatment in the justice system? especially after Jan 6th
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  3588.  @raulavila-t5u  Haha, no, that 15 year old European kid forgets the other languages he learns when he graduates high school, including English. Just like us Americans do with Spanish. You aren't getting that bullshit past anybody.
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  3589. Uh, they don't steal the oil to put in the cars... You'll figure it out.
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  3590.  @MichealSanders-xb8ns  Just stating that it can work, I wouldn't trust them with manual or even skilled labor, but it can work.
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  3591. This is literally the only reason guys like this get girlfriends, especially drug dealers. They convince them that they really love them and if the girl loves him back, she'll take the fall for his crimes
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  3592.  bootlicker8766  My guy really thinks he's living in Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight."
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  3593. Dude could just ignore it all if he really wanted to and people would forget about this in a month, but he's too much of a gaping vagina to do that. He's feeding the fire.
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  3594. People keep saying this, but cops have responded to an active shooter and confronted them with handguns in the past, many times. Look up the North Hollywood bank heist for a particular example. This guy simply did not meet the standard of service to be a cop. He had 4 armed people with him as backup against a guy who was trapped in his hotel room. He had nowhere to run or hide.
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  3595. Hate to burst your bubble, but con artists are usually quite charming. Especially the successful ones.
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  3596.  @scrider5493  it's a scientific fact proven by study time and again. people behave differently as individuals than if they identify with a group
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  3597. That's a good line because it emphasizes that pre-ordering is weird and something normally only offered when the product will have a limited run, like a supercar. In gaming it's the standard. Why?
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  3598.  @louisryan5815  Destiny is pretty fucking stupid from my unfortunate experience watching him.
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  3599. In Katy near where my parents live, there was a boy walking his dog and his dog was hit and killed by a driver in a similar scenario who simply drove off. There are a shocking number of people who revert to being sociopaths when confronted with a mistake like this. They only care about the penalty they might face, and are too shortsighted to realize that it will only get worse because they tried to run and hide.
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  3600.  @ChristianIce  He was talking about real-money transactions for in-game items, a popular MTX scheme in modern video games. Not sure why he had to be a dick about it though.
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  3601. The peanut butter and tomato soup recipe seems like one born out of necessity... On paper, it efficiently delivers a lot of nutrition that a kid would need. In practice, it tastes terrible.
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  3602.  @Devin_Stromgren  That seems a little spurious given that rifles ended up becoming the standard. If the benefits to maintenance and reload speed were actually significant enough, then we would have used muskets through the Civil War. But we didn't. The only reason they weren't standard is they were more expensive to manufacture.
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  3603.  @Devin_Stromgren  Point taken. Still, it's interesting to note that civilians always had arms that were on-par or better than military arms, even if they weren't practical for the military to produce themselves for an entire army. Even today, the ARs that civilians own are often more accurate than the M4s or M16s used by the military, by virtue of custom barrels, triggers, or optics
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  3604.  @mathewshackelford8037  It isn't anyone else's job but the parent to "teach the kid a lesson" because he's acting like a punk. That kid is going to go away with the impression of "wow all I did was yell an vulgar, yet infamous phrase at this cop and he's ready to beat the shit out of me. cops really are slimeballs." Not "I SURE LEARNED MY LESSON OFFICER I'LL BE A GOOD BOY NOW." The correct response to this kid is to roll your eyes and go about your day because he doesn't matter.
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  3605.  @nuudelz3711  rent free my friend, pretty sure she got popular because of onlyfans simps who want to give her money to see her tuna
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  3606. ​@zacksilverstone7642 boy oh boy I hope you don't say "hey you black guy over there" in public because that doesn't help you
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  3607. As right as she is in this case, I can tell she's just as shallow a content creator. Fake gold fork, wearing an apron to eat a packaged lunch, and PRIME energy drink... come on.
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  3608. Not sure if you understand this, but there is in fact limited time in the day. Screaming "DO YOUR JOB" at someone who already has a packed schedule doesn't make them get to your order faster.
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  3609.  @punkw7852  I'm not sure how you can say their child locked in a home by himself is a "non-problem," even if they were the ones who caused it. Just because the 911 caller is responsible for getting themselves in a predicament doesn't mean that emergency services deny them help.
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  3610. ​ @youtubearmy_bg8265 poe's law
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  3611. And the weird thing is that there are just as many moms who feel the same way. There is one decent enough way to ensure that the new spouse gets invested. Promise them another kid.
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  3612.  @draco_1876  that's a pretty petty reason to shell out 70 dollarydoos for shitty games. "Your vocab sucks, argument invalidated"
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  3613.  @draco_1876  sure you didn't bucko
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  3614. The lack of action from the police over a consistent string of burglaries is the deciding factor in this case. They are responsible for the state of this man's mental health, and he did not lure or entrap the teens any more than simply making it seem as if he were not home. They are burglars, and they should have understood the risk of burglary.
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  3615.  @hontilash  "Let me put it this way, if I trace a picture of an artist, add more hips, increase boob size, color with different lighting, it's still a trace." Uh... no, it's not. No reasonable person would call that a trace. They might call it an edit, but not a trace. "In order to argue that these AIs don't steal, and instead learn" That isn't a dichotomy. It isn't "either steal, or learn." You fundamentally misunderstand how these applications work. They match patterns, conceptually, and then put an original image together based on those conceptual patterns. The work is derivative but that doesn't make it theft. There are thousands of artists out there making works just as uninspired and derivative, but you aren't going after them.
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  3616. "I'm mad at the system, but I'm not voting for RFK or anyone else because I'm scared" -- literally every American
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  3617.  @beavischrist5  Exactly. My point is anyone with any integrity left or was deliberately made to leave (because they meddled with the corruption infesting the system).
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  3618.  @vgaportauthority9932  Sony isn't really pushing tech forward either. If you only think consoles, exist, maybe, but Valve and other PC developers are the ones trying to push VR forward
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  3619.  @O.s..a  Fuck Jesus, I'm going to go play video games.
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  3620.  @namethefifth7315  "None of them are timed?" Off the top of my head Returnal is the most recent one I can remember. Remember how Returnal was a launch title for PS5? Yeah it's getting a PC port now.
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  3621. ​ @iandavidvillaloboswong5180 yeah bro I'm definitely not going to use a VPN to watch pornhub, what a win
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  3622.  @bczarrockbeast6264  It's a German company. What did you expect, really?
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  3623.  @UnkleRuckusNoRelation  "Local" is a stretch when it comes to farmer's markets, not all of us can drive cars everywhere. If only we lived in medieval style villages where all those places were in one spot.
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  3624. @Meerkat More Come on. He clearly said "only one round in the chamber" meaning that the gun has no magazine in it or an empty magazine. You shouldn't try so hard.
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  3625.  @2BigFooted  It doesn't really have anything to do with them being a criminal, I understand that cops go through insane risks to take criminals alive all the time (i.e. giving them a chance to surrender although they have a gun and are pointing it at them, I've seen it many times). It has more to do with training and what is reasonably expected of a cop. I believe you are taking a simple motto ("Protect and Serve") far too literally and childishly pretending that it magically gives cops qualifications that they don't have. A normal citizen can give CPR. You can learn that in a matter of a single class. I would not expect a normal citizen to rush into a burning building, or save someone who is drowning however. These are tasks that require specialized training and/or equipment. The reprimand to the cops shown in this video is because they acted callously on camera ("how far do you think he'll be able to swim") not because they didn't jump in to save him. It would be similar to expecting cops to rush in to a hostage situation instead of waiting for SWAT. Sure if it went well you'd praise them, but if it went poorly you'd say "stupid cops, why didn't they wait for the people who were qualified to show up?"
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  3626. Ah yes, the dark skinned people who live underground and are ruled by matriarchical feuding noble families. This resembles so many real-world ethnicities and cultures. Like... uh...
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  3627. It's more than the set, it's the whole lifestyle. People can't believe Asmon lives the way he does and is still an entertaining streamer.
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  3628. I work in software, despite the fact that I have a visual disability that makes it nearly impossible for me to drive (I don't, in case you were wondering). Sometimes I wonder how many times I was denied a job because of my disability. There were quite a few interviews that went swimmingly, yet I received no call after the fact.
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  3629. The dog isn't even excited (considering there is a stranger nearby) and she can't get him to sit while she's on the phone. I can already tell she takes as little responsibility for it as possible
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  3630.  @arandomsupra  Who the fuck makes coffee at 96 degrees? That's literally body temperature.
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  3631. @Roberts Vimba Greed is a negative human trait and it's associated with a mythical creature that is an amalgamation of negative human traits, who knew? This is even more absurd than when Trump made a comment about international bankers and everyone called him out for being an anti-semite. I'm sorry but if you are so rich that you can make companies or even governments rise and fall through coordinated investing you are in fact a bad influence on this planet, regardless of ethnicity.
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  3632. That only happens with some mechanics not all. It depends on how the developers code the game. If they do it correctly by calculating time differences between each frame, there should never be issues like this. But sometimes someone uses framerate as a parameter somewhere else without accounting for it -- which is what happened with Dark Souls 2, because the durability was calculated based on how many frames your weapon had made contact with something. In the 60 FPS mod for DS2, your weapon would break very quickly but the game was otherwise playable.
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  3633. ​ @risto4216 Explain how these laws do anything to address those ticking time bombs.
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  3634.  @bluecollarcanuck  Fascism is a two-bit ideology created as a course correction for internationalist Marxism and only a two-bit individual would fall for it. Let's not cut off our arm just because we found the tumor in the elbow. The Roman empire isn't coming back, leave it alone. The greatest crime America committed was giving the Soviet Union anything in negotiations.
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  3635.  @TrueFork  Or "don't film him" i.e. shoot a camera. Even for bodyguards of CCP dilettantes, I'd be amazed if they were allowed to fly into the UK strapped.
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  3636. I'm not going to say this is definitive proof, but the father really didn't seem like he was escalating or preparing to yell off-camera... My father gets angrier at less and he's never been kicked off a flight. It's funny, the behavior of airline crews reminds me a lot of corrupt cops in clips like these. Their ego gets bruised by a comment from the passenger being rightfully annoyed at their behavior, and they use this as an excuse to punish them to the fullest extent of their power. It's like customer service if we lived in bizarro world.
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  3637.  @Fubar1462  Wir waren Charlemagne und Scheiss.
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  3638. I don't understand why these systems can't be used in daily life for routine tasks by laymen, and metric can't be used for all manufacturing and science. Consider this: You're a farmer, at any period in history. You don't know shit about shit except putting literal shit on the ground to grow shit. How do you measure things? Well, you could use the space from one end of your thumbnail to the other for small things. That's an inch. You can use your foot for things that are a little bit bigger than that. Three feet to a yard is, frankly, elementary and if you complain about that mathematical operation, I'm concerned for you because those farmers knew how to do it. Now let's think to ourselves: How big is a meter? No, I mean, if you walked outside right now without any measuring tools and had to eyeball a meter, how would you do it? The easy answer for me, as an American, would be "it's about a yard," because they're almost the same at small distances. Otherwise you're stuck with guessing over and over again until you get a rough idea of what a meter is. The problem with metric is that it is based on quite arbitrary foundations. The conversion is excellent, but to a layman, the fundamental units themselves make almost no sense because they aren't relatable. To someone with little education or experience in measurement, the idea of a yard being three of your feet placed lengthwise is easy to grasp. Does this mean that "imperial is for stupid people?" I mean, sure if you want to put it like that. But then again you're going to be living in a world filled with stupid people for the rest of your life, so you might as well accommodate them.
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  3639.  @jackuzi8252  There was a point, mostly signage and recordkeeping.
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  3640.  @fedyno4reviews  On the contrary, just a few months of training makes a huge difference against someone who is clueless and angry. This isn't a kung-fu movie where schools of martial artists roam the streets fighting one another.
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  3641.  @jsil_  The correct answer is all of them. You may be grabbed in the midst of a crowd where you have no time to draw a gun, or someone may have a gun pulled, but not looking at you at that moment, giving you enough time to draw but not charge them. Every skill and tool you can get gives you an advantage. Might as well prepare for all of them, because being in such a situation is already unlikely.
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  3642.  @normalhuman9260  It doesn't matter, the CIA has been doing blatantly illegal and immoral shit since the 1950's. Operation Mockingbird was long before the Patriot Act.
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  3643.  @310BPM  You're really going to imply that the Internet is not the single most disruptive piece of technology humanity has ever seen? At no other point in time has it been possible for almost everyone in the world to share information within less than an hour. You think all of that information volume has no negative effect on humanity?
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  3644.  @katieinhops5163  Politically, that doesn't matter. That's just the cold hard truth of it. If you're a minority (not genetically speaking, but ideologically), your opinion doesn't matter. Even the minorities who are ostensibly represented by major political players, aren't really. For example the majority of Latinos and Latinas are Catholics who would almost certainly oppose abortion, but ostensibly, they are "represented" by almost exclusively abortion advocates. They are used for the political machine because the majority believes representation of minorities is important. The only play you can make in this game is to try to convince those around you to believe what you believe.
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  3645.  @-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-  Wow. I think that takes the cake for "most bizarre political position I've heard."
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  3646.  @ding9633  Oh believe me, I wish circumcision were not acceptable. But hey, it's a lesson that even "highly educated" people can't be separated from their tired religious dogmas from when their tribe wandered a desert over 2000 years ago.
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  3647. Kyle "Paedo Punisher" Rittenhouse Kyle "Diddler Destroyer" Rittenhouse Kyle "Molester Detester" Rittenhouse Kyle "A Kid Is Harmed, Lose Your Arm" Rittenhouse Kyle ".223 for the M.A.P." Rittenhouse
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  3648. No one's trolling you, dude. He told you to fucking leave because he doesn't want you to be here. Fucking children nowadays, thinking that anything that doesn't sit well with them is "trolling."
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  3649. ​ @vanessaashford9203 tasers don't work on men who are drugged or have weird nervous system conditions
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  3650. ​ @keyboardguru4212  Stereotypes sadly exist for a reason. Not even because of the other stereotype that gay people have a higher chance of being promiscuous, but because the anus is biologically not well suited for preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
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  3651. IIRC, this is actually the precusor to Fallout. in the lore they described riots breaking out across America because of the toll the Resource Wars had taken on domestic life. the funny thing is, we're not really at risk of running out of resources, our wars are downstream of replacing the gold backed dollar with the oil backed dollar. it's not that the oil is running out, but the value of the dollar is affected by who controls what pipelines
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  3652.  @MoAtreides  those particular Americans wouldn't have the resources or incentives to do this without the aid of investors who are so rich that they owe no loyalty to any nation
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  3653.  @thespanishinquisition4078  this line of thinking becomes extremely problematic once you ask the question "what type of people does the US have that the EU doesn't?"
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  3654.  @thespanishinquisition4078  weird that so many people travel here for higher education, then.
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  3655.  @M星の水晶  IIRC, Snow White's mother dies during childbirth in the story
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  3656. This is like watching disabled people at this point. Not only did they not take the obvious step of simply tying the damn rope to the railings, you'll notice that the guy on the left is at least intelligent enough to immediately let go when the driver clearly doesn't give a fuck. Meanwhile you have Ms. College Education on the right who climbs on top of the concrete barrier, holding the rope as the truck drives away, mouth likely agape the entire time, unable to consider the outcome where the truck pulls her as she holds on to the rope. It's like watching lemmings, it's as if these people want to die.
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  3657.  @maxgehtdnixan4913  The women who do this don't do it from a place of principle or integrity. They don't analyze their worldview and think "yes all media is bad if it is not realistic, and I will apply this consistently." They do it either from a place of malicious intent for the sake of politics, or more commonly, pure, unfiltered emotion and instinct with absolutely 0% brainpower put into it. Basically, "ANIME WEIRD LOL." Then justify that instinctual reaction with mumbo jumbo to make it sound like they're real humans with logical thoughts.
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  3658.  @mh13mini  You've shoved a whole lot of words in my mouth. All I stated was that his speech patterns are deliberate. This is not mutually exclusive with what you've said.
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  3659.  @Bootchair  wow, you sure do have a lot of faith in corporations!
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  3660.  @forwardmoving8252  Of course not. My point is, in spite of that, I see the claim about sick day shaming to be the most likely.
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  3661. ​ @Marc_Remillard The answer is funding mental health care but nobody wants to do that. The conservatives don't because they seem to naively believe that mental illness will go away if you just ignore it. The liberals don't because their top politicians don't want to step on the toes of their friends in big pharma, who milk money out of a patient with chronic illness for life, as long as they are not effectively treated through cognitive techniques.
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  3662. The beginning of this game is absolutely terrible regardless of how much you like the game, so he did not do himself any favors by playing those 36 minutes of only that part. I have played a lot of it, and it does get better later, but the beginning is total garbage.
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  3663.  @leon.-.6025  It's very scripted, it looks like something that was meant to be an E3 preview but wasn't finished. The rest of the game is more like a traditional shooter (minus the driving parts) which is why I think it's a bit better.
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  3664. @@stevel6660 With all due respect, your lack of voting means that you are partly responsible for that now. In other words, you should have voted when you could. But that only applies to a system working as intended, which this one is not. The taxation = theft line of reasoning is, frankly, a little too reductive and immature. Society requires compromise, and authority is one of those compromises. Unless you want to live in a village of about 200 people, which is the average number of people that the neocortex can support (in other words, the most people you could genuinely care about in your mind). A society based on donations to support infrastructure could work, but it would have to be extremely selective of who it lets in. Good luck getting that to fly in the modern zeitgeist. Your borders would be broken down by paid actors from foreign entities, masquerading as "innocent migrants." It is a moot point anyway. There are no unsettled lands, with reasonable means of living, left on this earth, and the lawless lands are abused by the lawless. You wouldn't live in the Republic of Congo because the lack of law there is an illusion of freedom; really, you are just waiting to be abused by some war band of men with cast-off weapons of war. Real freedom requires great sacrifice, whether that be in your own time cultivating and renovating a remote piece of land far away from the eyes of tyrants, or the sacrifice of blood in a revolution. The fact that you are posting on a YouTube comment section, like me, suggests that you aren't truly doing everything you can to be free, and neither am I. That's the nature of compromise.
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  3665.  @SarthorS  religion sells community and mental health. if it works, don't knock it
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  3666. ​@FaceyDuck he would build a trap door on his doorstep that immediately swallows the turd and sprays it back at the defecator in a fine mist
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  3667. Trump's distasteful behavior is out in the open where everyone can see it. Any other "respectable" politician (especially his opponents) do their distasteful business behind closed doors and pretend to be sophisticated. Their business (such as the Clintons making deals with African warlords) also tends to get far more people killed.
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  3668. There's no real reason to not use Uber/Lyft unless you have something against their business practices, specifically. Many of their drivers are in fact former taxi drivers. Taxi services are even worse to their drivers than Uber and Lyft are. Not only do taxi drivers not own the taxi vehicle, but they must also pay maintenance on it out of pocket. At least ride shares let you use a vehicle you own. I've used ride shares for ten years because I can't drive and you get to know a lot of things by talking to drivers. Stopped using Uber because of their dishonest rate offers to drivers. Lyft isn't perfect either, but I live in Texas, so I simply can't go without some form of transportation.
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  3669.  @yougoslavia  Uh, Gura was not always a vtuber... She had a fairly big channel before she became one.
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  3670.  @roflryan1  Ever tried to reholster a concealed IWB holster? It is a gigantic pain in the ass. Many accidental discharges are possible when reholstering.
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  3671.  Nightmare Strawberry Chic  No, it doesn't. Since women's hips are wider, they get a more stable position to sit in -- well, their butt, to be frank. Men have narrower butts, therefore need more stability. Look, just save a lot of time, and bring a vine of grapes to your next subway ride, and shove it in the front of your pants. Then try sitting down and see how it feels. If you can sit with your legs together without feeling uncomfortable, we can say you win.
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  3672.  @adammay6663  I prefer the fan theory somebody else came up with which is that the Ministry in Britain wants to control wizards better by forcing them to use wands.
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  3673.  @tac6557  I got it 2, possibly 3 times, with the symptoms drastically increasing in severity each time. The 3rd being so mild that I was not even sure it was the virus because I did not bother to test. None of them were so severe that I needed a vaccine that does not effectively halt transmission of the virus
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  3674.  @gwTheo  uh yeah dude, there definitely weren't any games ripping off other games before palworld. definitely.
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  3675.  @Ralathar44  bro, you do realize that a group of people had a meeting and decided, deliberately, "we're going to copy overwatch's UI because that's what people are familiar with" it's just bad design decisions, nothing else
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  3676.  @AceStrife  i've developed enough games to know that these decisions aren't made by accident. doesn't exactly take a John Romero to figure that shit out
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  3677. This is the pain that everyone with short legs and big torso goes through. Michael Phelps knows it well.
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  3678.  @fabulousimcatbulous690  No offense to your friends but it doesn't take Ivy League tuitions to figure that out. I figured that out after a bachelor's and about 5-6 years of working in my chosen field. Work experience always goes a longer way than screwing around in school. That's why I was itching to work when I got my diploma
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  3679. @hedition9346 If anything, it proves that if you just don't give a shit nothing can hold you back.
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  3680. I'm going to nickname this company "Slav-Point" going forward.
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  3681.  @Xenochrome  And you think that would be better if there were a black market for pornography? Do you believe that there would simply stop existing women who would fall into that industry for one reason or another? The obvious answer is to make it legal so it can be regulated. The legal market would completely take the wind out of the sails of the black market and it would all but die out. Then, when it's almost entirely above board, you can regulate it and ensure people are treated properly. Legal porn has much the same problem; people simply don't care about it. There is no "porn oversight board" because it's seen as distasteful. But it would be even worse if it were illegal and there was even less transparency. The same argument applies to things like cannabis. If weed were legal, nobody would ever smoke a laced blunt -- unintentionally, at least.
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  3682.  @ninshusensei412  kinda hard to hang around black people and not have their habits rub off on you. are you proposing that impressionable people should just segregate themselves?
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  3683.  @thehoogard  And yet oddly enough they keep writing settings where humans are the most numerous and therefore the default.
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  3684. That's not the point of critical theory which has now permeated our media like cholera in drinking water. Critical theory itself being derived from Marxism. It is a worldview inherently designed to destroy a nation through critique, not provide solutions or raise people up. People like Zegler are brainwashed to take existing culture and mock and destroy it. Not celebrate their own culture. It's a psychological weapon out of time and place, like leukemia affecting people in a location hit by nuclear bombs. It was used by the Soviets on us and now it has no purpose and just circulates our zeitgeist like a spectre.
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  3685. No he doesn't. The DNC is in August. All they have to do is vote him out as the candidate.
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  3686.  @ColonelCorson  Then they'll just unalive him. It's pretty clear that this is set up for him to be replaced. CNN would never openly admit that the Democratic candidate lost the debate otherwise.
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  3687. If we're lucky he will be done in by the first inmate who asks him what he got in for like that one child molester. Much cheaper that way.
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  3688. Kinda funny when you realize that the GoT TV series was very different from the books, but I understand it was done with his blessing
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  3689.  @cypherpunk12  What? I never accused you of being a killer, but okay. Why would you think this OnlyFans model had the wits and werewithal to premeditate a murder so well that no evidence was left on the scene? And then have a sufficient story/alibi to cover that? Calling 911 first is like the basic move for impulsive idiots who find themselves having committed a crime.
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  3690. slice of life has been around for eons
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  3691.  @forkittens  "genres can't have elements of other genres. this is an ecchi comedy tho"
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  3692.  @AltCTRLF8  Because as we all know, the government always does a perfect job at choosing businesses to stay open during a crisis, with no bias, mistakes or ulterior motives. No sir, perfect, 100% of the time. His business was definitely worthless and he deserves not to have a job.
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  3693. ​ @ricks.1092  But it does happen
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  3694.  @Luv3rin  Make time for it. Eating non-processed food all the time is more important than anything else. Priorities.
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  3695.  @jrr3787  Dude, be reasonable. Your personal anecdotes are not that significant. Everyone else agrees that 5e outsold every other edition and it only makes sense why. They marketed quite well before release ("it'll be like 2nd edition again, but modernized!" to appeal to both old and new crowds). Sorry but the world is usually a shittier place than we want it to be and that's why 5e sold well. "People don't buy crappy games" is a laughably false statement that doesn't hold up to even the most casual scrutiny.
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  3696.  @jrr3787  They may have bought the material and already stopped playing before you asked about it, or they may be playing digitally. You're falsely equivocating buying the material with playing the game. I bought the 4e rulebooks as soon as they came out and never played it because it looked like shit. Here's the thing with casual consumers; they're casual. They don't commit. Video games have dealt with this problem ever since they tried to grow it like the movie industry and now WotC is dealing with this problem. They're trying to court a "greater audience" and it looks good on initial sales, but most of those people will drop off like flies because they're not really the sort of people who will commit to regular sessions of creative group storytelling. It's just not an activity that appeals to most nowadays.
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  3697.  @groundmasterc  The same inadequacies that prevented The Emperor from making female-compatible Astartes gene seed would then logically prevent female Custodes from being created. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that other humans are better at gene crafting than the Emperor, which is heresy in both a literal in-universe sense, and in a meta worldbuilding sense. If humanity has surpassed the Emperor, then the tragic theme of the setting is undermined and he has outlived his purpose. There would be hope on the horizon, which goes against the point of the setting. It raises a plethora of questions, like why didn't we just make better Custodes/Marines before now, and so on. If we take the most charitable possible position on this inclusion of a female Custodes and subsequent flippant one-tweet reply, it is that GW's writers or their managers didn't think this change through at all and had no understanding of its impact on the setting in general or the questions it would raise. This type of change could be the main plot point of an entire novel, or perhaps a trilogy of novels, that explores its impact on the Imperium and/or explains why it has not been relevant until now. The implications are quite profound.
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  3698. People played that game?
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  3699.  @feyrband  Definitely the exact same circumstances...
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  3700. he was waiting for her to make any comment that could be viewed as confrontational and jumped on it like some kind of retarded predator waiting in the reeds
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  3701. When you design a game you have to ask yourself "why" for every decision you make. Why does D4 drop you in random lobbies with random people? Why is it a "big open world" (D2 was just as "open world" yet it knows how to manage its resources properly)? How much value does D4 gain by having random players joining your games, seemingly at random? Well, potentially you could trade with them, I guess. But the chances of this are highly unlikely because it's completely random, so nobody does it. I've never seen anyone even use lobby chat before, even when I have tried to talk to them directly. Nobody parties unless they're in a clan or know each other. This is in spite of the fact that the game is much harder solo. Somehow this game literally has less socialization than D2 which is mind-blowing.
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  3702.  @landonic81  I coulda sworn it was spelled "Rachael Madcow."
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  3703. The people who voted for Haley were Democrats. I mean that literally, they are registered Dems. Watch the primary exit interviews. There are no "Republicans who want Haley to win."
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  3704. Oh boy. She thinks the government has better technology...
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  3705.  @saraev1119  Lady, I work in software. The only branch of the government that has superior technology, in any nation anywhere, is the defense research institute. Don't overestimate the government, don't rely on them to save you. Take action instead. That's the message
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  3706. There is no answer. His best course of action is not to think about it. His son may as well have been killed by lightning or a wild animal for all the rationality in the killer's mind.
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  3707.  @NEELZE99  You're far too idealistic. I do pay attention and vote, but more because I find it engaging than for any other reason, and because spending ~30 minutes to vote every 2 years is not exactly a difficult ask. I would never expect my vote to actually matter, and it would be insane to go off on one person for voting differently than you. It would be like yelling at a single bacterium for giving you an infection. The world hasn't changed as much as people like to think; the rich are still in charge, they're just better at being subtle about it. However, the Information Age has made massive progress to undermining that advantage.
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  3708.  @kru0ger109  It's a pretty decent salary for skilled labor. I'm not going to shit on dock workers, but let's just say I got a 4 year STEM degree and they're making as much money as I do. I feel like they're earning enough.
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  3709.  GnasherGear  It's literally happened dozens of times before you were born. Why stop now?
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  3710. I can't get over how the guy who shit his pants WON THE SET. He wasn't embarrassed at all, he just shat himself and still won!
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  3711. You have to be some kind of special moron to think that racism is the only defining feature of the National Socialist doctrine. People have been racist since they had the capacity to think.
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  3712. Agreed, we'll never get those bullets back.
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  3713. Cartman is actually very intelligent and capable if he is motivated. It's just that most of the time he's a lazy insufferable shit, and the only times he gets motivated is when he wants revenge or has a great idea to prank somebody.
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  3714.  @freshducc3712  I believe what you meant to say was "Ultra Instinct Luigi."
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  3715.  @h2ojr1  Hilarious that people still believe she was in the wrong. McDonald's ran a smear campaign against that woman because her case was completely legitimate. The employees and equipment were intentionally designed and instructed to keep the coffee unreasonably hot. Hotter than any coffee shop would serve it. Then they didn't secure the lid to her drink. They portrayed her as stupid because it's easier to believe that she was simply stupid than that McDonald's would have such an insanely harmful and idiotic policy and procedure. She had to have skin grafts after the spill. There's no way coffee should be served that hot.
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  3716.  @marjty6881  Why would you pay $70 to play a game marketed to children?
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  3717. @johnnyskinwalker4095 Iran can't have this regime forever. Honestly, when Rubio says "We aren't targeting a regime change," I wish he was. This regime is our mess and we need to clean it up.
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  3718.  @StuninRub  So Twitch now has a moral duty to provide smut for the sexually frustrated citizens of draconian nations?
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  3719.  @Chaelsonen  Not to justify the Halo series' shit writing, but Chief makes a lot of spontaneous decisions over the course of the games, with no further justification for his actions than "I won't miss" or "It'll work." Off the top of my head, kicking a bomb into space manually to destroy a Covenant capital ship, for example. He is extremely competent, but also very taciturn, so he has to perform before those who don't know him can trust in him. He makes Cortana nervous constantly due to his seemingly ill-informed decisions. If you read the books, you realize that this is because he has gotten used to the incompetence of non-augmented humans, especially his commanding officers (bar Keyes). So he doesn't bother explaining anything in detail.
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  3720. That explains where the term "fletcher" comes from.
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  3721. ​ @smelltheglove2038 Uh ... he did.
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  3722.  @smelltheglove2038  I did. Apparently, you didn't.
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  3723. Idiots made one crucial mistake in blowing all their dirty money on this getaway vehicle: they had to fulfill their secret agent fantasy and pick a Mercedes. Pick the most innocuous vehicle possible like a Toyota Corolla or Honda Accord or something.
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  3724.  @ajcook7777  it's a law to prevent immigrants from being afraid to speak up about crime for fear of being deported
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  3725. If your gun draw is not 1.5 seconds or less you need to work on it or change your setup
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  3726. @musesesesese The majority of people are stupid in general. Does that mean the minority are always correct? Or the majority? Seems like we shouldn't base our intellectual worldviews on democracy, doesn't it?
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  3727.  @kimberlysevastyanenko3798  Okay, so who's the judge of that "immediate clarity" on the scene? We're supposed to trust the cops now? Cops who have arrest quotas and get promotions for putting away criminals? Yeah that's a flawless idea that won't end poorly at all.
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  3728.  @leathalynn8745  You just took his exact argument and used it against him ("What if you were the one accused of the crime?"). Try harder. If you can't see how bad of an idea this is, read about more crime stories, that's all I have to say.
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  3729.  @allthenewsordeath5772  most African immigrants that move here are more productive than their American-raised distant cousins
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  3730.  @VitaliyMilonov  To be fair the first Fallout has aged especially poorly because of issues like getting trapped in places by your own companion (it's especially bad if you do the BoS questline and assault Mariposa with the Paladins), and Fallout 2 has numerous major unfixed bugs that need to be patched via community fixes, like all the ghouls at Gecko randomly turning hostile for absolutely no reason. There's also basically no point in doing anything except VATS targeting the eyes when you get your gun skill at a remotely high level. They are still very well written, but playing them can be a hassle. If any game needed a faithful remake, it would probably be the first 2 Fallouts.
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  3731. @NuchiAsaki  Nothing is truly free because it costs time. I want to develop games still but I'm not sure when to do it. I have filled most of my schedule and worked myself into a routine which I do not dislike.
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  3732. It's funny that Charlie makes references to Dragon Ball but doesn't recognize Eighter.
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  3733.  @ACryin_Shame  you're literally comparing her to men, i don't know how to explain to a brainless person that they don't even understand why genders are separated in sports. next you'll tell me that you should be able to use the same bathroom as her
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  3734. Here's a fun simple analogy for how transitioning (doesn't) affect your body. Imagine you're building two skyscrapers. One of the skyscrapers will be made entirely of steel and concrete. The other was planned to be made of steel and concrete as well, but about 2/3rds of the way up, the construction crew runs out of materials and uses wood instead. Does building the rest of the 2nd skyscraper out of wood magically make the rest of it wood also? No, it's still a building with a steel and concrete foundation. Same for transitioning. Just because you took some hormone pills doesn't magically erase the 18+ years you spent as a man, with full male hormone levels, allowing them to affect your muscle and bone development.
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  3735.  @thomasc1270  White Wolf is arguably just as stupid, their publishing house makes so many terrible fucking decisions that literally nobody wants them. Last I heard a couple years ago, they were up for sale and nobody would buy them.
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  3736. The democracy part is already nearly gone. That's why the amendment is there, not so the government can defeat itself through its own population.
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  3737.  @nicksafe9800  Haha, imagine thinking that taking 2.9 million dollars from a multinational corporation is "greedy." Sigh, boomers and their corporate worship.
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  3738.  @GrandTickler  I'm afraid it seems you don't even understand your own temperature system, let alone ours 190 degrees Celsius is almost twice the temperature of boiling water. Your "meat paste" would be liquid pouring out of the fried batter and onto you, and then burn you. Yet another L for "insecure European who chimes in out of nowhere just to shit on Americans." You guys are such a walking trope, it's hilarious.
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  3739.  @berengerchristy6256  We literally already did the big hole. There is a gigantic unused storage facility under the Rocky Mountains specifically designed to wait out the spent fuel rods' half lives. Just sitting there waiting for the oil lobby to relinquish its strangehold on the nation.
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  3740.  @chocobrowniewin  I didn't have a job until I left college. My only difficulty was adjusting to the 2 PM sleepiness.
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  3741. ​@forfun6273 that's just it. as Carlin once said, it doesn't need to be a formal conspiracy if everyone agrees. Muslims do the same thing, but because they're also an "enemy" they don't get much traction. the problem isn't necessarily that there are an illuminati like cadre of puppet masters, the problem is that they collectively follow a religion that says "you are better than everyone else, anyone not in your special group is a slave meant to do your bidding." even converts are treated poorly if you're orthodox. this doctrine mixes very very poorly with the fact that the believer is a member of a very very small group of people. the big difference here is that Christianity is a religion of converts, so even the non religious are not treated that poorly. I am not Christian BTW, I just have the ability to read history and recognize patterns.
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  3742.  @llwc9435  wew, my comment was deleted, incredible. i don't believe it is a coincidence, but i don't believe that the members of said group need any further justification than "we need to support our group above everyone else" that's really all that is needed to make them a threat to everyone outside their group. people who are critical of this, uh, status quo, usually act like there is some kind of absurd plan for world domination and while i'm sure a few of them have lofty ideas, most of them are raised in an environment where helping other members is just the default thing that you do. ingroup bias is an extremely strong motivator
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  3743.  @firefoxchind555  I don't think that joke works when you aren't the person who asked the question. Fuckin' zoomers.
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  3744.  @AdderTude  No one would advocate for the "medieval artwork" though. Generally, if they had some artist they hired design a monster and print it in a book, they can claim it's theirs. It's not the concept of a dragon but their particular design idea of how a dragon looks.
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  3745.  @DipseyDex  Speed Racer was a fun movie, but it might be unenjoyable for you if you have light sensitivity.
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  3746.  @rykehuss3435  "The West?" I gather from your use of "rubbish" that you are from the British isles? Did you forget that the US is the world leader in incarceration? I'll give you a hint, we didn't do that by rejecting confessions.
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  3747. They're a very edge case product. If you are off grid, obviously they can be very useful. For most, it's a scam. Especially in nations like Germany, where the government pushes it very hard. For those who don't know, Germany is a nation that gets very little wind and a lot of rain and overcast weather. Drive through the nation and you'll see a ton of houses with panels on them. Makes no sense.
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  3748.  @theobell2002  You can, and some pornstars successfully pivot into that career choice, but she is directly monetizing those two gigantic planets you see orbiting her chest.
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  3749. Sad that they never ported the extra N64 content to the PC. I always thought the SMGs were way cooler than the Ripper, and the extra levels were also good.
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  3750. Dunno man, I almost never drank water and mostly drank 2-3 sodas a day until I left high school and I still switched to tea and water just fine. Seems unnatural to me.
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  3751. "WHAT!! NO SON OF MINE IS GONNA DEPLOY AGENT ORANGE" "WHAT!! NO SON OF MINE IS GONNA SUPPORT AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES" "WHAT!! NO SON OF MINE IS GONNA BOMB SUPPLY LINES AND USE WHITE PHOSPHOROUS"
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  3752. That's not the biggest problem. Nobody takes IGN seriously
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  3753.  @axeamaniac4490  Imagine filing a warrant for someone's arrest because he didn't threaten anyone's life instead of immediately emptying a magazine on him for a crime you don't even know that he committed
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  3754.  @user-lh7mt7zo7l  They specified in the new TOS that despite the loosening of the rules they understand that people don't want specific content to show up on their home recommendations. How well it works in actual practice, I don't know because I don't really use that garbage website.
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  3755.  @Gamzeejunior  Now we just need rounds that are rocket-propelled and we're golden.
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  3756.  @hundvd_7  It did?
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  3757.  @Chickenburger-2  It's hilarious how you don't realize that the sexist ones are the writers shitting out this garbage thinking that this is what women are like and what they identify with
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  3758. I just had a weird flashback about memorizing room paths in MUDs which are text based MMOs that you have to type directions in to move. If you're playing a PvP MUD and someone blinds you, you better memorize a path that looks like n, e, e, e, open, n, n, n, e, up
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  3759. Pretty sure caffeine is healthier, even with the addictive properties
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  3760.  @imchris5000  That was designed to stop conventional RPGs, I thought.
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  3761. I did nothing wrong, I did everything correct! Wow dood!
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  3762.  @cryptonaut1435  There's a dump truck of stuff if you want it laid out for you explicitly. From a government's perspective, having more homosexuals in your country is objectively bad. Even in our society, which makes conscious efforts to improve homosexual acceptance year over year, homosexuals are more likely to have mental health issues. Their relationships are more likely to suffer from abuse. They suffer from physical health, too -- the vaginal canal is naturally adapted to help prevent some STDs, but the anal cavity, which often bleeds and isn't designed for sex, doesn't. Not to mention the repeated act of anal sex causes irreversible trauma over time. You could always choose to abstain, but again, this can contribute to a worse state of mental health. The mental health issues are a vicious cycle -- mentally ill people are more likely to abuse one another, which causes more issues. And I have not even touched on the fact that they can't reproduce, which is fatal for a nation if it reaches critical mass. The majority of people aren't even homosexual and we still suffer from massive issues with birth rates. Furthermore, in my opinion there is more than enough evidence to show that homosexuality can be caused by nurture and environment, not just nature or processes in the womb. So it naturally follows that encouraging acceptance or even glorifying homosexual relationships for children isn't productive for a society, on either a micro or a macro level. If you're homosexual and you approach the issue objectively, you're left with a serious choice: either accept that you have a problem, which is a serious blow to your self-worth as you accept that you are on a path to "inferiority" (not unlike a bulimic or obese person with self-esteem issues for example) or you deny/don't care about the problems and accept yourself, which raises your self-esteem but renders you blind to the issues with the lifestyle. Either way you are at significant risk of mental health problems.
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  3763. These fucking real estate agents always get me. The amount of smoke your ass would need to hold to receive what this guy is blowing. I'm convinced only pampered trophy wives could ever fall for this shit. Yeah, right angles and brutalism -- so futuristic. Wow.
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  3764. I mean you say that, but I've seen dashcam footage of a Vietnam vet murdering a cop in cold blood with his service rifle, during a typical highway stop, totally unprovoked. That said, nothing you can really do in that situation if you're the cop, if an insane guy is gonna murder he's gonna murder. Can't predict the behavior of the insane.
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  3765.  @Puddingskin01  Honestly? You'd be surprised.
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  3766. People like him don't have internalized morals, they only care about "is this my problem? no, it isn't" they have no concept of being courteous because it means other people will be courteous to them, then they wonder why their friends are all assholes like they are. Their behavior can only be checked one way which is through confrontation as shown here, but most employees can't do that.
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  3767.  @willdegra317  It's not necessarily about good or charitable feelings but often about perceived social pressure. Many women see news and social media repeating this narrative over and over again and they parrot it too, because they perceive it as "safe." They don't want to be ostracized. They also don't care about other women because of competitive mating.
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  3768.  @b00psn00t  Yeah I'd rather wait in line for rations instead, then we wouldn't have to worry about new video games at all, and we'd just pirate old games. Y'know, like Russia and China do now.
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  3769. They're upset because they know their dick is on the chopping block. If the US polices Mexico for them and cracks down on cartels, the cartel members aren't going to be the only ones to go. The politicians who enabled them would also go.
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  3770.  @imacomputer101  Of course I don't. But this is an internet comment forum, so I have the luxury to speculate. No need to take it so seriously.
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  3771.  @sabotagefate69  Wow, you really have no idea what you are talking about. I'm sorry, but consider actually working as an engineer before pulling opinions out of your ass. You sound like a cartoon caricature of a capitalist CEO. "Why do you need money? Don't you have passion?" Yeah dude, nobody works for free. Get over it.
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  3772.  @GlairGullwing  They do that in literally any game or property marketed to children, how would this be any different?
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  3773.  @mannys9130  When a product gets distributed at a retail outlet like Walmart, standards go out the window. Something else I've noticed; it's always easier to buy alcohol at a Walmart or other supermarket than it is a liquor store or even a convenience store.
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  3774. Transactional dating/relationships are completely stupid in general. Jeremy is advocating for it here without truly realizing it. That, or he honestly believes that women don't have careers now and therefore can't afford to pay. Just about every woman I see on dating apps (not Tinder) has a job that must pay at least the national average for men.
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  3775.  @dannymccraw4841  Exactly. The point of concealed carry is that nobody knows about it. A sign that tells you not to concealed carry does nothing to people who are not afraid of omniscient ghosts or aliens with X-ray vision reporting on them to the police.
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  3776. That's the magic of disinformation campaigns... if the president had said "we have an announcement to make, we shot an innocent mother, her dog and her teenager son after staking them out for a whole day in ghillie suits because we failed to frame the father for making sawed off shotguns" then there would have been a lot more outrage. Hindsight is 20/20
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  3777.  @ericpranzarone9936  Oh, so you saw OP chase an innocent bystander, firearm in hand, over 100 yards away from his home? Care to share that story?
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  3778.  @chasepowell5833  Indeed. And the beauty of skepticism is not believing every single dime a dozen doomsday projection that comes out of some shitheap pop science rag.
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  3779.  @jonathangorrie2402  We should have women cops for the sole purpose of domestic violence disputes, where same-gender counseling might be needed, and for cavity searches on the same gender. That's it. They shouldn't attempt to assist in arresting a male suspect or participate in firefights.
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  3780. ​ @ferretappreciator Being proud of ignorance is cringe.
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  3781.  @gamebrainthinks1613  "People who play console pay a subscription to be allowed to play online." Yeah you don't even have that excuse anymore thanks to Microsoft.
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  3782.  @Num1koolaidman  I'm a programmer that understands most of the underlying infrastructure for a game like WoW, and it is indeed complicated. But the price is very questionably worth it when they could have designed the game very well without taxing their servers as heavily (see Guild Wars, for example). The real cost in infrastructure comes with the fact that everyone is always in the same instance in every area except for dungeons. But what exactly is the benefit of this? It provides for more interesting World PVP. But wait a second, let's think about World PVP in WoW. It didn't even really get interesting until expansions later... It was nearly unimplemented early on except for an honor tracker. The Warhammer Online MMO had very good World PVP... too bad it died because it wasn't WoW.
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  3783. My guess is the black chick suddenly remembered a moment from 5th grade where she learned her times tables and thought "12 x 4 is 48" and decided to say that because breaking down multiplication problems into factors and adding them up was too complicated.
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  3784.  @BrandonSmith-rb1bf  lol you were babied if you didn't get to manage the house on your own at 10
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  3785.  @Warlord4Hikage  If you think that a woman wearing cat ears in real life is remotely similar to what you just described, then most psychiatrists would agree that you are either a 5-year old child or severely deranged.
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  3786. I honest-to-God can't understand the appeal of the website. Every time I happen to stumble upon a Reddit thread because it's the only promising result on Google relevant to my search query, it's always some dumb snarky asshat who gets updooted all the way to the top instead of a helpful answer. Every time there's an in-depth discussion that branches off a reply I have to go to a totally separate page just to read that one discussion. Every time you post double-spaces are inserted for no reason. Everything you post has to be hosted somewhere else. Yet for some reason many Redditors seem to act like they're very original and creative people. There are no content filters. The only thing posts have in common is an abstract connection to the topic described in the subreddit. On the front page, you will see some kind of heartfelt open letter to the developers if the subreddit is about a game, right next to some stupid meme linked from YouTube. Why not have a tag system like Stack Exchange? You have your stupid updoots point system, so people will tag their posts in hopes of getting updoots. That whole system is fucking cancer by the way.
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  3787. She was referring to MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. However, hilariously she got the date wrong. It is today, August 28th that he gave that speech.
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  3788. Ironically the long-term outcome of this -- less police officers -- is that more criminals will die. Despite qualified immunity and the benefits it brings to cops, a private citizen has no obligation to bring in a criminal for a fair trial. If they are dead, they also cannot defend themselves in court. They might have a lawyer representing their family, but they'll never get their side of the story. I'm not saying I feel sorry for them, mind you, but not every case is clear-cut black and white self-defense. As much as people shit on cops for shooting suspects, the only reason that private citizens aren't doing the shooting is that they are not directly involved with the crime.
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  3789.  @GoldOxide8463  Extremely fucking lukewarm take actually If it isn't, then go hang out at the homeless shelter instead of your buddy's house this weekend
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  3790.  @Adonnus100  Lmfao dude, you and everyone that upboated you have terminal TDS. Being tough on China, which was Trump's primary foreign policy platform, necessarily means assisting Taiwan. Abandoning Taiwan is not viable for any president no matter how stupid they are. If we let China get Taiwan, they will have access to unique factories producing superconductor tech and they will control a huge amount of the world's microchip production.
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  3791.  @xxm.6980  The difference is that when a game like Diablo 4 is being developed, entire teams of people are coming up with strategies to make monetized content and make sure people buy it. They spend millions of dollars on hiring people that do nothing but sit there and shit out gear skins for people to buy, and go to brainstorming meetings to come up with battle pass progressions. None of that shit exists in BG3, so Larian never had to spend money on it. Making a big budget MTX game is a huge gamble that only the wealthiest AAA studios can afford. I would be surprised if BG3's budget even broke $100 million and I would expect half of the budget to be purely marketing. For reference, Battlefield 4 cost $100 million to produce (not market) which makes sense -- think about all the highly detailed maps, textures, buildings etc. that are in that game and all the high fidelity sound effects that were recorded by professionals that rented the actual military hardware. BG3 has a lot of time and care put into it, but very few of the hallmarks of a huge budget high production value game.
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  3792.  @Candlemancer  We'd be so much better off with their oppressors, the Muslims, ruling the world once they've all been ended. /sarc
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  3793. I gotta say that gunshot sounded like it came from Looney Tunes.
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  3794. ​@RAWBOT301 Yeah, because it wasn't Hillary who talked about war with Russia or Biden who just blew up a Russian military base with a ballistic missile that created a mushroom cloud so big you need an expert to tell you it wasn't a nuke
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  3795.  @vee258  Hah, I'm half-German and I often find myself doing this: first being totally aloof and then realizing it right afterward. At least if I realized it much later, I could cringe in solitude.
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  3796.  @Carl_Brutananadilewski  You... you spent 10 years in college... as an engineer? Dude... Cringe moment. Coming from a programmer...
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  3797.  @Carl_Brutananadilewski  STEM is an education term buddy, learn to write. And yes, your empty insults wound my pride so much. Oh, I'm so sad.
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  3798.  @xenn4985  The possession of a weapon of mass destruction would be virtually the same as declaring independent sovereignty. If you have a nuke, you can threaten to hold everyone around you hostage unless your terms are met. The standard play at this point is to declare sovereignty. By "everyone around you" I mean potentially millions of people. Yes, I know, shocking to think that pro-gun people are able to tell the difference between a rifle and a nuclear warhead.
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  3799. "The Misogyny Machine" Wonder who is gang is. Shaggy, the guy who gets stoned in the van and masturbates but never participates in the assault because he's too lazy. Scooby, the poorly trained pit bull who could attack anyone else in the gang at any given moment. Well... I guess that's it because there's certainly no Daphne or Velma.
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  3800. I too was impressed. Seems like it was clearly inspired by H&K designs but they wanted to make some improvements for ease of disassembly.
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  3801. Rest assured, these are the people who do not actually program on a daily basis. That's why they have so much time to criticize your questions on SO.
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  3802. "We need to stop assuming gender roles. Anyone is capable of filling any role." "...So anyway, men really need to step up and make the first move like they used to."
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  3803. @Allmybotsarewoke The Nazis came to power because Hitler really, really wanted it and the German people didn't have much of a choice. It was either vote for the puppet regime installed by the French and British after WW1 which resulted in the terrible situation they were in, or vote for the conservatives -- not the Nazis. Something most don't realize is that the Nazis were never explicitly on the German ballot in that fateful federal election. Hitler was going to be chancellor as part of a deal because the traditional conservative party needed to make an alliance to have any hope at success, but they would retain congress. What they, and the rest of the German people, didn't count on was Hitler murdering everybody who stood in his way and abusing emergency powers once he was instated. Even with Hitler's charisma and impressive speeches, the Nazis earned a minority of support, something like 30% at the absolute most. Before Hitler their members literally numbered in the dozens. It was always a niche party for pissed off war veterans. Then Hitler artificially inflated support by promising socialist reforms, and backstabbing all the socialists once he was in power. Communism was indeed bad, but the simple fact of the matter is that political street brawls only affected a minority of Germans living in large cities like Berlin. To any reasonable person, the choice between Nazism and Communism was between "really authoritarian guy" or "really authoritarian guy with different uniform." Nazism and Communism simply aren't that different from one another. Mussolini, the guy Hitler was inspired by, was himself a former Marxist. The point of all this is, even with our media being bought out by interest groups, the Nazi regime was lightning in a bottle. It's not going to happen again and if we arrive at a similar situation here in the US (pray that we don't, and no we aren't even close yet) the reactionary movement will look quite different. The mere fact that Antifa and related "protests" are typically made up of paid goons instead of genuine activists proves that we aren't close to that level of internal strife. It's almost entirely an artificial movement. Hitler defined the Nazi party more than anything with his blatant illegal power grabs and you would have to see a very similar leader for a similar party to take hold. As much as the media likes to compare, Trump never murdered anyone. The worst they could come up with is "he peed on some hookers that one time" which isn't even true. You'd need a madman who is somehow able to game the system and fool everyone while secretly wanting to murder everyone in Congress. It's virtually impossible in the age of the internet and there is no large contingent of pissed off veterans from a losing war to draw from.
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  3804. @Allmybotsarewoke It certainly isn't headed in a good direction. My question is, will there be a catastrophic event to shock society out of the moral stupor it is in? Or will a world government form first? Because that is certainly the direction that organizations like the EU, UN and WEF would seem to have us head towards. There is certainly a reason why the same news stories with the same bias get published in the same nations at the same time. Or why certain stories DON'T get published after a certain time, like those involving Hong Kong.
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  3805. ​@jamescerone That's just the thing with language though. The opponents also have a say. No one can claim authority and say "this isn't what this word means anymore so buzz off."
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  3806. ​ @etansivad  Ah, you're one of those guys who thinks that cops can be expert psychoanalysts, or even that an expert psychoanalyst can be trusted in a situation like this. "He's crying, plz no yell!" Give me a fucking break. You are completely wrong, it is when people are at their most desperate that they commit acts of violence such as this one. He might have been bawling his eyes out, thinking himself "Well my life is completely over, might as well end it now" and pulled out a sidearm to shoot the cops, and then himself afterward. Why people like you continue to assume that a clearly deranged, violent criminal has predictable motives and emotions similar to that of a rational person is completely beyond me. There are multiple reasons a person can become so deranged as to do something like this and you have no way of knowing what sort of stimuli they will respond to, or how they will respond to it.
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  3807.  @etansivad  Personally I think that is too much to expect for a stranger who shows up at the last moment, when someone is about to kill themselves and/or others. It doesn't seem to me like there is a very large margin of "people who can be convinced to stop being crazy by cops who showed up to shoot them." Asking cops to use non-lethal force against lethal is disrespectful to the life of the cop. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem feasible to me to train every cop so thoroughly in these techniques. Especially when you factor in the aptitude of any random cop -- some will be better at this specific type of thing, others won't -- and then balance that against the fact that most departments don't have enough cops as it is. Usually they have a specialist who is significantly more trained in it than his coworkers and must be called in individually. I often see suggestions like yours and others that seem to imply a complete overhaul of how most police departments work in America, which are at best long-term goals that cannot be achieved without major overhauls, and at worst pipe dreams. I'm no budgetary expert on most police departments either, but it doesn't seem like we can just come up with the money necessary for these overhauls just by "trimming the fat."
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  3808. Public service announcement: GameStop and GameSpot are not the same thing. That is all.
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  3809. Well, it's more like get some sucker to spend money on you while you sleep with other, more physically attractive guys.
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  3810. My grandmother recently died at 89 years old and she was completely lucid until she passed
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  3811.  @joshhigdon4951  I think most would disagree on preferring to pay sales tax, because most young people do not own property. That's what I was getting at. If income tax were abolished, suddenly every gen Z/alpha person would only be paying sales tax to the government. People like me would still pay property tax, but I'd be fine with it since I too would not have to pay income tax. I don't know if that solution is the most effective, but it helps the people who need it more: those who can't even afford to own a home. It made more sense when voting was also tied to property ownership, so by owning a home you pay taxes, but you also get to vote. It used to be a trade-off.
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  3812.  @guyforlogos  Let's not pretend income tax doesn't also increase.
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  3813.  @josealexi5141  True, can't argue with that. But what I mean is that even if we weren't sending boatloads of money to Israel and NATO and other expenses, tax would still have to be paid.
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  3814.  @josealexi5141  So we can have a standing army and roads. It's really not that complicated. I've seen what private companies do to roads here in Texas. Put tolls on all of them, and then lobby against public transit. It's quite annoying if you're disabled and can't drive, but most people don't care.
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  3815.  @guyforlogos  Why'd you bring up a laundry list of other taxes if not to make property tax seem like the straw that breaks the camels back?
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  3816.  @josealexi5141  People like you make it hard to be conservative, but I take solace in knowing that you're 50 or older 90% of the time and I'll just outlive your annoying opinions.
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  3817.  @josealexi5141  So you're a Democrat... who doesn't care about disabled people or infrastructure...
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  3818. The driver was clearly looking only right to watch for other cars. It's depressing how many drivers do this. Even in a residential neighborhood where people are constantly walking.
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  3819.  @jasoneaton9477  How about you look both ways before you apply gas to your 3000 pound projectile?
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  3820. Because we have no reason to go to war over those regions yet. Is that not obvious? The moon has no resources and neither does Antarctica, beyond whatever R&D a nation is willing to perform in those regions. Quite infuriating when people willingly act like fools to support their foregone conclusions.
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  3821.  @rangokfunkazuul8344  "Turks are white" Leave that shit on /pol/ where it belongs.
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  3822. "You gonna have to kill me then" "Watch this."
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  3823. ​ @matthewtedeschi5646 No? You're here in the video too buddy
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  3824. @drspandanroy  It is ctrl click, you are correct.
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  3825.  @Karsh.  You don't get to maps (endgame stuff) in PoE2 without understanding that item level doesn't matter and that item drops can have different tiers of modifiers on them. Primarily because you will be destroyed by the fact that you have no resistances. You will get hit by a single frozen orb or lightning bolt and die. The resistance problem alone will teach you to look at modifiers on an item, not item level. There are certain things item level DOES matter for, namely what unique will drop for a given item type, but if you get a level 50 item, especially a ring amulet or belt, that has tier 5 and up modifiers on it, it's likely a good item regardless.
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  3826.  @TheFartanSpartan  A man can be a entrepreneurial genius while committing PR gaffes.
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  3827. Most leftists, the radical ones anyway, are idealists. To be an idealist is to inherently deny reality because you are trying to change it. Most conservatives are pragmatists because to conserve, or keep the status quo, is to work with things the way that they are, not the way they should be.
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  3828. Y'all should play Sacred 1 and 2 if you haven't.
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  3829. B-B-BUT HE DIDNT SUPPORT COVID MANDATES!!!!1 INSTANT HITLER!!!
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  3830.  @berrymckockiner5883  In fairness that false sense of security isn't going to last long. You'd have to have a well coordinated crackdown effort for that to work. The law enforcement agency involved would have to keep it a secret for as long as possible, and after several months at best, the target group would catch on that everyone who posts some kind of pro-pedo statement gets disappeared
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  3831. But the judge will be happy when he gets a fat bribe
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  3832. they wouldn't do shit, nobody cares about .79c of goods and they'd be long gone
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  3833. This is just so stereotypical it's perfect. White woman makes media celebrating black people purely for clout. Except, all the facts are wrong which shows she clearly didn't care, and she stole the entire concept from a black woman, robbing her of the clout.
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  3834. He served his sentence. Felons can't own firearms after they've served their sentence.
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  3835.  @dewardroy6531  he's a real estate investor, you don't need to let him live in your head rent free
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  3836.  @psibug565  "Citation needed" It's hard to take you seriously when it's blatantly obvious you have never even glanced at an election exit poll
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  3837.  @iyziejane  Diablo 2 was produced by Blizzard North, different studio. They made Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, etc. Not the same studio in California that made Warcraft.
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  3838. Same. Used to post a lot because I liked providing answers. Got sick of almost everyone else on the website.
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  3839.  @jakobgruber7809  Are you daft? You really think the rank-and-file code monkeys have a say in when the game is released? Lmao, way to double down and make yourself look stupid.
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  3840. In the Vietnam war, kids were banned from wearing armbands in protest of the war. Now they're being banned from flying flags in support of the nation.
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  3841. This is insanely stupid because the user already purchased the book. It makes total sense for them to stop selling the books, because that's the violation that the publisher committed. It does not make sense to revoke possession of already purchased books.
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  3842. "I want an Aryan trad husbando to give me kids. I'm going to be a single mom afterwards though. fuck off" Yeah, makes total sense, very realistic worldview
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  3843.  @johnd1025  You... you don't see a problem with standing downrange to load your guns? Which federal agency do you work for?
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  3844.  @iron6672  It's hard to take you seriously when it's apparent you haven't read more than 250 years of history, and all of those were about the United States. You "naive child." Nor for that matter have you been paying attention to current events. We are in the situation we are in now because of a strong state. You honest-to-God think that a tiny minority of sexually divergent identity politicians got this strong through an organic grassroots movement? You think the Christian majority in this nation just poofed away with no help from authority? How absurd. The government stomps down on your ideology and you say, "We need stronger government." But then you say, "Well, if we were in control, things would be different." Yes. They would. For maybe a decade, tops. Then your dumb, naive ass would be killed in a coup and things would swing in the opposite direction even more violently. Fascists thought exactly what you think right now, as did Communists and every other authoritarian-for-change. Yours just has a theocratic flavor to it.
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  3845. Man pages are helpful but I don't understand the anti-GUI bias for Linux users. Well, I kind of do, because as you said, Linux DEs are frankly lacking. But browsing man pages online in a browser is a lot more convenient than using the terminal if it is available and if you don't know the idiosyncrasies of, for example, the less reader. Command line options are usually not intuitive and vary based on the whimsy of whomever wrote the program so having a search option (CTRL+F in every browser, which almost everyone will be familiar with) and a comfortable reading environment is a must. There are other advantages as well. In MATE, for example, hitting ALT+F2 at any time and launching any program with autocomplete, and using pre-defined scripts that have all of the command line options you would want instantly is extremely convenient. Could you set all of this up yourself in a terminal using aliases, PATH var and scripts? Sure you could. You could also go and write your own operating system from scratch. One of the key tenants of software in general is that it is stupid to reinvent the wheel. DEs may not be perfect, but none of them (that I know of) bar you from using the terminal quickly and easily if you need to. If your use case is personal computer use and not learning Linux so you can manage servers for your job, it's better to not burn out on learning a bunch of new syntax that is not immediately useful to you.
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  3846.  GodzillaBoyNY  Bro says this as broken humans with mutilated genitals hopped up on hormone pills shoot up elementary schools He was the goodest boy, he did everything the zeitgeist told him.
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  3847.  @xaqudirir4585  plenty of muslim extremists use drugs, especially the opiate variety. it's hypocritical but hey, if you're gonna die, might as well go all out
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  3848. Chances are they either double booked the room or someone with connections wanted the room and got it instead. The old manager just doubled and tripled down to avoid taking responsibility and doesn't give a damn about the customer who "lost." I've seen the mistake before although with much more reasonable managers.
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  3849.  @islamicschoolofmemestudies  Well, the entire idea of Aryanism as he and his followers/predecessors posed it is rather ridiculous anyway. Hitler didn't live up to the standard and neither did many of his top brass. I mean look at Goebbels for crying out loud.
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  3850. Corporate funding has found its way into open source because big tech firms, even Microsoft, rely on Linux and other open source staples. The funding hires activists because it allows them to get money from investors. The activists go to work on open source, salaries paid by the big tech firms, because if any more of them worked on their actual product it would fall apart. This way, they continue to get investment money.
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  3851.  @1faithchick7  That's not a weird thing for kids to do, even without any kind of behavioral issue or illness. Not sure why everyone here finds it so weird. Adults have to entertain kids sometimes.
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  3852.  @altnova6643  So we're just going to ignore that the UI, damage system, kill system and move structure is obviously the exact same then.
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  3853.  @WastePlace  I've played platform fighters and other brawling type games that aren't similar to Smash, but this is definitely not one of them.
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  3854.  @SpongeBob-yk9oo  you've misplaced the burden of proof, the much more reasonable stance when you detach yourself from bias fostered since childhood is "how do you know that there is some cosmic force ensuring every person receives poetic, and honestly to some extent, petty and spiteful justice for perceived crimes during life?" the real truth of it that you don't want to admit is, you believe it because it makes you feel better. because it would suck to live in a world where evil people get to just get away with it and die of natural causes. and it does suck, but it's also dumb to worry about things you never had any control over to begin with. it is, when you really think about it, stupid and childish to imagine that some guy is getting his butt poked by a devil with a pitchfork, despite you having never interacted with him just because you read about some stuff he did in a textbook i don't even hate Christians, indeed, it's hard to deny their contributions to humanity, but the self serving "ahhhh yes the bad man is getting buggered!!" wank just has no place in a mature mind in my opinion. in the worst case it convinces people that inaction is fine because "well they're going to hell anyway"
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  3855. Love it when people signal their own biases by implying that homosexuals and pedophilia are necessarily connected.
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  3856. She hates her family because they disagree with her politics. I hate this family because they only drink white wine. We are not the same.
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  3857. Sorry bro, it's some worn-out, tired shit. You're just going to have to do better if you wanna hurt someone's feelings. Plus, it instantly links you with /v/ -- and nobody can take a /v/irgin's insults seriously.
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  3858. I think they understand that if there's something gigantic like a human it probably isn't going to eat it because it isn't worth the effort so it's best to just stand still
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  3859. @melxvee6850  get a 4 year degree in cs/se and we'll talk
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  3860.  @willfox2598  That's only appropriate if it is a quote within a quote, which didn't occur in his post.
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  3861. They do, they're waiting until they already know what the solution will be before they announce it so they sound like they're competent for already having a plan of action.
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  3862.  @crawlingboy  The only women who like men like him have problems of their own. Usually, self-esteem issues. Frankly, as a pick-up artist, Johnny doesn't have much going for him besides looks, confidence and the occasional funny one-liner. The truly successful ones are sociopathic manipulators who are really good at pretending to care about the women they're dating. Cult leaders and serial killers all had those traits in common.
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  3863. Meanwhile in the alternate timeline where Trump didn't turn his head at Butler: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
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  3864.  @737smartin  yelling is not violence, i really hope you don't call the cops on someone playing video games or watching football and yelling at the screen
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  3865.  @LunaticThinker  Huhuh, other team bad, amirite guize? Such poignant political musings.
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  3866.  @barrysmithhy1583  Weird, I didn't know the NSA was staffed by children. You learn something new every day.
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  3867. What did he imagine would happen? Musk is one of the wealthiest billionaires in the world... did he honestly expect him not to donate to Ukraine?
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  3868. I had the runaround, bad, when I tried to cancel monthly payments to ADT. The only way to cancel, and I mean only, despite them having an online portal to manage your account, is via phone. And you must be transferred to the cancellation department; there is no direct number. Twice I tried, one time I was on hold for 45 minutes and the second time 30 minutes. I decided to tell my bank to stop paying them. This results in me racking up over $200 of unpaid fees. I started getting calls from their collection agency. The first time, they had no idea what to do about my situation. The second time, they actually canceled me. The third time, I got to the next rung in the ladder and after it became clear I wasn't budging he cleared the overdue fees.
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  3869.  @Nuverotic  And there it is, the nihilism of continuing to support a franchise one could easily go without in spite of price hikes and malpractice.
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  3870. Not sure if anyone mentioned this already but funny you should say that, because gas is used for most (non-CGI) theatrical effect explosions. The fireball that gas produces is much more visually spectacular than most real explosives that are designed for kinetic impact, but in actuality gas exploding doesn't have that much kinetic energy.
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  3871.  @razzledazzledorito6552  The point is that it's unreasonable to expect someone to wait with bated breath for your perfect prince/princess response on a dating website because the people who DO use it for hook-up culture, or who are otherwise shallow/undesirable, may not respond to your messages at all. So messaging multiple people isn't necessarily about wanting to get laid, it's about wanting to get any form of response at all.
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  3872. As a walker, I would take offense to that statistic at the beginning, but I also don't look like I just woke up from being passed out drunk on the pavement, so there's that.
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  3873.  @Agitated_Hamster  And you're advocating that dumbasses should still be allowed to drive cars recklessly? Just trying to make your position clear here.
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  3874. I hate dealing with texts and emails. The worst part about this is that legitimate companies are too ignorant or lazy to take simple steps to make their messages seem more legitimate; I have been nervous about clicking on links from completely legitimate messages a few times now.
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  3875. I'm terrified of the thought of not being able to see my penis when I look down, ngl
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  3876.  @TheManofthecross  not too skilled at differentiating things are ya
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  3877. ​ @Egr-et6ar We do leave. When we do, it's criticized as white flight. Because no one else other than Asians is apparently capable of gentrification.
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  3878. This type of stuff isn't tolerated in almost any establishment outside the US, and possibly the UK. Most managers really don't have the willingness to put up with this nonsense. They have to beat that level of patience into you here in the US.
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  3879. That's... why they were re-united in one place to be weighed?
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  3880. ​@Lachdanun Dude have you not heard of software licenses? They work the exact same. When you buy a "copy" of Microsoft Word you don't own the rights to reproduce the software. You are actually buying a license to use that software, with some terms attached. Same shit.
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  3881.  @SonsOfLore  ... Okay, so you're just going to continue to deny the reality of how OF/Patreon subscriptions work. I can't help you, then.
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  3882.  @jacobisworld9516  AK is the postal code for Alaska.
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  3883. Animals could also be asked to testify in court. Like asking a horse to count how many men robbed a farm for example
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  3884.  @onyxraze  Makes about as much sense as being attracted to the size of breasts, which evolutionary study shows have no reason to exist except when the woman is pregnant. Scientists are legitimately baffled by why men are attracted to big breasts and how they came to evolve.
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  3885. Technically not true, I think you need to at least go to the school and get your starter.
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  3886. Yeah, that was also the pattern I detected. This is self-destructive behavior resembling a company that knows its on its way out and will burn all of their goodwill and brand imaging just for slightly more money on the last year.
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  3887.  @tonymante8759  Sounds like a good plan to me, with what little knowledge I have. Renovating cheap homes is always a good way to make money.
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  3888.  @dyent  OK. Well, they must be eating less gluten for a different reason then.
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  3889. SUN TZU SAID THAT, AND I THINK HE KNOWS A LITTLE MORE ABOUT VIDEO GAMES THAN YOU DO PAL
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  3890.  @f145hr3831jr  Yeah, Parker and Stone's merciless roasting of anti-immigrant voters really did not age well.
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  3891.  @ek5273  Pro-immigrant Libertarians are cringe as fuck.
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  3892. ​ @devonjeffers5898  that's because they suck bro, you aren't wise for being contrarian
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  3893. The tragic part about Hatred was the awful performance. I stopped playing at the downtown level because of cars careening in from off screen instantly killing you, and there was too much lag for me to dodge them. The ending was hilarious though.
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  3894. Ah yes, serrated edges, known for their deadly effectiveness in exactly 0 weapons of war ever made in the history of warfare. Sure does cut a rope or a seatbelt real good though.
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  3895.  @asherking159  It doesn't really matter, especially in the context of media or personalities, which are enjoyed subjectively by their very nature. Even if 99% of people like Thing A, you could not like Thing A for a specific reason, and an "objective" top 10 ranking will never change that. Also, gathering the data to prove that 99% of people like Thing A would be an exercise in futility
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  3896.  @Trainfan1055Janathan  It's still the official term of the AKC. You will hear many who style themselves dog experts call female dogs bitches in the US.
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  3897. Love how the moment he broke free for just a second, half of them just gave up and were like "hoo doggy, i need me some kool aid mm-hmm" even though they could have grabbed him again if they tried.
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  3898. A swarm of very angry bees
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  3899.  @manuwilson4695  Sorry man, laws don't make people go crazy. In your country this guy would have burned the school down or brought a bag of knives to school to stab these little kids and you would have said, "Well, our Great Nation did everything they could! Too bad I guess!" Because he obviously was a determined killer in the making from what others have said about him and what he's done in the past. Maybe he would have waited until they were outside and ran them over with his granddad's truck. A guy killed over 3 times as many adults in a parade recently with just an SUV. The gun is largely irrelevant. This is not a gun problem and if we treat it as such we're not ever going to solve it. This is a cultural problem and a mental health problem. Try actually getting the killers to stop killing instead of making it slightly more difficult for them to kill.
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  3900.  @dindunuphenwong  you think you're being virtuous, but really you are signalling your own crippling lack of ability to identify humans. our brains have been meticulously selected to identify humans of the opposite sex of appropriate child rearing age. if we failed at this, our species would have died out a long time ago. to deny this is to literally deny evolution. pedos do not a successful species make. but you are so desperately afraid of authority figures and of being on the wrong side of history that you betray your own instincts
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  3901.  @Pokesalad222  That's not something to brag about. The Mexican government is a puppet for criminal organizations.
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  3902. @jpo5626  My comment did not imply trust either way. Time to stop being a pawn for one of two corporate approved parties.
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  3903.  @thedonzo506  Serious in believing that more than one politician could lie? Were you born yesterday?
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  3904.  @TruePeaceSeeker  It was the first FPS game with big set pieces and interactive environments, and basically paved the way for Half-Life to come out. There weren't any FPSes before where you could blow up a damaged wall, or even an entire building. Everything looked "real" (not realistic, more like a comic book, but it was recognizable as a real world) unlike Doom and its clones, which looked like abstract arcade-inspired games (because they were). There were ambient sounds in addition to music, another thing that wasn't done yet except in Hexen which came out nearly the same time and wasn't nearly as popular. Although keys were still the main barrier of progress, you were doing things aside from "get keys, touch exit" and the existence of concrete objectives and story brought the game together tightly.
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  3905.  @ilikepotatoes1345  Ion Fury is amazing because it is made by the guys who made EDuke32, an updated version of the Build engine used for Duke3D, and analogous to Doom source ports like GZDoom. Sadly 3D Realms doesn't give them any recognition at all, seems like.
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  3906.  @sovietnationalism5240  Yeah they call it "development hell" for a reason.
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  3907.  @AngryB4ker  And eating a few hot dogs live on set never hurts.
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  3908.  @和也兄貴  They seem to be obsessed with control and approach that dogmatically like some kind of cult leadership. Lowering their own talents' sense of self-worth seems to be an integral part of their strategy. Sacrificing their own achievements on the altar of the company is just another part of that.
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  3909.  @itsMe_TheHerpes  Hey buddy, since you care so much why not join him in the cell? It will be awfully lonely in there for him. I'm sure you could keep him good company. Make sure to bring some lube, it's just the kind thing to do after all.
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  3910. ​ @davidy.9524 To apply every other country's strategy to the US is absurd. The US is, uniquely, the highest importing nation in the world. We buy everybody's crap. If we levy a tariff, that immediately takes a huge chunk out of any nations trade revenue. This can then be used as a bargaining chip against them.
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  3911.  @wdane794  No, we can't just stop the world because the current generation of middle aged people might lose their jobs. This is absurd Luddite thinking. Instead the dock workers should think about their kids and what jobs they will have. They might be able to design the robots that replace them.
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  3912.  @marjty6881  Are you pretending to be retarded or does it just come naturally? World of Warcraft isn't explicitly set in Europe, you clod. JK Rowling didn't put any ethnic minorities in her first 4 or so books either...
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  3913.  @assassin8636  Just look at which nations have representation in the WEF.
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  3914.  @maryrobinson4572  This guy clearly isn't working himself to death, he may work long hours but he'll be promoted to a desk job managing the coal miners or designing the tools they use soon enough. That's how these jobs tend to go.
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  3915.  @Dazzletoad  The real reason why "innocent until proven guilty" is a thing is because logically, it is impossible to prove a negative. Easiest example; I'm an (agnostic) atheist and even I acknowledge that I cannot prove that God does not exist. Gnostic atheists claim to do so and that is why they end up making themselves look foolish (the classic "fedora tipper" atheist). This is because an obtuse person could come up with "well what if" scenarios until the end of time that you could not satisfy. To put it in a court scenario, if you were accused of a murder and had to prove your innocence, even if you had a rock solid alibi a corrupt prosecutor could say "Ah but actually that was your UNKNOWN-UNTIL-NOW TWIN BROTHER who was gone that day" or something equally ridiculous. You would have to fend off accusations until the end of time.
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  3916.  @tastyterpenes4140  such a weird and misanthropic way to go through life, i will never understand this worldview of not living life for its own sake instead of so you can pass your "test" and get your good boy Reeses peanut butter cups from God
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  3917.  @tastyterpenes4140  not to come off too offensive but i don't think you understand what quantum mechanics truly is. it does not have scope on the vast majority of anecdotal miracles. quantum mechanics is very much a work in progress to understand physics at a much smaller scale. the problem with physics as we know it is that the laws actually change at certain scales. classical physics works with nearly everything we deal with in our lives, but, just as an example, gravity as we know it just stops making sense when you start dealing with bodies that are massive enough. i'm talking bodies that are much more massive than any planet or star in our solar system the truth is we will never know how or why miracles happened, short of some kind of time traveling technology, because all we have to prove their existence is the documentation of other people. chances are high that many of them could simply be made up in order to avoid consequences for a big mistake. to use the example of the virgin Mary, "it was a miracle" is a really convenient way to avoid having to kill or exile a woman for the crime of adultery when she suddenly has a child and nobody knows why. the entire village may have been in on this lie for their own political reasons. many such cases throughout history in order to avoid punishment or burdens from authority. another popular one is everyone in a community pretending to be sick or crazy so they do not have to host a traveling king or noble that expects lavish accommodation. collective lying is a very, very powerful thing
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  3918. The problem is really because of COINTELPRO. This is an intentional smear, started decades ago, to make all conspiracy theorists look stupid by association and muddy the waters of legitimate conspiracies like emm kay ULTRA being tested in US soil on government employees. The sad thing is that we have too many idiots among us who can't see it for what it is and think that being contrarian on the internet makes them look smart. The left gets men who dress up like female clowns lecturing children in schools and we're stuck with flat earthers and moon landing deniers.
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  3919.  @RBighammer  We have been back there, 5 times. Japan also sent a lander and it's still there. India landed there last year. It's sad how you people project an image of being more informed but are actually far, far less informed.
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  3920. @I see it like this I feel like No way bruh, stands need to have musical references for names
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  3921.  @MadafakinRio  Most of the time a blunt instrument was used I think, unless you're slaughtering according to tradition (kosher or halal). In the 19th century they invented small caliber slaughtering "guns" that require knowledge and precision to use correctly, but would kill the animal painlessly when used properly
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  3922.  @Deadsnake989  That's not true. Physical conflict usually starts in modern society because someone is being an idiot. Idiocy does not always necessitate the death sentence. If someone is deliberately trying to ambush or mug you, they will often do it in transitional spaces (i.e. doorways). Being a law abiding citizen means that you must be the reactive one, which means you can't wave your gun around like in an FPS game. That means it is far, far more likely that you will have to at least break a hold or defend yourself from some kind of hand-to-hand attack.
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  3923.  @Moody.Smiruai  Anyone who's been actually trained to fight? I don't understand the question.
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  3924. Stupid manipulator gets manipulated by her own lawyers into giving them all her money.
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  3925. Love the one guy calmly waiting for his League of Legends match to load like "Yeah, I've heard a lot worse."
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  3926.  @spacecowboy6667  The issue here is that their overhead and operating costs drive them to do that. Why not lower the costs so you can survive selling anything less than 100% of your seats?
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  3927. Yeah, the question encourages abstract thinking and implies there is a real answer. That it isn't a trick question. It's a shame that some teachers can't even take the time to think about the questions they gives to their own students. Then again I've seen asinine teacher behavior at every level of education. One of my college professors typo'd a question on a digital logic exam. The question was about machine language, 1's and 0's. You had to interpret a block of 32 1's and 0's manually, to figure out what instruction it meant. Obviously, a typo completely changes the outcome of this question. He admitted he made a typo then also said he wouldn't be giving any points back on the exam. The whole class looked at one another in disbelief. Of course, 9 years into my software career I think the entire question was idiotic, but if you're going to put it on the exam, at least do it correctly.
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  3928.  @Berm_Blaster  Another Fuckin' Tax
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  3929.  @RandomPerson-nd2ey  Utter clownishness. It is legally safer for the law abiding citizen to carry a gun for defense. Why? Because dead men tell no tales. I don't need some asshole lawyer defending my theoretical assailant for a rigged jury and a corrupt judge. Besides, the law doesn't differentiate between a knife and a gun. They're both lethal weapons. You could run the guy over with your car and still be in the clear. Not to mention the danger to yourself of getting in a knife fight, probably the most dangerous type of fight there is unless you both have guns. In which case, well, you know the old adage.
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  3930.  @saphironkindris  period games shouldn't be invalidated, if it is a period game set in a non-european culture then it's obvious that the developers think that culture is interesting
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  3931.  Nathan Melia  They use the words interchangeably because of a scam artist mad scientist in the 1950s named John Money caused two boys to kill themselves by mutilating their genitals. The word "gender" was entirely a linguistic concept before then. "He" and "she" are gendered words, and in other languages nouns can be gendered, but when you talk about people, it's sex. No need to continue the delusion
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  3932.  @effthegop  rule #0: you are responsible for your own safety and if you shirk that responsibility you are placing your life in the hands of strangers who have no reason to care about you
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  3933.  @effthegop  Arguing over responsibility is a privilege of the living. I'm a permanent pedestrian, so I empathize. However, if I were able to reflect on why I died after I died, I would still blame myself at least partly for not being prepared for drunk drivers. Like any other criminal, I can't prevent drunk drivers from existing. I can only adapt to their existence.
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  3934. I love GameMill. They're right up there with Digital Sweatshop and Slave Interactive.
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  3935. Anyone else notice that the first guys didn't bother changing out their smoke detector batteries before filming this? God that beeping was annoying.
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  3936.  @junglekutz5625  For the majority, maybe. Those who are self-driven enough will use the internet for the good that it provides, and develop their own talents, sometimes in the most adverse of environments.
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  3937.  @dimitrishow_D  weird thing to shame people for while the global economy is circling the toilet bowl
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  3938. The fact that your first name is Brandon and you can now appropriate this slogan is pure serendipity
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  3939. The fucked up part about it is that the deaths and addictions are largely caused by licensed physicians here in the US.
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  3940.  @Wayne-x1h  This is stupid, untrained behavior no matter how you slice it. This guy is strong but has no idea how to fight, so he applied the most extreme reaction he could come up with. Now he'll have to pay this guy's medical bills, hire a lawyer, show up to court, maybe even serve jail time. But hey, at least he has his "honor." I thought we were supposed to be the prudent smart people, not a bunch of medieval morons? A total lack of self-control is not manly. In fact, it is quite the opposite; a very feminine, emotional response. It just goes to show you should train in martial arts. That way, instead of doing what this guy did, you can apply a technique that disables this guy without guaranteeing a trip to the hospital.
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  3941.  @GodLovesComics  Actually, that's just being British in general. They understate everything. However, he is correct, quantum computing is largely oversold. It's kind of like the difference between parallel processing (more cores) and a faster, single processor core. You will still need a faster core for many applications, having more cores is not a magic bullet that makes everything faster. It will help researchers in many applications. Consumers... perhaps not so much.
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  3942.  @AlexanderTheGreat-f5r  Lol, you take China at their word.
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  3943. @AlexanderTheGreat-f5r  Investment? Same reason Google is lying about theirs with the "10 septillion years" nonsense? Come on, now.
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  3944. ​ @chiefthunderhorse4430 The ironic thing is that modern Germany is the defacto leader of the EU and an economic powerhouse. They tried or are still trying to build an EU army... to fight Russia. Again. They are succeeding where the Nazis didn't, in plain sight of everyone.
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  3945. ​@courier4529 Bernie is indeed one of the Democrats' best options, somewhat ironically. Because like Trump he had strong populist support. Unfortunately, it seems he's either not guts enough or simply didn't have enough support to co opt the entire party like Trump did. He instead allowed himself to get likely rigged out of a primary win by Clinton.
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  3946.  @brianlevine249  Doing this to an old man is dumb, but calling the cops is dumber. You never know how corrupt or stupid your local police department is. A situation like this could easily turn into "senior citizen is being assaulted by young white male" on the dispatch which could cause them to come in guns drawn if they're cowardly enough. You can see it happen several times if you follow the news closely. I've seen a black guy get arrested for shoplifting even though the dispatch told him it was a white man with completely different clothes because the older cop was a complete asshat who "didn't like the way he looked" (i.e. he was racist) While this is insanely stupid and immature, like, the type of shit that we used to do to each other on middle school bus rides, it is not worthy of being shot or even being thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Of course having said all that, this particular old fella didn't really follow through, but if he did it would be an overreaction.
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  3947. It hasn't begun yet. She hasn't even lost a fraction of her subs
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  3948.  @toml3241  The Grease Gun wasn't really "last ditch," the Thompson was just overly heavy and had too much unnecessary crap on it. It was also a 15 year old platform by the time it was replaced, which was a long time because of how fast firearms design doctrine was progressing during that period, especially for automatic weapons. The Grease Gun was such a usable platform that they were in service with the Phillipines' military until a decade or two ago. It's very similar in design principle to the MP40, which was definitely not a "last ditch" gun.
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  3949. ​@swapwashere9589 Don't hesitate because you might have health problems, just do it. There will always be someone more fit, stronger or healthier than you or me. It doesn't negate the health benefits of exercise. If you do it often enough, you will start to enjoy it. Trainers are good at motivating. If they are too expensive, try joining a martial arts dojo. You can find great people there.
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  3950.  @Mrhellslayerz  Pulp Fiction never showed us what was in the box because it was never important at all. Like, not even remotely. It was just a thing that existed to give the characters motivation for conflict. The entire movie is about the relationships between those characters. Same with V. His identity just is not at all important to the story. Rather it's the theme itself (that his identity doesn't matter) which is important. These are kind of false conflations, because the point of these stories is to tell you "hey, these things don't matter." They're not really mystery boxes -- or perhaps they are, but the reveal of the box is that the box is empty, or might as well be.
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  3951.  @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479  Funny you mention that -- the original Cacodemon design was ripped off wholesale from the Astral Juggernaut monster design which was an AD&D monster. It wasn't based off the Beholder. However, it was redesigned in every Doom game after 2 and no longer remotely resembles that. Doom was loosely inspired by a D&D campaign that the id crew were playing.
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  3952.  @lexiemiller7783  he wants the girl to shut the hell up
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  3953. Uhh... fighting ISIS, guys. You know, ISIS? Those guys? The ones we supplied to fight Russia? Yeah thanks to the CIA we'll never stop making that dumb fucking mistake. Been going on since the 80's at least... you'd think we'd learn...
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  3954.  @vanessamcgrew4486  It's a catch-22, do you pay attention at all? The reason 9/11 happened to begin with is because we've been sticking our fingers in the Middle Eastern pie. Specifically, because we prop up the laughable Saudi royal family in exchange for favorable oil prices.
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  3955.  @DoomsdayR3sistance  "She has internalized misogyny" is undoubtedly her thought process. What always surprises me is the sheer ineptitude of the approach. If I put myself in her shoes, and analyze the goal she is trying to achieve, yelling at a total stranger on Facebook and telling her "your husband is evil" in so many words is not my first port of call. 99% of the time that's going to lead to me getting instantly blocked and no further action.
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  3956. ​ @headecas  Hasan is just a grifter. He doesn't believe a word of what he says. Everything he does is carried by audience momentum at this point. He's a shock jock with political flavoring.
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  3957. This just in: 34% of stadium attendees now diagnosed with black lung. Nah, just kidding.
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  3958. Nah the Scottish and Russian ones are probably drug addicts early in their addiction. Which is not that far off.
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  3959.  @immatoll4375  I haven't played PoE much but I believe the issue is that you can enjoy yourself for most of the game up until that point where it becomes "overtuned vampire survivor," whereas D4 isn't really redeemable at any point. The one good thing, as with most AAA releases, is the music/environmental art. The swamp area is really nice. But the gameplay itself is mind numbing, even for an ARPG, and baffling decisions are made with every patch. I think most people who leveled to 80+ were hoping that the endgame would be better, but it wasn't. So everyone felt all their time was wasted. This is why I don't care for any game that claims to have "good endgame" because it means the rest of the game is usually neglected.
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  3960.  @caddyguy5369  I think (not based on any statistical evidence, just anecdotal) that most women who support pro-choice have never actually had an abortion themselves. There are those who brag about abortions but they're in the vocal minority. As usual it's just virtue signaling based on feelings regarding what some other people have said, without doing any research on WHY abortions happen or WHO is getting them. It's funny because you'll hear "men aren't allowed to have an opinion because they don't have a womb" but I don't think any woman who has never had an abortion and never intends to has any more of a right to speak on the matter, based on that reasoning. It's weird and ironic because you would expect, based on the statistical data, that pro-choice people would be racist eugenics advocates that hate American black people. But they are usually progressives that claim not to be racist. Yet they support a policy that is discriminatory by federal definition of the term (google "disparate impact" if you don't understand what I mean, I had to study this in the financial tech industry).
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  3961. Red vs. Blue was funny for the first... what was it, three or four seasons? Then it got way too up its own ass, as web series that start out lighthearted with no set direction tend to do.
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  3962. ​ @terinn7115 it shouldn't, the kids are much better off for it generally
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  3963. ​@InfernalMachine666 I have a big soft spot for the Raven Doom clones, but they are not as popular for a reason. Heretic is fine, but Hexen is an exercise in patience. You will look everywhere for keys and switches. Doors and jumps that would be secrets in any other FPS are required to progress in this game. Amid Evil is a pretty good spiritual successor to those games with more sane level design.
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  3964. Thank goodness Chinese Bruce Willis was here to give us the scoop
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  3965. ​@calmic75 you didn't read the post, the Mexican pres had to protest to look good to her constituents and the cartels, but they can't suffer a 25% tariff on all their goods. the US is the biggest importer in the world, Trump is very correct to use tariffs as a bargaining chip. no one can afford to lose our purchase
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  3966. ​ @donaldpump8882 tariffs to China yes, we aren't losing that many jobs to Mexico or Canada. keep up buddy
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  3967.  @Whosniiina  Hope you don't get murdered by a vengeful guy. Have fun out there!
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  3968.  @richdudley257  Yep. Then after that we can get rid of alcohol. And gambling. And video games... Hmm. What else can we be addicted to? Oh yeah, sex! There should be government mandated times when it is acceptable to have sex solely for the purposes of procreation. Then finally everyone who has an addictive personality will stop being addicted to things. Right? There will always be people whose lives are ruined by addiction. Thing is we'd be better off, even potential addicts, if narcotics were legalized. Regulation and tracking would increase, studies and knowledge on said drugs would increase. Criminal organizations would be weakened. There would be no more illicit pill pushers in school or on the street who could tempt kids into buying their drugs solely because they want to make money. Demand would therefore decrease. Of course, legal companies could push them, but then they could be held liable -- they can't hide like drug dealers can. Even if you took the Duterte approach and killed drug dealers indiscriminately, more will take their place. It happens all the time in Mexico right now. The only difference is the killers are usually opponent cartels, not the state.
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  3969.  @Mr_Zx  Because it was obviously bullshit. Like you pointed out, if he was actually guilty of DV he would have his 2nd amendment rights revoked.
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  3970.  @chrome7695  They were, though. That was the actual reason they were throwing water around. In friendlier times, people used to do stuff like this during the summer pretty often to have fun and cool off, but of course someone called the cops on them because it seemed, I dunno, "disorderly." The real mistake was calling the cops in the first place, the second big mistake was then recording them so they could be embarrassed internationally by a clip taken out of context, then reprimanded by their own department in a pathetic attempt to save face. The whole issue was manufactured because of perceived reputation damage and wouldn't exist without that video. You can't tell me that you wouldn't want this to be the outcome, zero people hurt or arrested, if you lived in that neighborhood.
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  3971.  @kylemenos  MMM BBC MASTER RACE OOOHH YEAH CUCK ME HERCULES DADDY YEAH YEAH YEAH
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  3972.  @Pilaspilas911  I JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS BIG BLACK BULL TO FUCK MY WIFE MMMM YEAH
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  3973. She's literally jogging around in the open like a dumbass. I don't know what possessed the marketing team to think that having someone act like a dumbass player would look good for the game.
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  3974.  @GangsterFrankensteinComputer  very few people who are into 40k actually play the tabletop wargame
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  3975. I've heard greens and yellows were cheap and easy to make.
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  3976.  @edi9892  I was referring to dye for clothes specifically.
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  3977. Then when you point this out and that "replacement" is not some kind of conspiracy theory, they'll just say "oh we're just a little band it's totally ironic haha" then you look up where they get their funding from because they don't sell any albums and it's at least half a dozen NGOs, some of them foreign. I remember when "we're coming for your children" was the "ironic" rhetoric among the gay rights movement. Now we have drag queens lecturing children
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  3978.  @kenshinhimura9387  You're not going to have a life much longer if you continue to look down upon self-care.
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  3979.  @miriamkapeller6754  Got any numbers for that claim?
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  3980. I don't. Reeks of 1950s Skinnerist behaviorist CIA research type bullshit.
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  3981.  @Rosterized  "Coming from a European's perspective..." Great way to make me discard the rest of your post. And now you probably think I'm a bigot. But wait just a moment. Think about how you'd respond if this was a thread about your domestic politics and I said "Well, America obviously does this better. Let me tell you how America does it." You clearly don't know very much about our history as your last statement implies that there was some central organization handing out weapons in the year 1776, so why comment? The right to bear arms was enshrined because... surprise surprise, everyone was already bearing arms. There was never a point in American history where most people did not have guns. Or pre-American history for that matter.
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  3982. Just like the Tractor Supply manager in the Clutch song "A Quick Death in Texas," they got cucked.
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  3983.  @blablabla6975  What does "the mechanics feel outdated" even mean?
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  3984.  @kristofen5741  you mean the person who was emotionally attached to a game he liked before cuckmann decided to shit all over it because it makes his personal group of political extremist friends think he's cool
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  3985. Quite the curve ball you threw there. I thought for sure you meant that you were quitting this channel. But you have a great personality and I think you definitely have a good channel career ahead of you. This has easily become one of my favorite channels, combining two of my biggest interests, history and cooking. I made the Simnel cake for Easter this year and it turned out great, thanks so much for posting that recipe.
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  3986.  @thl205  Not all laws are federal, my little boot licker.
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  3987. @David Newton You're one of those fellas who thinks the 2nd Amendment is for hunting, aintcha?
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  3988. these podcasts are a ploy to interview the stupidest shallowest tiktok influencers possible for rage bait. They're like the female version of Johnny Somali. They destroy themselves on air, except socially not physically, to gain clout because they have no other purpose
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  3989. ​@jagbrit3723 It's an idiotic take even as an American living in a state very loose on gun laws. Either one accepts that one lives in a society where carrying a gun is a right, and therefore, law-abiding citizens carry guns all the time, or one assumes the black guy is a criminal carrying a gun with malicious intent. In this case the gun is actually irrelevant to the situation. If one lives in a gun restrictive state, then one has already made leaps and bounds to assume this man fully intends to commit armed robbery for no other reason than he's black and has a slightly outdated check.
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  3990.  @rockleefanlj  "progression isn’t tied to asinine challenges" Are we playing the same game? The one where a psyker has to force his whole team to wait and do nothing so he can kill a boss with brain burst to get a cosmetic?
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  3991.  @rockleefanlj  Considering there is literally nothing to do in this game at level 30 except grind gear on bad RNG tables and grind cosmetic challenges, I consider it one of the most important progression systems in the game. They'll need to add actual content to the game for me to change my opinion.
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  3992.  @rockleefanlj  "If you choose to try and grind out cosmetics without the help of a consistent group" You missed the point entirely. I always play with a group and I would never be so stupid or imposing as to try these challenges with randoms. The problem is that the challenges are designed to make the game as unfun as possible if you want to complete them. The brain burst one defines your entire 20+ minute mission run and you can easily fuck it up. Same with the 100% accuracy Veteran challenge. Other challenges like Long Bomb or the one where the Ogryn has to bowl over a bunch of enemy Ogryns are much less annoying because they're more opportunistic and don't define your whole mission objective. Also, who mentioned Halo?
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  3993.  @layton6202  back atcha pal
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  3994.  @oaksparoakspar3144  I thought New York mags only allowed 5, but maybe I've forgotten.
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  3995.  @chrisrosenkreuz23  So what? The game wasn't literally made by the executives. Are you stating that the devs don't deserve appreciation? To take your reasoning to its logical conclusion, we should just stop playing games in general because most modern games were made with many more questionable questionable business practices than this one
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  3996.  @invader_jim2837  Yeah. Like Suicide Squad, or Skull & Bones. You know, good games made by reputable companies.
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  3997. Thing is, if you don't know who Asmongold is, you're unlikely to care anyway.
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  3998.  @xxfalconlifexx9715  The internet is probably the thing that will prevent us from descending into annihilating nuclear warfare, in my opinion. While misinformation was a huge problem in the past with yellow journalism and such, and still is, it isn't nearly as bad because information is so cheap and instantly transmissible that misinformation can be corrected by other sources just as fast. Additionally, people can make friends all over the world and gain an understanding of other cultures if they choose to, more easily than ever before. Keeping dangerous state secrets is harder than ever before as well. It's also cheap and becoming more and more available even in poorer countries, and if you're poor, it can be hard to find ways to spend your time depending on where you live. The internet can step in to fill that gap, and while it might not be the healthiest thing, it's better than alcoholism which many would turn to when bored (as shown in this video)
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  3999. It's pretty much explained by the image. The more extreme left/right you are, the more you resemble the other extremist viewpoint. IMO, this is mainly due to the Fascism/Communism conflict, because in reality Fascism was created by a former Marxist who realized people weren't going to internationally band together just because they're all poor. It's a theory that has rather limited application if you take the full scope of political belief into consideration
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  4000.  @user-op8fg3ny3j  Abide the law and be a victim or protect yourself. Your choice
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  4001.  @mr.tofuman2824  Most countries don't let these people in. European countries who claimed to allow refugees in have shouldered a tiny fraction of the burden we shoulder. Most of them would collapse if they allowed 300k (documented) migrants in during a single month, like we did.
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  4002.  @WorldWide-q8v  Not even close to a fraction of how many we let in.
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  4003. It injected something into our nation which is nearly non-existent in modern politics: accountability. You want to be a sanctuary city? Okay, we're not. Take our illegals then because the feds aren't stopping them. Oh suddenly you're having second thoughts because you have to put your money where your mouth is? Funny.
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  4004.  @FrankGallagherr  How stupid are you to believe that elections work
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  4005.  @Sg190th  literally no one has ever cared, name a single movie star, musician or other celebrity whose career fell through because they committed adultery. you can't because it's never happened. the fucking president of the united states did it once, inside of the white house no less, and he is still regarded fondly
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  4006.  @theelegiast9140  Far, far more oversight and risk because of public investment. They're a publicly traded company and constantly have to suffer audits and they have to announce where all of their money goes.
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  4007.  @SpicyMelonYT  Uh, there needs to be an output or the data won't be useful to humans.
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  4008.  @royalcookie2  Troops use their safeties when they're in a vehicle so a sudden bump doesn't cause an unfortunate accident. Handguns don't really have that problem because you can put them in a holster. Also, it is idiotic to compare military tactics to civilian tactics.
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  4009. Nah, it'll more likely be like in Shadowrun where you walk into a normal store, then put all the stuff in your cart and walk out with it. Then when you walk through the door the total cost of the items will be automatically deducted from your bank account, because the packaging has embedded RFID chips (or similar) with price tags on them. Your bank account would be synced to your smartphone or future equivalent, and the cart would ask you to sync your smartphone to it before you start shopping. That way there would be no need to employ anyone but people to service the robots that would restock inventory. That concept video seems like a way for some clown to sell a bunch of investors on a really expensive vending machine.
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  4010.  @SteveJud43  I'm conservative. You're just incredibly stupid. And your initial post insulted every film-maker who made a period piece that uses subtitles, so you don't get to play the "rude" card. I suppose you don't find it incredibly ironic that you're supporting the garbage Hollywood practice of using British actors for every foreign person as well. I thought you didn't like Hollywood leftists?
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  4011.  @Tatmeister689  i mean, yeah, successful people build off of their prior success. she could have been completely stupid and squandered the opportunity, but she didn't
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  4012.  @facE055  success is different to each person so your statement is pretty much meaningless. for her it was obviously financially driven
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  4013. And being alive if you live in flammable buildings.
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  4014.  @TheEthanGamer  I got you fam, 15 years ago I made a cringey stoner rock music video set to some Red Orchestra footage I recorded
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  4015.  @awesome7732  There's dictionary definitions and then there's idiomatic usage and connotation.
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  4016. Negative attention can be therapeutic for some people but not always. They have to already have a sense of shame and know what they are doing is wrong. Usually, it's fat people who do absolutely nothing to change their lifestyle that get made fun of, not those who are at the gym or clearly trying to do something to change their situation.
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  4017. "You're supposed to think they're hot." Nah, dude... nah... Might wanna do some introspection on that one.
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  4018. ​@jimbo98765 there's a tribe in India that eats brains and throws shit at each other when they don't agree, go ahead and explain how they're equal, I'll wait
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  4019. How's the copium taste?
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  4020.  @Nobody-wx6rk  Netflix making some truly baffling decisions. Why not 12 or 13 episodes? Every anime studio is used to that format, they understand how to pace for a 12 or 13 episode season.
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  4021. I doubt she cares at all about ethical standard. This woman hinges her relationship status on how much they share hatred for minority groups.
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  4022.  @MoostachedSaiyanPrince  I have actually seen people who work or have worked in education swear all the time out of the earshot of kids. But they also don't post it online on the same social media account where they say "can't wait to see all the new kids this year!!!!"
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  4023. ​ @croq8444  Did you really ignore the part where he pointlessly attached every single ball to another ball? The editor saved you the torture of watching that. Ame making and pushing the cart takes a few seconds. I gaurantee there was much less of her footage edited out than DSP's
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  4024. ​ @thepunisherxxx6804 It's a pressure plate dude, possibly the most cliche puzzle mechanic, especially in Zelda. I think you guys are just really bad at puzzles and identify with a 40 year old gout merchant
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  4025.  @saltyshishio  Energy drinks are bad for you and can make you gay.
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  4026. ​@LukeLovesRose The veracity of the disputable claims of the Holocaust (gas showers etc) are irrelevant here. Mass killings did occur, internment in concentration camps did occur, the stripping away of rights and livelihood did occur. Being armed would have made that more difficult.
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  4027. The traveling is kinda fun though. Let me put it this way, if you liked Wind Waker you'll probably like this game. Also, it's not very good to play solo in my opinion.
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  4028.  @forkthepork  Our daddy taught us not to be ashamed of our NODs. When I click on it, it gets brighter.
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  4029.  @kingelvis19  Kids shouldn't have that much damn stress in their lives where they need to say "I'm going to kill at least 7 people" under a pseudonym. Get real.
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  4030.  @Tomer_nur  It's absolutely unjust, but not unusual for our justice system at all.
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  4031.  @Dragonologist  You're not missing anything, it tastes like total ass. As does almost all mass market beer.
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  4032.  @FiveofHearts1  the men who say that are usually passive "nice guys" who vent their frustrations online, and the women who say that are shallow conniving manipulators. they're compatible only if the man is willing or dumb enough to be manipulated.
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  4033. This is a problem inherent with American/Western progressivism as a movement. They reject absolutely no allies because they are "ends justifies the means" type and never stop to reflect upon what they are doing. In the past, it served them well politically by growing their base, but that base includes things like felons (many are pushing for their right to vote), dyed-in-the-wool Marxists, and now pedos. It has to reach critical mass at some point and fall apart; there's just way too many groups, often with competing interests or ideals, and many of them are despicable to the rest of the public or the rest of the movement.
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  4034. The irony of that is seeking the opinions of the learned academics instead of comparing along the lines he should have -- American grassroots beliefs and traditions to the Islamic fundamentalist equivalent of grassroots beliefs and traditions. The learned academics are always the ones to question tradition and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  4035. It's so surreal to see morons like this think their word is law when they work in a field with thousands of other experts with the same, if not even more qualified degrees, and most of them completely disagree with their assertion
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  4036.  @floofyboi7546  The 9/11 hijackers were almost all of Saudi origin. It's clear that they were motivated by American influence keeping the Saudi royal family in power. So yes, it was indirectly caused by us being stupid. Being allied with Saudi Arabia for low oil prices is stupid and so is helping their corrupt royal family. However, that has almost nothing to do with ISIS and it was not a justified act of retaliation. That doesn't mean our leaders should have naively expected nothing to happen. The truly tragic part about it is that we learned nothing from it, oil is just too delicious.
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  4037.  @alexanderh8129  you're in the minority then, most people just use it as an excuse to be fat
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  4038. "You call this burning me alive?! I'll show you being burned alive!" thunk "Ah, zog me..."
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  4039.  @Orzorn  They're baby boomers who only had crappy mass produced fruitcakes bought by their well-meaning but misled post-war parents who trust everything the government and corporations tell them to. It was customary to send fruitcakes to everyone you knew at Christmas, and this was a dumb custom because it incentivized buying the cheapest, crappiest cake possible. I have Stollen, a German fruitcake covered in powdered sugar, most Christmases. It's delicious.
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  4040. @BasicallyBasic990 Recidivism? People can't commit crimes if their arms are broken.
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  4041.  @psyck  You're consenting by entering the strip club That's like going to a restaurant and saying "Stop, I have rabies" when the waiter serves you water for free
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  4042. @@user-oi6pw4gr3m Some men want to do it. There is a drive in men to do the jobs no one wants to do, because it makes them feel that they're making a difference. It doesn't always matter if anyone acknowledges it, although that helps.
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  4043.  @jameseverly8501  By things that have actually happened? Do you watch the news? It's not like literally nothing has been happening. I can't explain why the sky is blue to a man who is blind.
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  4044.  @kos15280  He's not going about his agenda in the same way. He clearly had a very comprehensive plan of what to do when he got in office that is more targeted and effective before.
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  4045. It's eye-opening that this system is basically like YouTube's content ID system, except instead of scanning for copyrighted property, it searches for "red flag" wrong-think names and terms, like Shellenberger. Either way, it clearly did not pass by human eyes on the first round.
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  4046.  @Goatlikeitornot  look up Habsburg jaw. he's inbred
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  4047.  @DawgzMom  Literally the next sentence was "I need money," maybe go back to elementary reading class. Or do you think everyone else is that stupid and you're some kind of master manipulator? Lol
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  4048.  @skooterboots2444  Bold of you to assume I'm not tickling my balls right now.
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  4049. Us: "Aww the Chinese people are happy to see the Americans how cute" The Chinese people: "Wow, never seen a real black lady before!"
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  4050.  @perpetual_suffering1458  You ever heard the old adage "Behind every great man is a great wife?" It means that even when you never know a man's wife for anything other than "being his wife," she's doing a lot behind the scenes. This definitely applies here given her role. Depending on the personality type, she might find it a good opportunity to exert control and do whatever she wants, because Ninja is going to be the one taking the brunt of any criticism.
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  4051. I think the joke is simpler than that, they found out what her weight was (which is a social taboo in America, or indeed most cultures) and are giddy about it because they're acting like children.
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  4052. The thing about America seeming reckless and an internal coup being the best result is that a coup isn't going happen if we go back to square one and North Korea receives aid from the UN while being allowed to threaten the US. There will be no pressure and therefore the status quo is maintained, the Kim dynasty continues to exercise control. The correct approach is to do it the same way Reagan and to some degree previous presidents handled the USSR, just strangle it economically until it becomes self evident that the government can't provide for the people. So in other words, assuming the best and that Trump is trying to emulate Reagan, he needs to put pressure on N. Korea until the coup happens. There is no possibility for a coup without some kind of pressure. There isn't a way to know for sure but I suspect this is the strategy Trump is aiming for.
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  4053. Yeah, your mom always serves me baby food post-coitus
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  4054. Sadly, it's way cheaper to spray ink on all the cash and tell all your employees to comply and hope none of them are hurt, than to actually protect the employees and vault. This guy wasn't violent, but my mom is a teller and her branch did go through a violent bank robbery. Random lady who was near the entrance got the shit kicked out of her for existing and everyone was threatened at gunpoint.
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  4055. There are American sumo fans, although they are rare. Me and my friends all enjoy watching sumo on ABEMA.
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  4056. When you rush rams in AoE2
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  4057.  @abrakkehakka1357  It's a catch 22 buddy, if the US pulled out of the Middle East entirely then there would be no hateful sentiment towards the US over there. What you really think a bunch of rural goat herders and opium farmers just woke up one day and said "You know what, fuck Americans?" Of course everyone conveniently ignores that we also crawl up the Saudi family's ass too. That's a huge part of the problem and a major reason why so many people hate us over there. We will never pull out because we have too many economic interests that only benefit specific very wealthy people.
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  4058.  @Phershey  An act of rebellion against a government with an unjust system of representation... your point? The fact that you immediately decry the "insurrection" in the capitol in your next post is peak irony. You pretend like rebellion is principally permissible, and that supporting the Patriots during the Revolution must mean you must support arsonists... but when the rebels disagree with you, you shit on them, even when they committed no significant property damage or violence. Naturally. If you're going to be dishonest, you could at least try to make sure you don't contradict yourself in the same breath.
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  4059. It would be funny if this were added to a Fallout game as the "Post-War .50 Sniper Rifle." The mixed parts and unfinished receiver really add to it. Also, your nipples were hard after the shoulder-fire.
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  4060. Nope, they'll just contrive a reason to keep him in jail until the visa's expired. They'd be stupid not to.
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  4061. Don't worry. Germany has plenty of good games in its repertoire.
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  4062. ​@lordgarion514 It has nothing to do with ownership. very ironic that you're talking down to everyone else here. If you, in theory, owned the entire state of Texas as private land, you could drive monster trucks that shoot flame out the sides at 200 mph on the highway and it would be legal. The only reason cops can stop you and enforce traffic laws is because you are driving on a public road.
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  4063.  @user-pd9oi5hi1d  shut up yoshi, we all know you're guilty of tax evasion
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  4064. Gee, you just had to invoke Godwin's Law didn't you?
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  4065. @dilkondeff  we have those, they are expensive, and good luck getting there without a car (what i have to deal with).
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  4066. @DeclanDSI  eggs, no, our chicken farming is absolutely legendary, so chicken products are not a problem (unless you get salmonella) but vegetables can indeed be a problem depending on where you live
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  4067. ​@invader_jim2837 You could make the same argument about kids. Kids don't have a political voice, very few take them seriously. They have greatly curtailed rights. How far are you willing to curtail them? Logically and ethically speaking, the only thing that separates an unborn child, from a child, from an adult, is time. There was a choice made to connect both genitals together for enough time for conception to happen. Without further changes, a child emerges. I am willing to hear and hash out the arguments for when abortion should be allowed, but I am sick of pathetic people refusing to own up to the act. It is a loss of life, period. Our government, and now our own community, regards life with such callous disdain and yet so many pretend like abortion is an act of empathy. It isn't. Life has never had inherent virtue to humanity at large. It is perhaps the greatest and most laughable lie we tell ourselves.
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  4068.  @invader_jim2837  Then I guess you never really cared about anyone's right to live at all. Just like every other pretentious murder advocate.
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  4069.  @AdrielOutspoken  I dunno, she seems like a very weak, immature individual. It's easy to read between the lines here. "befell me in an organic fashion" = I thought he was hot. "activated something feral in me" = Guys buying stuff for me makes me wet. She seems incredibly fickle, even for a woman, and impulsive. If she does have principles she'll stand for, then it will likely break this relationship when the excitement of being bought things wears off.
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  4070.  @allamericanslacker2378  You may be thinking of copyright. You can't copyright a "process," and game rules are considered a process by US courts. Patenting, however, is all about process if I'm not mistaken. Basic concepts like pressing A to jump or rolling dice to attack aren't patented, but specific mechanisms like AI-powered matchmaking get patented all the time. I'd be surprised if there weren't a few specific rules that had patents.
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  4071.  @tweenytwinkies  well if some rich youtuber did it just so he could record what goes on in the camp and expose them later, it would be funny
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  4072.  @momsspaghetti4064  "i grew up gaming. trust my selective memory and blatant bias. also, i didn't play the first STALKER so you know i'm right."
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  4073.  @addison_v_ertisement1678  people are allowed to tell other people that they are mentally deficient for not having basic pattern recognition abilities... this is a dev known for buggy releases that turn out to be masterpieces once the bugs are fixed. i certainly hope you didn't spend $60 without doing research on the product first
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  4074.  @vickys.love00  Your parents and their peers are pawns in a scheme to depress the wages of every working class citizen in the nation. I say this as a matter of fact not to insult them. It would be stupid for me to suggest that an individual should not take advantage of opportunities presented to them. But that's the real reason why it's so easy to migrate here.
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  4075.  @Endonium1  Why is that too dangerous? Because you said so? You realize the EU is trying to build a centralized army to oppose Russia right now? We're closer to WW3 than we have been for most of the Cold War. The difference is that the government propaganda machine has gotten smarter. Before they were explicit about these things and tried to get people to support it through nationalism. After Vietnam and Afghanistan they realized that was a bad idea because it doesn't allow them to get away with war crimes. Now they try to keep people pacified through bread and circuses and keep all of these things a secret
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  4076. Pretty sure his visa is only 3 months so he'll be deported.
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  4077.  @shadyrabbit007  considering the rates of leukemia, no, they didn't
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  4078.  @DarkForce2024  Principally speaking there is absolutely nothing that differentiates the idea of reselling a digital game vs. a physical one, other than the physical assets themselves (discs, cartridges, instruction manual etc). You would just disable the game's serial key on one account and enable it on another. However, even Steam, which allows players to trade almost anything, does not allow players to resell games. That would likely anger developers immensely who would believe that they'd lose tons of sales to resellers, all while Steam takes a cut for providing the marketplace. They made these same complaints about used game stores like EB Games and Gamestop. Now they're knowingly taking advantage of how most people don't intuitively understand how software works, and pretending that used game sales just "aren't doable" digitally. In reality there's absolutely nothing different from a software or logistics perspective about it. If it is not illegal, they will do it. Businessmen have no end to their sense of entitlement or their greed.
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  4079. Halo CE's explosions were much more impactful actually. The frag grenades felt like howitzer shells in that game. The arms flailing knockback animation, however, was peak CE.
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  4080. You're now seeing the consequences of billionaire investment strategies which is why it seems so strange and sudden. Welcome to our global economy.
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  4081. ​@KiemPlant ... they realized when they saw the train coming to a stop right behind them. Still a nice effort by the Samaritans, but they were never in danger
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  4082.  @tinknal6449  And yet you are complaining about one of them. Why's that?
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  4083. I always thought that "Xmas" was an abbreviation because the X symbolized the cross. I knew well that it predated the modern "happy holidays" sentiment and had nothing to do with it, having seen it on old television programs that long predated the 90s, but sadly there are a few zealous-yet-ignorant people out there that believe that "Xmas" is some kind of PC term.
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  4084. @Wijnand Ross The subpoena they give you is basically a formality. Your traffic violation will be logged by them and you'll default to having to pay the ticket if you don't show up in court. Strictly speaking, the cop can't let her go until she signs the subpoena. However I've heard from some cops that many will simply write "Refused to sign" on the signature line and issue them the fine via mail as if they never showed in court. If you refuse to pay then a warrant is created for your arrest. Either this guy was new, or their department is very strict about getting signatures.
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  4085.  @jonjameson6606  No, he's correct. That's why police-involved shootings usually have dozens of rounds fired. More specifically the training is, if you're going to shoot then shoot until the target is down or dead. Any time you use a firearm, you aren't supposed to assume that the person will live afterward. That's why they call it lethal force.
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  4086.  @normtheteacher5485  Hey cool, maybe I'll check it out as I like videos like that (I've watched a lot of Paul Harrell videos as well). I just post this because I've seen some weird behavior from people who exhibit the "cowboy mentality." A particular one comes to mind of a guy in a convenience store who is a firearms instructor. He was open carrying, had his range shirt on, etc. He was also a rather portly fellow and I'd venture to say not in the best of shape. In the security footage, some guy starts getting aggressively in his face and yells at him. No idea what he was saying because there was no audio, but he didn't even touch the instructor. The instructor kept backing away, backing away, drew his gun, backed himself into a corner, then shot the guy, all without being touched once. The guy died and the instructor got no charges. Now I am not someone who believes that an aggressor should receive no punishment, or that someone shouldn't stand their ground (in fact I think that would have gone a lot better had the instructor not immediately backed himself into a corner) but I do also believe that a person shouldn't be killed just for aggressively yelling. He may have been a drug addict in the worst moments of his life, or perhaps just mentally ill. In that particular circumstance the instructor could have just maced him and both could have come out alive and (relatively) unharmed. But I assume that, in his mind, he didn't "need" to carry mace because he can just shoot people who threaten him. Not the best attitude to have in my opinion. There are different levels of threat and a gun isn't the best solution to all of them. Sadly I can't find the link to this story now.
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  4087.  @hazukichanx408  Well, let's consider the alternative to how I approach playing video games. I could distrust my friends and all the very involved discussion and screenshots I've seen on the game because some random guy on YouTube told me that "actually it's good." Or I could distrust you, a total stranger. I only have so much time in my life, you know.
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  4088.  @knavenformed9436  No I haven't because I don't have infinite time and I have to judge whether or not I want to play a game. I could be wrong, but such is life. I feel that I have devoted enough time to determining whether or not the game is good; more than I devote to most games that I haven't played.
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  4089.  @00ABBITT00  The irony in your comment is thick enough to support my 200 pound ass.
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  4090.  @Altmer353  The designers are Marxist, from what I've researched. I apologize, but that is enough to scare me away from playing a game about political satire. I would have the same reaction if the game were designed by the CCP, or Nazis, or any other authoritarian ideology. It simply does not bode well if you are an extremist trying to write political satire.
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  4091.  @Ar1AnX1x  Can confirm, have hung out with war veterans and had them casually tell me about horrible atrocities they committed in the special forces
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  4092. 'Who is "they," though?' - Funny mask guy
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  4093. The burning question I have is: Do they not have armed security or IWB holsters in Spain?
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  4094. You're delusional if you think it won't get worse. It's easy to say that it was always happening in hindsight when chances are you weren't even alive to see the "bad old days."
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  4095.  @mitchellmcneely4168  "I do not like this video, Charlie. Its smug aura mocks me."
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  4096. The dipshit male cop who started the arrest was wearing jack boots... Can't make this shit up.
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  4097.  @grimjoker5572  Haha, you typed all that just to be a bag of condescending hot air? Better get back to cranking them 90s in Fortnite, champ.
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  4098.  @CommodoreFan64  The solution to problems like these isn't self-isolation. That results in you being ignored and forgotten about and society continues to crumble. The solution is going about your business and acting as a bedrock against the storm. Set an example of normalcy.
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  4099.  @DrakeOola  That's a lot of twisting to blame your own lack of self control on other people.
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  4100.  @BC-yd6dl  You do, actually. The global standard is now capitalism even if certain governments don't want to admit that, because it's the only way to compete with established capitalists. As much as I am against virtually every other economic system, it is undeniable that capitalism is directly the cause of national governments incentivizing illegal immigration into their own borders. They believe that it is cheaper to import adult males than have children and educate them natively. What they don't account for are other costs, both tangible and intangible.
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  4101.  @JediMage  there are way cheaper cars than this, this is just an overpriced car that is now being sold used
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  4102. No it won't. You need proof that they terminated him wrongfully and undertaking that lawsuit is equivalent to sinking your own career. No one will hire you even if you win the lawsuit. Nobody wants to hire the guy that is not afraid to sue the company. I know a guy that was cheated by his old company, as in they provably breached contract, and he didn't do anything because he wanted to get a new job.
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  4103.  @HauntingSpectre  "They can just get away with whatever they want." Not if you quit. The most powerful thing you can do as a worker is have valuable skills. You're ignoring that part of the equation. If you're stupid enough to work for another awful company after getting burned, nothing will help you. Personally, I would never trust a lawyer (or the judge, for that matter) to give me what I want or need. It would only be in the most desperate of situations that I would use legal action. The guy in question now works at one of the top defense contractors in the nation making way more money than he did before. The contract breach I referred to was done at the last possible moment (they only paid him part of his agreed severance). The money he lost in that breach of contract is probably barely a memory to him now. "I know a few people who have sued employers, got a big pay day, and found gainful employment elsewhere." What industry? The one I was referring to was telecoms. There are no good companies in that industry.
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  4104.  @Metaknight180  Retaining and hiring are very, very different things. It is my experience that very few companies know how to hire software developers. People almost always represent themselves differently in an interview, either consciously or subconsciously, than how they work on the day-to-day.
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  4105.  @-.--Y..-U...S..-U..-.F  Shaving is required because it allows a gas mask to create a seal. Facial hair before gas masks became necessary equipment on the battlefield was very common and never prohibited for the sake of discipline.
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  4106. How the fuck does one not realize the game is satire? It's like Starship Troopers dialed to eleven. The praise is intentionally fake. It's suggesting that the Super Earth military churns out poorly trained recruits with an extremely high casualty rate, then covers that with praise and hype. Super Earth is what it would be like if the American military industrial complex controlled our development as a species for hundreds of years. It's actually kind of well thought out, although not really told to the player explicitly. But the way the whole Galactic War is framed is bizarre. When you start thinking about the war in general and its logistics, you understand the narrative. Why are there entire destroyer-class ships with support crew assigned to these quickly trained recruits? And why are there so many of them and not capital ships like cruisers or carriers? Because the entire war is a moneymaking scheme for defense contractors. This is intentionally designed to be the most expensive and wasteful way to wage war, to prolong the war, and thus the money flow, for as long as possible. Coincidentally, a lot of these goals also align with that of making a fun game, because Helldivers are supposed to be appealing for recruitment, and giving them tons of expensive toys to play with is good for business and morale. Also, at one point, the bridge officer comments that the Terminids were former livestock. So in other words, a problem likely caused by the Super Earth government. The Automotons are likely a similar situation. These are problems intentionally caused by the government to create a legitimate-seeming excuse for war.
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  4107.  @leonrussell9607  What I mean is that there should be more capital ships. The amount of money that would go into a destroyer for each Helldiver is astronomical.
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  4108. Hard to take people like you seriously when Biden still spits out "suckers and losers" and "very fine people," two hoaxes that were corrected by their own fucking original publishers. Yes, Trump is definitely the liar here.
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  4109. that incident is mostly due to the complete breakdown of trust in our society. the airman answered the door with a gun because he believed he might be getting robbed by a cop impersonator. bad decision by the way, he should not have opened the door at all if that was his fear. the cop dodged the peephole, exacerbating the airman's suspicion, because he believed he might be randomly shot through the door. the landlady called the cops because "it's gotten worse" despite the fact that she told the cop that she heard a "slap" last time she heard arguing and, for some reason, did not call cops at that point. it could have been avoided by any of the parties involved stopping to talk to each other at any point in time, except the landlady and the cop
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  4110.  @thetrollbasher  If you play bootleg games, you are a sucker, period. They're trash and there isn't any reason to not get the real game. Nothing to do with money
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  4111.  @markrob2892  ah, you mean they knowingly lied about the origins of the flag. probably just as likely, but they are dumb for pulling this in a parent-teacher meeting while the mom is recording.
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  4112.  @fernandofaria2872  a person who studies history as a hobby? not exactly a mysterious phrase
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  4113. POV: You just found out Japanese prosecutors don't even bring you to trial unless you're guaranteed to go to prison POV: You just found out Japanese prison guards don't speak English and will still punish you brutally if you can't follow their instructions
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  4114. Keep dreaming and abstaining while our country swirls the toilet bowl.
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  4115. Carano and Barr also weren't granted the responsibility of helping raise everyone's children.
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  4116.  @DH-xw6jp  It would be said like "eh-cho-lee" not "ee-co-lie". You wouldn't even realize it was spelled similarly.
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  4117.  @epstein_isnt_dead7726  Wow, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Go box shadows somewhere else.
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  4118. Honestly, the calling a girl beautiful and running away thing isn't that bad. He could have said "nice tits" or "I want to make you my slave." It could only be construed as creepy because he ran away. Asking a girl if they're in high school first thing on the other hand is pretty creepy.
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  4119. Typical BoS bullshit. They only leak out scraps of information on old (ancient in this case), well-used equipment that any vagabond who hasn't been killed by radscorpions would already know about. Call me when they release a video from their archives talking about the YK42B.
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  4120.  @KodFrostwrath  This type of question does not even shift the needle. This isn't an intelligent talking point. It's a dumb fucking trend for boring ugly housewives (I'm sorry, but I can HEAR the fat in the first woman's voice) to participate in because they have nothing better to do. I will never relate to people that would rather do this than any hobby. Masturbating and playing video games are both superior uses of one's time.
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  4121.  @rawcoustic1718  They are painting a bullseye on their backs by participating in stupid trends like this. This isn't a discussion it's just virtue signaling how much you hate men. The overwhelming majority of women I've read about or talked to who act like this were never victimized in any way.
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  4122. Britain: oi m8, you got a loisence fer dat telly Also Britain: 'ose allowed to be on the pavement? eh, danno gov
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  4123. ​ @gypsylee333 what do you mean? not knowing what a woman is, is the politically correct stance nowadays
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  4124. You may be surprised how many people think like this. Even my dad acknowledges it.
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  4125. @lgnlsjdn Trayvon Martin was attempting to kill the man who shot him. Let me know how you feel about your survival chances after your head has been slammed against a concrete sidewalk by a young man in his prime. Get over it.
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  4126.  @ogjerslgnlsjdn  So now the narrative is that Zimmerman slammed his own head against the concrete? The scheme gets more convoluted, I see. By the numbers, which do you think is more likely? The 6% of the population that commits over half of the violent crime, committed yet another violent crime? Or an otherwise-upstanding Hispanic man came up with an extremely convoluted murder scheme to kill a random teenager for no reason?
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  4127. ​ @kurokumo8169 Assholes who want plausible deniability when the footage is reviewed talk like that. "He's comin' right for us!" Bang.
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  4128. Commies when 2A advocates talk about civil war and protection against tyranny: "LOL! As if you redneck MORONS could do anything against tanks and planes!" Commies when they talk about their revolution: "Guns are for pussies. My rich dad that bankrolls my protests says so."
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  4129.  @aysuppatruck6185  They looked you up in their database before coming over. Chances are they didn't remember.
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  4130. Depends on where you live. In some places, assault is both the action and the threat, when actual violence is suffered
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  4131. Who the hell is out there searching for "mario?" I find it extremely hard to believe that he is searched for more often than Princess Peach. I think the analytic tool they're using is shit. They probably see someone search "sonic" (meaning the IP) and assume they mean the character.
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  4132. But when people talk about rights for sex workers and respecting sex work, this is included. But if you call it sex work and you're not one of them, it's derogatory. It's fucking madness.
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  4133.  @aceman0000099  more like your car turns left, right, drives straight over the curb and into the grass, stops, and does a U-turn all at the same time -- until you try to pick one, then the one you wanted is actually chosen, but the car was driving all of those other options in the background "just in case"
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  4134.  @immatoll4375  "But back in 2023 no one was making a drama out of it [BG3] for not beeing d&d enough" you weren't paying attention then, the amount of people eternally fucking assmad that the game was not RTwP like previous Baldur's Gate games was absurd. it made me cringe because I played all the BioWare D&D CRPGs and after all that, I like them in spite of the fact they are RTwP not because of it. Meanwhile, I was cheering inside because I had been waiting for a D&D CRPG where you can FLY and JUMP with combat rules that actually followed the tabletop for decades now, with only Solasta coming out to show for that. and Solasta is good don't get me wrong, but it had its problems RTwP just feels jank as fuck with the arbitrary "rhythm" of the actions, like I never asked for picking my actions to be a timing minigame with a cheat button. that's just an awkward gameplay concept right out of the gate. I got used to it after all my time playing with it, but the fact that I've gotten used to it and it still feels awkward means that it is bad by definition. that's to say nothing of the contrarians existing to this day that have it out for Larian's writing staff, and seem to think Larian are "woke" despite the fact that Forgotten Realms was always a cringefest fan-fiction-tier universe and their camp style of writing fits like a glove, complete with Drow sexual fetish pandering. but goofy sex scenes with mind flayers and bears are meant to be taken 100% seriously apparently despite the rest of the camp and is therefore evidence of their "degeneracy." I mean for fuck's sakes, NWN's campaign had a Mary Sue character insert from one of the devs that became your employer and upstaged you at every opportunity. BG3 is far more interesting than many D&D CRPG campaigns. also pro-tip Gale isn't even the first guy to fuck Mystra in the setting. much of the cringiest parts of the lore existed before Larian ever put pen to paper
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  4135.  @syfyserpent6465  No Neo-Nazis are. They're a pathetic shadow of their former selves, much like American communists are. They never adhere to the values that "real" Nazis would have enforced. Most of them are incentivized through pure contrarianism and spite towards a political or ethnic group. It's sort of like flat-earthers -- they don't care what is right or true, only that they get to feel like they are the "alternative underdog."
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  4136.  @Joseph-lr3lt  That, much like Nazi Germany, was only a brief period of their history. That's much the same as suggesting that drinking wheat beer and eating sausage makes you a Nazi.
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  4137. ​ @Bob_Adkins  nah, the roll out of the M16 was deliberately sabotaged by asspained Army officials who were mad that their M1 fan tribute was being replaced.
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  4138. ​ @user-fe8gx3ie5v WW2 era Hitleresque "muh ethnic peoples are being oppressed" narratives should not be enabled
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  4139. It would have been funnier without Peter laughing and an awkward pause instead honestly
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  4140. Is this guy the canary in the coal mine? I don't follow Ubisoft very closely (because they're shit) but this guy seems uncharacteristically blunt.
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  4141. That's actually the third boss, I think. It takes 2 weeks of real time for that to happen, for reference.
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  4142.  @PoeticMercury  i don't normally like to play partisan, because both parties are shit and answer to the same corpos anyway, but this has been the democrat party's marketing MO since the 19th century at least. they target disadvantaged people (used to be the Irish/Italian immigrants) and promise them the world. if they're not disadvantaged (white women) they will convince them that actually, they are, and voting for them is the only way to fix that. statistically women vote democrat by a significant majority. the ones who don't are almost always married. white men can be excluded because while they are a significant part of the population, if they can convince every other group to vote for them, it won't matter. when you combine this with the United States' population makeup, which despite what holier-than-thou Europeans or self-hating American academics will tell you, is the most diverse and multicultural first world nation on the planet, you get situations like this where minorities who have been convinced that everyone hates them are free to do whatever they want thanks to a lack of tough crime policy, voted against by, among others, women.
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  4143. @Ivor Biggun Friendly reminder that Catcher in the Rye is assigned material. You're not toeing the political line, you're just making yourself look like an idiot.
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  4144.  @anotheruser9283  It does if you're completely oblivious and out of shape so you don't know how to fall properly.
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  4145.  @SallinKari  Uvalde? I had been following him since the 2018 midterms at least, he's a complete charlatan who pretends to be Hispanic despite the blatancy of his white Irish-ness. It would be like if Trump walked out on stage wearing a backwards Yankees cap and said "Yo yo, it's ya boy the Don, reppin' the East Coast, what up my patriotic ni--" gets yanked by cane
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  4146.  @matlohn9381  It can easily be compared to drunk driving. Do you think drunk drivers who haven't run anyone over or crashed into anyone deserve to get let off for free with no DUI/DWI? No? Then why should someone intentionally pointing a laser at a helicopter pilot get off?
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  4147. Oh man don't even get me started on the "you'll never beat the government lol" shit. You know who else has families? People who operate power plants. People who operate trains and trucks filled with supplies that feed the entire nation. There's a whole lotta haystack to find those needles. A whole lotta Wacos, Ruby Ridges, and so on.
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  4148. ​ @dennishover4803  Writing a book saying nasty things about Trump was a popular trend a few years ago. Makes it kind of hard to believe any of them or take any of them seriously.
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  4149. Sheesh. I've been to a 600 year old winery in Germany but that has me beat.
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  4150. Honestly, I was disappointed in JD for not backing up Trump in the dance.
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  4151.  @user-bv1jl3dv4r  It may be true that this was the first time, but if you are a responsible dog owner and you have done your research, or trained dogs before, you can see the signs. You can tell even the most subtle of clues like when a dog barks at someone aggressively or when they bark at someone just because they're excited. The human species did not spend all this time breeding them for nothing. They signal all of these things. He should have known they would attack strangers, and he should have been aware they'd be able to escape his incredibly crappy wire fence.
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  4152.  @stargazer162  You have a point. I guess time will tell who are the ones that are dedicated enough to train themselves. My guess is probably nobody; I imagine this was just an easy way to make money for most of them.
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  4153. I've seen reports of this weapon before this guy was assassinated. It hasn't been a secret for a long time.
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  4154. "if i drew a dick on a tavern in Pompeii, would it still be legible today?"
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  4155. ​ @nerdstrangler4804 cheaters are never badass. your opinions are awful
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  4156.  @IncognitoActivado  Warhammer has always had "token characters" if you consider female IG to be token characters.
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  4157. 0:59 Wow, he went full Jerry Seinfeld.
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  4158. Likely a recent stray. Waaaay too many selfish morons who get a dog only to abandon it on the street within a couple months
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  4159.  @MENACE-km6bd  Very tiny, minute difference being that there wasn't a group of people who went around burning down black businesses and random trashcans while calling themselves "It's OK To Be White."
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  4160.  @slightlyaboveaverage2235  Because the fact that it happened is ridiculous enough. It doesn't matter if the woman in the video is the one who originally wrote the story.
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  4161.  Sam Bankman-Zelensky  By all accounts that part of the story is most definitely true, actually, even if you believe the "gas showers" were not real. The Germans kept those camps running until they were forced to abandon them as the front lines moved forward. Their infrastructure was destroyed by mass Allied bombing campaigns so they could not afford to feed the inmates properly. They were petri dishes of disease especially typhus, something that was in a serious pandemic at the time. One that makes COVID look like a joke in fact. Many camp inmates starved and suffered from consumption even before the German camp guards left them and threw away their keys.
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  4162. Let's go big dick boys
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  4163.  @dethkicstart  the conversation was a joke, my real point was that nobody goes to a library to talk to other people
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  4164.  @dethkicstart  it's just a non-starter for me. i can't relate to most people, and i hate small talk because it's devoid of substance. i also have poor vision, so i couldn't, for example, see what book someone is reading from across the room and then get up and walk over there to talk to them about it. it's bad enough such that i cannot drive a car. i've had friends tell me that a woman was glancing at me before at a bar and i was never aware of it. all i can do is shrug my shoulders and pretend that it doesn't matter
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  4165. I have so many questions. Why are they "champion main" subreddits? Are you only allowed to fap to a chanpion if you main them?
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  4166.  @TG-wg4tw  Any decent command line interface for a program, like apt or any other package manager, will have a help interface when you execute it with no arguments. In apt you can list packages and find all packages that begin with a phrase or contain a phrase. Just use the help options built in to the command line interface for that application if you find yourself struggling. If it doesn't have enough info, type "man" followed by the application you're struggling with.
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  4167. It's even easier if you "sound gay" i.e. have a lisp. There's a great video from a guy who infiltrated the DNC speaking like a stereotypical gay man. He tried to talk to anyone significant and made them agree with increasingly absurd ideas and they obliged because they assumed he was on their side. His channel name is "no cap on god"
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  4168.  @bloodking73  Battle of Athens, 1946
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  4169. you realize those women mostly had 1000s of people watching them lick something else before they did this? this is an improvement to their lives. make no mistake many former pornstars are doing this and the most popular ones would have been doing porn if they didn't have twitch/onlyfans
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  4170. ​ @contradataxman2991 I love how you are faced with this leak of nearly half a million taxpayers and your preprogrammed response is "But surely giving Musk access would be worse, right my fellow brainwashed friend?'
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  4171. Now explain why so many Jews, especially those at the very top that transcend national culpability or loyalty (George Soros), seem to hate other Jews. I mean they typically take the most anti-Israel stance possible, aside from extremist Muslims.
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  4172. To be fair, he learned it from Hitler. His playbook is 100% the exact same. Claim there is an oppressed minority that shares ethnicity with the citizens of his nation in a foreign nation, then invade to "liberate" them. He's done it at least 3 or 4 times at this point.
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  4173. There is no logic. They just ape what their favorite heroes they read about in their history/humanities classes did and think it will work. They want to be MLK disciples and do sit-ins, factory workers during the 1800s, etc. It's all a game or a fairy tale to them and they're the heroes.
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  4174. They've been safe in their coastal cities for years and years. Bussing migrants over is probably the most politically influential thing that Abbott and the other southern governors have ever done.
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  4175.  @chiffmonkey  News flash, majority of people live in cities, who would have known?
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  4176.  @chiffmonkey  You wouldn't be typing on this computer without the advent of cities pal.
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  4177.  @mina4530  Just do an office job instead... the petty politics would suit a person like that much better.
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  4178.  @JACS420  Didn't read because of awful formatting, stop using Reddit
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  4179. I had an ADT subscription, once upon a time. Decided I didn't want to use it anymore because they pushed an update for their (cr)app which forced you to install it to use the keypad and alarms which was working just fine before the update. Even the motion/door alarms, which are entirely localized, will not work unless you use this app. On top of that it made an annoying beeping sound for no damn reason at seemingly random intervals, so I unplugged it. So I call ADT and wait on the phone for 45 minutes for a representative to cancel. Nothing. Waited again for 30 minutes 1 or 2 days later, still nothing. So I told my bank to block all charges from that vendor on my card. Couple of months later they call me and tell me I owe them something like $263. I told them, I tried to cancel but you made it impossible. I'm not paying. This phone call happens 2 more times until finally it's escalated to a supervisor. He clears the charges and finally cancels my account.
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  4180. @Quissbird- You say that as if every invasion into the massive nation of Russia didn't fail due to getting bogged down in winter. The Germans knew what they were getting into and still didn't provide adequate winter gear for their men. They also suffered from a lack of intelligence; they believed the Soviet military had far fewer divisions than it actually brought to bear.
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  4181. I think the joke is that women who are on their period may have different preferences in men, so postmenopausal women's preferences always stay the same. Or it's a joke about how he is old, and therefore only older women should judge his appearance.
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  4182. Even if you were a woke ideologue, answering with "opinion" would be tremendously dumb. That would imply that other people could decide what gender you are. No trans person has ever answered "You're not a man/woman" with "That's just like, your opinion, man."
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  4183. Sorry but you're just wrong on the prices part. You've clearly never traveled to Europe. I'm sure the first time you pay 5 Euros for a Coke with no refills you'll change your mind.
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  4184.  @thanosbustedinyourmum  You don't think it's reasonable to assume no one is working on Christmas Day and therefore the person climbing on your balcony is here to rob you? I wouldn't have shot the guy immediately personally, but you're forgetting some key aspects of this scenario here.
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  4185.  @arisrevenge  I was referring to the scenario where a cop has seen suicide attempts like this before and is confident that the person wouldn't actually stab him. Although you never know, some of them just don't care and will actually stab you anyway.
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  4186.  @bobwalton3926  No? I implied no such thing in my comment.
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  4187.  @arisrevenge  Agreed, it's not likely.
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  4188. ​ @Practitioner_of_Diogenes  elves, like in many fantasy settings, are objectively the biggest assholes
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  4189.  iVirtualPlays  You say that like hordes of your countrymen don't come over here to study every year.
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  4190.  iVirtualPlays  Ah, so you've chosen to lie through your teeth then. Very well. I'm afraid Harry's turn to soyboy personality tendencies, like marrying a harpy that doesn't love him or his country, has less to do with our magical cosmic rays beaming across the Atlantic Ocean and more to do with his pampered upbringing though.
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  4191.  iVirtualPlays  Hollywood is cursed, and that's where Harry got Meghan from. America is too large and new a place to cover with an umbrella such as that one. Most Europeans seem to have trouble with that, with their thousands of years of history and culture.
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  4192.  @amai-w8f  18 people laughed, why even make this post
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  4193.  @561REALTLK  Moving past "fighting words" is what makes the mark of a civilized society. There's a reason why that phrase is associated with a completely lawless frontier.
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  4194.  @65firered  they could have animated that, but, y'know
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  4195. ​ @captainvanisher988 her face is abnormally flat and unappealing imo
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  4196. ​ @kanon1118 what?
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  4197. Operation Mockingbird changed the face of American journalism forever
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  4198. This is nothing new for GameStop. Their managers are notorious for being slave drivers.
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  4199. Redditors*:
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  4200.  @IanGarris  It was deliberate sabotage because the Ordinance Department was eternally ass-blasted that Stoner made a better rifle than the M1 Garand and its fetal-alcohol syndrome child, the M14. All at the mere cost of a few thousand American soldiers' lives
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  4201.  @MrEnjoivolcom1  75% disapproval but everyone voted for Democrats in the midterms Elections that take upwards of 2 weeks to count just for 1 state yet every other developed nation can count them overnight And now a guy connected to a "highly secretive" (Vox's words, not mine) Democrat super PAC collapsed one of the largest crypto exchanges, poofed all the assets, while both his exchange and the Democratic party were closely intertwined with the Ukrainian economy Definitely nothing fishy going on here, just believe news outlet and consume product
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  4202. Murray deals in facts. He provided statistics and implied, "This is a problem. What are we going to do about it?" The problem does not necessarily have to do with genetics. The solution, for young liberal arts majors, is to stick their heads in the sand and scream. There was no ideology attached to his book.
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  4203.  @FlexSZN23  yes, sometimes called "hot-blooded" murder or a passion killing. there was intent but it was not planned when the assailant wasn't provoked
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  4204.  @lostalone9320  wew lad, imagine defending a group of people who do little else but prevent working class people from getting to their jobs and earning a living, then wonder why working class people don't like them.
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  4205. Heard it runs better on Ryujinx.
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  4206.  @emberhermin52  It isn't sadism you idiot, there is a reason the phrase "This hurts me more than it hurts you" exists and no it isn't just a Hollywood trope. It's called training and conditioning. By that logic you would also suggest that drill instructors are evil for making new recruits go through hardship at boot camp, or that anyone who goes to the gym is a masochist. Our brains are primal instinct combined with conscious thought. If the person cannot use conscious thought to internalize that something is bad, conditioning helps to make that internalization happen on the primal level
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  4207.  @cord113  You have it backwards, good CGI is a lot more labor intensive than acting. Still not as expensive as an A-list actor, but there's a whole studio of people divided and sub-divided into jobs making those graphics. AI is nowhere near the point where it can be used for competent CGI. Acting on the other hand only requires two people: the actor (who may be his own director), and a cameraman. Costumes and makeup if that's required as well, but these CGI studios... they charge a lot. They do have the distinct advantage of not being a part of SAG-AFTRA, and thus not striking, though. My money is on that as to the real reason why, if Disney decides to go with CGI, they would do that.
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  4208.  @melsmith3662  You know nothing about guns. Calibre size does not equal kinetic energy. A .45 round from a 1911 has far less kinetic energy than a .223 coming out of a standard AR platform rifle.
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  4209.  @Mrprix007  You don't have to dehydrate to meet your weight class to do comedy. Don't be absurd, some comedians like being funny.
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  4210.  @spoot8835  I would say it's actually worse, and less professional in smaller towns than in big cities. Especially if the citizen being investigated/talked to is from out of town. Most cases of cop misconduct I see are either California or some small town.
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  4211.  @spoot8835  Gotta get that revenue from somewhere.
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  4212.  @thefirstdemi  he bought the cases himself, it was just a stunt for the camera
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  4213. Lol, I've seen real bikers who talk about clowns like that guy that have a million gang patches on. They say there's a very likely chance they get beaten up if they walk into a biker bar. People who are actually in those gangs don't appreciate misrepresentation
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  4214. "if you really took hus performance in" lmao I couldn't understand a word he said. good cinematography, tho
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  4215.  @bendover04  Eh, it requires probably at least 10-15 hours a week at the gym. The online bullshit I agree though. Everyone who wants to make a career online has to deal with that.
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  4216.  @garymcjerry  I'm completely fine with my job and I do go to the gym. You're making a lot of assumptions. I guess you can't see the weird contradictory nature of your own post where you suggest that full-time construction isn't that bad but going to the gym to do targeted exercises is so strenuous and difficult. The reason America is overweight is complicated. Not everyone has access, or time, to go to a gym, and our government didn't help by selling out to food lobbyists (primarily corn) in the early 70's by suggesting that it's okay to eat tons of sugar as long as whatever you eat is low in saturated fat. The UK agreed to the same nutritional standards and guess what, they're also fat. Mexico suffers from the same problems by virtue of NAFTA and receiving lots of our food sold by the same companies. It's only in these nations where poor people are typically fat because the cheap food has tons of added sugars. In fact we had a workout craze in the 80's and that still didn't stop the nation from becoming fat; people tend to forget how much of them live in "flyover country." We as a nation are only just waking up out of that staggering stupor of terrible nutritional advice.
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  4217.  @garymcjerry  You're conflating individuals and groups. Individuals and groups behave differently, it's been shown many times in peer reviewed studies. I am aware that chicken and rice are very cheap and healthy enough. However let's not pretend that government sanctioned nutritional standards play no role at all in influencing society. Let's not pretend that every person is just as good at critical thought or sifting through bad information or misleading advertisements. These tactics have been shown to be effective at changing how society behaves and will be used time and time again. You will not be able to give a personal nutrition lecture to every American, British person, Mexican, Canadian, etc. At what point do you hold the elites and experts, people who should know better, accountable for knowingly distributing false information thanks to a bribe? You're also vastly overinflating the "subjectiveness" of the difficulty of different jobs. Any job where you have deadlines set by your boss is going to harder for the vast majority of people than a job where you can choose when to go to the gym, choose when to stream, etc. The tradeoff, before the advent of streaming, used to be that you'd have to take a massive risk in starting your own business, and work extremely long hours especially at the beginning. I don't think I've ever heard a single person claim that starting your own business is easy. Now you can basically do that, but from your own home and usually without dealing with overhead things like payroll or HR. The biggest tradeoff for this is that "partnerships" for websites like YouTube and Twitch are terrible "contracts" that can render you cut off from your source of income for making a single mistake, but now there are many avenues of revenue (OnlyFans, Patreon, etc) so that risk is significantly reduced compared to what it was several years ago.
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  4218. It's funny how nobody mentions or remembers werster dropping the N-word at like 3 AM with trihex (black dude) in the room with him because a donor asked him to. One of the funniest GDQ moments IMO
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  4219.  @Daktyl198  you say this like it isn't going to start some kind of media panic over brand imaging
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  4220.  @JamesMilne-hi2ot  The ones who didn't vote, didn't care either way because they didn't vote. So, they can't complain.
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  4221. Jesters are masters of insults and verbal games. They were known for being the only people in court who could get away with insulting the king or his retainers. That said, that's about as far as they'd go.
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  4222.  @SomeYouTubeTraveler  I think they're absolutely everywhere, but not in the way that your typical radical revolutionary does. It's an evolutionary psychology mechanism we can't escape. Same reason you love your family more than other people, but on a smaller scale. People are disposed to like people who are genetically similar to them more because it helps pass on their genes. The solution isn't to pay penance like some sort of medieval flagellant during the black plague because then you'll just be differently racist or sexist.
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  4223. The Libertarian Party is completely compromised. Same thing happened to the Tea Party. Any time a grassroots movement gets going it is stamped out as quickly as possible by the established parties.
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  4224. It still shocks you?
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  4225. I don't think he does. That throw was sloppy as shit, the officer was stiff and had zero plan other than "wrap my arms around this kid and hope he doesn't do anything stupid." I think he could probably be a good martial artist if he actually trained, but he did that on pure initiative and strength alone.
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  4226.  @vexile1239  It wasn't the armorer's fault that Baldwin picked up a gun of completely unknown status, pointed at someone who was not involved in the scene while the cameras weren't rolling, and fired it. Then lied about it. If any other person committed gun safety violations of this magnitude, they would have been behind bars for the last 2 years since they committed the act. It would be like if I picked up a gun at a local target range, shot you with it (standing in the lane next to me, not in front of the targets) and said "Oops, I thought it wasn't loaded."
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  4227. The problem is that as your weight increases your calories burned increases. If you've ever seen a fat guy that works outdoors or with his hands, they have massive fucking legs. This means he would have burned more calories just by existing as he got fatter and would have to eat even more
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  4228. This is so dumb on the hackers' part. There's just more incentive for them to be found now, and they got no money out of it. Ransomware is such a stupid strategy. The only hackers who are successful at it are the ones who negotiate down the price, usually with a "cyber security firm" under the guise of "getting your data back."
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  4229. The silly thing is that the code he needed to generate the donut is actually much smaller than the donut-shaped code on the right. He had to pad it out with comments. Not sure why he didn't just pick longer variable names.
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  4230.  @stevenschnepp576  ​ I didn't know we were talking about aliens that have never talked to women before and only get an impression of how they behave by watching pornography? That's an interesting conclusion you seemed to have arrived at with no qualifying context. If you believe that sort of fantasy you may be beyond saving. A regular school shooter type. Having enough self-awareness to realize you should stop means you aren't that far gone. The point still stands. If I watched Hot Fuzz I'd be a complete idiot if I took away the idea that police in the UK really behave in that way. Same applies for anything produced for mass consumption whether it is educational or not. It's not a productive way to build your impression of how real humans act. This isn't "high school debate club" this is literal poison in the well.
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  4231.  @Chemicalkinetics  the bullet is brass, the silver part is part of the barrel which is only visible cause the slide is out of battery
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  4232. Japanese games were always much more likely to have female leads anyway.
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  4233. If you eat raw cannabis plant, it gets destroyed by your stomach acid. I tried to tell this to my dad a few times but he keeps eating my vaped weed like it will do something, lmao. It never does. You need to cook it in an oil, then the active ingredient is absorbed into the oil, usually butter. It has a taste for sure. Having said that, these kids may have gotten a stomach ache (not gotten high) because of the plant, then went to the hospital as a precaution. Nowhere do they say they got stoned
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  4234.  @patrickday4206  funny, but mattress tags can be removed by the end consumer if i remember right
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  4235.  @jc71480  Probably because it never happened. He's thinking of the Zimmerman telegram, which occurred during WW1, not 2, and was completely irrelevant because Mexico was dealing with a revolution at the time, and was rejected by their government anyway. Mexico declared war on Germany in 1942 and even participated in combat. This was prompted by Germany sinking Mexican merchant vessels.
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  4236.  @absboodoo  The real fear, for me at least, is getting judged by some Karen who thinks whatever you're doing is abuse regardless of the reasoning.
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  4237. Id, followed immediately by superego. The Freudian mind happening in slow motion.
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  4238.  @KibitoAkuya  The Nazi party wasn't really Fascist at the time, it was uncle Adolf that turned it around. He added three zeroes to the ID numbers on the party cards to make their membership seem larger and ousted all the real socialists when he came into power.
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  4239.  @corriemooney9812  Yeah, you could say they were "nuclear war" levels of different. Many people thought we were going to go to war with the Soviets soon.
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  4240.  @jetfrog4574  Fascism is a lot more narrowly defined than people seem to think it is. Every modern dictator is not a Fascist. There are many flavors of totalitarian ideology and that is only one of them. The Federation isn't even totalitarian. It's closer to the Roman republic pre-Caesar.
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  4241.  @ablearcher4058  eh... It was more like a thought experiment than satire. Try to read the book through the lens of being a pissed off Navy veteran who is mad at the US government for making bad decisions in the Cold War and you may understand, because that's where Heinlein was when he wrote it.
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  4242. You realize that mobile game anime girls are extremely popular nowadays right? I don't know how you think a character from Honk Honk Ching Chong wouldn't show up on a Google image search for anime girls.
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  4243. they're actually synonymous, "white" people are a completely American political fabrication used to D&C back when the Democrats were the "working white man's" party and fearmongered black people taking their women and jobs weird, imo, that non-Americans would even adopt the label
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  4244.  @jakeplaysyt8000  sadly, the problem is that the worst police officers seemingly tend to rise in ranks, and once you have a corrupt chief, corruption is abided or even enforced by the department.
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  4245. I see women at the gym who look cartoonish thanks to Instagram clout chasing and hilariously fat ass trends.
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  4246.  @Vaguer_Weevil  Lifetime. Though it's way too stupidly expensive so I'm not going there for much longer.
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  4247.  @TwilightMysts  Yes, but it was not a reference to her ethnicity as the working class of Germans would have had tanned skin from being outdoors. It was a reference to her aristocratic upbringing, not having to work in other words, and her naturally beautiful skin. Virtually every woman wants smooth, fair skin across the world, aside from race fetishists... it's what beauty product companies constantly market for.
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  4248. To answer your question about what a Jew is seriously: There are orthodox Jews and reformist Jews. Reformist Jews as far as I'm aware are the "normal religion" Jews. You can become a reformist Jew as long as you go through their ceremonies and practice their tenets. Orthodox Jews believe you can't be a Jew unless your mother was a Jew. So whether you're a Jew or not depends on which Jew you ask. In a world where we constantly talk about discrimination and bigotry, I believe this is a very important group dynamic that is constantly swept under the rug. No other religion that I know of has such ethnic ties to its beliefs. Why is it swept under the rug? Well, that's the million dollar question isn't it?
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  4249. @ahoramazda6864 Actually modern Paganism is the domain of the woke and hippies. Wiccans for example are mostly cringey spiteful women who are so passive aggressive that they cast spells on people they don't like
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  4250.  @sturmbreakers7817  But now they have to hire a lawyer to dispute that in court. It's very much a bluff, like in poker, but you still need to ante up to call it.
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  4251. Wow, and I thought medieval German executions were bad. That was horrific. Also check out Franz Schmidt, very successful executioner in 16th century Germany that basically commuted the less humane "traditional" sentences to sword beheadings. Stuff like drowning women who are convicted of infanticide, breaking on the wheel, etc.
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  4252. "God is my higher power." So... you've accepted that you're going to Hell, then?
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  4253. Eh, not always. Socrates was forced to drink poison because his political opponents didn't like what he was preaching and they stayed in power.
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  4254.  @_JayRamsey_  I think there is a tiny, minute difference between "covering up" and "making sure it's playable on daytime television." Live PD isn't a show that only airs on LiveLeak.
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  4255. And then imagine finding out he's a Vanguard stunlocker...
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  4256.  @Matt-jc2ml  Some of them do. Most people, in general , don't look as good as Cavill. So thanks for stating the obvious.
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  4257.  @jackharrow7147  You're really going to compare custom Space Marine chapters to how Hollywood writers typically fuck things up? Could you be any more obtuse? The type of meddling he's referring to would be "actually Space Marine chapters are abolished and all the Space Marines now work together because that is epic look at my epic reimagining of Warhammer 40k you guys!!!!"
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  4258.  @victormontes7007  a quick google search would confirm that yes, it is in fact possible to not pay $20 for 5 razor blades.
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  4259.  @JohnDBlue  she will fester on resetera, the most heinous echo chamber on the internet. it's like twitter, but more exclusive
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  4260.  @moomoocowsly  Child support? It's funny that these relationships have a quantifiable monetary cost, to say nothing at all of the intangible spiritual cost should things go wrong, but you ignored both of them to virtue signal.
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  4261.  @ellajohns245  Given that around 3/4ths of violent criminals come from single mother households, I find your implication that a single father parent is "worse" than a single mother parent very dubious
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  4262. Why is there a GamerSupps washing machine in the background
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  4263. You do realize people make a career out of being in Congress by being re-elected unlimited times right? Biden has been in Congress for decades. The naivete on display here.
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  4264.  @TojiFushigoroWasTaken  Yes, it helps to have a good faith effort to cancel. I was on the phone for, cumulatively, over an hour waiting for someone from the "cancellations department" to receive me for ADT security services. I got sick of that, and then just told my bank not to pay them. 3 months later, they tried to call me for collections 3 times, and the 3rd time a supervisor finally cleared the fees and canceled my subscription.
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  4265. Yeah, way to throw fuel on the ages-old "homosexuality is a slippery slope to pedophilia" fire.
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  4266.  @Walrus101  Problem is there is almost no incentive to work harder to find the right person. It's basically a gamble. The stakes are your time -- and your money too. The potential reward is a partner who you will enjoy spending the rest of your life with. That potential reward seems like more and more of a joke as time goes on. People like you who admonish others and say "you're sad, just try harder and get lucky" offer no platitudes or comfort. My time is more valuable than being spent on strangers. It used to be less of a gamble, but we have thoroughly convinced ourselves that romantic life in the past was wrongbad and what we do now is rightgood. Don't compromise, just "be yourself" has always been bullshit. Real relationships take work and meeting in the middle, even I understand that. This inevitably changes both people. But the amount of work needed has only increased over time.
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  4267.  @johnmcvey4243  It won't, effort and cost is antithetical to this manufactured political "movement"
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  4268.  @spicytaco5975  Internet, most likely. Same reason he put a sideways smiley face there, when he could have just drawn a perfectly normal smiley face.
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  4269. @Lucas You're 23, kid. You haven't mastered shit. Get back when you've come off that Dunning Kruger peak.
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  4270.  @Thalaranthey  it depends really, biased college "councils" will believe them without proof, but in reality most law enforcement will not believe a woman when she says she was sexually assaulted because it is by definition a pretty difficult crime to prove. there has to be evidence of a struggle, but many women allow themselves to get so drunk they can't fight back, or are simply too scared to fight back, so they just lie down and take it then wonder why nobody believes them. it's really a parenting problem. nobody teaches girls to take responsibility for their own safety, or what to do in a situation like this. that's why they are not afraid to get blackout drunk at parties full of strangers.
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  4271. The only time you should be scared of a man wearing a fanny pack on his stomach.
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  4272. As little as I care about the sex offender, this is bad fathering for one simple reason: he will no longer be with his daughter if he is convicted
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  4273. films her ass pointed at the camera and posts it in a video for millions to see "Wow, this guy is sitting on a bench looking at me! What a creep, right? LMAO!" "Uhh yeah sure, what a creep, now where did I put that lotion again?"
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  4274.  @TheCarson65  And life is just a bunch of chemicals. What's the problem with guns?
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  4275. ​ @JamesDavis-t5w nice non sequitur, enjoy paying taxes to China then (you won't)
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  4276.  @hombreg1  "Your cities." So I presume you are a foreigner. It's ironic that on this channel where people think they are very well-informed and savvy about business and political issues like this, that you seem to take mainstream media slander like this at face value, filtered through the lens of foreign bias no less. I would never read an article from Fox News about Britain, Germany, or any other foreign nation and assume that I'm well-informed. Yet we have to suffer the "wisdom" of foreigners all the time. And we still get the reputation of being arrogant. Funny, isn't it?
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  4277.  @alexandrel4569  There is no fight to back down from you clown. Where's the Digimon lawsuit? Where's the Dragon Quest monster tamer spinoff lawsuit? Where's the Fossil Fighters lawsuit? Where's the Monster Hunter Stories lawsuit? Where's the Yokai Watch lawsuit?
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  4278. Doing this doesn't require a system. That system is called talking to people and greasing their palms. It has always existed and will always exist.
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  4279. I like how he blames capitalists for not giving him money. Either your target demographic didn't give you enough money, or you failed by choosing the wrong target demographic. Other people don't even factor into it.
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  4280.  @spiralphoenix9839  You're "just looking at facts" while telling everyone else that if they don't like your favorite game, they must be bad at it. Wow, your factual reporting rivals even that of Fox News. Way to go, Murdoch.
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  4281.  @caseymajor4803  Hispanic people aren't white unless you're a member of the FBI. Pay attention to the names in this story.
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  4282.  @buckshots2dabrain859  Source?
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  4283.  @colbypriest141  You can't molest a child if you're dead, sorry, but no your theory doesn't work that way
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  4284.  @avananana  You're blowing the issue way out of proportion. Vast majority of users will never pirate because, despite what Rossman says, the service from pirated media is usually of lesser quality for one major reason: obscurity. There have been ups and downs; music piracy for example was really huge until services like iTunes and Spotify came around. But it is usually less convenient for a non-tech-savvy user to pirate things.
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  4285. Dude this looks like a PETA parody except the PETA one would have real blood in it. Hahaha that's uncanny
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  4286.  @Jon_Bonds_Jovi  Actually address mental health issues. Reagan defunded federal mental health in the 80s. We continue to ignore it, and if you have any mental illness, you're on your own. Many health insurance plans won't even cover it. If you snapped your fingers now and every gun disappeared from this continent, the same people would be stabbing, using bombs, driving vehicles into crowds like in Europe, etc. We'd still have a problem. And you'd just advocate for the banning of something else. It's a game, smoke and mirrors to make you vote for fraud politicians who enact these do-nothing restrictions. Stop being a pawn. They're not effective.
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  4287. Cat: No, actually, you were adopted.
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  4288. That's just having a dog, similar to being a parent. With dogs, you'll probably be picking up poop in a bag in front of other people. The embarrassment quickly vanishes because you care about the dog. First day I walked my current dog, a family with a kid in a stroller passed by while I was picking up her poop and the kid stared at me and said "EWWW YUCKY!" I looked over my shoulder, smiled and said "You gotta do what you gotta do." The parents laughed. This is why parents are immune to cringe.
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  4289. Matt Mercer already designed his own setting and classes, he could easily just publish his own game based on a d20 and roll with that.
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  4290.  @zacharyjackson1829  Hundreds of rule systems are "based on D&D rules," that's a stupidly broad statement that is impossible to enforce legally. That would be like if Nintendo tried to sue every platformer game publisher because Donkey Kong invented "press A to jump"
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  4291.  @chipchipperson7304  Yes, and that is a shame, because it's totally absurd. I'd be amazed if any judge would respect that clause. Hasbro is completely relying on threats of litigation for their new license to stand.
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  4292. I knew that shit was shady as fuck. Why would Google put an ad blocker on blast that is supposedly better than other blockers, which they are constantly fighting against?
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  4293. the funny thing is that the poster has it completely backwards. if she were black this would be completely insignificant and likely would never have gone viral. it's what society has come to expect from black women
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  4294. The problem with the short turnaround is that many innocent people have died. That's why we are here now where it takes decades.
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  4295.  @debanydoombringer1385  Damn. Guess I should rewatch, it's been roughly 25 years.
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  4296.  @vamanosninja4143  I eat alone on a semi regular basis. Nobody stares at you, that's just your self-consciousness bothering you. If they do, feel free to stare back until they get the message.
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  4297.  @jakebarnes3054  Law isn't inherently important. It is only useful when enforced properly. An American has a duty to disobey unjust laws. That is the principle that founded our nation. Placing this man in jail wouldn't be justice. We would be lying to ourselves by saying that this man killed unjustly. It would be hypocrisy. Police use this same tactic all the time. It is called a sting operation.
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  4298.  @naturistfred  Most criminals respect chomo killers. Chomos are the lowest of the low on the prison ladder. The cops wouldn't have done anything. He'd be lucky if the guy was charged.
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  4299. The shooter and most of the victims were Hispanic. Stop trying to make this about a race war.
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  4300.  @trevor5227  You'll never get your virgins
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  4301. "Obstruction." You obstructed us from investigating you for a crime you didn't commit. Which, even if you had committed one, you have a Constitutional right to not help the cops investigate you. Can you make it any more evident that you're angry and embarrassed that you made yourself look like a fool?
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  4302. ​ @fathercreamdaddy292 you didn't read the book
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  4303. ​@JamMasterJesus but what's there about the Fall is extremely compelling and directly leads to the events of Halo 1
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  4304. The other 2% run for office.
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  4305.  @GameslordXY  The ones who consider themselves professionals, yeah. Do some research, these people have their own mailing list to coordinate articles and all think the same shit. It's a cult.
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  4306.  @GameslordXY  They typically are driven by conspiracy, actually. Same with movie critics. There's very little objective in the way of reviewing if you're at the top echelon. At that point, like with most other fields, it's all just playing politics to stay on top.
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  4307. it's insane how so many have been brainwashed. the founding fathers were not actually in favor of slavery but had to compromise because too many wealthy slave owners were now entrenched in our economy. that compromise resulted in the three-fifths compromise and the banning of the Atlantic slave trade. sadly without the support of rich plantation owners the revolution likely would not have materialized at all, so they were forced to compromise. the idea that a symbol of the revolution would somehow be pro-slavery is ridiculous from the start.
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  4308.  @anacc3257  proper way to do it is to shame the woman without focusing on your own victimhood, and label her as the lecherous homewrecker she is
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  4309. It's true. From the day I picked up my controller, I realized the inferiority of the femoid. Slowly, I began to hate them. Note for the algorithm reading every seemingly single one of these posts: This is heavy-handed satire.
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  4310.  @morkusporkus-j2i  anyone who actually cares about that wouldn't stream on or use Twitch at all
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  4311.  @jasonlacroix6083  .45s really aren't that bad if you have a large enough weapon, like a 1911 to absorb the recoil
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  4312. People like this legitimately treat relationships like jobs. This and that other video about the woman who keeps a spreadsheet of the guys she's dating, their qualities, their relationship status etc. opened my eyes to their disgusting mindset. When you're a skilled worker, it can be a good idea to look for a new job while keeping your old one so you have the safety of income. This isn't how you're supposed to treat love with another person. More insane is how these people make it to middle age and never realize why they're extremely unhappy.
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  4313.  @Nightreaper86  Yes. The instinctual urge to not hurt women is a strong one in men. Put simply you have to pit a woman against a guy that 99% of society would consider crazy in order to understand what "true male strength" is.
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  4314. Not possible when you're a pretentious liberal arts major that believes they can see into the minds of dead authors by reducing all media to any real world inspiration it might have had.
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  4315. @mima6328 Sorry, but you're just wrong, and I'm almost sure you're a woman talking from an outside perspective by your writing style. I first viewed porn when I was 7. I am simply intelligent enough to realize that women aren't pornstars, and that the "performances" in pornography are very obviously fake. I haven't consumed "professional" porn in ages because it's so robotic and stupid. If you want me to stop consuming porn, then there needs to be a woman who is willing to give me the time of day. So far, that simply hasn't happened, and not for lack of trying on my part. I'm not some hopeless addict; I work out, I'm in the process of losing weight as I speak, I own a home, and I make six figures.
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  4316. You know there is a slight difference between phobia and violent hatred
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  4317.  @jerryelsea8126  I wasn't even talking to you so I don't know why you replied.
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  4318.  @jerryelsea8126  Do you support MAPs?
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  4319.  @astronemir  Too much Poe's Law to know for sure. I've seen Indian devs do far stupider things. One time a first year offshore DB developer broke a stored procedure I wrote two days before it was going to go live because he added "GO" at the end, which is completely fucking unnecessary, and for whatever stupid ass reason he didn't pull the latest before doing so AND THEN FORCE PUSHED OVER MY NEWER COMMIT, so it used an older version that had a bug in it. He did all of this without notifying anyone at all and without even being involved in the project. Fortunately my lead saw it the day before and I got extremely pissed off at him over Skype IMs. This guy's change wouldn't have broken anything.
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  4320. I've seen full on essays about why women shouldn't be allowed to vote, should never have gotten the vote, and should never hold office that get posted regularly on certain channels. Meanwhile I make a dumb racist one-liner with no substance and I get hate-speech banned for a day. Boy I love arbitrary policies.
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  4321.  @KMFDM_Kid2000  You're almost certainly not even American judging by your username. Who cares about what you have to say on this issue?
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  4322. "When did this stop being a business?" Dude, Twitter never was a business. It has never been profitable. Last year it lost over 200 million dollars. It has been around for EIGHTEEN YEARS. Does this sound like a "business" to you?
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  4323.  @aquapuppy9838  If there's a rule like "please take one," and you break it, it's theft. Lack of security does not equal free loot. That is caveman-tier despotist thinking.
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  4324. Remember when the most popular Skyrim multiplayer mod in development went closed source and said "fuck everyone" because "someone might steal our code?" I remember. This only seems to happen with popular games. Watching modders compete for "cred" is fucking disgusting. This is why some level of formal education in software development concepts is essential, so we don't have idiots walking around thinking that they own code that they wrote for a property they will never own and can never monetize.
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  4325.  @noneyabizz8337  It's been 25 years since the 90s, shouldn't be that surprising that the slang has changed. Although this point it's mostly cyclical, reviving terms from the 80s and prior, "wild" included
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  4326. They're so knowledgeable about seemingly every scenario, they even know about hot gluing which is the implication from the figurine flavor text. It's amazing and at times hilarious
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  4327. Have you tried swimming? Really good cardio and it doesn't harm your joints at all...
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  4328. Even if she was legitimately having an episode that says a lot about her stability, and capability of controlling herself in the general public.
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  4329. @Al Fonzo Is the US a small archipelago that gets hit with tsunamis on a regular basis? Wait you mean it's not? Fan fucking tastic. What lesson were we supposed to learn again?
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  4330. Robber: spends 20 minutes hyping himself up to rob the joint Cashier: "another one, huh?"
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  4331. I just don't have the attachment to physical disks and cartridges that most people do. If I want something with physicality, I play a tabletop game. CDs and cartridges are flawed, fragile devices that will eventually be unusable unless preserved very carefully. Or, the devices used to read them will wear out first.
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  4332.  @butch3945  Look man I hate cancel culture as much as the next guy but you are co-opting extremely hard. Or a plant, one of the two.
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  4333.  @LIJerseyBrooklyn  How is that even remotely relevant? You can't just pick one piece of evidence and ignore all the rest of them, asshat. I'm glad you're not a judge.
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  4334.  @kidmosey  They were desperate due to their plummeting ratings. I'd be surprised if they invite him again unless they fire most if not all their writing staff.
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  4335.  @bananapodre8820  I mean there are way, way, better platforms for finding h-anime and manga. No idea why you would even want to use Twitch.
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  4336. You aren't?
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  4337.  @okaydetar821  The weeb slope is one of constantly retreating gatekeeping. Nowadays anime is so mainstream that people will watch it regularly and say "I'm not a weeb/anime fan" because there's always some other grognard out there who knows Japanese and watches it unsubbed, or scoffs at you if you haven't read the manga/light novel, etc. On the other hand, KonoSuba is the type of show that would really only appeal to you if you are already an anime fan. The style of humor, character writing, and the fact that it is a parody of trashy isekai in general means that anyone who doesn't already enjoy anime probably won't have patience for it. And you'd have to have enjoyed isekai anime in particular, on top of that.
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  4338. "She knows I'm racist! WHY DOESN'T SHE RESPECT MY FEELINGS?" Lmfao.
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  4339.  @deco2430  We're aware of that. Nobody voted for the CIA, friend.
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  4340. Not shown: 7 or 8 generated images that were thrown into the trash for each source image because they had stupid looking hands.
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  4341. Can I just ask how the hell is this the "watershed moment" for the FBI, and not the LeBaron and Langford massacre in 2019? Nine Americans were killed in that ambush, for (as far as anyone can tell) no damn reason at all. The best guess we have is the cartels thought it was someone else, or someone important, because they were moving in a convoy to a wedding. 3 women and 6 children died. Not a damn peep out of anyone about this tragedy but 2 Americans die and now "21 state attorney generals are requesting to classify the cartels as a terrorist organization." What changed, Mr. Fed?
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  4342. There's a manual on hand to hand combat written by the British for their commandos in WW2 and it does actually have a couple of techniques for dealing with a guy pointing a gun at you at point blank range. Difference is those guys expected to be fighting German soldiers behind enemy lines, and I think the only two scenarios they covered is a guy pointing at your chest or pointing at your back with a pistol while your hands are up.
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  4343.  @RefreshingShamrock  In the old days? That's standard procedure in prisons today. It's called solitary.
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  4344.  @aureouss2823  That's true, but a parent also can't just assume that the school their kids go to is good. This mom obviously has no time to raise a kid.
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  4345. How do people take an hour on average to cook dinner? I can whip up dinner in 30 minutes easily. I only take an hour or more to make something for a special occasion. Boiling pasta: < 10 minutes. 15 minutes if it is rice. Baking or frying vegetables: < 15 minutes. Cooking a protein: 30-35 minutes, if it's chicken, substantially less if it's anything else. All of these things can be done simultaneously, with little difficulty.
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  4346. ​ @kippenkopjes I'm a joke and you're not black.
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  4347. Back in the day the people who played D&D were the diverse ones. Now we're bad for not being extroverted and going out of our way to invite people with different ethnicities and sexual orientations to the table.
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  4348. ​ @ukaszbogacz522 lmao
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  4349.  @LordMoldoma  In the words of Sun Tzu, "We gotta spend that shit before the year end or they'll slash our budget."
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  4350. The only way you could assert it was not a fact is if you assumed the narrator was being a jerk and calling him a "she" despite identifying as a man. Which is an absurd conclusion to jump to.
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  4351. It's because the top quoted response to the issue was from a moralist vegan. They are, generally speaking, obnoxious people, and people online love to take shots at obnoxious people. Sorry if you are one, but you'll likely only prove my point by responding angrily to me. It's really hard to take people seriously when they ignore the existence of animal-only proteins and pretend everyone can or should survive without them. It's similar to demanding that everyone should just shut up and eat gluten. Similar to allergies, we can't control how our bodies are formed out of the womb, and it's hard to find veganism appealing when so many practitioners look like they've just come out of a concentration camp.
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  4352. There are rich brats in nations, primarily in the Middle East, where porn is completely illegal. They have been known to be an amazing source of revenue for a long time. They used to donate tens of thousands of dollars at a time to gaming streamers like sodapoppin. This is just the evolution of that meta -- they analyzed that there is a demand for a product in a market that has nothing, and they're providing that product.
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  4353. This is a dumb take honestly. Elon has terrible ideas -- hyperloop being probably the most iconic example -- but this is a simple monetization squeeze for people he doesn't like nor care about. If they don't pay and leave, it's a small win, if they do pay just to make sure they retain their followers, it's a win. Corpos will continue to use the platform because eight bucks is nothing to them and as long as they use it there will be an audience. But really I think the problem here is that Charlie underestimates just how much people spend on stupid shit. Our entire economy is kept afloat by people spending stupidly. It's the American way.
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  4354. I would genuinely rather have a mute doll, if I were to ever invest in such a thing. The imagination is more capable of doing the heavy lifting when it isn't constantly being interrupted by monotone voices and goofy movements.
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  4355.  @LtColDerp1  No, slam fire is a type of action, namely the action of a cartridge firing as it is being loaded into a chamber, as opposed to a separate action. This is the only way that shotguns made from a pipe can fire. Some pump shotguns CAN slam fire, but it is a malfunction, not intended usage.
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  4356.  @Astralthelionheart  If you want a game that leverages that kind of stuff, you should play Dungeon Siege 1. It definitely does a better job at it, because it's designed to do that from the ground up, instead of adapting what is fundamentally a turn based game with specific action order. The initiative rolls barely even make sense in games like NWN.
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  4357.  @VITAS874  I played it for hundreds of hours in my teenage years and it was always at least a little annoying. The saving grace was that NWN added full-fledged multiplayer with dozens of players. That, at least, was worth using real-time mechanics.
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  4358.  @jdunk6058  It's okay, you'll grow up eventually sweetie
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  4359.  @jdunk6058  Aww, he thinks he's grown up. Sorry sweetheart, you already admitted to vandalizing the property of strangers because you didn't get your candy.
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  4360. This looks like the sequel we should have. More features, more options. Glad we didn't get a regression or "we took out some features but replaced it with something else."
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  4361.  @joebidensmakeawish4834  I don't think child murderers get treated well by inmates
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  4362.  @user-ss6db7fq1y  Something tells me you've never heard a gun go off in your entire life.
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  4363.  @userequaltoNull  Are you intentionally ignoring all the context of this conversation just to seem correct online? I don't feel like repeating myself.
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  4364. "I want new content for this game that I enjoy." "NO! THAT'S PAY TO WIN! EVEN THOUGH THE GAME IS SINGLE PLAYER!" Take your meds.
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  4365.  @AngelicoCiudad  It isn't even remotely close. Imagine if the entire state of Texas had its local police compromised by cartel bribes and they freely sold drugs on every street corner. They dictate what you can and can't buy and trade to and from other bordering states. They're free to have internal conflicts and wars in which innocent civilians get tangled up and killed, sometimes as an example because they are tangentially affiliated with one side or the other. That is what cartel-run Mexico is like.
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  4366. ​ @DANCERcow Same. And I like over the top bodies, sometimes.
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  4367.  @GrowingDownUnder  Yeah, it's a harem anime about a bunch of girls who compete by posting the shittiest possible YouTube comments in an attempt to appeal to the main character's edgy troll tastes.
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  4368. @ImSquiggs Why are women the only people allowed to hide the fact that they were sexually violated for 3 decades, allowing the evil man who violated them to run free and violate other women
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  4369.  @peabase  Virtually no news organizations address their headlines towards the "cognoscenti." To the layman, any military vehicle with treads is a tank. Your credentials mean nothing because the news isn't addressed to captains in the military who have decades of years of experience dealing armored vehicles.
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  4370.  @javierflores09  You're not seeing the bigger picture. These sorts of control freaks exercise their power in increments. Andrew simply saw the pattern of behavior as it was starting, because it has happened so many times in other organizations already, and you're sitting in the dark wondering why he couldn't just change his title. It never stops at just the one thing. Dealing with this nonsense every time you contribute leads to burnout no matter how you slice it. Again, these people contribute BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. If you make it arduous, they will leave.
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  4371.  @kenetabansi5016  Yeah, access to information like cat image macros and "LIKE MY POST OR YOUR MOM WILL DIE IN HER SLEEP." Truly enlightening.
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  4372.  @josephahner3031  Wow, not sure how I hadn't heard of that one.
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  4373. @SomeTheorist9090  what you're talking about is social justice, not "restorative justice," and the only thing it bears fruit to is more violence. no guilt free person will feel justified by having wrongs done to them for the crimes of people only tangentially related to them. forgiveness is what ends the cycle of violence, not more violence. ghandi would be distraught at the state of young "tolerant" people today. the nazis first used the term social justice to describe what they did to right perceived crimes of the Jewish population
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  4374.  @Brian-om2hh  He was clearly talking about self-defense. Ironically, the castle doctrine, aka no duty to retreat, originates from English law.
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  4375.  @117JamesRoss  Why would we keep around space traveling equipment from the 1960's? Why would we replicate said shitty and outdated equipment? How do you claim to know more than a rocket scientist about space travel?
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  4376. "Samuel Johnson, of dictionary fame" Thanks to the internet, I just know him as the "What the fuck am I reading?" guy.
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  4377. So many unwise video game purchases avoided by regularly going to Blockbuster.
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  4378. ​ @cam4636 people murder each other throughout time and history, including the native tribes. dunno why people feel the need to declare that our murder is more wronger than their murder (even though we abolished slavery and many of them didn't)
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  4379.  @JKM2468  I always interpreted it as Arthas was desperately seeking a means to save the rest of his people and that desperation allowed the Frostmourne to influence him and turn him "properly" evil. He has a point in that there should always be "the third option" and Arthas should have pursued that, but he was not truly evil the moment he decided to cull the population of Stratholme since they would have been turned into zombies anyway... The lesson of Arthas' campaign is that zealotry is bad because it can be exploited easily by the enemies if they know how to be subtle. Not that great sacrifice isn't needed to save a nation.
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  4380.  @jayhub24  First, that guy wasn't the sole writer for WC3's story, and probably didn't even work on the original level for WC3. Secondly, the people you are talking about who interpret your art for the "wrong" reasons, will do so anyway. John Romero coming out and saying "ackshually guise Doom isnt about mass murdering children" wouldn't have stopped Harris and Klebold from committing Columbine, despite the fact that they liked Doom.
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  4381.  @coolestonions990  In fairness, South Korea is unusually obsessed with appearance to the point of unhealthiness. Look up the giant jar of jaw shavings for example. But this character design is hardly unusual for a fantasy video game. Most normal women who play video games do want to be cool and/or attractive as well. Normal people are always drowned out by mentally ill people who are handed a proverbial megaphone however.
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  4382.  @nevermore7285  Ah yes, "save or die," a D&D classic.
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  4383. race isn't real anyway. to be clear, genetics are indeed real, but "race" is a pseudoscience term from the 19th century, and terms like "white" and "black" do not even really match up to any definitive ethnic groups. they are political constructs made to divide us here in America in the post civil war era
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  4384. ​ @Shifsabre  That's just naive thinking. If you walk across the street when it's not clear and expect the idiot operating the 2 ton lethal weapon to stop for you, don't, it's a bad idea. In his situation though I absolutely would have jaywalked, that's just silly.
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  4385. "Bitch, you knew I was a snake"
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  4386.  @LeoBeastmode  I'm sure you support the egging of houses that have no candy left to give too. "trick" or treat, just a bit of mischief, right? Hmm, I wonder what could have caused all the candy to be gone? It couldn't possibly have been another idiot like yourself who took all the candy before you, could it?
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  4387.  @LeoBeastmode  You... you do realize some people have to work on Halloween, and they also have their own kids to take care of. Right? Fuck me, it's hard to imagine being this close-minded...
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  4388. Magic tournaments are all officially sanctioned. If WotC doesn't like you, you can't play at the tournaments. If you're a card shop and you want to sell Magic cards, the biggest moneymaker in TCGs, they better not catch you hosting unofficial tournaments. I know a guy who was legit banned from all Magic tournaments because he has a Donald Trump playmat and he went against a tranny. Wish I were making this up. It was simply a mat with a flattering photo of Trump, during his presidency. He was banned for displaying a photo of the currently sitting president. This is the world we live in now.
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  4389. ​ @vNightSuNv his character in the Eric Nylund books is much more compelling imo
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  4390. They're all idiots who think they're going to be the ones to make out with the rugpull like she did.
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  4391. @happyjohn354  I wasn't referring to their ideology, please read up on some statistics like how many jobs are created per month and how many people cross the border in that same month.
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  4392. ​ @RafitoOoO he never worked with the harpy, he talked to her at a party once. that was it
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  4393.  @l_ifeefi_l1998  Gee, yeah, it's almost as dishonorable as hitting a pregnant lady... and by almost I mean not even close.
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  4394.  @helios2664  There are in fact those who treat science as a dogma, and they are indeed insufferable. That's the really frustrating part about poisoned wells; there is a kernel of truth in there, so it's up to the taster to decide how good the water is. As usual, it's up to the individual in question to determine the content of their own character. There are too many people who believe that they can take an easy route to the high ground to eliminate this problem forever. In the case of the dogmatic Christians, a moral high ground, and in the case of "Reddit Atheists" as I prefer to call them, an intellectual high ground. In reality, there is a strong argument for morality stemming from evolutionary psychology, and it would be remiss of any so-called "intellectual" to not show gratitude to the countless Christians that preserved and studied science before them.
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  4395. ​ @stuckpencil2509 This is literally the definition of 2nd degree murder or hot blooded murder. Don't be a clown.
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  4396. That reminds me of "The Mystery of Who Shit My Pants" on the Wizards with Guns channel
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  4397.  @Reiman33  No, only fart-sniffing "academics" have that bias.
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  4398.  @treyhubbard5838  That's my point exactly. They use guns when they're not in power to take power, but they either don't understand that a righteous cause should always be able to defend itself, or they are cynically taking advantage of others to take power. So they then remove the ability for others to take power, thinking that they will never become corrupt (or they are already corrupt anyway)
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  4399. That will happen when you lay off all your employees and then force them to train their cheap replacements or else lose severance
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  4400.  @mattschrader5047  What are you babbling about? That's literally what I was talking about. Are you agreeing with me angrily?
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  4401.  @mattschrader5047  Okay. Sometimes people misinterpret what I say and try to start an argument. I thought you meant I was accusing the OP of projection and agreeing with the other guy.
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  4402.  @daviejz6698  Even without taking insurance premiums into account, stores will install anti-theft measures like cages on shelves. This costs money. The cost is passed on to the consumer.
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  4403.  @rampage222555  correction, it's where all the "game journos" like her go to talk to game devs that want to push "the message" and they all circle jerk each other pretending they are super fucking cool because they have insider access to awful people that nobody else cares about.
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  4404.  @andytlwang  they honestly need to threaten a lawsuit for libel. they literally did not try to talk to anyone from the studio or conduct any good faith research, i think it would be a slam dunk case and they would likely pull the article immediately.
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  4405. Ah yes because spontaneous murder is a common thing that men do all the time that they do simply because they're men. I love gender wars.
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  4406. @jormungand72 You do realize not every range checks every gun you bring on to said range?
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  4407.  @mvpd88  What a deep and insightful rebuttal.
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  4408.  @mvpd88  Seems like you're the one here seeking attention with that vacuous reply.
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  4409.  @suncarus897  humans have diverged a lot since they came to be in Africa.
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  4410. If only there was some way to write down what you intend to do so that it doesn't change...
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  4411. That's European monarchy for you. It's a total mess, and why America was hesitant to join in both World Wars.
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  4412.  @MixMeister5000  Yeah, posting a YouTube comment is truly the high water mark for commitment and obsession.
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  4413. "Manslaughter?" Huh, I didn't know it was possible to accidentally stab someone to death after going into your house to get two knives.
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  4414. "Black national anthem" doesn't even make sense from the start. Black is an ethnicity and nationality is separate from that. What is a black nation? Which nation?
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  4415. Don't cut off the nose to spite the face.
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  4416.  @katraapplesauce1203  Who gives a fuck? People don't care about cheaters. As long as your ratio of cheaters to non-cheaters is low enough, people simply aren't going to care. PoE is still taken seriously even though duplication glitches apparently exist in that game. Hell, even D2 is still taken seriously. You completely missed the point of my last post. If your anti-cheating or anti-piracy method inconveniences legit players, who are the overwhelming majority, it sucks. Period. Don't cut off the nose to spite the face.
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  4417. Depends on what you think of as "better." From a perspective of character, ignoring it is arguably better in this case. The dude looks like a massive coward here. He's one of the biggest creators on YouTube and he quit all of his productions over a single bad take. By default, ignoring controversy like this is always the correct move for any media personality. Adjust for the future and move on. Maybe realize that debating randos over hot button political topics is not at all worth your time. Expecting someone to instantly change their position upon receiving pushback, even if it is wrong and stupid, is always unrealistic. I never expect that.
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  4418.  @vladthedragon8250  True, but I'm wagering that Charlie here has a trans friend that he's afraid of offending. He doesn't take strong stances on any other political issues that I know of.
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  4419.  @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs  the funny thing is, by strict definition, Orks are agender, aromantic and asexual but they're not allergic to fun so they'll never catch on among the tourism industry, so to speak
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  4420. throws off silken sheets Now, wait just a minute puts on gold-studded shoes Listen here buddy turns diamond-bedazzled door handle You can't just start-- has wait staff brush his teeth after a caviar breakfast --manipulating the market like that! finishes submitting a fluff piece that forwards his investment agenda to a media outlet he bribed last week It's just not fair!
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  4421. The world will end up a technocratic and corpocratic hell hole if this sort of thing becomes the norm. You'll drive to work on the General Electric (tm) Tollway, of course paying the compulsory $5 toll automatically via tag, then show up to work at the Amazon Arcology powered by BlackRock. That's short for architectural ecology because it's basically a massive indoor colony owned entirely by a corporation. You will be safe there and work for Amazon your entire life. Millions of people will wallow in slum cities outside the corporate controlled areas but no one will care.
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  4422.  @richardcranium3579  I was thinking more the lines of Snow Crash, if you've read that novel, or Shadowrun. Effectively, AN-CAP balkanization of the United States with a puppet government that exists mostly to arbitrate disagreements between corporations. But I believe it starts with the buildup of private corporate security forces.
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  4423.  @TJXD  If you were there, the city would be burning down around you, and you think martial law is an unreasonable stance? Most countries activate martial law for less.
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  4424. Sounds like a bad porno. "Angry latina watches as bf cheats on her with stepmom"
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  4425.  @czaXone  There's a couple of reasons, first of all on a grand scale it's lifted directly from KGB psychological warfare tactics which in turn derives from Marxist revolutionary tactics. Eliminate the nuclear family at all costs is one of the primary goals. In fact the term "nuclear family" is evidence of how well it has worked. We now have a special term for something that in the past was taken for granted as normal. Overall it makes everyone more divided and less happy. A divided populace is easy to control because they can be manipulated into fighting enemies that are not real. See also, Yugoslavia. Secondly, by convincing someone that they need expensive cosmetic surgery and hormone pill treatments they are now set to give pharmaceutical companies and cosmetic surgeons their money for life. This is important for the people who donate money to your NGOs that then fund these trans activist initiatives, who are those same companies and surgeons. Thirdly, by placing someone in an position of weakness, you can then put on a different mask and pretend to be their savior. This is an extremely old manipulation tactic used in cults (including a certain very big cult that says you are evil due to reasons beyond your control, but it's OK as long as you give us money and pray to our savior) since time immemorial and a huge one used by the Democratic political party in the US. I don't particularly like either political party but I really can't help but notice that throughout history Democrats have REALLY leaned on this one. If you got off an immigration boat in the 19th century there would be a Democrat there saying "Hey buddy are you looking for a house? A job? It can all be yours as long as you vote for me." Back then they didn't need to artificially create victims because there were more than enough. Now they increase welfare just so the recipients can advocate for even more government assistance and never understand why they aren't successful on their own.
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  4426.  @Justhppy2behere  The problem is they need to be treated, not represented
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  4427.  @CCC303THIZZ  The issue that was touched on in this story is much bigger than skin color actually. He said the law doesn't differentiate between negligence and intentional killing. That's absurd and would affect people of all types. I don't know if that is exclusive to Colorado, but I was pretty sure most other states have "vehicular manslaughter" charges for negligence, and anything intentional is some kind of murder depending on how much you planned for it.
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  4428.  @Dhksksjjsjjs  To be fair, there are only 3 subatomic particles relevant to that question, so there's only a few answers he could have given. He didn't seem that sure of his answer until the other guy got it wrong first
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  4429.  @refugeehugsforfree4151  It isn't about "treating them as equals," that's a very abstract and subjective goal which most self-labeled egalitarians fail to achieve anyway. It's about finding a person who is actually capable of caring for children. That requires a level of intelligence, discipline and mental fortitude many people are simply lacking. The other parent also has to have some level of initiative because you simply cannot be there all the time. For example, carrying and training with a gun for self-defense and defense of your children instead of simply hoping you will be there to protect them all the time. Ideally you'd find a woman who is "equal" to you in the sense of intelligence and capability; that would make raising children easiest. I mean, think about it, if you could clone yourself and adopt a kid it would make raising that kid easier.
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  4430.  @thegeekconservative6593  booze bruh, huh huh huh huh, i just had a few beers i should be allowed to drive. seen it too many times from supposed small government conservatives, they think they should be allowed to drink and drive. why not legalize the drug that doesn't actually poison your body by consuming it?
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  4431.  @jasonarreguin1047  I think the "real" reason is that he wished for immortality or something to that effect. It's supposed to reflect his villainous personality.
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  4432.  @edwhatshisname3562  That concept exists as a stop gap for barely-civilized societies that can't police themselves. Not saying that we are exactly good at policing ourselves, but I can understand why it would be bad optics. In the wild west, and in prior societies, police just weren't numerous enough and didn't have the tools available to catch an overwhelming majority of criminals.
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  4433.  @Aisaaax  are you completely brainless or just a shill? their "obvious good" holds absolutely no weight because gold will always be available to purchase. ooooh wow, you made gold slightly more expensive because only blizzard can sell it. yes, this will obviously save the game.
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  4434. @cocokai9661  "White" is a non-scientific political label. To say nothing of "race" specifically which is also a pseudoscience. Not because genetic differences don't exist, but because it doesn't describe them accurately. A Semite and an Anglo have very little in common for example.
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  4435. ​ @Josh-wu7kz  The irony of this comment after the pandemic is staggering.
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  4436.  @BlueFlash215  They do when it comes to medical issues according to every media outlet and politician after COVID. This is the world we live in now, you should have gotten used to it after 3 years.
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  4437.  @Josh-wu7kz  If you can't see it, it's not worth explaining. Sorry. I am not a patient man.
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  4438. ​@dealwitmonster2005 It's kind of a disingenuous comparison since he and Taft are the only 2 fat presidents in our history
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  4439.  @8MoneyIzmyMission8  The rural conservatives -- the ones who actually live outside of the city and suburbs, not neocon soccer moms and boomer dads -- actually do hate cops turning up on their property. Sometimes violently. Personally I feel that Trump talking about prosecution immunity for cops was a mistake and rather tone deaf. More conservatives are waking up to the fact that police are largely incompetent. I hope he reverses course on that. The left and right in this country have more in common than they realize, but our media talking heads are really good at convincing us that we should never be in the same room together.
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  4440.  @Anti-Alphabet_Mafia  I know, it's just funny to me how if nearly any modern person said that they'd be viewed as an angsty teenager. Also, I wouldn't say that's "no reason." Truthsayers get mutilated all the time throughout history.
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  4441.  @ॐIo  Nah, the Covenant are a theocratic hierarchical empire that destroys humanity because of religious reasons. Super Earth is like 1984's IngSoc mixed with Starship Troopers. I'm fairly certain the war is an excuse for profiteering by the arms and defense contractors. That's why it is waged in such an absurdly expensive and wasteful way.
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  4442.  @andresgarza8511  Those people are from the poorest nations close to the Mediterranean. They do it for the same reason Mexicans go to the US illegally -- to not live in a shithole. The Muslim culture shock is just a massive side effect.
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  4443.  @IvySnowFillyVideos  The handler in this case was intentionally trying to get strangers to pet her dog in a ridiculous attempt at training
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  4444.  @mr.b3168  Strangers are not obligated to train your dog. I am a dog owner and I understand this. It's not complicated. My dog doesn't like kids but I'm not stupid enough to expect random people to let me train my dog on their kids.
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  4445.  @andybrown6981  Term for a black person who is a willing slave to plantation owners and works against his own kind in exchange for favor from said owners. Basically, a race traitor. It's a reference to a novel from the 19th century which had a character with that name.
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  4446.  @BeNicePlease2345  The First Amendment gives us the right to be disrespectful without being harassed by a man with a gun. You might want to find a nation with a history of monarchy instead if you don't like that.
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  4447.  @heatherdeep8367  i mean, it does kill almost any game that has a player driven market there are ways around this but to pretend there is no way to kill a PvE game with P2W mechanics is absurd
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  4448.  @peteryeeterson5766  Firstly you saying that you are "autistic" tells me shockingly little. Thanks to the expansion of the autism umbrella you could be quite a few different things. Secondly I'm not sure that you fully understand what the word heuristic means. Thirdly you oddly don't seem to realize you're contradicting yourself when you talk about pattern recognition and socializing.
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  4449.  @Bancomnin  "Troll" is a bit simplified but he is a controversy monger without any real principles or ideological stake in any of the discussion he makes. He's a slimeball. He is a "troll" in that none of his political arguments are genuine.
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  4450.  @trustmeits610pm2  If you get the cotton candy sheep pal, they're overpowered as fuck because they shed cotton candy like wool if you put them in a ranch. Cotton candy restores 5 SAN. It mitigates low SAN massively
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  4451. ​@timiertcm254 It should be as quiet as the Hush Puppy which is to say legitimately "Hollywood silent"
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  4452.  @neonachas  I made a simnel cake for Easter a couple of years ago. Turned out pretty darn good.
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  4453. Remember: The National Guard informed local police about this guy and told them he was going to "snap" and commit a mass shooting. In those exact words. They did absolutely nothing despite having a law in the books that would allow them to take action. Government are a joke, cops are a joke. Rely only on yourself and your family.
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  4454. Let's be real here, if you're 13, even 16 years old and you're seriously considering jumping some random homeless guy and stabbing him, you're probably not going to fit in to the rest of whatever society you live in.
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  4455.  @JesterMerlin  That isn't mutually exclusive to what he said. Male intelligence distribution is closer to a reverse bell curve than women's. There are more male geniuses but also way more male idiots. This is because over time men have evolved to take the risk taker role.
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  4456.  @dark3031  Right on cue. Conveniently all their crimes against the state and its people go hidden for, on average, about 40-50 years. Then all the people who lived through that time and were wronged by it are either dead or too old for anyone to care about.
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  4457. @stephenayers42 And you have been brainwashed to think that there is an entity that exists forever in the past in the present that has created our lovely, lovely world today with absolutely no problems.
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  4458. Yeah, I'm sure sheep herders have just been bored for thousands of years, and had nothing better to do.
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  4459. I use rideshare all the time and I carry. When I saw this clip, I wished I was the one in that back seat, but luckily the perp was (as most are) a coward.
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  4460. This is bullshit, the case doesn't exist as far as I can tell. There was, however, a Texas woman who successfully got her HOV violation ticket dropped because she was pregnant. Texas law actually agrees with her because in a homicide law it states that a fetus counts as a person when determining whether a crime was committed.
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  4461. They have inverse progression of intelligence. Mike got wiser as he aged, Neil got dumber. We may have crossed the point of intersection of the 2 trending lines.
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  4462.  @tooslow4065  Prohibition was a violation of the tenth amendment (unlike the Union preventing the secession of the Confederation, which was not despite what they claimed). It was ratified as an amendment itself, but that was mostly because of a very misguided and very ephemeral grassroots movement at the time. I'm not a scholar on the subject, but perhaps there were also some strings pulled to get the Temperance ball rolling. It would not be very different from politics today. Slavery was never in the long-term interest of the union and most of the framers believed that as well. Regardless of the legality of it in the moment, it was doing real, visible damage to our nation, and it was a ticking time bomb -- as it was for the Romans. The only reason the US was founded with slavery intact was purely a compromise to prevent further bloodshed at the time. You seem to put far too much stock into mob rule; what 51% of people believe at any given moment in time. If you think that's so important, perhaps you should be anti-gun rights.
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  4463. I've seen a video, not sure where it is, of some kid slamming an empty water bottle against the ground to same effect while another kid on a bicycle drives by pretending to shoot
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  4464. ​ @hentype  Yeah, make that guy feel responsible for the behavior of a complete stranger despite the fact that he can have no impact on their lives, all because they're in a similar arbitrary age bracket. I'm sure that will enact effective change.
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  4465. The frosting "hack" is just baffling to me. Why would you add sugar(?) to strawberry ice cream which is already sweet? And why would you buy expensive ice cream to make frosting which is like two ingredients to make, plus your flavoring? Real frosting is very simple to make. The simplest is just milk and powdered sugar mixed together with a flavoring. The sugar congeals together with a tablespoon or two of milk and makes a paste you can spread.
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  4466. ​ @FrancoJules My experience with bullies is purely getting harassed for my vision or because I had better grades than the bully in question, so I have a hard time empathizing with clowns like you who claim with no evidence, no study and no expertise that bullies do anything good for society. Maybe don't take Sam Hyde comedy skits so seriously.
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  4467. Steam discussions are an absolute cesspool. I remember when Pathfinder: Kingmaker first came out and had a bug that prevented saving on the native Linux client. I was running it on Linux at the time and half the people in those threads replied just to say, in so many words, "fuck off Linux users."
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  4468. Not sure if you're aware but they're already doing MTX on D&D Beyond, their online storefront/service. I'm quite sure it's going to be stuff like "buy the new Bard class, only $9.99"
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  4469.  @Daktyl198  You "literally" ignored part of my post so you could win an argument online. Read it again. No, you are wrong, it is not complete, people with far more hours than you and flattering opinions like CohhCarnage agree that it is unfinished.
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  4470. Nobody remembers that it was at least mildly controversial when Biden picked Harris as the VP, because she polled so fucking poorly in the primary. It was clearly a DEI pick
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  4471.  @JamesJonahJameson-cp6xr  Who you talking to buddy?
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  4472. Theres a problem with the refund strategy. The Chinese companies that make these products must, ostensibly, return the product to the place where they were manufactured from -- back overseas. This, as you might imagine, is expensive and would likely make the cost of selling the product not worth it. But they've come up with a solution -- forward the returned items to a completely random address domestically. There have been news stories about this. Many are so lazy that they won't even use a random address for each item and hundreds of garbage items pile up at a hapless person's home. Chinese companies exist to put out nothing but trash it seems.
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  4473. Uh, this isn't filmed in front of a live audience, it's just three guys (one of whom almost never talks) in a studio room shooting the shit. I can't really see myself getting the stutters and spilling my goddamned spaghetti all over the floor. I personally do find it annoying when someone tries to finish my sentences all the time without actually knowing me and I always try to shut up and let someone else finish what they were saying.
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  4474.  @tyler6971  Do you shit bricks in this comment section? This comment section is just as available to the public as the podcast. Everything you say could be read by anyone with access to the internet. Why aren't you embarrassed?
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  4475.  @tyler6971  How's that? The exposure's the same. Now, if the audience was in the same room as me, don't get me wrong, I'd be shitting bricks. But some jackoffs thousands of miles away that I will never meet in person? Who cares.
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  4476.  @tyler6971  OK, see now we're getting into the nitty gritty, and I have to ask whether you originally meant "Hosting a podcast/stream" versus "appearing on a podcast/stream." If I were to appear a couple times on a podcast, I wouldn't really give a shit. If I were the host, obviously I would care more, depending on whether or not it was my livelihood. But I would probably never host a podcast, because I prefer to engage in a more direct discussion like this one, and I feel like broadcasting it is a bit narcissistic. "How is that any difference from an audience that isn't in the room?" Eh, you can't be made immediately accountable for the things you say? Seems kinda obvious to me. Also, if it's a live audience, they're more likely to be local people, which means you might meet them again in the future.
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  4477.  @smalltowns374  My point is really that I don't think Patton wasn't in a position to truly know all the bits and pieces of who was behind the Bolshevik movement, who was behind the American psy-ops division that worked with the Soviets to falsify concentration camp evidence, etc. And if he was, well, that's why his Jeep crashed.
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  4478.  @smalltowns374  Sure, but we're talking about what Patton said here. Patton wasn't omniscient. That said, he did apparently know too much, anyway.
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  4479.  @swirlingstrong1212  Yes. And as we all know, courts are never corrupt. Good little statist. Here, have a welfare coupon.
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  4480.  @joshuapratt3593  You're trying to argue with someone who already agrees with you.
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  4481.  @swirlingstrong1212  Indeed, like the Jan 6th protestors. Glad we're in agreement. Have a nice day.
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  4482.  @dadofducks  You have cause and effect backwards. A person who has a functional life has no need, or time, for heroin. But they almost certainly drink alcohol -- you know, that drug everyone does that magically does not persuade functional people everywhere to become heroin addicts somehow. Hmm, total mystery there. By the same logic marijuana, or any other physically un-addictive drug, does not persuade anyone to become opioid drug addicts. The person who becomes a heroin addict was already a wreck to begin with, and they were looking for an exit to escape some trauma or terrible feelings in their life. Or worse, they were prescribed a certain addictive drug by their doctor and are unable to wean themselves off it, like morphine. But those drugs are legal so they're okay, right?
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  4483. 2:03 Holy shit, it's Thousand Needles!
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  4484. That's incredible, if true. The qualification test for a license to carry in Texas used to be (before it became constitutional carry) 10 hits within a man sized silhouette at 7 yards, if I remember correctly (I can't remember how many rounds were fired or the exact hit ratio, but the point being it was many more hits than you described at a longer range). Those cops wouldn't have passed a basic civilian qualification test to carry a firearm. Meanwhile the instructor said that one man passed who was legally blind.
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  4485. Meanwhile, actual aliens: "bro, chemical rockets are cringe"
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  4486. Your friend needs to stop kidding himself and get a new job rather than trying to climb up the rope as the fire gets higher and higher. Lay-offs are very often the result of very bad decisions beyond the control of the employees.
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  4487.  @yassassin6425  Sadly it's not an online conspiracy theory. The moon landing hoax theory has been around for a long time and it has remained completely unchanged. It's very sad that there are still people who believe in it.
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  4488.  @Serkong  It was a lot more epic in Knights of the Old Republic when you went a very significant portion of the game without a lightsaber, and then finally loot one from an assassin team sent to kill you and it was miles better than anything you could get to that point. Also you could customize it with different effects and color crystals
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  4489. I mean I got it from the context of the video, but when I was a kid the thought never even crossed me or my parents mind.
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  4490. Those clips do get uploaded, but sometimes it takes a while before someone realizes it would be worth uploading, or it comes out in some other way like the news station getting a YouTube channel and then uploading the clip without thinking about it.
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  4491.  @solomonkane1712  This mentality is pure idiocy. If you are living in a society and there are many stupid people in it who vote on stupid things (that's every society with an electoral system by the way) you're going to allow society to collapse just to spite stupid people? Give me a break. Those stupid people will always be there, generation after generation. Your point is falling on deaf ears.
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  4492. I don't think hand grenades will go away. The ability to bounce and roll is very useful in some scenarios like clearing a building. Using a grenade launcher indoors is also impractical.
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  4493. ​ @dablazarus7303 if he's so dumb, why is he one of the most powerful men in the world while you faff about making smarmy YouTube comments
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  4494. It's ridiculous even to me as a layman. But of course that made me anti-science. Until recently when a plurality of doctors agreed.
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  4495.  H. M. d' Faustine  How is any of what you just said relevant at all to my post?
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  4496.  H. M. d' Faustine  Hey buddy, do me a favor and only tag me in replies when you're back on your medication.
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  4497. It actually takes some practice. If you keep doing it, you'll eventually get it. You have to be an annoying and stubborn kid to learn to whistle, like I was.
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  4498. 4chan hasn't been worth using since 2014. It REALLY went off the deep end when Moot sold the site.
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  4499.  @JGD714  That money wouldn't really go towards him, it would go towards the lawyer.
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  4500.  @SirPlusOfCamelot  Most of these techniques are just turbo-moronic in the grand scheme of things though. Especially in the US, where it is legal to carry some form of weapon in every state. Even if it weren't legal, I'd rather make pepper spray illegally (using real peppers and water and a squirt bottle) than perform these techniques. The problem with teaching these techniques is that you give the people studying them a false sense of hope that they will be able to defend themselves in these situations, using only these techniques. Especially in the way he typically edits videos and posts shorts. He is also extremely aggressive in assuming that a criminal with a gun will break down the moment you show resistance. That may be true a majority of the time, but the problem is when you're dealing with lethal weapons, you only need to fuck up one time for it to matter. There is a not-insignificant portion of criminals, especially career criminals, who are either insane or they've been doing what they do for so long that they're sick of jail and will do anything not to go back while also continuing to do what they know best. These are the types of guys who draw guns from their waistbands, with 2 or more cops looking directly at them, and get shot (but maybe shoot a cop in the process). I've seen security footage of guys who rob a convenience store with a gun and shoot the employees after they're done robbing, just because they could. These are not rational people and you can't just assume that they will be rational when your life is at stake.
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  4501.  @mkultra8244  "warm" is very subjective, it is kept at cellar temperature which is around 55 degrees or so. And, it is not really their first port of call... any German with fridge space will store beers there, but sadly they do not have enough fridge space to accommodate their typical beer drinking session... I'm of Bavarian descent. You won't ever get served warm beer at a bar or restaurant either
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  4502. ​ @gigacream5830 As long as you don't come here and vote blue no one really cares
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  4503. ​​ @wekkimeif7720 Yeah it's super easy and convenient to have a peaceful society when you're a land filled with a thousand frozen lakes and nobody foreign with differing beliefs or culture wants to move there. Just saying it like it is. You foreigners look really dumb when you simply don't account for how American society has formed and grown, not to mention how our policies compare to yours. We have easily the most lax immigration policy of any first world nation, perhaps even the world, but we're definitely also the most racist and discriminatory country on the planet, right? Enjoy your winter wonderland full of white people though. Trust me, we're jealous.
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  4504.  @chrisperry4014  it's not realistic for the qunari companion to act like a petulant child when one of her companions notices that she's wearing something, unless you like traveling with mentally stunted people
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  4505.  @DertekN  it's not going to work, I'm not going to give EA money, sorry pal
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  4506.  @josephl9931  what are you, an insect? lmao imagine dying because of alcohol, only animals without chad human livers would do that
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  4507.  @wwiiinplastic4712  It's also a massive waste of time. From what I understand the biggest sin Rings of Power commits is being boring. So why watch it?
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  4508.  @VulcanP90  It's going to be an oof from only about half the US population unfortunately
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  4509. I've seen weekly murder and shooting counts for Chicago posted on news sites that don't lean left... It's very sad, but nobody cares, least of all the politicians elected by those who host and watch The View.
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  4510. He was friendly on the surface, he had his opinions reserved. I believe he thought Goebbels was a degenerate because of his constant sex pest scandals, hated Goering because he was fat, and he thought all the LARPers practicing Germanic paganism were stupid.
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  4511. Guaranteed they are playing it to see how bad it is and they will hopefully upload YouTube videos about all the cringiest moments.
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  4512. @Jiggly Jack The serial killer with the highest body count was actually a British doctor who prescribed lethal amounts of drugs to senior citizens intentionally so they would pass away. His body count was over 200. Real serial killer or "just helping them along?" A child could, by happenstance, be run over tomorrow. But if you shot that child today you'd still be a child murderer.
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  4513.  @danika9411  Mecca isn't in Palestine, though. I'm confused by why you bring it up.
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  4514. Yeah, and we should also add clauses that women shouldn't be shown driving on stream... how far are we willing to go to appease sixth century primitives exactly?
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  4515.  @Highwynd  What argument? I was asserting that pandering to fundamentalist Muslims is bad for business and only leads to more pandering. You can go ahead and call me a bigot now, but our cultural mores are incompatible, and pandering is shit.
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  4516.  @minniemoe4797  Have you considered moving? It's a bit tragic what's happening to small town America, but you have to do what you have to do.
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  4517. ​ @Lazer-yi6qg  This "uhhh you wouldn't do it if you were there!!" bullshit doesn't work man. It's hard to believe that people like you believe this unironically. I pay those taxes specifically so I don't have to do this. If cops aren't going to do their job when a civilian is in danger of being shot, then fuck it -- just get rid of them, save us some tax money and train everyone on proper carry, shooting and 2A law. Go back to wild west mode. I try to do these things anyway, because I am aware of these problems, but it isn't reassuring when I see stuff like this.
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  4518. This seems like a hangover cure to me. Lots of filling food stuffs plus a little alcohol to take the edge off on the morning after.
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  4519. Because in the old days the only people who could vote were property owners and you paid that tax in exchange for the power to vote
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  4520.  @iamthewizardwhoknocks2845  Strong words from someone who gets their news from their fucking grandma. "Corporate" media is the only source of truth available. You have to cast a wide net, collect a lot of info, and sort it out yourself. Anything else is just being lazy.
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  4521.  @DRKrust492  You're stating that martial law should be the standard, then? Law as it was enforced during the Civil War? You're aware that Lincoln, the "good guy" in this war, suspended habeus corpus? And that he printed government currency during it? Boy oh boy, believe you me, the Fed isn't going to like that. Ask JFK what happens when you mess with the Fed. Man, I get that you guys don't like Paid-For Presidential Candidate #2, but you really need to get your heads out of your ass and think about the long term.
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  4522.  @adamelam6385  WW1 was particularly bad as far as wars that result from the coincidence of circumstances and stupid decisionmaking go.
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  4523. No, worse. He is the black Bill Nye. Dude peddles in non-science.
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  4524. @TransCube The ancient Greeks, among others, figured out the Earth was round and even got a really good estimate as to its circumference using the stars and mathematics. If they can figure it out then the government can't hide it.
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  4525.  @Mattfreeman89  ah yes the classic "i've been caught being a moron red-handed so now i'll pretend to be tough on a medium where no one could possibly feel threatened" never fails, except for 100% of the time
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  4526.  @TheDancerMacabre  That's not "corruption" strictly speaking. It's just giving grey market incentives for someone to do their job faster. When you have something like a defense contractor bribing officers to approve purchases for their shittier, cheaply made equipment, that's a real problem.
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  4527. Call me naive, but who withdraws a giant bag full of cash in the first place? People have this unreasonable idea that money is more secure when it's in cash form. Or that mail is more secure when it is in paper form and has to go through the hands of a dozen postal workers, any one of whom could screw up. The truth is digital is more secure by a long shot. If your credit card gets stolen, all it takes is a phone call and the problem is solved at no cost to you.
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  4528.  @TheFreakonhell  it's only that fast because it was specifically designed to make the QPU look good. google is a company, they are doing this for marketing purposes. they greatly exaggerate the capabilities of their their own products all the time
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  4529.  @elidadlr5177  That's what training is for. There's a reason why soldiers can fight a war without running away every single time because that's what their instincts would tell them. Every one who has been to a gun range with walls has been in this situation, likely multiple times. It's just not that painful or crazy to keep your head when brass falls in your shirt.
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  4530. The fact that the hate-watchers didn't even have the decency to sail the seven seas... they willingly paid to be disappointed. Makes me sad.
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  4531. ​ @bachtomin213  The Doom pistol is actually a (chunky) Beretta 92.
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  4532. Reminds me of the iceman, imagine being so unlucky that some guys from another tribe ambushed you while you were out foraging, and you managed to get away only to bleed to death slowly in a cave while trying to treat your wounds and freezing. But hey at least your whole body was so thoroughly frozen that scientists from many thousands of years later can recognize your corpse
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  4533.  @ponternal  Depression is a sickness in the brain that can be objectively measured with chemistry. So yeah, it's real.
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  4534. Why the pretense? Just deliver capital punishment at that point. Why do we have to go through the pretense of having wasted an entire person's life while allowing them to live off the government teat?
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  4535. ​ @KrucialKenn- how does one select peers for a foreign national? do you even know what that concept means?
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  4536.  @DrPlans  I think you can skip the entire grove plot, because Halsin just tells you what you can learn from the cultists if you infiltrate them yourself, and it sounds like you never even saw the Underdark. there are multiple exits to Act 2, one in the Underdark, and none of them depend on you saving the refugees, the druids, or killing the goblins
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  4537.  @Bursty55  "8 or 8.5" is an extremely high rating for "the entire combat system is boring." you're just being a contrarian
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  4538. It sounded like you said "I'm your hosed, Louis Rossman" which I'm not sure wasn't intentional since we are indeed, getting hosed.
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  4539.  @caroqt  You would never understand because you're not a man, but they're effectively abusing a cheat code in real life. Men have hard wiring that causes them to be aroused when they see this. It short circuits most of the higher parts of the brain. It requires a lot of discipline and conditioning to stop one's self, conditioning that is not present in young and adolescent minds. But I'm sure you don't care.
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  4540.  @SuPeRfRoG99G  *game that charges 70 bucks + MTX from one of the biggest studios in the industry fixed that for ya pal ;)
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  4541. "it's a sentient meatball, brother" well, the canonical name is "flesh" so close enough...
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  4542. If it were an outlet that wasn't also trying to get in the good graces of publishers so they could get access to previews, I'd agree. This is the type of news I'd expect to see on an underground forum for emulation.
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  4543.  @rightcliquegod7653  I'd like to know which romantic relationships you've been in that allow you to be totally transparent or "truly who you are." You are a very lucky individual if that is the case. Almost every relationship I've ever seen is about compromise, which is by definition doing something you don't want in order to please another party. Male bonding is usually specifically about being "who you are" with very little if any judgment.
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  4544. More likely, a drill sergeant who was conspicuously looking at something else while this happened and has no official recollection of the event.
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  4545.  @givmi_more_w9251  Only having 24 men ahead of her in that race is actually catching up by a huge margin. I don't know how many men there were in total for the event described, but when you compare rankings of biological sex, men tend to surpass the #1 woman even if they're ranked hundreds below the male champion in other sports.
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  4546.  @eliasfigarzon9813  The thing that annoys me the most is that people forget about the Witcher 1 and 2. Witcher 1 was mostly just an "OK" game with some flaws, and had a completely different combat system, engine and camera from the newer games. Witcher 2 is similar to Witcher 3 in terms of combat and camera and is a pretty good game, but is not truly an open world and is more like Deus Ex with "hubs" that are separate from each other. The dev teams changed a lot between each of these 3 games.
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  4547. There are a ton of competitors. Forgive me for saying this, but ignorant people like you just don't bother looking for them. The level of naivete is staggering. What you really want is a place that your friends tell you is cool, meaning a place that is already popular. That doesn't "just happen" overnight, you have to put in a small amount of effort and look for a place to make it popular over a long period of time. This kind of mentality is what led the "protesters" to go back to Reddit in the first place; you're no better than they are.
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  4548. This video: "The man is a wonderful hero ❤" The man: "I really don't want to have to pull a frozen deer corpse out of my pond later"
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  4549. Bruh, colored people aren't the only ones who should be scared of cops. I'm white as snow and I believe in avoiding police involvement in almost all situations. You don't want some guy with a gun who's playing telephone trying to figure out what's going on with a dispatcher possibly giving him false information to show up and try to analyze the scene for you if you can just settle the dispute like goddamned human beings.
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  4550. Not only that, it was originally complimentary. Winnie the Pooh radiates Taoist energy. But Xi was a massive moron and thought he was being called fat.
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  4551. Bruh, Mexico is directly adjacent to our country, and cartels don't legally recognize borders or care about diplomacy between the Mexican and US governments. It has nothing to do with "another country," it's a gang of criminals that Mexico is unable to do anything about that affects our nation.
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  4552. Most awkward moment of my career was after a tech convention, I and my team went our separate ways to go home. An older Chinese gentleman was the only guy who went to take the train with me. He had been with the company for 13 years. As we stood waiting, he said something like "Those Indians are a real threat to this company. They get in manager positions and only promote other Indians." I happen to think he's correct, but I was still surprised he thought that I was okay to tell that to without any context at all.
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  4553.  @AmonAnon-vw3hr  It's not made up, but it IS an old and outdated way of classifying human genetics from the 19th century. Most of what we now refer to as race, is actually ethnicity. It's a muddy distinction but they are different.
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  4554.  @Miranox2  Eh, not really, if someone has it in their mind that they deserve to have sex with other people then that's a seed planted in their mind that can only be removed by fundamentally changing how they think about themselves. They are likely very self-centered or not as interested in a long term relationship as they thought they were. Most people aren't therapists and can't move such a mountain. They will likely go behind your back to get what they want if they are that self-centered. Because who really cares about your feelings anyway?
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  4555.  @okfatima  You nailed it. The internet is so convenient that it doesn't really cost you anything to click on this video. The algorithms that Google designed for this site have prioritized videos like this. They don't require any real engagement to be able to understand or relate to, so anyone can watch them. No offense to the uploader, he's obviously very good at speaking Chinese, but think about it in the bigger picture: who cares? You aren't going to ever see a news article titled "White Dude Eats Food, Speaks Chinese." Unless maybe they're a Hollywood celeb, but that's another story...
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  4556.  @johntatman9168  And yet, a single open carry guy in the class room would have done more than those cops did before the feds showed up. Hard to imagine how you don't see that here. It's hard when your law enforcement agency is bound by bad decisions made by their superiors. Private citizens aren't bound by such a command structure. If anything your statement shows that more private citizens should carry because the police are likely to stand there and do nothing, as they did here. How am I supposed to have enough confidence to give away my peace of mind and protection when the police act like this? Have some awareness for the situation here.
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  4557.  @theguythatdoesstuff1004  arkancide
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  4558.  @jayrawd  Uh, yeah, like nobody ever figures out code words.
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  4559.  @SlothinAintEasy  people literally ate each other when they discovered the New World too, it has little to do with the reasons behind the war and everything to do with very poor logistics
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  4560. When you break traffic laws you're running the risk of getting a ticket. Many cops will let you off with a warning. She got unlucky, or more likely, she might have been rude to the cop before the clip started in this video (many cops unfortunately aren't that fair-minded and will decide to ticket you based on how you act during the stop). What she was about to sign wasn't even an agreement to pay the ticket, it was simply a subpoena agreeing that she or a lawyer would show up in court to contest the ticket. Refusing to sign this is quite unreasonable. If she is 60+ years old and this incredibly stubborn, she should at least know how to deal with police a little bit better. Seems likely to me that she didn't even have plans to fix her tail light. Now, it is sad that this guy resorted to using a taser because he was mad about being kicked by an old lady. But she deserved her arrest.
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  4561.  @springwoodslasher79  I would say there is only one semi-valid reason for female cops to exist and that is in situations where the gender relation between the perp and the cop matters, but that is mostly for the sake of the department's reputation (i.e. male cops getting accused of sexual assault) not for the actual safety of anyone involved
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  4562. Yes, no one can enjoy things unironically, everything is a farce for the purpose of posting on social media Kill me and nuke society
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  4563. Lol, in Squad you'd just go flying and stand up totally fine with no injuries because it was a friendly vehicle
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  4564.  @1232-e7b  It doesn't matter, she shouldn't be given a free pass for ruining someone's life. If they get punished, awareness will be raised, and competent parents will teach their teenage children that even if they want to have sex, they should never lie about their age. We have juvenile prison for a reason. It's especially problematic for girls because girls naturally grow up faster than men. This isn't news to anyone. It's easier for a teenage girl to lie and pass as 18 than it is for a typical teenage boy. Yet they rarely if ever get punished for taking advantage.
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  4565.  @cseijifja  I had to memorize all of the states and their capitals when I was in grade school as an American. I can certainly identify any state, I wouldn't remember all of the capitals though. The questions about state panhandles were the only ones I could have gotten correct if I were in that quiz show. Although to be honest, I've never heard of anyone refer to Idaho's panhandle as a "chimney" and Texas also has a vertical panhandle, but I was thinking Idaho before he said it.
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  4566.  @VenturiLife  I haven't seen the whole video so I don't really know, but my point was that his pattern of behavior over several months led him to the point where random people will punch him on the street.
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  4567.  @pilot8220  Give the phone back to your mom, sweetie
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  4568. Is it weird that I'm jealous of the cat's wind tunnel hideout?
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  4569.  @ronblack7870  Ah yes, make the parasites even more parasitic by providing them with free food and lodging, courtesy of your tax dollars. On top of that, destroy any chance they have at not being a parasite by making them ineligible for all but the worst employment. Brilliant idea.
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  4570. Because she's not really out to "save humanity." I thought that was clear from the story. She's using humanity as a pawn to take over Sanctuary. It's not a particularly good story but "WHY DO WE KILL LILITH" is a dumb question since it is mentioned explicitly in the story.
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  4571. @bullettime1116  wow, an entertainer who isn't entertaining won't succeed? never would have guessed. I said "ugly" not "boring"
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  4572. Weird to paint an athlete as a victim because they get challenged by other athletes in their youth. That's kinda the whole point of being an athlete.
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  4573. ​ @RobbieStacks90  I also don't think of a pathetic clown who yells on stage about how cool he is for going to prison. The dude is the human equivalent of the neighbors chihuahua that won't stop barking at everything
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  4574.  @mountainmonstergaming6280  He was also obsessed with the Aryan people of the Indus valley for some reason, a culture almost totally unrelated to his, so it makes sense that he chose that symbol because it's close to Hindus and Indian culture in general.
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  4575.  @cb7846  Depends on where you come from. There are many nations and cultures that were not shaped by WW2, or live constantly in its shadow, and they don't particularly care.
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  4576. @slynt_  They are very far removed. Consider if I started a political or identitarian movement in England about how "we wuz Vikings" due to the settlement by the Danes and the eventual creation of the Danelaw. I would look like an idiot. That would logically mean that someone claiming that a subset of Europeans are Aryans is a bigger idiot. They were Aryans, thousands of years ago. That time has passed and to suggest that people don't change in that time is blatantly unscientific. Indeed, I would argue that they change more rapidly in Europe due to the existence of different environments and climates in close proximity, and frequent wars.
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  4577.  @pvanukoff  The Bud Light one did something.
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  4578.  @2killzore  Bethesda games haven't been designed in the way you describe since Fallout 3. I'd have to be extremely gullible to believe any of that essay you wrote.
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  4579. @2killzore  Why would I buy a newly released AAA game that looks to the same as the last 3 or 4 Bethesda games? That's just stupid consumerism.
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  4580. It's only surprising if you still get your news from old guard media outlets. Use independent media, use aggregators like Ground News.
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  4581.  @TitusMH  And yet, somehow, "doing nothing" was still better than the 4 years we had during Biden. You can use stupid emojis and make baseless declarations all you want. The figures are very obvious and very different.
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  4582.  @w.ryannn  "i find it crazy that majority of americans just care about more money in their pockets over the rights of their neighbors" Really? Let's break it down politically. Democrats want to appeal to the disadvantaged. How do they do so? By "promising" them rights. Promises which may or may not come to pass once they are in office. Rights are difficult to change in legislation. At best, they will promise you a welfare check. Something that, in the long term, increases prices, thus negating the point of the check entirely. Mass immigration compressing wages does not help either. The taxes they impose overwhelmingly affect the middle class more than anyone else, not the rich. I don't particularly pledge allegiance to one party or the other, but I'm approaching this strategically. You can't appeal to financially struggling people by promising them abstract rights. They need money to stop struggling. And that money has to be earned by themselves, because they can never be sure when the government teat will stop providing milk. Lower taxes, which is usually the Republican platform, is the only thing that can provide this because it allows businesses to grow. As Bill Clinton said, probably the smartest thing he ever uttered: "It's the economy, stupid." Tariffs seem bad in the short term but in the long term it will allow local business to flourish because we will not outsource their products to China. At the same time it hurts one of our biggest rivals in the world, actively working to undermine us by buying our real estate among other things.
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  4583.  @patrickwhite4449  It doesn't lose money? That's kind of significant for the people paying into the company. i.e., the people who actually matter in this debate.
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  4584.  @spuzzdawg  And how many of your YouTube comments launched a rocket or became the most valued auto company on the planet? It's always the same shit with Trump, too. "His businesses failed!" No shit? Most people who are successful get there by failing. You only need one or a few successful businesses to be set for life. This criticism always comes off as spiteful, envious commentary from children who know nothing about entrepreneurship.
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  4585. He says that about every single game he works on I think. At least as far as ES is concerned. It's just bullshit to make you think he is really passionate about it.
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  4586.  @eduardomartin8510  I genuinely want to like the game but the game is completely unplayable during the Free Fly event. I get disconnected every 30-45 minutes due to a server crash, lose all my quest progress, and have to watch the intro all over again. I couldn't complete a single job. I'm sure it isn't quite this bad when the Free Fly events aren't going, but they need to not wipe your current quest progress just because a server crashed. That's not really acceptable quality of life in any game nowadays. Imagine if this happened in a game like World of Warcraft for example. Heck, even hard games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring don't actually do this -- if your game crashed, you would likely start very close to where you were last. I like the flying mechanics and I enjoy sim games, it's just that if I can't make progress, the game is obviously very difficult to enjoy. If it's even half this bad when the Free Fly event isn't happening then I don't know if I can stomach playing it. They've very much put their cart before their horse by enforcing hardcore death rules for quests before the game is technically sound.
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  4587.  @darthlaurel  funded by alimony from the man she divorced because she got bored
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  4588. @thestarisalie  Bro thinks he can teach people English through YouTube comments
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  4589. How about not eating your damn food in the car? Never understood this shit. The most I ever ate out of the bag in the car were fries that were easily reachable. We live in a fucking first world nation, you are not going to starve inbetween the time you leave the drive-thru and arrive home.
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  4590. Don't kill the spiders you clown! They'll help with the cleanup!
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  4591.  @tylerblue9691  It's not weird at all if you study even the smallest amount of military history. Rape and war go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly. It may be distasteful, but it's true, and the franchise is called Warcraft not Disagreementcraft. It's also totally in line with the Orcs/Horde strategy. They routinely enslave people, and this forced breeding is essentially enslaving a woman for the purpose of breeding.
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  4592.  @TetsuDeinonychus  I love both and it's hard for me to understand why anyone else wouldn't. Dramatic anime like Jin-Roh can be incredible. And some of the technical artistry on display is just insane.
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  4593.  @WilsonEvergreens-rv3uj  Most anything is bad, especially subjectively, in every medium. No idea why people pidgeonhole anime as being an outlier there. The amount of rancid shit that pours out of Hollywood's ass on a regular basis is no less smelly.
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  4594.  @heavenlypnk  how would you prevent a school shooting from occurring? or any freak violent crime for that matter like this bank robber running into the school. if you suggest more gun control, i'm eager to hear your grand plan to disarm roughly 150 million people, each of whom own an average of 5 guns, spread across the third largest nation in the world by land mass fun fact, for most of the 20th century many kids brought their guns to school and put them in lockers or left them in their vehicles (for shooting club or other activities afterward) yet school shootings did not become a major problem until late into the 20th century the police will not help you. remember uvalde
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  4595.  @mattt.4395  That would be rape, because I'm not gay. So yeah, it would be worse, but you're terrible at analogies.
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  4596.  @TheJackOfAllTrades777  Some states are better than others, but yes, it gets quite bad. And on top of that it also depends on the judge.
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  4597.  @mattt.4395  Dang, you got me there. Watch your back in the shower.
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  4598.  @mattt.4395  Hey, you're the one who wanted it.
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  4599.  @reddleman2  Yeah, it's not like a group of people with power have ever agreed to lie to those without before. Never happens.
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  4600.  @reddleman2  For what purpose? Knowing. Knowledge is power and allows you to make informed future decisions that will butterfly in the very impactful event that your rulers are conspiring in secret.
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  4601.  @philkasafir.  Just make your own pepper spray. It is quite literally a self-explanatory thing; find the hottest chili peppers or whatever other sort of pepper you can find, crush them in a water solution, and put it in a spray bottle. I know a guy from the lower-class parts of England, used to do a lot of drugs and get in a lot of fights. He told me about making such an improvised pepper spray, and also being sure not to escalate a fight by drawing a weapon. Another thing he said is if you're being tracked by a group of people trying to follow you home with ill intent, you have to walk at a steady pace, don't run or stand your ground.
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  4602.  @charlesjoseph70  Yeah, that way we can be just like the states which have the most cases.
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  4603. No, they're definitely AI. You can tell by some of the details, most notably the way the outfits are kinda unrefined and don't make sense (not even aesthetic sense).
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  4604.  @hegemon3  It's almost as if they're abusing primal urges hardwired into almost every male brain. I predict in the future men will have to adapt by not being aroused by anything visually. Humans always adapt, it's what we're good at. Be prepared for men to change because a sensory overload like this isn't going to be good for them in the long run
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  4605.  @jimqjordun6431  keep minimizing about half the nation, it will definitely end well and not prolong this absurd team sports game you call "politics"
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  4606.  @fionasmith-bz8ox  By discarding your own blood over such a disagreement you are stating that one singular vote matters so much in our election process that you should disown your family over it. It is absolutely insane, there is no way you can make it look reasonable. Even if your views are extremist, it shows profound ignorance of the election process and idealism to the point of stupidity. This is how people who have nothing going on in their lives and are too lazy to get a productive hobby prevent themselves from getting bored. I've lost relations with family over much more serious personal matters. This ain't it. On top of all that, you are allowing yourself to become a stooge for a political cause. No matter if that cause is just or not, it isn't worth losing your individuality over.
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  4607. It's not, but not for the reasons you think I'll say. People like Charlie are in a position of privilege because they earn money for the platform. However, make no mistake: There is no employment contract. No protection for workers whatsoever. To them you are trash to be discarded as soon as you start to stink up the kitchen. Streaming and uploader "partnerships" are a problem because they subvert all of the labor rights our society has worked hard over the past roughly 200 years for.
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  4608. It reminds me of the start to the infamous Call of Duty mission "No Russian" except instead of civilians waiting in line at an airport, they're just zombies standing around.
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  4609. Haha, you think it's just contractors. I've been in two full-time positions where nearly the entire domestic development team was laid off with no notice. Never underestimate the stupidity of executives. To them a development team for software that already exists is just a red number that creates no tangible value.
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  4610. It looks like an extremely cliche Hollywood shit show and the costumes look horrible.
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  4611. Just play a different system. You only fail to do it if you give up.
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  4612. It's called professionalism. In the moment you have to trust the other first responders to do their job right. They were probably concerned but it's hard to imagine that the man would die because of how they strapped him in to the gurney. It's easy to realize it would be a fatal mistake with hindsight.
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  4613. One of my favorite moments was when the prosecution objected for hearsay and said "Your Honor, this article is from the Daily Mail." without any further explanation
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  4614. 2025: "Our government is scared a single foreign influence could tip the scale" 2016: "He colluded with Russia to win the election!"
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  4615. I worked full time as in-house developer for a multi-national bank for almost 3 years and when I was laid off they still treated me the same way. It isn't unique to contractors, just big companies where executives have zero trust because they don't know everyone personally.
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  4616.  @monicarenee7949  So what you're saying is, all I need to do to break into your home is to wear a high-vis. Got it.
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  4617.  @ironwolf56  Why do you play with new groups for every single campaign? That sounds incredibly exhausting and frankly, unsustainable except in the most populated of urban centers. Far more reasonable to find a group of solid players and stick with them for as long as you can.
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  4618.  @ironwolf56  You should just play online using Foundry or something. Having decent players is worth the cost of losing face-to-face interaction.
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  4619.  @ghostD0C  Governments do not have sacred power or the ability to bestow rights. At any time, a policeman could show up and demand to be let inside your home unwarranted. It has happened quite a few times here in the US, mostly because of mistaken address. Is it illegal? Sure, but he has a gun and shooting him would involve you in a messy trial, so what are you going to do? We are no more civilized than our social contracts that we agree to. If you agree to be ruled by tyrants, in your spare time and of your own free will, well I don't know what to call you except uncivilized. Or perhaps a sexual fetishist.
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  4620.  @beegyoshi6525  I like how people pretend that we lost something valuable when Twitter was bought by Elon. As if that site hadn't been worthless for years already.
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  4621. ​ @BrowncoatGofAZ How can it be twisted exactly? If you are not a murderer who plans on shooting randoms, the gun never enters your mind as you carry. Let me tell you then there are a lot of "twisted" people here in Texas.
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  4622.  @delloffthewall  Yeah, they might burn down a trashcan or a local unrelated business. You never know.
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  4623. ​ @senseixero999 no one will be there to care for you when you are old and shitting your pants with dementia
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  4624.  @shogunpug4071  BG3 being AAA at all was a shock and mostly due to the massive license and Larian's previous titles. Every previous title was basically a AA title with surprisingly good voice acting, and DOS2 was particularly successful. However, mid-budget games used to have voice acting all the time and still do if they're from Europe, which still has a lot of mid-sized studios. It's similar to how CD Projekt Red was suddenly a AAA game studio when Witcher 2 and 3 came out.
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  4625. When you're not panicking it's really important to do some cardio. It will reduce your anxiety. I know this is Asmon so he will likely not do it, but I too am a giant nerd who plays games, watches anime, etc and I was able to do it. Having a single panic attack was a great motivator to do so although I did not go to the ER. I walked like 2 miles to a restaurant and ate there while saying very little to the waitress and left her a huge tip, for some reason I felt like doing that.
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  4626. @tyco1649 Sounds to me like his mom was suicidal. But I know next to nothing of the situation, you simply undermined your own point by describing the situation.
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  4627.  @basillah7650  I disagree, that's naivete on the part of the worker. I did not look back even on the one job I regretted being laid off from.
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  4628. That's almost certainly not what they were getting at. "God is dead" is almost always a reference to Nietzsche. The Japanese are very fond of referencing him. Nietzsche's essays on the matter are not made from the perspective of an atheist coldly making a factual statement. They are made from another Christian, lamenting the fact that society no longer acknowledges God. For God to be dead, he would have had to be alive in the first place; the statement does not even make sense coming from an atheist's mouth.
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  4629. This has cursed Call of Duty: Vanguard vibes.
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  4630.  @tiii4017  It has been done as a form of mob justice, sure, but at least then there are a few dozen people who agree that the victim deserved it.
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  4631.  @CynicalSpheres  That would be a rather long and exhaustive list, wouldn't it?
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  4632.  @Heathmcdonald  The term skinhead comes from Britain and it did indeed have to do with their hair cut. It was working-class youths who used Nazi imagery to shock the public at the time, in the 1960s and 70s. The British public was always especially susceptible to it. They were not usually unironically neo-Nazis, just punks.
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  4633.  @chimyshark  Yeah, eating a turd with corn in it is still better than eating a turd. You're not making the point that you think you're making bud.
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  4634. Ah yes the classic "I read the amendment with no context and an agenda" argument, I've heard it several times from people outside the US. Easiest way to debunk is to tell them to read the bill of rights that every one of the 13 colonies had before forming the union. They all have the 2nd amendment, worded 13 different ways, and they're welcome to try and figure out how those 13 colonies all came to the conclusion that they should all give up that right that they all wanted.
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  4635.  @F4nt4zm499  Many games, especially ARPGs, recolor mobs. Dark Souls even does it. However, they don't expect you to buy a DLC or a battlepass for mostly recolored mobs.
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  4636. Most awful games journalists wish they were writing political op eds for the NYT because their opinion is so great and insightful. Dean is an exception though, he comes from an older guard of journos that reported on consumer electronics if memory serves, so he is a hobbyist, but he's just a total bleeding idiot when it comes to video games and virtually no one shares his mindset on playing them. Which makes his long career on the topic even more baffling.
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  4637. ​@truecrimes1435 leave it to a limey to get this butt hurt over semantics
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  4638. Isolation is the best adaptation of hide and seek to a video game.
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  4639. Mine would almost be that clean as my jobs all had cabinets beneath the desks, but I would have a notebook and unlike this guy I'd actually use it. I prefer notebooks to laptops for meetings, if at all possible, even though I am a developer. To put it simply a notebook's interface is more intuitive.
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  4640.  @CoquiDeBoriken  Personally I don't understand how they explain COVID being spread on cruise and military vessels crewed and patronized by only vaccinated people. I also don't understand how they could support effectively shutting down the entire world economy. The idea that this virus was more dangerous than the negative effects we're now suffering from lockdown is just absurd to me, even if you believe the high death tolls. Virtually every one in customer and food service lost their jobs. Specialty vendors, like those who provide services for concerts or other public events, folded entirely. Huge numbers of kids will now be socially stunted even more than they were by over-use of social media. All for the sake to protect a few at-risk people like the obese and the elderly who simply could have stayed home. Not every cost can be measured in death tolls. How many people will never have kids now because their lives were so badly derailed? Do they count as deaths? How many children will grow up to live difficult lives? How many relationships were broken? How many have developed mental illness that will remain in some form for their entire lives?
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  4641. Realistically you only need to be a dad for about 20 years anyway.
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  4642.  @RoadSparrow  Norm played stupid for the bit. He would do it to be funny and keep the audience off guard. If he were in this exact situation, reacting to this video like Asmon did, it probably wouldn't be funny to him to just say "I don't get it." It's kinda funny in the context of Asmon, but it would be underwhelming if Norm said it.
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  4643.  @IlRincreTeam  Norm probably wouldn't have done the same because it wouldn't really be funny. Norm probably would have prepared a joke ahead of time instead of reacting off the cuff, or he'd do this in a podcast with somebody else.
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  4644. I dunno man. You can't convince me that a guy who tells people they can pull off SAS commando moves or SEAL team moves is a "nice guy." He posts clips of these moves as if anyone could do them. It really boils down to that one moment where he said "A SEAL team guy showed me this once." Great. When's the last time one of the people who walked in on your free classes did PT? Never? Oh. Yeah. Don't tell people that they can do this shit. They're going to get themselves killed. Just carry a weapon instead if you care about your life, even if it is illegal. Or take a real martial arts class.
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  4645.  @FakeSixThree  Oh you mean you can read the mind of a criminal in the moment? Wow that's a convenient superpower to have. You'll probably change your mind on that when you see surveillance footage of a guy shooting employees at a convenience store after he already robbed the place, just because he could.
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  4646. The anti-gun movement is entirely top down. It's a smoke screen created by lawmakers who want their constituents to believe they're doing something -- affecting some sort of change. Never once have anti-gun policies had any definitive measurable effect on our crime rates. Even the NFA, aimed at preventing fully-automatic guns like Thompsons from getting in the hands of old school mobsters, was not the policy that curbed mob violence. It was the end of Prohibition which dried up all their illegal smuggling business and caused them to eat themselves.
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  4647.  @seanpittaway5341  "Guns have never and will never stop violence, fact!" Virtually everyone born before the 20th century would disagree with you. There was a time once, when men who practiced violence for their entire lives would prey on those who simply wanted to live out a peaceful existence. That time only ended very recently, in the past couple hundred years. Why? Because that entire life of violence and training was invalidated by less than an ounce of lead flying at high speed, by any person who would bother to pick up a gun. So if you want to go back to feudal times where we must serve under an elite class who grants us the privilege of safety at the cost of all our freedom, feel free to advocate. You'll just look like a clown while doing so.
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  4648. "The answer? Use pulsed power. And if that doesn't work, use more pulsed power." He's the TF2 engineer guys, now we just need him to invent cloning machines and immortality life support
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  4649.  @iconic762  You've clearly never played Resident Evil
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  4650.  @mrkiky  Probably true, but then that begs the question, how should one find someone worthy of being a partner?
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  4651.  @GristleMcThornbody-x5u  You have to have some real blinders on if you think we've had any better candidates over the past couple of decades. Voting for Trump at this point is a cry for help. It's plain to see that we are headed towards a slow, inglorious death, like drowning, or starving. Taking any risk seems necessary to get us out of the hole we're slowly digging for ourselves. And when I say "we" I mean both parties.
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  4652.  @slappy8941  Your an ideyot 😉
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  4653. "yo, is that my amazon--"
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  4654.  @leonardgibney2997  You're citing 60 year old speculation by pop scientists? That's your big "own?" Something tells me you don't cite that same type of evidence when it comes to topics like global warming.
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  4655.  @uziboozy4540  I almost got a virus once, eons ago, from a crack for Mass Effect 1 on PC that claimed to fix the issue where the galaxy map did not work (anti-piracy built into the game). I had already bought it on 360 and did not feel like buying it twice. It was an extremely niche and specifically targeted virus so I was surprised, how many people are playing ME1 pirated on PC and how many of them will find this one crack instead of using the teleport cheat to bypass the galaxy map? That one was on piratebay.
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  4656.  @MrRafagigapr  Pillars of Eternity had boring-ass writing that lost my interest within a few hours.
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  4657. You have it backwards. We're sending kids to die in wars.
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  4658.  @BlindErephon  I'm actually not talking about the republican government at all. I'm talking about the general health of society as a whole. You can't have technological advancement, savvy merchants who contribute to your economy, etc. if nobody is educated in these things or poised in a position to invest in them. It's similar to the slaughter of the kulaks, except they served a different role and were not as ostentatious or aristocratic, but they both left a void in society that needed to be filled. That will lead to turmoil which might have been avoided. Government doesn't make anything constructive happen, it only facilitates ( and that's only in the best case scenario). Your rhetoric with the "the entire class of nobles" is troublesome and makes me wonder whether you think social justice is unironically a good policy, when really it is the justification for just about every genocide and classist murder spree ever committed.
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  4659. ​@gxkdykxiyx1985 considering that Hitler was never at any point genuinely spiritual, his closest aides and confidants described him as a materialist even as he pretend to cater to Christians in his home country, I think twisted is an apt word to describe misappropriation of a spiritual symbol. He even looked down upon his neo Paganist subordinates in the top brass, considering it pretentious nonsense
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  4660. ​ truthseeker37747 You go to sleep at 8 PM?
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  4661. ​ truthseeker37747 "A lot of people" lol sure buddy.
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  4662. The entrepreneurs of the early 20th century (when the quote was contemporary) would laugh their asses off at a customer like this. "You want me to give you money for your crappy used product? What is this, a pawn shop?"
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  4663.  @existinginaspace8347  It's not that they are devoid of values or morals, but they won't always be the typical Christian morals that an American would expect.
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  4664.  @baxterbrownentertainment  Or maybe he also has a dog and just forgot to take the treats out of his bag. I hope that tinfoil fits nice and snug on your head.
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  4665. I have low vision and I can't see drivers in most vehicles. I have been a life long pedestrian. Cars are just emotionless machines to me. What's super frustrating to me is actually when I arrive at a crossing after or at the same time as a car, the crossing is clear, but the car stops and waits for me to cross. I would much rather the car go first so I don't have to worry about any traffic, and it's faster for both of us. I don't feel rushed. Every time I walk in front of a car, even when it is stopped, it feels like I'm going down range at a shooting range. I can't see the driver so I do not know their intentions or desires and any gestures are lost on me. I have been bumped by drivers stopped at intersections while I was directly in front of their car because they didn't look. Once it happened twice in a row at the same intersection. I have been nearly run over by drivers making entirely illegal turns at a busy intersection.
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  4666.  @broidkanymore-zc4lt  It's just this generation's version of calling someone a virgin. Virgin lost its bite because our society is becoming sexually regressive so not having sex doesn't have as bad a connotation. Incel is a bad attempt to double down on this idea, basically implying the man couldn't have sex even if he wanted to.
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  4667. based: literally invented by black rappers FBI: VIOLENT RACIST IDEOLOGY
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  4668. I get your point and I agree it is hypocritical to some extent, but somebody does need to buy content so they can tell everyone how bad it is/if it is worth it or not and that person may as well be a streamer with global reach. Asmon doesn't keep Blizzard afloat by himself. In fact he is likely paid a lot more by them for continuing to stream their games than he pays them for their games and MTX.
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  4669.  @tonycezar1645  Targeting streamers as your demographic isn't a viable strategy for a company as big as Actiblizz. Asmon doesn't represent gamers at large. He doesn't even adequately represent his viewers because most of them don't make as much money as he does. They don't buy MTX/DLC "for content" because they can't make money back on that. For Asmon, it's a no brainer to buy this shit because he makes money back. That motivation does not exist in most whales let alone most players.
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  4670.  @Rizik1986  Who the fuck goes to bat for psychotics? Lol.
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  4671.  @ZakariaImrani-jp3pl  L + RATIO + CHILD MOLESTER
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  4672. It's sadly more likely than most think. Huge numbers of cowards out there who want to end themselves and place the burden of guilt on cops because "that's what they do."
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  4673. ​ @Kittycats-s  modern unions are just mafias. Just another layer of bureaucracy standing between you and your paycheck. And the bosses take home just as much as the C-levels
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  4674. @acmhfmggru  come on dude, you can surely see the link between Habsburg jaw and mental illness
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  4675.  @mewmew8932  cool, that's 1 out of the roughly 100 million people owning guns in America. great start champ
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  4676.  @Vexaha  or you could get off the fucking treadmill instead of convincing yourself you're sticking it to your masters by running faster
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  4677.  @lyndabrown3402  What else is she gonna do? Work? Lol.
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  4678. There are others, but everyone is too scared to vote for them. Each time a third party gains traction it is collectively squashed. There is an informal conspiracy between the officers of each of the two big parties to ensure nobody else gains steam. Each party runs on fear-mongering the others into believing that they will doom the nation if they ever vote for a third party
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  4679.  @TheoneGodfather  They aren't because they weigh less than adults and that's how the acceleration of gravity works.
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  4680.  @pdr_2703  How is that stupid? Your car is a 2-ton steel projectile and it is registered with the government. Do you think the cops just give away all this information to random people? Also, it's incredibly stupid that a person is allowed to defend their property with lethal force but traps are not allowed, because people are prone to mistakes. There have been cases where police arrive at a home (usually the wrong home) unannounced and the homeowner kills a cop because he believed he was being burgled and was let go.
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  4681. again, the guard escalated the situation to that point for no reason. once the hobo didn't leave after being maced he needed to call the police, end of encounter. there was no reason for it to get to that point or for a fight to break out at all
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  4682. Why is the lady anchor wearing a bathrobe?
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  4683.  @christoffer5875  sumo isn't "like wwe" that implies the entire thing is scripted start to finish and there is little to no chance of injury. sumo is a "boys club" where some wrestlers have been known to make agreements on the down low to throw fights, due to how the progression system works (you need a positive record in a tournament to rank up, so if you have over 50% wins, you can lose intentionally for another fighter trying to advance rank as a favor). that does not mean that every fight is like that, far from it. some fights are between two "winners" or two "losers." they have zero reason to collude. there's also no reason to collude early in a tournament before a record is established. corrupt sumo matches are an edge case, if they are even still prevalent after they were exposed
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  4684.  @luckytwoshoes7598  Depends on the convict. Some people have no reaction, others die more slowly and feel it. Kind of like a taser. Some people can just stay standing and keep going even when they're being tased.
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  4685. ​ @robinthrush9672  The term "race" is tied to pseudoscience from the 19th century which has been left in the dust because most of its proponents were LARPers who desperately wanted to be seen as the descendants of their personal favorite ethnic group or civilization, often in spite of having little to no actual genetic commonality with said ancestors. If you want to be technically accurate the term would be ethnicities, "phenotypes" or "haplogroups" but virtually nobody knows what the last two are. I can understand why you'd want to distance yourself from the term as an innocent game designer, but the term has been appropriated for use by fantasy and science fiction writers to mean something totally different which is usually "sapient species."
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  4686.  @AbroadOkra33  the problem is if you have a "no trespassing" sign on your yard, and you're outside doing yard work then by your logic I could call the cops on you, as your neighbor, and you'd have to sit there and play 20 questions with the cop, and apparently you think this is completely reasonable. that is definitely not the principles this nation was founded on
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  4687.  @mhqa_  Heh, yeah you tell them! Those idiot losers walked past a sign while having fun in the water and started drowning. They obviously deserve to die for their immense stupidity and we'll all be better off without them! In fact the lifeguards should be trained in marksmanship and shoot anyone who goes past the sign! RESPECT THE FUCKING SIGN!
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  4688.  @randyxyt5562  I'd sooner put $300 on a game OR a prostitute than heroin...
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  4689.  @falseprogress  firearms make wildlife easier to kill but they don't allow you to eat more. sport hunting is very different from subsistence, or even commercial hunting. it's an attitude problem not a gun problem
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  4690.  @DirtyBanditable  Those people will just pay to kill themselves with meth. They already do that right now in flyover towns without UBI. You'd just be enabling them. The solution is to motivate people, so they actually do something.
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  4691.  @DirtyBanditable  It's great that you are apparently a well-balanced unemployed individual, but statistically, that just isn't how that works in our nation and you're not qualified to speak on how life in a flyover town really is. You're talking about social policy, not policy that works for you, personally.
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  4692.  @ItsTheBibby  An extremely condescending and Anglocentric attempt by mostly white and Jewish academics who are, at most, 1/8th Mexican or South American, to re-write the grammar of Spanish such that gendered language (as it relates to people) is eliminated.
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  4693.  @macdonaldmaurice  Whatever flavor of circus suits you.
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  4694. It's pronounced Ein-herr-yarr. Cool name, it's the mythological name of the warriors Odin kept as his personal guard in Valhalla.
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  4695.  @Joshua-eo5hr  Maybe she made it the fuck up
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  4696.  @thepeacefulbearbeer  I'm not even really pro-Israel, but the simple fact of the matter is, if you want Israel to succeed (i.e. Israelities to continue being alive) then you have to take a hard-line military stance in favor of Israel. That's the nature of the geopolitical environment they are in. If not, they should pack their shit up and disperse across the world, as they existed before the 1940s. Otherwise, they'll slowly get picked off by their neighbors. To me personally, I don't give a shit whether they succeed or not because I have no emotional stake in any of the parties involved. But if I were playing a board game like Risk, and I was assigned to be Israel, that's what I would do.
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  4697.  @saladmashups1310  SpaceX has been primarily concerned with making reusable rockets. The traditional NASA rockets just decouple from the shuttle and fall back to Earth as junk, or get left in space.
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  4698.  @Graphaeli  He's completely correct. If you consider activity like Pokimane selling these cookies to be bad, then you should also understand that it is a symptom, downstream of much larger issues like the one he described.
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  4699.  @TheManofthecross  It's extremely bold and overpowers any steak you eat. Chances are you've been putting up with awful steak if you use it.
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  4700. Ironically, TSR had its own issues with an overzealous legal department. However, I don't think it was because of what Gygax desired, it seemed more like they were doing "what they thought they were supposed to" and making a bad name for TSR as a result.
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  4701. Classic copypasta.
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  4702.  @Clamflesh  ... Apologies, but it's too inconvenient to have a discussion with someone who forgets the last thing they said.
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  4703.  @Clamflesh  Okay, let me spell it out for you since you seem to have trouble, all while calling me the illiterate one: "The fact that you think high schoolers aren't already doing what he said in that book, if not worse, is fucking mind blowing to me. Wake up dude, kids aren't reading they're doing." If you could provide some evidence for the causal link between teens having sexual relations and our "increasing quality of life" here in the US, that would be super.
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  4704.  @Kingsquad2011  Key has to go in the lock for humanity to continue. "Simping" is unavoidable by your definition. To put it another way, you aren't a slave to a dog because you take care of the dog.
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  4705. Uhh, I myself am a former pro fighting game player...
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  4706. At this point I haven't played actual D&D since the 5e playtest and early release, that only lasted for some months. Didn't even bother to try 4e upon reading the rulebook. My group and I basically grown past D&D as our game of choice and I don't regret it a bit. We played Labyrinth Lord -- a retroclone system -- for a bit when we wanted that old school dungeon crawl flavor, but the newer editions just aren't that engaging for us. They will always be "tactical RPGs" in the vein of video games like Jagged Alliance or Fire Emblem that prioritize combat encounters over everything. We found that in just about all of our D&D or derived d20 games, especially the old school kind, we gravitate towards scaling and management, like founding a guild and hiring dudes. Other systems like WHFRP do this way, way better and with much more flavor. Every system that D&D tries to do except combat (and even then, debatably combat) is one-upped by another game you can play.
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  4707.  @cheeseheadflipper  Orks don't know what female is. Good luck explaining that concept to them, let alone having them believe in it with their heart and mind. To an Ork, the literal greatest expression of love is to kill you, because Orks reproduce when they die.
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  4708. ​ @Lord__666 Salmonella dies the moment egg gets even mildly cooked. You can drop an egg in boiling water for a minute and the salmonella will be gone. People vastly overexaggerate its durability
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  4709.  @Sladed  How about the fact that North Africa is now infested with Arabs instead of all the various ethnic groups and cultures that lived there beforehand? I'm an atheist but you have to be a moron to believe that documented historical figures like Jesus Christ and Muhammed never existed.
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  4710.  @Nick_MG  It's not just disrespectful, it ignores factual evidence. Jesus and Mohammed both existed and their impact on the world is documented and incredibly obvious. Particularly in Jesus' case; we have court records and correspondance between Roman politicians about the issue. He was the spearhead of a religious insurrection, for crying out loud.
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  4711.  @BMoser-bv6kn  it should, but it doesn't, and you get the same effect with mainstream news. that is, people who commit crime just so they can be famous. it's just that the effect is more direct and immediate if a streamer or reporter were to get money just for airing crime footage. if that were allowed to fester, you'd soon have streamers/reporters who give cuts to criminals as "royalties" for their "performance"
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  4712. Ross Perot, rest in peace, was also a pretty short man and was also one of the most successful billionaires in the world. People value a large personality more than a large person.
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  4713.  @Rellana1  Foundry is awesome and well worth the price of admission. If you are tech savvy, you can do a ton with it.
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  4714.  @sweptay  He thinks they're cool fighter pilots?
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  4715. Just learn a few grapple techniques and you can render them harmless without hurting them. I'll be honest, unless you are disabled or have some kind of growth stunting syndrome (in which cases my condolences), you should not be intimidated by an unarmed woman as a man, period. Feel free to do the research yourself, but their muscle density just can't compete.
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  4716. I mean this is at a minimum, 475k sales. We know it is much higher than that because many of those players aren't playing the game at the exact same time. Pretty good indicator of success.
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  4717.  @teejay10238  Dude, nobody subscribes to the weird definition of multiplayer that you just pulled out of your ass. Also there are features specific to multiplayer in DOS2 like dialogue between player characters, no reason to believe that won't be present in BG3.
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  4718.  @Shred_Tube  You're not very bright, are you? Remington, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, etc. did not make any deals with cartels.
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  4719.  @majorgorrila  You laugh but that shit could happen in the hood, some people really don't take lightly to being sharted in the face
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  4720. Of course, the policy is to let practicing criminals go and the first question is "how many innocents did the police kill on accident?" It's like a massive fucking forest is sitting right in front of you and you decide to focus on the one tree stump 50 yards back and to the right and ask where all the trees have gone.
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  4721.  @alissoncandatem1896  I'm not going to repeat myself. If you can't grasp it, you're mentally deficient. Not sure what else to tell you. It's an extremely basic concept.
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  4722. It's not, it's just that extreme left opinions are drastically overrepresented in the media. It's extremely easy to pretend that 50% or more of people simply don't exist and their opinions don't matter unless you interact with people in the real world.
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  4723. Honestly I think using the word "yummy" to describe a woman's appearance is cringeworthy. Not because it's "disrespectful" but because it sounds childish. It's weird to mix childish language with adult topics. But I wouldn't fire a guy over it.
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  4724.  @misschadcok  Sigh. I like how Nathan Poe said if you don't use an emoji, people won't realize you're sarcastic in text-based conversations. This guy uses an emoji and you still don't get it.
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  4725.  @Notsogoodguitarguy  Well, if you wanted, you could easily contrive a reason why that is for Elves, like their bodies containing a different hormone from melanin.
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  4726.  @ArabianWhiteRose  Mentally ill veterans be like:
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  4727.  @monsieur-le-chupacabra  Humans are more important than animals. All animals would agree, if they could, that they are more important than us, too. So, no, it's not ironic at all and entirely expected
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  4728.  @mk_gamíng0609  Ironically, as bad as all of that is, there's virtually no way their crime rate is higher than that of almost any Western country. They don't have gang warfare out in the open in major cities, for example, or cartel members sitting across an easily-penetrated border that carry out almost ritualistic killings just to impress their peers. Nor do they have mass shootings of any kind. It's hard to criticize them in light of these facts, but yes, in a vacuum any nation's justice system seems awful.
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  4729.  @Nicholasryan17  I will agree that this game has a weak experience for new players, especially rogues. Map knowledge is crucial in this game, down to knowing which rooms/hallways the escape portals commonly spawn in (hint: don't spend time in the trap maze waiting, I made that mistake enough times) and not having it, along with the other perk slots, will result in a lot of deaths. However, there is also supposed to be an easier dungeon level for low level players which has not released yet, so that will probably make it at least a little better. But at the end of the playtest, I was killing trios as a solo fighter with nearly no extra starting gear easily because I knew the map, knew what people were doing just based off sound from the next room, and knew how to approach them. One raid I even killed 5 people before escaping.
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  4730. Ironic when she thought their "fratty humor" was "out of touch" when she ended up being the one completely out of touch
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  4731.  @AMJ600  I realize now that my first comment is unclear. By "anyone could have done that shit" I mean anyone could have stream sniped them and tanked their challenge run, not that the challenge is easy. It's just too easy to stream snipe and the bigger your audience is, the more likely it will happen. You will be a victim of your own success. The challenge itself sounds tedious though.
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  4732. When Japanese people, some of the most conformist people on the planet, refer to compliance as evil you know you've done something wrong
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  4733.  @mandowarrior123  Based on what little they've depicted in the game, there are definitely secret police who go around imprisoning people at the slightest sign of dissent (check the fake reviews in the super store). There are also gulags named "freedom camps" and the Super Earth economy is a mockery of the American economy where your hard work will never let you get anywhere unless the government decides it's okay first. The Democracy Officer in your ship is obviously supposed to be a morale officer (i.e. commissar) and is the guy who always spits out some fluffy meaningless quote at the beginning and end of a mission, like "DEMOCRACY PREVAILS AGAIN" or whatever.
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  4734.  @shuaige3360  China? You mean that place where you can stab 80 people to death in a subway station before you get stopped? Definitely the pinnacle of nonviolence.
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  4735. "SHORTLY?" You mean SIX YEARS? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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  4736. Go to the ren fair instead.
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  4737.  @Emanance  You don't talk to enough Christians. I am quite conservative, but not Christian, and all it takes is browsing any news channel comment section. Especially regarding any subject that involves violence or death; i.e. "They'll let murderers out on the street on bail and they support abortion. The Demoncrats are the party of death!" I get finding abortion distasteful, what I don't get is not providing an out for a woman who was sexually assaulted (like Texas; they only have an out for health of the mother, and apparently, doctors are afraid to allow it because the medical board keeps shifting the goal posts on what constitutes a danger to the health of the mother). Forcing someone to bring their rape baby to term is frankly, ridiculous, and probably a net negative for society as a whole.
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  4738. The Dems are admitting the border is a problem. Now all they have to do is fix it. They're figuring out a way to take credit for Texas' work while doing nothing, once popular support swings in favor of a secure border
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  4739. Not that I advocate for this nonsense, but I think what they mean is unique to the user. So, you could own a sword skin that no one else could own. That is the basic idea behind NFTs.
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  4740. @Eric Nunya Porn is omnipresent. Good luck enforcing that law. We already have a law stating that you must be 18 to look at porn. Virtually nobody follows it. Even if the law you speak of existed, and a theoretical enforcement system existed (and was effective, which is extremely unlikely), people would create "communal" drivers' licenses that were legitimate but the number would be shared among minors specifically for the use of looking at porn.
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  4741. @Eric Nunya Do you have reading problems? I never advocated for the removal of the minimum age.
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  4742. @Eric Nunya You can't illegally buy booze online very easily. Assuming you're underage, someone will have to be there to pick up the package, and it will likely be your parent or guardian. In-person purchases are important to preventing illegal purchases of booze because the seller can gauge the age of the buyer at a glance. The analogy simply doesn't work. If it did, booze would be omnipresent for free on every street corner. You would accidentally trip over cases of booze on your way to work or your mailbox. There would be ads at many vendors that would give you brochures that you could turn in for free booze at said vendor. You suffer from the same misperception many people have when they try to compare selling real tangible products, like a bottle of booze, to selling software. They're incomparable because software and data have nearly zero production and distribution cost.
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  4743. I so dislike it when psychologists reduce a group of people into children or cavemen when analyzing why they do something. It seems to be especially common in the "gender war" narrative. Men don't like ancient Rome just because of military conquests and cool armor and the imperial eagle. Kids like ancient Rome because of that, and then their interest may die out at a later age. Rome was very far ahead of its time in many ways, and it's easy for an adult to appreciate that, but I suppose a feminist might not like to admit that a legitimately patriarchal society had so much success.
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  4744.  @tierlis422  the market doesn't stop demanding things just because you think there's a lot of that product out there, it wants what it wants
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  4745.  @TheSolidSnakeOil  That question, and the husband's response when his dumb fat wife asked the question ("What kind of bear is it?" "Am I the man?") really shows the difference between the thought processes of the two members of the couple. One of them is running off pure lizard brain, thinking hurr durr I'm gonna get likes on my TikTok profile, and the other is trying to think through the question logically and seriously.
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  4746.  @maxwell_edison  boomer journos are extremely ass-chapped by YouTube creators. they really want their worthless piece of toilet paper known as a college degree to have inherent value so they lash out at others for not giving $100k to a university
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  4747.  @fadsa342  Such terrible, terrible, consequences. Like being able to afford food.
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  4748.  @fadsa342  So your best argument is "Under Biden, it's not as bad as it could be." Stellar fucking rebuttal
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  4749. Believe it or not one of his features was shown in my high school history class. I was awestruck at the time as a naive teenager. "He seems like a conservative but he's not a massive blowhard like Hannity or O'Reilly. How is this possible?"
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  4750. It's cool though, she'll still keep getting thrown in jail because "prostitution is illegal." I have never understood the idiotic enforcement of this law. It's even stupider than arresting drug addicts instead of the dealer.
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  4751.  @franciscodiaz6197  "what if I made up this totally outrageous scenario that didn't actually happen? wouldn't you be mad?"
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  4752.  @franciscodiaz6197  Assume everyone but you is an idiot, and you'll soon find that you only have idiots to talk to.
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  4753.  @16m49x3  then why did you use the royal "we" in the context of an American video?
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  4754.  @Holy_Crusader  classic never Trumper, claims to be the good man and does nothing while the nation crumbles in flames.
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  4755.  @Holy_Crusader  Apparently, I am not allowed to divulge my actual opinions, despite not using any offensive language. My masters have thought better of it for me. I'll try to be more brief and maybe my comment won't get removed. Suffice to say that abstaining from voting is completely pointless. No one will pay attention to the fact that you didn't vote, except maybe to assume that you would have voted Democrat if you're black or hispanic. If you think voting doesn't really make a difference, then you may as well vote anyway. It takes a half hour at most, and that's if you go in person; now we have mail-in voting so there's hardly an excuse not to vote. I am jaded, so this is the position I hold. But logically speaking, then I would be a tremendous idiot if I were wrong, and voting did make a difference, yet I threw away my one chance to have agency in this nation's proceedings. All to save less than a half hour once every 4 years.
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  4756.  @Holy_Crusader  The United States? I would have hoped that was obvious from the context of the discussion.
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  4757.  @Holy_Crusader  Weird that you think that YouTube is a state apparatus.
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  4758. @ Firstly, that's a single example of your term, it is by no means a definition. Secondly, the idea that a pistol caliber weapon should be called an "assault weapon" is laughable and disingenuous. I'd call it a piece of shit ghetto blaster that wastes your ammo. How many military forces use Glock 18s again?
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  4759. And the face of the protest... a Chicom spy. It's all so predictable.
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  4760.  @frizen9328  I don't mean the game itself I mean Chun-Li's sex appeal in the official games
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  4761. Wait until you find out you can bid on transferable machine guns online for around $10k
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  4762.  @rRekko  Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he genuinely didn't understand how this is supposed to be controversial. Asmon doesn't strike me as the type of guy who watches political news. You'd have to be aware of statements made in Congress to understand this joke. Asmon immerses himself in gaming news and media and "streamer culture"
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  4763.  @ChristmasEve777  Personally I find it very hard to believe he didn't get a hot casing before, especially if they were shooting handguns. It's extremely common with handguns in my experience; they're my preferred choice for target shooting. Hell, I've been to an outdoor range where my neighbor's AK platform rifle spat casings that arced over the half-wall and hit me in the head and neck. They weren't hot by the time they hit me but it was still annoying and distracting.
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  4764. I am not even going to lie I've used one of those "ear licking ASMR" streams to finish before. They're so erotic it's ridiculous. They aren't moderated on YouTube yet either
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  4765. ​@loganfignewton 1. Full auto isn't as dangerous as you think it is 2. We can already own artillery. Never seen FPSRussia? 3. Good luck setting up a market for civilian nukes
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  4766.  @Cryptic.Message  It's hard to believe that "bad things" are real when they are monetized. Stop being so naive.
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  4767. This is usually a problem with the studio managing the franchise. It would be fine if the content decided to be very different, if it was labeled as a spin-off. FF7 Remake is a great example of this. Literally a title change would be all that is needed to appease a huge section of the people who don't like the changes to the story. But somebody at Square Enix is very full of themselves, I guess (hint: it's almost definitely Nomura). You don't tell everyone that you are making the "definitive version" of a beloved 20+ year old game and then completely change the story. I don't think the game is bad, I just think their marketing was fucking terrible.
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  4768. The smear article on the developers was nothing but flagrant racism thanks to a mistranslation
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  4769. That first clip is like a secret random fear that I occasionally think about and wonder if it will happen to me some day.
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  4770.  @bofa722  Do you mean NPC/Player summons or the bell summons? Most fights seem designed with summons in mind now so I don't know how "unbalanced" it is anymore. Personally I never summoned in previous games very much because it increases the boss HP pool by a ton, not because I thought it made the game easy mode. It made the bosses less predictable and more tedious to kill. Bosses can change targets mid-attack animation.
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  4771.  @Alefcharmer  women have higher attempted suicide rates if I'm not mistaken, men have higher successful suicide rates doesn't disprove the point I'm making at all
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  4772.  @TheRealXartaX  I didn't say we're less likely to snap, that's only tangentially even related to my original point that "men are designed to take it" indeed men are statistically more likely to snap but as you said, it's impossible to tell if that's because more is already expected out of them or if it's because they're "weaker"
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  4773. Not... really? There's a reason why it was "booming" back then...
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  4774. I like Owlcat's games, but they are more old school in their CRPG design, in that they just throw some stuff in the Monster Manual all over the game world, with the exception of some major quest lines. Larian really meticulously designs every single encounter in their game. Most of them would likely play like shit in real time.
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  4775. That diagram doesn't tell you how to build that gun at all. Any reasonable moderator wouldn't ban you for posting this. Here's all the information contained in that diagram: - guns have triggers - barrels are literally duct taped to a piece of wood - there's a wire connecting the barrel to a battery That's it. Of course, the implication of the diagram is that "Tom Cotton should be assassinated." But Hasan is equally dumb for posting this and thinking that it tells people how to build a gun. Or that anyone would even need to do this in the US.
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  4776.  @sub-harmonik  Any reasonable person would have interpreted the OGL 1.0 as "This will never change ever and nothing published under this license will be touchable in the future if a new version of this license comes out." Yet WotC is trying to claim that this isn't true and they can somehow retroactively apply the 1.1 license to the 1.0 stuff. It will be a profitable day in court for their lawyers, that much is certain.
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  4777. PC games have been fucking awesome this year actually. BG3, AC6, Remnant 2...
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  4778.  @SilverFox.999  I mean, that's more new PC games that I played and enjoyed than the last several years.
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  4779.  @PureOctarine  So did I, but I didn't really have crashes. Besides, it's always been standard for big RPGs.
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  4780.  @Lon3wolf13  Yeah, yeah. Before, it was May, and before that it was April...
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  4781.  @Shanks4Smiles  staying alive isn't about being right, it's about being intelligent. the 2A, along with every other right, has no inherent virtue or ability to protect us. those who sit in the white house, right now, would completely delete the 2A if they could. but practically, they can't, because they can't snap their fingers and make 500 million+ guns, spread out across the 3rd largest nation in the world, disappear. implementing a total repeal of the 2A, even if it were successfully voted on, would be a total bloodbath for everyone involved. there is nothing backing the existence of rights except force and a polite agreement between the members of a society. the government owns a monopoly on the legal use of force. that leaves polite agreement, which isn't worth piss in an ocean. the reason why the 2A is so important is because it continues to vest us with the means of force to make the other rights have meaning. to make it worth anything, a civilian must NECESSARILY ignore the legality of the use of force in some situations. if it were to go away, it may not make a difference, as long as enough of us agree to continue manufacturing and bearing arms, but eventually if the government is strong enough, that idea will be quashed
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  4782. @Matt-ru5rw i bet you donated to Sanders' new car and lakefront home fund
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  4783. It's always such a bore when people act like me and you, the little guys, should treat life as sacred when criminals don't, cops often don't, and politicians don't. I'm not putting myself at a disadvantage.
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  4784.  @Furious321  You ever seen one of those old creepy renditions of "realistic Mario?" It produces an uncanny valley effect because your mind knows that Mario's face does not have realistic proportions at all. The lighting, contours, etc don't even come into it. So either you admit that you are mentally ill and incapable of determining what a real human looks like or you're lying because you want to seem like you care more about children, even though you're complaining about fictional characters and not real children being abused.
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  4785. The serial killer with the highest body count in history was a doctor who killed old people using bad prescriptions just because he felt like it.
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  4786. To this idiotic argument I always say: There's nothing you can do about your local truck driver refusing to show up to work today, or worse, blocking the highway. There's nothing you can do about your local power plant safety inspector "forgetting" to ensure everything is in working order. There's nothing you can do about the junior officers in the counter-insurgency task force leaking information out to everyone. Civil wars aren't won or lost with tanks, planes or nukes. Just ask the Taliban.
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  4787. "Non-verbal challenge" aka. the "you're obviously full of shit" stink-eye.
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  4788.  @MrPicklerwoof  It's not hormonal but it is in an abstract way a part of how kids develop. They test the boundaries of what's acceptable. If there aren't enough boundaries set, then they just keep pushing.
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  4789.  @BRIANNA_00  uh... yeah, that's the point of making that statement. it's like saying "I don't normally do this but I have to do it this time"
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  4790. Wow! What a completely legitimate conversation between enterprising individuals! I'm so excited to spend all of my money on encrypted 1s and 0s now!
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  4791.  @dimwitsadvocate6264  They have preconceived notions that they simply refuse to change. Perhaps they've staked too much on that notion, like maybe he's donated tens of thousands to Democrat PACs and he doesn't want to admit it was all wasted. Maybe all of his friends are dyed-in-the-wool blue bois and he'll have no friends if he votes on what makes sense for his business. Maybe he'll get divorced.
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  4792.  @lonesomeknoteye  In the old days we'd have hanged these guys and left their bodies out to rot. I'd say making a joke at their expense is progress
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  4793. Orks are technically completely agender and asexual. They just take a masculine form because it's better for hitting stuff.
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  4794. He did indeed know, but the sad thing is that the national dialogue has changed surprisingly little over the past 40+ years. That's why his statements still ring so true today. We were talking about this bullshit back in the 1960s.
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  4795.  @Bruva_Ayamhyt  You realize that is because Fascists fetishize the Roman empire right? It's where the name comes from. You might as well call someone a Nazi because they like sauerkraut. Authoritarians co-opt culture and make it about worshipping their ideal state, it's what they do. It's weakness to give away your culture to them because you're afraid you'll be them by association.
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  4796. Ah yes this game has review bots. not the Ubisoft games not the EA games not the Actiblizz games, it's this one.
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  4797. That's a really dumb statement, made only for the sake of doubling down. It's obvious that having a weapon on you which is ready to be used within 3 seconds is better than leaving your weapon at home, although it may not be as good as having a weapon that is ready to be used within 1.5 seconds. You might as well remark that "If you don't use a 30 round extended magazine, don't bother carrying." There is always someone else in the world who is more obsessed with readiness than you are.
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  4798. Ironically, that was Harley Quinn's character, at least in relation to the Joker.
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  4799.  @DundG  Their marketing analysts are shockingly dumb. It seems like they are content to believe that Twitter users perfectly represent the tastes of audiences outside their nation. This problem goes all the way back to the earlier days of gaming, where you had Japanese execs who would alternately believe that Americans as a rule preferred harder games, and in the worst case would ruin their own games with artificial difficulty to meet this supposed demand, or even the opposite where they believed that Americans preferred easier games (although this was less common). Meanwhile, in the US, Japanese gamers were usually seen as more dedicated or more skilled. Ironically, Resident Evil was really easy in its native release for the first two games, and Capcom later re-released them as the "US editions" that included the difficulty modes the US had. RE's reputation for creating the survival horror genre likely would never have happened if we got the easier version
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  4800.  @lisprn-tt1tu  It's a small minority of Westerners that are over-represented using Twitter. Ironically, though, you are not far from the truth. I am an American, non-religious, and I have long held that Puritanism infects our culture even today. Even on the so-called non-religious progressive left. In the 1960s through to the 1990s, it was the position of the left that women should be free to have sex and pose nude because it is liberating. Now it is demeaning and objectifying. That was previously the position of the Protestant right, and they use the exact same terms and reasoning. Yet somehow sex workers are still a protected class that do not "demean" themselves with their own labor. It is a completely cognitively dissonant, untenable position.
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  4801. He really does have a case of Hapsburg jaw, eh?
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  4802.  @kevinchappell7966  Whoever wrote that Urban Dictionary entry is completely wrong, I'm sorry. The term "hard R" was created to differentiate "soft A" from "hard R"
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  4803.  @christophsiebert1213  Bro, the same word can end in two different ways, it's not that complicated, the "hard R" is used to emphasize that the other one has a much more derogatory tone
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  4804.  @christophsiebert1213  Because the N-word can end in two different ways and have two different connotations... thus they must be differentiated from each other. Again this really isn't that complicated
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  4805.  @wricloud6385  i've met literally 2 black programmers in my 10 year career and both of them are first generation African immigrants
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  4806. There's frankly way more important shit to be worried about and actual sex trafficking rings to be busted. The reason why people make a stink about loli is that it's easy. You can just ban some digital images from a website, done. There's many, many political issues like this. They're like the junk food of politics. They don't make the nation healthier by addressing them, but it's super easy to legislate and speak about. Another good example is gun control in the US (won't ever make an impact unless it's done on a federal scale and good luck doing that, super easy to legislate locally though and pretend you did something while criminals buy guns in the next state over).
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  4807.  @nickcasale2767  Western nations have far more documented sexual assault cases, both involving minors and otherwise. Of course, a common counterpoint I hear to this is "But Japan has more undocumented cases." Which is a convenient fabrication that is literally unprovable because they are undocumented. Sure, there were crime sprees that were scandalous in Japan, but they also freak out when they have more than like a dozen murders in a year. Meanwhile, that's literally a weekend in Chicago, a single US city. Crime is rampant here, and we project that expectation onto other places. Japan has the means to tightly control its population (tiny island chain with strict immigration protocol) so it would only make sense that their crime rates are lower.
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  4808.  @dossiebigham9113  I'm making a joke in reference to the design of the combat shotty in 4 which is a bit, uh, "unresearched" let me put it that way. Nothing about its effectiveness in the game.
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  4809.  @TexasLawbringer77  Oh shoot, I just looked them up and realized I got them mixed up...
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  4810.  @minimalistic_banhaus  You don't need legal training to read a bill. Many representatives in Congress aren't "legally trained."
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  4811. Doctor: "Your health is going to decline sharply if you don't change your lifestyle." "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CHANGE MY IDENTITY!!!!"
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  4812. Tactical thing to note here, if you're in the driver seat you're vulnerable. It's way harder to turn around and bring a firearm to bear like she did than it is for a passenger to do the same. However the passenger obviously was not threatening (although we did not see what happened before the camera went on, it's very common for douchebags to instigate a conflict and then turn on their camera to make the other person seem aggressive, mostly for internet clout).
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  4813. ​ @chickenmadness1732 Uh, maybe "you" do that. Most people do not. I've stopped for weeks or more at a time without even noticing.
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  4814. The business execs just cannot control their autism for two seconds. It's mind blowing that they think doing shit like this is productive for their brand.
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  4815. Imagine a war movie where the actors were actually shot, stabbed or blown up, just to "make the point" that war is bad. This is why Cuties is so disgusting.
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  4816. A mile is like 15-20 minutes at most, how could anyone brag about this?
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  4817. ... or, it was staged for views, like almost all outrage content. Would also explain why he was smiling.
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  4818.  @MrRafagigapr  Dragon Age combat was honestly made trivial because of things like the spell combo shit which was absurdly overpowered. You could stack two low level spells on top of each other to get the equivalent effect of mass paralysis, a much higher level spell, with an even bigger radius. The only downside was that it had friendly fire but you can easily work around that. It's hard to use it as an example for either system because it would be trivial to win at either way
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  4819.  @TaniasUncle  You show an awful lot of entitlement for a random YouTube commenter. Strangers on the internet don't deserve up to an hour of gathering links and posting them here -- just for the algorithm to most likely delete your post for dumping links. You're trolling, because you know the person would waste their effort, and you're stupid enough to believe you come off as looking superior. Fact of the matter is, as with any subject, if the person truly cared they'd search for it and be able to find it just as easily as the person gathering those same sources. This is why "post sources" in any comment section is itself a troll post.
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  4820.  @BBeowulf  Yes, it's so misogynistic and "Andrew Tate" to claim that women enjoy porn. Weird, it's almost like you're the real misogynist here... What's next, are you going to claim that the female orgasm is a myth, too?
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  4821.  @asiantalan  Could be good with a ranch sauce or maybe some dressing.
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  4822. ​ @GothicGator unless they're racist, then it's funny
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  4823.  @Law0086  Da Vinci came up with a myriad of crazy devices that could have easily become useful with a bit more refinement but nobody cared. Probably because he mostly kept them to himself.
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  4824.  @Samagachi  Except Arthas' choice completely desensitized and jaded his sense of morality and led to him accepting Frostmourne and becoming the original death knight. Even if he would have ran away like a "coward" as Jaina and Uthar seemingly wanted him to do, convincing himself that murdering his own innocent subjects is the right thing to do was the real defeat from a spiritual perspective.
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  4825. ​ @samtaherian122 funny, because the DA "chose" not to charge Trump with insurrection
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  4826.  @Scholarvine  she has no black heritage, her dad isn't black
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  4827. I think we can thank the Cold War for this. The CIA and FBI were never the same afterward.
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  4828. ​ @a2knyc which is hilarious because multiracial people are always more marginalized
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  4829. It was incredibly normal in the Cold War period. Nowadays, they try to stigmatize it as crazy. Even though the Cold War hasn't really ended.
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  4830. Slakoth seems like an unfitting choice because he'd probably sleep through breakfast.
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  4831. Wow, little did I know that one video we all watched in high school was actually worth a billion dollar lawsuit. For real though, I didn't know pussies could inflate to that size.
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  4832. It doesn't count, there's no dice.
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  4833. Bill can actually be funny. Don't let your team sports mentality cloud your judgment. Just look at any of his thoughts on Muslims.
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  4834.  @limemime565  i mean you say that, but i can't drive so i'll eventually benefit from something like this if all we had to sacrifice to get there was SF, then i honestly don't care and neither should you
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  4835. Wow, I should quit my job and do this. You should see what goes into me naming a TTRPG character.
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  4836. ​​ @susanwjoh0re735 I am atheist. Let's not pretend that Islam, Judaism and Christianity are morally on the same level. A child could tell the difference, so why can't you? Personally I know which neighbor I'd rather have and if it came down to it I'm sure you'd make the same choice...
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  4837. Written by a black man, by the way
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  4838.  @63Limar  tell her to make a Tauren instead, they're very goofy
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  4839.  @8Kazuja8  Men get stuck with those same aesthetics too for the huge majority of the time. Very few men actually want to play as a huge disgusting monster dude even if the aesthetic is appealing to a niche and is well-designed objectively. They want to be some chiselled guy of varying background/aesthetic. This extends even to non-visual media. D&D, for example, has a character distribution of 50% Human Fighters across its entire player base. I think you should take a cursory glance at the vtuber scene. Vtubers are interesting because most of them are actually weird people with niche interests. They're not e-thots in the traditional sense of the term; boring women with very little personality who flaunt themselves. They also seem to be open to using very unconventional character designs. One of them just premiered on VShojo as a cockroach girl, of all things; very few girls would find that appealing even in an anime style. It's an interesting effect where people with niche interests but who are still interested in streaming are drawn to vtubing. The designs and appeal are decentralized instead of driven by what appeals to 51% of viewers. Personally I believe that most people have an undeveloped or under-developed sense of imagination and creativity. They find it hard to imagine a character that is not themselves, especially for extended periods of time or from a holistic angle. Or they simply don't understand the appeal. Activities like creative writing, theater, and tabletop role-playing help foster the ability to imagine unique characters that are not just self-inserts.
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  4840. Thailand is like the Asian counterpart to Switzerland. Unconquered because nobody wants to deal with conquering them.
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  4841.  @prismatic9890  yes, but regular grenades that also kill people
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  4842.  @kh2b573  Lol fair enough
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  4843. Few Americans still genuinely believe that. We are powerless to do anything about it. Our elections are compromised. Elected politicians have been in the pocket of the same corpos taking advantage of poorer nations for decades.
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  4844. It's weird to me that Joe seems to think that taking jiu-jitsu and playing video games are mutually exclusive. You're either an ebin gamer nerd continually caked in a layer of Cheetos dust or you're a chiselled Chad that regularly twists men twice his weight into pretzels. Nothing inbetween. I do both and I have met other guys at my dojo that play video games. Well... I wish I could do both, but it's kinda difficult in the current circumstances.
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  4845. It's not a "great thing," it means that more crime is occurring and it is being obstructed by random citizens, not cops. It is a necessary thing however.
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  4846.  @tubesism  Very few struggling people in the US genuinely feel like they have to steal things. They do it because it's easy or because it is fun.
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  4847.  @tubesism  That sword cuts both ways buddy. Do you have a source to show that all people who steal are just good-hearted, misunderstood people? You do realize that stealing isn't even a good way to make money? There's no shortage of employment if you're not picky. Or welfare, for that matter. Not to mention you'll just be imprisoned eventually.
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  4848. Yep. That was what I was thinking. The nanosecond that animation ends, they're sprinting at full speed sliding and quickscoping around a corner.
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  4849.  @Nomoon777  People be committing Loki's Wager all the time man. They can't process nuance, all they need is the tiniest excuse to consider supporting the Game They Buy Every Year and that's good enough for them. It doesn't matter that Zombies was a completely separate campaign, and to them a weed skin is the same thing as a Barney the Dinosaur skin. Zero nuance.
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  4850. Aztec orcs would have been sweet. Unfortunately there is just so many of these hack writers and artists who make everything modern. Almost all the clothes in that image were modern. I think it is because they are self absorbed and only like stuff like Twilight.
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  4851. Although Doom basically was the growing fetus of the arena FPS genre, it didn't have good multiplayer features until the community stepped in to fill the gaps. The dial-up networks of Romero's time were supported by community maps like DWANGO.WAD, and community infrastructure (DWANGO stands for Dial-up Wide Area Network Game Operation, a deathmatch network you participated in by calling some guy's phone number). id Software never stepped in to provide any support at all for multiplayer even with the numerous re-releases and expansions for classic Doom. It's even more confusing when you notice that John Romero spent many of his hours deathmatching on DWANGO himself. Doom's multiplayer features were outmoded before even Quake came out just 3 years later with its direct IP connection features which we still use today. Even Doom 3 had bafflingly terrible multiplayer on its launch, with a 4-player maximum, no changes to the flashlight mechanics and very basic modes. TL;DR: You were barking up the wrong tree if you ever bought Doom for its multiplayer.
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  4852. @@cptdudebro I will never understand why people like you think doubling down makes you look smart instead of incredibly stupid.
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  4853.  @CharityDiary  I'm honestly amazed at how you fail to realize how self-contradictory your own post is. The fact that good games like DRG exist and are made by a small team means it isn't "the developers." Who hires developers at big companies? The management. You think they hire "bad developers" on accident? No, you clown. They do it on purpose because they lay them off after every project and hire fresh college graduates. They never have to promote anyone and pay them more money. It is entirely the fault of management. They have deliberately created a terrible working environment where no self-respecting developer would work, and intentionally refuse to retain any developers who gain talent or experience. Talented workers demand more pay, and people keep buying games made by untalented people. Management isn't forced to hire bad developers.
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  4854.  @BerryNice1996  Average game developer skills don't need to be good. Games are dictated almost entirely by shareholders at these companies. It does not matter how talented or creative the developer is because they have no say in the game. Why hire someone talented? Why retain developers who gain experience?
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  4855. Like raising a child, it's part nature, part nurture. Even in communist societies there are those who are not stupid enough to fall for the propaganda, and it usually ends up being a majority who simply go along for fear of being imprisoned or worse
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  4856.  @zz7733  Those are people who usually seek to control a relationship by targeting a person they think has low self-esteem, then berating them to the point where they think they can't get anyone else. That's probably why they started dating someone they didn't find that attractive to begin with.
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  4857. Rofl, they forgot to censor "Mwgli gets a Woody" on the shot just prior to the one where they showed the screen.
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  4858.  @CelticCatholic  You mean quit and leave for a better-paying job? Yeah what a travesty, that someone would leave a company because they're underpaid. We should do everything we can to prevent this. How's your stock portfolio champ?
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  4859.  @CelticCatholic  The theoretical offended person you're talking about is a liability anyway if they're so arrogant that they believe they should earn more just because someone else at the company earns more, regardless of context. I could care less about some upstart's feelings in comparison to the benefits of transparency.
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  4860.  @AngelloDelNorte  The cop was following up because this car (or, a car that looked like this one) evaded a stop from him the day prior. The video I watched didn't specify what the stop was for, but regardless, he had no way of knowing that it was actually the same car instead of a similar make and color. All cops incur risk when they walk up to a vehicle like that, true, but this cop escalated immediately. He could have knocked on the window, said "I'm Officer so-and-so, can I ask you a couple of questions," sussed out his reaction and determined where to go from there. When you go through a normal traffic stop, the cop doesn't ask you to step out immediately unless you were already evading as he stopped you. The guy had a lap and hands filled with fast food, it's safe to say the cop would have had time to react if the guy wanted to get violent. Instead he threw open the door and barked "Step out of the vehicle" which immediately puts them both on edge. Even more insanely he shot the guy for trying to drive away instead of issuing a warrant for his arrest, calling backup, or doing anything else despite the fact that the guy never threatened him. This reflects a problem a lot of moron cops seem to have. They reach a foregone conclusion before they even talk to a civilian and are as stubborn as a jackass about it, even in the face of mounting evidence. Another bodycam video I saw involved 2 cops responding to a report of shoplifting in a store. They walk around the store, see some random black guy who didn't match the description, and one of the cops decides it's him even as dispatch tells them the description again. The partner didn't correct him either. To this rookie, the guy driving the car is the same car he saw yesterday, AND he evaded the stop because he is clearly a violent criminal, he decided all of this with no evidence which led to his irrational course of action.
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  4861.  @jasonjames4254  I'd imagine a pretty successful one would, considering you just admitted you'd hand your car over to him with that comment.
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  4862.  @tpndgo2061  People idling in their car is not unusual at all. I am a pedestrian, I walk through many parking lots while trying to go places. In almost every one, even residential areas, there is some guy idling in his car in the parking lot doing God only knows what. I have no idea why they do it, but it is apparently normal behavior. I imagine for the ones not in the residential areas, they are ducking out of work.
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  4863.  @jasonjames4254  Well good job buddy, guess you're going to federal prison for assault with a deadly weapon against a totally innocent police officer. I guess you're not an upstanding citizen after all. How could you have made such an obvious error in judgment?!? /sarcasm Also, I hope you carry your firearm on your person at all times, because if the "cop" gets into your car after asking you to step out and it has your gun in the center console, you won't be doing much shooting.
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  4864.  @Debiorkorn  lmao i bet you think Rogan is a right wing grifter too, after he let Zuck go on and spew a whole bunch of nonsense about why he's exempt from blame for his own censorship and Rogan just said "oh really? wow that's crazy" asmon is just an opinionated schmuck, no idea why people pretend like he's some kind of mastermind
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  4865.  @TheDarkness5  Having road tripped a lot, there's a LOT of boring parts of the US. Mostly in the heartlands and in Texas. The interesting parts are in the Appalachia and Rocky Mountains areas.
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  4866.  @Solo_terryaki  Actually the real answer is that you can be someone else, but making that change takes a significant amount of time and effort, much more than you'll be able to do in an evening over drinks.
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  4867. @turkey4957 just be a doormat and let corporations wipe their boots on you, it's fine bro
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  4868. Usually men fall into this way of thinking because of prison gangs. The white men in prisons band together like this out of fear, but also to strike fear into the other gangs. Ironically, if a Nazi regime were to rule over the US, they would see men like this as scum, because they are or were criminals.
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  4869.  @TGuard00014  I consume a fair amount of porn. This idea that all men consume garbage professional stuff where some gorilla robotically pistons a comically fake bimbo as they both clearly aren't enjoying it is not true. Yes, there are some who are for some reason into that stuff (I honestly can't tell you why) but I am not one of them. I don't approach attractiveness with an obsession for any singular part of the body, although there are certain parts that help. Do research on websites like "orange YouTube" as some jokingly call it; amateur videos are at an all time popularity high and it's because of the visible intimacy without any pretension or disgusting fake surgery. In other words, a realistic ideal of what a sexual relationship should be. I'm not saying porn addiction isn't a problem, I'm just saying the vast majority of men aren't stupid or tasteless enough to only want ultra-bimbos. You may be approaching the problem with the wrong mindset.
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  4870.  @Fbarts  Can't afford it these days so he has to make do with correcting people who are preventing crime
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  4871. those terms were coined to explain relationships between animals like wolves in a hierarchy. the funny thing is, they're not even accepted science any more, researchers have moved on because they did not describe the roles of the group members accurately.
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  4872. I recommend listening to "The N Word Song" by Sha Stimuli. Specifically the second verse.
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  4873. Don't worry, I already saved it to my backup drive.
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  4874. Honestly, this is one of the least-egregious gun myths I've heard on TV. In that there is some truth to it, just not applicable in the way she described. A deer isn't going to vaporize when you shoot it with an AR, but a squirrel would probably get quite shredded and there would be a lot of waste. Now, hogs on the other hand, they're in the sweet spot...
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  4875.  @emberfist8347  It's not on the same degree as fully semi automatic or clipazines or "I cried when the recoil [from the AR-15] impacted my shoulder" (that one wasn't on TV, but it was a mainstream internet news article)
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  4876. Some dogs have special diet needs, but I was surprised when you said they just abandoned their dog. That would be one thing if it was a stray they took in for a few weeks, but if it's a GSD they raised themselves, I'm sure it affected him pretty badly to see his family just up and leave him there.
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  4877.  @LiqqaRoni-cx3tx  not a good idea if you want another job in the future
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  4878. That dipshit could have gotten at least 15 large from a collector
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  4879.  @milton1448  Nah, I empathize with not wanting to be named after a creature that doesn't even exist. It would be like calling white people "ghosts" because they have pale skin. It's kind of a silly way to refer to a real person. The condition they have is called dwarfism, and is referential to the myth of old, but not the same thing.
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  4880. ​@Jeff-zf6uy That will not work. Laws move slowly and technology moves fast. What standard will that be? You would have to use a relative standard, such as "the best security in the world," rather than an objective standard, like "512-bit encryption." Or you would need an audit/penetration testing. But who will do the testing? Government employees? That would likely be a joke.
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  4881. Not sure if you're talking about who I think you're talking about, but that guy's secretary wrote in his memoirs that he thought pagan German LARPers in his top brass were very cringeworthy. It is certainly a humiliation ritual though.
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  4882.  @northerndeer2959  didn't they show post-holocaust photos on the History channel like daily not too long ago?
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  4883. ​ @Heike--  ... Blogs? Are you from like 2005? Lol... don't mistake your ignorance for a lack of content in the tabletop space
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  4884. ​ @MichaelMurrieta-c1n Me and my group of about 16 years disagrees... Can't find a group, sounds like a skill issue and a lack of motivation.
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  4885.  @chrisa3289  Bro, the dogs sounded less troublesome than my Aussie. She goes apeshit any time someone is at the door
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  4886. MGS2 and 3: 🗿
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  4887.  @HachoirR  Asmongoldberg*
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  4888. Another fun fact, some executioners would have the right to dispose of a criminals body how they saw fit. And some took advantage of this to chop pieces off their bodies and sell them as souvenirs. Incredibly macabre, but even worse is knowing that people bought them. People believed specific body parts of specific criminals held power. Franz Schmidt, a German executioner who we have the written diary of, even used the knowledge gained from this to retire, get a pardon from the emperor saying he is now honorable and become a medical consultant
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  4889. You felt loved when you watch porn? Where do you people come from?
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  4890. I wonder what her reaction would be, if, theoretically, this game she's talking about was well-received, and her involvement was very minimal. In other words, "white males" wouldn't care because the game is good and the characters are good. Would she be glad that diversity is being accepted? No, I believe she would be angry and dissatisfied because "white males" aren't upset. This petty behavior comes from someone whose primary motivator is spite.
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  4891.  @nigelbagguley7606  You can always tell which people don't know anything about technology or its pitfalls by their irrational attachment to physical media, especially physical media with inferior, grainy sound quality and requiring specialized equipment. Despite the fact that you can't infinitely fabricate a vinyl record for no cost and with no equipment, thus rendering any problems of durability (like dirt or wear) irrelevant. In 100 years, vinyl records of old music will be gone forever and digital media will be all that's available.
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  4892.  @EnRaye  There's a recent book, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory, that delves into the topic in-depth. It's quite cerebral, and I've only read a small part of it so far, but there are a surprising amount of physics scientists that delve into this topic. Needless to say, it's hotly debated, but it makes sense if you start from the point of reason that quantum mechanics dictates that the universe actually changes when it is observed by man, among a few other things. Of course, this principle (aka the Schrodinger's Cat principle) is itself based on our own observation. In my opinion this causes a cycle of infinite regression. We observe test results and dictate they must be affected by our own observation because nothing else explains it. But that, itself, is one of our own observations. And my observation of that is also human. You can regress this infinitely. You, reading this comment, are also arguably affected by this. We cannot be sure that our own observations are reliable and that there is not another phenomenon at play here. However, there was a principle formulated in the 1970s called the "anthropic principle" which takes this idea to its logical conclusion: the reason why we are in a universe that is "suited to life" is because we are observing it. I think it's self-evident why this theory is controversial. Substitute man for another observer, like God, and you're a theist. I'd recommend reading the book if you're interested on what Hawking thought of God, and how he constructed an environmentally-based theory to explain the universe, in large part to spite theists and the anthropic principle. By enviromentally-based, I mean sort of like Darwinism or natural selection. It goes deep into multiverse theory and such.
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  4893.  @ShadeSlayer1911  A dog that you get as a small child will live all the way until sometime when you're a teenager though, assuming nothing terrible happens.
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  4894. ​ @Squat5000 Fascism is an iteration on Communism. Literally; Mussolini was a Communist before WW1 ended. The reason they hate each other is because they're both competitors to power.
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  4895. ​ @srcoeiu6100 planned protests indeed, planned by NGOs and donors who pay actors
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  4896. It's not "just a filter," the movements are too unnatural and arbitrary. It is a very good imitation of a real dance while not really being a real dance. It's still interesting to see the progress.
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  4897. Imagine a guy recording vacation footage on his phone and somebody walks up with a boombox blasting non-royalty-free music, then he starts yelling "HEY SHUT THAT THING OFF I'M GOING TO POST THIS ON YOUTUBE LATER YOU'RE GOING TO PUT ME IN JAIL"
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  4898.  @danielkissgremsperger3242  i don't know why people are obsessed with thinking this, these people are established entertainers they didn't literally come from nowhere. especially gura, she had a very well known presence on youtube before taking that role. kson used to be one of the members and she is an extremely well known IRL streamer, and she's also hot to top it all off. not to mention the dozens of indie vtubers who also do IRL streams or show photos also japanese companies take this shit EXTREMELY seriously they would never hoodwink their fans in that way because they know it would instantly sink their company and every fan would turn their backs on them. it would be on the level of the makers of a crypto coin taking all the money and running, would completely destroy their reputation over night. even nijisanji doesn't do that and they're extremely scummy compared to hololive. there's huge money in this industry. if there was going to be a male streamer who uses a female avatar it would probably be a selling point and they would play it up for people who are into traps
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  4899. ​​​ @Ryan83728 Honestly, I'm inclined to agree. Nothing makes me scream internally when I browse dating apps like "I'm a huge fan of The Office and if you aren't we won't get along." In fact I think the reason why this rubs so many people the wrong way is that it feels like a company holiday party. The last company Christmas party I went to also had costumes even though nobody really does that for Christmas.
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  4900. Oddly enough he mentions the T72 in the video as well, which is ANOTHER Russian tank designation, though it wouldn't be made until many years later.
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  4901. The really dumb thing is if he got a drum trashcan, plopped it in the hallway outside his door and buckled down, he could have all this shit cleaned up probably in about an hour
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  4902.  @OncelerKidsAreCringe  There are, but they're usually "past their prime" like DDO for example which has steadily made more and more of its content free over time. However the benefit of that game is that it's all instanced dungeons so as long as you know a group of people to play with regularly, you don't need the rest of the server.
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  4903. The entire world connected to the internet has a problem called "retarded single young women think they can hook up with a 50 year old man who makes $300k+ a year and actually rope him into a marriage, without realizing he's just using them for meat" Every woman now has a dating pool the size of the entire first world thanks to social media. Or at least, that's how it looks to them. In reality they're all clawing over each other for the top 5% and they will be thrown away as expendable pieces of meat. Much like the men they ignore.
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  4904.  @ThomasSawyers  The "scary" part that you will never accept is that at least half the nation supports Trump, and likely it will be more thanks to this clusterfuck. That's a lot of normies. You must accept that normal, well adjusted people support Trump to have any chance at affecting politics, but you can't because it destroys the entire narrative you've created for yourself. Good luck with that champ.
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  4905.  @septimus7524  I would say that it is less about centralization principally and more about the fact that northern states were being represented more in Congress due to being population centers. Legislation against slavery, while good in principle, was just one part of that trend. From the Southerners' perspective, Congress and the executive branch were basically all conspiring to ensure they wouldn't get any more influence or wealth. Which is a shame, because the charters drawn up for the Confederacy were, honestly, laughable and far less free than the Union they set out to replace. It was a tragic war all around.
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  4906. @kateofone  Extremes are entirely subjective and shift with the times. Trump would never have been considered extreme until he ran for president
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  4907. ​ @Max-oi9es  Wow, I just looked that up. Horrifying. The guy got tackled by one cop over a traffic stop, then some random idiot cop pulled up and tazed him. Not only was he burned but 3 other deputies were severely burned by this idiotic tazing. Gee, didn't you learn that sparks cause fire in elementary school?
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  4908.  @dubber1416  I think it wasn't because it was pumping, his bike's gas tank was still open and it got knocked over, covering both him and the deputy trying to hold him accountable for a missed traffic stop in gas.
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  4909. He's not even the first one to get shot. The first one was some dumb fuck who pretended to rob someone with a knife at a Walmart and was shot dead. This recent guy lived and it isn't clear how dangerous the prank he did was because he's being tight lipped about it. My guess is fairly dangerous.
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  4910. Just pirate the game and store backups of it. After buying a copy, if you choose, to support the developer. CDs and DVDs are fallible methods of distribution. They corrode over time. People put too much value in these things. The only thing that matters is the media, in this case, the game.
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  4911. Companies like Nintendo can and will put a game up on a shopfront somewhere for decades just to ensure no one can download their games for free. The details don't matter, preventing other people from playing games they don't sell is absurdly important to them.
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  4912.  @ahank1706  because they're... not... complete. and no one should be required to pay monthly for a game they bought previously and had access to forever. don't know why people are so eager to give corporations the right to do anything they want simply because it's "their" product. and really when we're talking about ownership we're talking about at most a dozen people in suits in a board meeting room, not the entire group of people who worked on developing the product
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  4913. ​ @UnofficialCyane Guys a private business owner. he is literally stimulating the economy as that moron drives past to receive a drastically undervalued payout
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  4914. Why would you assume that everyone related to this guy acts just like him?
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  4915. This just proves that virtually every talk show host does things like this. You can patch together any amount of unused footage to make anyone look bad. Also, I can't believe people are still willing to work for Fox, considering that they make it a point to preserve this footage just to use as blackmail against you.
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  4916.  @blargcoster  People like you can't see past your own nose, it's quite depressing, really. Yes, in this photo, I'm sure the guns are unloaded and completely safe. However, this is more likely than not evidence of a habit -- standing downrange to load your guns. Which means that every time they go to that range, they do this. Now, how much money are you willing to bet that every single time they go to the range, and perform this bad habit, that they won't make another mistake? How much more money are you willing to bet that this isn't indicative of an attitude problem, one where the reins continually slip? Once you get 2 or 3 mistakes deep, due to your laziness and false sense of competence... then someone dies. This is bad enough if a civilian does it. But a federal agent, who is supposed to be the authority on gun safety and regulation...? Come on. How many boots do you lick per hour?
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  4917. ​ @MOUNTAINS-YT He reminds me of Tommy Wiseau. I did NAHT
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  4918.  @dmitrychirkov4206  you must not have played on the NA server then. the game was less popular so there were less people posting video guides and assuming that everyone else obsessively reads patch notes, video guides, etc. on the game. nowadays if you play a non-ranked all pick game, you are flamed if you don't follow the same idiot proof meta guide that some other idiot watched on youtube
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  4919.  @sundanser  agreed, it's very tedious and boring. insult contests can be an actually fun way to express anger
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  4920.  @mkzzzzzzzzzz1  it's less being offended and more being annoyed that now i have to deal with 2 grown children being passive aggressive for literally the entire match afterward. it makes me feel like a fucking parent explosive rage is over quickly, this is a bunch of idiots who all think they will have some kind of miracle moment where they convince another idiot to stop being an idiot
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  4921.  @davidwilson6577  I'm keeping shlebong.
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  4922.  @crankysmurf  Coolest disability implementation was Pathfinder with its Oracle class. It represents the classical blind or lame prophet trope and the disabilities eventually turn into advantages later (i.e. blind characters eventually get blindsight later IIRC, which is better than normal sight and they're immune to sight based effects like basilisk's gaze)
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  4923. His name is Dean Takahashi and that is basically how his games reviewing career started if I recall right.
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  4924.  @TheHollowBlade  Stop playing shitty platformers dude.
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  4925. The people protesting in this way believe that this is "their moment," they are caught up in the "fame and glory" of it all. To them this is just like the cool videos they saw on Twitter. It is not a real situation in which they are preventing people from earning a living by blocking their vehicle. They do not care about the causes they claim to protest because they do not directly block or attack the companies or government entities involved. It is always random bystanders that have to suffer for "the cause," which in actuality is, "the clout they gain on social media." This lady and most of the people around her never thought they were in any real danger. Their only thought was "this is going to go viral when I post it online."
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  4926.  @adreanmarantz2103  That's because it was less derivative. Lazy, derivative writing tends to throw plausibility out of the window in favor of recognizable characters and set pieces. That's why they destroyed yet another death star in episode 7.
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  4927. Humans in AD&D were not the shit race that did nothing well. IIRC, they were the only race that could reach max level in Cleric, and either the only race or one of like 2 races that could take the Paladin class, which was fucking godly back in those days. "Protection from Evil" in those days meant undead creatures literally could not touch you.
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  4928. @jaire kambui Martin only worked on the worldbuilding stage of the game. He was done like 2 years before the game even released. Basically he had some brainstorming sessions with Miyazaki, they slapped his name on the marketing to sell more games and that was it. It is for all intents and purposes a Japanese game.
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  4929. If they play up the "We have no resources and no one is helping us" angle they'll get more money from the feds and donators. There's only one kind of resource they care about and it fits in a wallet.
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  4930.  @kingfuzzy2  It is when there is literally only one cause to choose from. Like, you can't use 60% enriched uranium to bedazzle your steering wheel or some shit. It's ONLY FOR NUKES.
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  4931.  @Hello-ig1px  Because the city council isn't infallible? Are you daft or just doing a very good job at pretending?
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  4932. They and other outlets like Kotaku are absolutely seething because Saber won't talk to them. All they can say without risking legal action is, "we can't confirm whether the CEO said this" and it's pissing them off because they have no story and can't farm drama.
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  4933. It's roughly twice the population of the US.
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  4934. That's why they don't say "sex" anymore. Transitioning used to be called a "sex change" way back in the 90's.
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  4935. Yep, my most intense sexual fantasy is someone that actually cares about me. Sounds far-fetched because it is.
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  4936.  @prototypesend7075  You're literally buying games that will never be finished. What part of that do you not understand?
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  4937. If real pr0n disappeared tomorrow, I'd just use swimsuit photos or something. You'd have to turn this nation into Saudi Arabia and clothe every woman in a burka to stand any chance of stopping that urge. And even then, you'd have smut artists to deal with (2D stuff).
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  4938.  @ThePopo543  Oh, believe me, I don't feel sorry for her. Give it a few years, maybe then I might. It's much easier to forgive a mental illness if you're trying to seek help for it -- and yes, I know it's difficult, but I do believe it is much easier for women.
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  4939.  @acccident3349  You're right, I got emotions confused with empathy.
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  4940.  @kirilWW  You're not tired. You will keep replying to this thread because you are the archetypal "failed troll" who believes they are winning something at the internet even though they are primarily wasting their own time, not others'. You're a disingenuous clown and I look forward to your inevitable reply with no substance.
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  4941.  @panzermaus664  No, it was different, it's primarily due to a huge portion of our population being addicted to online social "interaction" and due to the fact that they think about this shit constantly it carries over to real life. In the past they'd have had to fill their time with something else, and not bounce ideas off a virtual echo chamber incessantly. People like that existed in the past, but they would be the ones who went to real life activist groups all the time, not just people who spent a lot of hours on Twitter.
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  4942.  @ALG2691  And Coors, don't forget their dumb ass feminist ad
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  4943. I can. Get good.
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  4944. They didn't even click "Change Team," they straight up started spawn camping their own team on a FF enabled server.
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  4945.  @Visualeaf  "hey kids, this is uncle kermit, say hello. he'll keep you safe from strangers"
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  4946. Imagine snorting water into your nose and then spraying it into your own mouth to drink. What an interesting life. Also cmon bro the lion just wanted to chill. Damn.
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  4947. People with dwarfism aren't a significant voting bloc so they don't get all the political perks like being advocated for in Hollywood.
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  4948. This is a rural area. I don't think your typical college age brainless dependent mindset applies here.
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  4949. @flyoverkid55  Honestly, you're beginning to sound like one from this dialogue.
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  4950.  @TheFlash-vb9bj  Actually she can't, that goes to William Henry Harrison. He was only president for exactly 1 month before he died from an illness.
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  4951.  @Bad_Drivers_Caught_On_Dashcam  If you honest-to-God believe that you will teach those people a lesson by doing what you're doing, you are dead wrong. You should accept that these people are morons and dangers to everyone around them, give them a wide berth, and pray that they are thrown in jail before they hurt themselves or someone else. Otherwise, you are just making the hurting part more likely for yourself. In an accident, they will always blame the other, no matter what happened.
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  4952.  @Techn0Snake  If it was planned, it would be no worse than anything the CIA did domestically throughout the 20th century, and most of that stuff is public record. It's not unreasonable to be skeptical. This is what happens when organizations have federal immediacy and no accountability. I don't know why people are so quick to defend the government; the people there are just as corrupt as anyone else. However, I believe that stupidity comes before malice, and law enforcement in this nation is reactive in nature. This is mostly down to law enforcement's hands being tied; it's also a huge problem with stalkers. Someone could stalk you and send you threats for months and the police simply won't do anything because "no crime was committed." Often, they won't even permit a restraining order. It's insanity. Most red flag laws won't fix this properly however, because the accusation of being "dangerous" does not need to be qualified by anyone meaningful and doesn't go through a valid trial procedure. A victim of domestic violence could be accused of insanity by her abuser, for example, and put under red flag restrictions, rendering him or her unable to protect themselves from their own abuser.
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  4953.  @Selrisitai  You don't consider price gouging to be dishonest behavior?
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  4954. Becoming skeptical of everything is kind of a good thing. The problem is it's selectively applied to certain ideas
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  4955.  @worldzealot  I'm just saying you can buy 100 double edged razor blades for $7 or so. The quality doesn't matter particularly because all the weight of that razor falls on the one blade. It cuts very smoothly. I tried to go back to the 4-bladed razors after some time using a safety and it felt like a cat scratch.
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  4956.  @worldzealot  Can't speak to that. Shaving cream is meh, but there are many lotions out there to use which I prefer.
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  4957. System of a Down's "Steal This Album!" comes to mind. The CD print was made to look like a storebought CD-R with the title written on it with a Sharpie.
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  4958.  @sherongordon-dilnassa6193  Something minority people don't seem to fully grasp is that white people are not a minority and don't think like one. That means they don't join political organizations to vote in one big bloc for the same candidate to match the clout of the majority, or agree to compromise on any other issues. In fact lack of compromise is the number one problem affecting this nation at the moment. "White" people are glad to fight amongst themselves over their own individual heritage and beliefs. There isn't a secret website or Facebook group where all white people go to coordinate their mutual hatred for other races. It's not a club.
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  4959. GameStop was predicted as going into bankruptcy. The short-sellers who got shafted by the Redditors were betting on exactly that. I doubt they'll be saved by this, they might be able to get a bigger payout when they liquidate their company though.
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  4960. @RichSmithson Yes, savage orcs use gear inspired from caricatures of African tribes. They simply need to get over it because it doesn't matter.
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  4961.  @saywhat1844  We're not annexing those nations because it would bring us more expenses than benefits. This is just bullshit to scare other politicians and distract the media
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  4962. They were ordered by their masters at the CCP to do so. It's economic warfare. By holding on to land and doing nothing with it, you are essentially holding a nation hostage. No one can use that land for anything useful.
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  4963. Hot water trick usually does it if you're really having issues.
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  4964. "Do you understand that?" "Mommy? Sorry... mommy?"
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  4965. It's cool bro, just trust our third party generals who are more than an ocean away. Who better to know what's going on in Ukraine?
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  4966. How could you say something so offensive and inaccurate! It's obviously the Hell Knight, because they're pale skinned.
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  4967. "Sharon is trying to learn Outrage!"
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  4968.  @kir0nz  That's fine, the company will go under if that pattern continues.
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  4969.  @cefasvaneck6440  Eh... yes, and no. That dude is twice her size. He could sit on her and she wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it. His problem is that he is used to not taking action and that has led to a point where he has no self-esteem, so he lets his woman get away with this shit, embarrass the both of them, and then weakly tries to defuse the situation. In a sense, it's his fault because there's no way he can't overpower her, tell her to calm the fuck down, and let her impotently throw her little temper tantrum while he holds her in place. Eventually, like a dog, the behavior will be conditioned out of her. It's really both their faults combined; you're witnessing two people who are not ready to be in a relationship.
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  4970.  @jscotthatcher380  usually people get arrested when they intentionally sabotage a government function if you really wanted to stretch it, it could be labeled terrorism because it involved misuse of a fire alarm, something almost everyone would agree causes fear
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  4971.  @purplepurple8179  Pulling a knife on a guy because he said mean words to you and then taunting him because he walked away from your lethal weapon is peak fucking coward bro. Not sure how you can't see that. It would be one thing if he challenged him to a fist fight. It would be an overreaction, and insecure, but not cowardly if he accepted the outcome of the fight. But he waited until he walked away and stabbed him. But as they say, it's how they do things in LA. Even Dave Chapelle knows. The dude was too much of a pussy for a fist fight. He was too much of a pussy to even argue. But he still wanted to win, to be "right." So he escalated because he knew in his childlike mind that he had a knife and the other guy probably had nothing. So he wins. It's what an overgrown 5 year old would do if they didn't get their way
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  4972.  @StandWatie1862  This isn't how a psycho acts, this is how a man with the mind of a toddler acts. What you just witnessed is a temper tantrum performed by a man over voting age. He didn't want to argue, didn't want to fight fairly, but still felt insulted. So he thought, I'll just stab the nigga, then he won't be able to do shit. Psychos are usually self-aware and intelligent enough to make better decisions than this. They often become C-level executives.
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  4973.  @AlvinY4kitori  also known as "oh shit what are you doing" if I remember the old chart right
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  4974. ​ @achillepalermo2354 some of us, not all of us if you understand the first thing about genetics and nutrition
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  4975.  @cykablyat3680  It looks good because you only see it through propaganda showed to you on the Super Destroyer. You'd have to be insane to believe that it is really a utopia. The SE government reveals just through propaganda that child labor is normalized, you have to fill out a government form to have unprotected sex, etc. Also, talk to the junior tech on the destroyer until she talks about her savings plans. It's an absurd parody of modern American economics. Personally, I believe that the game's progression system exists entirely in-universe, and that warfare is completely economized for Helldivers. They have to "buy" gear, and don't receive it on the basis of suitability for the mission, just like the player does. It resembles Fascism in many ways due to the propaganda, but I believe it's more like "What if the American military-industrial complex controlled humanity for a few hundred years?"
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  4976. ​@__bz7wh Yeah. As much as I agree with their overall sentiment, this highlights just how shallow Japanese businessmen are in assessing Western markets. It's been a big problem for a long time, and the other execs making the decision to censor aren't any better - they're both effectively taking Twitter as a perfectly representative platform of our worldview
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  4977. He cast "Transmute Rock to Mud" first, one of the most useful spells in D&D.
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  4978. I love Mitten Dew. It's my favorite beverage process byproduct.
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  4979.  @lprophit  It's an anime shirt, kinda hilarious actually
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  4980.  @shannonrusso3853  It's actually pretty unusual when you consider the reporter said that multiple people have nearly fallen into this ravine and nobody thought to report this to Google Maps. Meanwhile the traffic changes slightly and you have a hundred people posting it to Google immediately.
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  4981. Sadly American small towns very often sprang up around a railroad that was built with zero thought to infrastructure.
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  4982.  @Nayutune  Activision and Blizzard aren't literally the same studio, despite their merger. Why are you bringing up CoD?
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  4983. ​ @XXXOverlord666 The only hope you have is stating your position, which is hopefully correct, and refusing to engage with any stupid tangents or fallacies. Stop talking until they address the point or go away. The only chance of success is that they think about it later and realize they were being stupid
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  4984. ​​ @JoseViktor4099 The sun does move and, naturally the moon does as well. You didn't ask the right questions. The worst kind of misinformation is sprinkled with truth.
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  4985.  @JoseViktor4099  It is indeed very hard, but not impossible. Sometimes people can surprise you. If I were in your position, I would have pursued a line of questioning about what "BS" it is that "they" want you to buy by telling you the world isn't flat. It's the weakest position to hold, because scientific explanations can easily be handwaved away as "magic" or "bullshit" by people who are uneducated or refuse to do research, especially if they've already bought in to the idea that it is a conspiracy of some sort. Again, I wouldn't even say that it is likely that they would change their position, but if you can get them to even think about it and second-guess themselves then it is a victory.
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  4986.  @Arkantos117  cool, so now let me ask you why it took several lines of pointless bickering before you said something relevant to the topic? you could have just stated that last paragraph in your last post and it would have saved us both a tremendous amount of time but instead you wanted to talk about my home ownership practices also you're not so much complaining about licensing and industry standards as much as you are complaining about the modern legal system. i would hope you understand that swift justice necessitates a lack of vetting and due process which would, on the whole, be quite bad. grass is always greener on the other side, so unless you have a time machine, i'm going to doubt that guilds were "much more effective"
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  4987. Ah yes, the crocodile, known for their ability to traverse land incredibly fast and definitely not for sitting around in the water and doing absolutely nothing until you step on them.
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  4988.  @teathesilkwing7616  Only for very short distances.
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  4989.  @apprentessjgooden2263  Cool, but nobody asked
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  4990.  @harryhanz1690  Obama is the first black president, his impact was never in question
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  4991.  @peaceful3250  Another thing that goes unmentioned is that a big reason that Nordic countries rank low on the "loneliness" spectrum is that those people are genuinely happier with fewer relationships. They are probably "objectively lonelier" than other nations in the sense that they have fewer regular interactions with people but it doesn't make them as unhappy. I've known a few Finns and other Nordic people. Norway, Sweden and Finland are nations with not very hospitable terrain that makes it difficult to get places. The Finnish invented IRC, probably the oldest real time chat protocol that was available on the world wide internet, to allow them to socialize while snowed in. The US is very large, and kids are encouraged to move out and buy their own house, so Americans don't visit each other that often. It's kind of become a part of those nations' respective cultures.
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  4992.  @barkmaker  You can't mute individuals on YouTube. I'm going to dig in the dirt for worms, because this bait is fucking trash.
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  4993.  @caskap  Every time I see a post like this, I wonder what parallel universe your message was transposed from. Here's a laundry list that might illustrate how ridiculous you sound. - Has hyperinflation gotten to the point that Americans can't buy bread with cash? - Are prostitutes and drug addicts walking around in the town square of the capital without fear or shame? - Was there recently a world war that we lost, that left hundreds of thousands of veterans with an uncertain future in frustration and disarray? - Was the prior administration so weak and disorganized that it was being subverted by militia armies of the aforementioned veterans, operating fully in the open, which they could do almost nothing about? (I don't like Biden, but let's be realistic, here.) - Did we get slapped with a shockingly high reparations mandate from a coalition of nations more powerful than us (haha) in the loss of the aforementioned war, one that seems impossible to pay? - Was our nation lagging behind terribly on industrialization and unable to compete with other world economies before Trump got in office? - Did Trump run as a third party candidate that had to make a coalition with the Republicans? - Did Trump quite literally stab his fellow party members in the back when he won the election because they expected him to work with the traditional Republicans or provide on false promises? - Is there an emergency powers clause in our Constitution that allows a ruler to wield absolute power, indefinitely? - In an extreme twist of fate, did a radical man commit a heinous act of terrorism that allowed the clause to be triggered shortly after he was elected? If your answer was "no" to all of these, as it should have been because it reflects fact, then I'm not exactly sure how the state of our nation or Trump's campaign is similar to the person you are referencing.
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  4994.  @caskap  If the education system in whatever "shithole country" you come from was adequate, to borrow a Trumpism, you might realize that your comparison holds no water. In all fairness, however, I have yet to see a nation whose education curriculum regarding WW2 and the events that caused it was adequate.
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  4995.  @IGotNoJam  Surely "being American" is the reason people wouldn't help.
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  4996.  @zkxnkj534  Sadly relationships require two people. You might as well say "if you were a good driver, you wouldn't be afraid of getting in an accident with another driver." No fault to the other person I suppose?
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  4997.  @Mentocthemindtaker  There is definitely some truth to that video but I think the quality of food is exaggerated a bit. I've heard that salmon were actually quite unhealthy (as in, the salmon themselves were unhealthy before they died) because of river pollution from medieval industry. Specifically in the Thames. Yeah, pollution was a concern back then, especially when everyone lived around a river that was also fished from. The vegetables and fruit from their farms were probably top quality though. I mean, it's completely organic, the stuff you'd pay extra for now.
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  4998.  @evanjohnson1815  rights aren't real, they're just lofty little nice ideas that we share among each other because those among us who are civilized enjoy following rules. problem is, not only are not all of us civilized including many of those in our government, but rules and principles are usually not good fits for every scenario you can encounter in reality. combat training is all well and good, but the person who hones their shooting and martial arts to a fine edge while completely ignoring basic situational awareness and interpretation of posture is still a suicidal idiot. you can only come out of so many fights unscathed until you end up maimed or killed. avoiding needless conflict is always the superior option. dude should have pretended to be asleep and waited until the cop fucked off
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  4999.  @FedSmoker64  You might assume that is a possible context if the channel is called Bicycle Tires Daily...
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  5000.  @randconfig8626  It isn't, but if you're defective enough to harm others, or so reckless that you spray glass everywhere in someone's home with total disregard as to who or what may be behind the window, then yes you deserve to either be locked away or put down. Your existence in polite society is a net negative at that point
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  5001.  @andyman8630  The really fucking sad thing is that you have undershot, massively. Twitter had something like 10,000 employees when Elon bought it.
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  5002.  @talongreenlee7704  it's a series but yes
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  5003.  @hanna4684  How the hell did this go from "kid with a BMW and over $30k to spend on bail" to "this generation?" You really believe all of Gen Z has this kind of money?
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  5004. I don't know about the UK but here in the US rural police can be quite obnoxious, especially if you are a visitor to a town that doesn't get many visitors. They might assume you're a drifter up to no good or maybe they just don't like you because they don't know you. On the other hand, big cities tend to have well-funded police departments (depending on the city of course) and thus, more professional officers, often with more experience
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  5005. 15 years later "Hey son, I pulled in extra hours when you were a kid so I could invest in ETFs and now you have enough money to go to college wherever you want debt-free"
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  5006.  @RocKnight11  You don't know much about industries like these if you believe he'll be working that same job deep in the mine for 15 years straight.
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  5007.  @MrTheinfoman  Lmao, bro thinks he needs a computer from 2015 or later to emulate SNES
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  5008. ​ @neiska25 Shadowrun is plagued by dumb rule writers and grossly inconsistent lore. For example, mages are supposed to be extremely rare, yet there are wizard gangs. It makes sense they'd band together, but their abilities are so valuable that they would be more centralized and have more sophisticated organizations than just "gangs." The colleges in Warhammer Fantasy make far more sense. Not to mention they've always been grossly overpowered in the rules, like, imagine if D&D wizards didn't have to worry about running out of spells and you basically have a Shadowrun mage.
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  5009.  @eliajshdjddj  And do you think Americans talk like "Oh, so this is happening now? So let me get this straight, my cuff is talking to me? Wow so epic XD" It's called theatrical license you nimrod
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  5010.  @thelaughingman79  PSAs aren't commercials.
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  5011.  @freedomfighter1861  See, that's not exactly brilliant fucking advice either. Just shut yourself up alone with your guns and be depressed because you're afraid that reaching out will cause you to be othered by the government. It's not exactly a new problem, but one would hope we would have made progress on mental health. I'd say sign your guns over to someone you trust (private ownership transfer is a powerful thing) and then have them give them back to you when you're in better spirits. Although even that is sometimes not enough. My friend's late girlfriend went behind her boyfriend's back, and tricked me by asking me if he was home (he was out of town that weekend). Then when she realized he wasn't home, she snuck into his place, took his gun and shot herself. I had no idea she suffered from schizophrenia at all so the question seemed very innocuous.
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  5012. The car driver is a homicidal maniac. Reckless driving from the motorcyclist doesn't justify more reckless driving. He swerved into the other lane just to hit the bike. If it wasn't the biker it probably would have been someone else on a different day -- or a pedestrian who might have walked at what he perceived to be the wrong time. On the other hand, being a motorcyclist is inherently dangerous. No seatbelt, no exterior to protect you, etc. The dude probably shouldn't be a father if he doesn't realize after an incident like this that he might be depriving his son of a father figure later on. I honestly don't get motorcyclists at all. Both of these guys should probably just use ride shares for the rest of their lives, it would make them live longer.
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  5013.  @glenturney4750  Very highbrow, going for my disability there. Fortunately for me, the playing field tends to be a lot more level when using a 2D display. Especially when you can replay the video.
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  5014.  @glenturney4750  Pretty ironic coming from a guy who clearly only uses the comment section on this website to instigate pointless arguments like this one.
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  5015.  @glenturney4750  Does it matter? It's not as if you would be able to tell if I were. Go ahead and imagine that I am, if it pleases you.
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  5016.  @glenturney4750  Uh... You're still here too buddy. Who's laughing?
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  5017.  Bluelives MatterSon  Oh, OK. Care to justify your bizarre mangling of the English language?
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  5018. ​ @faulte2120  Out of curiosity, whose sloppy seconds would you rather have?
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  5019. Only a mindless activist would see a completely fantastical video game character and think "THEY PUT WHITE WOMEN DNA IN THAT ASIAN LADY!" Who the fuck cares?
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  5020. ​ @typicallymoody  Look up COINTELPRO, the use of the word "conspiracy theory/theorist" is a documented psyop by the CIA to paint those who doubted the official JFK narrative as people just as crazy as those who believed the earth is flat or that the moon landing was a hoax. That is why the same term is used to slander all of those different conspiracies despite their having no relation to each other
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  5021.  @metazoxan2  That is, unfortunately, the bad thing about capitalism. If you're doing well, the only option in the mind of management is to do even better. "Industry experts" are brought in, and this usually has disastrous results as the mentality of the biggest behemoths in the industry is brought to a mid-sized up-and-comer, or perhaps they don't understand the target demographic at all. Unity, the game engine, suffered from the same thing; they brought in the brash idiot from EA, he ruined their shit with the worse pricing scheme anyone could imagine, and now he's leaving after a little oopsie daisy.
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  5022.  @pyramidion5911  There is no context where assaulting someone from behind with your two goons to back you up makes "perfect sense." Return to the ghetto where that mentality belongs.
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  5023.  @RobertCrooker  Nah she will just delete this video and the baby photo when it gets a shitty ratio and pretend like it never happened. Just like every one of these shallow excuses for a person that does this type of shit.
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  5024.  @alexanderfolger7344  The "argument" is that Piker is a massive idiot who can't see the obvious humor for what it is, or worse, thinks his viewer base is so incredibly stupid that they can't see it and is trying to convince them that Sam Hyde is unironically a murderer. The best way to handle this would be to follow Hyde's lead and adopt a ring persona. Maybe put on a fake Russian accent, call himself the Socialist Sledgehammer and start spouting memes about glorious moments in Communist history (what few there are, anyway). The ring fight barely matters, clips from that wouldn't endure; it's the memes that would endure. But the problem with activists like Piker is that they believe there can be absolutely no fraternization with someone seen as the enemy; no compromise. There is no self-reflection or doubt about whether the right person is labeled as "enemy," nor is there the cunning to realize that maybe in the long-term this would forward his goals more than pushing an opportunity like this away.
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  5025.  @DiabloBlanquecino  If we had a perfect way of mentally evaluating people that was 100% correct all the time, then I would say that mentally ill people such as this individual should never have guns until they pass said evaluation. But that evaluation doesn't exist, and socialist governments have used "mental evaluations" to declare their political opponents crazy many times.
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  5026. It was all planned ahead of time. The Dems knew that Biden didn't stand a snowball's chance, so they're switching him out come the DNC in August.
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  5027.  @user2j3ycg4df  Sadly most people have an extreme inability to deal with being wrong. If a person would have known that the customer was deaf beforehand, they might not have said anything, but since they complained not knowing that the customer was deaf, and therefore embarrassed themselves, most people will double down and make a scene because they don't know how to fail gracefully. It's a lost art.
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  5028.  @dumb445  They would butcher the writing as they butchered the writing for Doom and turned it into a Marvel movie. The only thing is that Doom didn't really have much of a story before so nobody cared too much, there wasn't much to ruin. Duke is light on story but heavy on character writing, namely Duke's character. None of the jokes that made Duke popular would fly under modern Bethesda. Even in DNF the jokes were terrible and they tried to make them offensive.
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  5029.  @dumb445  I wasn't talking about the gameplay at all, no idea where you got that impression. I just don't like the way they did new Doom's story, I acknowledge you can ignore most of it, but I don't like it regardless. However there wasn't an expectation of there being funny or memorable dialogue in any Doom game so no one would be disappointed even if they didn't like it. On the other hand, the Duke franchise is known for having amusing writing so you'd come to expect that out of a sequel.
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  5030.  @CheesusCrusts  If you go into certain otaku boards/communities or where gaming/otaku cultures intersect (like 4chan/v/ for instance) you will see people unironically call WRPGs trash categorically. Same for some Japanese forums.
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  5031.  @ernestisom5878  Are you stupid? You're posting on a video about Final Fantasy. FF7 held the crown for biggest budget game for a very long time when it released. All the WRPGs from that same time period and before that are treasured as classics now were cult hits. Their sales did not even come close. Baldur's Gate, Fallout -- these were niche games in comparison, by a very wide margin. The Japanese were actually the first to break the glass ceiling of RPGs not selling well. Also, Elden Ring is definitely not what most people think of when they say JRPG, which is a very narrative-driven dialogue-heavy and character-focused game. Pretty much the opposite of what Elden Ring/Fromsoft games are. Not to mention half the point of those games is the Western European aesthetic
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  5032. They mostly do this in nations like Canada because they know it's less likely they'll be harmed.
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  5033.  @StJimmy765  Hitler was literally Time magazine's man of the year. You guys think you are very witty, but it's clear you know nothing about history. Everyone was being nice to Hitler until he began taking land.
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  5034.  @dercorta-noyokamiboyteenpr2166  Officers kill people all the time. Why would you be surprised that they killed a dog? The point is, don't let your animals roam freely and randoms won't call the cops on them.
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  5035.  @Arkensius1157  Well, virtually no one calls the police on stray cats, so no. Dogs, on the other hand...
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  5036.  @LuigiMangina  OK, boomer. I'll consider your words the next time I have to clean the PATRIOT Act stick lodged firmly up my ass and the next time I see another illegal Mexican.
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  5037.  @GaranNoDou298  Taking out my trash every couple days because it's filled with plastic bottles is the thing that sounds very inconvenient to me personally
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  5038.  @GaranNoDou298  You think stores are as common as water fountains? I don't know where you live, but in the US it's federal law that a building of a certain size must have a water fountain every so many feet. How much water can you possibly drink? You make looking for water sources sound much harder than it actually is
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  5039.  @GaranNoDou298  Well, fair enough point you bring up, but I suspect that this guy wasn't thinking of the Middle East when he was creating his product design.
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  5040. @benjirabbe1205  I believe epigenetics is the exact opposite of trivial. However I'm not well informed enough and from what I understand, there isn't enough research on it.
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  5041. There are still torrent archives of every NES/SNES/whatever you can think of game ever made. I'm not an expert in the field of retro games, so I can't say if they're 100% complete, but they will definitely include whatever was on Vimm's Lair. Furthermore, they're impossible to get rid of.
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  5042.  @neinja66469  I haven't received a virus pirating stuff since I was a teenager. You just have to know your shit and not click on stupid files.
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  5043.  @voteDC  Honestly, I'm not so sure about that. I would think the same thing, but then again, I'm always shocked by how out of touch these people are.
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  5044. @voteDC  Nintendo was actually never a toy company. They got their start selling card games. They are the only company in the gaming industry that has been about games since its inception and it has over a century of history. All that impressiveness aside, they act like you describe but I don't think it comes from a history of selling toys. They care so much about brand image that they never want their customers to play an "outdated" version of their games. NSO subscriptions are the perfect solution to that problem. Unless, of course, you don't pay for it.
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  5045. The Bud Light scandal has revealed just how tired the world is of this shit. Now you can't even crack open a beer to get away from it all without being reminded that crossdressing man exists and he demands that you care about his existence.
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  5046. @aligmal5031 It's genuinely not a good idea. I'm not going to make assumptions about your life but everyone has flaws they won't admit to or even know about. The reason being is that if you fuck up and go astray, the chance that you will actually take your parent seriously when they try to correct you -- assuming they have the gall to do anything at all in such a relationship -- is next to zero.
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  5047.  @aligmal5031  A sibling usually has no authority over you, therefore there can be no consequences for something you've done wrong. Either the analogy isn't very good to begin with, or you grew up with very lenient parents. As they say, you don't know what you don't know, and sometimes a parent's job involves teaching a kid that through something they think is punishment. Especially if the parent isn't that good at communicating to begin with, which some people just aren't.
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  5048.  @MyAnalyser  what? it's a coffee shop dude, i certainly hope you don't go to starbucks for the overpriced muffins and shit
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  5049.  @ImAshley2023  that pendulum swings both ways, why do you expect a dinner date on the first date
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  5050.  @ggreedy8668  just admit you're not a good conversationalist bro
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  5051.  @MyAnalyser  that's a really arbitrary criterion to have, so if someone has bad taste they can't possibly be compatible? lol sounds like you don't meet many people and that's bad coming from me. i learned when i was a teenager discussing music that taste is not something that correlates to virtually any personality trait. the kindest most intelligent person might be into screamo metal that makes your ears hurt
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  5052.  @ggreedy8668  fair enough, i guess, if you like activities then go for it, but talking about yourselves is the most time efficient way to get to know each other
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  5053.  @mf1936  You want to pay tax dollars for these two clowns to be in jail, get out and recidivate? This isn't how crimes of passion occur, these guys have done this before.
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  5054.  @searcymasonry  Pervitin, the brand name for the meth pill that the Nazi regime used, was only issued to the Luftwaffe I think. It kept them awake for the long sorties they needed to pull for Blitzkrieg doctrine. I believe they also stopped later after field reports stated that the devastating crash afterward was not worth it. It's a popular myth, but it would be insanely impractical to give meth to all of your army grunts. They did receive cigarettes and caffeinated chocolate to keep them awake though.
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  5055. ​@Idk_Yara98 I'm not a woman, but one of these things is made for insertion and the other one isn't. Unless they also insert into your urethra. In which case we all suffer.
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  5056. Aha, a clever ploy -- ignoring everyone else who worded their sentiments of dislike towards you properly just so you can make yourself feel better by correcting someone's common and minor grammar mistake on the internet. Excellent move, chessmaster.
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  5057. ​ @weiserwolf580 Kids walk to school alone in many places in the US. Thanks for making shit up though.
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  5058.  @bug5654  What art have you been looking at? Maybe renaissance art was more like that, but I've heard that European medieval art typically thought small breasts were more beautiful.
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  5059.  @billmarshall268  they pay using taxpayers money. money is no object to them
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  5060.  @billmarshall268  wrongdoing? I was referring to the motive to settle. you claimed it was because it was cheaper. my point is that government officials will never care about that because they don't pay out of pocket.
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  5061.  @beckyhopkins4306  "if you kill your enemy, they win" -- some canadian guy
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  5062.  @beckyhopkins4306  I agree that this is calculated however I think you're putting way too much stock in this particular plan. I don't think it's panning out nearly as well as you think, but then I'm not following this particular scandal that closely. For reference, I was a nerd who hated bullies when I was in school and I didn't even think of sympathizing with this person.
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  5063.  @dwpwdlgovasitsb4id13orlife2  You're intentionally misreading my comment because you have a fetish for moral crusading. I never excused anyone's actions, I merely pointed out that firing the cop isn't going to solve the problem in the long term. We've been doing that for a while now and it hasn't solved the problem yet. In the long term, the problem can only be solved by having a better pool of candidates to hire from in the first place. Furthermore, bad cops cannot be reprimanded or fired if the problem is systemic in nature. There are two approaches to solving this: The top-down (Fire all the heads of staff) or the bottom-up (fire the bad beat cops and/or only hire rookies of strong moral character). The top-down approach does not last in the long term because cops of lower station naturally get promoted to management positions. This means the only real solution is to have a better pool of rookies.
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  5064.  @trekinseattle  You first buddy.
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  5065.  @boobyhill6921  Yeah sure, I'm definitely a cop even though I'm too blind to drive. Better get off the internet or I'll have you arrested bucko, my handcuffs go through the screen.
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  5066.  @disguiseddv8ant486  It seems I misinterpreted your dark humor as genuine parental advice.
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  5067. ​@cccguzman how about the principle of not selling out the stability of our nation for a cheesy ass tell all book deal with nothing but hearsay in it
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  5068. ​ @newhorizon1355 What? The cops do far worse and get away with it.
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  5069. MUH GAMERGATE MUH HARASSMENT
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  5070.  @reikatheglaceon4426  It doesn't even have to be an ex. Just a complete asshole neighbor. Sad what people will do to each other.
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  5071.  @phiklik1  Rent free. Trump's best ever real estate deal was made right inside your head.
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  5072. Bravery is considered a manly trait, sure, but that doesn't mean you should take unnecessary risks. That just means you're stupid. The line between bravery and stupidity can be hard to define but intentionally not wearing a seatbelt is quite obviously beyond it. Carry a pocket knife with a rope cutter if it really bothers you, being trapped in some crashes is the only thing to be afraid of with a seatbelt.
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  5073.  @fostxswire1600  I get the emotional trauma of it, but statistically, you're much more likely to be in any car crash at all, than to be in one where your car crashes in flames and the seatbelt melts.
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  5074. Nah Square's executive branch has been absolutely moronic for the past several years. There's no mistaking it. Remember when they blamed all their problems on their Western studios and then sold them off for a hilariously undervalued $300 million? Yeah.
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  5075. This reads like a fake post from the male perspective. Why? Because most women find deep desire, aka commitment, unattractive. For me, being infatuated with a woman is like trying to hold a floodgate shut with bubble gum and Elmer's glue. I have to continuously monitor how much of my feelings I leak out in that moment or risk washing her away. Nothing like trying to convince someone that you are attractive by showing that you don't want them.
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  5076. @cherylk.2474 Your former husband sounds like he has the mind of a child. I'm sorry, but if you can't at least have enough self-reflection to maybe realize your wife isn't a pornstar, you are severely immature. Porn addiction is bad, but viewing porn for a couple of weeks shouldn't shatter someone's worldview. That's absurd.
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  5077. You answered your own question. The Jewish left hate Israel. Why, I don't know, but they do. Probably the same reason why other leftist white Americans hate America.
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  5078. "I'm not a virgin" Cr1tikal... I don't even know what to say... How are we supposed to get married now?!
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  5079.  @coreyhughes1456  There is something to be said for already being a billionaire when appointed in to office. Depending on the temperament of the person in question, they might actually be incorruptible -- hard to care about fancy dinners and nice cars when you, uh, already have all that stuff. Of course, some people are unendingly greedy, namely investment bankers, but most career politicians are hilariously easy to bribe because it's how they make most of their money. This is basically the reason why Trump was elected in the first place. Why would a man who has it all run for president? Certainly not to receive more bribes. The main concern is turning it into a good ol' boys club where he's there purely to help out his billionaire friends. However, that's business as usual -- you're going to get that with a career politician anyway, because those billionaires also funded his campaign. So ideally, you would want an unpopular billionaire. Which is exactly what they turned Trump into.
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  5080. I had no idea Niji even had those branches. Guess it goes to show how bad it is.
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  5081. "imagine having short user engagement once your game is consumed" is a teeth-grindingly pretentious way to criticize someone for not re-playing the same game over and over again. How is that even remotely valid? Wow.
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  5082.  @katherine-oh3rt  Drunk driving involves a lot more intent than this accident did. Irresponsible people want you to believe that alcohol is a magic potion that takes away all accountability. You can decide to not drive while drunk and to claim otherwise is irresponsible. I believe what you said is a bit disrespectful to victims of drunk drivers. This would be more akin to someone being run over because mud splashed on the driver's windshield and he momentarily couldn't see.
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  5083. Yes. The overzealous SEO (search engine optimization, is when they spam those words so they show up on a search engine) is a dead giveaway for any hack or fraud salesperson.
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  5084. Huge misconception: kevlar doesn't stop knives. Ask some prison guards...
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  5085. It would not even be close to the first time. Superhero comic writing is pretty garbage.
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  5086. The football game is so boring that he'd rather rag on audience members, but then he rags on the audience members for not watching football. Really gets my cookies a-crumblin'.
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  5087.  @thanosianthemadtitanic  "getting emotional over the fate of our nation isn't allowed" - a 10 year old
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  5088. They are predictable, but this type of owner is too stupid, forgiving or lazy to understand the patterns.
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  5089.  @PutkisenSetä  Most people don't actually get abortions. Unless you're a black person living in the inner city. Statistically speaking, of course. Turns out condoms are way cheaper than medical procedures to un-live a growing human. The support for abortion is almost entirely posturing by women who have never had and will never get an abortion.
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  5090.  @NessaEllenesse  The rainbow itself was co-opted by gay activists just to spite Christians, because before that it was only known as a symbol to the glory of God.
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  5091.  @Steve-ev6vx  Doesn't matter, land used to be cheap in the US and people who develop their own land are still seen as low class and poor today
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  5092.  @blakew5672  "B-because they're unlicensed! Those potholes could have been filled incorrectly!" city workers finally fill the pothole it's filled with gravel that is displaced by road traffic in like a week
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  5093.  @kimsmith6342  Yeah, you know, those paid baby woodpecker actors. Always showing up to make fake viral videos.
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  5094.  @tedbenveniste412  he was trying to hold the chinese government accountable. you have to be a truly regressed subhuman to think that any given person who looks like any of over 1 billion people on the planet is somehow responsible for what a few researchers did in a high security clearance lab
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  5095. Love the mix of popular zombie IPs, you have Rick from The Walking Dead and Zoe, Ellis and Francis from Left 4 Dead
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  5096.  @Akio-fy7ep  Then his troll was successful. Congratulations, WG21 now look like utter fools for taking the bait. Your narrative does not make them look more intelligent.
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  5097. I knew what you meant when you said "they can shoot their asses off..." buuut, still perhaps not the best turn of phrase.
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  5098.  @ginaguarino3163  Very likely if she simply didn't give a damn about his existence.
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  5099.  Andrius B  Meh, I'm of the position that if someone you know is going through extreme withdrawal, which should have been obvious by the time they were going to bed, then you shouldn't leave them alone. Doing otherwise is negligent. She didn't give a fuck the moment that she laid her head down to rest that night.
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  5100.  @realitycheck1018  Most nations in the world can't afford an aircraft carrier. Good luck projecting force from an aircraft carrier to a state like, say, Ohio.
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  5101. "You rub and you dub, you shit in your tub" "This'll clean more than your feet, this'll clean your soul (sole)" Some god-tier wordplay in this one
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  5102.  @belovedmarmot2803  carlin would be considered a right-wing extremist by virtually any mainstream media talking head today. his jokes about having a televised "battle royale"-style deathmatch for prisoners would be taken grossly out of context and used to smear him. and it wouldn't be for anything political he believes in, but simply because he wouldn't obey his masters the overton window has skedaddled to the left at breakneck pace but you're so desperate to seem "normal" and inoffensive that you don't realize it
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  5103. I wouldn't. If I were in their shoes I'd be furious and stressed out at the possibility of having to bring up an expensive lawsuit all because some stupid windbag doesn't understand basic American history. EDIT: woops, I thought the last sentence said "his parents must be laughing" but yes, if I were his friend, it would be funny.
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  5104. Should be done the other way as well. Go sunbathing then tell them you identify as Hispanic, if you are white.
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  5105.  jon castro  You're actually applying your own psychological instincts which were given to you by Hollywood backwards. In other words, you've seen too many movies so now the moment you see something that looks remotely surreal -- like the Earth from low orbit -- you assume it's some sort of film effect, when in reality it isn't. Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? I've been there three or four times. You can get a similar effect by being there in person. The sheer size and depth of the canyon gives your brain a funny feeling, almost like you are looking at a still image, and there is a disconnect between what you believe is real and what you are seeing with your very own eyes. It's an effect that you can only see in-person and is impossible to see through a simple photograph.
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  5106. I'm reminded of a legendary Jimmy Carter quote as he was depicted in King of the Hill: "Hated? A BABY!?"
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  5107. She wasn't rude, in fact I think she would have had an easier time if she was more blunt and said "You need to leave if you aren't going to buy anything" or "You're making me uncomfortable" sooner. Why even answer a direct question about your age? But the thing that bothers me is the "why do men? I'm just trying to do my job" caption. If she liked the guy, it suddenly wouldn't have been about "all men," just saying.
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  5108.  @MrsAnnThropy  I'm a man and I get paranoid enough just walking around downtown in the city I live in so I started carrying (both lethal and non-lethal) and I started training martial arts again. Romance isn't the only angle that someone can attack you from. So I have a hard time sympathizing with the "I'm afraid he will fucking slay me if I say no" mindset. If you're that scared, I'm not sure what to tell you -- literally no one can help you unless you do something to make yourself feel more at peace. The drive for humans to reproduce is simply too strong for all men to stop because you get scared from watching too many news stories. Bitching online about it won't help, help yourself instead.
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  5109. I mean Ninty can and will end your life because you modded their console. Not that Kotaku gives even the remotest shit about ethical software use. They just want clicks and they're doing outrageous things to gain those clicks. They are now officially Gawker for Gamers, evolving beyond just awful takes to actually malicious behavior towards the game industry
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  5110.  @ProjectMoff  You can't lie about your criminal record. They will perform a background check on you.
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  5111.  @setonixI  Well, if you're a Jewish king, you do suck the blood from a baby's penis after circumcision. Does that count?
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  5112.  @Eelanos  I'm in a weird place because I bought the game to play it in Early Access, thought "yes this will be a good CRPG" and then stopped playing it to avoid spoiling myself on unfinished content. so I never even knew about the content they promised weeks before release because I did not want to spoil myself. I very rarely buy games before release but I love Baldur's Gate and CRPGs in general. I feel that I've gotten my money's worth based on the time I've spent in Act 1 alone. It's a real shame, but I hope we'll get the cut content. It's sad that this is the standard now for game development.
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  5113.  @darkplasmo7921  skill? are we a militarist hegemony now?
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  5114. Olive Garden literally reheats frozen food. Stop shilling.
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  5115. I'm quite introverted and I have learned to "tolerate" small talk, in the way one tolerates paying their taxes every year, but I never initiate it. I enjoy in-depth interesting discussions which many people don't care for. If someone initiates small talk, I usually try to make the discussion deeper, if I can. If they show interest, that's usually an easy way to earn my respect.
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  5116. Such a dumb thing to be insecure about. Just introduce yourself normally. Imagine how any man with the name "Dick" feels. I never heard about a support group for them.
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  5117. Even the cops seemed a little put off by the lady's behavior... Maybe she should have been a jail guard?
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  5118. there are some changes, but yes
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  5119. My problem with a game like 4e is, if I wanted to play a tactical RPG with really strict rules about what I can do in combat, I would just play a video game. There isn't much point to being a human calculator.
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  5120. For what it's worth, I did see a trailer for Elemental in theaters. I just thought it looked incredibly uninteresting.
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  5121.  @gebibaboy5212  humans be cool and shiet because they be buildin shiet with nothin but dey minds
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  5122. I thought he said "wonking," which is even funnier and more appropriate.
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  5123. ​ @kills4meals218 I am an almost-daily user as well but you're just denying real evidence at this point and you've gotten lucky. Weed is not good for you if you are likely to have illnesses like schizophrenia. I actually lucked out because my uncle had it, but I don't-- well, pretty sure I don't, 33 now and usually if you're schizo you have an episode in your 20s or earlier where the illness rears its ugly head
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  5124.  @MisfitsFosterAcademy  responsibility exists everywhere. to consider another scenario: a teenage girl walking alone late at night in a city where they're taking in refugees in Germany... yeah, anything that happens to her isn't her fault , in the same way that getting struck by lightning isn't your fault... but as the rational, smart members of society we have to do the things that we can to minimize risk. it's not victim blaming... it's understanding that the only thing we can reliably change in the world is ourselves
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  5125.  @swedishshortsnout5610  If the candy is still shrink wrapped there's very little reason to believe it would be harmful.
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  5126. @Drewhio92 The fact that he worked in Kenosha was one of the first facts I learned about the case. Also he was there to provide first aid and provide community service, the AR-15 was there as a deterrent. Unfortunately he underestimated how crazy the mob was. They got angry that he was putting out fires. That's not really being edgy. Well, I guess it is nowadays when it's mainstream to think that setting things on fire is a legitimate form of speech.
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  5127.  @MAKExEVIL  It's clearly what the editor was alluding to?
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  5128.  @MAKExEVIL  Do I really need to post every medieval and renaissance painting of Jesus?
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  5129.  @Definitelynotjewish  Look up Skinner behavioral psychology and how the US changed its approach to military training after WW2 and you might begin to understand.
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  5130.  @tele_epic  American police are usually just corrupt. Their motives are easy to understand. Doing shit like this on a routine basis is not easy to understand, assuming any British cops at all aren't corrupt.
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  5131. He strikes me as a guy who is allergic to confrontation, and therefore, hot button politics. I think he has a trans friend and just parroted some opinion they gave without thinking about it
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  5132.  @karstentopp  Gee, where would we be without television and radio? Truly, the pillar of our modern culture... oh wait...
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  5133.  @Julesy980  I find it hard to empathize with that. Omelettes can be a little tricky for a beginner, but scrambled eggs are as simple as beating eggs and stirring them while they cook in the pan until they're firm. It's one of the first things I could make decently. Maybe you use too much or too little heat? I typically do it right at medium heat. I've grown to prefer soft-boiled eggs ever since eating (restaurant-quality) ramen. Cooking those is just a matter of knowing how long it takes to get the right consistency, which can be annoying because the timing window is small. Either the yolk is too hard or too soft. For my pan and stove, it's about 7 minutes of boiling (I don't heat the water up with the egg already in it like some do). Put eggs in ice water immediately after they're done, it also makes them easier to peel. Pan-frying chicken is something I typically don't do unless it's already cut up into bite sized pieces, but just apply lower heat and use a pot lid. It's actually harder than most think to overcook chicken. Better chicken is actually cooked slightly more (like 3-5 minutes) than necessary to make it safe to eat. It becomes firm yet still juicy.
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  5134. That doesn't work unless you also have a secure border. Look at East Germany. The wall wasn't to keep West Germany out, it was to keep their own citizens in. Security measures were pushed by East Germany far more than West, because every time there was an escapee, the security managers would have to be held to account, at which point they would claim that "we don't have enough resources"
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  5135. Best not to think too deeply into it, it's pretty common for Vtubers (namely the East Asian ones) to "play house" like that.
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  5136. Why would you slice vegetables in your hand over a bowl instead of just cutting them on the counter? What?
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  5137. A member of the privileged 13%.
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  5138.  @thundark3736  gated community enjoyer that loves paying $8 for eggs. look no further than the simplest of reasons why nobody likes biden or harris: economy. the democrats never liked her, she was not elected candidate, she had the lowest poll ratings in the previous primary. this is a joke of an election. it doesn't matter if trump does coke off a hooker's ass live on television, he's still the popular candidate for his party.
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  5139.  @thecensoredmuscle563  You and the clown above you simply don't understand how these scenarios work. It is not about winning battles. As long as there is an ideological front from which militias can appear out of thin air, your work is not done. The only way to crush such a resistance movement, the way which our distant forefathers used, is total conquest and what is effectively brainwashing until the future generations have no sentiment for resistance. This conquest becomes non-linearly difficult in relation to the total land area of the nation you are conquering, due to the fact that there are additional places to hide. Since post-WW2, politicians across the first world have become too scared to commit to this kind of conquest, for fear of damaging international relations.
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  5140.  @OhNoNotFrank  Let me spell it out for you. When I ask a Christian for proof of God, they will often say, "Just look around." That's what your post reads like. You take it for granted that you are right to the point that you feel you do not need to explain your position or provide evidence. I have family in Germany. I've seen them pay mortgage on a home for 70 years and yet never own it due to high prices and bank chicanery. I could probably fill a short book with ways in which my German family has been shafted. The most crime I've been witness or victim to occurred on a trip to Rome that only lasted a few days. Count your blessings.
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  5141.  @SargentD4  You're really going to act surprised she has "other" content?
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  5142.  @obsidaisy7776  gee, it's almost like there's a more measured way to respond to this offense
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  5143. ​@ellewoods9396 LOL, divine order. Clown tier. Here's the facts: There are more women than men on this earth. A lot of those women never want lifelong relationships or kids. Men are spoiled for choice but neither sex realizes it yet. I approach women because simply put they don't get it yet, but society will likely change soon.
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  5144. She makes Bender-style jokes about killing all the humans on a regular basis.
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  5145.  @yangpaan453  I don't know the details of how long this guy was staying here but he seemed a lot more situated than just your average tourist who spends a week or two at most in the country. If you plan on spending more than 2 weeks in the country, not learning a bit of the language is just plain stupid.
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  5146. But D2 had dungeons with parameters that made them somewhat unique. There was no other dungeon that generated like the Arcane Sanctuary, for example. Same with the Durance of Pain. Outside of the story missions, which you have no reason to repeat unlike D2, the environments aren't very unique or striking either. The color palette doesn't really change.
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  5147.  @kekplexis  Right, sorry.
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  5148. They're only bothered because it's being posted to YouTube.
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  5149. @meSOOlame  Never once used a hard copy for notes
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  5150. "Hey, don't catch the clap from this ho, catch a RIIIIIDE with me instead!"
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  5151.  @user-ub7dt1lq1h  "allow honking at all times no matter the context" has fairly easy to predict problems
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  5152.  @Maple-Lizard  you're "intrigued" enough to make multiple essay-format responses in this thread alone on the topic. by your own, and most people's perspective, you are "mad" or "upset." this is why trying to psychoanalyze emotions on the internet is a fucking idiot's game, but hey, you started it. just accept that your perspective is inherently biased because your ego has elevated you to the position of "all-knowing mediator" or, to put it more derisively, "fenceshitter." just because you don't care doesn't mean everyone else is frothing mad and drooling all over their keyboards. this is a discussion platform so people will discuss things. surprise, surprise.
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  5153.  @sheepymiix  Basic common sense would dictate that a food truck register isn't exactly the jackpot we've all been looking for.
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  5154. ​ @michael-gb3rn Ah, you're in Denmark. How convenient for you, none of your tax dollars are going to a corrupt man losing a stupid war.
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  5155.  @flipnotrab  Sadly many cops are former military. Following stupid orders is ingrained into their psyche.
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  5156. Don't criticize the guys in chat who believed him when he said he fell too harshly. It was in the moment and they probably changed their minds if/when they saw recorded clips of it again later.
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  5157. @bananarama1425 Honestly, I have a hard time seeing where that delay outrage comes from. I never expected we would get a Baldur's Gate 3 at all, and the game was already in Early Access for years. If it got delayed to the end of the year, I doubt anyone would have batted an eye. A full year, then yeah, I could see people getting pissed off.
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  5158.  @Rishi-nc1mn  Basically, if you're worried about the game "not having enough content," don't be. The game has plenty of content. However, Larian shot themselves in the foot by specifically promising entire areas in the 3rd Act that did not make it into the game. There are also several endings (related to character stories) that never made it into the game. I have also tried to avoid spoiling myself, but there is no way to get a good ending for at least one of the companions even though there should be, based on what has been data mined. There was also supposed to be more impact to the development involving the illithid tadpole. These weren't promises made years ago, they were made just weeks before launch
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  5159. Even the familys lawyer is in on it. He pursued wrongful death even though the narrative describes first degree murder. Cops always get the kid gloves.
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  5160. In the 1960s they removed you for wearing black arm bands to protest the war. Now they remove you for wearing a flag from over 200 years ago, with no war occurring. Not getting any freer around here.
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  5161. ​ @Gia-ye8vq The funny thing about missiles coming from orbit is that you can literally see them coming from space. It's not exactly a subtle vector of attack.
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  5162.  @dntfrthreapr  it's crazy that people like you think that people like them are going to fix our problems. Bernie is a grifter, he's sat in the government for his entire life doing nothing. he's a good orator, i'll give him that, that's why he keeps getting elected. he bought a nice new lakeside property after his presidential campaign, after he clearly got cheated by clinton and did absolutely nothing about it. it blows my mind that people like you have faith in the system
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  5163.  @dh-uo4lt  That isn't what that statement means, and you're supporting a blanket statement made by rich old white men before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Funny how your principles are forgotten when it's convenient
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  5164.  @billw219  You could always raid their station, like the GIs did in '46. Athens, Tennessee. Check it out.
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  5165.  @timl9724  Voting has meaning as long as everyone agrees that it does. That agreement falls apart over time, which many of the founders predicted. They assumed that violent conflict would be necessary from time to time.
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  5166. He's even trying to lick the scrubber in appreciation.
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  5167.  @robertsides3626  It's stupid trend started by "Generation X," which was so named because the bright minds of whoever the hell is coming up with these names couldn't come up with anything to describe the generation after baby boomers. So they were just like "I dunno, we'll continue using algebraic variable names I guess" but then they skipped Y for no reason. Labeling yourself by generation is stupid, just don't do it. In fact labeling yourself in general is a bad idea.
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  5168. Seeing Ian Miles Cheong gives me warm fuzzy flashbacks. The height of Gamergate, an edgy liberal pudgy Asian kid who used to LARP as a Nazi (yes, really).
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  5169. I love the genuine betrayal in his reaction here. He was really hyped up to hear a cute catgirl voice.
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  5170. Hate to shatter the illusion, but there are a lot of asshole vets out there. I will show sympathy to anyone who has been through combat, but it just doesn't give you the right to be a ginormous twat.
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  5171.  @nathanaguiar7264  Wow, what a killer comment. That guy will surely never take 20 seconds to post a YouTube comment ever again.
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  5172.  @nathanaguiar7264  Damn, bro. Everyone here wishes they were as cool as you. How can I destroy the minds of beta simps like you?
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  5173. Those Chinese corpos have yet to meet a handy dandy clause we like to call "eminent domain." It's been fucking us over for years, time for them to get a taste.
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  5174. Had a moment like this at my high school graduation. Some kids I knew were standing together just chatting waiting for the event to start. We were standing underneath a vent. I said "I think I smell weed." No one else had any idea what it was, and frankly I was surprised I did. I'd smelled it once in a bathroom before then, I was a pretty reserved kid.
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  5175.  @FatManJackson  Yeah, agreed. When I hear from my buddy playing New World, I cringe but he seems to enjoy it. Some people enjoy adhering to a schedule and feeling like they're building something with a community. Same with EVE Online. Note: I thought this was a reply on a different thread so you may see a completely different reply in the comments before I edited it.
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  5176.  @the-ms8fz  Eh, most ASMR videos aren't like that. In fact they aren't really even in the same genre. I think ASMR first started being popular in otaku culture because they like hearing Japanese VAs talk softly, correct me if I'm wrong. Of course, that's ignoring ancient "ASMR" like "wave machines" (I used to have one when I was a kid) that play preset white noises like waves hitting a beach, rain, etc.
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  5177.  @niclas3672  There's a limit to it though. They should just come up with a historical fiction setting and be done with it. This feels more like they're trying to make fun of WW2 or something. It just feels weird when I see a black lady with an STG44 run at 80 mph while her CO shouts "FURY KILL!!" and then she fails to guide a gliding bomb because her mouse DPI wasn't high enough.
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  5178.  @alexmarsh8464  I know a guy who was like that in high school. He wasn't that annoying though and he was actually good at the tricks.
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  5179. So weird to see a black lady think that "civil disobedience" (her own words) is bad after MLK's movement. I'll still never understand where the violence from our ex-president came from. No city blocks were burned down, no cops were ambushed, nobody was knocked out cold with a bicycle lock. There were no "autonomous zones." These are all things that happened in the name of a certain other cause.
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  5180. That's actually even more absurd than similar policies in the US. China limits the amount of children a family can have, so the risk of accommodating the woman during pregnancy is much smaller. Not to mention the fact that married couples go most of their marriage without being pregnant.
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  5181. @ Unless you're being hired as a waitress for Hooters, appearance is completely irrelevant to almost any career.
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  5182. ​ @loke6664 More specifically, a gay dwarf that runs a bakery which is literally the art they put in the new book
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  5183. ​ @RokuroCarisu Wow, you haven't looked at the new rulebook at all have you? It quite literally has gay dwarves working in the food industry for its artwork
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  5184. ​ @craigandnem4597 I'm trying to imagine a world where people give a shit about some fentanyl addicted loser. Oh wait, I don't. We live in it. We're fucked.
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  5185.  @thekeysman6760  Samaritan is a member of a tribe, referenced in the Bible. I'm atheist and even I know this. Try knowing your shit before being an annoying pedant.
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  5186. @thekeysman6760  Classic pedant, pretends to be nice while being both wrong and staggeringly passive aggressive. This would be like saying "Jesus" should be spelled with a lowercase J because one used his name in vain. Good luck arguing that point, no one will agree with you.
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  5187.  @thekeysman6760  Can't argue with a pretentious twat who thinks he's better than everyone else. "You're welcome," and "be well."
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  5188. It was specifically for the recently freed slaves, not illegal immigrants. This has been a flagrant abuse for several decades. There is well established precedent showing that the 14th should not apply to immigrants, only permanent residents, that was simply ignored with the 1965 Immigration Act. All for the sake of allowing corporations to continue stagnating wages. And you're supporting them
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  5189. @creatureslim you have no idea how courts in Texas work. the point of castle doctrine is that if you are in your home, place of occupation, or vehicle you will never have a duty to retreat. because these are the three things necessary for a person to live a minimal life.
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  5190. ​ @rajder656 The best way you can possibly interpret that is still being a sensationalist asshat and it's still blatantly activist drivel
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  5191. Hey Lois, remember that time when I went on BuzzFeed and ate fake cheese, then my nut allergy got inflamed and I had to go to the hospital? That sucked. Fuck BuzzFeed.
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  5192.  @Jaden-eh6rh  what the fuck am i reading
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  5193. The irony of encouraging people to read her whole article while she tells bald-faced lies about what it contains is just too much. Maybe she edited it after publication, but that's assuming a lot of effort on her part. "Black Myth's online community?" What even is that? You're talking about a game that is likely to have already sold ten million copies. 2.3m players were tracked by Steam as playing the game at the same time. That is absolutely fucking massive, it's more than quadruple Helldivers 2 at its peak. She has no idea how large the net she is trying to cast is.
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  5194.  @Remirured  It's similar to cops. They have a massive union that protects them and even goes out of their way to push harmful policies. While we obviously need teachers, there are many bad apples, to the point where the system needs to change significantly to stop the plague of bad teachers.
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  5195. ​ @TheMotz55 incremental gun control laws are just as if not more ineffective than arming faculty. also, youtube has no relevance to gun usage, you make it sound like no one in WW2 knew how to shoot
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  5196. That's funny, but where does the "in a hurry" part come from?
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  5197. They take a very big picture view of it, to them the integrity of the product doesn't actually matter they just care about the sales. If Publisher A has huge reach and a reasonable price, then they don't care that it will be censored, they assume that it will mostly sell anyway. Because they usually do.
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  5198.  @clarkmannen8789  Nobody cares about your rent-a-soapbox political commentator. Hacks like him are a dime a dozen. They exist for people like Asmon to farm content and laugh at them. Asmon is a media and gaming commentator first, not a political activist. Silver spoon slacktivists like Hasan and Vaush are impossible to take seriously. Tell me again why "communism good" from your West Coast mansion. Tell me again why you won't be the first to be lined up against the wall with a blindfold when the revolution you want so badly actually kicks off because you are a member of the class you claim to hate.
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  5199.  @rispatha  Taxation without representation was a massive issue, though. It can't really be understated. It was also the fact that many of the rights written in our Constitution were violated whenever the Crown's own men would come to the colonies. Many people forget about the 3rd amendment, but that was a real and current issue at the time; British soldiers would demand hospitality in strangers' homes and it was legal.
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  5200.  @rispatha  OK, I wanted to have a meaningful discussion with you, not have a "I'm older than you so my opinion matters more" dick-waving contest. Never mind, if my comment offends you that greatly.
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  5201. You have Ds and Rs in the Netherlands? Or you mean you saw a documentary about the US, specifically?
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  5202. Nah, she just wanted the food. My money is on her never talking to him again even if he paid.
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  5203.  @cauasantos5093  That's not how the dev process works. When a game is released the build is finalized like two weeks ahead of that date if not earlier. The day 1 patch contains fixes for the issues the dev team spotted in those weeks leading up to release. Usually, if the cylinders are firing correctly, a patch should be released every two weeks, maybe a week. Hotfixes are those small patches released between those periods in case a patch fucked something up and introduced a new bug.
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  5204.  @edgytween7667  Like CP2077, you should acknowledge that for many people it simply Works On Their Machine (tm). Not everyone is lying to you. I haven't experienced any major issues yet, worst I've seen thus far is a bug where I failed the first quest Richter gives you when I got close to his stash (which I fixed just by reloading a save 2 seconds before), a bug where the mole NPC doesn't spawn in The Sphere if you give the sensors to Zotov (which doesn't matter because he just opens the gate, and the gate was already open), and a single game crash at the end of the first Emission. My heart goes out to console players... kinda. Much like Bethesda games, I can't imagine why you'd ever play this game on a console, but then again I haven't bought a new console since the Switch. There's just not many reasons to buy a console any more.
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  5205.  @edgytween7667  I'm maybe 4 hours in? You're misreading my post and being antagonistic for no reason. Again, I'm just stating that it will Work on Some People's Machines (tm) and they will shrug their shoulders and not care when reviewers criticize the game for that. Exact same thing happened for CP2077.
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  5206.  @edgytween7667  Bro, I'm suggesting that the people playing the game and not rating the game poorly on Steam, or disagreeing with the reviewers you're talking about, are not having optimization problems. I'm talking about the grassroots here. Also, bro, having a job...
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  5207.  @edgytween7667  "you're rambling brother" proceeds to write another essay comment that has nothing to do with what I've said, while desperately trying to make me his opponent
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  5208.  @edgytween7667  You are boxing with shadows my friend. I'm just posting to see how deep you'll dig.
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  5209.  @toshiro-kano  IT's a lot faster than typing out "moistcritical" every time you autist.
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  5210.  @johnlinks  Being real for a moment, I've never played a CRPG that didn't have a game-breaking/exploitable build or bugs. It kinda comes with the genre territory and is, in fact, a big reason many people play CRPGs. They feel rewarded for being ingenious enough to come up with these builds or strategies. It only makes matters worse when the RPG is an adaptation of an existing rules system like D&D 5e, known for its exploitable builds.
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  5211.  @Oliver_the_place  Well, I tried to explain it to you, but you are already convinced that I am malicious (since you said I was being disingenuous) so I'm not sure if any further discussion will matter. In fact, I don't even know why you replied to me if you are convinced I am being dishonest. Let me try to explain it another way. Imagine 2 games are being developed, A and B. The same developers make both games and let's assume they are in the same state of mind for both games. Except, in game B, there is a management initiative for monetization to satisfy investors. Game B will necessarily be worse than game A for the reasons stated in both my and your own posts ("predatory monetization = bad game"). But, to the observer, they will appear to have been developed by completely different groups of people due to how drastically monetization design patterns will change game B. In a similar way to how Diablo 2 and its remake are completely different to Diablo 4. You are suggesting that Larian devs are talented and that is why their game is successful. I am suggesting that Diablo 4 devs could be talented and we would never know.
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  5212.  Shadow_ball  There doesn't need to be any sexual gratification. Spending a few hours with the guy over drinks would be the ultimate experience for many men.
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  5213.  @Psychoangel-d23  Yes. It's sad, but it's stuff like this that makes me think about Nietzsche's words more thoroughly. About how abolishing slavery was perhaps the wrong move, and that it just needed to be more humane instead -- because there's too many people who would be willingly on board with a "humane slavery" program. I wish that weren't the case, but a significant portion of the population proves me wrong on a regular basis.
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  5214. She seems like she's projecting the responses she's gotten when she reveals she does no cooking and then applying it to this scenario, disingenuously making it look like it's a double-standard when really it's just because she, individually, gets called lazy.
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  5215.  @Mimi-qe7qz  "On the Genealogy of Simping"
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  5216.  @pineappleparty1624  he's insulting someone else by implying that the women he hangs out with are ugly, again, not hard to grasp. and no it wasn't a different bit entirely he literally addressed jack in that same sentence i swear some of y'all are selectively deaf
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  5217.  @OnlyTheTrutha  It definitely doesn't apply in this case, though. Everything about Hasan oozes arrogance and aloofness. It isn't just dating.
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  5218. @R.P-e2z  Exactly. I never cried or convinced myself the world was over when any candidate I didn't like won any election, and I've seen a few.
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  5219.  @dane21dc  That wasn't true 60 years ago when the term was invented to discredit doubters of the official JFK narrative and it isn't true now.
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  5220. This was originally from a Reddit post on r/PublicFreakout and it doesn't seem to have a news story. The homeowner apparently just uploaded this clip from their doorbell because they thought it would be funny and never reported it to the police.
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  5221. ​ @flightnavigator8999  I don't think OC is a good idea for most citizens either, but you are aware that normal civilians can also have retention holsters (the same ones the cops use) right?
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  5222. The "you can't define biological woman because you don't have a PhD" argument is so easy to turn on its head, especially when it's being asked by a woman. How do you know you're a woman? You identify as one? Sorry, you're not qualified to do that. I'll have to see your thesis on why you're a woman.
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  5223.  @andreasstylianou6933  Actually yes, I am a little weirded out by it, but because of people like yourself making assumptions for everyone you just assume it's a non-issue. I am a man, I have male urges, and when I'm trying to do butterflies and rear deltoid and some Instagram influencer with an ass the size of a house does reverse leg curls in skin tight leggings on the machine in front of me, it makes me quite uncomfortable because I'm afraid I'll look too long and she'll complain. Now I can't even look straight ahead while trying to work out. But I'm sure you'll just other me as some kind of asshole and pretend it's not a problem. I'd rather that everyone have self-respect instead of reducing themselves to some kind of weird caricature of a body builder or sexual goddess but it seems like society doesn't want to head in that direction.
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  5224.  @andreasstylianou6933  Ah, a Poe's Law enjoyer. Carry on then.
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  5225. The game runs at 60 FPS dude, stop making up numbers just because the Switch is underpowered. Games can be optimized to run well, but rarely are devs given the time or knowhow to do that. Pokemon got it the worst with their yearly release cycle. The game runs way worse than BotW while being way less fast and intense.
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  5226.  @ickyfist  It doesn't take much to justify fear for one's safety. I've seen a similar case where a guy at a convenience store was being yelled at by some random weirdo. The victim was a firearms instructor, wearing his gun in open carry. The crazy man just kept walking at him aggressively until the victim was backed into a corner and he shot the weirdo. Now I won't lie, I think the victim is a bit of a coward because he's a fat guy with no physical skills that thinks his gun will protect him in every situation. Simple OC spray would have solved this situation with no injuries. But he got off with self-defense. Know the state of the law before you decide to fuck with the law.
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  5227.  @sweetT99  She has kids, so she's certainly less pathetic than you
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  5228. Let's go big dick boys
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  5229. Sadly, as a man I admit shoes like that are attractive, and because of that phenomenon women won't stop wearing them any time soon. Even though the frontal cortex in me wishes heels would go away.
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  5230. It isn't grace, it's blind naivete. We can't allow anyone, let alone federal law enforcement, to get away with being this reckless. It is, as demonstrated in this video, hazardous to everyone's health. Turning the other cheek has a directly negative impact on your peers in this situation.
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  5231.  @agamerdude7596  Most of the information and tips I see on Reddit are wrong. The discussion level is incredibly overrated, I've seen obnoxious dickheads post horrible answers that get upboated because they're snarky too often.
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  5232. Batman is also a sociopath. He's an anti-hero. That's kinda the whole point of his character.
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  5233.  @HonderdtachtigCC  Sounds to me like you just hate life, perhaps yourself? Reminds me of those people who wave a knife around secretly begging police to shoot them.
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  5234.  @martialedits4335  being an adult and texting a minor that isn't related to you by blood is almost always inappropriate, it's too broad a term to nail down and we'll likely never know what was exchanged, but considering no legal action was taken and "virtuous trust and safety board members" screeched extremely loud about it, there's a 99% chance it was nothing significant. dogs that have no bite bark the loudest. chances are he did it by accident thinking she was not a minor at the time, shit happens to many, many horny men out there.
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  5235. "A removal, a... exorcism." Just say it, it's a purge. Just like the Commies always do.
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  5236. Honestly, I think "fatherless behavior" is funnier and hard-hitting, but whatever floats your boat.
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  5237.  @ainzer2903  This is a dumb myth. We produce 30% more food than we need globally.
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  5238.  @michelle7455  The problem with both of those is not "oh no too many people we can't possibly solve this problem" it's that the people in a position to do something about those issues simply won't because it cuts into their paycheck. If there is enough pressure they will be forced to do something.
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  5239. It was some lazy ass solution they slapped together for D3 and no one has "touched the poop" as we say in software since.
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  5240.  @sebassg3668  Pay me six figures a year and I'll tell you.
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  5241. he's fine when it comes to issues about race but he still has all the economic acumen of a rich old comedian, which is what he is
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  5242. Musk's kid hates him and it's easy to understand why. I really don't understand why rich people treat their kids like shit. I get that they're usually busy, but it seems like some of them go out of their way.
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  5243. If it has a skeletonized or polymer frame, it's an "assault weapon"
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  5244.  @noneofyourbusiness43  Mexico and Latin America aside, most immigrants who come here are actually the cream of the crop of their nation. Especially India, Africa and other such nations. It isn't like tribal starving children from the Congo can afford a plane ticket. My point is, we should be dealing with our own native population born into this attitude first -- that's actually a bigger issue. Again, the Mexican border set aside. That also needs to be dealt with.
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  5245.  @waefawawrgaw2835  this comment is proof that black americans are the most narcissistic group on the entire planet, and they must be involved in every social issue and make it about them
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  5246.  @Gary-fq8cx  I'm atheist but you have to be an idiot to believe Jesus was mythological. The damn Romans wrote his name down. We have records of his existence.
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  5247.  @Gary-fq8cx  Your brain is entirely incapable of nuance, isn't it? Jesus' name was written down in a letter pertaining to the real civil matter of Jewish unrest in the Roman state. He was not venerated or written about as if he was some mythological feature that their subjects kept going on about. Wow, perhaps it's maybe possible that I believe that Jesus was a real person but his tales of miracles are superstition? What a fucking concept. Hard to imagine if you just want to look cool by insulting people online though. What's next, you're going to tell me that Muhammad wasn't real even though we can see that the great non-Arabic civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa are now fucking Arabic? Who did that, I wonder? Must have been the wind.
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  5248. ​ @nukeputin420 Hey buddy, you try letting in 300k documented immigrants (who knows how many undocumented) in a single month into your country. I'll know because you'll be crying to us and every other UN member for foreign aid
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  5249. @Penelope Pelangi The CIA has caused their own employees to commit suicide by spiking their coffee with LSD without telling them as an experiment
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  5250.  @thomassteele9649  Hey these guys did a much better job than most police I've seen around animals. Thinking of the cop who shot the blind dog because it had run away... That was some crazy stuff.
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  5251. No cop is going to spend 2+ hours processing an arrest over less than $10 in stolen items.
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  5252.  @mylom8397  I hate to burst your bubble but the entire IMF and WEF is set up to ensure this doesn't happen. The US must continue buying shit from China and everywhere else to sustain all their economies. China must continue pretending to be Communist while allowing specific companies to do whatever they want because they prop up their own economy. Europe must continue pretending to not be under Germany's thumb with the farce that is the EU. WW2 and the Cold War brought forth a new, cohesive world order to ensure nothing like it ever happens again. It just isn't immediately obvious to those who don't wish to see it. Whereas ironically, in a healthy society, evil would be ousted in a shower of blood and new seeds would be planted, that is not allowed. The status quo must continue to exist in perpetuity. We definitively have no power. Even if we were to hypothetically (note that word, feds) march up to DC and kill everyone in a blood bath, the entire world would be working against the revolutionary government in both covert and overt ways. This sounds like "blackpilling" as the kids would say but really it's just the most realistic assessment of what the most wealthy people in the world want and are capable of. All we can do is try to have children, preserve the good parts of our cultures and wait. There may or may not be an opportunity to change anything in our lifetimes; it's beyond our control.
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  5253.  @mylom8397  Oh, OK. I stand corrected.
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  5254. Brandishing is against the law which is why this call was made in the first place. Sure it is technically just an allegation, but we have to assume it's what happened because this guy was behaving erratically.
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  5255.  @Blaze_x650  Tazers are notoriously unreliable. I don't get why everyone acts like resisting tazers is some kind of exceedingly rare thing. I've seen dudes resist tazers while sober during demonstrations. Some people just have fucked up nervous systems and it barely affects them. There's a reason why cops don't rely on them, and why they still have K9 detachments.
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  5256.  @MrFlarespeed  I'm guessing her kid screams a lot and the parents simply don't give a shit, they tune it out now. You get what you get for a total lack of discipline.
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  5257.  @The_Fallen_1  Devs aren't the same as they were before, there was no college-graduate-to-massive-studio pipeline like there is now. Devs aren't as good as they were but it isn't their fault, because management intentionally lays them off to avoid the problem of paying them more. The industry is so popular now that there are always fresh faced idiots willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder. It is just like Hollywood
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  5258.  @narutolikestoes9028  You're in for a rude awakening some day if you worship cops like these just because you aren't black.
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  5259. The problem with being "society minded" is that you quickly get ostracized for a divergent viewpoint, behavior, or in the worst case, different background or having a disability. "The nail that sticks up gets the hammer" -- Japanese proverb.
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  5260. ​ @2EZEverything  It's viewed as "screw the cops, I'm not dealing with their mess." Especially in a town like Houston. There's no telling how the cops will treat you in this situation. It may lead to worse things happening legally.
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  5261. Yeah, we're all old and lazy women wearing carpel tunnel braces. Nailed it.
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  5262.  @citizenofcorona8783  you have to train and perform active duty for years before you'd be eligible for SEALs or Rangers
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  5263.  @BuetifullPersun  I hope you're running a Unix-based operating system with a comment like that or you have more egg on your face than you could ever imagine
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  5264.  @BuetifullPersun  Okay then. Pardon me for being presumptuous.
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  5265. I know this is crazy, but my dad handed me an unloaded Winchester Model 12 when I was 3 or 4 years old... seemingly specifically so I could point it at his friend and he could pretend to be shocked and beg for his life. That had an impact on me. In fact so much so, that I broke down and cried at around 13 when he was drunk and started pulling out his guns to show our neighbor, because I didn't think he was competent enough to be doing that in that state.
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  5266. This guy probably got himself banned from flying anywhere in the world over this. I just ... why? Was it worth it? Now you won't be able to travel or see the world, at least not easily, and for what? And it's worth mentioning that every time he does this to a cop, they have to process an arrest for about 2-3 hours.
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  5267.  @0-B1  He's evil in the way that a doting grandmother who never wants her grandchild to grow up, and thus, stunts their growth, is evil. He seems kind but really his motives are selfish.
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  5268. ​ @ryanstarkweather3625  I don't know if you have sinus issues, but number one, you should be able to hold your nose without using your fingers, and number two, it makes you look like a child
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  5269.  @Papa-tn3vn  Earbuds? Now that's an anachronism...
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  5270.  @ddenozor  That doesn't matter. Do you honest-to-God believe that Blizzard spends $15 per month per person hosting their servers? The profit margin for subs increases as more people play the game, because they only have to pay a flat fee to host those servers. So if you have to pay $1000 per month to host those servers (just pulling a random number out of my ass as an example), you would only need about 70 people to break even. Any subs you make after that is pure profit.
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  5271.  Jules Juerez  They didn't die for the same reasons. It was usually due to extenuating circumstances, like diseases being passed through the food. We've eliminated those things, but we've replaced most of the food with over-refined stuff. Not all peasants ate that healthy though. Processed meats and sausages were very common in central Europe and aren't that healthy for you, plus you never knew what went in them. There was no FDA or regulation (technically there was for some things, but it's difficult to enforce when the Lord's men take half a week to march there). The bread was, however, much better for you.
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  5272. It always has to be politicized, they can't just say "I find the model ugly" and leave it at that. No, they're somehow appealing to Western ideals... even though her eyes are too small and slanted... and it's a deliberate ploy to undermine Chinese solidarity by BEING TOO UGLY. The insanity.
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  5273.  @xxx-sp8fh  It is also impossible to post online anonymously (so say goodbye to your user name) and their government was recently rocked by a literal deep state conspiracy so yeah, we all have our problems. There's also the crazy guy next door infinitely threatening to shoot nukes.
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  5274. Let the purity spiraling continue. In the end, there will be no one left.
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  5275. I hope they already have a judge in mind. I believe he is studying law now and the legal team have been preparing for this for months.
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  5276.  @RobbieStacks90  People are basic in general, it's just that video games are more popular than before now and you can see the basic tastes of basic people through a medium you understand.
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  5277.  @lj-wp3sf  How so? In both cases, the community agreed upon something that a large portion -- but not a plurality -- of the community was unsatisfied with.
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  5278.  @lj-wp3sf  But you literally stated that Greenlight is supposed to be quality control. It's OK to admit you were wrong on random comments you made a year ago.
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  5279.  @bobkreme2175  He's going to fall apart as an adult because "when I was a teenager a cop nearly beat me because I challenged his authority, this is the reason why all cops are bastards." You realize this is fueling his victim mentality, not "setting him straight." Christ, it's so obvious.
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  5280. Alternate title: D&D Spiked Chain Fighter build IRL
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  5281.  @Konkov  What? Steam Play is Valve's compatibility program for Linux. What does that have to do with streaming games? And Xbox Cloud hasn't succeeded yet, it's still in beta.
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  5282.  @Konkov  Oh. I forgot about that one. I have never used it but I can't imagine it being very good for anything but slow games if it uses current internet infrastructure. If anyone could have made this work, in my opinion it would have been Google due to their expertise in that field.
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  5283. Yeah I would have instinctively stepped back as soon as he started messing around with his gun like that. Actually I would have told him to stop and yelled so everyone had his attention on him in hopes he'd reconsider what he was doing, but if for some reason I had total confidence in his gun handling skills (pulling out his weapon like that would immediately take it away) I'd still have instinctively stepped back from the magic imaginary laser coming from the barrel of his gun.
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  5284. Check out The Boondocks episode about MLK if you haven't seen it
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  5285.  @MavHunter20XX  I don't think that technique is applicable in this situation anyway.
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  5286. We had the DARE program, but DARE books? Never saw those, and I was always checking books out of the library.
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  5287.  @griselgriselda2901  Hard to tell with the sound muted, but I don't think shouting at him would have worked at all...
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  5288. Rogan didn't get smashed in the face, I think he shifted over time. He is impartial enough and curious enough to let almost anyone onto his podcast, as long as he finds them interesting, and I think hearing out the perspectives of many different people has caused his views to shift over time.
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  5289.  @psychofangirl_0428  I used to be ignorant enough to dislike Christians in my early teens, but then I came to realize that religion does genuinely help those in need and it had a very important role in carrying us out of being primitives. It may not be help in the form of literal golden rays shining down from heaven, but this isn't anime. The real power (from my perspective, I'm sure many here will disagree but I am atheist) comes from the mind. If God in your mind allows you to overcome extreme challenges like alcoholism, then please by all means believe in God. It's a lot better than most "real" treatments like a shrink or mood altering pills that make you fat, and you're afraid to get rid of because you'll relapse into your old ways. As long as you don't think those same golden rays I mentioned earlier will happen to you because you believe, there isn't a problem.
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  5290.  _BELMONT_  Dumb luck usually
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  5291. Feminists in the 1960s: Men are the cause of all the world's problems. This chase happened because he is a man. Feminists now: AcTuAlLy, WoMeN cOmMiT cRiMeS tOo
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  5292. ​ Battered_Fanny I'm a huge UFC fan but that shit looks objectively gayer than WWE thanks to how body mechanics work. Can't win without wrapping your legs around another man.
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  5293. I'm sure they were all repeals of Trump's EOs. That's just the warm-up.
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  5294.  @chrisspamtest  Yeah, listen to your dumb ass comment instead, don't actually read the book and decide for yourself.
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  5295.  @KingOfDarknessAndEvil  Thinking about it a little more, you're right, I think that's what Charlie was referring to as well, since it's hard to believe someone would argue that the kids are supposed to make "everyone" feel like they're hot.
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  5296. ​ @thomassteward9382  For sure, but it would make more sense that Charlie would clarify that it wasn't satire since that was a pretty outrageous clip, seems almost as if someone was trying to take the piss.
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  5297. Meanwhile in Germany "Hey let's mix cola and orange soda together and sell it in a bottle"
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  5298. My only problem with these guys is that they refuse to release their source code. It's extremely scummy to make a "not-for-profit" addon for a game you don't have the rights to, then set up a Patreon page and refuse to release the source in my opinion. I'm amazed that it's even legal.
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  5299. Aren't there more deaths from hammers than there are rifles?
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  5300. So, India, Russia and Japan all faked their moon landings too? Can you prove that those landings are fake? Since you're so well informed and know so much about this, I assume you have that evidence ready.
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  5301.  @Drekromancer  It's difficult when it's such a consistent recurring pattern
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  5302.  @kate_6436  many states have stand your ground laws
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  5303.  @duvvly  yes, we will, especially all the californians leaving california in droves. stay mad
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  5304.  @jf8138  ... yeah, being in an abusive family tends to disturb you... point being?
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  5305.  @Naokarma  Roblox has a whole market economy built around cosmetics and their rarities. In that game, it's a status symbol if you're a kid with tons of free time to show off your rare hats or whatever.
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  5306. @ I get that we're all human, but if you're a head of state you need to move past being "angry" at your enemy. That causes a person to make mistakes.
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  5307.  @redeemer665  Yeah, I might have typo'd there.
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  5308.  @burritogod59  Sadly that's what's needed in the English language. Spelling words in the English language often makes no sense, and goofy rules that are taught in school are good for maybe a dozen words at best. There really isn't any way to get around it except repetition.
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  5309.  @drb8777  About 365 forced insults per asspained foreigner.
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  5310.  @williambills3260  Agreed, but it's even more damning if you can defeat the enemy in their own home turf.
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  5311.  @freeheim  Not at all, but if you are going to claim to have principles, then I will hold you to them even if I am an opponent.
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  5312.  @theepsteindiaries  Who cares? Fake country.
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  5313.  @aliengoblin  Suggest that this certain someone take a nice long swim in the deep sea?
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  5314.  @Set-ri6rs  Strictly speaking, the socialists were all murdered in The Night of the Long Knives. The left/right wing paradigm is bogus and only creates a smoke screen for the real platforms and issues at play. There's no point on debating where a party is on the spectrum.
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  5315. Is it bad that I would put mustard on a baked ham?
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  5316. It's funny how these particular types of people always seem to retreat to weird childish "quirky" insults or phrases when they are confronted with genuine hardship or discomfort. Like calling your former boss a plant.
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  5317.  NaNoRarh  She was a lead designer and writer for the games she worked on, was she not? That's definitely as much if not more involvement and creative capacity than a movie director.
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  5318.  NaNoRarh  I mean, Roberta Williams co-founded the company. I don't see how she wasn't also working in an executive capacity. I guess I'll have to read that book to see what you're talking about.
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  5319.  @bsbdptsd  I'm not optimistic enough to believe that there are only a few specific people ruining these companies. I believe that the women you see like Kathleen Kennedy are merely the face of the effort. She's there to take the heat from people like us while she delivers bad decisions, but the decisions aren't necessarily hers to make.
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  5320.  @robimedina2979  How do YOU know?
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  5321.  @DaTimmeh  Police working to stop thieves in California? I'll believe it when I see it.
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  5322.  @Obamafrfrfr  Weird how only the people standing in the middle of streets seem to get funding from international NGOs tied to investment bankers. Your nation is being manipulated like a puppet on strings, all of ours are to varying degrees, all in the service of some detached guy in a suit who invested in green energy companies. Hilarious that people think that all this money and organization comes out of nowhere out of the sheer goodness of people's hearts.
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  5323. Can I humbly offer some advice? Please don't use clips of scam artists like Dale from Detroit Urban Survival in your video as some sort of evidence or example. It is extremely cringeworthy and the move he demonstrates in that very clip is so laughable.
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  5324.  @spelcheak  I disagree, casual dating and sex are far worse for society because it muddles up the dating market. If whores were legal, men and women who didn't want a real relationship would be almost entirely excluded, making it more straightforward. This dating market problem is only getting worse as time goes on.
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  5325. that's so ironic, I've always known TF2 to be the game filled with furries, weebs and other deviants. you'd think it would be the last place that would kick someone over some dumb shit in their Steam bio
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  5326.  @NullaVitae  Wow you mean like every celebrity who has fans on the planet? They're all cringe now too?
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  5327.  @iknowmy3tables  There isn't really anything spiritual about it. It is instinctual and primal. The societies or tribes that do not have "strong morals" as we, or perhaps a Christian, would know them are stuck in sub-3rd world level of development. The results speak for themselves. To me, this is like saying that deciding not to punch yourself in the face is "very spiritual." The benefits of not punching yourself in the face are incredibly obvious to those who can see them. It's just that strong morality requires more foresight to understand the tangible benefits. You and I don't need Jesus whispering "My child, don't punch yourself in the face" into your ear to not do it.
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  5328. Horny.
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  5329.  @isturbo1984 You're clearly backpedaling like mad, but sure, claim you were just pretending to be a moron.
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  5330.  @braydenbannon5797  Whatever you do, don't Google "Operation Mockingbird"
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  5331.  @sandhanitizer15  Yeah, hahaha. That's ridiculous. The government would never coerce news outlets into saying whatever they want. Operation Mockingbird isn't real.
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  5332.  @Diaryofaninja  You will reply to this comment like the sad pawn that you are. Dance for me, monkey.
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  5333. ​ @Wokechan Yeah, our greatest parasi-- I mean allies. Just like Israel. They take our money and give us... uh... y'know... something. I'm sure it's worth it.
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  5334.  @purecalamity  cavalry or other fast moving units
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  5335.  @cheeseycarp5364  You have a lot more faith in humanity than I would. My only problem with the practice is that it should have a warning sign. Most of the time these warnings are enough to deter criminals by themselves.
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  5336. By the way, you're supposed to leave the Sphere through a route in the underground tunnel not go back the way you came, lol.
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  5337. The real tragedy of this is that extreme lefties will fail to see the harmonious truth staring them DIRECTLY in the face -- that they actually agree with the "far right" on MANY issues -- and will instead continue to fall for the D&C political nonsense about immutable characteristics and other pointless inflammatory rhetoric, merely whining that this guy isn't on "their side" When they realize the truth, that Americans have more in common than they have to divide them, we could have a real revolution on our hands.
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  5338.  @Luke2128  I think that happened a long time ago judging by the fact that she did not even introduce the man she slept with
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  5339. Goku*
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  5340.  @Plznojudge  The thing that annoys me is that the bodyguard glanced at the perp as he walked up and didn't think anything was suspicious and went back to being a phone zombie. He had already drawn his gun before the bodyguard even knew what was happening.
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  5341.  @darker.alt4610  Does Area 51 exist in any other country? There's a clear bias towards the US having all the evidence, if any, for alien contact.
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  5342.  @samuelhowie4543  And why did you mention D.C.?
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  5343.  @elettramia6380  Imagine talking over the opinions of actual indigenous people in this thread with your condescending emojis and attitude while claiming to give a fuck about anyone but yourself and your own opinions. Oh wait I don't have to, you're doing it now.
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  5344.  @nozirohhh  Chocolate is fine if you don't eat the mass produced crap that is mostly milk and sugar.
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  5345. It would be enough for them to submit a piece of anomalous material (i.e. some kind of foreign material that is obviously not anything we have manufactured or refined) to various research firms and have them all independently corroborate that it is not of human origin.
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  5346.  @arjunahawaii  There have been a few that have dropped it while recorded, if I'm not mistaken, none that I know of at a press conference.
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  5347.  @phav1832  Kamala doesn't actually believe any of this bullshit. She's cynically going along with the script to obtain power and money. This has been the playbook of most presidential candidates for the past 60 odd years. The reason why people like the woman in the video don't obtain power very often is precisely because they believe their own bullshit. She will be too frozen with indecision and guilt to actually take power in a position believing it should go to a nonwhite woman instead.
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  5348. It's the same effect as smut, you become desensitized to it. When women do it IRL, it's empowering. As soon as it doesn't involve a real woman directly taking advantage of her own body, it is somehow misogynist. Easiest example to point to is animated smut. The cognitive dissonance and blatant selfishness is exhausting. I have consumed a lot of it in my day. But I am a bit of a hopeless romantic, so I still find it easy to get in the mood. I can't speak for other men, but I get the feeling it's not always as easy for them. At this point, I find that sexual attraction is more about an emotional connection or emotional dynamic than anything else.
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  5349. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it has no useful examples. Useful examples is usually one of the few things I go to the man pages for, namely involving obscure command line options. Otherwise yes, I agree it isn't as useful as advertised unless you are stuck configuring a server with no internet connection or you are looking up an obscure command line option that virtually nobody else seems to use.
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  5350. Sneako is really a massive dumbass. That's the ironic part about this; Charlie has clowned on him before, and he thought this would be good content and nothing else. Lo and behold, even a dumbass can deliver a common sense take on a hot button political issue.
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  5351.  @CognitiveDissident-b7m  Get a hobby man.
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  5352. Lmfao, being threatened by an international scammer. I couldnt laugh harder. I'd be asking how often does he carry a gun? For me, it's every day.
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  5353. ​@Alexcudedurex642 Pure projection, nobody is idolizing being a mentally ill loser with no future, they identify specifically with the catharsis of saying "fuck you" to society. It's a very common thing to identify with that no one sane acts upon.
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  5354. @ You're making judgment with the benefit of hindsight, there is no way you know that the guy couldn't pull out another weapon in the heat of the moment.
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  5355.  @MrLoobu  What, .338? It has better trajectory over distance than most other rounds, including 7.62mm. It was designed from the ground up to be shot over extremely long distances. 7.62mm is a great round, but more general purpose
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  5356.  @masterlolilover5255  And how are flat Earthers regarded among the population at large? Are you honestly suggesting that belief in a flat Earth threatens our society? Are you willing to be the moral arbitrator that decides what information is safe for the public?
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  5357. "P-please! Don't let my lifetime of academic faffing about be for nothing! Allow me to be right!"
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  5358.  @archangel9975  Uh, that's completely normal in the West, dude. If a non-white guy grabs a cop's gun and gets shot, that's "police brutality" here too, it's not just China. Pay a little more attention. We just went through a presidential campaign where "get rid of the police" was a legitimate political platform that people voted for.
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  5359. Spaceman Spliff: Oblivious stoner by day, obnoxious grammar nazi by night
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  5360.  @seraph6758  yep, political issues are fought one at a time, not by picking a side and believing that "end justifies the means"
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  5361.  @jaredheuser8890  ... What?
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  5362.  @liamm8238  wait until you find out that animals "murder" other animals for food, and that doing so is way more environmentally conscious than buying meat at a store
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  5363. There's that classic Chinese laundry detergent TV ad where a black guy's girlfriend tosses him into the washing machine and he comes out Chinese. Not racist at all.
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  5364. Thanks to our government, this man who maybe did a crime will now have few options in life but to be a career criminal because he spent 10 years only interacting with criminals.
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  5365. As someone who relies on ride shares on a regular basis, thanks for taking your own safety and that of your passengers seriously
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  5366. ​@donmiller2908 No one's auditing your behavior, you have the right to walk back into a store for any reason.
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  5367. I am a visually impaired man who cannot drive and I've always gotten my groceries home by waiting outside the doors of the store and ordering a ride share. Maybe you could try this too.
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  5368.  @OrthoBroBro  Nah, it definitely will be higher than a 7.0, even if the review text reads like it should be a 7.0. That's just how IGN operates.
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  5369.  @OrthoBroBro  They already rated it a 7? I thought you meant the review hadn't come out yet.
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  5370. Well no. Worst case scenario, the Chinese government uses Tiktok as a means to mine data of unimaginable quantities from everyone that has it installed
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  5371.  @Gucci_Membrane  Doesn't matter. What matters is, was this an intentional direct act by the Russian military? No, it wasn't, so it isn't actionable by NATO and we aren't all about to die in nuclear hellfire in WW3. At least, not yet. That is what matters.
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  5372.  @Gucci_Membrane  You're arguing pedantics. If Russia truly were responsible in a meaningful way, the world would be on the brink of ending and mass panic would ensue across Europe, Russia and possibly the US. Poland and NATO don't agree. All you're arguing for right now is the right to say "Russia bad" on the internet.
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  5373.  @Gucci_Membrane  Wait, do you actually think the president of Poland and top general of NATO are wrong and that Russia really fired this missile now? What "shot across the bow" are you talking about? Ukraine shooting decades old Soviet missiles is not directly Russia's fault, even if they were using them to stop Russia from invading their territory. Also it seems like you haven't been following how the first world wages war since Vietnam.
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  5374.  @Gucci_Membrane  Nobody "has" to do anything, least of all use decades old Soviet missiles instead of the ones we -- the Americans -- are giving them. What a world we live in where not wanting WW3 makes you a Communist; and here I thought it was the opposite. And I'll be nice and cozy here in the subtropics, but thanks for the concern.
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  5375. Pipe shotgun, naturally.
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  5376. There are, on occasion. They never receive media coverage. Only protests about domestic social issues get coverage. It exacerbates social tension which is good for voting. Divide and conquer.
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  5377. ​@theoneandonlysoslappy Not really, no. The ultimate access to a device is physical access. What the police are doing is like taking your safe from your home where you could say "Hey, stop messing with my safe" and moving it to the station where they can break in with impunity. Unfortunately for them, the safe in this case takes decades to cut through. It's virtually the same as an encrypted storage drive that they've removed from the device so they can try to hack it without getting stopped by the password interface.
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  5378. It might be a psychological thing as well since they explained their mom taught them that it's okay to eat sugar as long as they drink a diet soda afterward. They literally think diet soda is therapeutic. If you tell them to stop drinking diet soda, it means they must necessarily stop eating sugar as well
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  5379.  @NOTSPML  They're referring to the fact that the cops thought to call in Hertz and confirm that the car was stolen for the white guy but not the black lady. It wasn't clear whether the black lady had the papers in her car but I see no reason why she would not have them. Another thing to consider is that the guy was arrested literally an hour after renting the car.
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  5380. Ironically, Halo has some of the least worthless AI allies as far as shooters go. For one thing, you can trade them a sniper rifle or rocket launcher with one round left, and they'll get unlimited ammo for the rest of the mission. They're also fairly durable
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  5381. "Ubisoft's leaders are making a ton of bad decisions recently" "Why are you insulting all the little people who work hard at Ubisoft?!? Stop spreading hate!!!" "..."
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  5382. No offense, but "comical levels of corruption" kinda describes most of China's history of governance.
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  5383. The Land of the Rising Sun and Boomer Executives
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  5384.  @rodricdonnan5388  A: the example is in the video and fancy hair man refused to view it B: cartoons can't involve minors according to Japanese labor law. depiction, if that, is not the same thing as involvement C: you failed to establish cause and effect relationship between censorship and more sales outside of Japan
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  5385. There is a chain down in the South called Micro Center which is better than them in every conceivable way. They legitimize their existence by getting new products (like 4090s for example) immediately and by having excellent customer service
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  5386. By the way to give an example I ordered a 3080, and when I got there the guy at the counter said he couldn't find the model in inventory, so he gave me a 3080 Ti (slight upgrade) for no additional cost
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  5387. Imagine being called the "butter boys" by the greatest conqueror of your time.
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  5388.  @Needsmoreflash  Uhh.. I hope I don't have to explain the difference between FCC broadcast regulations, cable television networks, and the internet
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  5389.  @Needsmoreflash  Okay partner. Enjoy confusing everyone by conflating television broadcasts with the internet
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  5390. The barrel collided with the soldiers and the other vehicle, forcing the turret to turn counter-clockwise. That turret drive is likely damaged now.
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  5391.  @Drakence  nah dude, women don't belong in a fight with a man, she made the absolute correct move by ducking in to stab that guy and then getting back out immediately. do you think this guy wanted his woman to get tangled with a black guy that was even bigger than he was?
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  5392.  @charlesedwards7992  that wasn't a "boys will be boys" fight he was beating him when he was down. that is by definition lethal force
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  5393.  @salar1586  caveman tier mentality, i'm glad society isn't made up of mostly people like you anymore, not to mention you're wrong about it anyway it was not an honorable fight
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  5394.  @tomw.6757  Next you'll round them up in camps, and you'll still unironically believe you're on the right side of history
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  5395. Combination of actual brainwashing and crushing of the spirit, all intentional. Some will argue there is a genetic element, but there is 150+ years of political brainwashing at play here. From record labels deliberately choosing gangsters to promote, to the ATF turning a blind eye to Chinese companies selling and smuggling in millions of Glock switches. It's their game and we're playing in it
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  5396.  @mitchellthomas368  Dude, YouTube uploaders don't sit around monitoring your comments. It's the website algorithm.
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  5397. I mean my GM uses AI but he's also a professional level artist and has spent many hours building a workflow for it, and even then he only uses it for NPCs that he thinks would be relevant that weren't given a portrait in the adventure, or item icons. A huge point of spending money on a rulebook or adventure book is to get art drawn by a human that understands the themes of the adventure and desires of the characters within said adventure to spark the players and GMs imaginations. If they start relying on AI and lazily dumping AI art with barely a touch up, why buy the books?
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  5398.  @thedakotalogs  It doesn't amount to "stealing" any more than a human being inspired to draw in another artist's style is. The only real difference is that the inspiration passed through an artificial brain rather than a human one. Modern neural networks don't just "steal" art anyway, they have advanced beyond that. You've never heard the sayings about creativity being judicious theft?
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  5399.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  4chan's features for discussion are way superior to Twitter's. For starters, every single reply to a thread on 4chan does not immediately spiral off into its own thread. This Twitter feature is anathema to any focused or on-topic discussion.
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  5400. Computer scientists are the reason that we have white papers written about how AIs should be designed from decades prior long before we had the capacity to actually build them.
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  5401. You know, I actually like this idea. As long as you keep in mind that only those who pay taxes can vote. In fact, why don't we go further, and also restrict it to male property owners? What a new and revolutionary concept.
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  5402.  @abadran8174  If by "objective" you mean there are a large group of people who agree on it, like a contract, then perhaps, but beauty standards have changed dramatically through human history. In medieval times small breasts were considered attractive -- but then again our view of what "society thinks" is largely informed by what the nobility and church thinks because they were the ones who could write. Long before that, we see a lot of idols carved of humongously fat women with gigantic breasts. So clearly a fair number of people thought that was hot.
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  5403.  @bas-tn3um  Mental health is a completely valid excuse buddy. I've seen a schizophrenic lie her way into her own boyfriend's home so she could shoot herself. I was the person she lied to. If you are mentally ill, you may not even be capable of defending yourself armed or not. And you may be capable of hurting others.
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  5404.  @dansw0rkshop  Quite the contrary, I'm a programmer by trade so command lines and action-first interfaces aren't strange to me at all. There are also a few things I like about Linux GUIs, but they're specific to pieces of the GUI because everything is so modular; for example, which file manager is preferred, etc. However, I'm the first to douse water on overzealous Linux fans who are trying to get their grandma to install Linux, because it's just not a very good idea. It doesn't matter how much you like it, you have to be able to take a step back and realize that there is a reason the market share of Linux PCs is somewhere around 1-2%. It's a free OS, more people would certainly use it if it were easy to use and had a good GUI.
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  5405. I think they genuinely made a mistake. They were trying to fix problems where characters get close to map geometry and the camera is pushed close to them, and then their body would block your view if you're actually playing the game. Someone forgot to test the panty shot. If you've ever watched the anime NEW GAME, you know that you always test the panty shot.
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  5406.  @imsentinelprime9279  That's because the fanbase isn't a hivemind and no one in the comments is their elected representative. It's not hard to figure out. All Activision can do is go by the sales.
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  5407.  @ISeeWaffles  The Germans actually did not vote "for Hitler" specifically, it was quite a tragic time because the traditional conservative party wanted to be in power again. The liberal party was the one who ruled during the Weimar Republic and they were extremely unpopular due to residing over it during the Great Depression, and on top of that, the harsh penalties imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. However the conservatives had trouble gaining grassroots support, because they were identified as "the Kaiser Wilhelm party." The Nazis had started to gain good grassroots support because of fear of Communism -- there was real street-fighting between Nazis and Communists in Berlin at the time, which Hitler participated in. There was also not a small amount of resentment held by German veterans from the last war, who felt that Britain and France had done them dirty with the treaty, and a lot of them supported the Nazi party. So the conservatives made a deal with the Nazis where Hitler would be placed as chancellor if people voted for the conservative party. It worked, but you'd just be voting "for the conservatives" if you were voting as a German. And as we know, the Nazi party leadership basically backstabbed everyone to get into total power at that point, abusing an emergency powers loophole to stay in total power (just like Julius Caesar did, coincidentally).
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  5408.  @delarkaBCN  It has to be ratified by Congress and it is only temporary. You sign up to be drafted the moment you register to vote, assuming you are a young male.
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  5409.  @patdahms4918  You having a stroke there bud?
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  5410.  @1pcfred  "druggies have no disease. They're just wasteos. They're weak willed individuals that have let the drugs take them over." Huh. That's actually something I agree with. What's utterly baffling is that you conclude based on this that the drug is the problem and not the person taking them, and still advocate for narcotics to be illegal.
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  5411.  @haruspex9662  It's "originally" from many different cultures. Turns out spirals are cool in every culture.
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  5412.  @haruspex9662  The swastika is a very basic shape, just a stylized spiral.
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  5413.  @jean-pierrepolnareff9987  You're putting way more thought into this than 95% of the people that fap to cartoon porn. Like holy shit man, it's not that deep. Most people don't go around corroborating character behavior before deciding whether they want to jerk it to a .jpeg. It's not a fucking reading assignment. Let me put it in a different way. Imagine, just for a moment, you enjoy erotic cartoons. You have never seen Teen Titans or heard of it. You go to an artist's page because you like that artist's style. He posts a lewd drawing of Raven. Are you automatically a pedo for finding Raven attractive? No, because you have no way of knowing that she is underage. Her design is way too simple for that. You also have no way of knowing that the style in which the artist drew her is the "canonical" design. Finding that character design aesthetically attractive, and finding the character attractive because she is underage are not at all the same thing in cartoons.
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  5414.  @crazys89  it doesn't, "DEI" is just a political sledgehammer used to force corporations to kowtow to a cohort of international big-time bankers and their firms, BlackRock being the largest. it has nothing to do with actually promoting diversity, equity or inclusion
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  5415.  @2hotflavored666  Voting doesn't work either, and if you suggest drastic action you're a Fed. Welcome to the world of being politically unpopular in a corrupt system. By the way, you won't do anything either.
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  5416.  @edwardgaines6561  None of what you said is mutually exclusive to what I said. Stay in school.
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  5417.  @moistestslug5749  "Dude, you can't just get mad and flood the world because we were having fun as a group while not sticking to your plot" "I'm running the campaign, it's MY RULES!" And then the New Testament was when the DM finally got laid and stopped being such a douche.
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  5418. I may be passing out all the time from low blood sugar, but at least I can call myself a man
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  5419. Time is money, friend!
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  5420. Warriors are objectively one of the best classes around and always were because they're the most popular class. It's hilarious to see anyone act like Warriors are suffering, and conversely, for Warrior haters to act like Warrior players are getting "owned." I will say that Paladin DPS seems quite insane at the moment though. In our BFD raids thus far, the DPS ladder looks like: Hunter > Ret Paladin > Feral Druid >>>> Everyone else. Not that I'm complaining, I'm not typically petty enough to be mad because a class is doing well at any given moment in time.
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  5421. To be fair, they wouldn't have made it, and then the cop wouldn't be there to help.
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  5422.  @mitchellmaytorena1137  this is a problem specifically because cops are stereotyped as always corrupt assholes, and ironically, that mindset is usually what causes them to escalate a non-threatening situation into an arrest.
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  5423.  @jesusislord7733  That feel when you have nothing in life so you get your kicks by telling strangers on the internet that they will be forever tortured in make-believe spirit land I will never understand how people like you consider yourselves merciful, let alone Christian
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  5424. NIMBY on a national scale. It's infuriating. The electoral college is the only thing preventing a total blue takeover of the country.
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  5425. Yeah, I'd let the miniskirt lady on the right give me a reading any time.
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  5426. These types of arguments are so pointless and tedious. I typically just shut down and let them stew in their own perceived anger. If you want to have a good time, it's important not to get worked up over every little comment or perceived slight. No one is going to win the 'tard olympics here. Even if she said "he knows" and it strikes you as kind of snippy, who cares? You really think you're going to police the behavior of some stranger through a video game? This may have been manufactured because the lady is popular, but real arguments like this do happen online, especially when the other teammates are mad because they're losing. It's sad to see.
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  5427. To me, there's nothing more amusing than a woman telling a man how to act like a man.
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  5428.  @KingaMoor  It's normal now, but it shows a deep-seated insecurity of being ostracized for your views and it's completely redundant. It was not normal as recent as two decades ago. If I say "Apples taste good," for example, it's an obviously subjective view. It does not need to be elongated to "I think apples taste good." My teachers even taught us this in my grade school English class -- the difference between a fact and an opinion, just based on the verbiage used. Any intelligent person can extrapolate this idea to politics. Very immature people will take offense to the statement "Apples taste good" because they assume that you are some kind of arrogant malicious actor, who is making the absurd assertion that apples taste objectively good for all people. This fear of ostracization, and the brow-beating of outspoken people, doesn't just apply to important issues either. It's even present in mundane discussions about interests, like movies, games or other hobbies. It makes discussion of almost anything very tedious.
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  5429.  @Rickbotic  Okay, so pray tell which humans would be more suited to portraying a smaller than average humanoid fey creature? To put it another way, how would you feel if you were a dwarf actor, a minority among minorities, and you were told you can't have a job acting on Snow White because a dwarf who got rich by playing dwarf roles said it would be bigoted on Twitter?
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  5430.  @masonfarnsworth6730  Inflicting that regret on another person who is forced to take up the mental burden of killing you and then carry it for the rest of their lives is a very selfish act. Man up and do it yourself, or better yet, realize you can still make a positive difference in the world instead.
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  5431. Dude gets called an NPC and immediately goes aggro in an effort to prove that he isn't, when attacking people is possibly the most basic NPC action out there.
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  5432. @jake980x I have a job. Sorry, kid, the world doesn't revolve around your angry internet reactions to my shitposting.
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  5433. @jake980x No. You will reply to this post and you will continue to be mad.
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  5434.  @rogerstefan234  nope, being a poor east asian immigrant used to be the hardest; you get shat on by affirmative action policies because "asians are smart" so you can't go to college with scholarships
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  5435.  @taiyoctopus2958  That sounds like a fun watch, I'll have to look it up.
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  5436.  @Shoegaze-  No. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Stupidity is the inability or unwillingness to gain it.
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  5437. ​@TheSethOlson Polling numbers? Haley didn't have a snowballs chance in hell. Whether you like Trump or not, if you don't want Biden in office (and you shouldn't, even if you're a Democrat) it's extremely clear that Trump is the only other option.
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  5438. the Secret Service is pretty incompetent, to be fair. look up news stories from the past 8 or so years. drunkenness, irresponsible firearms handling, etc.
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  5439. Around elves, watch yourselves.
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  5440. Nah they're suffering from hyperinflation. There's no way I would trade 1 based chad for even a million antifa.
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  5441. ​​@bonezgaming And that law literally says that Rubio can do whatever the heck he wants with it. It's an executive branch organization just like every other alphabet soup agency. If anyone is to be blamed, blame Congress for writing the law badly. It's just like an investor company relationship. Congress is the investor. The executive branch is the company, deciding what to do with the money. That's why executive branch is enforcement. You could whine just as loudly about misappropriation of military funds, such as the disastrous F-35 project, it's no less egregious a misuse of Congress allocated funds by those standards.
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  5442. ​ @Techfanatic73 Yeah, lawyers NEVER have ulterior motives or abuse their position to influence opinion. That definitely doesn't happen.
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  5443. It is here, as well. Kinda weird, but you can go to the supermarket and see Cracker Barrel brand cheese (and even mac and cheese dinners), then leave and see a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
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  5444.  @habibishapur  You're thinking about it a little too deeply there buddy.
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