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ConfusedTorchic posted...

hehe adj said cocksicle

It's a frozen foreskin. How could I not?

(And because I'm sure Sunny will go after me for this, yes, I understand that cryogenically preserving cells does not just consist of throwing a foreskin in the freezer)

I didn't say it was copyright only.

Revelation34 posted...

Nah.

Is that an opinion which you're going to back up with statistics showing that that is actually an above-average price for a unit of that size in that location?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

How am I the first person pointing out that the bathroom has a clear glass window into the studio apartment living room area?

Unless that glass is one of those neat smart glass deals where you can send an electric charge through it and the whole thing becomes opaque, you've pretty much got zero privacy in there unless you live alone.

It's worth noting that that's just the bath, and not the toilet. The toilet is an enclosed room. Public/communal bathing is more of a thing in Japan, and while that doesn't usually extend to people watching TV in the living room also being able to watch you bathe, that does mean it's not as obvious a dealbreaker as it would be for us. Personally, though, I am inclined to feel like that limits the apartment to couples and not roommates or larger families.

josh posted...

I completely forgot you could integrate other clients. Glad I never tried it now.

I wouldn't say I regret trying it. I was just disappointed that it didn't end up being all that useful.

If they couldn't tell whether it was real or fantasy rape, they were policing it on the basis of not being able to verify the consent of the participants, not on the content. The content just drew attention to that inability.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Can you grow human skin, collagen and an anti wrinkle cream additive from a single vial of cryogenically frozen foreskin cells using DMEM? I can.

I mean, I couldn't do it right now if you handed me the components and asked me to, but that's true of pretty much any job. Stick me in a McD's kitchen right now, and I couldn't make a Big Mac (at least, not one that adhered to the defined guidelines). Stick me in a McD's kitchen with instructions on how to make a Big Mac, though, and I'd be able to do it. Similarly, stick me in a lab with a cocksicle, the relevant growth medium, and instructions on how to put them together to make cosmetics, and I fully expect that I'd get the hang of it within a couple tries.

"You don't know how to do *highly specific task that nobody outside of this job would ever have reason to know how to do*" isn't really the flex you seem to think it is. Every job has job-specific skills and knowledge that anyone outside of the field can't be expected to have. Not having those skills and knowledge doesn't mean they couldn't learn them if needed, unless the skills and knowledge require a significant amount of education, experience, talent, and/or practice (like anyone can drill a hole in some metal with minimal training, but precision machining requires much more training and practice).

To be fair, neither would I, so I can't really fault it for that.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Then I guess you've forgotten that since the 1970's people have been recording shows so they don't miss episodes completely blowing the starting premise that

That's all well and good, provided they caught the first episode and recorded every subsequent one, instead of seeing a random episode from the middle of the series as their first introduction to it and not immediately deciding to record them.

Even then, that doesn't invalidate my core point, which was that the only people binge watching shows in the pre-streaming era were those that were already sold on them. People that record every episode, buy box sets, or seek out pirate streams are not people that need to be convinced to watch more of the show. People that happen to catch a random episode, however, are, because they're an untapped audience that can potentially join those existing fans and start trying to watch every episode (with all the fun ratings and ad revenue that come with that).

SunWuKung420 posted...

The whole premise that people didn't watch every episode, before streaming and binge watching, is completely flawed.

Then I guess it's a good thing that wasn't my premise. My premise was that it was expected that people would miss episodes. That does not mean that everybody missed episodes of everything, it just means that in designing shows, there was a need to assume that some people would miss some and try not to alienate them.

Streaming has changed that in that it is now expected that everybody watching a show will start at the beginning and watch every episode until it either ends or they lose interest. There no longer needs to be a focus on making sure that you engage somebody that shows up in the middle, it's meaning you can focus entirely on making sure that the series remains engaging the whole way through.

GreenKnight127 posted...

Haha, my opinion needs correcting? Nah.

You aint gunna sell me on hotpots.

Perhaps you should learn how to peacefully accept a different opinion? ;)

Opinions can be wrong, if based on incorrect information/assumptions or flawed understandings. In that case, there's no reason to accept them as legitimate.

Again, you don't have to like them (that is indeed just an opinion), but if you're going to call them "scams," you need to identify some manner of deceit or fraud involved. If there isn't any, then you're just lying.

SunWuKung420 posted...

The AI poster child can't imagine using AI to make a post. HILARIOUS!

I think you're confused.

I like the idea of GOG Galaxy consolidating libraries into one, because that's convenient, but in practice it doesn't run very well, the library syncing is inconsistent, and I still have to open the actual launcher for the library that contains the game and therefore opening Galaxy is an extra step in most cases.

Revelation34 posted...

I assume the removed content also applies to actual porn sites too. Like what site was mentioned in this thread earlier.

The content removal on actual porn sites was more about content that was hosted without the consent of the participants/IP holder. Content depicting fictional non-consensual sex is still fair game, so long as it's not outright illegal.

I think that you're more capable of reading those indicators than any of us are. If any of them fall into ranges that are identified as dangerous, you should research that risk further and adjust your drinking/cleaning/whatever practices accordingly. If none of them do, you're fine and should go on with your life unless you receive an actual water quality advisory.

Revelation34 posted...

I guess that means the word inappropriate actually means appropriate.

Does the existence of the term "FemShep" mean that Commander Shepherd is exclusively male?

papercup posted...

They just redesigned Mario, Luigi, Peach and Daisy in Mario Bros. Wonder

This. It wasn't a radical redesign, by any means, but it was a redesign nonetheless.

Oh good.

Damn_Underscore posted...

If you are a fan of Super Mario 64, you may assume it's a good idea to join the SM64 speedrunning community

Why would you? Even if you're not familiar with speedrunning, the name pretty self-evidently indicates that it's not a community for running the game normally.

Even then, on the off chance that you know nothing about speedrunning, aren't sure how to interpret the words "speed" and "running" when smooshed together, and somehow stumbled across the speedrunning community as the first community you check out for the game instead of just going to the normal Mario subreddit or something, it will become immediately apparent upon looking at said community out that it's about running the game with speed and therefore not necessarily applicable to how you enjoy playing it, at which point you move on having lost nothing but the couple minutes it took to realize that.

Speedrunners only make the game "less fun" if they either take over and shut out non-speedrunning discussion in more general communities, or if you have an interest in speedrunning and wish you could do it but lack the skills and end up just feeling bitter and jealous every time Youtube recommends you a speedrunning video in response to the 45 others you've watched today. The former is far from universal, and the latter is entirely your own personal hangup and not something anyone else is responsible for.

Sounds like a dandori issue to me.

Honestly, I've largely stopped buying games on Steam unless it's something I know I'll play in the near future (most recently, Spiritfarer, which I bought in March, started playing in mid-June, and finished a couple weeks ago). My backlog continues to grow, thanks to gifts, giveaways (including Epic's weekly free game(s)), and the occasional bundle purchase, but gone are the days when I'd buy something just because it was a good deal. It has to be an exceptional deal (hence the bundles) and/or something I want immediately enough to not wait for a better deal.

VioletZer0 posted...

In the 17 years since I had my steam account, I have accumulated 833 games and my total playtime on steam is 7368 hours.

If I played every game I own for exactly 9 hours, I would spend 7497 hours.

Having catalogued every game I own (including physical and all digital libraries) for the sake of tracking my backlog, I have a total of 1422 games, 878 of which are in my backlog. According to HowLongToBeat (which I used to catalog everything), it would take over 700 days of playtime to beat all of them. If I played 5 hours of backlog a day every single day, that would be over 9 years.

But I'm sure I'll get to them all one of these days.

Revelation34 posted...

Also why would I feel bad?

Moral nuance is perhaps a little too advanced for you. Don't worry about it.

When you speak in a public forum, you're talking to everyone.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Clearly you are unaware of binge watching.

Binge watching wasn't really a thing in 2006. Pirates could do it, as could those that bought box sets, but neither are the primary audience that would be considered in making choices like helping audiences relate to the family (the former because they aren't paying anyway, the latter because they're already as invested in the series as anyone can be). For people watching episodes on TV, the aim is to catch their interest and keep them watching. That's a lot easier to do if they don't feel like they're missing out on something for having missed episodes.

Streaming has done quite a lot to change how much serial continuity you can put in a show. Expecting that nobody will miss any episodes is a massive paradigm shift.

VioletZer0 posted...

But this kind of accumulation and hoarding can only exist with game permanence. If buying a game is only temporary, what happens is that people will only buy games that they have committed time to. In other words, it subjects them to the time and attention problem that permanent games don't have.

This logic only works if you assume that they're okay with people buying their games and never playing them. Many of the games that SKG is seeking to prevent the death of have at least some manner of live service element to them, meaning the companies behind them have a vested financial interest in making sure people play them and open themselves up to being monetized.

They, in fact, do want people to be afraid of losing access to the game. That may discourage a few sales, but assuming it's a game they do want to play, the looming spectre of server shutdowns will push people to buy it sooner (potentially even outweighing the conventional wisdom of "wait for a sale") and prioritize playing it over others. That's just how the decision-making process goes: If you have a choice between two things you want to do, but one of those things won't be available anymore tomorrow, you're going to do that thing and put off the one that can wait.

Personally, I would agree with you that not knowing whether or not a game will last makes me hesitate to buy it unless I want to play it immediately, but I'm not a typical live service gamer. I tend to prefer permanent, finite experiences where I'm not tied to anyone else's schedule and I don't have somebody trying to sell me overpriced nonsense every time I open a menu. Even so, I've enjoyed the occasional live service game, and I've had my moment-to-moment decisions of what to play influenced by the knowledge that something like a PoE league will end and my alternative choices will not. For the many gamers that are more into live services, the fear of missing out on time-limited content is a big part of what keeps them coming back (this is why battle passes have become such a thing, among other time-limited events), and in the same vein, fearing that a game you like might shut down before you've had your fill of it is a strong motivator to play more than you otherwise might have while you can.

bachewychomp posted...

I think there's some truth to the idea that women can get a hookup more easily, but the incel fallacy is ignoring men's roles in enabling it, and assuming that women find hookups desirable as much as men do.

There's truth to "women can get laid at will if that's all they want," thanks to how desperate so many guys are, but that's often not all they want. The whole "sex is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good" saying is overwhelmingly a male perspective, by virtue of the fact that mediocre or even bad sex can still be pretty good for guys because squishy hole feel good. The bar for "a better time than I'd have on my own" is notably higher for women than for men, and that means that when women do look for hookups, they're looking for more than just a convenient dick. They're looking for somebody with whom they have enough chemistry that even if it turns out that the dude sucks at sex, they still feel like they've gotten something out of the liaison (plus chemistry just makes sex better across the board regardless of your partner's skill).

That's also not getting into the whole safety angle, since it's generally much more dangerous for a woman to be alone with a random man than vice versa. There's also the issue that, thanks to homophobia/toxic masculinity discouraging emotional closeness between male friends, men tend to be a lot more reliant on romantic/sexual partners for their emotional fulfillment than women are, which means that women are generally happier single than men are.

bachewychomp posted...

Also, the fundamental "women are constantly getting f***ed by men but men can't get laid" part of incel ideology will always be hilarious in how self-contradictory it is

That's not necessarily contradictory on its own, but the combination of "they should stop being so slutty" (which translates into "they should stop sleeping with guys they like sleeping with") and "they should lower their standards enough to sleep with me" certainly is.

papercup posted...

And, you know, obviously there will be more games for years to come.

Yeah, that was my reasoning in picking one up now. I wouldn't have bought a system just for Mario Kart, and buying one just for DK was a stretch (though it's much closer to system-seller territory), but I know we'll be seeing more Xenoblade and Zelda in the future and those are system-sellers for me, plus an assortment of other games that have already been announced as exclusive and/or that I'd rather play on a console. Odds are, the system won't see a meaningful price drop by the time the library has grown more, so there's no real reason for me to wait.

I do, however, suspect that we might be seeing a price drop for Mario Kart. This is entirely speculation, but I think pricing it at $80 might have been a decision made to encourage people to pick up the limited-time bundle and get it for $50 instead, driving early system sales with that opportunity to save $30. It won't surprise me at all if, once they discontinue the bundle and that incentive no longer applies, they drop it down to $70 to drive further sales. But I guess we'll see.

Congrats on the epiphany, I guess.

Muscles posted...

Rats are vermin, they destroy food sources and spread disease. They're disgusting creatures

Most animals "destroy food sources and spread disease" to some extent or another. That's just the nature of living. We only consider that a problem when it interferes with our ability to live, which is generally not the case with pets of any species regardless of what an undomesticated member of that species might do (or at least, we accept that interference in exchange for having a fun little buddy).

Revelation34 posted...

How is that a low price?

Under $500k for a decent-sized 2-bedroom condo in a major city is definitely a low price (at least, assuming it's a one-time fee and not the monthly rent).

Vicaris posted...

Though I think they weren't interested in even having a mascot back then, it'd go against their positioning in the market.

Which I guess makes sense. If you establish a clear mascot for your platform, you're pretty much telling third parties "nothing you release for this system will ever be as important as this character," which is less than inviting if you're actively trying to court them. Your choice of mascot also creates a definite vibe for the platform that prospective developers might view as limiting what they should try to sell on it.

Zeus posted...

What the hell is a "worthwhile sexual partner"?

I feel like I'm going to save a whole lot of time addressing everything else you've said if I just ask a question of my own:

Zeus, have you ever had sex?

ConfusedTorchic posted...

if you need a completely different word for women, then one of them is male specific.

We can talk about white cars without implying that no cars are white except those that are specified. Such is the nature of adjectives: they define the scope of the subset you're currently talking about, but indicate nothing about the complete set.

In the case of "femcel," the term exists because it's usually assumed that incels are male (which is a reasonable assumption because the most vocal and visible members of the subculture are and the community is so overtly hostile to women), and is used in contexts where it's deemed necessary to specify that you're talking about female ones. It doesn't mean that female incels can't be acknowledged outside of specific cases where you use the term.

papercup posted...

The soundtrack in this game oh my god. The references. Its not just Mario. I heard music from Wario Land. Yoshis Island. Donkey Kong Country.

The music is one of my favourite things about free roam. Just driving around and chilling to remixes of classic Mario-adjacent music is pretty awesome.

papercup posted...

but not as hectic as I thought it would be.

I feel like I'm getting blue shelled more often, which I chalked up to the fact that there are twice as many racers rolling for them.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm not really interested in giving Nintendo any money until they start caring about their consumers actual needs.

They're a video game company. If you're looking to satisfy consumers' actual needs, you might want to look at companies that provide things like food and housing.

It's honestly kind of entertaining how pirates so often cling to "it's not technically theft!" instead of mounting a genuine defense by taking the position "there's nothing wrong with availing yourself of a service somebody is providing without compensating them for it." Whether it's technically theft or not, the spirit of theft (that is, acquiring something for which somebody is rightfully charging money without paying them that money) is very obviously there, which means lumping it in with theft makes enough sense for colloquial purposes.

Rather than resorting to pedantic deflections, maybe consider addressing that spirit so you're actually forming an opinion on the morality of piracy and not just putting it off because you don't like thinking about stuff that makes you feel bad.

darkknight109 posted...

Quebec, which tends to use American English more than British English.

I wonder if Quebec has some historic reason to resent the British...

Muscles posted...

Its Z, not zed, is B bed for those weirdos too? What about ced, ded, ed, jed, ped, ted, ved?

Why should Z rhyme with those other letters?

sull56ivan2010 posted...

Doesn't make a difference. Disabled or enabled, those NSFW games continued to exist. And no company, doesn't matter who, would want to be associated.

At any point in your life, have you ever even once associated the credit card you used to buy something with that thing?

If not, why would you expect anyone else to do so? If so, what's wrong with you?

Some of it is, but some if it's ice cream. That particular paywall is kind of a mixed bag.

bachewychomp posted...

I don't disagree that people don't wanna have their screen split up, but it's kinda funny that now that 50" and up screens common, people don't do it. You could be playing four player on a modern screen and your quadrant might be bigger than the entire TVs that we used to play four player splitscreen with when I was kid

Yep. I think part of that is just the question of having alternatives, though. If we could have played on our own 15" TVs back in the day instead of making do with a 7.5" corner of it, we would have wanted to do that. Now we can play on our own 50" TV, so even though making do with a 25" corner of it would have been plenty by previous standards, we'd prefer to have it all.

I get why it happens (capitalism, ho!), but the idea of buying a company and then ditching half of the workers that made it into the thing you wanted to buy has never made much sense to me. It's like buying a box of cookies, dumping out the cookies, then trying to figure out how to make the box taste good.

I could believe "Gouku," but "Goku" and "Gokou" are not phonetically equivalent.

papercup posted...

Anyway, I keep seeing this sentiment that doing the raids is a waste of time because theyll give us the shinies anyway. Despite the fact that Pokmon has a history of failed community missions and we didnt get the reward. People are seriously passing up on free shinies for no reason.

I mean, if you have to do a bunch of raids to get them, they aren't really "free." They're only free if you don't do the raids and everyone else does them for you, which is where community events like this often run into problems (especially with games where community interest in the game has waned such that meeting the goal actually requires people to go out of their way).

Essentially, for any given person, there are six possibilities:

• They contribute to the event, the goal is reached, they get a shiny
• They don't contribute to the event, the goal is reached, they get a shiny
• They contribute to the event, the event fails, they get no shiny
• They don't contribute to the event, the event fails, they get no shiny
• They contribute to the event, the event fails, they get a pity shiny anyway
• They don't contribute to the event, the event fails, they get a pity shiny anyway

Of those, two require effort and reward a shiny, one requires effort and rewards nothing, two require no effort and reward a shiny, and one requires no effort and rewards nothing. The odds of each option aren't necessarily the same, so it's hard to calculate the exact risk/benefit, but just framed like that, the reward:effort ratio is pretty obviously going to be better for not contributing than contributing.

Events like this run into the same issue that generates voter apathy: It's very unlikely that any one person's contribution is going to make a deciding difference. If a win is likely, any raids you contribute are probably going to be surplus. If a win is unlikely, you probably won't be contributing enough raids to change the outcome. Toss in that contributing takes a significant amount of time/effort thanks to how annoyingly slow and inconsistent raids are, and caring enough to try contributing just isn't a very attractive prospect.

By contrast, Xenoblade X does a similar thing with their world raid bosses, with each boss spawning with a certain number of "resurrection points" that are depleted each time the health bar is emptied. Fighting the boss offers its own unique rewards, though, so there's an incentive to do it regardless of the world progress. Also, because Xenoblade X doesn't care at all about balancing player damage output, those millions of RP rarely last more than an hour because a competent party can knock off tens or hundreds of thousands per round, and that makes it feel like you're racing to be one of the people contributing meaningfully to that win instead of slogging toward a goal that may or may not be reached.

For Pokemon to make an event like this work, they need to reward people for completing raids so there's actually a meaningful difference associated with doing them (alternatively, make raids fun enough that the idea of doing them is attractive in its own right, but that would be a substantial overhaul of a 3-year-old game). Otherwise, it's hard for it not to feel like a waste of time.

bachewychomp posted...

I think there are other forces at play too, people just socialize less these days. But it's hard to say if lack of local multi is a cause or effect of gamers being even less social than they already were. Of course it's a classic chicken-egg/corportate self-fulfilling prophecy scenario. The industry leaders probably say stuff like "the demand for local multiplayer just isn't there anymore"... after offering fewer and fewer games where it's an option.

Part of it is also just the multiplayer market evolving in ways that don't work as well locally. You and one friend booting up Street Fighter works. You and three friends playing Goldeneye splitscreen works. You and 11 friends playing Overwatch splitscreen? You're gonna need a bigger couch.

I'm sure that publishers insisting that online multiplayer is the bestest has played a role in that, but even without get, people like multiplayer games with a larger scope and being able to use their whole screen when they play. That is legitimately something you can't have with local-only multiplayer, and that means legitimate, player-driven demand for online multiplayer with no need for corporate promotion. That most big corporations subsequently haven't offered any other multiplayer games that work well locally is probably more manufacturing a lack of demand than a genuine lack of interest, but there's at least genuine demand for online over local, especially with the current popularity of battle royales (which really don't work locally).

Sure, but that's substantially more effort than just reading a quote.

Damn_Underscore posted...

I made a topic near when it was released saying the game's atmosphere reminded me of Sonic Adventure. I don't think it would be the same way without the transitions between each world, but I dunno

I am kind of torn, because stylistically I do like the interconnected world and the idea of driving between courses. For GP (and, by extension, Knockout Tour, though I haven't actually tried that yet), I actually think it works pretty well. It just shouldn't be the only option for VS matches.

josh posted...

You think that if object A has X/Y/Z unique features and object B only has Y/Z unique features, that A is "more" unique. I simply don't.

It's more that I recognize that invoking comparative/superlative adverbs can change how the logic of an adjective is applied. If the adjective would be binary on its own (albeit, in this case, binary but dependent on a bunch of subjective qualifiers), tacking on a comparative/superlative adds a secondary layer of quantification as is appropriate to allow the comparison. Comparing things on the basis of their number of unique features and/or the scope within which they qualify as unique is a valid thing to do, so implicitly quantifying that to describe one of those things as "more unique" is valid.

Does it line up perfectly with the logical/statistical concept of uniqueness? Probably not. Would it be less ambiguous to describe such concepts in terms of rarity? Maybe. Does this approach make enough intuitive sense that everyone that isn't trying to be pedantic about the logical/statistical concept of uniqueness understands what's being said? Yes. And that's good enough for me.

josh posted...

Also just saying because of the blocked user conversation I'm not actually mad, just played into it cause the topic said "do you get angry". I haven't resorted to name calling... yet.

Oh, I understand. Internet mad is not real mad, at least when dealing with ultimately trivial pet peeves and not serious things like genocide or hanging toilet paper the wrong way.

Blue_Thunder posted...

You can. Check your Advanced Settings.

https://i.imgur.com/vm8FWbv.png

That's one setting that I think should really be off by default, or at least be separated between ignoring and blocking. I also feel like the blocking half of it should maybe be decided on the blocker's end, since if their goal is to fully hide from the person they're blocking, that person shouldn't have the ability to reveal them. I won't lie that there's a part of me that thinks it's funny to be able to throw a wrench into "I don't like you so I'm going to punish you by taking away your ability to see my posts" by just reading quotes (mostly because I think blocking for that reason is just funny in the first place), but in cases where somebody is being blocked for harassment reasons (which is not funny), circumventing that is a bad thing.

bachewychomp posted...

I think the right falling in line and the left eating itself is an inevitable problem just by the very nature of those ideologies. The right is more about maintaining hierarchies and treating their authority figures as "correct" simply by virtue of having that power. They're always gonna get lots of their base voting for them no matter what they do because they want to feel like they're in that in-group.

Meanwhile the left is looking for actual change/progress and you have Democrats with messaging that amounts to "it's time to return to business as usual" wondering why they lose so much. They spend their time and energy trying to appease moderate right-wing voters while actively sabotaging and spitting on the left in America.

It also doesn't help that progressivism is inherently always going to be less unified than conservativism. There are countless ways to try to make things better, with advantages and disadvantages and side effects and varying effectivenesses and all sorts of things that people who agree on the basic principle of "we should make things better" can argue eternally about. There's exactly one way to keep everything the same. The only argument there is whether or not keeping things the same is a good idea.

Now, when you start to bring regressivism into the picture, that advantage gets a little slimmer, but even then moving things backwards is still already defined and all you have to do is make a case for the past state being better. That's a lot less open-ended than introducing a new state and making a case for it being better.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

and some of these hot pot/korean bbq places have a chef cook for you if you ask.

That too, because at the end of the day they want you to have a good meal and leave happy. If you aren't going to have fun cooking your own food or are worried about ruining it, some will step in and help out to make sure you have a good time. Such is the nature of the service industry.

I'm just going by the VG sales wiki, which was the first result when I searched. I wouldn't expect that to have particularly up-to-date figures.

It's also worth noting that by the end of June 2014 (MK8 launch May 29, 2014), there were 6.7 million WiiUs sold, so 2.8 million copies sold by then would be about a 40% attach rate. The Switch 2 sold 5 million units in its first month, so 2.5 million copies would be a 50% attach rate.

I'm seeing estimates elsewhere that 82% of Switch 2 owners bought MKW in that first month, though (which makes sense because there were literally no other exclusive games to buy), so I'm guessing the actual sales figure is just higher. Maybe that doesn't include bundle sales, as suggested above, or maybe it's just that the sales wiki is out of date (which is probably true regardless of other factors).

Even so, though, if every single Switch 2 owner has MKW, that's still just 1/15 of the number of copies of MK8 sold. I still wouldn't be surprised to see more people playing 8.

VioletZer0 posted...

Imagine "Rock the Dragon" but it says Dragon Ball Zed.

The Canadian release (at least, the one that was running in ~2000, which is when I became aware of it) did actually get its own OP, but they used "Zee."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOCnSKz-x8

More closely on-topic: Usually "Zed," but "Zee" in cases where that's specifically part of something's name (DBZ actually being the example I was going to use, but also La-Z-Boy unless I'm being facetious and calling it "La-Zed-Boy").

captpackrat posted...

Do Canadians call a horse with black and white stripes a "zedbra"?

There's no difference in the actual phonics of the letter. Just its pronunciation on its own.

Hejiru posted...

"Zed" makes no sense. Most consonants are pronounced as the letter's sound with a vowel in front or behind. Like "Tee" or "Emm". Why is there a random "d" sound in there?

Not knowing the full history for certain, it's probably from French, where it's also pronounced "Zed." In turn, changing it to Zee in US English was likely a matter of just trying to make it more consistent with other letters.

captpackrat posted...

W (double-ewe) is the one that doesn't make any sense. A W is clearly two V's. It should be "double-vee".

W=VV
WUU

It is actually "double-vee" in French, but I'm not really sure why English went with double-you instead. W is kind of a borderline vowel in that it offers the same articulation you'd get from sticking a long u in front of a vowel. It also just straight up is a vowel in Welsh (filling a similar role to u in English).

ConfusedTorchic posted...

that's all well and good, but it just uses the gyroscope in the joycons, which all nintendo controllers have

While true, I strongly advise against trying to perform a throwing motion with the entire Switch Lite.

bachewychomp posted...

I doubt that a franchise as big as MK could have a game that's really "dead" after less than two months

I fully expect that there are more people still playing 8 than playing World, but that's kind of a given. Between the original and Deluxe, there are 76 million copies of 8 out there. There are roughly 2.5 million copies of World. While I would expect that a much greater percentage of that 2.5 million is still actively playing World than of that 76 million (especially where no small number of people own both 8 and 8 Deluxe and presumably only play the latter), that's still a very, very large difference.

SunWuKung420 posted...

No. Quote neither, it's all nonsense.

Do you have actual issues with the quote, or did you jump straight to ad hominem because you've got such a hate boner for ASoIaF that you couldn't help but express that disdain with no regard for what was actually said?

bachewychomp posted...

Vance at least might cut down on the dictator overtures.

Vance has routinely said things to the effect of "how dare you try to limit the President's authority in any capacity?" in response to any of the legal challenges and whatnot Trump has faced with this presidency. There's a fair chance that much of that is just feigning blind loyalty to make sure he's not the target of Trump's next messy breakup, but I still don't exactly get the vibe that he's a fan of checks and balances.

GreenKnight127 posted...

If I wanted the satisfaction of "doing it all myself" I wouldnt go out to a restaurant! Haha

The niche these restaurants fill is to make that a false dichotomy. Without them, the only way to avoid the effort involved in cooking is to give up that satisfaction by having somebody else do everything for you. Restaurants like these create a middle ground where you avoid the vast majority of that effort (it really cannot be overstated how small a portion of the effort involved in cooking is comprised by "put ingredients in cooking vessel and pay cursory attention to them") but still get to feel like you've made something for yourself.

The question then is not "is the satisfaction of cooking for myself worth the effort it'll take?", it's "is the effort I'll save by going to a hotpot restaurant worth the cost of doing so?". What they're selling is saving that effort, and unless they claim to be selling more than that, they are not - by definition - scams. That doesn't mean you have to think it's worth the cost (I rarely eat out in any capacity for that reason), but *that* is your opinion. Claiming that they're scams implies some degree of dishonesty or fraud that you've failed to demonstrate is there (in a broad sense, since I'm sure you could find examples of individual hotpot restaurants running actual scams if you looked), and that means it is not an opinion, but an incorrect claim. Consider correcting yourself accordingly.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

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I can't imagine wanting to use AI to write much of anything for me, but I really can't imagine wanting to use it to write posts on GameFAQs for me. That's just ridiculous. If I don't feel like writing a post myself, I'd much rather just not post.