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TopicThermoptic camouflage is real.
DnDer
05/19/24 11:59:00 AM
#10
Hejiru posted...
Whats wrong with that? Technology often exists in fiction before reality, so it gives people an idea of what its like.

Hell yeah. Science fiction isn't just a reflection of contemporary tech. It's also an aspiration for us to achieve.

And people are trying.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/these-er-docs-invented-real-star-trek-tricorder-n755631

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TopicAlbuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People
DnDer
05/19/24 11:55:33 AM
#57
Unknown5uspect posted...
Who is saying that tho

Imaginary people in the minds of landlords.


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TopicIsrael/Palestina War...the Descent to Hell continues...
DnDer
05/19/24 1:37:36 AM
#2
@CobraGT -- about those laws on who can drill what oil, regardless of location?

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/19/24 1:25:08 AM
#499
CobraGT posted...
The drilling site may not be the gas field. All I know is that there is an issue.

The issue may be that there is a gas field by Gaza that promises more productivity or the issue may be that the Chevron/Israeli drilling taps into the Gaza gas field.

There can be legitimate reasons for accessing the gas many miles away from where it is. Due to rock being too hard, rock being too crumbly, high pressure and so on

Drilling is highly technical.

But there would be rules/laws about who could drill that gas, right, because of who actually owns it?

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TopicMercedes-Benz tries to use Jesus for union-busting
DnDer
05/19/24 12:34:21 AM
#18
AceMos posted...
union busting firms should be illegal

Union busting should be illegal. And enforced.

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TopicMercedes-Benz tries to use Jesus for union-busting
DnDer
05/19/24 12:33:54 AM
#17
FearlessMango posted...
well this along with other anti-union tactics that the Alabama plant used, has worked

the employees voted against joining UAW

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uaws-influence-tested-pivotal-alabama-mercedes-benz-factory-union-vote-2024-05-17/

Unless the NLRB can prove the outcome was impacted by illegal anti-union activity. I think I heard there's a clause in labor law that says if you can prove illegal interference, the government and NLRB can force the plant to take a union without a second election.

(Caveat, it was something I heard listening to the radio while I was driving and about a different union story, so the circumstances could be different enough that this doesn't apply.)

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Topic"We need you to have open availability."
DnDer
05/18/24 11:39:46 PM
#3
Sounds like you need me to be on call 24/7. I can be, but that kind of availability doesn't come cheap.

Until then, here's my schedule.

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TopicMercedes-Benz tries to use Jesus for union-busting
DnDer
05/18/24 11:36:46 PM
#8
Beany posted...
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average American, Rev. Wilson told Detrick Lewis, a veteran employee who has been working on the assembly line in the body shop at Mercedes-Benz since 2014. He had asked the reverend how he felt about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Does he have the first clue when and why Dr King was assassinated? I'll give you a hint: it was unionizing activity.

Second of all, Jesus was a carpenter. If ever there were a founder of a religion who'd be pro-union, it would be Jesus.

Now, given that Islam's creator was born into a well-off dynastic tribe and his first wife was a successful part of the merchant class... I'd expect more anti-union sentiment from that corner.

Maybe Mercedes should have hired an imam instead of a pastor for this job?

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TopicLibertarian party invites Trump to speak at convention.
DnDer
05/18/24 11:13:08 PM
#19
PeteyParker posted...
Libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke pot and think the age of consent should be much lower than it is. This is not shocking at all.

Don't forget the surprisingly loud and surprisingly large amount of Republicans defending their states' laws on child marriage instead of repealing them...

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TopicLibertarian party invites Trump to speak at convention.
DnDer
05/18/24 11:09:36 PM
#17
Diceheist posted...
Joshua Eakle, a [goddamn liar]


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TopicITT your unpopular game opinions
DnDer
05/18/24 12:50:17 PM
#14
FFVIII is the second-best of the numbered FF games.

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TopicTrump now investigated for Billion Dollar Oil Quid Pro Quo
DnDer
05/18/24 8:48:34 AM
#9
Southernfatman posted...
Yes.

But can we pin some CEOs to the wall and hold them accountable, the nullifying the deal anyway?

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TopicBen Carson wants to kill no-fault divorce.
DnDer
05/18/24 8:35:26 AM
#30
Kradek posted...
No fault divorce led to a reduction in female suicide rates, so naturally Christo-fascists want to end it because women must feel trapped and shackled to them as though they are property.

Please tell me there's a study I can quote that shows direct correlation (or even causation) between the two.

I want that in my pocket when I re-share the article.

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TopicTeen receives $580 ticket. For using phone while driving. In McD's drive thru.
DnDer
05/18/24 3:46:10 AM
#88
bigblu89 posted...
Still wild to me that the teen admitted he was on his phone, driving through the drive through, and were all STILL saying Fuck this cop unless he can prove the kid was driving while using his phone!

He admitted to being on the phone in a private roadway (drive through). The cops accuse him of using a phone on the public roadways. Radically different things.

Besides, I don't think anyone here has expressly said "fuck cops." They just said cops can safely be trusted less than a teenager who just got his license, and that's hardly an untrue statement.

NoxObscuras posted...
The cop seeing him on the phone before pulling into the drive thru makes sense in that case.

Then the cop can prove it with objective and concrete evidence that isn't "a cop's word."

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TopicTeen receives $580 ticket. For using phone while driving. In McD's drive thru.
DnDer
05/18/24 3:37:44 AM
#87
Ryven posted...
You know cops are bored when.

Maybe not bored. Do the RCMP have ticket quotas they have to fill for revenue purposes, or justifying their existence purposes?

Powdered_Toast posted...
The section you quoted says he was on his phone before pulling into the Mcdonalds.

And you're believing a statement from cops over... literally anyone else?

Glob posted...
Honestly, either party could be in the wrong here and well never know which.

It's safe to assume the cops are in the wrong unless objective and concrete evidence say otherwise. Your odds are better when you do.

Glob posted...
You cant trust people generally when it comes to testimony. Even if they believe theyre telling the truth, they sometimes arent.

People don't have an institutional word for lying under oath when giving testimony. Or getting away with it consequence-free. (Real thing. Google "testilying.")

Glob posted...
Testimony is unreliable, whether it comes from a cop or not.

But it's even less reliable coming from a cop. See above.

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TopicWhat do you think can be done about speed bikes fleeing police
DnDer
05/17/24 11:34:32 PM
#24
electricbugs2 posted...
NA police in both Canada and the US need to step it up.

Cops don't need better equipment than they already have. They need reform, training, and the discipline to use the tools they are given safely and properly with extreme consequences for their career and criminal history if they fail to.

Ticket the bike. Issue a summons. If they're dangerous enough drivers, wait at their residence and arrest them when they park their bike.

This shouldn't be rocket science. And cops don't need rockets to keep up with them. Engaging at high speeds instead of disengaging endangers the public even more than a cop's presence alone already does.

EDIT: Fixed a sentence of backward thought.

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Topicnew evidence of internet historian plagiarizing another video
DnDer
05/17/24 11:28:27 PM
#6
AceMos posted...
added in a reddit link figured people would prefer the twitter link but seems the rebranding may have broke something

Replace "x" with "twitter" and the link should embed in gamefaqs properly again.

I think on discord it works if you name it vxtwitter.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 8:46:01 PM
#481
Mmaguy posted...
You're absolutely, 100% allowed to stand with Isreal.

A moral and ethical person is allowed to stand with Israel's right to exist, to live in peace with its neighbors, and have safe borders.

A moral and ethical person is absolutely, 100% not allowed to stand with Israel when they commit a genocide.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 8:44:40 PM
#480
Mmaguy posted...
Are you suggesting that you having an uninformed (or informed, doesn't matter) opinion will somehow make a difference in time/the war?

You can get the ball rolling on taking away money from Israel's war machine. turning public sentiment (and voters) away from the acceptance of Israel's actions will have ramification upstream if we make the entire ballot, President and the entire down-ticket, one about halting the genocide.

Here's the first rolling ball.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-weeks-of-protests-us-universities-grant-hearings-on-divestment-from-israel/

Mmaguy posted...
I mean to be clear - nothing is actually going to happen at all until it's decided in court, and even then it's international law, right? Whatever ruling can barely if at all actually be enforced, sadly.

You won't call it a genocide until a court says it is. Then, when a court says it is, it's not enforceable, but maybe you'll call it a genocide. And you won't do anything to begin with (see above quote block) before the moment a genocide has already happened and the courts said, "Yeah, it happened," and everything is too late.

You're saying you won't even lift a finger until it's all over, and once it's over, you can't do anything anyway. That's such a shitty and fatalistic attitude to take. Man, that just borders on complicit at that point. What the fuck?


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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 8:32:59 PM
#478
Trumble posted...
Okay... now I'm starting to suspect that Mmaguy may actually just be horrifically uninformed about the situation.

It's still the less likely possibility, but I can no longer rule it out.

Nah. He's posting at 400+ in the 15th thread and the seventh month of this going on. "Prevarication" is the kindest term you could use for what he's doing.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 8:29:04 PM
#477
Mmaguy posted...
Yeah, the heart of a logical human being that lets the professionals hash it out in court and find out what's actually going on. I'm glad you get it now.

None of what you are saying is logical or fact-based. A logical human being could infer a reasonable conclusion on their own of events based on facts and evidence already present in the debate.

And just because you say you can find 50 YouTube videos saying a genocide is happening and 50 that say it isn't, you're just going to shrug and refuse to take a side... is illogical. I can find 50 videos saying global warming isn't happening, 50 that say it is, but it's not a 1:1 ratio of valid arguments and supporting evidence. I can do the same for whether or not the Earth is flat. Or 6,000 years old. But one set of 50 videos is not equivalent to the other 50, and it's illogical to pretend there's an equivalence.

Do not hide behind that word, because it offers you no cover in this debate.

Leonard Nimoy would probably smack the word "logic" out of your mouth and vocabulary if he was still with us.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 8:23:09 PM
#475
Mmaguy posted...
thus we wait for the courts to figure out what exactly is happening

Which will, somehow, just be so "conveniently" after all the Palestinians are dead and Gaza and the West Bank no longer exist.

Mmaguy posted...
It's a war and war is ugly. That's why there are very specific guidelines in regards to genocide and the breaking of international law, otherwise you could claim any war that displaces a group of people is genocide when it could simply by the affects of the war.

This is not a war. It's a genocide.

Wars don't start with collectively punishing entire ethnic groups of people by shutting off water and electricity to them, followed up with suggestions to flood the infrastructure of Gaza with seawater and poisoning the scarce water supply of Gaza. Wars don't start, or carry on, with cease fires being broken because your snipers opened fire on children. Wars don't involve the use of drones with recordings of screaming women and children to lure civilians in refugee camps out into arcs of machine gun fire. Wars don't involve forcing doctors to evacuate hospitals to leave premature babies in incubators to starve to death and then razing said hospitals. And the persistent/constant non-precision bombs being dropped on areas where hostages may be held without regards to hostage safety and recovery.

None of this is consistent with proper wartime operations in accordance with the Geneva Convention. All of it is consistent with Geneva guidelines about genocide, though.

Everything Israel has done has been in revenge for Oct 7, and it sure has not been a war or a justified response to terrorism. It hasn't been an attempt to get back the hostages, either. It's been a campaign of genocide.

Mmaguy posted...
I'll wait and see what actually is decided before blindly making up my mind based on emotion.

I can find citations for every item in the list above. This isn't making my mind up on emotion. This is looking at the facts, understanding what genocide looks like, and calling a duck a duck.

You're telling us, with this statement, that you're willing to wait until the Palestinians are exterminated to the last man and Israel fulfills Netanyahu's promise of "river to the sea" with the abolition of any Palestinian territory before you're willing to call it a genocide.

At that point, you've just put your fingers in your ears to deny reality. To deny genocide.

You're worse than Eagles was. He was belligerent, but at least he owned up (eventually) to what Israel was doing.

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TopicChiefs kicker gives weird anti-women, anti-gay, MAGA shit commencement speech
DnDer
05/17/24 8:17:40 AM
#96
StarFighters76 posted...
That's not fair. We have other good things here in KC >_>

True. Missouri bbq is generally a cut above.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Jesus....that was much worse than I thought. This guy is a militant conservative and is outright telling you that he would fight liberals to bring the world to how it used to be.

Makes me wonder if he's the kind of conservative Christian who thinks he should be voting for the whole household and she shouldn't.


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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 7:48:52 AM
#415
divot1338 posted...
This is basically the modern day equivalent of how America treated the native Americans.

The terrible maps the Palestinians are forced to endure, along with the jurisdiction they have in their own justice system, and how outside crimes aren't... addressed...

I can see calling what the Palestinians live in as reservations. (Plus all the forced movement onto them. And the lack of movement off or through them.)

I think it's way more appropriate to call them ghettos, but I 100% see where you're coming from on this.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 7:46:12 AM
#414
SHRlKE posted...
I just wanted to see whether people who are claiming a genocide are claiming it's always been the case or if it's specific to the current ongoings in Palestine.

It's been a slow-rolling genocide for decades, with each settlement built and each restriction the Palestinians have on movement between neighborhoods out of the non-euclidean ghettos that Israel has created for them.

October 7 was justification to open the throttle and really accelerate the plan instead of, you know, actually trying to get hostages back and bringing terrorists to justice.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 7:43:50 AM
#413
Mmaguy posted...
I have no issue saying Isreal is committing a genocide... when it's ruled in court that they are in fact committing a genocide.

Genocide denier. Got it.

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TopicHow do i help make sure Biden wins?
DnDer
05/17/24 5:01:35 AM
#10
David1988 posted...
Any criticism of Biden means we may lose votes to Trump.

I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can hold Biden's feet to the fire over shitty policy and avoid a Trump presidency. I don't think these are mutually exclusive things.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 5:00:30 AM
#407
Mmaguy posted...
We'll see what the international courts decide about all of that.

The international courts literally said, "You're doing genocide, you need to make every effort to stop doing genocide."

Mmaguy posted...
you guys that are so full of hate for Isreal that they are literal devils in your eyes

I don't hate Israel. I hate genocide. I hate the religious fundamentalism that fuels violence against minorities (see: Likud; see also: Netanyahu; also see also: republican party).

Israel has the right to exist. It has the right to exist in peace with its neighbors. It does not have the right to genocide its neighbors.

Mmaguy posted...
whatever it is, whatever it might be

Genocide. It's genocide.

Can you say Israel is committing genocide? Can you own that?

Mmaguy posted...
Who knows.

I'm going to guess Foppe's data that shows what Israel's count is compared to Palestine's MOH's count is and how it's recorded by demographic. They know.

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Topic$35,928,080 after taxes but the following people disappear
DnDer
05/17/24 2:39:46 AM
#16
Lokarin posted...
What's a wumbo?

I think it's the mascot for the Some More News podcast.

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TopicHow do i help make sure Biden wins?
DnDer
05/17/24 2:37:57 AM
#5
Aloc posted...
What are some small little things that I can do? That may get randoms to vote for biden?

Volunteer.

It ain't much, but campaigns (especially local and state campaigns) need people to stuff envelopes, knock on doors, and phone bank.

Small donations help, but only at scale. Your time and effort are going to be more valuable than a $10 donation, imo.

Being able to discuss and articulate your positions on issues in conversation is good, too. Be able to rattle off a dozen good things Biden has done since taking office--there's more, but start with that. But... you will only convince so many people on a message board... still, a point's a point, and you have to take the wins you get.

Also, being able to debunk and competently expose lies and half-truths is something that you can do on other social media. Reply to comments, flag misinformation, and share what you've learned (like, say, details about Project 2025).

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 2:31:08 AM
#403
Mmaguy posted...
when Isreal completes its "mission objectives" whatever they may or may not truly be

You know what those mission objectives are.

Anyone who's veen watching even intermittently for the last five or six months knows what they are.

The only question is who is and isn't willing to acknowledge it out loud.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 2:28:25 AM
#402
Mmaguy posted...
None of which is contrary to them ending the war if hamas did a complete surrender/released all hostages without negotiation.

It is. Read the subtext. There is no amount of hostages and no number of people who can surrender and no number of Palestinians that have to die in Israel's eyes to end the war until the number is "all" Palestinians.

This has been a block by block genocide since something like October 10, with the terrorism at the concert being the pretext/justification to do what they've always been trying to do such much more slowly before now.

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TopicIsrael/Palestina War XV - The Big Attack on Rafah?
DnDer
05/17/24 1:05:20 AM
#391
Mmaguy posted...
I'm talking realistically here - the only way Isreal stops (the spokesmen of Isreal, multiple of them I believe, have stated this) is via the complete and utter destruction of hamas, or the complete surrender of hamas and the return of all hostages.

That won't stop Israel and is contrary to every thing they've said and every action they've taken in the last 5-6 months.

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TopicITT actual list of Trump day 1 things he will do if reelected
DnDer
05/17/24 1:01:18 AM
#32
WingsOfGood posted...
But you might notice some people more tense

And a spike in incel attacks and general violence.

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 7:20:57 PM
#207
Murphiroth posted...
BDSMKane's post in the topic about phrases that make you roll your eyes certainly makes a lot more sense given his posts in this topic.

I'm almost sad I can't see them. I bet I'd be amused.

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Topicwelp the stupidest thing you will ever hear has been tweeted
DnDer
05/16/24 7:11:02 PM
#44
Jokeaccountinc posted...
the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase further FF games for either system, nor will they purchase any of Square's games

Why? I haven't seen a good explanation as to why more people having access to something is a bad thing.

Where is the shame or dishonor in sharing something with more people?

Jokeaccountinc posted...
Japanese culture (I'm an expert)

chucklesnort

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 12:08:26 PM
#121
McMarbles posted...
There was literally an anime.

An anime that came out before the one about Musashi. (And, even then, the one about Musashi... kind of wasn't? But Onimusha was pretty gorgeous to look at as just an art project in general.)

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 12:06:35 PM
#118
Pikachuchupika posted...
This situation is reminding of RE5 lol

White guy and Black woman sidekick in Africa

Black guy and Japanese woman sidekick in Japan

It's not that reminiscent of it. You're conflating two things that aren't close enough to be conflated. Not in this context, anyway.

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 12:05:13 PM
#115
blackrider76 posted...
People cared a lot about RE5.

The issues about RE5 and a non-native being the hero were... wildly different than just "non-native being the hero." Don't be disingenuous.

Jabodie posted...
Lol I saw a reddit thread on the Asmon sub and oof, that is a toxic thread.

Zero surprise. That man's audience seems half a step away from consuming Rogan-Peterson-Shapiro pipeline stuff for some odd reason.

blackrider76 posted...
Are you implying that you can only be racist against black people?

My.. my dude? You okay?


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TopicThe Funimation dub of Yu-Yu-Hakusho is overrated
DnDer
05/16/24 10:33:29 AM
#31
ssb_yunglink2 posted...
whats a good dub if yyh is only average

I think the YYH dub is pretty awesome, but some of the top-tier dubs... probably Bebop, Big O, Outlaw Star... as much as I love them, probably not GITS:SAC or Paranoia Agent...

About half the Toonami/AS dubs are pretty stellar.

Full credit to the Lupin dub, though. Hearing Jigen make a comment about Shaq was probably my first honest exposure to localization and realizing that dubs aren't 1:1 translations (so, so long ago). It was still a pretty quality dub even with cultural artifacts like that, too.

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 10:16:44 AM
#66
refmon posted...
Imagine if an AC game in Africa had a white protagonist

The discorse would not be the same at all.

Depending on the era (Romans in Egypt, someone involved in the triangular trade), it could either very much make sense or be a deeply terrible white savior trope.

There would be a lot of talk about it either way, probably.

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TopicMy Defense For The Criticisms of the Black Ninja in the New Assassin's Creed
DnDer
05/16/24 7:43:55 AM
#16
Mr_Karate_II posted...
People are really mad over the new character?

Did you expect any different? Really?

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TopicITT actual list of Trump day 1 things he will do if reelected
DnDer
05/16/24 7:41:13 AM
#8
Following.

Do we have a citation for #9?

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TopicGOP Texas school board member shocked to learn indoctrination isn't happening
DnDer
05/15/24 12:19:41 PM
#18
Weird how once a person examines the facts and evidence, they find out that "t3h WoKe Left!!!1!11!1" was right all along.

Almost like facts have an inherently liberal bias and conservatives are disconnected from reality, deliberately or otherwise.

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TopicLarry Hogan won the Maryland Primery.
DnDer
05/15/24 12:13:00 PM
#6
Full_Pokedex posted...
Now let's hope he goes all the way :D

All the way where? Through another bridge, so he can up his body count from the last accident he caused with his "bigger ships vs smaller bridge" infrastructure policy?

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TopicTrump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on 'day one' of presidency
DnDer
05/15/24 11:04:54 AM
#23
Golden_Key33 posted...
This is the kind of shit I'd expect Hoggish Greedly to spout, not a former and potential future president of the United States.

You must have missed when they put a petrol guy to head up the EPA.

Trump has always been a Captain Planet villain.

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TopicTrump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on 'day one' of presidency
DnDer
05/15/24 11:03:38 AM
#21
We should consolidate all these "on day 1" topics as he keeps dropping them every day.

Just to bullet point his incoming dictatorship's agenda.

Hopefully as enough of a warning to voters.

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TopicHappy 68th birthday to Homer Simpson
DnDer
05/15/24 7:08:49 AM
#20
Smashingpmkns posted...
Looks good for his age tbh

Especially for 240.

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TopicGoogle Will Monitor Phone Calls in Real Time for Scam Alerts
DnDer
05/15/24 7:03:46 AM
#4
Time to start using a calling app with end to end encryption that Google services won't have permissions to listen to?

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