Lurker > Philip027

Reached current expansion with enough hours of playtime = no more sprout.

If you don't finish everything up to Dawntrail, you'll get it back when that comes out.

I think it's normal for this to happen to anyone of any age.

I don't see how the frequency to which you use a certain parking lot necessarily helps with this. What would maybe help is if you consistently parked in the same stall, but I assume that's not necessarily something you get to pick.

Beats me. I never had an issue with random encounters unless the encounter rate was especially egregious (mainly if there was no "safe" range; like if you could get into another battle by taking a single step after the previous battle)

I think the "symbol" encounters of modern games kind of cheapens the experience. For instance, in games like Dragon Quest, it eventually turns into "avoid everything that isn't a metal slime" after some point because there is little to no reason to fight anything else, which trivializes the leveling process.

Very questionable list. I do think Lara Croft should be in there, but definitely not first place, and definitely not beating out Mario.

Two characters from BG3 are in there, which has me thinking it's just a flavor-of-the-month popularity contest and that they don't actually know what "iconic" means, which is pretty much par for the course these days (pretty sure Jimquisition did at least one video on this very subject)

If a game is fun but just not long enough for someone to have gotten their fill of it, it makes sense.

Is anyone really surprised? It's freakin google.

Even if it wasn't google, I would have assumed the only real point of private/"incog" browsing in general was not to hide from the browser what you were doing (obviously it can still see what you're doing; you're still using the same program) but more to try to hide what you were doing from other users on the same device.

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Which is pretty much exactly what I said I would do in the original topic posing this scenario, and yet it got the response that you see here in #58. So clearly that isn't sufficient for some people, but like I said, too damn bad.

hockeybabe89 posted...

Why are you taking this so personal?

hockeybabe89 posted...

Why can't you just write down the goddamn pronouns you know you are regularly referred to as and stop being weird?

That's why.

hockeybabe89 posted...

So I take it you never use pronouns for anyone? Since you have a big heart and don't want to accidentally out them?

Why wouldn't I use them? I make an inferred guess based on their presentation, like most people would. It isn't the end of the world if I'm wrong.

Then most people can write them down no problem. I don't see very many people withholding their first name when prompted. Pronouns are no different.

They are different, though. I don't have any issue with identifying socially/publicly by my legal name. But I don't identify with any particular gender, which means I also don't identify with any particular pronoun.

If the fact that I don't care what I'm called and have nothing meaningful to put in a "pronoun" field on a name tag makes trans/LGBT people uncomfortable somehow, tough shit. I am not obligated to have a preferred pronoun, and nobody else is entitled to the information even if I did, either. They are going to need to find some other way to derive their "comfort" from that doesn't involve infringing upon my own.

No, and the idea of it being so is ridiculously entitled.

You do not get a right to know someone else's identity. For all you know, they may be in the closet out of necessity/safety.

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People shouldn't be expected to know for sure, but let's face it, most of the time an educated guess can be made because most people are cis and gender-conforming.

VeggetaX posted...

Entertain you with a skillset

If what they provide is simply entertainment, then if anything I "respect" skilled video gamers more than athletes, simply because their area of expertise interests me more.

This sort of thing just comes down to whatever field people derive more entertainment from.

Why do athletes "deserve" respect? What are they doing for society, or for me specifically?

Nope. My mom sees no point and gets no entertainment out of it.

My dad has been out of my life for years; I don't know/care what he understands.

bfslick50 posted...

I'm glad the relationship helped you, but the concern with those relationships is quite often the older person knows immediately that it won't work out because they are in different stages of life and is using the teen until they figure it out.

For us, the realization didn't really hit the both of us until we met in person (every relationship I've ever been in began online). The internet does a pretty good job of masking that sort of stuff, or at least making it easier to overlook.

Almost everyone that uses "POV:" like this on twitter isn't using it correctly, so it's kind of unfair to single him out for this.

I never am "horny" anyway, so free money?

Dakimakura posted...

You get 10 billion dollars but lose all of the hormones in your body and the ability to produce new ones.

This is quite a bit different from simply not being horny. This will literally kill you.

Seconding the (flavored) sparkling/carbonated water idea. It will still have the same overall "kick" of soda, without being unhealthy for you.

If the carbonation or flavor is too strong, you can add in standard water (or ice) to your liking.

Free money and I get to beat up a couple of old farts in a way that isn't illegal?

Is this even a question?

Never. I don't like it when it's done to me.

I never care about the date. Sometimes the milk is just fine for a week or two after the date; sometimes it starts "expiring" before the date. It's a crapshoot, so I don't rely on it.

I go by when it starts tasting off, not the date.

I don't go by the smell, either. Milk pretty much always smells weird to me, whether it's expired or not.

Meh @ both

Yes, mainly in the form of planting false expectations.

Yep, because we were friends.

Easy accept.

Damn_Underscore posted...

People and their actions don't make the religion.

They kind of do, though. "Religion" is something constructed (and maintained) by man.

Mewtwo Tentacruel Aerodactyl

Calwings posted...

Agreed. As much as I dislike the 4Kids censorship, the voice acting in the original DM dub was fantastic. Then again, that "censorship" also gave us the Shadow Realm, which actually sounds much worse than dying and made the show feel more hardcore by complete accident.

The whole "Never Say Die" trope is always hilarious to me. DBZ had a lot of instances of this too.

I remember Vegeta destroying a building and then openly lamenting the fact that since it was Sunday no people were there working -- pulling triple duty of letting us know that "it's okay, nobody actually died", letting us know just how much of a bastard Vegeta is at this point that he's sad he didn't manage to kill anybody, and leaving us with absolute incredulity as to how this alien dude with clearly no regard for humanity is somehow aware of the concept of "weekends" and how some people don't work on those days.

A lot. If nobody prominent in the story feels relatable (most likely, it's because everyone in the story is an asshole in some way), I usually end up going down the Eight Deadly Words route.

Also for me this is all about behavior and demeanor; I couldn't care less about what they look like or what their ethnicity is or whatever.

I have never tasted any coffee that I ended up liking.

I like the smell of it, but that's about it.

Damn_Underscore posted...

DBZ by default because of Goku's voice

Came in to say that.

Was it ever alive?

Agent_Stroud posted...

So youre saying that theyre infuriated that they werent able to go after Pocket Pair and decided to take it out on this fansite instead?

Well, dunno if I'd frame their reasoning in that exact way, but rather that their feelers are more on high alert now since all that Palworld business.

Tyranthraxus posted...

TPC handles pokemon lawsuits Nintendo lawyers are separate

TPC is co-owned and established by Nintendo, so not sure that's entirely accurate

I was 16-17 and they were 33-34.

Nobody needs to "ick" me over this; it was something that I recklessly started in a very tumultuous time for me, nothing untoward ever happened and we eventually realized we were in far too different stages of life for anything to pan out. What matters to me is that I wouldn't be alive today without them, and they will still always have a place in my heart. I don't have any regrets over it.

I wonder how likely is it for Nintendo to be on a Palworld-induced rampage right now? 10 years is a long time to have been around.

Not much. I mainly played the OLD old school Runescape, the version that came even before what they call OSRS nowadays.

What is this topic even talking about?

Not even close to enough incentive; I'd zonk out for sure.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

She could have left the baby at a fire station, police station, hospital, or relatives. The baby did not need nor deserve to starve to death.

Yeah, that wasn't the issue here. It wasn't that she felt incapable of care and was just giving up and throwing in the towel; she specifically wanted to kill this baby and just didn't want to get her hands dirty doing so.

Nope. Asperger's and depression.

I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked this topic, but some random deli fried chicken was definitely not on the list.

For a typical phone user, yeah, it ought to be plenty. They aren't going to put TBs on these things, not yet anyway. The phone is probably already expensive enough.

The people who need more space can use SD cards or whatnot, I hear those are hitting TBs nowadays.