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Imagine having a card worth getting PSA graded, to sell it at GameStop

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Both are recognizable terms LOL

Also, you realize that "Super" isn't the only thing that means "greater", right? There's also stuff like "mega" and "ultra".

Supersonic: Greater than the speed of sound.
Hypersonic: More than five times greater than the speed of sound.

Now ask 100 people about the definition of Supersonic and about the definition of Hypersonic, and check how recognizable each of them is.

And I don't think the result was better in 1992.

Shadowblade posted...

You will survive long enough to feel the pain for one hour. After the 1 hour your body will turn Completely back to normal.

This is the important thing.

It changes the deal from "you die within 5 minutes for sure" to "you get tortured for an hour but will be completly fine"

One hour of torture for some lifelong super power is at least worth thinking about it, but I think earth power specifically would not be worth it.

Humble_Novice posted...

What were their complaints concerning Ghost of Tsushima? From what I recall, Japanese gaming magazines gave it very high review scores.

It wasn't the japanese magazines, it was the "other" Twitter bubble.

I still remember some stupid twitter shitstorm about "cultural appropriation" because some white guy played on a japanese flute for some presentation/trailer.

AFAIK (from other news articles) the hottest political topic there are discussions about abolishing the public broadcasting station there.

But again, so far no hint or evidence that this has anything to do with anything.

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This.

At this point I would just focus on leaving them sooner or later, but this is good chance to build up your resume before leaving.

It seems like you are "only" frustrated, but not in a situation where you curse every day you have to work there. So make use of that.

Use the time to build up your chances and search for another job, and jump the ship when you have something solid at hand (without a pay cut).

No need to be loyal to them, when they are not loyal to you.

34, full hair (well it goes a bit back over time) blackest black on top.

If my genes from my fathers side are working as they should, I should have no "problems" with them for quite some time.

But I could not grow a decent beard even if I wanted.

News about France are pretty bad lately.

At least two killed here, 3 killed by riots in New Caledonia, other shootings here and there, and every noise is getting louder because EU-elections and olympic games are coming close.

divot1338 posted...

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

Not really. Death penalty is just more than about a single issue and single discussion.

You can discuss the goal of the death penalty (and therefore also the method) differently than the death penalty itself.

The how, when, if, why and so on are all different questions for different discussions or answers.

You can argue that the death penalty should focus a clean death for the executed to be swiftly over, or if his interests are not supposed to be taken into account because he already did a crime deserving death. In other words, what is the penalty actually supposed to be?

Then you can also discuss the morality of taking a live itself, or if this is some border no state should ever cross. Is taking someones life something that can be justified at all?

And the most important part for me personally (and many others, as far is I'm aware of) is the simple possibility of wrong use: Death penalty is wrong because it can hit the wrong people without the chance of reversing the decision.

The consequence of even a single person put to death unjust outweights just any other argument you could put in favor for me.

Yes, I actually share the opinion that there are quite some crimes (and therefore people) who are deserving of a death penalty. The issue are the wrongly convicted people who don't.

Dark_twisted posted...

Unless they can plateau their slowly dwindling user numbers, no.

Every game has slowly dwingling numbers. The question is how many it can pull back with a bigger update (Like a new enemy faction)

Kai_Laguna posted...

Definitely not after both the Sony shenanigans and the weapons balancing guy being dedicated to sucking all the fun out of the game.

I swear, the community is overblowing the nerfs it's crazy.

Only nerf that was truly bad was the Eruptor, and maybe the slugger and the crossbow.

The other nerfs were fine.

Meanwhile many other weapons got buffed and buffed again, yet no one cares.

Weapons that got buffed with patch end of april (1.000.300):

• Laser Cannon
• Scythe
• Adjucator
• Punisher Plasma
• Blitzer Shotgun
• Railgun
• Heavy Machine Gun
• Diligence
• Diligence CS
• Peacemaker
• Senator
• Dagger
• Liberator
• Liberator Concussive
• Dominator

Nerfed it the same Patch:

• Quasar
• Crossbow
• Eruptor
• Sickle
• Redeemer

People complained three months ago how useless the breaker incendiary or dominator was.

Now people on discord are already sure that the nerfhammer will hit it because it's just such a dominating weapon against bugs, and curse the gods for a nerf that isn't even announcent.

wackyteen posted...

Wasn't expecting CE to take us to the guillotine

I just think it is

a) The fastest / most painless
b) most reliable

Any argument of "so brutal, gruesome, bloody, barbaric" gets instantly voided. It's a death penalty, that's already the low point of the moral ground, so F anyone who wants this "pretty".

Great game.

Storytelling is extreme bullshit with the same dialog happening after every single dungeon, and the abyss is a bit... unnecessary, while the sky is a bit empty.

But it's still beyond big and beyond fun to build some stuff and fly around, and it's insane how good everything works without any strange limitations or glitches or bugs at all.

BalanceLost posted...

Something that gives extra credence to the voting campaign/vote stuffing theory is the fact that Israels song isnt doing super well in the charts. The songs that get the most televote points almost always get a big increase in streaming and so forth after the Contest yet this is not happening for Israel compared to several other entries that did worse than them in the voting.

Which streaming site are you using to compare them?

I was just looking at the ESC Youtube channel to get the views all from one source, and it's all over the place.

For the finals it's 7th place in views there with 1.8 million views, but If you look at the semi final shows, it's 4nd place with 3 million (behind Netherland, switzerland and... Greece?)

EDIT: My bad, 4th place in 2nd semi final only, the first semi final is further down.

Umbongo posted...

There's a good story here if any journalist wanted to get into it. Key question "Which countries attracted the most bulk votes?"

Again, just check the published results online.

Blue: Jury voting to Israel
Red: Public voting to Israel.

Only Croatia and Ukraine gave no points to Israel at all, and Lithuania, Serbia and Armenia gave 3 or less.

15 countries (incl. "Rest of the world") gave 12 points.
7 gave 10 points.

Public only. Jury voting was pretty bad.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7ff9fc1a.jpg

Sounds like this NeonTentacles guy.

Hambo posted...

There's a weaker mage that uses Zeta Flare now?

The thing/joke is something else.

Bahamut in FFXVI casts Zeta Flare, but Bahamut is technically no mage.

So, Donald is still the strongest mage. Somehow.

SHRlKE posted...

Does that mean Israel is right when they claim the silent majority support what is happening over there at the moment?

I do find it ironic that Ukraine got the public vote as well and won two years ago but Israel in a similar situation only got 5th.

You can check the detailed results here:

https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2024

This year, the public vote was very even within the top 3:

Croatia: 337
Israel: 323
Ukraine: 307
France: 226
Switzerland: 226

The Jury voting was just an extreme stomp:

Switzerland: 365
France: 218
Croatia: 210
Ukraine (5th): 146
Israel (12th): 52

The problem is probably drawing the line between "obviously popular" and "surprisingly popular", and at the same time "is popular in the community" and "actually sells merch".

We have the obvious ones like Pikachu, starters, Guardevoir and Lucario, the Eevees, Gengar, legendary and mythics and so on, but when are we drawing the line?

Is Dragonite "obviously popular", and Ninetails "surprisingly popular"? Are they actually selling stuff? And that's just Gen 1, there are other examples for other gens too.

How popular is Heracross, and how is it's stuff selling?

If you want an actual board game RPG, you may want to take a look at Descent.

You have the dungeon master who plays the evil overlord in a pre-writen dungeon (like a game master, but with the goal to actually beat you up), and you are a party of heroes, going in a dungeon to find loot and stuff.

Bonus point: The ressources (map pieces, hero and monster figures) in there are also great for actual DnD sessions

Do you also sometimes have such weird dreamlike thoughts shortly after waking up?

I woke up, not remembering any dream at all, was in bed, lying there, open eyes, and 30 seconds later I was like "Hmmmm... Some strange totem in my bed would be strange" and I truly had some image of some black totem standing next to me in bed in my mind.

Seriously, that was freaky uncanny spot between imagination and hallucination.

Americans are asleep, post bread!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4e0f690e.jpg

I still have to complete tacticts ogre.

Two weeks ago I tried to get into it again, did a random skirmish to grind exp and was like "oh, I have no idea what I'm doing" so the game session was like half an hour.

Inb4 I let it stay like that with me thinking "I should play Tactics Ogre" for another year.

Sounds like the perfect movie for a bad movie evening with friends when you are already drunk and can laugh about everything.

So, still better than episode 2, 7, 8, 9 and probably 1.

Guide posted...

I'm pretty sure winning a draft via mill is one the qualifications for the Antichrist.

The fun part is that it wasn't about milling their whole library, just enough of it.

Wights which gets +1/+1 for each creature card in enemy graveyards:

https://mtg.wtf/card/gtc/84/Wight-of-Precinct-Six

Lazav, which is hexproof and could become a copy of any creature card that got put into an enemy graveyard:

https://mtg.wtf/card/gtc/174/Lazav-Dimir-Mastermind

Duskmantle mage which could deal dmg per mill, or mill on demand.
https://mtg.wtf/card/gtc/158/Duskmantle-Guildmage

Mixed with some nasty cipher spells on Lazav, some Dimir charm, and that was already most of the strategy.

https://mtg.wtf/card/gtc/186/Paranoid-Delusions

https://mtg.wtf/card/gtc/154/Dimir-Charm

The advantage was it being a draft.

No sane mind would pick a milling card, but thanks to drafting Lazav and the wights early, I was able to focus early on it, and got all these nice "leftovers".

With the exception of Stormblood and the Fandaniel part of endwalker, I think every add on was pretty awesome so far.

I have to admit that I don't like the beginning right of "hey, you are strong heroes, help be becoming ruler!" right but I'm sure it will be fine.

And after 4 add ons, with 3 wars and multiple apocalypses, it's fine to get the beach episode add on that starts a bit calmer.

Stakes will be high again soon enough.

I had a blue/black Dimir deck with Lazav that also had some nasty mill and discard.

Made that deck up in some draft, and it was the only time I ever won a draft, so I went like "okay, let's make this a real one".

Whiterun_Guard_ posted...

I can see why they would censor it though. I mean she still is nude technically.

"technically nude" is also stuff like the sailor moon transformation scene.

I have to say, that image is great.

Robot2600 posted...

no but i found out i qualify for italian, and thus EU citizenship? is that true?

my grandmother was from sicily, came to america when she was 5.

AFAIK, yes.

As long as you can prove that your grandmother was an italian, it should be "easy", as long as you have the documents to prove her citizenship, as well as the relationship between you and her.

And as a Italian, the borders in whole EU are veeeery open.

Guide posted...

This shit is complicated. They want forms that are valid for 6 months, that take some months to come in, that I need to serve in an appointment that also takes some months, within a visit window of 3 months. I also need an "apostille stamp" on my documents, and also get them translated to Italian, and I'm not yet sure how to get them translated.

Anyone go through anything similar? Got advice?

I don't know about the situation in Italy at all, but it sounds mostly like the same as here in Austria.

So, take my information with a huge chunk of salt, because this would be advice for a situation in Austria, not Italy.

Be patient, but stubborn. If you have troubles or issues, friendly and respectfully annoy the shit out of them.

Migration offices are more or less all understaffed, so the main problem you will face is to annoy them so much that your file doesn't vanishes between a stack of other files and be forgotten, but don't piss them off so that they do whatever they can do out of spite.

It may also be possible to move your case to a different district. Here in Austria I know that the biggest troubles are in Vienna of course, because that's where most migrants are requesting permits, overworking the clerks here.

Other offices may be better because they have much lower workload.

Thermador446 posted...

e:Ny1= anyone
That's the car name. Apparently they are aware how bad it is and are changing it

Names to avoid:
eny1 (-6.38)

The graph isn't lying at all.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Brothers and sisters of Current Events, today is the day! It is...

Day 29:

What was Ludwig von Beethoven's favorite fruit?

BA-NA-NA-NA

10/10, positively delightful.

Peak comedy.

The last days were mostly pretty good, but this is just perfection.

legendary_zell posted...

The only cars I'm buying in the future are the Lincoln Marxism and the Toyota Cervixxx.

Missing out the Acura Pizzajazz sounds to be a big mistake to me.

There is always a fitting xkcd comic

https://xkcd.com/1571/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2cf9fa79.jpg

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising.

Maybe some FF XIV.

Hell, even I got my own age off by 1 quite a few times, and my dad forget his own birthday once.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7766361b.jpg

This shit is just not how you respond to customers that are angry with you. The devs badly need to shut the fuck up and get off of Discord. They're all diving headfirst into an environment more toxic than a hazmat train derailing into a chemical waste dump, and not a damn one of them apart from maybe the CEO is in any way capable of handling it. They're making it so much worse by antagonizing the fanbase and feeding the trolls.

The feeding the trolls is really the issue.

The original message was "well, 200.000 players playing 30 minutes is already more than we could playtest in 3 years, so it's not unusual for players to find such things on day 1", and people were like "then just hire more testers!!!!"

I have to admit, I have to go past such vape store multiple times a day (since it's next to my office), and some of these crazy flavors do tempt me.

I'm sure it's tastes and smells better than your usuall smoke, and is also less harmful, but damn, why is there still so much bad stuff in it.

Still, never tried vaping at all.
Edit: Also don't smoke at all either, but tried it like 15 years ago while drunk.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Not until they develop technology that prevents me from forgetting them on the bus and having to buy a new one.

So, something like a strap for your wrist?

If we chain the umbrella to you, you wont forget it.

I swear, this whole topic is a conspiracy.

You all actually did shadow tempel first and that is supposed to be the normal thing?

What? You are supposed to do shadow first?

Never did.

cost of these AAA games got crazy after all, and the marketing is crazy too.

R_Jackal posted...

Blame the eternal pursuit of photorealism in games for the insanely ballooning costs, while consumers eat shit like PalWorld up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

What AAA devs need to remember is they're making games. If they want to award chase, Hollywood is probably more affordable in the current climate.

That's actually a bit of the issue. Some indy developer can shit out some half finished palworld and gets legit praise. What they did with their budget and ressources is pretty big after all, yet we forget the 1000 misses the other small teams too.

But if MS does some similar low budget project, you can assume that everyone will call it half assed bs, and how can they dare to demand money for such low effort product with last gen graphics.

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Sometimes, stuff gets overturned.

Sometimes, stuff is a joke.

CyricZ posted...

It's 30 bucks USD to buy the digital version and 60 bucks to buy the deluxe physical with the tchotchkes.

150 challenges across 13 old games is how they're marketing it.

Nintendo knows their customers.

At this point it's not a game collection they sell, but some merch package with some game inside.

It's crazy how they come up with the most silly ideas.

Accolon posted...

#158 Bomberman

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3d30b057.jpg

Thanks!

For some reason he creeps me out more than expected.