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| Topic | What's the future like? |
| rick_alverado 06/08/24 5:40:39 PM #4 | How far into the future do you want to know about? |
| Topic | Are you from the future? |
| rick_alverado 06/08/24 5:17:41 PM #2 | I have partial memories of a future version of myself from an alternate timeline, if that counts. |
| Topic | What's your main mode of transportation? |
| rick_alverado 06/08/24 4:33:39 PM #22 | A car, but not my own as I can't afford one. I generally use my roommate's car when I am able. For workdays that I am not able to use his car, I borrow my mom's car. |
| Topic | boyhood, dazed and confused director talks about infantilization of movies |
| rick_alverado 06/08/24 11:26:04 AM #99 | Zithers posted... dude - good movies Im pretty sure Ive seen good movies. Ive definitely seen movies that I enjoy, they just arent about normal people seeing as theres no such thing as normal people. |
| Topic | If you could mind control Trump for 1 hour, but if you do... |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 9:47:24 PM #12 | -Unowninator- posted... The idea is, if you mind control him, he'll know it was you as soon as it wears off, including your name & address. Then he'll control your actions for an hour in an act of revenge. Hmm, I can easily mitigate the damage from him controlling me for an hour, but him knowing my address would be a bigger issue. |
| Topic | In the Indie game space is "Cozy" just code for "Boring"? |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 9:42:37 PM #11 | I mostly see "cozy" used for Animal Crossing or farming sims like Stardew Valley. |
| Topic | If you could mind control Trump for 1 hour, but if you do... |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 9:38:28 PM #3 | Are we essentially switching bodies for an hour, or does the hour we each control each other happen at different times? |
| Topic | Why would aliens look like humans |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 8:38:37 PM #34 | Most aliens don't look like Humans. Martians and Lartians mostly do (with a few key differences like skin colors), as they are technically Humans who's ancestors left Earth in the past. Next closest would be Archons, as they are have the same basic configuration, a torso, a head, two arms and two legs, but the torso itself is pretty different. But then you have something like the Frulu with six legs, two arms, a tail ending in a blade, or the Cardaillians who kind of look like two-headed dragons but without wings. The Cardaillians actually show that you don't specifically need opposable thumbs, or even hands, in order to get to the point of space travel, as they use their prehensile tongues for tool usage. |
| Topic | Which CEman is this |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 5:43:27 PM #4 | Aside from the grossness, what would be the point of invisibility if you can stop time? |
| Topic | Which is the bigger red flag? |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 3:39:22 PM #5 | Why would carrying around a dagger be a red flag? |
| Topic | What's your favorite Pokemon from every generation? |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 3:31:47 PM #9 | Gen 1: Charizard Gen 2: Hoothoot Gen 3: Wailord Gen 4: Piplup Gen 5: Vanilluxe Gen 6: Talonflame Gen 7: Rowlet Gen 8: Sirfetch'd Gen 9: Fuecoco |
| Topic | boyhood, dazed and confused director talks about infantilization of movies |
| rick_alverado 06/07/24 12:08:11 AM #59 | Zithers posted... teenager movies are movies made with zero artistic intent and intended solely to make money. generally about some geek stuff like video games or comic books or some scifi/fantasy ip. likely a reboot or remake or spinoff of an already existing piece of media. Hmm, in that case I don't believe I have ever seen either a teenager movie or an adult movie. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with zero artistic intent, but I have also never seen a movie about normal people. |
| Topic | boyhood, dazed and confused director talks about infantilization of movies |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 11:33:11 PM #46 | bsp77 posted... The ones you haven't heard of are the ones he is calling adult. Yes, that is my way of making fun of both of you simultaneously. So, none of them are adult? I said I haven't seen them, not that I haven't heard of them. |
| Topic | boyhood, dazed and confused director talks about infantilization of movies |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 11:21:24 PM #43 | Zithers posted... killers of the flower moon The only one of those I've seen is Super Mario Bros., assuming you are talking about the live action film from the 90s anyway, I haven't seen the recent animated one. Either way though, no, I can't sus out which is which, which is why I was asking for a definition. |
| Topic | boyhood, dazed and confused director talks about infantilization of movies |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 8:25:26 PM #18 | What's the difference between a movie for teenagers and a movie for adults? |
| Topic | why unions are bad |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 6:21:24 PM #110 | I work at a union job, and I've seen plenty of bad employees get fired. The union doesn't prevent people from being fired, it just makes it so that the company can't fire people without a good reason. |
| Topic | All the games and consoles you want for free or a lifetime of steak dinners? |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 12:45:44 PM #12 | AlexxPB posted... Rules: What about games for older systems that were physical only? |
| Topic | What is your current largest concern CE? |
| rick_alverado 06/06/24 12:08:46 PM #27 | Dakimakura posted... Damn, I can't get anyone to care about Global Warming. rick_alverado posted... I went with Political Policies/Outcomes, but Global Warming/The Environment is included within that, as is The Economy. |
| Topic | Have you ever worked for minimum wage? |
| rick_alverado 06/05/24 9:05:29 PM #8 | My first job started at minimum wage, I got a few raises in the first few years, and then just stopped getting raises, so minimum wage was starting to catch up to me. My current job started at about minimum wage (might have been a tiny bit more, but not by much). I get a raise every 500 hours worked, but the raises are small enough that for a while there minimum wage kept catching up to me, but last year my union made a new agreement, so that when minimum wage goes up, all of our wages go up by the same amount. It was also retroactive, so we all (other than recent hires) got a wage increase when it happened. As a note, I live in Canada, and specifically Manitoba, so minimum wage here is currently $15.30/hour, and it goes up every October. |
| Topic | What is your current largest concern CE? |
| rick_alverado 06/05/24 7:35:44 PM #7 | I went with Political Policies/Outcomes, but Global Warming/The Environment is included within that, as is The Economy. |
| Topic | Do you like Dr. Pepper? |
| rick_alverado 06/05/24 7:27:30 PM #3 | Of course, I'm drinking one at this very moment. |
| Topic | Have you ever been madly in love with someone who didn't love you back |
| rick_alverado 06/04/24 4:33:04 PM #6 | I don't think I've ever been madly in love with someone. Not in this timeline anyway. |
| Topic | What game is currently in your Super Nintendo? |
| rick_alverado 06/04/24 4:06:19 PM #60 | Nothing, as I don't leave games in my consoles when I'm not playing them, as I prefer to keep my games properly organized on my shelves. |
| Topic | What would have to happen for you to move out of da USA? |
| rick_alverado 06/03/24 6:15:09 PM #3 | First I'd have to move into the USA in order to move out of it. |
| Topic | If your take home pay was $4k a month |
| rick_alverado 06/03/24 5:18:30 PM #12 | That would improve my life by a ton. |
| Topic | Do you personally know many Moon Landing deniers? |
| rick_alverado 06/01/24 7:16:31 PM #5 | One of the bosses I had at the first place I worked was one. He was also a terrible manager, and a big part of the reason I left that job. |
| Topic | Tell me a secret. |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 8:46:21 PM #12 | The code is 2345452345. You'll have to figure out yourself what it's a code for. |
| Topic | Is Donald Trump really a threat to democracy if he becomes president again? |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 4:30:28 PM #11 | G-Ziss posted... I know that he's planning to have a cabinet full of nothing but people who will obey his every command, but he can't really just change the laws so that he can stay in the White House, right? Laws are made by people, and can be changed by people. In theory there are processes to change those laws, but those processes only have to be followed if people are actually held accountable when they don't. |
| Topic | Pres Candidates: Does Anyone Believe? |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 4:23:17 PM #39 | CobraGT posted... Let us start with what we are agree with. Your personal life is not to be examined. What do you mean by my personal life is not to be examined? That seems like a very weird wording. |
| Topic | Pres Candidates: Does Anyone Believe? |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 2:24:26 PM #21 | CobraGT posted... To all posters questioning respect: You don't have to respect all views. If someone's view is that I should be killed or jailed for being queer, that is not a view that I have to respect. |
| Topic | Do you salt your scrabble eggs before you cook them? |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 2:15:02 PM #22 | I've never thought about doing so before, but if I remember, I might try next time I have scrambled eggs. |
| Topic | Pres Candidates: Does Anyone Believe? |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 1:54:44 PM #16 | Both are bad choices, but the way your political system is set up, it's pretty much between just the two of them at this point, barring something major like one or both of them passing away or something. |
| Topic | Many I hope Nintendo gives out free patches for Switch-->Switch 2 upgrades |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 1:43:37 PM #7 | saspa posted... Some new skins? What fairy tale land are you living in where they'd be that generous? Mayhaps you meant "new skins added as DLC" in addition to paying the full price. Naw, most (all?) of the Wii U games that got ported to Switch had new content and any former DLC in the base game. And I don't think any of them even had any DLC, other than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which didn't even get DLC added until years after it came out. Also, not counting Breath of the Wild since that was a simultaneous release on both systems. |
| Topic | Princess Maker 2 Regeneration censored on Playstation only |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 1:37:53 PM #47 | To all of the people acting surprised that Sony would censor something that Nintendo didn't, I'd recommended looking back to 2002, when the game BMX XXX came out for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube, and it was the PS2 version which got censored. Nintendo will sometimes censor their own games in the localization process, but they haven't really been strict on third party stuff since the SNES. |
| Topic | The right's reaction to the Trump verdict is ridiculous |
| rick_alverado 05/31/24 1:23:43 PM #39 | whitelytning posted... The wild part of it to me is the former reasonable (I get that its subjective) politicians, high in the party, that are doing the same thing. Rubio for example; in six years he has gone from a somewhat reasonable conservative to a rigged trial idiot. It's the sunk cost fallacy. They've put so much into making him the face of the party that they feel they can't back out now, so the only option is to double down. |
| Topic | Dragon Ball Z vs Justice League/Unlimited |
| rick_alverado 05/29/24 7:11:36 PM #8 | Scotty_Rogers posted... That JLU episode (series finale, iirc) where they retconned Season 2 finale. It was originally planned as the series finale, but then they got another season. |
| Topic | Sentences that gaming causes us to say. |
| rick_alverado 05/28/24 10:22:57 AM #51 | Okay, now Im just going to die in order to refill my health. |
| Topic | When people call you "boss"... |
| rick_alverado 05/27/24 1:33:11 PM #7 | Regardless of their intentions, it always makes me anxious to be called boss. |
| Topic | Will AI Take Over Your Job in the Future? |
| rick_alverado 05/26/24 5:18:08 PM #6 | My job could and probably will eventually be automated, but most of it wouldn't be via AI. |
| Topic | How long do you think it would take for the avg person to learn your job? |
| rick_alverado 05/26/24 5:10:04 PM #11 | I think a few hours at most is all that it should take, in my opinion. Yet every time I come in on a Tuesday (I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday), if I find that someone else worked in the department during my days off, it is generally a mess and multiple mistakes have been made which I have to deal with. |
| Topic | Is America prepared for a hung jury from the Trump trial? |
| rick_alverado 05/26/24 2:34:03 PM #10 | Baha05 posted... I mean they kind of do if said people are not allowed to review the materials of the trial via third party sources so again you provided no damn answer. You can try to keep people from reviewing outside information DURING the trial, but there's no effective way to ensure they weren't exposed to outside information BEFORE the trial. |
| Topic | If you won $1 million in the lottery. |
| rick_alverado 05/26/24 2:28:48 AM #35 | steve_madsci posted... $1,000,000 lump sum is about $300,000 after taxes, that would be a nice down payment on a house in my state. I'd probably be better off taking the annuity and using the proceeds to gradually fix up my house Oof, that's rough. Up here in Canada you don't have to pay taxes on lottery winnings. |
| Topic | If you won $1 million in the lottery. |
| rick_alverado 05/26/24 1:36:29 AM #32 | There's a decent chance that I would. I currently rent a basement, and while it's a fine place to live, I wouldn't mind owning my own place if I could just straight up buy a place without having to take out a mortgage. Plus I like collecting stuff, and while I currently have room for all of my stuff, I'm eventually going to run into space issues. As for how much I'd spend, that's hard to say. Looking at house prices in my area right now, I'd probably try to stay under $400,000 as that already gives me plenty of decent options. That's Canadian dollars though, so assuming the $1 million refers to USD, that's less than a third of it that I'd be spending on a house. But even if the $1 million is CAD, it's at least still less than half. |
| Topic | Last Jedi vs. Rise of Skywalker |
| rick_alverado 05/25/24 5:00:14 PM #22 | Main Star Wars movies ranked from my favorite to least favorite:
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