Lurker > dainkinkaide

Well, how about some Jet Jaguar, from a Godzilla movie that wasn't even supposed to be a Godzilla movie.

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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

What if it's just a West Wing-style political drama about running Latveria?

What if it's just a Veep-style political comedy about running Latveria?
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

I had to take liberties with a mangled analogy in order to make it work. Words are tools, scissors are tools, and tools are best understood in with the verb "use" not "give". You use words, you don't give them. Ya' follow?

The analogy is not the simple scissors:pronouns. It's the acts themselves within the given contexts that are analogous.

To wit, in the analogy adjl used, giving someone scissors (with the implied intent that they are to use them) or making them use desks that do not work well with their dominant hand is analogous to referring to someone by pronouns that do not align with their gender identity.

In your ridiculously bad counterargument, you stated that cisgender people are being forced to use scissors that do not work well with their dominant hand, ergo, within the bounds of the original analogy, you are implying that cisgender people are being forced to identify by pronouns (i.e. are being referred to by pronouns) that do not align with their gender identity, i.e. that there exists a growing number of cases where cisgender men are being referred to as "she" or where cisgender women are being referred to as "he".

Essentially, what you failed to notice was that the analogous terms were entire phrases and contexts, and not simply the nouns in those phrases. Then, in failing to comprehend what the actual analogy was, you made yourself look the fool.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

So try to keep up here: people are being insisted open to use left handed tools, and many right handed people (and a surprising and growing number of lefties like myself) aren't sure those tools are the best ones for the job.

See, this is a better counter analogy than your first attempt. The terms of your analogy are clear. Although, in attempting to tie your counter analogy to the original analogy using some of the same nouns, you run afoul of confusing the reader.

In your analogy, "left-handed tools" is analogous to "non-standard pronouns". In adjl's analogy, and it bears repeating just to make sure you get it, "making someone use right-handed tools (e.g. scissors, desks) when they are left-handed" is analogous to "referring to someone by male pronouns when they identify as female, female pronouns when they identify as male, or standard pronouns when they identify as a non-standard gender".

Adjl's argument implicitly states, by analogy, that a non-cisgender individual can deal with being referred to by the wrong pronouns, much as a left-handed person can deal with using right-handed scissors or right-handed desks, but in both cases, it's a huge dick move to force them to deal with it when you're fully aware that you're specifically inconveniencing them.

Your argument implicitly states, by analogy and comparison to adjl's analogy, that people can use non-standard pronouns, much as people can use left-handed tools, but because you don't personally agree with the tools/pronouns being used, that justifies pulling a dick move.
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

adjl posted...

Think of it like handedness: The vast majority of the population is right-handed, so assuming that somebody is right-handed until stated or demonstrated otherwise is pretty reasonable. If they tell you they're left-handed, though, it's very simple to say "oh, okay," and not buy them right-handed scissors or expect them to sit at righty desks moving forward. If you say "no you're not use your right hand and stop trying to be a special snowflake," you're an asshole.

Except that left handed people generally try to adapt to a right handed world unless there's some reason they can't. They don't insist we use their left handed scisors. Gender snowflakes could learn a lot from lefties.

That analogy really got away from you, huh?

See, the scissors in adjl's analogy are representing the pronouns one chooses to identify by. Ergo, in your complete failure of a counterargument you're implying that transgender/non-binary/genderqueer individuals are forcing cisgender people to be referred to by the various pronouns most associated with said non-cisgendered people, which is the exact opposite of what's actually happening in almost every conceivable way.
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Master_Faust posted...

gguirao posted...

How is it not a sandwich?

99.99% of hot dog stands/makers out there wouldn't put a solid slice of cheese in a hot dog bun. And it can be considered a true sandwich ONLY if it has a slice of cheese inside. Origins.

It can only be considered a true sandwich if it uses some kind of bready container to hold your food so that you can eat while gambling.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

You guys should try a Hawaiian pizza topped with bacon strips, ham, and pineapple, and Thousand Island dressing replacing the tomato sauce.

gtfo.

if it doesn't have tomato sauce it isn't pizza

A partial list of other things you can replace tomato sauce with in a pizza:
- Barbecue sauce. (with chicken, bacon, or sausage.)
- Aioli. (with olives, chicken, anchovies, sundried tomato)
- Hot sauce. (with chicken)
- Ketchup and mustard. (with ground beef, bacon, cheddar cheese.)
- Pesto. (can pretty much go with anything, depending on your pesto.)
- Cocktail sauce (with shrimp)
- Salsa verde.
- Creamed corn (OK, maybe not.)
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Remember, it's also supposed to be a solar wall. So this fantastic wall has to be simultaneously opaque and translucent.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

You guys should try a Hawaiian pizza topped with bacon strips, ham, and pineapple, and Thousand Island dressing replacing the tomato sauce.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

You don't get named Norville unless you got rich parents.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Why are you hating on idiolects, man?
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

i said "an i...." and it wasnt even directly after their post.

Based on the fact that you were "done talking" to this person (implying that a conversation with this individual had taken place earlier in the topic), one could easily infer from context who the specific person you were insulting was.

first time was even less direct because it reffered to a separate thread but not the title or person

But you were still talking about a specific person, and that person's identity could be inferred from context. Anyone happening across that insult would only need to look for the mentioned topic or be the person who made the topic to know who you were talking about.

In fact, the post in question was probably marked by the exact person to whom you were obliquely referring.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

got modded for saying "some ..... made a thread about (forget what)" zero names were used and the thread had been made a few days before.

i havent checked my current notification but since the message i posted using the word got deleted its the same thing. "i said i am done talking to an ....." (no name) then the rest of the sentence

I'm 99.44% certain that you weren't modded for using the word idiot. Instead, I'm 99.44% certain that you were modded for specifically referring to an individual GameFAQs user by an insulting term, even though you didn't explicitly name said user.
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Zeus posted...

In fact, out of everything I saw, MAYBE one-in-fifteen images has an Asian star in the front. But sure, they're alllll equaaaaaallll.... -_-

That really says more about the marketing decisions than how important the Asian characters are to the show.
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Zeus posted...

mrduckbear posted...

Both Daniel and Grace were looking to match the salaries of Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan who earn 10-15% more and Daniel concluded "The path to equality is rarely easy"

You draw less, you get paid less. Simple equation. The other stars are a bigger attraction.

Weird, because of the four of them, the only one I've ever heard of is Daniel Dae Kim.

Well, I've heard of Scott Caan's dad, but that's not saying much for Scott himself. And I probably should have heard of Grace Park, but I never really watched Edgemont or Battlestar Galactica.
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I mean, they're still legal tender, but I'd still have to keep finding them until I have fifty of them, roll them up, and take a trip to the bank to get rid of them, and that's just too much time and effort for fifty cents.
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TheSlinja posted...

Shin Megami Tensei

Are you just talking the mainline SMT series, i.e. SMT 1 through 4, If... and SMT4:A, or are you talking the entirety of the MegaTen series, including DemiKids, Last Bible, and Jack Bros?
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A hashtag is a tag denoted by prepending a hash to it.

SomeUsername529 posted...

There literally is no official name for it.

The Unicode Consortium begs to differ. It's officially known as "number sign".

Both "number sign" and "pound sign" were coined around the same time for the symbol (circa the 1850s).
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I agree with both poll options.

Well, apart from the mangled idiom "throw a book at them".
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This is why I believe the NRA needs to spend less time fearmongering over libruls taking their guns away and more time educating gun owners about the responsible use of guns.

Probably wouldn't have helped this dipshit, but still.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Of those choices, Vampire Mom is best X-man.
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PyroBlade1985 posted...

I take that back. Comparing her to Jack Thompson is an insult to Jack Thompson.

Why? Because Jack Thompson actually tried to get certain video games banned, instead of just providing critique and commentary about them?
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If there had been a referendum, turnout probably would've been higher for maintaining the status quo than any other outcome. Sure, all the parties could have run ads lauding their preferred electoral method, but the Conservatives could more effectively rile up their base into voting for FPTP through fear-mongering, while the other parties would probably find it more challenging to overcome voter apathy over electoral reform.
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Zeus posted...

(Case-in-point: Asking somebody to sue him... and then acting overjoyed when it happens.)

Honestly, I'd be pretty overjoyed too if I'd done a story involving well-researched facts about a poorly-run industry, then got spuriously sued for defamation, meaning that all those well-researched facts would now become evidence for the defense in a court of law.
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JamieTheWhite posted...

Catwoman is a living walking fetish[...] but she's not "problematic".

I don't think you know what words mean.
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I mean, Star Fox 2. Still probably not going to bother getting one, but I'm pretty happy that they're including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2.

(Of course, they've probably just downloaded a hacked ROM off the internet again, but still.)
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

I don't have any Rock Band 1 wired guitars to take apart, so I don't know whether the mechanism is actually different in the old guitars or if you're just not looking in the right place.
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argonautweakend posted...

ive got phillips head screwdrivers here. i can tear it open but i dont know where to start

is there a guide i could look at?

Simple version:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/practical-gadgetry/fixing-a-defective-rock-band-guitar-is-quick-and-easy/

More detailed version that better explains what to do and why you need to do it:
https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/rock-band-my-strummer-broke-and-i-fixed-it/40180
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

You might be able to readjust the strum bar's microswitch and fix it if you've got the requisite Phillips screwdrivers. It's actually a pretty simple fix.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

My parents separated without ever actually getting divorced. So they neither stayed together, nor got divorced.
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Zeus posted...

Except that if it's not being investigated or charged as a hate crime then it's not a hate crime.

Sure, if you're going to be a semantic purist. But you have to recognize that colloquial use of "hate crime" describes any crime that was motivated by hatred of a protected class, regardless of whether it would be legally a hate crime by being investigated or tried as one.

It may not be a de jure hate crime, but laypersons may consider it a de facto hate crime.

And again, the only real justification for any of these claims is the races of the people involved which shouldn't form the basis of a complaint.

Coupled with a vast swathe of anti-X sentiment in given segment of the population Y, the fact that a victim of a crime committed by a member of Y is X should absolutely be considered when forming the basis of a complaint.

You can't just focus on the immediate circumstances of a crime; you also need to consider the greater societal context in which those immediate circumstances occurred.

Now, I don't know if any of that actually applies in this case, but I at least get why people feel that it might.
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Zeus posted...

It's why Jan continues to insist on a hate crime narrative supported by nothing and denied by law enforcement actually familiar with the facts of the case.

If a crime isn't being tried or investigated as a hate crime, that doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't motivated by hatred of a protected class; it merely means that it's difficult to prove that it was motivated by hatred.
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ConnorGracie posted...

Most people don't know this but white people are not protected by hate crime laws.

Most people don't know that because it's not true. If a crime is motivated by the victim's race, regardless of what that race is, then it is eligible to be tried as a hate crime.

(Unless, of course, you're in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, or Wyoming.)
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aHappySacka posted...

So black workers are automatically slaves, got it.

Well, given where it took place, it's possible that the workers are inmates at a correctional facility who are working for literally pennies an hour.

Granted, that's just a possibility, not necessarily what actually occurred.
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RedPixel posted...

Heard that these things can cause people to get amputations worst-case scenario. That true?

No. Spiders, especially venomous spiders, are extremely unlikely to bite humans. It takes an incredible amount of energy to produce venom, and it's basically a waste of that energy to use that venom on something they couldn't possibly consume.

Most, if not all, of the horrific stories about spider bites should be attributed to bacterial infections rather than spider venom.
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Trump's been lambasting all the bad dudes, so there are no longer any dudes of sufficient badness who are willing to rescue the President.
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jamieyello3 posted...

A female gangster? Pretty sure those don't exist.

Historically, they sure as fuck do. Stephanie St. Clair and Ma Barker immediately spring to mind, and Australia's Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh are also quite noteworthy (and not just for hating the shit out of each other).
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Super Mario Bros. had some fun moments and a pretty great soundtrack, but it was plagued by script and production problems. It arguably had potential, but it was squandered by its two directors making contradictory decisions and studio interference.

Double Dragon was shit.

Raul Julia's performance in Street Fighter was amazing. Unfortunately, every other part of that movie sucked. Similarly, the only part of The King of Fighters that I enjoyed was every time Ray Park was on screen.

Mortal Kombat was a pretty good adaptation of the video game, but I just couldn't buy French Raiden. Also, it proved popular enough for a shitty, shitty sequel. I shouldn't hold a sequel against the original film, but god damn, Mortal Kombat Annihilation was so terrible that I have to.

I haven't seen it in years, but I'm pretty sure Tomb Raider was an enjoyable movie.

Resident Evil actually did a pretty great job of telling an original story loosely set in the Resident Evil universe.

I haven't seen Doom, Hitman, or Warcraft.

Though it's not on the list, DOA: Dead or Alive was actually a pretty good movie. It's probably the best live action movie based on a fighting game. But it's not the best movie based on any video game.

That honor goes to Gyakuten Saiban. It didn't completely capture the silliness of the games, but it did an upstanding job of adapting the first game to a live action movie.
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Zeus posted...

And finally, and most importantly, shit of this nature with sick props, etc, should be reviled by all people.

You say that as though we aren't all living in the reality where GWAR exists.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Weird. When GWAR did it, their shows didn't get cancelled.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

It's ruddy well pronounced "izzard".
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Somewhere in the middle.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

As a straight man, yes.

The use of a qualitative comparative without strictly defining exactly what you're comparing renders said comparative basically meaningless.
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Zeus posted...

He's not used in any game gym and, as far as I can remember, he's never even used by a game trainer,

Erika has a Tangela.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

It was probably the same genius who thought up Ginger Pepsi.
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Hank Pym changes superhero aliases more often than Hawkman changes origin stories.

Chakan: The Forever Man.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Calling us "bigoted", when we are trying to prevent things like this from happening

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Man-Accused-of-Secretly-Recording-Women-in-Target-Dressing-Rooms-298072951.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-pen-camera-film-women-changing-target-cops-article-1.2167428

http://www.ocregister.com/2014/08/05/man-who-hid-camera-in-girls-dressing-room-headed-to-federal-prison/

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150331_Cops__Man_filmed_women_in_Montco_Target_dressing_room.html

But a man putting on a dress, and going into a restroom of the opposite sex, would never do this?

All four of those links refer to the same incident that occurred in 2014, two years before Target's policy on allowing transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their choosing even existed. This shows that dudes were already creeping on women in bathrooms prior to the change in policy, meaning that the change in policy changes nothing about creepy fucks (who could already literally waltz into the ladies' room whenever the fuck they wanted), and thereby proving the opposite of your point.
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chaosbowser posted...

Foppe posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

Foppe posted...

Tails 64 posted...

The Internet sure loves to abuse the word literally.

You missed when they redefined the word literally just because everybody used it wrong?

Yeah, I mean it only happened 250 years ago.

I talked about the dictionaries changing the meaning of the word, not when we started to misuse the word.

Pretty sure his response to you was an intentional hyperbole

Nope. The earliest attestation of "literally" used as an intensifier for a figurative statement is from 1766, just slightly over 250 years ago. Granted, it didn't really* become very* prominent until the early-to-mid-19th century, around the time Dickens used it in Nicholas Nickleby (1839).



*Both "really" and "very" are words that are commonly used as intensifiers today, but once exclusively meant "truthfully". (I would have said that they once meant "truly", but even that is commonly used as an intensifier.)
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Not much. Dude's vocabulary has already shifted from complicated, polysyllabic words used in eloquent turns of phrase to terse, monosyllabic words used in mealy-mouthed word salad.
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Foppe posted...

Tails 64 posted...

The Internet sure loves to abuse the word literally.

You missed when they redefined the word literally just because everybody used it wrong?

Yeah, I mean it only happened 250 years ago.
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Why yes, I did get one of my four hats from the hat store. Thanks for asking.
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