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Asherlee10 posted...

Tmaster - I think I've had this exact same 'discussion' with ZombiePigeon about 4 times. He is staunch, stubborn, and a bit thick-headed. It's all or nothing for him. He cannot harbor the idea that some microtransactions are not bad.

I know. I don't even know why I'm doing this anyways. Guess a bit bored.
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ZombiePelican posted...

Stop parroting this ridiculous lie spewed from the mouths of publishers , the only people who get any profit from microtransactions are the executives who run publishers. Developers see not a single penny from the sale of any part of a game launch under a publisher, you're ony showing you have a child's understanding of this industry

You are the one with a child's understanding of the industry. Game companies used to fire people after a game completed, because there is no reason to keep people who aren't contributing towards the company. DLC and microtransactions help keep people working in the game industry have more stable employment, but the game industry as a whole isn't a great place to look for stable work. Not to mention the amount of OT you'll likely need to put in to meet deadlines.

While microtransactions themselves don't save everyone's job. They do help save some jobs since nowadays you can expect most games to be updated for a year or two after release and companies need developers for that and the company needs money from somewhere.

I never said that all the microtransaction money only goes to developers nor would I be surprised if publishers weren't taking a big cut of it.
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kirbymuncher posted...

I mean the part where absolutely no one seems fazed about it at all

I think microtransactions/DLC can be good, but not when they're gambling for gameplay related advantages in a multiplayer game lol. That's about as bad as it gets

I can't say i'm surprised companies would use tactics that aren't good for consumers to make more money. This isn't some thing that's only a problem with the game industry.

I just don't let it bother me. I'll still play games with microtransactions, but I will also avoid games that go overboard with it. If the game is still fun even with p2w elements, the p2w elements might not actually be that game changing.
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kirbymuncher posted...

Looking at this topic it's pretty clear awful microtransactions are here to stay :/

Well yeah. They make a lot of money and help pay developer wages after the game releases so companies don't need to fire talent and hire new people between projects.
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ZombiePelican posted...

Maybe if you didn't shill for greed driven tactics that only benefit publishers, you wouldn't get called one, ever think of that?

I don't, but you call anyone who says anything remotely against your topics a shill.
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ZombiePelican posted...

ITP:Stop posting gaming news I don't like

Blame publishers for continually doing greedy and contemptuous shit to the games they fund. If they wouldn't keep doing this shit I wouldn't need to report it.

Not at all. Not liking your opinions towards stuff due to how it's always negative != you to stop posting.

You can keep posting all you want, your opinions are just worthless. But maybe you would be more likeable if you didn't call anyone who doesn't like your posts a corporate shill.
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ZombiePelican posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

He just likes to hate every triple AAA publisher and any games they make.

Gee why would I hate it when potentially good games made by passionate developers hobbled and ruined by the greed driven anticosumerist bullshit of AAA publishers?

Tmaster148 posted...

His opinions are pretty meaningless.

Says the guy bending over backwards to please a multibillion dollar corporation

I'm not bending over backwards to anyone. You only post how much you hate what x game company is doing in their y game. You just want to hate everything and since you reliably hate everything there's no reason to take you seriously.
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glitteringfairy posted...

Personally I think there shouldn't have even been a notice. Let them come and jail em up. Why do y'all have sympathy for people that have arrest warrants. They wouldn't have warrants if they were innocent people

Innocent people can have arrest warrants placed on them.
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This is the whole story.
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Romulox28 posted...

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Asherlee10 posted...

I'm still going to buy the game today.

I'm so sorry, maybe one day you'll develop standards

It's important to point out that, after you reach level 20, Bright Engrams will drop whenever you gain a new experience level (like Motes of Light did in the original game), meaning that you can earn an unlimited number during the course of normal gameplay. You also can't buy Bright Engrams before level 20, so there's no way to acquire this stuff before it starts dropping anyway.

The actual gameplay impact of these mods remains to be seen, but unless it turns out to be huge, I wouldn't personally call 'pay-to-win'.

doesnt seem like a big deal tbh

It's TC. He just likes to hate every triple AAA publisher and any games they make. His opinions are pretty meaningless.
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HBOSS posted...

My CE sense is tingling.
Solution: cool the gulf of mexico. Warm waters strengthen hurricanes. A pre-emptive strike to cool the gulf is the strategery we must do to protect American lands from the devastation on this particular natural disaster. We must be swift. We must be decisive. Cool the waters!

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--kresnik-- posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

--kresnik-- posted...

So, the natural disasters would have somehow been avoided if the opposition had won?

Is the flood in Genesis w/Noah a natural disaster or not?

Just curious.

That was God's wrath.

And whose to say the back to back Hurricanes hitting the US isn't God's wrath now?
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Darklit_Minuet posted...

Further proof that American cops cannot be trusted and their departments should be disbanded

Get rid of the police...
I'm sure that would work out just fine.

I'm not saying to get rid of police as a whole, just to disband their current broken departments that get away with murder and other crimes.

You can then replace them with cops that aren't above the law and don't terrorize their communities

Disbanning police forces and hiring new ones won't solve the problem. Cops need to actually face punishments for their bad actions and held to the standards of the law.
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EverHeardOfIt posted...

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gunplagirl posted...

Or maybe we can try and curb global climate cha- *shot*

Obviously but that won't retroactively make things better.

... Combating hurricanes won't retroactively help, either. What the hell was this even supposed to mean?

What I mean is curbing climate change won't prevent the damage already done to the environment. Dealing with the hurricanes directly will at least prevent the damage caused by already determined weather patterns.

Why not do both? If we keep Climate Change unchecked we'll only see stronger hurricanes that'll we have to combat.
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The_Donald posted...

scar the 1 posted...

That, however, doesn't in any way address the fact that doing so can be very shitty and deserve harsh criticism.

Criticize them all you want. Better yet, start your own airline and give natural disaster victims free flights. See how long your business survives.

:)

He never suggested they gave away free flights. Just not massively raise their prices against those trying to leave from a disaster area.
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First off, you shouldn't need to take so many supplements unless you have a really shitty diet. In which case I would suggest creating a better diet.

Fish Oil is a scam.

Supplements should only be used to get more of an important vitamin if you are currently not getting enough of it. It's possible to have too much of a vitamin.
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scar the 1 posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

France has two voting rounds. First round to determine which 2 candidates face off against each other in the final rounds. So while they do have first past the post, they have a system that allows people to actually vote for a candidate they like the most instead of having to pick which one is less worse. Since worst case they don't win first round of voting and you can just vote for someone else in the 2nd round.

That's for the presidential election, no? AFAIK there are still plenty of parties represented in their parliaments.

Yeah that's the presidential election. I don't know how their local elections are dealt with, but they do have several different parties in parliament. So France has pretty good representation for it's people even if their system isn't perfect.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Fox News discussing Mario?

Which is the fake news channel again?

<_<

Reporting on a game isn't fake news by itself. I don't see what's fake about this piece even if I find it rather pointless.
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ZeldaMutant posted...

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Nikra posted...

Most other real democracies has multiple parties to vote for

Such as?

Canada, Germany, England, France, etc.

The 2 party system and 24 hour news have resulted in compromise being a sign of weakness instead of being the result of good politics.

First past the post voting needs to go.

Canada, UK and France all use FPTP. Canada and UK have huge two-party problems. France doesn't for whatever reason. Maybe it's because the republic is less than 60 years old, so the party system hasn't had time to converge yet.

France has two voting rounds. First round to determine which 2 candidates face off against each other in the final rounds. So while they do have first past the post, they have a system that allows people to actually vote for a candidate they like the most instead of having to pick which one is less worse. Since worst case they don't win first round of voting and you can just vote for someone else in the 2nd round.
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Nikra posted...

It's actually strange that after Trump backed out of the cimate agrement, The US are being pounded by one hurrycane after the other.

It's not really strange and just a coincidence. We would of still gotten hit by the hurricanes regardless of Trump's decision to leave to Paris Agreement.
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Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Isn't it illegal to jack up prices like that because of natural disasters?

Whether or not it's illegal, they won't ever see any real punishment for doing it.
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Good thing Hoth told us he got modded, because I totally can't see how I could live my life not knowing.

Very easily actually. Hoth is a nobody
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I don't think I'll pick up it up Day 1, but I do still want to check it out depending on what the improvements to the nemesis system are.
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darkjedilink posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

mario2000 posted...

When did Obama threaten to take away rights?

He didn't. It was largely the NRA scaring gun owners to go out and buy more guns, because that is what helps gun manufactures.

He literally wished he could implement Australia's gun control program - which is a de-facto gun ban - in America, on live TV.

How is that not a threat to the Second Amendment?

You do know implementing laws that ban guns don't actually mean the government is breaking into your home to take away your guns. Whether or not you agree with the proposal is different from the fact that Obama never threatened to take away people's guns.

Plus Obama has said this at the beginning and the end of his presidency.




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mario2000 posted...

When did Obama threaten to take away rights?

He didn't. It was largely the NRA scaring gun owners to go out and buy more guns, because that is what helps gun manufactures.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Your reading comprehension is only average? Hahahahaha

His is still higher than yours.
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The pencil # is a measure of the hardness. Which of course is a US only thing because the rest of the world uses a different scale.
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Sounds like nonsense.

Your not attracting any one looking like a slob

To be fair. Being less attractive doesn't mean you are ugly. A hot girl could go out with a good looking guy and she would still be considered more attractive.

Also the study is measuring happiness by dieting habits. So I wouldn't say this study is a good one either.
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megamanfreakXD posted...

Munchkin

If we're going to include card games then:

Flux
Chrononauts
Gloom

Also there is Munchkin Quest which is a board game variant of Munchkin.
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Let's be honest. TC will never have kids for this to be a problem.
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This happened.
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I think I enjoyed life more 10 years ago, only because I could hang out with friends all the time. Now I have much fewer friends I do hang around with, but also don't have many opportunities to do hang out with them.

Wouldn't really say life 10 years ago was better even if I enjoyed it more.
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It's a YouTube video. It's likely not true.
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You guys live a boring life if marking topics gets you off.
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uwnim posted...

It isn't. Only time it out damages its other moves is against grass/fairy types and Machamp either loses or they are whimsicott and just u-turn out anyways.

Even then Machamp can learn Fire Punch.
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No. 65 sp atk is too low.

Plus Fire type moves aren't really needed to cover against anything Fighting doesn't already hit.
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Hexenherz posted...

Yes, Battlefield 1 I believe downloads all new content regardless if you own it or not.

Honestly I don't have a problem with a game doing that, since it's official content I might buy in the future anyway, and I anticipate the extra data usage. But I don't like the idea of a potentially limitless mod library expanding to consume my entire hard drive.

Well for multiplayer games everyone would need to download any new dlcs since it would cause issues playing with a new item and some other player in the game not having the data for it.

There's at least a reason why a game like Battlefield 1 does this.

Fallout 4 is a single player game with no multiplayer components so it's not like you need to download every dlc released.
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Sexypwnstar posted...

No, the issue isn't just the game downloading content you aren't using. It's the whole concept of micro-transactions where you have to buy premium currency at designated price packages along with unoriginal content being put in the store that was already available for free.

I was just basing off what little I read from this topic. Since I expect this will blow up again and Bestheda will get forced into removing it like last time.
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1337toothbrush posted...

Esrac posted...

No one likes their paid mods bullshiy last time. No one likes it this time.

They'll keep trying until it gets accepted. I wouldn't be surprised if they try barring free mods (thus requiring a price being set) just like how Microsoft forbade companies from releasing free DLC, thus creating this bullshit mess in the first place.

I think the problem is really just Bethesda's methods. First time was a disaster since there was 0 control and people could literally steal other people mods and sell them or put up crap and sell it. Not to mention the take Valve and Bethesda were getting that made it rather pointless for people putting the work in to go through that channel.

Now we have an issue that a game is downloading content you aren't even using.

There's probably a way to do paid mods right, I just don't think it's ever going to be from anything a developer tries.
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nayr626 posted...

They're not bad.

Some just want a more customizable O.S.

Also there are some recent questionable design choices apple made with the newer iPhone models.
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I think Netflix and Hulu are fine separated. The issue is that every network wants their own service and is pulling their stuff from services like Hulu or Netflix to get people on to their own service.
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SharpX68000 posted...

Rika_Furude posted...

SharpX68000 posted...

Anime fans hate old things.

since when

Most anime fans aggressively refuse to watch older anime. Usually because they find ghe animation dated or they only care about things currently being discussed. I was somewhat joking though.

There are a lot of anime since most animes will only ever get a single season and there are constantly new animes coming out. I don't think most anime fans really have anything against older animes, just that it's much harder to talk about them when there's something new all the time.
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BaronessaRolab posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

Unless you are drinking caffeine free soda, Soda literally contains a drug in it's ingredients.

I am not referring to caffeine (which can cause minor physical dependency). I am talking about fat-asses who dont want to take responsibility for their actions.

You're also appear to be trying to downplay other forms of addiction such as porn addiction, because it's better than admitting you have a problem.
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Unless you are drinking caffeine free soda, Soda literally contains a drug in it's ingredients.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

$500 isn't really "viable" at all.

Certainly is much cheaper than having the child.
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I don't think sex ed needs to go as far as to cover abortion as abortion is something decided after sex rather than something you plan beforehand. Sex ed should stick to teaching about sex and include birth control & contraceptives.
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3rd_Best_Master posted...

Is this the excuse we're going with now?

This has been the excuse of forever aloners for a while. They'll latch onto any students that might suggest they are better than others while having no friends.
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