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senorhousemouse
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I knew it was 19, but I didn't know it wasn't 22. Thanks
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senorhousemouse
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red > pink > yellow > orange
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senorhousemouse
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Winnie the Pui
Winnie the Pui
Winnie Winnie Winnie Winnie Winnie the Pui
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

Why not use royalty-free music? They WANT you to use it for your videos without paying.
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senorhousemouse
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mosquitoes have killed more humans than any other animal in history
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

"Max Relax helps you take the WHOLE thing! Made with NATURAL ingredients that help warm and relax your muscles for EZ entry"

The ingredients include ginger root extract, Splenda, cocoa bean extract, black pepper, cinnamon, and a couple of different chili peppers

It's also for external use only since "some users of this product may experience a mild skin irritation."

this definitely belongs up a butthole
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senorhousemouse
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Did anyone suggest taking a defensive driving class? Especially for your first ticket, you can take a class instead of paying a fine and I think it doesn't go on your record
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senorhousemouse
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v_charon posted...

No way he's 64.

Maybe someone fatfingered 54 and it went down in history like that.
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senorhousemouse
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We have Rivals of Aether, which is super fun.
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senorhousemouse
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Peridiam posted...

i've watched so many duckling videos over the past month

probably like 100

they're so adorable

i like the channel 50 Ducks in a Hot Tub

awwww that sounds adorable

and yeah rewatching this that duck totally didn't actually like this very much lol
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senorhousemouse
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bamp
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senorhousemouse
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

WhoopsyDaisy posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Dude

This isn't funny anymore

This man cannot be President

People use terms like "alt-right" without any kind of precision and everything else he said was true and relevant. The same conservative groups came to Charlottesville a couple months ago and there was no violence because Antifa didn't show up to initiate it.

You're not a better person for prioritizing catharsis over accuracy.

What GMUN said.

The advertisements for the event have Pepe and meme faces dude, it was specifically an alt right event.

The alt-right aren't the only ones who do meme things, or even pepe things.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

GuessMyUserName posted...

WhoopsyDaisy posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Dude

This isn't funny anymore

This man cannot be President

People use terms like "alt-right" without any kind of precision and everything else he said was true and relevant. The same conservative groups came to Charlottesville a couple months ago and there was no violence because Antifa didn't show up to initiate it.

You're not a better person for prioritizing catharsis over accuracy.

alt-right is their own fucking identifier

Not all of them. Only like 20% of the right-wingers there were alt-right. The alt-right has a well-defined finite list of members.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

Jakyl25 posted...

Dude

This isn't funny anymore

This man cannot be President

People use terms like "alt-right" without any kind of precision and everything else he said was true and relevant. The same conservative groups came to Charlottesville a couple months ago and there was no violence because Antifa didn't show up to initiate it.

You're not a better person for prioritizing catharsis over accuracy.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

I blurt my friends' names out when I start getting closer too.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

What happens when we die?
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

bumpy wumpy
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

welcome back
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senorhousemouse
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senorhousemouse
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Corrik posted...

Driver is confirmed to have been there for the rally.

The driver and the woman who died are both from Ohio interestingly enough

Also this is the second time a whole bunch of Identity Evropa people have rallied to Charlottesville, the first time no counterprotesters showed up at all:

https://altright.com/2017/05/17/charlottesville-is-a-turning-point-for-the-alt-right/
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senorhousemouse
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Do you think people will quit LARPing now that LARPers have died? Because I don't see how it doesn't get worse from here unless it stops.
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senorhousemouse
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transcience posted...

this seems somewhat exclusive to smash tournaments for whatever reason. maybe it's something with the game - but they always seem horribly run or behind.

Probably because a round of Smash takes 15 minutes. You need to make sure your controls are set, then rock paper scissors to strike first, then strike stages, then play a best-of-3 set with a 6- or 8-minute timer.

scarletspeed7 posted...

I've been considering bringing Smash tourneys to my shop, but this topic really makes me think differently. Not necessarily because of the behavior; I've dealt with salty players in our card games. Mainly because of the frightening potential for super-late hours. I really don't want to deal with that.

I'm in Austin. The only store-weekly that's survived was in a lan-party/card store at a mall, where plenty of people who don't know that Austin has a Sm4sh scene can incidentally find out from seeing it. I wouldn't expect to sell a lot of product you otherwise wouldn't because Sm4sh people don't buy snacks and drinks, according to my ex who used to work at a store with a weekly. The other weeklies that have survived are not profit-seeking ventures.

Late hours aren't that big of a risk as long as you're really strict on running the event. DQ mercilessly and only let people play friendlies at specified times.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

awwwwww what a cute kitty
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senorhousemouse
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Luke a cute name
Would love to see pics
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

kirbypikachuhat posted...

Sign up

Yes ma'am
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senorhousemouse
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Now that I'm thinking about it doing "My Heart Will Go On" in the style of High Tide by Blondie would sound really good.


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senorhousemouse
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senorhousemouse
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It used to be associated with, like, peace and life and stuff, maaaaaaaaaan.

I mean if you wanna wear a rainbow swastika with "PEACE" written under it you can be my guest. Not sure this is a trend I wanna be an early adopter of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/08/a-design-studio-tried-to-reclaim-the-swastika-by-putting-it-on-t-shirts-it-didnt-end-well
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

I haven't heard this song. I like it. It sounds like Jack Johnson
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senorhousemouse
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Man if you're gonna put video games into the Olympics DDR seems like much more natural choice
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senorhousemouse
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I believe it. All an IQ past a certain point means is you got basically all the questions right. If you got a pretty low score on it we wouldn't expect you to write the next great American novel. If you got a pretty high score on it we wouldn't be surprised if you were, like, a doctor or something. That's all an IQ really is, they just focused on making sure people normally get pretty similar numbers when they take the test over and over again.

If IQ is normally-distributed ("normally" meaning on a bell curve) that doesn't mean outliers are impossible. They're a sign to look for factors outside the typical reasons people's IQ scores vary. Ulti is probably either really consistent at easy things or good at figuring out the test writer's thought process, so we would expect him to get really high IQ scores compared to a cognitively-similar person who hasn't figured out those strategies.

I maxed out an IQ test too when I was 6. They estimated that my IQ was somewhere between 5 and 7 standard deviations above the mean. That had enough weight that I was able to skip 3rd and 4th grade (I did really well in 5th grade and was a decent student past that so I'm not saying they were wrong to, I'm just saying I took a real IQ test). I'm certainly really good at SOME stuff but it's really weird and specific things that don't have much value. It mostly takes the form of those IQ-like assessments you sometimes have to do for jobs.

edit: oh he took a fake test that's a different thing lol

I'm sure I could probably teach most of y'all to score super duper high on IQ tests too, just because there's a number attached to it doesn't mean it's a precise measurement of a specific concrete quantity
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

It's pointless unless someone is trying to claim that there isn't one. We have to accept the world as it is so we can work with it.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

Also it'd be more surprising if all of the races had exactly the same IQ. Think about what you're saying: white, black, Asian, hispanic, native American, and middle eastern people all have the EXACT same average IQ? IQ is PERFECTLY orthogonal to race? No other traits are, why would IQ be?
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

United States test scores
Main article: Achievement gap in the United States
Rushton & Jensen (2005) wrote that, in the United States, self-identified blacks and whites have been the subjects of the greatest number of studies. They stated that the black-white IQ difference is about 15 to 18 points or 1 to 1.1 standard deviations (SDs), which implies that between 11 and 16 percent of the black population have an IQ above 100 (the general population median). According to Arthur Jensen and J. Philippe Rushton the black-white IQ difference is largest on those components of IQ tests that are claimed best to represent the general intelligence factor g.[47] The 1996 APA report "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" and the 1994 editorial statement "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" gave more or less similar estimates.[48][49] Roth et al. (2001), in a review of the results of a total of 6,246,729 participants on other tests of cognitive ability or aptitude, found a difference in mean IQ scores between blacks and whites of 1.1 SD. Consistent results were found for college and university application tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (N = 2.4 million) and Graduate Record Examination (N = 2.3 million), as well as for tests of job applicants in corporate sections (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million).[50]

East Asians have tended to score relatively higher on visuospatial subtests with lower scores in verbal subtests while Ashkenazi Jews score higher in verbal subtests with lower scores in visuospatial subtests. The few Amerindian populations who have been systematically tested, including Arctic Natives, tend to score worse on average than white populations but better on average than black populations.[50]

The racial groups studied in the United States and Europe are not necessarily representative samples for populations in other parts of the world. Cultural differences may also factor in IQ test performance and outcomes. Therefore, results in the United States and Europe do not necessarily correlate to results in other populations.[51]

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senorhousemouse
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senorhousemouse
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MenuWars posted...

tbf the only IQ tests worth anything are MENSA certified.

mensa is a scam

real iq tests cost hundreds of dollars and take all day

iq is correlated with all kinds of good outcomes and forms of intelligence, even though it by itself doesn't really have a precise definition

past a certain point (if you get all the questions right, for instance) IQ score is basically meaningless and just measures your ability to consistently answer test questions, which is how you get randos with ridiculously high scores.

IQ is also correlated with race. That's a pointless little factoid you can't really do anything useful with. You should treat people as the product of their individual actions, beliefs, and choices rather than representatives of their race and gender. But as long as there are people trying to convince everyone of a lie, it's necessary to bring it up because people with incorrect worldviews can't advocate for effective policy.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

banananor posted...

WhoopsyDaisy posted...

What is his actual primary complaint? Can you phrase his primary complaint in a way that he would consider fair? Because it sounds like you don't mention it at all here. Here's a hint: it's not that he thinks he's being silenced.

i'd be more interested to hear how you would phrase it, actually. i'm totally open to hearing that i completely missed every relevant point

I don't blame you for not reading this with the amount of nuance and consideration I gave it, because he does kinda sound crazy. His primary complaint is that Google discriminates on the basis of race and gender in the following ways:

the memo posted...

Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]
A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate
Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]

Some of these things may or may not be problems (3 and 4 in particular I think are judgment calls) but the first 2 are definitely wrong.

He suggests supporting people who want to work part-time, or people who want to alternate using the keyboard with their partner, as a way to improve everyone's options with the added effect of increasing female representation by creating useful roles where the best applicant is more likely to be female. Because both of those undersupported groups are more female than the industry at large.

He advocates for these policies partially on the basis that they would increase diversity. He claims to believe that racial and gender diversity are inherently good (which I don't, because if you play swap-the-races-and-the-genders there's no reason to suspect they'd become a more or less effective team, but whatever). But Google's attempt at reaching it is discriminatory.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

Pokemon Blue, I think. That was quite an experience back then.
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senorhousemouse
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Metal_DK posted...

banananor posted...

for example, claiming "women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things" as if it were a fact is just random. if there's no source backing this up, this carries as much weight as the comedy sketch that says "women are interested in things, and men are interested in women, and therefore men only buy things to attract women". It's kind of the opposite, too!

There is some sources for this. Baby boys are more likely to stare at objects in motion, baby girls are more likely to stare at faces.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/08/20/parenting.gender/index.html

"According to psychologists at the University of Cambridge in England, boys prefer to watch mechanical motion over human motion. When they gave 12-month-old boys the choice of looking at people talking or windshield wipers moving, you can guess which the tots picked. And it turns out that baby boys are more adept at keeping track of moving objects. Recent research shows that boys are about two months ahead of girls when it comes to figuring out the laws of motion (that if you roll a ball under a couch, say, it will take a few seconds to pop out on the other side)."

" Girls are more likely to establish and maintain eye contact, and are attracted to individual faces -- especially women's. They're also more skilled at reading emotional expressions; if shown a frightening face, for example, they'll look at Mom or get distressed, but they'll be fine if they see a happy one. Boys take longer to notice the difference, according to a meta-analysis of 26 studies on kids' capacity to recognize facial expressions."

Again, i dont think this really makes anything 100% conclusive, but there is some evidence for the "boys like objects more, women like people more" thing. It also kinda fits in with hunter gatherer roots, which was like 190,000 years of the ~200,000 years of human evolution if that matters.

Nope, it's sexist to assume that men and women would have sexually-dimorphic nervous systems even though they have sexually-dimorphic skeletal, muscular, and endocrine systems. None of those adaptations would've led to the sexes specializing in certain areas of cognition, that's crazy talk.
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senorhousemouse
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banananor posted...

okay, i'll bite the bait

i agree with most of the spirit of what he said. He has committed some errors, which I will tackle in the order that I see them written. First, I don't like that he labels pragmatism as a right-wing trait.

i would argue that intentionally choosing the option that sounds shittier JUST BECAUSE it *sounds* like "the difficult choice" is just as idealistic, just an idealism of a different philosophy. sometimes, the shittier choice is just shittier, not pragmatic. But that's just word choice

i also think trying to create analogies and apply social and political perspectives to the day to day functioning of a business is the corporate equivalent of astrology and inherently worthless

the entire section about the 'on average' differences between men and women has a LOT of [sources needed]

for example, claiming "women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things" as if it were a fact is just random. if there's no source backing this up, this carries as much weight as the comedy sketch that says "women are interested in things, and men are interested in women, and therefore men only buy things to attract women". It's kind of the opposite, too!

That being said, nobody's expecting this guy to be perfectly correct in everything. He wants to have a conversation and he should get it. Hopefully he is aware and open to accepting that he is wrong on many counts.

I'll be honest with you. It's really tough to see two "sides" of an argument, where one side is 90% correct and the other side is 10% correct, and the 10% side has retreated to basically say "i'm not free to be wrong, people get mad at me when i don't listen to reason". It's also tough when the fringe crazies ON THE MOSTLY CORRECT SIDE go overzealously overboard.

I do totally understand the fear, but it's not a liberal vs. conservative thing, and I hate it when people try to draw that line and put people into color coded buckets.

I have absolutely been in situations where I've felt like it would be unwise to contribute to a discussion because of the social environment. You just need to slow down and actually formulate intelligent positions before blabbing. Yeah, it's tough, but everyone has to deal with it sometimes.

Also, it's an idiotic lie ot say that political correctness is a tool of "the Left" (god i hate painting with broad strokes) exclusively. I see "anxious whites" rant and rave about how people are "attacking" whites verbally and they need to stop. It's complete hypocrisy

like i get it. the left feels more passionate and intolerant. this is because they are actually closer to being correct on a lot of issues, including evolution, climate change, drug wars, health care, and economics. yeah, people are going to be passionate about these topics

it's easy to feel on the defensive when you're factually wrong on so many counts, and it bleeds into other topics that are more nuanced and less fact-based, like race & gender

What is his actual primary complaint? Can you phrase his primary complaint in a way that he would consider fair? Because it sounds like you don't mention it at all here. Here's a hint: it's not that he thinks he's being silenced.
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

I can't blame her for being defensive if she thinks she might lose her son because he's bad at cartwheels. My parents would literally kill someone if they tried to take their kids away.

You both misstepped a little bit but it won't have any lasting damage. She had a weird circumstance you had to make weird accommodations for and you didn't do it perfectly. People step on each other's toes all the time, and being able to move on from it is the most important thing.
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senorhousemouse
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WhoopsyDaisy posted...

Here are valid criticisms that should be addressed, regardless of whatever biotruths may or may not be true or racist or sexist or whatever:

" Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]
A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate
Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]"

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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

Here are valid criticisms that should be addressed, regardless of whatever biotruths may or may not be true or racist or sexist or whatever:

" Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]
A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate
Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]"
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senorhousemouse
"I feel like you can't be a real person" - OmarsComin

KanzarisKelshen posted...

MariaTaylor posted...

interesting read. just finished it.

also it's an opinion piece. how can it be debunked? are you saying someone went through and proved that he doesn't actually believe all of the statements he typed out there? each of them? one by one? must have taken a lot of work.

Opinions can be wrong. It's always cute to say they can't be, but also mistaken because fundamentally, an opinion is a personal appraisal of a given fact or set of facts. If the facts you're opining on do not exist (ie they aren't true) or your opinion contradicts reality (every instance of assuming correlation implies causation, for example), your opinion is in fact wrong (or if you'd prefer, invalid and unworthy of being heard because it's as valuable to other people as a delusion). Opinions aren't voiced just to hear the sound of your own voice, they are voiced to advance a discussion with worthwhile observation, and from a more selfish point of view to acquire respect off of their perceived value to listeners. Thus if you cannot in fact provide something valuable to the discussion, your opinion is wrong.

Sure but this article didn't have any factual inaccuracies or anything so it's not really "debunkable" in the way that it might otherwise be.
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senorhousemouse
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debunked from what metroid composite read? that settles it, none of the 4000 words in that thing are worthy of any consideration then
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senorhousemouse
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Double-sided clear tape would make the topic sticky, maybe use that?
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senorhousemouse
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if he winds up being not guilty it'll be pretty important to clarify that later lol
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senorhousemouse
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transience posted...

https://mega-maker.com/

I made a real simple level - level id is 4591 if anyone wants to check it out!

The music in the trailer sounds a lot more like Mario Tennis for the GBC than Megaman imo.
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senorhousemouse
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It feels like something when it's on and something else when it's off. People "forget" seatbelts and condoms for the same reason.
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senorhousemouse
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