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AimlessDork posted...

Pancake posted...

what if you misspell the name?

If you misspell on accident 4 times it doesn't work on them, and if you do it intentionally 4 times you get killed.

Phantom_Nook posted...

IIRC you can have a person die up to 23 days from when you write their name.

I think that had to do with diseases.

Nah, not just diseases. Any death can be set up to 23 days away
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3khc posted...

Get good experience, prestige, and have fun.

The fuck kinda reality do you live in?
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Literally better off just taking out a $10000 loan from the bank of your choosing.
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Came for Google discussion.

Got sportsball stuff

Welp. Bye guys
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Was in the UK and wanted some chips. I got these fucking things:



Finally said, fine, fuck the chips. I'll just have a side of biscuits.

Got these fucking things:



The fuck's wrong with you all?
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xbox consoles barely manage to distinguish themselves here in the west, let alone in the home country of sony and nintendo.

It also doesn't help that xbox sells itself on IPs that have significantly less weight in japan than they do in the west. And that's iportant to recognize. Call out "weeb crap" all you like, but in japan, weeb crap is just media. ANd xbox has absolutely goddamn nothing catered to the eastern consumer. On xbox (yes I know there's more, but to look at their marketing you wouldn't know it), you have your choices between western military shooters, western action games, and sports games. Sport games featuring primarily american and/or european teams most japanese folks don't know or care about in the least.In other words, the primary pillars of the xbox brand do absolutely nothing to cater to a japanese audience. Why the fuck should a japanese kid care one little bit about madden? I dunno.

"Oh, but darkbuster, madden's on ps4 too so neehhhhhhh" Yeah, but if you've ever seen a ps4 promo, they don't push games like it to the front of their campaigns. Nor do they push partnerships with espn that are functionally worthless to a japanese consumer.
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Saxon posted...

How much longer before Best Buy goes the way of Circuit City?

a long time, considering the company's been growing on an upward swing for a long while, while most of its competition has been slowly dying.
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EffectAndCause posted...

You didn't give me the chance to inquire before restating, you ruined it!

This. I was excited, too
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lilORANG posted...

kids ruin basically every show so it was probably for the best.

yeah, i know. the kid would probably ruin it, but still.
in just a story/ character development perspective, it's like they only have a kid when they want to have it, and just dump it somewhere any time else.
it's weird

It's the Everybody Loves Raymond effect; in that show, the main couple had 3 kids, and you'd barely even know it, with how little they show up.

If the show isn't about them, there are a thousand ways to keep them sidelined.

Speaking of sitcoms, can I nominate Everyone (actually hates) Raymond?
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inb4zeldacycle

For what its worth, even one does consider it the worst in the series, that makes it, what, an 8/10 on a bad day? It's a less-great game among giants, literal movers of the entire industry. Sure, that can make it bad by comparison, but there's far worse things than coming up just short of some of the most highly-praised games in history.
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Some movies are dramatically enhanced by 3d. How to train your dragon, avatar... as you can see, its usually ones full of free-flying and sweeping shots.

Most movies tack it on as a gimmick to double ticket price.

So, usually 2d, unless I hear its worthwhile otherwise
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Such a depressing way for the franchise to go out. First star children, then horsey-faces
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gunplagirl posted...

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gunplagirl posted...

The only money being wasted is the money being paid to the officers who murdered him as well as for their benefits that they'll retain for life. They killed a man in cold blood.

Uh if someone is beating the shit out of you and reaching for your gun, that isn't cold blood.

You mean from the officer who changed the story right away, as well as after the grand jury decided not to charge him? That's not suspicious at all to you?

Didn't happen.

Now, the witnesses who started all the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative nonsense? they changed their story multiple times.
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Sami1000 posted...

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Literally the entire point of dragonball is that there is no limit. From the very beginning it's been all about pushing yourself past what you think is possible, breaking through barriers, overcoming yourself. Time and again characters have broken through limits. Some have been more lazy/complacent than others, but the series has always hammered home that there is no limit except what you give to yourself.

And yet everyone always gets pissed when anyone not named goku or vegeta breaks said limits.

To answer your question, no, there is no limit on how strong Frieza can become. The only thing limiting him is his own laziness, and the fact that he's going to get himself erased by pissing off the wrong person before the tourney's end.

Didn't Sayian god form become reachable with the help of others? At least in the movie there had to be certain amount Sayians giving energy to one Sayian to unlock that power, and none of them had no idea about that before, so without Beerus being a threat Goku or Vegeta would had never become that strong. Goku himself said that it was a level he wouldn't reach on his own and it depressed him.

And then he promptly figured out how to hold that power on his own. And then vegeta managed to do it entirely on his own.

So, they needed a push. The important part is they accepted the push, unlike, say, gohan, who has a history of pushing back. And the universe has not been kind to him for it, nor has the cast.
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foreveraIone posted...

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Literally the entire point of dragonball is that there is no limit.

for saiyans.

they got that zenkai powerup. humans can't compete with 6 digit power levels.

even then, that's not strictly speaking true. While they haven't had the raw power, the humans found ways to keep themselves useful long past when they should. Krillin's techniques managed to dismember frieza himself, tien was able to hold off cell better than piccolo or 16, and fend off a buu attack. Hell, super-s been driving this point home for the humans as well. Just look at krillin's showing against gohan and goku during recruitment, or 17's huge gains just by dedicating his life to being the best he could be, in ever capacity. If anything, the biggest thing that's always held the humans back is their laziness. They give up, and just stop. Goku and vegeta don't.
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Literally the entire point of dragonball is that there is no limit. From the very beginning it's been all about pushing yourself past what you think is possible, breaking through barriers, overcoming yourself. Time and again characters have broken through limits. Some have been more lazy/complacent than others, but the series has always hammered home that there is no limit except what you give to yourself.

And yet everyone always gets pissed when anyone not named goku or vegeta breaks said limits.

To answer your question, no, there is no limit on how strong Frieza can become. The only thing limiting him is his own laziness, and the fact that he's going to get himself erased by pissing off the wrong person before the tourney's end.
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The_Juice_ posted...

The entirety of FF13 comes to mind

Like all of them have it at some point but 13 it's from beginning to end.

I mean... to be fair their fear that your party's mission/goal is to destroy their little safe-world is totally true...
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Zodd3224 posted...

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mehmeh1 posted...

I'm not conservative, but I'd say it's fine as long as it's natural and not tacked on just to say "Look guyz, were so pruhgressive!!!11!!111" (I'll admit it, writing that line hurt)

How does one accomplish this? All personality traits to characters are tacked on.

And why is it that to be a minority or gay there are criteria that have to be met, but you can literally make any character (regardless of genre or setting) a straight white male or sexy woman and no explanation needed?

No explanation needed. That's the key.

It's all very simple. When writing a gay character, don't make his first one or two spoken lines/dialogues a diatribe on his gayness. We can get the idea if you just present them as a person, who then in turn happens to be gay.

That sounds reasonable, and you say this now...

But would you like to make a wager on the over/under for use of the terms "SJW" and "pandering" (before the character even spoke a line of dialogue) if the next big franchise featured a gay man?

A gay black man, the internet would explode from sheer vitriol just from the promo shots. No matter what that company said or did or how they wrote the character.

I'm sure it would. Growing pains for the world, partially stemming from prejudices, and partially stemming from the fact that media unfortunately has a track record of NOT writing a character first, and political message second.

I can't speak for everyone, only myself. Personally, the only times I ever cite "pandering" regarding minorities is when one of two things happen:

1) the character in question is written as a minority first, and a person second. Unfortunately common, but not quite as common as catastrophic doomsayers online like to claim.

2) the character is a minority recast of a previously-existing, iconic character IF and ONLY IF said racial recasting fundamentally alters the spirit of what the character is. Example: Miles Morales (Spider Man), John Stewart (Green Lantern) and Wally West (Flash): Good. Sam Wilson becoming captain america while coincidentally making the white one a literal nazi? A bit more suspicious, y'know?

See, I'm not even against agenda-driven stories. Most of the great stories throughout history ARE agenda-driven, in some capacity. For fuck's sake, as much as people like to cite stuff like 1984, or brave new world, its easy to forget that they, too, were heavily agenda-driven stories. The key is to make the characters actual people from whom the message flows, rather than writing the character as a soulless tool for the message.

Again, I can't speak for everybody in the room, only myself. But I do firmly believe that if you are going to make a push for diversity, people are going to be a lot more receptive to it if you make the diverse characters actual characters, rather than soapboxes. Even the most fundamentalist shitheads in the world are, at the very least, more LIKELY to accept a gay or minority conclusion if one actually writes them as a person, rather than a protest pamphlet. People connect with people. Simple as that.
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CE disappointed me with this. I don't know whether the bait was so bad that I'm glad it took so long to make the joke, or whether it's more disappointing it took as long as it did.

It's an odd mix
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Zodd3224 posted...

mehmeh1 posted...

I'm not conservative, but I'd say it's fine as long as it's natural and not tacked on just to say "Look guyz, were so pruhgressive!!!11!!111" (I'll admit it, writing that line hurt)

How does one accomplish this? All personality traits to characters are tacked on.

And why is it that to be a minority or gay there are criteria that have to be met, but you can literally make any character (regardless of genre or setting) a straight white male or sexy woman and no explanation needed?

No explanation needed. That's the key.

It's all very simple. When writing a gay character, don't make his first one or two spoken lines/dialogues a diatribe on his gayness. We can get the idea if you just present them as a person, who then in turn happens to be gay.
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gunplagirl posted...

CapnMuffin posted...

gunplagirl posted...

Oh. Does chrono cross' sequel count?

You mean Chrono Cross itself?

When Lynx swaps bodies with you.

Ahh why am I blanking on the predecessor name? D;

Did... did you seriously forget Chrono Trigger?

...but remembered Cross?

The world is a twisted place
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Meanwhile, NK released an obviously-brutalized , now-vegetative american captive without so much as a stern finger wagging from the UN.

More on how we're tackling the important issues at 11.
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No brendan fraser. Why bother.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

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E32005 posted...

also: does mistrial mean they can retry him?

Yes

Ideally, in a free society, there wouldn't be a "mistrial" - either a dozen jurors agree you're guilty, or you go home.

Not necessarily. Mistrials exist because the law recognizes that people are people, and cannot always simply ignore something just because the judge tells them to. If the prosecution presents illegally-obtained evidence, assassinates character in a way that violates the rules of the courtroom/boundaries of the case, or otherwise corrupts the impartiality of the jury, it makes sense to throw them out and start fresh. Mistrials exist to keep courts a little bit fairer; there's nothing wrong with them, especially since a mistrial by no means precludes re-trying the same case.

Without the threat of mistrials, attorneys could trample all over the rules of the court and the judge and just endlessly character-assassinate every defendant/witness they get, making impartial judgements more or less impossible. To say nothing of the protections they give against things like jury-tampering.
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Sad_Face posted...

Some 50 women accuse the man with strikingly similar accounts. Of them, only one led to a formal charge.

I don't know how to feel about this.

Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692 would like a word with you.

Legally, a bunch of people just saying the same thing together is (and should be) flimsy at best.
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helly posted...

bethesda beat nintendo, like come on

A six year old game, vr that only a fraction of the player base can even play, and paid mods.

Whoopie
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Full House
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Psycho_Poodle posted...

what happened to originality and innovaition, what happened to pushing the envelope forward?

Nobody bought it
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It's either barry or wally.

There's... really not a lot of suspense, there.
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As gimmicky as they get, they at least offer unique gaming experiences. Given the choice between my pc, a watered-down pc, a slightly-more-watered-down pc, and something actually different, it's an easy choice
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Dash_Harber posted...

Even if that was true, maybe we don't need any more parties that base their platform on what will get them elected instead of what they actually believe is right.

And then you get trump.

Personally, I'd think there comes a point where winning becomes more important than moral grandstanding
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Do people get too bent out of shape about this? Yeah.

That said, some "evolutions" are stupid as shit.

Example: under these "evolutions," you can literally use the word "literally" to literally describe literally anything even if it's literally not literal. Literally.
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Full Throttle posted...

She was sentenced to 5 years probation and a protective order as well for 10 years from contacting the victims once relased.

Fuck's sake. Someone throw the book at these bitches already.
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