Lurker > bobbaaay

MrWingnut posted...

I love both. CTR has a much bigger skill gap with maintaining blue flame boost. I have more fun playing MK.

This. I like the CTR aesthetic and universe more -- and the single player campaign is great. But fuck is the remake super difficult if you're not an expert at maintaining the boost -- and it completely scares away my gf and her friends, and they won't even touch the game to try it with me.

Shabriri posted...

bobbay can you pitch your piss fit somewhere else

I'm saying if you're ACTUALLY concerned with the alt-right and how violent they're getting maybe people should actually try and do something and look into why it's happening, instead of being children with good guy bad guy lines of thought.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

You're looking at this from a sort of biased perspective.

Yes, Netflix is currently the most popular streaming service, so it's naturally going to have a larger "market share" of pop culture conversation. But you're also looking at the Dahmer series.

Flip it around. How many people are talking about The Boys, House of the Dragon, or the latest Marvel shit? And compared to that, how many people are taking about The Pentaverate, Inside Job, or New Legend of Monkey? <_<

Okay, I'll give you The Boys and She-Hulk.
But there's still the difference with those shows, while popular and being made into memes and whatnot, aren't dictating popular culture and what it's talking about, its trends, etc.
The Dahmer thing being an example - that discussion is literally new to me. I've never heard so many people have this take on true crime, and I highly doubt ANY of those people put forth that much effort into discussing the topic before the Netflix program. Or the fact that Stranger Things was so popular that they literally play Kate Bush on modern pop stations -- or the fact that people tried to "cancel" Metallica after zoomers "discovered"(?) them (despite them literally being like the most overplayed band on generic rock stations? But again, they're probably using music streaming services like Spotify and not listening to the radio and living in their own little bubble).

Psuedo_Audacity posted...

I think the bigger issue is that social media allows very shallow takes to propagate and perseverate because they sound cool and just, because modern forms of social media don't encourage long form discussion. For older people consuming this stuff, this is clear, and the shallow takes are taken in light of deeper general discussion and thought. But I'm not sure younger generations are getting this, so lots of moral discussions are essentially flanderized, and younger people seem to be taking them to heart.

This is a very valid response.
I don't think anyone else is getting what I'm saying.

DarthAragorn posted...

They have to be willing.

In this case they are not.

Okay. You know that how? Yep - everyone who disagrees with you is just a hopeless case. We might as well just kill them all.

Like are you really all that dense that you don't think people are capable of growth or change? Why the fuck are you even alive then?

Humble_Novice posted...

The projection is strong coming from you.

What am I projecting? I'm not alt-right or even conservative or moderate.
I just don't think you should fight trashy behavior with even trashier behavior.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Unironically how old are you? >_>

In 1997, AOL had just reached 10 million users, and the idea "social media" was just something college kids, professionals, and shut-in nerds were into. Even then, you had to take time out of your day to sit in front of a computer.

This year TikTok alone has a billion users, and every man, woman, and child with a phone accesses some form of social media daily and can shitpost on twitter while they're literally taking a shit.

I'm 36. I exaggerated. I may not have used forums in 1997 - but I definitely used things like Livejournal, Angelfire, Makeoutclub, Blurty, or whatever before Myspace exploded. There was also always Friendster.

Either way that's not the point of what I'm saying. I'm saying that at any other point in modern history you could see equal representation across multiple stations. You're lying if you think something like Candy, Letterkenny, Pen15, or whatever have even close to as much representation as any single Netflix exclusive. The closest thing is probably The Mandalorian.
It's also the point of what I said with the paradox existing where literally faaaaar more stuff, old and new, is available right now than at any other point in history and yet people only consume such a small slice.

I'm just saying there are plenty of Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Paramount+, etc. original programs that only get talked about like 1/5th the amount as Netflix exclusives. Back in the days of cable (or just pre-Netflix in general) people actually watched more than one station and you could see people discussing programs from multiple different platforms online.

Netflix literally dominates trends in a huge, huge way - unlike any single television station ever has.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

Yes, where was the social media zeitgeist in 1997? >_>

The answer is that popular media dictating discourse was always a thing. We just live in an age where the internet has created a global media culture, wheras before it was more fragmented.

The internet existed in 1997. So did social media.
But there's a huge difference between something like America's Got Talent or whatever crap was big on network television back in the days of cable and Netflix now. People actually watched different stations back then.

Humble_Novice posted...

It's the far right who have been trying to silence the left through fear, violence, and intimidation.

They're not the ones doxing people, but okay. They're also not the ones claiming the higher ground or actively attempting to alienate their allies.

Unknown480 posted...

They tried that, it didn't work.

It clearly worked better than now, if you look at previous decades. I can attest that I've had conversations with people on forums back in the day that actually resulted in change or people reassessing certain beliefs. I can say that I've grown over the years, too, and changed my mind on many topics and realize where I was previously at fault.

People on the far left are too intellectually lazy nowadays to even try and change peoples' minds. I've literally been on forums and watched people get banned for what was ignorant, and not hostile, transphobia -- and then told the moderator that the person was probably willing to listen and be educated, and then get banned myself and told it's "not their job to educate people."

I just started using TikTok a few months ago, and I was already a little annoyed about how whenever something new came out on Netflix it would completely dominate popular content. All that "Chrissy wake up" shit was supremely annoying -- and years ago all the Tiger King stuff everywhere.

Right now what I'm super annoyed with is all the Dahmer stuff and zoomers coming at older millenials for their interests in true crime, among other takes regarding the Netflix series. Films and series based on true crime events are far from something new, and they were far from being exclusively a niche thing. Sure there have been tons of bad, straight to DVD films about Dahmer, Gacy, Manson, etc. over the decades - but there have been plenty of critically acclaimed, widely celebrated films about murderers. Badlands (1974), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and Profundo Carmesi (1997) off the top of my head. Where was this dialogue then?

Then people will say it's so soon since the murders? That shit happened in the '90s - over 30 years ago. In my previous examples - Starkweather committed his murders 18 or so years before Badlands (1974) was released, and Henry Lee Lucas was still in prison when Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) was released.

People literally mention the families, as if signing on Netflix is unavoidable? Surviving family members are at least in their forties or fifties now, if not much older -- they're likely not flipping through TikToks or sitting at home exclusively binging Netflix. I'm 36 and it's my least used streaming service. My parents don't even know how to access most streaming services aside from Prime. Thinking that elderly people love TikTok and Netflix as much as you do is some weird, childish egocentrism type shit.

I just find it insanely annoying that we're at a point where the pool of media available to us is the largest it's ever been. New movies are being made constantly and with lower overheads. It's easier than ever to self release stuff. More and more old pieces of media are being rediscovered and preserved through better methods to rip vinyl and digitalize older films. The internet is at a point where there are more people than ever searching out and discovering lost media.
There is SO much available to us -- why the fuck do people only know or care about what's on Netflix? It's such an odd paradox.

It's the far left's fault for their childish, dichotomous way of looking at things and literally doxing and antagonizing people into creating martyrs. You don't change peoples' minds or help them become better people by only attempting to silence them, embarrass them, or make them lose their livelihoods. You're only going to make them double down on whatever trash they already believe.

I'll admit that tea-partiers were already pretty bad over a decade ago - but the far right has only gotten even more violent.

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Ryuko_Chan posted...

just lol @ you if you think having a competitively viable team is necessary to beat gen 1 holy shit

I didn't say that. The games are easy. All of them are, for the most part.
I just said it's lame how imbalanced it is, and how certain Pokemon with good stats are so drastically underwhelming. Plus the idea before physical/mental split just feels dumb - like they didn't know what they were doing, along with all the other glitches and dumb things in gen 1.

Plus do we need any more Charizjerking-off?

I didn't play the games with mega-evolutions - but I feel like it's a really dumb gimmick. So you're taking up an item slot to boost many -already strong- Pokemon to even stronger limits? Such a stupid idea that creates more imbalance.

I really like Wolfe Glicke's video about the gimmicks and agree that Dynamax makes the most sense of all of them, even though I'm not a fan of any of them.

Ryuko_Chan posted...

no
why would no physical special split make the game unplayable lol
it was a good change but its really not that hard to remember eeveelutions + dragon = special

It makes a huge chunk of Pokemon unusable. Granted I'm sure there's still a lot of homogeneity in competitive play - you can use nearly any Pokemon you want in single-player or casual play post physical-mental split. I'm sorry - but the lack of variety makes the game insanely boring, bland, and predictable. It's so bland it IS unplayable. I enjoy having a variety of viable builds. I don't want to just use psychic Pokemon and/or abuse speed increasing crit rates.
Namely - they did my boy Flareon SUPER dirty in the early games. I know he doesn't have a great physical fire STAB move in later gens - but he can at least use fire fang and have a little bit of coverage with other moves, and can be good enough for a playthrough.

Can we just finally admit that the DS games are the only ones worth playing, and they're some of the best games ever made? But anything before the DS games is unplayable due to being pre-physical/mental split, and anything after the DS games is too easy to be fun? And as much as people LOVE gen 3 the graphics and pixel art are ugly AF and BW is peak Pokemon graphics?

It's tough because SS are so insanely easy and get boring quickly if you're just a casual player and not competitive.

But the fact that RBY is pre-physical/mental split makes it unplayable. Nothing is worse than Pokemon pre-physical/mental split.

It's also the first 5 Pokemon generations but in reverse order, from worst to best.

I started with Black. I think my first shiny was a basculin. Then I think I found a litwick and I think a sewaddle? I also savescummed for a shiny larvesta.
The second game I played was Heart Gold. I found a shiny hoothoot. I think I also found a shiny in the safari zone and it got away and I was pissed. I also savescummed for a shiny ho-oh.
Then I played Pearl and found a shiny machop and a shiny geodude using the Pokeradar.

I think that's all I had before selling all my games.

I'll contribute by saying the internet is basically 50% of whatever is popular on Netflix right now. Literally months ago everything everywhere was "Chrissy wake up," and now everything on Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, etc. is Gen Z telling off Millenials for being into true crime and discovering Jeffrey Dahmer for the first time in their lives.

My lips.
I also have emerald eyes, even if my gf says they're not big enough.
I'm 6'1''.
I grow a beard well.
I have a nice, textbook looking member.

But I have bad teeth and moobs.

Alice in Chains was the most talented, Nirvana is the most influential, Stone Temple Pilots are the most accessible, and Pearl Jam has my personal favorite songs of the bunch.

Lonestar2000 posted...

She sounds like a bitch.

I stand by my opinion that the worst nurse is worse than the worst customer in retail, and nurses generally have just as much push and shove as customers do in retail. Instead of "the customer is always right," it should be "the nurse is always right."

My work situation has progressively gotten worse and worse over the last year. We've struggled a lot with staffing, workers taking time off for pregnancies, workers getting COVID, etc. previously - but around 6 months ago a few my boss got approval to schedule 10 hour shifts and change workers' designations. This was a terrible idea, and we're a 24 hour operation that has alphabet letters assigned to different positions with well defined duties; before you had positions and a relief for two of those positions (for example, E was 5 8 hour shifts, F was 5 8 hour shifts, and E-F relief was the remaining 2 days for each of those positions). The creation of 10 hour shifts meant relief shifts couldn't function the same way; you basically need a relief for each individual position for it to operate on a standardized level. Not only was this not accounted for - but we also had two overnight workers quit shortly before my boss got approval for the 10 hour shifts, my boss was scheduling temp workers for regularly scheduled weekly shifts (which is not their purpose), and many of our workers are other students and had limited availability or are mothers and asked for their hours to shift back an hour or two (which disrupts the workflow).
My boss also tries to be super accommodating to peoples' requests - so basically tons of workers just asked to only work Monday through Thursday. So for example - yesterday we had 5 workers all day and today they'll have 9 workers. We're a hospital - so it's not as though the volume of work is drastically different either, or at least enough to warrant a 2 worker deficit yesterday and a 2 worker surplus today.

It's even more complicated than everything I'm posting here - but basically my boss made all these changes over the last few months that have severely disrupted the workflow, resulted in severe understaffing basically every Thursday through Sunday (sometimes the other days, too), and multiple just trashy looking changes to my department.

I was so happy to have this job. I've been here 5 years and it's my first job that required a degree. I actually felt proud of my work - and now I'm just embarrassed half of the time at work by how many corners everybody cuts. I totally made a poor judgement call on something today that resulted in a risk report, and I also took a deep breath on the phone with a nurse and she went off on me saying, "Are you taking a deep breath because I'm frustrating you? I don't appreciate that" etc. etc. so who knows if I'll have a complaint filed on me for that, too.

I'm so over this and so drained. I can't even go to sleep even though I'm off for a few days.

3 > in da hood > 1 >>>>>>>>>>>> back to da hood > in space > 2 >>>>>> remake

DespondentDeity posted...

I had no clue how much the color actually mattered to men until this year but I definitely feel hashtag blessed

Not a fan of ghost nipples generally. I think the hottest women are Latina women and Indian women -- both of which usually have brown or darker areolas.

A short list, I guess:

• She has a really pretty face. Very cute. Big eyes, big lips.
• She makes a lot of money and I never have to worry about anything financial while I'm with her.
• Even though she's somewhat right of center politically in most instances, she's intelligent enough to talk about serious topics with and understand the faults in most arguments. She's also intelligent enough to not blindly follow political lines, and if I make a good enough argument on something she's willing to acknowledge that and change her opinion.
• She loves cats as much as I do.
• She's a weirdo and pretty antisocial.
• She's drug and alcohol free.
• She has brown areolas

Kombucha posted...

You could state the name of the program you're trying to use so people can help you.

Just the Twitch Studio one.

I'm considering finally biting the bullet and starting to do TikToks with my gf and maybe doing some Pokemon and PC indie title stuff on Twitch. My gf and I are still debating that OF, too.

So my questions are:
1.) I know lots of bigger streamers I follow, like Callum, Pokemon Challenges, Wolfe, etc. stream hacks, fusion games, etc. If I did hacks or randomizers is that something I would need to worry about getting strikes for TOS or sued by Nintendo? Like my intuition tells me that if that many big creators do them - I shouldn't have to worry?
2.) Any suggestions for making layouts for your sites? I looked at different sites that allow you to "customize" layouts and then let you buy them for like $3 -- but everything there feels lame looking. I know in my DTR program when we talked about making educational materials and websites we talked at length about subscribing to open source image sites and whatnot. Is that something I would really need to worry about here, if I used any images while creating my own background? Or am I better off just paying someone on Fivrr or something?
3.) I downloaded one of the programs to stream - but I didn't start/test it out because I've been un-showered and shirtless all day. Is the screen capture software for my pc built into the program already?

Psylocke

I'm not into offal and organ meats, even if I know they're important to the culture. Otherwise I love soul food/African American food. I love, and make good, baked mac and cheese -- and I love hoppin' john, black eyed peas, turnip greens, hushpuppies, fish fried in cornmeal breading, banana pudding, etc.

BigBopper225 posted...

No room for that shit.

There's plenty of room for small people, literally.

Glob posted...

If you had to live in a city in Asia, which would you choose?

I don't know enough about geography to pick a particular city. I can't stand heat. I won't eat insects. I wouldn't want to be somewhere that's heavily xenophobic and where I'd be talked about behind my back. I'm not bilingual so I'd need to be somewhere that I can get by on English. I would say Tokyo or something in Japan (for all the reasons other than the xenophobia) - but I say this already being annoyed with a lack of privacy and crowding. I like being in moderate-sized cities - not huge ones.
I would also like to say my girlfriend is half Indian and I have a coworker who's Hare Krishna and lived in India for a bit -- and from everything I know I probably would never want to live in India. Plus that traffic in the bigger cities there? Ughhh

bigtiggie23 posted...

Would you like an invitation to join No Ma'am?

I love Married With Children - but I'm sure I'd be cancelled and doxxed if I joined that group.

Trumble posted...

What do you think of fart jokes?

I would say I like fart jokes, but lately it's probably a sore subject. I've been really gassy the last few months and my gf is really pissed at me all the time. She made me get Beano and a few other products - but they haven't done much.

Flockaveli posted...

Where do you see this current generation of console gaming going.

No idea. I honestly only have a PC and a Switch - and mostly just play indie games or gacha games on my phone. I haven't even touched my Switch in awhile because I have really bad joy-con drift right now. I was in the middle of playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 last.

I have been noticing tons of Animal Crossing clones lately? That newer Disney game clearly drew influence. That Harvesta game looks to have been influenced slightly - well still obviously being a Squeenix RPG.

samsungsalt posted...

What is the greatest Zelda game, and why is it A Link to the Past?

Also, what is the greatest Metroid game, and why is it Super Metroid?

I've only played the two NES games, Four Swords, and Link to the Past. Of the four games I played I like Link to the Past better than the other three. I refuse to play the N64 games because of the hype, and I was a PS1 fanboy and generally don't like the N64 aesthetic with its games. Plus Zelda fans are like the most obnoxious gaming fans ever. You know that annoying TikToker who does the anime boy videos -- usually duetting with that annoying skinny white girl who and does the anime girl videos? That kind of humor and obnoxiousness is what I associate with Zelda fans.

I've literally never played a single Metroid game - but I love Metroidvanias? I especially love the one Metroidvania on DS where you switch between the two characters? Oh - and SOTN has like the best soundtrack ever next to Tactics Ogre. I really like Monster Sanctuary, too.

Shotgunnova posted...

Do you think chipmunk detectives ever looked down on Chip & Dale for their amateurish bungling of cases?

I don't think I've watched anything with Chip & Dale since Rescue Rangers as a really little kid. I feel like the whole unconventionally doing your job well thing is a huge trope that's usually annoying and contrived, especially with something like House. But I'd like to imagine chipmunks are more lighthearted, like gnomes or cats, and they'd be happy the job is well done and not be sticks in the mud.

Umbreon posted...

Agreed.

Also Little Red Riding Hood. Give it the original ending.

Very loosely based also, but did you ever see The Lure (2015)? It's a Polish musical arthouse horror film based on the Little Mermaid. It's a top pick for 2010s horror films imo.

Sometimes a quality pens is hard to find.

I wish there was an animated film based on the original story and it was just as dark.