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TopicBan social media = millenial version of ban violent games
sparky2658
04/21/23 7:59:36 AM
#16
Social media is literally worse.
TopicNew Netflix documentary about Cleopatra being black
sparky2658
04/15/23 11:31:35 AM
#54
https://youtu.be/u75Sp8QQpgM
TopicFinal (pre-launch) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer drops tomorrow
sparky2658
04/14/23 3:54:20 PM
#110
Blue_Inigo posted...
This reminds me, why weren't the Gerudo guarding Hyrule Castle in OoT? Did they stop following him after he overthrew it?
IIRC they were "loyal" to Ganandorf, but really was only loyal to Nabooru... and I think her Number 2.

Especially given how they completely ditched Ganondorf, and accepted Link as an exception to their woman only hideout.

I think the only gerudo woman truly loyal to Ganondorf was Kotake and Koume. I don't really count the Iron Knuckles the witches forced to serve Ganandorf through some spell.
TopicHow much notice would *you* have to give if you were to quit your job?
sparky2658
04/13/23 1:49:24 PM
#18
I don't have to give any notice at all. I'm an at will employee, and that relationship goes both ways.

That said, I dont hate the people I work with, so I'd give them 2 weeks. If I hated the job, my notice would be whenever the new job starts factoring in my 3 day break.
TopicFinal (pre-launch) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer drops tomorrow
sparky2658
04/13/23 1:36:44 PM
#58
Heartomaton posted...
If my post came across like I didn't want that, that was a mistake. I want that to happen. Things like that are cool, like how they included Spectacle Rock in BotW without actually calling it Spectacle Rock.
It didn't, at least not to me. I was just riding off your hype in agreement.

I love all the nuggets of easter eggs dropped over the map. Makes me want to explore the map even more.
TopicFinal (pre-launch) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer drops tomorrow
sparky2658
04/13/23 1:25:10 PM
#55
Heartomaton posted...
I just know one of those floating islands is going to have the same shape as Skyloft.

Also, here's hoping the game has some kind of bonus in store for people who have Breath of the Wild save files on their Switch already.
I hope it does. I love lore Easter eggs.
TopicFinal (pre-launch) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer drops tomorrow
sparky2658
04/13/23 1:22:39 PM
#54
Gwynevere posted...
I think that's a member of the Zonai, the ones that created all the ruins we see in BotW. I'm also curious about this

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/6/AAVkBcAAEYQM.jpg

Also looks Zonai, but using light magic; a previous incarnation of Zelda, maybe?
Maybe the Picori? IIRC the Minish Cap established they are the ones who gifted Zeldas bloodline light magic.

(Just finished playing Minish Cap, and I know it's like of the first 3 games in the timeline)timeliness.

Maybe the Zonai are evolved Picori. They're in the sky like the Picori used to be as well.
TopicDo you believe in... life after death?
sparky2658
04/13/23 12:56:02 PM
#42
Lost_All_Senses posted...
You're arguing an angle Im not coming from. You're limiting your thinking to only 2 different outcomes. It's sad you have to pretend to have hurt someone's feelings >_>. You don't get your feelings hurt when you have no beliefs.
I didn't say there was only 2 outcomes. I said the onus is on the person claiming there is an outcome to begin with, after death.

Reincarnation, Heaven, Hell, Valhalla, Narnia, 2D Dimensional world, 5D Dimensional world. Your imagination can run wild with whatever explanation you wish to come up with. It's not on everyone else to prove the Soul Society, ruled by the trinity Wonder Woman, Loki and Hylia isn't real all because you need an explanation to where you go after death.

Same applies to those entities existing at all on some supernatural level.

Scientifically the onus is on you to provide a systematic methodology of evidence, to prove it. Scientifically speaking it would be on you to prove the Soul Society is a real place. Scientifically speaking it would be on you to prove Loki, Wonder Woman and Hylia are real entities controlling this life after death place, and any other cosmic power they reign over this place, and the place we call Earth.

Coming back with "we dont know because anything is possible" doesn't make your stance scientific. You have to actually provide a systematic methodology of evidence.
TopicAre you unintelligent if you don't believe in evolution?
sparky2658
04/13/23 12:36:13 PM
#30
Solid_Sonic posted...
I recognize the concept isn't something that can be summarized in a paragraph or even a page so I know there's got to be more than anyone can actually say on the subject without turning it into a sizable discourse.
I don't think discourse is needed to begin with. One doesn't particularly need to know why the earth is not flat on a scientific level to not rum around saying its flat because the idea blows their mind.

Personally I wouldn't sit down a debate such a person more than 5 minutes. I'm not going to get anywhere with someone that far gone from reality.

Like it's okay to not understand something, and to fully admit you don't understand why a phenomenon happens. But unfortunately humans have this knack for making up stories to explain events they lack an explanation for. Many psychologically must have an explanation for a phenomenon or they will create one. Which those types, I just cant give more than 5 minutes of attention to IRL. Online my tolerance is slightly higher because I can tone them out hours or a day, but even then I got to be real bored to entertain it.

It's like my sister who is a hard believer of astrology, and the inconsistent belief system of astrology.
TopicAre you unintelligent if you don't believe in evolution?
sparky2658
04/13/23 12:19:43 PM
#28
Solid_Sonic posted...
I guess I should say that I never really learned how evolution actually functions (I understand how animal adaptations operate but how those become permanent traits of a species over several generations while species without said adaptive changes will gradually die out is somewhat lost on me).

It's not like a species just "decides" to survive better than ones that are "stubborn" and want to stay the same.
Oversimplification version, a few factors such as natural selection, natural tolerance, darwism awards, and birth defect traits that just became permanent as hundreds of years goes on.

Again I'm vastly oversimplifying it.

Take for example lactose intolerance.

TopicAre you unintelligent if you don't believe in evolution?
sparky2658
04/13/23 10:09:06 AM
#21
People can be geniuses in one area of expertise, and complete morons in another.

I will say this, it's dumb to not believe in evolution.

I view those types no different from the types that try to find equivocation in science and believing in religion. The ones that try to claim they are both about faith. Science is not about faith, and people who argue this for me is like talking to a flat earther.
TopicFinal (pre-launch) Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer drops tomorrow
sparky2658
04/13/23 10:07:11 AM
#11
Looks like there's a decent time gap between BotW and TotK. Assuming that was the Gerudo woman from BotW, she looked older.
TopicDo you believe in... life after death?
sparky2658
04/13/23 8:03:07 AM
#35
Lost_All_Senses posted...
That's a cop out. Cause you're not holding your end to the same standard.
It's not a cop out just because it hurts your feelings.

From a scientific perspective the onus is 100% completely on the person claiming Loki, Lucifer, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or any fantastic story you can create is real.

Not the person who doesn't blindly believe you just because you found a group of people who also believes whatever story you have and desire a specific explanation to something humans don't have an explanation for.

It's not on everyone else to make sense of your story, or try to rationalize it being factual because you have faith in it. Just because you think fairies or wonder woman helps guide future and past souls to Narnia, the onus isn't on everyone else to prove your story is nothing more than just that.

It doesn't matter how much you desire to make sense of anything humans scientifically lack explanations for.

Short version, scientifically, if you have a fantastic story you need a systematic methodology of evidence, and its on you to actually provide it. Else it's nothing more than a fantastic story.
TopicDo you believe in... life after death?
sparky2658
04/13/23 12:39:48 AM
#33
Lost_All_Senses posted...
I love how people say there's no proof so it's just nothing after. As if they have proof for their argument >_>. Believing either end is believing without proof. Maybe having proof in either direction would ruin the experience of being human.

People always go to the "God isn't real, so it's just darkness". It could also be God doesn't exist and was just made as a way to manipulate others but there's also some other phenomenon other than just eternal darkness. Why do you guys believe the afterlife is a GameCube game. That's stupid. You look stupid.
From a scientific perspective the onus is on the people believing theres an afterlife to prove there is one. Same to this God of yours existing.

It's not on everyone else to prove a story I can make up on the spot isn't real.
TopicTarget security guard punches Woman who demanded $1,000 in reparations
sparky2658
04/12/23 11:10:41 PM
#14
sparky2658 posted...
He felt threatened because he was backed into a corner. If she didn't, he wouldn't have felt threatened.

TopicTarget security guard punches Woman who demanded $1,000 in reparations
sparky2658
04/12/23 7:53:44 PM
#12
Prismsblade posted...
It kinda bothers me how aggressive many woman are today towards man. Getting confrontational with someone twice your size and strength is generally a bad idea.
If I had to guess, it's from the mentality of men shouldn't hit woman. The type that wants equality, but only when that equality is convenient.

Due to that, certain types of woman get real bold trying to pick fights, but act confused if a man ever hits back.
TopicShe lied about her age and he is now a sex offender(Fair or unfair?)
sparky2658
04/12/23 7:19:10 PM
#81
justaguy3492 posted...
There are people that can't tell the difference between a 14 year old and a 17 year old?
You realize everyone doesn't look the same at 14 right?
TopicDo you generally wish the weather were warmer, by where you live?
sparky2658
04/12/23 7:03:43 PM
#28
Fuck no. It's too hot where I live.
TopicTarget security guard punches Woman who demanded $1,000 in reparations
sparky2658
04/12/23 7:02:38 PM
#9
wanderingshade posted...
I think she would have had a case if she hadn't backed him up into a room.
What case?

He felt threatened because he was backed into a corner. If she didn't, he wouldn't have felt threatened.
TopicShe lied about her age and he is now a sex offender(Fair or unfair?)
sparky2658
04/12/23 1:06:06 PM
#46
famfam posted...
do you believe that someone is responsible for breaking the law even if they didn't know what they were doing was a crime?
Frankly I don't believe the law is benevolent.

I'm of the stance that lying about your age should be a crime as well. Especially given their ages aren't really far apart.

If this was some 40 year old, I'd have a different opinion.
TopicDo you care about your significant others body count?
sparky2658
04/12/23 1:00:32 PM
#6
I wouldn't particularly ask, as I do care.

A number ridiculously high is somewhat of a deal breaker, so her personality would have to be amazing to overcome that.
TopicLolicon "enjoyers"
sparky2658
04/04/23 1:21:22 PM
#37
Nemu posted...
Fictional porn is fictional porn. Gore, kids, digesting people, bodily waste, animals, etc are all the same kind of bleh, but going crazy over it ultimately the same exact argument used in the violence in video game debates.
Found the closet pedo
TopicLolicon "enjoyers"
sparky2658
04/04/23 12:15:06 PM
#15
https://youtu.be/25cC-4agDSI

Skip to 4:20
TopicWaitress angry at only getting a $70 tip from Europeans.
sparky2658
03/22/23 3:13:20 PM
#178
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I don't give a shit you find it customary.

There's literally no difference of the cashier making minimum wage or the waitress making minimum wage. If you want to make the waitress out to be more important and deserving of a tip than the cashier or stocker at a grocery store, that is your business. Not mine.

It remains that it applies to anything I spend $700 on. Not the arbitrary "customary" rules that says one job gets a tip, but the other job likely making less doesn't.
TopicWaitress angry at only getting a $70 tip from Europeans.
sparky2658
03/22/23 3:07:55 PM
#175
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

That means absolutely no such thing.

If I spend $700 on anything that doesn't mean I'm jumping at the chance to gift someone $140. Nor does it mean, "I'm capable."

Even under this scenario which apparently was a group event. If my group resultedin a total of $700, that doesn't all of a sudden mean we are capable of rallying $140 just because you feel the waitress is entitled to this.

Tipping is also once again not something anyone is entitled to, to begin with. An important was brought up earlier that there are in fact other minimum wage jobs out there that don't get tips. The cashier or stocker or janitor at your local grocery store isn't getting tips on those $100+ groceries.
TopicWaitress angry at only getting a $70 tip from Europeans.
sparky2658
03/22/23 2:54:02 PM
#170
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Which isn't a bad tip. The woman is just entitled.

She's entitled to the grand total of nothing.
Topicdamn @ the latest chapter of Boruto *spoilers*
sparky2658
03/19/23 10:48:32 PM
#27
TMOG posted...
It's literally that one Fullbringer from Bleach
To be fair, that's a common plot twist. Body swap variant shenanigans. Some kind of plot where the cast forgets an established character and is replaced by an imposter.

The details can vary a bit, but it's really not a unique thing.

As for Boruto the series, the fact that Naruto and Sasuke was nerfed to the ground to make way for Boruto killed the series for me.

I want to like it because of the OG series, but its a travesty what Kishis assistant did to Naruto and Sasuke. IIRC is back, but the damage has already been done. I'd much rather they have already been dead, or even sealed away chapter 1 then what's happened to them in Boruto.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/19/23 10:31:45 PM
#195
RchHomieQuanChi posted...
While Elon certainly doesn't just have $200,000,000,000 cash on hand, he can still leverage his assets for other purchases or borrow against them.

This argument has always been quite disingenuous.
And get even richer off that leverage and borrowing.

It's why that argument is a terrible defense for the rich and like you said disingenuous.

Although, to be fair the rich have done a tremendous job convincing poor saps to believe in the oxymoron of "I make no income, but can afford to buy almost whatever I want to get even richer." Some poor people have genuinely fallen for the scam that they can be just like the rich too if only they use the system as well. A system not designed for poor people.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/18/23 9:53:32 AM
#181
bigblu89 posted...
Thats the thing. Simply pointing out the system is made to be taken advantage of is technically defending billionaires.
It kinda is.

People are talking about changing the current system, and the common rebuttal here seems to be stating our current system system allows the rich to do what they do which is fuck over the poor.

Who is challenging the current system exists? No one. No one is challenging the system is made to make the rich even more rich, and absolutely does not help the poor. Yet it seems to be the repeated rebuttal to why this shouldn't be discussed at all "because nothing will change on a message board." No one here claimed discussion of it here would change the laws.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/18/23 9:47:51 AM
#180
Questionmarktarius posted...
To be fair, every time I point out that France's wealth taxes have catastrophically backfired every time it's happened, is nominally "defending billionaires".
Could be because pointing that out dodges there were mighty fine details why it failed that had nothing to do with simply the wealth being taxed. For example no law stopped the rich from just leaving or punished them for leaving.

The reason it failed in France wasn't simply because "the rich was taxed."
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/17/23 5:30:15 PM
#161
bigblu89 posted...
That's why I asked.

Funny thing is, the three times I asked, not one has made any sort of claim that they actually do anything other than complain about it online.
I'd argue that's just a bad assumption you made to deflect away from the main discussion. This is a message board.

There's literally no need to tell you ones list of endeavors outside a message board lol.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/17/23 5:20:06 PM
#158
bigblu89 posted...
Because if complaining about it on this board and places like Twitter and Reddit will never change the game.
Because apparently you can't do both of saying something on social media and voting, supporting and pushing for change?

You're on a message board in case you forgot. Nothing suggests both can't and isn't being done by someone posting on a message board about change.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/16/23 3:57:29 PM
#126
Questionmarktarius posted...


Elon doesn't have $200,000,000,000 just laying around in a hoard. He only has assets, which largely exist only on paper, that are arbitrarily "worth" $200 billion.
....that doesn't help the defense for billionaires.

What blows my mind is the brainwashed saps who fall for the argument that "people like Elon doesn't have access to tons of money so he shouldn't be taxed on it."

The argument that hes totally not making all that money, but in the same breath he can make wildly expensive purchases like Twitter, cars, and any other extravagant items he wants...... oh but he's totally not seeing those gains.

People can't claim he's not seeing gains, yet he's able to live a lifestyle that clearly shows he's most definitely seeing gains.

The people that defend the current system falsely think the system is not heavily skewed towards people like Musk. When it most definitely is.
TopicSaving 10k a day since 80,000 B.C. still not as much $ as Elon Musk
sparky2658
03/16/23 12:16:02 PM
#91
Would advise people stop taking Drew seriously.
TopicIn theory, isn't everything a 50/50 chance?
sparky2658
03/15/23 11:42:44 AM
#21
BurmesePenguin posted...
I just explained how you are wrong.
You actually didn't. You oversimplified probability to be a 50/50 thing for all events, when in actuality it's literally not. Especially dynamic events.

It's not a 50/50 chance an event will happen for all events as there's literal factors that skew probability.

It's literally not a simple, "50/50 ThAt I wIlL mEeT pReSiDeNt BiDeN oR I wOnT" within that hour I posted the stipulations. As my circumstances heavily skewed towards that being demonstrably unlikely.

Even as I'm typing this post, again my odds of meeting Biden within the hour is still very close to 0. It's not a 50/50 shot despite the bad oversimplification you are describing.
TopicIn theory, isn't everything a 50/50 chance?
sparky2658
03/15/23 10:38:14 AM
#19
BurmesePenguin posted...
You meet him or you don't

50/50
Except it's not a meet him or you don't type of scenario when it's comes to my probability of meeting him. The odds are literally not in my favor at all.

I'm no where near him, and even if I was I have no pull to even get a face to face with him. My probability of meeting him within that hour was near 0%.

So the idea of all events being a 50/50 shot is just not accurate.
TopicIn theory, isn't everything a 50/50 chance?
sparky2658
03/15/23 9:27:16 AM
#9
Turbam posted...
Either it happens or it doesn't
No.

As life is much more nuanced to just break it down to a 50 50 shot.

For example, I dont have a 50 50 shot of meeting President Biden in the next hour.
TopicRainn Wilson calls out "anti-Christian bias" after *TLoU spoilers*
sparky2658
03/15/23 9:21:51 AM
#75
pegusus123456 posted...
He does have a point, but maybe the Christians should do something about their most vocal members being massive pieces of shit which is what inspires their media portrayals.
He really doesn't.

There are plenty of media that doesn't depict Christianity being bad. Showing this so called love and compassion.

But as usual, if that number is not 100%, the tears flow. The Christian victim complex is strong anytime they are "forced" to look at literally any percentile of media that's not preaching bullshit that Christianity is all sunshine, love, peace and rainbows.
TopicWere you kinda surprised there was no covid surge in the u.s. this
sparky2658
03/13/23 2:08:02 PM
#12
No.

Many are vaccinated and boosted. It's not as dangerous as it was in 2020. Despite the hysteria types acting like we are still living through 2020.

Probability of getting covid is significantly lowered if you are vaccinated and boosted. If vaxxed and boosted, the probability of dying is even lower from covid.

The people mostly still dying from this are unvaccinated, unboosted, and have existing health problems.
TopicImagine being ignorant enough to think Pit Bulls are bad.
sparky2658
03/13/23 9:26:44 AM
#132
Lol to anyone comparing not liking pitbulls to racism.
TopicWhy women HATE when you call them MA'AM
sparky2658
03/12/23 12:34:09 PM
#30
A person with manners? Call the authorities!

In all seriousness, I would not pay those type of people any attention. Some people always need a reason to feel offended. Context be damned, they spend a lot of effort into looking for a new ways to feel attacked.
TopicBaby mauled by family's FIVE pit bulls, father charged
sparky2658
03/11/23 7:32:20 PM
#208
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TopicImagine being ignorant enough to think Pit Bulls are bad.
sparky2658
03/11/23 7:05:58 PM
#70
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/5/AAR5K5AAERKv.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/3/AAYK8WAADg9P.jpg
TopicCNBC: Why You Should Buy Everything With Credit Cards
sparky2658
03/11/23 5:11:40 PM
#48
Doe posted...
The reality is most people are terrible with money management so this is bad advice.
It's not bad advice because people don't act responsible.

There's plenty of things that are good advice, but people can't act responsible enough to use.
Crimson_Corsair posted...
Just use your credit card as though it were a debit. Set up autopay if you don't trust yourself to remember to manually pay off the balance each month. And lol @ minimal gains. I got $595 cash back this cycle and enough miles to pay for a BBQ trip to Texas with the boys for $100.
This.

Treat the thing like a debit card. If all you can afford is to splurge $100, then manage yourself to spend no more than that. If you don't have the impulse control to not go over, it's not the credit cards fault.
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