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Was Kakashi ever actually a hokage? I thought he was expected to take over since Tsunade was comatose but then she woke up. Or did they go back to him later?

This was about when I checked out of Naruto though so idk there's like 200+ chapters left and a whole sequel series I never bothered to get around to.

I'm pretty average height (5'10") so I get away with never really needing to lie about my height.

But why tell the truth when you can lie and say you're real big?

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Conan talks all the time about how he purposefully sabotaged his own show during that time. He'd spin his wedding ring on his desk for long periods of time because he gave the audience the options of watching unentertaining shit like that or pressuring the studios to bring back writers to make quality TV. He also toured at one point and did shows and brought as much if his crew with him as he could. He had an awesome response to these situations.

I feel like Maher will unintentionally do the same thing. He's going to try his very best to make something great "for the audience" but fail. So while his intentions are awful, it's still a win for the writers.

I can see this happening. Don't forget Bill taking credit for ending the strike with this after its over even though he's kind of just making it harder for them.

though from when I used to watch somewhat regularly (though I haven't in years), Bill's comedy segments have always been the worst part of the show, so if he's in charge for more of that, its not gonna be pretty.

I don't know how to respond to releasing a food item that has so much sugar it brings up safety concerns. How is it okay to sell something with 46 TEASPOONS OF SUGAR. 14 DONUTS WORTH OF SUGAR IN THAT ONE COFFEE WTF

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Yes, but generally I try not to support that guy's videos.

What's wrong with this guy? I've never seen him before.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I've read that he's still going be involved in WWE's creative direction on some level but won't have full creative control like he used to.

I doubt he's ever going to permanently retire unless his health is bad enough that he's forced to.

Vince has been in this position for a while. He officially "retired" last spring when his sexual misconduct stuff "leaked", but it was like, 2 months before he was back "consulting".

Though IIRC HHH handles most of the creative stuff now, and there's less throwing the whole show out 20 minutes before it starts with less Vince around.
Simon_Gruber posted...

Did Shane, Steph and/or HHH not want it?

My conspiracy theory is that some combination of Steph/HHH/etc... were the ones that "leaked" Vince's sexual misconduct stuff that caused him to "retire", and so Vince is selling the company purely out of spite. A very "If I can't have it, none of you can" kind of thing.

Also possible Vince things the company going public was a bad idea -e.g., they had to significantly tone down the raunchiness that was present during WWE's peak in the late 90s and early 2000s, and making the whole thing a smaller part of a larger whole gives HHH and Stephanie (and whoever else is taking over) more freedom to make "their" WWE.

So If I want to put my tinfoil hat on, I think its a deliberate act that's either incredibly sympathetic, or incredibly spiteful, but nothing in between.

I don't think WW84 is nearly as terrible as people make it out to be, but its still like, meh at best.

The original WW is just like, actually pretty good on its own.

This guy made a 2 hour YouTube video about how crazy Tekken's lore is:
https://youtu.be/bA49WgGOKp4?si=No0gw87H7tXLapM4

Murphiroth posted...

LMAO this is absolutely incorrect. Just recently you had people throwing fits over the mere option of pronouns in Starfield.

The two legged brain foreclosures who whine about this type of stuff are probably too dumb for BG3 is all.

The accurate answer is that outcries about woke stuff only ever happens when something is popular. Whenever it's not the flavour of the month it'll be dropped because it never really mattered to begin with. Starfield had more hype behind it, so its more profitable to complain about, so its more "woke".

Add to that Baldur's Gate didn't really have a huge amount of hype going into it, at least compared to Starfield. There was some hype for sure, but a lot of that came after release when the game was really good. We might circle back to this in a little while when BG3 comes to Xbox Series X/S, since Starfield kind of overshadowed the PS5 release.

FearlessMango posted...

Conservatives had the chance to drop him during the 2022 midterm elections and didn't

they have a chance to do it now and won't because McCarthy seems insistent on pushing through with an impeachment

they really are going to sink with him

They've been trying to drop him since Jan 6th. The problem is Trump isn't willing to go away, and when you train your audience into being a rabid cult of personality based around one guy, that guy kind of makes the rules.

More than anything, the GOP definitely wants Trump arrested so he can be out of commission and they can put a capable fascist in charge. But Trump doesn't want to go, and all of the demons vaguely shaped like people trying to lead the republicans otherwise don't have any of the skills to actually challenge him.

Humble_Novice posted...

We'll be seeing more of this from foolish conservative voters: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1624c29/parents_who_voted_in_conservatives_upset_that/

Don't worry, when some old idiot who bought a house in the GTA 30 years ago and thinks it makes them savvy businesspeople are upset that they now have to pay 6x to take their kid to the Doctor because the provincial conservatives gutted healthcare, it'll still somehow be Trudeau's fault.

lol no.

Its looking that way because we're far from an election, but the second Pollievre has to start actually campaigning the whole thing is gonna fall apart, and just like the last two elections, its Justin Trudeau competing with basically nothing. Singh is never gonna win anything, and Pollievre is a nutcase.

The same stuff happened after Trudeau's first election, and then again after his second, and now again after his third. He isn't great, but he's miles away the only acceptable answer here and Canadians are fully aware of that.

There has to be way worse stuff going on for Trudeau to actually sink the liberals, given there's nothing to actually compete with them.

wackyteen posted...

I played it on Xbox One originally, at launch, and don't remember (many) crashes inside Boston proper.

It crashed, as much as any Bethesda game can be expected but it didn't stand out in particular

When I was looking it up, there's a theory one of the creation club updates totally ****ed the game up (though it can't just be that, because I've never gone into it), and Bethesda just never bothered to fix it. I'm not the only one who had this experience, but it also didn't seem to exist until a few years ago.

IHeartRadiation posted...

No one put up a mandatory mod list yet.

Full Dialogue Interface
We are the minutemen (If you remotely care about the Minutemen)
Sim Settlements (If you don't care about Settlement building)

A couple not-mandatory but still fun ones to work with

• Cheat terminal
• Start Me Up (skips the longer intro section and you just start)
• Unofficial Patch

I actually played it for the first time basically a month ago.

Overall I thought it was pretty good. Thought that when you finally get to the Institute the whole story kind of starts to fall apart, but eh, it's fine. The gameplay is fun, and its the sort of like, intro-to-rpg level of rpg, but I wanted that so I'd consider that mostly a plus (though there are some things I wish had more of an impact)

Settlement stuff was boring as ****, but aside from like, 1 moment and the Minutemen stuff, its not super tough to just ignore it.

However, it loses huge points because even walking around Boston on my NEXT GEN XBOX SERIES S is basically impossible. I can't get a block around without the entire game crashing, and this should not be acceptable 8 years after the game has come out. On PC it's fine (though there are slowdowns, but it doesn't crash) which makes me think it's somehow just an Xbox issue. This happens without mods, with mods, specifically only with mods specifically intended to make traversing Boston less of a mess, etc...

Anyway, IMO like an 8.5-9/10 game, but because I can barely play it the game crashes down to like a 4/10

I like that the most "patriotic" Americans are the ones clamouring for a rich dude who thinks he's above the common people to be treated like a king and above the law.

That's like, the single most un-american thing ever.

The problem is that's too much effort for most people who are actually going to just use ChatGPT to cheat. If it takes more than zero effort, its not going to happen.

In my experience, I've seen ChatGPT outputs where the person didn't even bother editing out ChatGPT saying "sure, here's [what you asked it to do]"

I enjoy Family Guy, and infinity new episodes would always be fun.

10K isn't a ton of money, but I'd probably take that. There will likely be effectively infinite Family Guy anyways, we just have to wait to about 20-25 episodes a year.

My app is offering me a Cheeseburger + a Junior Chicken for 4.50$. It isn't like, a terrible deal, just not one I'm really gonna care to go out of my way over.

Though probably a Canada thing, because Canada never gets the "good" deals.

You, I guess - Fallout 4
Evil Robot with his trans-temporal monsters - Pokemon Scarlet/Violet

... I don't think I can handle that.

It's actually kind of shocking just how pathetic DeSantis' whole campaign has been.

He was widely considered the front runner to replace Trump since like, two weeks after Trump left office, and from the second we actually had to take that seriously he's just been crashing harder and harder.

Irony posted...

I'm convinced he's only running to make Trump look good to conservatives

I'm like, 60% sure that the entire republican primary is just to flood the whole field with garbage so Trump can run them down and try to recover the momentum he had in 2015.

There's an opportunity for Cap to win by taking a shortcut, but decides not to and be a team player. Wick notices this and knows he kind of just got off with a warning. Eventually Wick wins, but doesn't kill Cap because of the respect Cap showed him earlier. Decide they've got it out of their systems and shake hands with a newfound respect for each other.

Then of course, they team up in order to battle the bad guy who managed to manipulate the whole thing.

Did his dumb twitter show ever continue? I remember that being a big thing when it first dropped, and apparently Fox News was keeping Tucker in check.

Though I don't think I've heard literally anything about him since.

Remember when conservatives had to hide being so outwardly racist?

I almost miss dogwhistles. At least those meant these people knew they couldn't actually get away with saying this stuff out loud.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I checked the wiki and it looks like she did move out for a while (probably lost the house while she was in prison like you said) but eventually moved back to that house and is The Simpsons' neighbor again.

I know there's an episode where Sideshow Bob moves in next door, so I think I just never thought anything happened since.

She shows back up in season 33 apparently. So she leaves the house somewhere between season 4 and season 14, and then moves back in somewhere between season 14 and season 33. I guess might as well have her around some more.

Ruth Powers moves out sometime between the episode where she moves in and like, season 14 or whenever the bodybuilding episode was. Because she's a supporting character in that one and its made really obvious "MY OLD NEIGHBOUR" that she didn't still live there.

Also, Ruth was in prison, so that's probably when she lost the house in the weird mismatch of time-passing-but-not-really of the Simpsons world.

I could see the Switch 2 not being 100% backwards compatible. Nintendo inevitably going with another weird gimmick means that some of the games really dependent on the joy-cons might not be very playable (e.g., the Pokemon Let's Go games, Super Mario Party).

But with how much work Nintendo has done to shove like, old WiiU games onto the Switch for a full-priced game, I could easily see Switch 2 not being backwards compatible so Nintendo can sell you BoTW or Super Mario Odyssey again to you for full price. Heck, Nintendo shoved out a touched-up Wii game in Skyward Sword HD as a full priced game last year and got away with it.

93.49 is such a weird price point. The normal "AAA" price game these days is, as said already, 89.99 or 79.99 if it's not like, the "AAA-est" AAA games. Though since the PS5/XBX came out the latter has been used less and less.

Definitely just a result of the BG3 people not paying attention to what the games actually cost here and just going with the lazy option. Or the malicious option. I imagine if the CDN dollar starts going up, that price isn't going to go down, even if the exchange rate is the excuse being used today.

I remember Bethesda's attempt to bring in mods to consoles through their own service kind of bothered the modding community somehow, though I didn't notice that until well after the fact because I first played Fallout 4 really late. FO4's modding service through the console is really awful tho, but it has like, most of the general ones that are pretty fun.

Though if Bethesda tries that again and lets models to stuff to the console games, it'll probably be worth a buy, even on console.

Either way, I'm not the biggest fan of Bethesda games, so I'm probably not gonna buy it until I can get it on a decent sale.

6 because I haven't gotten a PS5 yet. I have a Series S, so I'm pretty fine as far as next-gen gaming goes, so its mostly gonna depend on which one is on sale when I finally buy one.

I also didn't get a PS4 until after the PS5 had come out, so idk.

Because it doesn't really have anything good on it. All of the good horror movies go to Netflix or Amazon or something, and Shudder can't really compete with it. There are definitely some really good gems there, and a ton of foreign-language stuff you'd probably never have a chance to find anywhere, but there isn't really much to really make you want to watch it.

I am still subscribed to Shudder though, and will probably pay for another year around October anyways.

It's like watching a crappy Shark movie on the SyFy channel. You know exactly what you're getting into with it so its better to just lean in and enjoy the ride.

I wonder how much of an overlap there actually is between the audiences for "An Arbor Day Romance" or "The Velocicopter Rides Again", because I feel like they really chase the same feeling.

I was never good at keeping up with Disenchantment, but I always liked it well enough. Prob gonna finally go out of my way to finish it if its actually ending, I am not currently caught up. By like, a lot.

I've seen a couple of her vids and they were cool, but nothing that really made me go out of my way to watch more.

Apparently she's been a pretty shit person though, so not particularly a fan.

Also, IIRC her whole shit-storm came down on her over something really ****ing stupid. It was something like Legal Eagle doing a similar editing move and so she cried plagiarism or something like that.

Bud I think you need to get offline for a bit.

Gwynevere posted...

What would Johto be? Let's Go Umbreon and Let's Go Espeon?

Pokemon Let's Go Magby, Elekid, and Smoochum. Yes three of them.

Cena is usually one of the better actors in whatever he's in, but he also seems to be pretty careful to not really go too far outside of his comfort zone.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, its how The Rock became as popular a celebrity as he is too since Rock's early movie career was kind of a flop.

I don't really have the like 6-700$ CDN I'd have to spend for it and have a Series S so I'm pretty much fine for most of the next-gen gaming I would be doing anyways.

Will probably buy one way down the line, but I didn't even get a PS4 until after the PS5 had come out so who knows.

Red_XIV posted...

Which itself is still better than the Musk episode. (In the sense that a pile of shit is "better" than an even bigger pile of shit.)

At least the Lady Gaga episode attempted to have like, an episode around being a shameless celebrity puff-piece. Everything in the Musk episode has to fall apart because there's nothing there beyond trying to jerk Elon off.

Also, Lady Gaga at least appears to be a more likeable celebrity, while Musk has spent basically every minute since that Simpsons episode actively tanking that reputation he used to have when nobody paid much attention to him.

lucariopikmin posted...

His real name has been dropped like twice maybe but that's it iirc.

There's even a late tier episode that literally states Skinner is Agnes' child, given it tries to say a major part of their whole dynamic is Skinner's fetus kicking at a bad time during Agnes' pregnancy. But they basically never really go much into Skinner's backstory anymore, probably to avoid this exact issue.

Which missed the really funny twist of "Skinner and his mom's dynamic is over something that literally wasn't even Skinner"

I think if they had actually stuck with it, it would be remembered better. Its a great character change for Skinner and gave a completely different perspective on how he interacts with Bart and his "mother". You don't really need to change anything for his character going forward (besides his name, maybe something not as stupid as Armin Tamzarian) or Agnes, or anyone interacting with him, and he can still stay principal.

But to make such a huge shift in the world of The Simpsons, only to reneg on it by the end of the episode told fans it wasn't really worth trying to get invested in the show anymore. The show normally didn't touch the status quo like that, but when they did it stuck. Milhouse's parents stayed divorced for like 10 years, Apu got married and had children, they mention Homer went to space every now and then. But this one was saying "lol nvm this was stupid anyways".

I think there's only been one episode in the like 25 years since that episode that even mentions Skinners childhood (apparently fetus-Skinner kicks while Agnes is olympic pole vaulting which causes her to lose the medal, and has always bitterly blamed him for it). And honestly, its funnier that Agnes holds so much resentment to Skinner for something that literally wasn't even him.

bigblu89 posted...

One of WWE's current champions is an openly gay woman.

Nomad is a troll who thinks he's a better wrestling fan by shitting on WWE at literally every opportunity. ESPECIALLY if you're talking bad about AEW.

Dark_twisted posted...

Probably smart for a company that largely operates in Florida to stay on the good side of a Governor that will retaliate if you get on his bad side.

Especially when during the lockdown WWE did something to get their staff counted as essential workers back when it was basically exclusive to like actual doctors and nurses.

He's pretty much always been really good.

His last? (you know the one) special was really disappointing because it felt like he wasn't even telling jokes, he was just venting about trans stuff. Like it didn't feel like a standup routine, it felt like he used his big platform to air grievances against the straw man he made up in his head. And it was just... so weird? Easily his worst special.

-Unowninator- posted...

https://youtu.be/n5HRKPw9ssg

https://youtu.be/5Nz39_IAsfM

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Trump has just come out as the clear front runner for the 2024 election. So everyone who's been trying to distance themselves from him will be spending the next year or so getting back in line. This is why they tried so hard to push Ron DeSantis as the next top GOP guy after the last election.

Because these guys don't care about like, making their communities better. They are in it for their own self-interest and will get in line behind whoever is in the lead. It doesn't matter if Trump got people to loudly proclaim their desire to kill Mike Pence on 1/6, Trump is the guy in front so Pence will fall in line behind him.

thronedfire2 posted...

to avoid the discovery phase of a court case

just imagine what his private texts and emails look like

This 100% Blowing a ton of money and publicly looking like a dumb**** his probably better than needing to make his private texts and emails public. There's definitely more crap he's hiding, even relating to stuff like this.

Questionmarktarius posted...

So... you have to cash out your 401k when you're in congress?

Maybe some kind of blind trust while in office? You aren't allowed to have any input on your money as long as you have a spot in office.

That way, you have no incentive to put forward problematic bills or something that would benefit yourself, but also can still do things like save for a retirement or something. Maybe the government could probably guarantee a certain return - which wouldn't be super tough given they print the money.