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No offense to any of you, as I understand why, but you all really over-rely on the sacrificial hero archetype in your internal-storytelling. We claim to love these heroes, but never want them to have a happy ending. It's not like GotG is afraid of killing major characters, and I genuinely feel some of you get off on death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5MephovnTg

Dab tutorial if you don't know how to dab.

I have one conspiracy, but I feel like I'm checking into the asylum every time I think about it.

Once you start going down the GameFAQs conspiracy rabbit hole, I think that is when all mental sanity is lost. We have seen it quite a few times.

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If it called for it, I assume Batman would start using more heavy-duty stuff. He might not be Iron Man, but he will build a powerful suit if he needs to.

I'll make sure to draw the line at two fillings max.

I am a big believer that thoughts and ideas shouldn't belong to anyone.

Ivynn posted...

I'd also say getting cavities is normal as you age, but iirc, TC is pretty young. >_>

I'm about to turn 25. Dental Hygiene can't be the problem. The rest of my family has gotten plenty of cavities as they aged, but I never had one. Been a few years since I went, though, and I would say the heavy quantities of soda I drank would have more cause than anything.

I'm really worried, though. I hear a lot of Dentists are not to be trusted, that they oversell what you need. Got an appointment for next Thursday, but I feel scared that I'm going to be taken advantage of.

God damn it, saving money is impossible. :'(

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Just a hole in my tooth. It's probably nothing, right?

I shouldn't worry about it, correct?

Paradox was awful

A.I. is going to take over surreal art extremely quickly. The self-limitations we put on ourselves won't be an issue for A.I.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

The memes were funny for one day, rapidly became less and less funny after that, shot back up to funny when it flopped a second time, and then instantly became unfunny again after that.

It was worth being a very unfunny meme after day one solely for that 2nd flop, though. I still internally chuckle at the thought every time.

Tbh, most of you guys won't like it, but I hope the WGA's proposal for A.I. is 100% struck down.

I worked the ol' deedly diddly do dah day down there quite a bit over the years... I think I might have overdone it tbh.

You're delusional if you don't think the first number is a 9.

It's going to probably be 9.4 minimum.

I still think it's kinda disingenuous to lump TLK Remake with animated films considering it's quite clear that's not how the average person perceives that movie, and the fact is, all live-action blockbusters are starting to technically become more "animated" than "real" as time goes on. Avatar 2 might as well be called an animated film.

To me, Frozen II is clearly the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

Gotta catch em all

Honestly, good on her for finding that niche. Can truly say, there are 1000's of bars out there that you can watch your typical stuff, so this is definitely helping those out that want a community for women's sports in-person.

I have enjoyed college softball quite a bit.

Congrats to him.

It does kinda feel like an interim/* championship, though, considering the true best player never actually lost the championship through chess, but through forfeiture.

Good luck to Liren, and good luck to Magnus at breaking the elo threshold he desires, though.

This is a pretty cool pattern. The exponent attached to 2 (let's call it y) will seemingly equal x(the same x as in the problem)*z.

Z is the exponent where 2^z = x. For example, 8^8 = 2^y. What is y? Well y = 8*[log8/log2] or y = 8*3 = 24. In this case, we have x^x = 2^2048. In this case, y = 2048. 2048 = x*z. 2048 = x*[log(x)/log(2)]. In this case, x=256. As you can see, to get 256 from 2^z, z would equal 8. That means 2^(256*8) would be equal to 256^256.

Probably, but now, the YouTube moms and dads (and in some cases, brothers and sisters) are taking the place of old Hollywood in torturing kids.

I imagine it's going to be a while where this is the new status quo. Approval ratings have become heavily politicized.

Holy cow, posts 9-11 are just gone for me. Who tf blocked me?

It's crazy, but I can't think of a "generic version" of something that I necessarily like better. Brand naming is just ingrained into my skull I guess.

I gotta say SMG4.

I'll be reading summaries of certain things that are happening with that channel, and it's a big "WTF?!?"

It's an interesting thing. I would have to imagine boobs are at least seen as "womanly" in that women typically have breasts that are larger (which is a byproduct of their actual purpose being to produce milk for their children). The fact that it is an associated distinctive trait of women surely makes it more likely to be a target of sexualization. Yes, larger breasts don't mean more milk, but still, voluptuous breasts are probably seen as more "womanly."

Of course, I have to agree with the basis of nurture as well. People bring up feet in this thread, and feet help support the argument that breasts are not inherently sexual at all. I have always been a proponent that the feet fetish is as large as it is due to the fact that we cover feet up so much, which has driven a strange fascination with feet. If we lived in a society where feet were open and free, but we all wore gloves over our hands, I strongly believe the hand fetish would be a bigger phenomenon over feet in that scenario.

I believe women's breasts are not inherently sexual, but I do believe they are the likeliest of non-sexual parts to be sexualized over time.

Honestly, this feels like it's the strongest a bracket has been. Usually, I have a pretty good idea of the true favorites, but this year, I feel like there are more potential winners than ever before.

I actually have a very good feeling about Cobalt this time. I think people recognize they are a great bot, but they have looked over to win it all in many conversations. Barring technological struggles, I am going to pick them to win the Giant Nut. Of course, they have a really tough road ahead of them. Even beyond the first round, you have either Sawblaze (who I also feel pretty good about it) or Blip (I don't feel good about any bot facing a flipper tbh), and then the likely Minotaur matchup after that.

I see a few bots that I think have a pretty fair path to the quarterfinals, but I wouldn't say any of them have a clear path to the final four, which is pretty exciting. Surprisingly, Hydra isn't one of the "Elite Eight" Bots to me, purely because Whiplash was able to shut them down really good a couple years back, and I'm hoping with how the last fight went, they'll have more time dedicated to getting the bot tournament ready vs repairs. Not necessarily counting Beta out, but I just know Whiplash is not the #20 seed bot you want to be facing.

Turbam posted...

No they can't because they're not real

Mario is real to me.

I enjoyed the show, but was a little disappointed with the final season and episode. It did tie things together, but I feel saul and adama needed to have one final scene together, and it just didn't happen.

It's also been forever since I watched it, so there is a lot that I have forgotten.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Fucking what

Rosalina > Princess Daisy > Paulina > Princess Peach

Who the HELL is Paulina?

Daisy was kidnapped by a weird alien creep named Tatanga.

Unless we want to include Super Mario Run... but I'm afraid to say Daisy was just as much of a Damsel there as she was in Super Mario Land.

The truth is, Bowser doesn't want to kidnap her because she's just not worth kidnapping. Why go for bronze when you can go for gold (Daisy is not even worth silver).

Turbam posted...

Ummmmmmm
Daisy is literally 100% sass

See, that's what you Daisy fans don't get. Peach has the "it" factor. She can be both her classy self, and throw in that nice blend of sass that carries much more weight than putting it all on the table like Failsy does it. "Aw, did I win?"

Choco posted...

i always wondered what weird fucking reality peach fanboys lived in

i guess it's one where people wish they had... class and sass? ok weirdo

Look, all you got to look at are the sports games.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

plenty of people emulate just because you can get 4k on a pc and not on a switch

and plenty of people do so without ever purchasing the game.

Turbam posted...

Wow, and I was about to invite you to discord too.

Princess Daisy wishes she had the class and sass of Princess Peach.

Mario got one kiss from her and dropped her like last week's garbage.

Peach > Pauline = Rosalina >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daisy.

Metroid is not super successful franchise like Mario that piracy won't really hurt in the long run. It's a series that piracy can easily turn into a "not profitable" venture. People bring up "back-up" copies, but you know full-well that 99.999999% of emulation are not using "back-ups" of the games they purchased.

You want to argue that companies shouldn't prohibit you from emulating games that they no longer give you an accessible way to purchase? Go right on ahead. Metroid Dread is on a console that is highly accessible, and the game itself is also accessible. By encouraging emulation to people, you know full well most don't have the capabilities to do so, and know full well how most people emulate games. This is a bad-faith argument.

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On the internet, people have nothing better to do than to argue. They will pick a side that they know will lead to an argument.

It was straight-up an idiotic move, and they are lucky Nintendo was fine with merely blacklisting them.

In High School, never an "official" crush, but I defo had the hots for several of my teachers.

In College, I had a crush on two of my professors at the same time. I would elaborate, but it was pretty cringe, ngl.

I'm not going to lie, I'm a little sour on Minotaur this year, due to how WD got treated last year by both the team (or I guess more specifically, Daniel), and the crowd. Made me disappointed in the sport.

As for the bracket, I think it's pretty reasonable this year. I have seen the Redditors call foul at some matchups, but I mean, there are many good bots, so some bots are going to face some unlucky circumstances even if they are a good seed. I would probably have ranked Shatter at #32 personally, but that's just me. The only shenanigans I see with the bracket this year is the Endgame vs Tantrum fight, as I personally feel Tantrum should have been ranked in the higher 20's/maybe even 30's, and this seeding felt like a purposely-made match in order to have Endgame face Tantrum.

I think the top 4 seeds were all appropriately seeded based on the performance of the teams this year. Quadrant 4 looks the most competitive to me personally for the Final Four spot (and I guess it should be in theory).

Could shipments be different than sales in this context?

Like, couldn't sales of the DS in Q1 be due to consoles shipped in previous quarters?

Sony Ponies are so desperate, lmao! Meanwhile, software sales are not where Sony would like them to be.

That's not Princess Peach and Princess Daisy.

I have heard of rejection therapy before, lmao.