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Kradek posted...

Stealing from the campaign to pay for OF.

Wow lol.

As opposed to paying for porn stars?

The right really only has one playbook.

"Poor child. The Sith always betray one another."

TMOG posted...

I would also like to see them release ports of the first two games

Seriously where the fuck are they

Literally never coming.

Too bad for the 2 duology.

Good riddance for 1.

Starks posted...

https://twitter.com/MrSantosNY/status/1725200719249047621?s=20

He's big mad

Which "family?" The ones who died in the holocaust, the ones who died of cancer, or the ones that actually existed?

Bug Fables

Based on the series continuity and timeline...

I'd like to request Nanako Dojima as a party member.

Smackems posted...

Where does this happen?

For brand-new-release first party Nintendo games?

Candyland, mostly.

Tom_Joad posted...

It is easy when you have money. It's doable for the average joe.

Pay an immigration lawyer to file your paperwork for you. Then fly out and hire a guide to show you around the places you are interested.

Speak to a realtor to buy a place.

Then hire a moving company to get your stuff from here to there.

Unpack.

And continue to use the immigration lawyers to set up your taxpayer number, public health service registration, in-country bank account, drivers license exchange, etc.

Shit, I did it 2 years ago. IT WASN'T HARD.

And I'm not filthy rich like Tom Holland.

And also leave behind everyone you know and love and start a new life on the other side of the planet. While also continting a career that has now gotten 10x harder, logistically.

That may not be a big deal to you. But it is to most people. And money doesn't fix that. Tom Holland has a life. A family. Zendaya. Zendaya's life and family. It's a lot to ask. And no, the military, who basically hold you at gunpoint and say "move or go to prison" is not an apt comparison. Especially when plenty of military personnel report strains on nearly all their personal relationships as a consequence. But you'll find a LOT of very difficult and painful decisions magically get a lot easier to make when there are life-destroying ultimatums leveled at you.

Tom_Joad posted...

It is, when you've got the cash and the problem.

It is not, for a number of reasons.

1) social activity exists outside of the online space. The guy isn't complaining about instagram followers, he's complaining about paparazzi shoving cameras up his ass.

2) Paparazzi don't care about Madonna or Tom Hanks, and haven't for 20 years. If you seriously think they won't stalk him to France or whatever, you're insane.

3) The celebrities you mentioned have massively slowed down their output. Holland has not. And it's sensible for someone to live where the work is. Which brings us to:

4) He'll have to spend most of his time in Hollywood anyway, since that's where he's literally working. You can't telecommute an acting performance.

and 5) He does, in fact, have family/friends/a life here that most people wouldn't be willing to just throw away to go play hermit in Europe.

Tom_Joad posted...

It's pretty easy to have privacy as a Hollywood star.

Stop using social media (or use a pseudonym), and don't live in Hollywood itself.

Do somethink like what Madonna or Tom Hanks did, move to the EU (Portugal, Greece in their cases, specifically).

And suddenly, nobody give you the time of day.

Ah yes. Just be 30 years removed from the peak of your fame, use a fake name, and leave the country.

A perfectly reasonable, sensible solution.

FortuneCookie posted...

You didn't see yourself as a child when you were 17.

Neither do most 13 year olds. That's why we don't listen to them and use more objective metrics of adulthood.

Contrary to what a bunch of people in this topic seem to believe, getting a bunch of money doesn't magically make hiding away in your house and never going outside again any more appealing to most people.

Like, all the dude wants is to be able to walk from his front door to his car without some no-life paparazzo or stalker fan trying to shove a camera up his ass. It's not that huge or "privileged" an ask.

So exactly like all his other businesses?

Galen Erso.

He's the one who decided to rig the entire station to explode and kill everyone aboard. He could have rigged that reactor shot to just destroy the superweapon or something, had he wanted.

She needed to bring 3 to nine other witches with her, preferably teenagers.

I dont know what she was expecting. There wasn't nearly enough Power of Friendship for this to work. This is like God Killing 101 stuff.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

I think the real question is, do we have another January 6th like event when he loses?

I have no doubt there will be many breakout attempts at whatever prison he's sentenced to.

Speaking of .hack, when I alphabetized my collection, should I file them under "d," "h," or punctuation?

And title that fucks it up when I'm trying to organize/alphabetized them on my shelf. Maybe not the worst titles, but it pisses me off.

Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider come to mind.

If we're just talking straight titles, then Square takes the cake. Triangle Strategy, 358/2 Days... Everyone just wait for Final Fantasy VII Re:Make part 4 Intermediary Interlude - Serendipitous Excellivus - Aerith Aeternal

SuperSaiyanTien posted...

Can I ask why you believe that?

Again, I'm not a Trump fan by any means but look at the data. In 2016, Trump only secured 46.1% of the popular vote and received *almost* 63 million votes. In 2020, Trump got 46.8% of the popular vote but received an extra 11 million votes (74 million total) which is huge when you consider that Obama, a popular president, received millions less votes his second term than his first.

In fact, we've seen previous Republican (unpopular) presidents get a huge jump during times of war I.E. see Bush in 2000 vs. Bush 2004. As messed up as it is, the war in Israel/Palestine might cause a surge of Independents to vote Republican.

I just don't think it's as cut/dry as some would want.

Because:

1) We aren't in a war, which traditionally sees incumbent success due to drawing in BOTH parties to vote for a steady, stable leader in order to project strength,and,

2) Trump is unlike any prior candidate. He has way too much press. There isn't a single person in this country who doesn't know, vividly, who he is and what he's all about. This has two effects. One, it shrinks what could be considered the TRUE "independent" vote; they've LONG since decided whether they're behind Trump or not. And 2) it means that Trump's popularity has a ceiling. I don't think he can grow any bigger than he already has (*ba dum tiss*). Think about it: who honestly is voting for Trump in 2024 who didn't already vote for him in 2020? Yeah, he pulled out 11 million new people thar year, but can he honestly pull that again? Where are they gonna come from? The reality is, Trump's base can only shrink, and while his true cultists are more riled than ever, it's inevitable that everything that's gone down with him from 1/6 onward has shaken off at least SOME of that base; certainly more than they've gotten in fresh recruits.

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Republicans will never, ever turn out to vote in bog enough numbers to elect a man named "Vivek Ramaswamy." Maybe if he changed his name to "Dan Smith," he'd mobilize enough Republicans to be a contender. But a huge chunk of the base will never get behind him, due to... reasons.

Zoomers are gonna be the X factor.

in 2016, hardly any of them could vote. By now, more than half can. They're a massive demographic, almost never get counted in pre-election polling (as they don't engage with the methods the polls use), and they overwhelmingly hate Trump. They've been key in yhe last few democrat upsets, and you can bet your ass they'll show up in droves to squash Trump again.

I feel like I should really like Nausicaa, but I just... don't?

Ive watched it several times and just... bounced right off of it. Always got bored, in a way I don't with any other Miyazaki movie. And I don't know why.

At firelink, you can go back to the undead asylum and access a new chamber. Go there, and get the rusted iron ring. It stops you from being slowed down in water, and makes blighttown much more bearable once you reach the bottom.

Also, hunt down and kill the snipers first, even if it takes suicide runs. They don't respawn, and are by far the worst thing in that area

The sad part is that you all KNOW that Trump will try to abolish presidential term limits if he gets reelected. Like, that's a day 1 agenda item for him, surely.

As a book fan who only watched season 1, I wasn't a fan. The series is supposed to have a light, playful hopefulness to it that the show is completely missing. The series was inspired by Lord of the Rings, and just like that series, while dismal things are on the move, there's a distinct feeling of hope, and a world worth fighting for.

All of that is totally missing in the TV series. It becomes a generic crapsack fantasy world, where everything is dismal and gray, everything is gorey, gruesome, and unnecessarily brutal, and every character comes with angst and a tragic backstory. There's a hell of a lot of decisions with the script that were clearly done "because Game of Thrones did it." And I feel like that fundamentally misses the point of what the series is supposed to be.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Did their Pong consoles have a gimmick?

Being a console WAS a gimmick, back then

Kamala Harris has no prayer of ever winning a presidential bid. No chance in hell.

2 and 3 were made substantially worse by Beckett.

Dude's a total charisma sponge and completely bland as an antagonist. They were trying really hard to make him a "love to hate him" villain, but just don't hit it. Had the movies kept the focus on Davy Jones instead, it would have been way better.

Or, hell, give Beckett role back to Norrington. Would have been way more interesting, with that roller coaster journey of his.

Tmaster148 posted...

Because no one has evidence that the wells have actually been built besides the youtube video making the claim that the wells were built.

Holy shit!

When I said this:

DarkBuster22904 posted...

I dont think they exist at all. He probably just edited them in in post.

I was joking! The absurdist endpoint of your argument!

But no, you actually went there for real!

This has been a great laugh, guys, well done. But I think I'm out, now

Tmaster148 posted...

I haven't seen proof that it is real. So therefore it must be faked.

Why?

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm the one asking for evidence about the wells actually being built and helping the communities they are built in. But since no one has that evidence, I can only assume it's just a fake video for clout.

Basic logic and debate etiquette dictates that if you make the claim, you provide evidence.

You say something happened. It's not on us to prove that whatever you invented didn't happen. Prove that it did.

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm not saying about AOC am I? It's crazy that we can't stick to questioning the actions of MrBeast and must create your own Strawman argument about something else completely.

Why not? Politicians like power, and like publicity. We've seen them do stuff like that before. By your logic, we MUST assume AOC did that.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Are we sure the wells even have water in them and arent just filled with farts? Has anybody checked?

I dont think they exist at all. He probably just edited them in in post.

Tmaster148 posted...

I've seen content creators create fake videos about helping the homeless, when it ends up being their friends dressed up as homeless people. It's not as farfetch as you seem to be that people might fake videos including building wells in Africa for clout.

I'm sorry that I care more about these wells actually helping people rather than it being just being a fake video for money.

Ok. So some people have done that.

Plenty of people do LOTS of terrible things. It doesn't mean everybody necessarily does, or that every scenario in which a person does something is necessarily done in a bad way for a bad reason.

Prove that that happened here. Because now you may ad well be saying that AOC probably instigated an insurrection at the capital and should be impeached and chargedfor it. After all, other politicianshave done it, so why should we give her the benefit of the doubt?

Prove Mr Beast actually did what you say he did, or admit that you cant.

Tmaster148 posted...

Because the logistics of shooting a video about building wells in Africa may have resulted in him passing over areas that actually needed the wells built for the sake of good video footage is different than implying he went murdering people.

You should really chill out, because no matter how much you defend MrBeast he's not suddenly going to show up at your house and be your friend.

Dude, I don't care about Mr Beast. I've never watched a single one of his videos.

That doesn't change the fact you invented a scenario, with no evidence, decided it was probably true, and have used it as "criticism."

If you want to nail him for something, nail him for making poor people dance for our amusement in his weird homemade Squid Game, in a move that completely missed the point of the show it was aping. You don't need to invent weird "well, this might have happened" nonsense to do it.

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm saying that despite good intentions, the areas that wells were built may not have necessarily been the areas that needed wells built. Considering the goal of building the wells was for a video, his actions were publicity first and not results.

But I know it's a crime to dare question a youtuber about their actions and that I should just trust that everything done by youtubers is done out of their kindness of their heart.

Nobody is saying it was purely out of the kindness of his heart.

We're saying that you have no proof that this:

Tmaster148 posted...

the areas that wells were built may not have necessarily been the areas that needed wells built.

happened.

Because you don't

By your logic, I may as well claim he dragged Kenyan officials out of their houses and shot them in order to get clearance to build the wells. After all, rich people only care about publicity, and they were getting in the way, right?

Tmaster148 posted...

Because no one would dare spend money for good publicity. I can't imagine living my life simping for a youtuber.

No one's disputing that he's leveraging it for publicity. He's a CONTENT CREATOR. Publicity is where the money for the operation comes from. Wothout publicity, there ARE no wells.

Andyou're not talking about publicity. You're saying he built wells that that won't help anyone, because he didn't make sure the communities actually needed them.

Prove it.

Tmaster148 posted...

Well if you personally know the data on the well being built in areas of Africa that were in desperate need of a well built and that it solved the water issues in those areas, you could share it.

But as far as I'm concerned, wealthy individuals are often not great at fixing actual needs and many times the optics of solving a "problem" overshadow the fact that nothing was actually fixed.

I dont need to know the data.

YOU'RE the one levying the criticism. So where's the proof that this is what happened? Because "I don't trust rich people to do things right" ain't it. The onis is on YOU to prove this scenario that YOU invented is more than just a random imagining.

You invented a scenario to criticize him for, with no backing evidence, and justified it with am emotional bias. Amd then asked why nobody else is talking about it.

Tmaster148 posted...

It's possible that despite good intentions he built wells in areas that didn't need wells built. It's also possible these wells don't really solve the problem either.

I see no one talking about whether or not the wells built are actually solving a problem when it comes to discourse around this video and I wouldn't put it past any content creator doing good deeds for content to being do so from an optics stand point and not a functional one.

You don't see anybody talking about it because there's no evidence that this is what happened.

Saying "it's possible these wells didn't solve any problems" is criticizing him for an imagined outcome for the sake of inventing a scenario where it's OK to say he did wrong.

Eab1990 posted...

Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of bringing that up was.

The Good Place stating actually no one in the modern era is good because doing something as innocuous as buying flowers is a net negative since those flowers could have been harvested through exploited labor, harmful pesticides, and other factors that are beyond the person's control.

Is that somehow comparable to MrBeast?

I believe he was talking about the "Tahani Problem:"

"I never actually cared about the people I was helping. I was just trying to be popular and stick it to my sister."

havean776 posted...

Because hes not humble about it!!!
-Zikten

Which, ironically, he actually seems to be.

He's not going around talking about how great he is for doing these things. He doesn't brag about it, at least from what I've seen. Seems the only evidence he's not humble is the fact that he's rich and the videos get a lot of views. Funny, that.

Axiom posted...

Go watch The Good Place

Which doesn't answer the question.

Ignoring the fact that The Good Place just completely dismisses utilitarian ethics for completely arbitrary reasons, there is no evidence that Mr Beast's humanitarian work is coming from a place of egocentrism.

He's a content creator, not an oil tycoon. The money that makes these humanitarian stunts possible is driven by the content he creates. It's not some insidious ego trip to feature these stunts in videos in an effort to help fund the next one.

Starks posted...

And where does child Bulma come from?

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman. Takes place some years before DB

I have a near-mint, CiB copy of the original SNES Chrono Trigger. So probably that.