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Turns out the kid and family are racists:
https://twitter.com/Candi_AppleRed1/status/940232279770705920

I don't know why people like Negan so much. This whole arc hasn't really been interesting at all. It's actually quite annoying how Negan always ends up on top again. It's become so depressing. He's not even a good character.

Pow Pow Punishment posted...

Stevia is naturally-derived and usually isn't called an artificial sweetener (of course, it's processed). As for real artificial sweeteners, there's evidence they can harm gut flora, particularly saccharine. There's no evidence they cause cancer and they don't negatively alter insulin levels like sugar does, so they're much less fattening. Some people point out they make you "addicted" and crave more sweets, but sugar does this too, so they're better than sugar.

Ah, good to know. Thanks!

Aren't those artificial sweeteners just as unhealthy?

People are assholes who like to make fun of others for being different.

I actually like meeting people who grew up in rural areas. It's fun introducing them to stuff that are more common in the cities or suburban areas.

wvnative03 posted...

Better than season 8?

Loved every bit of the show up until that last season. Though the finale was good.

Same

Oh fuck I forgot about it! I'll watch it tonight.

The problem is that there's not enough character development for the Batman characters in the DCEU to give that film the emotional weight it needs.

California gets huge fires especially in SoCal because they're living in a desert and the rich there don't want to do controlled burns so we get wildfires.

BignutzisBack posted...

What was she getting harassed about anyway can someone sum it up

She didn't want to do a scene with a male performer who filmed gay porn. She gave a dumb reasoning for it and people attacked her for being homophobic. Thing is, she didn't need a reason to decline working with the male performer. It's her body and her choice with whom she wants to have sex and do porn with.

I loved when Iris said it. Them Olicity fangirls are insane.

Moonknight

Let's spend even more money to drug test these poor people.

Eat More Beef posted...

Vol2tex posted...

Found it:

Amy Jessup is an FBI Special Agent (Junior Agent[1]) who became involved with the Fringe Division after following up on a mysterious crash on the Manhattan streets that she was sent to investigate as the Agent-in-Charge. ("A New Day In The Old Town")

She was last seen reading files from the Fringe division and comparing the events in the bible. ("Night Of Desirable Objects")

So weird that they gave up on the character.

Yeah, that's fucked they would write her out so unceremoniously. I figured the show was better than that.

The actress went on to be in Suits and now she's marrying Prince Harry

nice link

I wish they'd make a Fringe movie or 2-hour special. I miss that show.

Stellas

Anna Torv is awesome. I love her.

Ray Wise

DarthAragorn posted...

He's also a really good actor now. Maybe he was back then, idk, I only watched the first few seasons of Smallville

He was okay, but the writers had the character down and he felt similar to the DCAU GA.

But yeah, he's really good on This Is Us now.

People still using pwn?

Yaridovich posted...

People who think they're being rebellious by paying fines with pennies are just assholes. Nobody except the clerks are being punished and they had nothing to do with your shit. The system doesn't care one fuck or feel any impact from your 'protest'.

That said, this is pretty funny

Sure, but at the same time, just because he's being an asshole, it doesn't mean he deserves to be assaulted.

She needs rehab not prison.

They should've made a spin-off with the Smallville Green Arrow. That guy was more Green Arrow than Arrow.

Darmik posted...

Dragonblade01 posted...

I can't really say that Whedon salvaged Superman in this movie, because even the good Superman scenes just feel out-of-place in the context of this universe's Superman.

I just pretend that this Superman was around between Man of Steel and BvS lol.

Damn Snyder sucks. At the very least Whedon showed that it only takes a few minutes to make Supes into a charming and likeable character. Something Snyder didn't wanna bother with. Total shame.

Snyder wanted to slowly get him to there. Originally Snyder only planned to do a Superman trilogy. People were too impatient and WB got sketched when MoS got mixed reviews so then instead of an MoS sequel, we got BvS and JL.

SSJGrimReaper posted...

Are we ever gonna get the non-butchered Synder version of JL

Nope

Nope

Pan's Labyrinth

Fishy posted...

It's pointless to invest in BTC at this point, you've missed the massive gains.

This is only the beginning. When it becomes more popular and big retails start to accept it, then the massive gains will come.

smoliske posted...

you act like the average CE user has 10,000 to drop on a single bitcoin

You don't have to buy 1 whole coin.

does the iphone have removable battery?

No, because even during the race people were calling her out for institutionalized racism.

LOL who does this

traditionally there's no sesame oil, sesame oil flavor is too strong, and oil doesn't penetrate meats/poultry so there's no point in having it in the marinade.

transcript of discussion with devs on discord:

Player : @MichaelMayhem one thing i've NEVER been able to fathom, if the end goal was to get parity between the PC and Console, WHY did the console release so vastly different? Especiaally in regards to items and crafting

MM : oh man....
hold on a sec

Winterthur : I just don't think we paid enough attention to what was being changed witrh crafting overall to say no?
Items were changed through due to changes in Powers/ect and @MichaelMayhem is about to cover that.

MM : @Maggot it was intended to be the other way around. Console parity into PC.
It just took a looooot longer to get there than what was planned.
and there's reasons for that...
why the hell not.

Winterthur : Sure. Well, here it comes folks.

MM : i dont know if i caaaan
so... when you build a 'new' game with an existing one below it with 3+ years of players, everything's a lot harder to build. You have to take into consideration what every single action you do is going to affect a player's Live accounts. What happens if you change this item, delete this power, delete this item, delete this entire map/story mission
And... something happened... that made us kinda not care about that for awhile.
So we started taking an axe to things. And then we needed to undo all that, and that turned out to be a nightmare.

player : what happens if you just delete the whole game
sorry too soon

Winterthur : Funny story @Dude85632
Basically people were kind of wrong about the PC contract and it had already expired. We were renegotiating it while creating the console version and basically this axe almost came to PC about 6 months ago
So when we thought for sure we were going to be closingn the PC version
we started to blow up those systems to improve them for console
We were about 3 days from informing you guys about the wind down on PC when it was renewed

MM : it was a sudden "it's saaaaved!", and while most of the office was celebrating... I knew what damage we'd done. I knew there was no going back.

Winterthur : and when we got the news internally we basically went
"Well Trash Panda! . This puts a new wrinkle in everything we just blew up"

MichaelMayhem : that's why it took so long for the PC to get the console's changes. We had to work backwards to make it actually work

MissNoodle : I love that we can finally tell all y'all what went down

Winterthur : Well, when we thought PC was dead
We stopped asking "but what about the pc people with these items ect"
since that question stopped existing
and in turn we blew Trash Panda! up trying to make it better
Every time we wanted to change something we had to think about what you guys had previously earned before that

Your powers are manipulating metal, transforming into a gaseous form, and creating copies of yourself.

Fuck yeah, I'll just make my copies get a job and make me money. I'll use my gaseous form to travel the world. Not sure what to do with metal manipulation but maybe use it to fix my car xD

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tennisdude818 posted...

CommonStar posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

CommonStar posted...

Also turns out that DVD knew they lost their license a month ago, and continued to have microtransactions in game operable.

Please tell me DVD has been blacklisted from all work ever

He's a rich dude and a CEO, he'll come out unscathed. This isn't the first company he's ruined. Lots of people in the industry knew of his misconduct in the past, but the board never cared because he was also an investor and a board member.

This guy is a complete scumbag. They did a stream a few months back and he threatened a newly hired community manager that he'd lose his job if he wasn't satisfied. He also boasted about how proud he was of the decisions he made and that he'd defend it all. He then promised a Q&A stream with the community, but then backed out last minute. About the same time, the allegations got more awareness from the community. He's such a coward.

If you google his full name you will find a blog post from the supposed mother of his children. If that post is the truth, the man is too stupid/weak to save money and blows all of it on his vices.

It's amazing that he was allowed to be CEO.

I mean...legally changing his name to David Von Dorman already tells you what a douche he is.

ChromaticAngel posted...

CommonStar posted...

This isn't a Disney issue.

Hilarious.

>EA cancels Dead Space franchise

"EA is bad"

>Disney cancels Marvel Heroes

"This isn't Disney's fault."

As if Disney doesn't also have a huge track record of doing horrible shit with their video games.

>Cancels Disney Infinity for no reason. Cancels NFC figures but doesn't make the latest batch of playsets available digitally
>Pulled Deadpool from digital markets a couple years ago, does it again just recently
>Blocked X-Men and Fantastic 4 characters from MvCI, MvCI nothing but brand management for MCU
>Shut down all LucasArts immediately upon acquisition from George Lucas
>Canceled Star Wars 1313, gives it to EA who cancels it again because thank you sir may I have another

all this in just the past couple of years.

I am only talking about this specific situation. I'm not talking about all the other shit Disney has pulled. I've played this game for over 5 years and have talked to a lot of former and 'current' devs from Gazillion. This game was being mismanaged by the current CEO and the upper management which ultimately lead to its downfall. After David Brevik left, Gazillion started to disenfranchise their entire community and only made changes the company seemed fit even when players warned them against it. They made so many bad changes that it was hard to recover so they started using their resources to port to console. They lacked the resources to fix any of the problems the game had on both platforms while not having the adequate staff to maintain it.

Go and be her buffer. Who cares about the sister. You're overthinking this.

ChromaticAngel posted...

CommonStar posted...

Also turns out that DVD knew they lost their license a month ago, and continued to have microtransactions in game operable.

Purchases were turned off. The only MTs going on are the in game money.

Yes, purchases were turned off only last week. But the license was actually revoked a month prior.

FluttershyPony posted...

>disney
>capeshit

never trust either, marvel heroes looked worse than that ps2 diablo clone to begin with so I don't know how anyone could be assed to play it considered it had only 1/100th the customization and gameplay.

This isn't a Disney issue. They are only protecting their brand. This is Gazillion fucking up and mismanaging the game.

SGT_Conti posted...

CommonStar posted...

Also turns out that DVD knew they lost their license a month ago, and continued to have microtransactions in game operable.

Please tell me DVD has been blacklisted from all work ever

He's a rich dude and a CEO, he'll come out unscathed. This isn't the first company he's ruined. Lots of people in the industry knew of his misconduct in the past, but the board never cared because he was also an investor and a board member.

This guy is a complete scumbag. They did a stream a few months back and he threatened a newly hired community manager that he'd lose his job if he wasn't satisfied. He also boasted about how proud he was of the decisions he made and that he'd defend it all. He then promised a Q&A stream with the community, but then backed out last minute. About the same time, the allegations got more awareness from the community. He's such a coward.

Oh and they also lose their medical insurance effective immediately on Friday.

NeonOctopus posted...

lol

So what's the backstory with this game? >_> I don't know much about it

Game launched back in 2013 and was in a shitty state. Gazillion CEO, David Brevik (Co-Creator of Diablo), then hires Jeff Donais to help fix the game. They begin to listen and work with their community and was able to successfully turn the ship around. For two years they would patch every single week and as a result, the game became quite good. Unfortunately later down the line, while they were player focused, they lacked the business to make the game profitable.

Gazillion's board decides to bring in a new CEO, Dave Von Dorman, and they wanted David Brevik to work together. However David Brevik and a good chunk of the team left because of what they've heard/experience about DVD. David Brevik, also left because he was tired of being CEO and wanted to go back to being a programmer. Anyway, DVD is a mega creep and has a lot of allegations with sexual misconduct. He comes in and decides to make major changes to the game that were obviously done to grab money. The company stopped listening to the very community that helped make them in the first place. He also decides to gamble their resources and port the game to console when the PC version was in a bad state. Company lacks the staff to maintain both platforms.

Now recently Disney/Marvel was made aware of DVD's allegations and they decided to cut ties and revoke the license. Mind you, Gazillion had the license before Disney bought out Marvel.

DVD is also an investor in Gazillion and has lost a lot of money due to his poor decisions as well as upper management's. Last week they announced they are shutting down in Dec 31st. But now they announced they are shutting down on Friday. They are not paying out accrued PTO and severances to their employees, and they are only giving their employees till Friday to clear out their desk. Most of the employees are out of state for the holidays.

Also turns out that DVD knew they lost their license a month ago, and continued to have microtransactions in game operable.

Didn't feel liked he earned it.

Jordan Chariton was fired for sexual misconduct based on a HuffPost article that accused him. He brought it to TYT's attention and asked them to do a third party investigation as he has warned them prior to that, that a group was targetting to ruin his career. Less than 48 hours later, he was fired immediately.

HuffPost has since removed the articles stating the articles had false information and they were unable to fact check nor stand behind the original reporting.

Now he is sueing TYT and The Intercept.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/22/jordan-chariton-young-turks-lawsuit-firing-259363

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