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She wasn't punished. No one fined or jailed her. She lost her job and endorsement deals. This is because she alienated a part of target audiences. It's business.
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WoodenRook posted...

Paula Dean represented a brand and she didn't say it just once. No one says it and has only said it once. When you smudge a brand the only recourse for the brand is to do better and that means cleaning up the smudge. A brand can't alienate groups of people.

Mmhmm.

Tarring and feathering somebody for something ingornant done in the past they aknowledge is wrong and no longer do nor have done in decades if not longer is totally justice.

She wasnt just fired, the media dragged her image through the mud.

Reminds me if the great leap forward.

Dude, she wasn't arrested or fined. Her job was to entertain. She had a video of her insulting part of her target audience. Only an idiot ignores that and no one of any demographic accepts apologies for things from celebrities.

It's not like she was an accountant who said a racial slur. She was a TV personality. If you want to be a public person, make sure your private life is on the up and up and on lock down. The higher and easier you rise the easier it is to lose all of it.
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Paula Dean represented a brand and she didn't say it just once. No one says it and has only said it once. When you smudge a brand the only recourse for the brand is to do better and that means cleaning up the smudge. A brand can't alienate groups of people.
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Neir was a great game, unfortunately for it, it was also a great year for gamers and other games.
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Better post on GameFaqs.
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Yellow posted...

Oprah has no clue how to run a country and would probably just be an establishment puppet.

Would I take her over Trump? Yes, I wouldn't take her over a third party candidate that put their own blood sweat and tears into improving the country for the working class.

IMO Oprah would make a great president. She has exposed herself everyday to knowledge and experts on a countless range of topics. She is a major humanitarian and she has great values. She cares for people genuinely and is eloquent.

She has many experts available to her and knows them across wide backgrounds. She wouldn't have political history to be true to in a new office. She wouldn't need donations from platforms she doesn't agree with.

She's not a stupid person. She's not impulsive. I may not agree with her on all things, but she'd be a great president.

She probably wouldn't. If "nice person who interacts with people from all walks of lives" made for a great president, Jimmy Carter would be the greatest of them all.

As for intelligence, that's a little hard to verify. I *think* she has either a bachelors or an associates from a state school -- hardly an accomplishment -- and she has a *lot* of people working behind the scenes on her image.

PuddingBoy posted...

Yellow posted...

Oprah has no clue how to run a country and would probably just be an establishment puppet.

Would I take her over Trump? Yes, I wouldn't take her over a third party candidate that put their own blood sweat and tears into improving the country for the working class.

None of the third party candidates do that

Yes, third-party candidates are greatly overrated.

Andromicus posted...

I love that just the mere joke triggered so many folks

I love that you don't seem to know what triggering even is, KBE.

You're right, I guess it was all the privilege Oprah was born into that made her successful and not her intelligence.
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Yellow posted...

Oprah has no clue how to run a country and would probably just be an establishment puppet.

Would I take her over Trump? Yes, I wouldn't take her over a third party candidate that put their own blood sweat and tears into improving the country for the working class.

IMO Oprah would make a great president. She has exposed herself everyday to knowledge and experts on a countless range of topics. She is a major humanitarian and she has great values. She cares for people genuinely and is eloquent.

She has many experts available to her and knows them across wide backgrounds. She wouldn't have political history to be true to in a new office. She wouldn't need donations from platforms she doesn't agree with.

She's not a stupid person. She's not impulsive. I may not agree with her on all things, but she'd be a great president.
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If you don't like the current representative electoral college, vote for someone that agrees with your opinion. If enough people agree and that person makes it their platform issue they could make it more known and a more popular party/candidate may take it up if enough people care.

Do you really think that "The Rent is Too Damn High" person thought they would be elected president? No, they just wanted their platform out there. It failed because not enough people that would benefit from his platform actually vote and there are already rent programs to help people in the US.
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The country would be different if you all had the education to know how to vote.
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You're overthinking it and acting dorky.
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'I didn't think about Walmart. Here they will check if it's not bagged.
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I don't think I've ever been asked for my receipt in any other store unless returning items.
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What a really odd thing to take issue over. Stopping theft and taking an extra line of defense keeps costs down from inventory not being paid for and probably insurance.

There are much better forms of loss prevention than putting the burden on your customers to prove they just bought the things they bought

I live in one of the largest US cities and go to Costco on the regular. I don't think I've ever stood there for more than a minute to get out. Some burden... Also, it gives someone a job. You want these people to lose their job?
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No one said it's not all bad. But there is a big difference between treating someone differently and spewing the same ol' hate you grew up hearing.
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WoodenRook posted...

My older family is racist. Can't pick your family... Anyone that says they distance themselves is probably meaning temporarily or is young and hasn't learned how lonely it is without family.

Supporting them doesn't mean supporting what they say.

disagree. You can be lonely with family and you you don't need family not to be lonely.

Besides, as you grow more mature and independent (as all normal humans should) you will naturally drift apart from your family as neither will actually need the other as much

That's sad to see someone say. I've made great friends, but no one treats you like family.
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There's different levels of racism too. My family says racist shit, but if someone comes over they treat them like kings.
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What a really odd thing to take issue over. Stopping theft and taking an extra line of defense keeps costs down from inventory not being paid for and probably insurance.
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Jen0125 posted...

I'll pass on the friends with neighbors. I don't want them to expect me to do stuff for them. I like to be solitary.

Sounds like you don't like to be solitary.
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My older family is racist. Can't pick your family... Anyone that says they distance themselves is probably meaning temporarily or is young and hasn't learned how lonely it is without family.

Supporting them doesn't mean supporting what they say.
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Make friends with neighbors. Real friends, not like casual hi friends or sex buddies. You'll feel much safer in your home if you're surrounded by people you can just go hang out with on bad nights.
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Took this as just a funny thread. Why are you guys getting so serous? You can be right and still be an asshole.
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argonautweakend posted...

Not right now, no. But when my mom dies I'll likely get over 50K from my dads life insurance(he passed) depending on how much of it my mom spends.

Now I dont mean to sound like im waiting for her to die so I can get money, just stating the facts of the situation.

The only thing this is missing is her address.
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keyblader1985 posted...

I say it guh-ROO-do.

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Between 401k, Equity, stock, and savings I have well over 300k. Liquid, I have 6 months of my net salary and it's just under 50k.

I'm also a programmer and my uncle works for Nintendo.
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So why no Switch titles?
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MacrossSpecial posted...

WoodenRook posted...

MacrossSpecial posted...

I never played the Genesis ones because they looked bad.

LOL So sad.

What is sad about that?

I was like ten when I first heard about the series and by then the go-to rpg was final fantasy, phantasy star was old news and was indeed bad compared to what was available even if it was decidedly good for it's time.

A lot of the people itt probably have the benefit of having viewed the games as case studies in the mid 2000s but me as a kid only having the money to buy one or two games per year, I was not interested in experimenting in the mediocre.

I get that, I guess I read your post as more graphic shaming a Genesis game. Having played every Final Fantasy, I can subjectively say that until FFVI, Phantasy Star 4 easily blew them all out of the water story, graphics, and (For most but there is an exception) gameplay.
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MacrossSpecial posted...

I never played the Genesis ones because they looked bad.

LOL So sad.
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KLOUDrocks posted...

I played Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast. Never touched any of the others...which is interesting considering JRPGs ruled my life for a number of years there.

You can download a emulator and play Phantasy Star 4 for free. It's got a lot of content, but it's fairly simple JRPG by today's standards with some hidden gem things sprinkled in.
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Phantasy Star 1-4. Highly highly recommend Phantasy Star 4 to any JRPG fans that want a easy simple JRPG with a good story and good graphics for some mindless gaming.
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SapphireOfChaos posted...

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They need some sort of pizza cannon, so when the car arrives you just open the door and get out of the way

W
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Is the car going to drive into my living room? I ain't going outside for that.

Yep, they don't understand their core demographic (stoners) if they think that this is an improvement

Gonna wait until there's some robot that looks like Johnny 5 Alive that comes to your door and greets you with "Hello bozos!" before being ok with this.

Pizza Hut is testing the delivery of beer and wine with pizza. Would you go outside to the curb to grab that?
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SapphireOfChaos posted...

So do you have to tip the car?

Good question, no idea, but I'd assume the business would add a fee to pay for gas or bake it into the initial cost.
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Now some of you won't even get that minimal social interaction.
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What country? It doesn't appear to be a problem in the US. Here we have internships where you are learning and gaining experience so you can apply for a job that you may not otherwise be able to. They may also get college credit. There are six strict requirements for unpaid interns in the US.

In Australia, the specific example they give to say it's unlawful is the fact that you have to call in if you're not going to make it. This illustrates that your work isn't supervised.

In order to be legal you have to be under supervision for assessment.
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Back then she would have been the ugly one. They preferred their women more on the dump truck size.
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I just think Microtransactions/ Loot Boxes are a gate to things like EA did where it is pay 2 win, which should be avoided.

I say DLC only is fine. Medium or Large. No less than 1 hour DLC.
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I didn't consider Online Bullying... there are a lot of bullies or "trolls" on these boards. But it's so diluted by just sheer numbers it's much easier to ignore the idiots.
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US Target recently had an online and retail sale of buy 2 Board or Video games and get one free. The only exception was Switch games.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

WoodenRook posted...

I still feel affirmative action is necessary. Until the average black male can be looked at statistically the same based on percentage of the population I feel we should continue to work on it.

The issue here is momentum. You already ackowledged that people are feeling the effects of decades back, so surely the same rings true the other way. If you keep pushing until you reach equal statistics then the momentum of your actions will push it in the other direction, the correctionary force overshoots and we end up with a pendulum.

I worry that affirmative action is keeping treatment unstable instead of letting equality stay its course and naturally resting at an even balance.

I understand your point, but these laws affirmative action are meant to compensate for aren't many generations ago. It was one or two generations ago. So, maybe in time it will no longer be necessary, but you can't say the momentum is so much now that blacks are going to be over awarded.

And I gotta say that it sounds very defensive even to me that you don't want to risk losing any advantage you or I may have. That is telling that we have privilege we at least know about.
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I haven't and haven't seen other bullied either. I've had people try to mug me and act like I did something wrong before they attacked me.

No, I didn't fight them off. I was just able to get out of the situation by recognizing what was going on early enough to leave it.
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Laws that limited the US Black community aren't that old even today in 2017. There were constant creative ways we kept the black community separate even when it wasn't legal to do so. Even now there are higher income neighborhoods where you will find fewer black families.

It may no longer be intentional, but it's a sad result of what our grandparents and even parents allowed to happen if you are a 40ish adult.

All of this to say, on topic, yes, I believe the US black male is punished more in courts unintentionally more often, but also intentionally sometimes.

As a US white male do I have a solution? No, but I'm not going to ignore it. I vote equality at every opportunity and I still feel affirmative action is necessary. Until the average black male can be looked at statistically the same based on percentage of the population I feel we should continue to work on it.

I'm not going to cry and act like they are still persecuted though. For the most part they are committing crimes and there are black people that work hard and are successful with our system. I've seen more racism from blacks than whites personally.
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