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I'm fine with it as long as it acts as a containment bay for all the crazies that are infesting the industry.

The minute it goes Chernobyl like Neogaf or when people bring that elsewhere thinking its normal behavior outside the cult is when it's annoying.
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SageHarpuia posted...

And here, passengers, if you'll look to the left you with see a mario2000 frothing at the mouth and ranting at a wall while throwing out strawmen and rubbing his ego

He's been posting in this style for two decades. I didn't believe it until I checked his karma after someone else with more attentive mentioned it.

...two decades. If I were behaving the exact same way I was back in 2001 when I came here as a teenager, I'd be miserable and angry too.
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I question why some of the people posting here who seem to be so against the gaming community are even here.

You know you can get the hell out. Resetera is elsewhere if you want to shit all over the game community. But if you insist on being antagonistic to people who just want to play games, I'll kindly make your stay here as miserable as possible because I'm not leaving this place.
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What's with this really uncomfortable wedging of 'y'all' into the vernacular online I've been seeing this last year. It really sounds bad. Please stop. It's making the hippo pond sad.

And on topic, I don't because I don't care about Superman. I was just triggered by the y'all
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Demon's Souls and Dark Souls are awful. In the 13 year old edgelord named a cool game way.

Dragon's Dogma is just as bad. It sounds like picking the two coolest sounding words at random out of a thesaurus.

Dark Dragon Demon's Dogma: Shadow of Vengeance. There's an A+ cool title I just shat out.
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Probably not. At some point you get so low that anything with a spine or bones at all is going to get crushed. Question is whether it has been normal looking back for amoebas or spineless creatures to be larger than other stuff like dinosaurs. And it usually doesn't seem to be the case that's how it goes. The jelly and the spineless/boneless stuff seems to always be smaller and more cellular and primitive.
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You would figure by now someone would have at least made a game under this title.

I would assume like a 90s 1v1 fighting game during the SF2/Mortal Kombat ripoff shovelware era.
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

Damn, Michael Dyson is extremely well spoken. Loved his speech at about 5:30 onwards. Peterson looked pretty defeated after that until he stood up for himself about how he came across as a mean, mad, white man.

He speaks like a 14 year old with a high vocabulary who is insecure and showing off.

A lot of his words aren't economized properly to convey a message. When he's on the ropes you can see him retreat into more of his word salad. There was even a point where he tried to use his poetic verse to negate a word over and over and then quickly just move on to another point. Like he had planned that and written it in advance and expected people to do a double, or even triple negation of a word on the spot and then immediately continue following the rest of his sentence without pause. After you reach a certain level of having an intellectual opponent you soon learn to stop doing this because it's absolutely pointless and everyone in the room knows what it is. You also never get any smarter debating this way, which really shows with how poorly Dyson did in that.
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I thought it fit that he did that in the original. This was before Kreese choked him so for a moment you actually saw the real Johnny.

The bitterness had plenty of time to come back afterward in the parking lot when we got to see Kreese respond to Johnny
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

It is kinda dumb if you can't change difficulties once you start. It's normal for me to play a bit on whatever the "normal" equivalent is for a game, then adjust it from there if I feel it's too easy or too hard.
Having to start a new game to do that is dumb.

I've seen this multiple times so far in this topic.

I can't disagree more. If you can flip the risk once you've started the game, you have no rules at all. It's a really bad idea and no game should allow you to do that once you've started the game. Unless they've come at the game from a sandbox perspective where you make your own rules. If a developer designed it, then handing the player the ability to just use a slider to pass different designated parts once the game has become will be abused. And it will make for a really bad experience.
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Dyinglegacy posted...

Is artificial difficulty just giving enemies more HP and making them hit harder, while changing nothing else about them?

Artificial difficulty is just a term people use when they don't have an answer as to why something is hard. It's a pointless term that contributes nothing and the complaint can usually be worded better about something specific.

Everything in a game is artificial, which is the dead giveaway that the term means absolutely nothing.
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Do they have buttholes for eyes?
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Jumpin Jeff Farmer shits all over Motley Cruz
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Some of the Etrian Odyssey games have you go up instead of down. EO2 I think?
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SavenForever posted...

Because it's a part of the game. They weren't created by any modifications.

I've actually wanted to focus on this to tackle the topic of speed running and I was thinking of using the idea of the Ship of Theseus to explain the problem with it.

Taken to its logical conclusion if a player continues to allow exceptions because they are in the code at some point it is transformative into an entirely different game depending on how many holes are in the code. A game that is entirely different from the community that wanted a competitive environment to the original game.
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Yeah this is what I've been saying for years. It's one of the multitude of problems with speed running as a concept. There may be categories for people who don't exploit the code and play the actual game. But it says something about the idea of speedrunning on the whole if those aren't the popular modes of competition. That people would rather compete to not play the game to...be the best at the game?

It just fits I guess with how disjointed the idea of speedrunning is that people would lose focus on the game itself and want to go for the absolute lowest time. Even if that means glitching out parts of the game and if an important boss that actually tests the player's ability at that game happens to be skippable, then so be it. It's a natural outgrowth of speed running as a confused attempt at creating a meta game in a very non-scalable way.

I don't put stock into a player's skill at a game by using speed running as a metric for a reason.
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Complete_Idi0t posted...

Hillary is a terrorist group now?

No I'm addressing this really poorly done Jordan Peterson account.

From the guy who has the balls to associate with antifa and actually try to pass himself off as a voice of reason or moderate in any capacity. I've been seeing that joke account for a few days.
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JordanPeterson posted...

Luckily, we stopped the Anti-Christ, Hillary, from becoming President.

I know you think your joke account is clever. But you are a very poor writer Antifar and its clear as day you can't disassociate your own persnoality enough to create a compelling persona to mock your political opposition. Who is absolutely wiping the floor with your pathetic terrorist group by the way.
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This thread is evidence to me that we are beyond political conversation.

You guys need to put the other side on ignore and just treat this board like you are talking past one another. There is no way to save this.

It sucks a generation has grown up to be this obnoxious, but there's no way to have a discussion board anymore. There's no discussion, period.
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dave_is_slick posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

That's the thing. We don't know the specifics of what was entered into evidence. You're assuming there was other evidence, while I am assuming not to know if there was other evidence.

While the other evidence is an unknown, my corollary absolutely applies where your system of word for word is an abuse of the justice system. It's not treating people equally under the law, period.

My assumption is that the judge wouldn't ask that if there was a sufficient standard of evidence already in place. Your assumption is that the question should never be asked even if there is absolutely no other evidence in place. How do you know the question was unnecessary? What IF there was no sufficient evidence in place? What then? No really answer that. I would agree with you it was unnecessary if there was sufficient evidence in place, but if you were reading my post carefully the problem I have is jumping on the outrage train without taking into consideration it could possibly be the other situation where there's word for word. Would you prefer the judge throw it out and side in favor of the guy rather than ask her that and risk offending her? What's your solution there?

My situation gives the benefit of the doubt to the guy whose job it is to handle these cases. Yours absolutely damns the legal system if your standard is applied to these things. Neither of us are there or have the facts and that's why I say the outrage you've taken part in for 'protecting the wamans' without knowing any of these things is a symptom of a larger problem in society today.

That question has no business being asked and your word vomit doesn't change that.

Extremely compelling argument. Thanks. Since logic isn't your strong point this is the last interaction we'll have.
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That's the thing. We don't know the specifics of what was entered into evidence. You're assuming there was other evidence, while I am assuming not to know if there was other evidence.

While the other evidence is an unknown, my corollary absolutely applies where your system of word for word is an abuse of the justice system. It's not treating people equally under the law, period.

My assumption is that the judge wouldn't ask that if there was a sufficient standard of evidence already in place. Your assumption is that the question should never be asked even if there is absolutely no other evidence in place. How do you know the question was unnecessary? What IF there was no sufficient evidence in place? What then? No really answer that. I would agree with you it was unnecessary if there was sufficient evidence in place, but if you were reading my post carefully the problem I have is jumping on the outrage train without taking into consideration it could possibly be the other situation where there's word for word. Would you prefer the judge throw it out and side in favor of the guy rather than ask her that and risk offending her? What's your solution there?

My situation gives the benefit of the doubt to the guy whose job it is to handle these cases. Yours absolutely damns the legal system if your standard is applied to these things. Neither of us are there or have the facts and that's why I say the outrage you've taken part in for 'protecting the wamans' without knowing any of these things is a symptom of a larger problem in society today.
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scar the 1 posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

I'm not defending him, but I'm wondering why that's such a bad question outside of the bluntly disrespectful way he asked it. Is that not relevant information in rape cases?

It's a weird question to ask regardless. In the general case, why should you require the victim of a crime to have attempted to defend themselves? Would you ask someone who was robbed at gunpoint if they tried to disarm the robber? Asking a question like this shows a complete lack of understanding about the situation the victim was in, and ultimately it's irrelevant because the crime doesn't become less criminal.

As a bonus, look up the term "frozen fright". It's a very common reaction people have when they are raped. Putting any sort of blame on them for reacting like most human beings would is not appropriate.

As a corollary to this, do you think it's sufficient to have a woman's word and only a woman's word when its word against word as enough proof to legally prevent someone from physically being somewhere? Can you not see the implication for abuse of the legal system? I have no idea what other bits of evidence were or where not provided by the lawyer, but this immediate jump to being offended on behalf of women is piledriving society into the ground. This is not as easy a situation as some of the morally outraged people in this thread think it is. There's a reason human sexual activity has been so socially regulated over history, and this is it. It is necessary as a condition if you truly want to be morally outraged to agree with the idea that a woman going to the court and saying absolutely anything at all should be able to bar someone from physically going somewhere. I mean think about stuff before you get outraged, jesus.
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At first glance it doesn't seem like a useful tool for discussion.

But when you realize that not everyone is here for a discussion it actually helps immensely. I think this board would actually be a better place because when there is across the aisle discussions it would automatically turn people who aren't there to have a discussion into one way dead ends of posting.

When someone obviously has a chip on their shoulder and their posting style is so noxious that it nips any kind of dialogue you may want with the other posters, that's a good time to use it. You could essentially aggregate that combative spirit and follow it across time with people who don't use ignore and it's naturally going to influence you over a long period of time and turn you combative. It's not worth the reward of simply allowing anyone who wants to rent your attention and time.

When you cut those posters out it also helps at a subconscious level to be more open minded to other people in the future because you aren't afflicted by their combative and negative posting styles while they scream into the void.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Capn Circus posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Capn Circus posted...

I guess it's pretty easy to get banned on Twitter. What a snowflake of a site.

His jokes weren't really that great.

David Hogg is still an absolute piece of ****, though.

Why?

He's an arrogant, disrespectful brat that has a nasty mouth who is using this opportunity to advance his journalism career while simultaneously attempting to take people's rights away.

Sounds like "waaaahhh" to me tbh

This is why nobody will answer you seriously when you ask 'why' like that.

Because you have no intention of being told why. So my question is the next time you ask 'why' is a response is why anyone should even bother giving you an honest answer.
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JeanAmpteau posted...

Caution999 posted...

Amp loves to lie. I remember the mistake Capn made with the hurricane, but he owned it and admitted it was a mistake.

He just groups all of the people who have ever defended Trump into the same category. Its an us vs them mentality with the guy. Theres really nobody here who is alt right - at least publicly.

Hey look, caution is defending racists. Haven't seen this before!

And what did I lie about? Please elaborate. I said he posted a meme about black people being thugs and it was a hoax. Where is the lie?

Ok whose alt are you? Your posts are seriously grating so I know I have your main on ignore because after one topic I can't really handle any more of your posting style without needing to post this. This site is going to have to either do something about the ignore limit or about people abusing the ability to make alts or automatically nest in every account on someone's usemap into the ignore for that user.
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If Jamefaqs is in danger I'm gonna go hide out on Jimfaqs.
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COVxy posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

You've rallied against him because he challenges all of the pseudoscience and social theory you were indoctrinated into and it threatens your narrative.

No, I've already stated why I don't like him, he peddles jungian psychoanalytic theory and evo psych under the guise of authority. He makes psychology look bad as a discipline.

Right. I know why you don't like him. Your authority means zero on the matter, and people are listening to him so you are spiteful. I would say he makes psychology look good as a discipline...but we both know you have no authority and no one will hear or care about your opinion of him so it's not even worth rebuffing. These JP topics make your blood boil, don't they?
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COVxy posted...

silentwing26x posted...

SK8T3R215 posted...

Seems like he makes SJWs have meltdowns for some reason so that's P funny.

In other words, you've rallied behind someone who peddles pseudoscience because you think he rustles the people you perceive to be your opposition. Very empirical and nonreactive of you.

You've rallied against him because he challenges all of the pseudoscience and social theory you were indoctrinated into and it threatens your narrative. Very empirical and nonreactive of you. I mean just take a nice, good look at the people who have something against him in this very topic and you'll know exactly why. It ain't empirical.
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So that means it only runs on Apple OS? You can't play unless you have iOS?
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It would be nice to know what HQ is rather than just two letters next to each other. Knowing that then maybe.
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Anteaterking posted...

Alkeez posted...

If a guy has a great idea, its a great idea...doesnt matter how f-ed up he is

You think "keep your room clean" is a great idea and not just a trivial thing every parent tells their kid?

It should probably be novel to give him credit for coming up with it.

It's not to be taken literally. It's the idea of ordering the world around you from the place you have most control outward so that when you bump into something else you've taken care of the most familiar territory first. He likes to speak in stories and the idea in story form is that your room is the closest area you spend the most time in and ordering that area and then inductively moving up the environment is the safest social bet for everyone rather than attacking the system for how corrupt it is on a global scale as soon as you turn mad and 18 in college.
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Broseph_Stalin posted...

Alkeez posted...

Can you explain this to me?

The law does not criminalize misgendering a transperson, lies like that become fact on the internet because people want to believe them. It fits the narrative.

And he didn't have an explanation as to why women and men might not be able to work together.

Shows me you don't know a thing about him.

He went over it with a lawyer. It does criminalize it in the form of contempt of court if you continue to refuse 'misgendering a person' as the penalties escalate into court. Part of his argument is that these things are very complex, and people writing the laws don't see this until an innocent person gets caught up in it.
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I love the way the same radical leftists always come into Jordan Peterson topics so mad at how successful he is at calling out what they are doing. It's like they know exactly who they are. How effective he is at calling their BS out and they are getting riled up about it.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

When he's actually talking about psychology he's pretty interesting. I don't really care about his "anti SJW" stuff that alt-righters slurp him for.

The alt right hate him. And he's against them.

Also I lol'ed at the fact the guy with antifa in his name considers Jordan Peterson a charlatan. You think there might be a reason for that there?
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Anteaterking posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

Let by definition implies agency.

Agency is the capacity to act. Not preventing something from happening is not acting.

Why are you trying to be reductionist? Action theory is a nuanced philosophical area. You can even see in law that someone's inaction is found as culpability in some cases but not in others.

Beyond that, it seems like an attempt at a dumb semantic argument, because you seem to be setting yourself up to say that if you let someone have sex with you but you're too young/too drunk/etc. then you aren't "letting" them.

The initial reductionism is the very act of analyzing Trump's sentence and not appealing to broader context. It's not absurd to counter reductionism with reductionism. You are too short sighted to see that apparently. Don't blame someone countering reductionism with...reductionism. Blame the people holding a specific sentence under a microscope.

So yeah, that's 'why I am trying to be reductionist'. It's literally all there is to work on in the context of that conversation because it was turned into reductionism by the people bringing it up back in 2016.
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Bio1590 posted...

GameFAQs: "You can't call someone a nerd, that's flaming"

Also GameFAQs: "It's totally fine that accounts are running around saying that people who 'let' themselves be sexually assaulted are consenting to it"

Because the mods aren't insane. You can re-read my post and see that's not at all what I am saying. Anyone who isn't duplicitous or radicalized can do so easily. Unfortunately you are going to be in for a very, very rude awakening once you leave your little bubble and see what the actual world is like.

I almost feel sorry for you and the rest of the same people with your cult mentality in here that you've been so damaged by your school system that you can actually believe what you are spewing.
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stone posted...

Heineken14 posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

For the sane world, 'they let you' implies consent.

No, it does not.

This.
There are many, many reasons why someone would let you do whatever they want to you that aren't consent. Not even going to list them 'cause you probably couldn't understand anyway, or would try to deflect some more.

No, there's not. Just by the actual language that the word let allows. Let by definition implies agency. It's non-deterministic. By default if you have the power to let something happen, you have the power. It's the exact opposite of causal language. But glad to see you have nothing left to add. Run along to your liberal arts class now, your indoctrination is coming along quite well. You're actually learning less than someone who would literally do nothing except stare at a wall because your basic English skills are atrophying. I'm sure the debt will be nice too.
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Heineken14 posted...

HippopotamusRex posted...

For the sane world, 'they let you' implies consent.

No, it does not.

The sane world actually gives individual human agency to a grown ass adult. So yes it does. You want society to cater to your collective infantile psychosis of women being infants.

The pathetic thing is that they will respect you less than someone telling them the truth. Someone like Donald Trump. Your line of logic takes away their agency and you disgust them more. If they don't have the power or responsibility to be grown ass adults guess they shouldn't vote either then, right?
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stone posted...

Or fear of retribution.

Then they need to grow the hell up. The pathetic thing is this infantilization of grown ass women as children will never, ever get you anywhere with them even though you think you are protecting them.

For the sane world, 'they let you' implies consent.
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Of those listed? I would either pick Martin Luther King Jr. or Einstein.
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deanshow posted...

Enough is enough. Just ban her already. Warning someone this many times is ludicrous if you keep letting them off

This site makes zero sense in this regard. When someone is warned they use an alt and everyone including administration knows it. Thereby negating anything the original punishment was meant to do. Unless the admins enjoy punishing themselves and creating pointless work for themselves by warning/suspending individual accounts and not maps.
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Did this really go the last 50 posts with appeals to dictionaries?

Discourse really is this petty that people want to start shit so much that the last entire page went on a semantic tangent just to win some unrelated argument?

I honestly don't know because I glossed over it its so damn ridiculous at this point with how people act online.
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So question for those who believe you can just not report his name/face.

How do you expect that to be 100% uniform as a journalism tactic so long as people are generally curious about him?

Its never going to happen. At least one place will do it. Going to have to address this issue culturally from another angle because the possibility of everyone not IDing him as a uniform move is 0
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I've been saying they need to put in the ability to turn notifications off for the stupid @ thing since day one.

It's really such a no brainer conclusion. For the life of me I don't know why it hasn't happened yet. The amount of people it annoys was so damn inevitable and it's such an easy fix to just be able to opt out of the notifications.
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I had no idea they ported Earthbound to the GBA. But seeing as we didn't get Mother 3 it's not surprising they didn't bother with Earthbound on the GBA either.
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