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| Topic | Anti-Virus Founder and Libertarian John MCAFEE carries a GUN during SEX!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 11:51:50 PM #2 | Maybe fewer people would want him dead if his antivirus product were easier to uninstall. It's no Norton in that regard, but it's still awfully pushy. |
| Topic | How should The Big Bang Theory end? |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 11:44:44 PM #9 | With a bang, obviously. |
| Topic | 10 y/o North Carolina Kid is PUNISHED cause he kept calling his Teacher MA'AM!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 11:38:44 PM #38 | wwinterj25 posted... _AdjI_ posted...If she's somebody you see on a regular basis, and you let her know that you're not a fan of being called "love"? Yes, it is disrespectful for her to disregard your feelings on the matter and keep doing so. Good intentions don't mean a thing if you ignore how your audience feels about what you're doing. Nah, your sarcasm was pretty transparent, and demonstrated once again that you just don't get it. The scenario you sarcastically presented is in no way analogous to the one at hand. I amended it to be analogous, demonstrating that you did not have a valid counterpoint. |
| Topic | Who do you think is damaged the most after a break-up? The man or the woman? |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 10:34:53 PM #56 | GreenKnight127 posted... Nobody has really given any substantial reasoning behind their thinking yet. Do people need to give substantial reasoning for "the nature of the relationship matters more than gender"? That's pretty obvious. Trying to describe it in terms of gender is misunderstanding the nature of relationships and emotional health. |
| Topic | Who do you think is damaged the most after a break-up? The man or the woman? |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 5:33:13 PM #25 | Moonjay posted... Somehow I knew this would come down to waaaaah women are more desirable. Complete with ignoring everyone that doesn't agree with him, and a nice little essay pre-typed that he posted as soon as the poll results went his way. The red pill is strong in this topic. |
| Topic | Honestly, I'm so tired of hearing, reading about, and watching anything Trump. |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 4:52:58 PM #4 | Zeus posted... which they're trying to flimsily claim Ah yes, such flimsy claims. When did the justice system descend to have such low standards as guilty verdicts and pleas? |
| Topic | 10 y/o North Carolina Kid is PUNISHED cause he kept calling his Teacher MA'AM!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 4:50:09 PM #32 | wwinterj25 posted... _AdjI_ posted...Respectful is calling people what they want to be called, not adhering rigidly to a name that the person doesn't want because it's arbitrarily been deemed the most polite. If she's somebody you see on a regular basis, and you let her know that you're not a fan of being called "love"? Yes, it is disrespectful for her to disregard your feelings on the matter and keep doing so. Good intentions don't mean a thing if you ignore how your audience feels about what you're doing. SunWuKung420 posted... @adjl calling a woman who is older than you "ma'am" is already a sign of respect. Irrelevant. Cultural norms like that will give you a baseline to work from, but treating people respectfully entails taking their individual preferences into account. |
| Topic | Who do you think is damaged the most after a break-up? The man or the woman? |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 4:32:02 PM #16 | TheCyborgNinja posted... Jen0125 posted...MICHALECOLE posted...green dragon posted...It depends. Anyone who says it's one way or the other needs to get out more, tbh |
| Topic | 10 y/o North Carolina Kid is PUNISHED cause he kept calling his Teacher MA'AM!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 10:05:57 AM #26 | LinkPizza posted... They said he was suffering from memory loss, right? Because of the seizure... Because Duckbear, I really don't know. It's not clear whether those symptoms are persisting or not. Keebs05 posted... A child is raised to be respectful and is punished for it. Respectful is calling people what they want to be called, not adhering rigidly to a name that the person doesn't want because it's arbitrarily been deemed the most polite. It's good to have a baseline that most people can be expected to be fine with, and to consistently make an effort to follow it, but if somebody doesn't like being called "ma'am," calling her that stops being respectful. |
| Topic | 21 y/o NAZI Kid blames his AUTISM and BLUE EYES for Murdering a GAY KID!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/25/18 9:59:39 AM #22 | Hop103 posted... It's too late for that Based on what? The concept of being "too far gone" for rehabilitation to be possible is thrown around a lot, but nobody ever seems to have a concrete basis for drawing such a line. Kyuubi4269 posted... mrduckbear posted...under California law, death penalty can only be sought if the murder was because of race, religion or nationality. In a way, yeah. Murder somebody because they piss you off? Obviously that's bad, and not the sort of person people want roaming the streets, but it's a relatively narrow focus in terms of potential targets. Murder somebody because they're a certain race? That means that everyone of that race is a potential target, and the only thing standing between that attitude and a successful genocide is a lack of opportunity. It also means that the murder can be seen as a form of terrorist threat, which I know you're okay with punishing harshly. Now, I personally disagree with the death penalty in pretty much any circumstance where it isn't absolutely necessary (such as a credible escape risk for a particularly terrible criminal), so I still don't agree with that policy, but I can understand the logic. |
| Topic | Critics blast Trump for endorsing white-nationalist S. Africa conspiracy theory |
| _AdjI_ 08/24/18 4:39:48 PM #18 | GreenKnight127 posted... Children who had NOTHING TO DO with the racist and oppressive land-grabbing their ancestors committed. But on the flip side, there are a whole lot of black people in South Africa who have very little because their grandparents had very little because of Apartheid. They're already suffering because of the actions of people who weren't even their ancestors. Is it right to protest this redistribution as being it a punishment for their ancestors' actions while also turning a blind eye to people whose lives already suck without even that justification? This is why reparations are a tricky ethical point: both the harms and benefits of the past's gross inequalities are felt by people today, and the only way to alleviate those harms is to take away the benefits from people who did nothing but be born into the right family to be reaping them. |
| Topic | Who has actually opened a game console, and why? |
| _AdjI_ 08/24/18 11:10:49 AM #6 | A NES to replace the cartridge port. Although it was my dad that did most of that because I was like 10. That's the only one I can think of. |
| Topic | Texas ELEMENTARY School Removes a HORRIFIC MESSAGE!! Is it SEXIST??? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 10:58:50 PM #36 | TaKun782 posted... adjl posted...Kyuubi4269 posted...Fucking stupid people. And therein lies the key difference between justifiable self defense and pointless retaliation. |
| Topic | Texas ELEMENTARY School Removes a HORRIFIC MESSAGE!! Is it SEXIST??? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 10:57:26 PM #35 | Kyuubi4269 posted... It reminds women that they have control over men's conduct that men do not have over women I take it you've never actually talked to a woman before if you think being polite and decent can't encourage her to do the same. Kyuubi4269 posted... My view actually looks a step in to the future, what does yours do? It's an ideology, it's not a working practice. Your general philosophy is "they won't hurt you if they're afraid of you." That's all well and good, provided you can accurately predict and control that fear. A far more effective approach is "they won't hurt you if they can't hurt you," because then you can guarantee that control (and, by extension, you don't have to do anything if they can't hurt you). Disabling your attacker will much more reliably protect you than trying to intimidate them will. Kyuubi4269 posted... A stubbed toe is self-inlicted, And could have been prevented if the object in question didn't exist. Why not take such steps to prevent such a grave threat to your personal safety? Kyuubi4269 posted... 1 is the denominator, they are equal, 100N and 300N are the numerators. The outcome is different as they apply different amounts, but they both supply a single blow. Strike 1 is worth 100, strike 2 is worth 300. You really are bad at math. 100N is the numerator in the expression I gave, but not in the calculation of the percentage in the first place (which is what I mentioned denominators in reference to). A 100N punch when one can exert a maximum of 100N is a 100% punch. A 100N punch when one can exert a maximum of 300N is a 33% punch. 100N=100N, ergo, 100%=33% if you account for the difference in denominators (maximum strength). Simple math. Unequal punches are not equal. Kyuubi4269 posted... You have failed to display why a human would be wrong to deliver a tried and true methodology of establishing dominance to suppress aggressors. Because being intelligent allows for more nuanced risk assessment and negotiations, thereby expending less total effort, minimizing total injury, and maximizing total productivity. Pointless violence doesn't help anyone. |
| Topic | why is microsoft edge so ASS |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 3:24:41 PM #16 | Now, IE is also ass, but alas, some web forms just work better in it. For those forms in particular, IE should be better than Edge, at least. |
| Topic | #MeToo leader paid off a 17 year old boy she sexually assaulted. |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 3:21:18 PM #25 | BADoglick posted... I'll take 3rd wave feminists seriously when they seek to remove discriminatory insurance practices against men and to abolish military draft requirements for males only. That doesn't sound like feminists' job. That'd be an entirely separate campaign. If you want that to happen, maybe you should start it yourself. |
| Topic | You know how you're watching a streamer? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:23:35 PM #7 | I occasionally get confused that their cursor is mine, but I can't say I ever try to overlap cursors with them. That's weird. |
| Topic | The ultimate battle of love and Pixar movies round one battle one!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:22:20 PM #10 | GanonsSpirit posted... Calling it now, the final round is going to be Toy Story (or maybe Toy Story 3) vs The Incredibles. Depending on how the bracket works out, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it ends up being Toy Story vs. Toy Story 3. While I don't expect it to do well, I very highly recommend that everyone watches Coco before it shows up in the bracket (or just whenever). That was a great movie that very much flew under the radar when it came out and didn't get nearly enough recognition. |
| Topic | Are there any "unresolved" parts of games that bugged you? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:15:58 PM #26 | Garlands_Soul posted... In all 3 of the Golden Sun games, I don't think you fight Alex at all. He's supposed to be the main antagonist! (Spoilers for all three) Speaking of which, though, the lack of a GS4 bugs me. Dark Dawn wasn't the best, by any means, but I really would have liked to see that story resolved. Alas, no such luck. |
| Topic | why is microsoft edge so ASS |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:11:01 PM #14 | IE's there on my copy of Windows 10. I took the free upgrade from 8, so it might have been a relic from that, but I've since replaced the hard drive and done a clean install of 10, so I don't think that's the case. |
| Topic | This 25 y/o Girl says she has GREAT SEX with her 59 y/o HUSBAND!! Is She Hot??? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:06:57 PM #9 | Weird, but they're consenting adults. I'm not going to judge them for that. |
| Topic | Texas ELEMENTARY School Removes a HORRIFIC MESSAGE!! Is it SEXIST??? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 2:04:38 PM #24 | Kyuubi4269 posted... You can get a better result by directly addressing issues than crying about the general situation. But it's not trying to directly address issues. It's a slogan on the wall of an elementary school that reminds them to be nice to each other. Or, as it stands, reminds women that they're responsible for getting men to be nice to them. Kyuubi4269 posted... You know what neutralises a threat? Demonstrating how much they will lose by fighting. You have a terribly myopic understanding of self-defense. Kyuubi4269 posted... All harm is a legitimate threat It really isn't. Do you take a chainsaw to your bed every time you stub your toe? Kyuubi4269 posted... not responding is inviting further/heavier harm of undetermined value. If you have no capacity for extrapolative thinking, sure. For intelligent species, though, it's usually possible to make some reasonable guesses about how much harm will arise as a consequence of various courses of action, including choosing to do nothing or saying "dude, **** off" (intelligent species having language and all). Kyuubi4269 posted... A 100% punch for a 100% punch is an equal response Only if the denominator is the same. 100%*100N=/=100%*300N. Now you're being bad at math AND logic. Kyuubi4269 posted... Do you f*** with a lion? Does it need to fight you to keep peace between you and it? Point made. Except that we're talking about the conduct of the retaliator, not the instigator. Everyone agrees that the person who starts hitting people shouldn't do that. The question is how the victim/"victim" responds. You're citing a sub-sentient apex predator's response as though it justifies disproportionate violence from an intelligent human, which is really not making a case for disproportionate violence being a reasonable, intelligent response. |
| Topic | why is microsoft edge so ASS |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 1:47:40 PM #12 | You have to actually work to not have IE. It should be under "Windows Accessories" in the start menu. |
| Topic | why is microsoft edge so ASS |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 1:24:59 PM #8 | Nomak-54 posted... according to it, internet explore "works best" for it Then why aren't you using Internet Explorer for it? Edge=/=IE. |
| Topic | Baby names thread: What do you guys think of my future daughter's name? |
| _AdjI_ 08/20/18 1:21:37 PM #31 | Given your prior conduct, I think it's probably best if you don't have a daughter, regardless of what absurd names you've come up with for her. |
| Topic | Can someone with a Switch confirm that Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate can be bought? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 7:46:49 PM #11 | green dragon posted... you just have to change your swit h region to Japanese Is it really that simple? That'd be pretty great, if so. You still need to be able to read enough Japanese to navigate the store, of course, but that's hardly the end of the world. |
| Topic | Have anyone used Gamivo to buy Steam Keys? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 4:57:08 PM #6 | KOTOR cost me $2.50 in a Steam sale like eight years ago (... and I still haven't played it >.>), so you shouldn't really need to hunt for a cheaper option than that. |
| Topic | Why intelligent people are less likely to have sex |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 4:52:05 PM #39 | Dikitain posted... _AdjI_ posted...That's a rather misleading headline. The statistic in question seems to be the number of different sexual partners the people have had, not the amount of sex they have, which are very different concepts. Furthermore, the whole "smart people spend more time studying and less time sexing" thing ceases to be at all applicable past university, since being more intelligent decreases the average number of hours needed to work in order to survive. It does indeed sound to me like a bunch of "experts" trying to explain why they aren't getting any and refusing to accept the actual answer of "because you aren't doing anything to attract women." It's certainly an option, but it stops being a necessity. You might not get promotions if you don't do your homework, but at least you'll be able to eat. That's less true of lower-paying jobs with minimal qualifications, where that extra few hours of work a day is what's needed to avoid choosing between rent and food. 2-4 hours a day is also much more than is really applicable for many fields. For most fields, professional development doesn't have to take the place of a social life. Zeus posted... Kind of a creepy response which suggests that all of the autonomy is in the hands of women, in that they approach you and initiate every phase whereas, in reality, it's almost always the guys who approach. A lot of guys don't have sex until later in life because they expect women to just approach them instead of making the first move at every step. I'm considering asking women out to be a part of "doing something to attract women." In retrospect, "attract" is an awkward verb to use to make that point, but the basic gist of the argument is that they should stop trying to blame anything other than their insistence on waiting for women to fall in their laps. |
| Topic | Can someone with a Switch confirm that Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate can be bought? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 4:46:17 PM #3 | According to GameFAQs, it's only had a Japanese release. The Switch isn't region-locked, so you could potentially import it, but I don't know of any way to get it digitally. |
| Topic | Hack and Slash games with character creation? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 1:32:02 PM #14 | DeltaBladeX posted... Lokarin posted...How about Grim Dawn? You can customize appearance, but as far as customizing abilities goes, that happens over the course of the game like any other ARPG. |
| Topic | Why do people make a big deal about paying for college? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 1:30:14 PM #25 | kangolcone posted... Nomak-54 posted...Oh c'mon it's not like they show up the door and take every penny you have LMAO Push comes to shove, they can show up at your door and take your door. |
| Topic | Why intelligent people are less likely to have sex |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 1:24:35 PM #17 | That's a rather misleading headline. The statistic in question seems to be the number of different sexual partners the people have had, not the amount of sex they have, which are very different concepts. Furthermore, the whole "smart people spend more time studying and less time sexing" thing ceases to be at all applicable past university, since being more intelligent decreases the average number of hours needed to work in order to survive. It does indeed sound to me like a bunch of "experts" trying to explain why they aren't getting any and refusing to accept the actual answer of "because you aren't doing anything to attract women." DPsx7 posted... That's just how I'd explain it because I've never asked or been asked, and don't have it on my list of priorities. There's too much stress having to play phone tag with some stranger you talked to online. You could be walking into a trap. That sounds more like social anxiety than asexuality. |
| Topic | Who do you think is most likely to get into Smash Bros. Ultimate? |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 1:15:40 PM #9 | papercup posted... There are more Metroid characters in then KI, and 3 of them are just variations on Samus. Which is pretty much the entire roster of plausible characters from the series, unless we start bringing in ones that showed up in a single game (like some of the MPH hunters). |
| Topic | Would you have a drink with this poster? (Day 27) Adjl |
| _AdjI_ 08/19/18 1:12:56 PM #12 | Axiomatically. |
| Topic | I want a Warriors game, what should I get? |
| _AdjI_ 08/18/18 10:22:49 AM #2 | Hyrule Warriors is an excellent game, and the Switch version is the most complete one. I can recommend that. Can't speak for any others, though. |
| Topic | A Thief in GEORGIA has STOLEN 520,000 packets of RAMEN NOODLES!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/18/18 10:21:04 AM #8 | HillChange posted... Does that even add up to grand theft? If it's $100,000 worth, maybe. I don't know the cutoff off-hand, but that's definitely a major loss. |
| Topic | For such a mediocre game Quest 64 had a nice soundtrack. |
| _AdjI_ 08/18/18 10:19:13 AM #5 | I rented it, but didn't have a controller pak, so I just ended up playing the first couple hours a few times over the course of the week. It seemed interesting enough, but I can't really assess the whole thing. |
| Topic | What is a man? |
| _AdjI_ 08/16/18 11:08:17 AM #16 | What has he got? |
| Topic | I'm back! Anyone here who recognizes me? |
| _AdjI_ 08/11/18 10:46:53 AM #23 | The name sounds familiar, but I remember nothing about you. |
| Topic | BlogFAQs: Today I quit nicotine |
| _AdjI_ 08/10/18 1:04:05 PM #22 | GanglyKhan posted... TheCyborgNinja posted...Yes. You were a winner before and are one after WholesomeFAQs |
| Topic | Conservative Michigan Couple SOB in HORROR as they are charged with MURDER!!! |
| _AdjI_ 08/10/18 12:25:48 PM #15 | Zeus posted... In a nation with legalized abortion, punishing parents of a newborn seems kinda silly. Come on Zeus, you're better than that. Zeus posted... Not to mention that, as already noted, other parents whose kids die from a neglectful action aren't charged for it. Which largely boils down to a combination of culpability and how willing they are to repent versus reoffending. Here, they were very culpable and don't seem like they're about to change their ways to ensure the safety of their other children. Zeus posted... Considering that murder requires intent, obviously not. They noticed the child was too thin but chose not to seek any sort of help. Where doing nothing could reasonably be expected to cause the child's death, choosing to do so therefore qualifies as intentionally killing the child. |
| Topic | Attn: DPsx7 |
| _AdjI_ 08/10/18 11:59:55 AM #134 | Sarcasthma posted... Maybe DPsx7 is being this terrible on purpose as a way to help bring all of PotD together? DPsx7 Requiem? |
| Topic | BlogFAQs: Today I quit nicotine |
| _AdjI_ 08/10/18 11:55:42 AM #20 | Good luck dude. |
| Topic | I am determined to talk shit about the Nintendo Switch... |
| _AdjI_ 08/09/18 10:18:57 AM #6 | The online service is kind of a joke compared to other paid services, even at only $20/year. Having the only means of backing up data being the cloud saves from that service is also not very good, and it's taking far too long to give it an internet browser (to say nothing of the lack of Netflix, though that's Netflix's fault). That said, it's still an awesome system with a very solid library and hating on it for those flaws is kind of nitpicky. But if you wanna hate, those are good starting points. |
| Topic | British man racks up $45k in fines in 3 hrs driving a lamborghini huracan |
| _AdjI_ 08/07/18 8:13:41 PM #19 | GameReviews posted... That's crazy high for a speeding ticket. If you're doing 150 mph? That's not actually that high at all, given how insanely fast that is. I couldn't tell you the Ontario laws because I've only been here for a couple weeks, but back home, they charge people doing 50 km/h over the limit (which is usually 100-110 on highways) with "stunting," which carries a fine of over $2000 (Canadian) and immediate license suspension and vehicle seizure. And presuming the limit for highways there is no more than 80 mph, we're talking more than double that 50 km/h difference (70 mph=112 km/h). If you're going that fast, $1300 is actually quite low for a speeding ticket. Dikitain posted... Kyuubi4269 posted...Yellow posted...Don't break laws in foreign countries. They still have his passport as collateral. I see no reason they can't charge him for any damages incurred (which would include tickets attributed to the vehicle) before returning it. |
| Topic | Cloud Gaming. Anyone tried it? |
| _AdjI_ 08/07/18 8:04:47 PM #32 | green dragon posted... adjl posted...It isn't I could see it going either way, I was just going along with your objection. DPsx7 posted... It's a fact about any kind of gaming. Input needs to be instant Well now that's objectively false. Many genres? Yes. Any kind of gaming? Absolutely not. Significant lag is annoying regardless of when it happens, but even then there are plenty of cases where it isn't game-breaking. DPsx7 posted... Perhaps you want to play something more complex than mobile trash And how much of this "mobile trash" have you played, to be making such a comparison? Or are you just parroting the opinions of somebody else who's criticized mobile gaming without thinking for yourself in any way? |
| Topic | Attn: DPsx7 |
| _AdjI_ 08/07/18 7:59:09 PM #19 | DPsx7 posted... it just doesn't have the content to keep people coming back. Or at least it didn't for the first year it was out. Which is why it died shortly after launch and no longer has anything that could be called an active community. Except, you know, not. DPsx7 posted... I did and clearly explained why. And in doing so, demonstrated that you don't actually know what malware is, resulting in everyone laughing at you. |
| Topic | Lul Canada pissed off Saudi Arabia |
| _AdjI_ 08/06/18 5:08:25 PM #8 | St_Kevin posted... They are even supporting Quebec's seperation Oh, Quebec's gonna love that. |
| Topic | Someone offers you $10,000,000 to do a job for them... |
| _AdjI_ 08/06/18 4:49:11 PM #39 | darkknight109 posted... Keep in mind "I don't know, that depends on your own personal scruples" is an honest answer if the person doesn't know how you think. Restricting me to yes or no questions while letting them give answers other than yes or no is a little unfair. |
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