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LeetCheet posted...

Jen0125 posted...

I think this is the beginning of the reboot of the series. So it's not linked to the previous ones.

I thought this new movie was a prequel to the first Bayformers movie?

Sort of.

Part of the movie explains how Bumblebee lost his voice, which had already been explained in a then-canonical prequel comic in a completely different way.

This is going to get confusing, because as far as Transformers is concerned, everything is canon.
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minervo posted...

Here's my theory. Each generation lasts 12 years. Generation X started in 1967. Millenials started in 1979. Generation Z started in 1991, and Generation Alpha started in 2003.

The Baby Boomer generation started around 1943-1946. If each generation lasts 12 years, why are there around 21-24 years between baby boomers and the immediate next generation, Gen-X?
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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Yellow posted...

Because he's shutting it down over his stupid wall

And last administration it was over funding Obamacare. This is the same thing that the democrats have been doing to get their way. Is it okay for one side to do this but not the other?

But it's the same side doing it. Republicans refused to pass a budget to fund Obamacare, and now Trump (nominally a Republican) is threatening to refuse to pass a budget that doesn't fund his border wall boondoggle.
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argonautweakend posted...

What kind is it? Mines a casio pro trek prw 3500

ive tried doing it through a window and even outside. night and day. even when it alternates between 2 and 3 signal(medium/high) when its locating all I get is ERR.

Mine's a Casio G-Shock GW-7900. The calibration signal is received hourly between Midnight and 5am, and sometimes it can take a few tries to successfully receive the signal. I've found it's best to just leave it alone on my windowsill without touching it or moving it around, and it usually picks up the signal within the first couple tries.

(Although, Trump's requested NIST budget includes shutting down the Fort Collins time broadcasts in FY2019, but whether Congress actually pays attention to that or not is still up in the air.)
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I take mine off at night and leave it sitting on the windowsill, pointed towards the window. That seems to work fine, and I'm over 1400 miles away from Fort Collins.
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For DCEU films, 53 is actually above both the mean and median Metascore.

That's not saying much, though.
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An office chair that lasted me a good 6-7 years before it finally gave out, and a few William Gibson and Michael Moorcock books.
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He probably doesn't.

Advertisers are always trying to sneak bullshit ads in with otherwise benign advertisements. Then the person in charge of dealing with ads on the website gets rid of them, only for more to crop up later.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

Do not wear white pants with a white dress shirt. The only way that would work is if you were breaking it up with a navy blue waistcoat.

Or, you know, close the blazer.

That depends entirely on the blazer. The blazer's button stance could be too low to effectively break up the white shirt/white pants combo.
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If you're going for a more formal look, stick with the navy blue pants.

If you're going for something more semi-casual, then go with the khaki pants.

Do not wear white pants with a white dress shirt. The only way that would work is if you were breaking it up with a navy blue waistcoat.
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Andre the Cloud Giant. You have to do the voice.
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BloodWhen_iWipe posted...

I know what vegan means but my cousin claims she's vegan to be "cruelty free"

And yet she'll probably gladly eat soy-based products despite the widespread deforestation and human rights abuses involved in the farming of soybeans.

You could probably also tell her that her almond milk is partially responsible for the displacement and death of hundreds of thousands of bees. (She probably wouldn't give a shit that the almonds are likely farmed by migrant workers making less than minimum wage and exacerbating droughts in California because when they say "cruelty free", they only mean animal cruelty.)
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Revelation34 posted...

Nope you missed the point. Nobody takes them seriously because they never went after ROM sites when they were so rampant in the past. They even went after sites nobody has heard of instead of bigger ones.

Nintendo has literally been doing this shit since sites hosting ROMs existed. Emuparadise, which has since taken down all download links to ROMs and ISOs, has been dealing with things like this since 2000. Various other sites would frequently take ROMs of Nintendo games down due to fear of litigation. Nintendo had either paid employees or scraping bots on P2P networks looking for people sharing Nintendo ROMs so they could threaten legal action.

LoveROMs was just Nintendo setting an example. They were an easy target for litigation so that Nintendo could send a message to all other sites hosting ROMs.
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Revelation34 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

And again, we get back to the part where you try to suggest that a quality, 30-hour RPG isn't worth $10.

It isn't when it's that old.

On release, Earthbound cost $69.99. Adjusting for inflation, that would be around $116.15 in 2018 dollars.

You don't think it's even worth around 8.6% of its original price, 23 years after its original release date?

To put that in perspective, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was first available in a home video release in 1994 for $26.99. That would be about $46 in 2018 dollars. You can buy it digitally on Amazon Prime Video for $14.99. That's around 33% of its original price, 24 years after its original release date.
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Technically, celibacy is the state of remaining unmarried, so yes.
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TigerTycoon posted...

Get over yourself, this topic is about the ROM data, not physical cartridges.

Given that there is a not insignificant demand for the ROM data, that must mean that the ROM data has a not insignificant value.

In fact, one could argue that the (technically illegal) availability of free ROM data for classic games created much of the market Nintendo hopes to capitalize on with the Switch Online service and the one they have already capitalized on with the NES Classic, SNES Classic, and Virtual Console.
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TigerTycoon posted...

Not to mention, the games are so old, they're almost valueless in the the first place.

You heard it hear first, retro game collectors: old games are almost valueless. Better just fucking drop your entire now worthless collections in a fucking donation bin.
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GanglyKhan posted...

I'm with Rev on this one. The effort it takes to upload the entire first party SNES library is next to none. SNES games should be $5. They're making virtually 100% profit off of it in the long run. Yeah, you pay the workers a good what, month's worth of salary across a dozen people or so and then for the next six to eight years, you just rake in the money from having the games on there for a cheap price.

Yeah, because all it takes is just uploading games onto a server. They don't have to do QA to make sure the games are emulated properly or anything. They certainly don't have to modify the emulation code to fix emulation errors. There definitely isn't anything they have to do from a marketing perspective to display the games in the VC eShop. It's totally just as simple as sticking a ROM on a server and putting a price on it.
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Revelation34 posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

Games are art, they're allowed to be criticized by any person, by any perspective, for any reason. That's one of the major things about art.

You can disagree with the criticism itself, and that's fine. But they're allowed to make it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/824190/Achievement_Clicker_2019/

So artsy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29
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Revelation34 posted...

I'm not going to pay $10 for a game from 1995. (Earthbound) I won't pirate it either though. They need to make their older system digital games more reasonable prices.

I don't know, would you prefer to pay... hang on let me just check eBay... around $200 for Earthbound?

And that's just the cartridge. If you want it complete in box, then I hope you have $680 lying around.
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Kappa02 posted...

" 99% of the people getting offended by the video games dont even play them " this is a pretty good criticism

No, it isn't.

First of all, it's not proven. No survey or other data collection has been done to determine within a particular margin of error what percentage of people criticizing a game have not played said game. Even if we (correctly) assume that the "99%" figure is figurative rather than literal, the fact remains that this number is merely a gut feeling rather than a figure based on the analysis of data. And you can't use a gut feeling to support an argument.

Secondly, whether or not someone has played a game has little effect on whether or not they can adequately criticize an aspect of it that they have seen or heard of. The only effect is whether there is some unknown context within the game itself that makes the criticism weak or false.

If, for instance, someone criticizes a game for allowing violence towards women, but the game contextualizes that violence by sufficiently penalizing the player for performing it, then the criticism is not apt. It's a weak criticism.

Thirdly, none of this applies to the criticisms being talked about in that video. The criticisms weren't aimed at the game; they were aimed at the actions of a particular person (or type of person) playing the game. Because of this, it absolutely doesn't matter whether or not they've played the game.
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Lokarin posted...

Ya, why do people forget William Henry Harrison exists

That's not fair. Harrison helped set the precedent for Presidential succession.
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CaptainData posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

Also, state capitalism is not communism.

Good thing state capitalism is a poorly constructed propagandist term designed to shield the many failures of communism while inappropriately placing the blame at capitalism's feet.

Someone should tell that to Lenin's ghost, because Lenin believed that state capitalism was an important intermediate step towards pure socialism.

But even if we call it "state socialism", which some may consider a more accurate description (but certainly not Wilhelm Liebknecht), it's still not communism.
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Technically, no. There is no law against impersonating a doctor.

However, that doesn't really matter because anything medical you do while impersonating a doctor would be super illegal.
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Sahuagin posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Communism itself is just a financial theory.

it's more than just theory since there are *instances of it*.

No, there are (arguably) implementations of it.

Also, state capitalism is not communism.
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Joker_X_II posted...

The ability to take a whole game, that is WHOLE and play through it without complaint or paying for extras. A solid game without paywalls blocking (or grossly extending) progression. A game designed to be a game, and not an obvious vehicle created to milk more money into a game than the game is worth....and pretty much, most mobile games are meant to be exactly that.

Of course this is my clinical definition, as I'm sure there are more articulate definitions out there too.

Under this definition, most (if not all) collectible card games are not "real games".

Lokarin posted...

When I say game I mean it in a more literal sense, like game theory - zerosum and so on. Not being a game doesn't negate their fun.

Game theory includes non-zero-sum games. The prisoner's dilemma, for example, is not zero-sum.
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GanglyKhan posted...

"Oh no, God put me down here, I better punish some people for him!"

I just doesn't make sense to me.

When your boss is literally God, it doesn't pay to have a poor work ethic.
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

What about Microsoft Edge?

That's Sasuke.
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Prior to Blizzcon, Blizzard released a blog post that all but said, "Guys, it's not going to be Diablo 4. Get off the hype train because it's not running this year."

Many fans somehow still expected Diablo 4 to be announced and were then extremely disappointed that they weren't getting the thing they had implicitly been told they weren't getting.

Others were merely disappointed that the thing they were getting was a thing they irrationally hate.
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That's Batten Burabura vs. Andre the Giant Panda from Kyushu Pro-Wrestling's 10th Anniversary show.
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Either High Anxiety or Silent Movie.

Silent Movie might take it just for the Marcel Marceau bit.
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Thanksgiving is tomorrow.
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Oh no. Not the hard communists, holocaust deniers, and snuff video fetishists. How will we possibly go on.
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Blorfenburger posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

Megami Tensei. All the way from Megami Tensei for the Famicom up to Persona 5, including all the side games and spinoffs. Be sure to include all of the games that never got released outside of Japan like the Majin Tensei games, the first Devil Summoner, and Giten Megami Tensei for the PC-98. Be absolutely certain to include Jack Bros. for the Virtual Boy.

What the hell

That was me choosing to be less of a dick. I could've asked him to rank every game in the Dragon Slayer series. Like 70% of those were never released outside of Japan. (And one of the ones that was released here was originally only available on the N-Gage.)
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Megami Tensei. All the way from Megami Tensei for the Famicom up to Persona 5, including all the side games and spinoffs. Be sure to include all of the games that never got released outside of Japan like the Majin Tensei games, the first Devil Summoner, and Giten Megami Tensei for the PC-98. Be absolutely certain to include Jack Bros. for the Virtual Boy.
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Tecmo's Secret of the Stars. It was just... not very good. I played the hell out of it when I was younger, but having gone back to play it again recently, I remembered why I hadn't played it for 20 years.

I also don't think I could really go back to playing the first Persona game. We finally got the full game available in English on the PSP, and I still can't bring myself to really play it. (It certainly doesn't help that the new soundtrack pales in comparison to the original.)
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Chewster posted...

Who even are you? I've been here for more than a decade and probably know better than you that there have been several transgender posters around here. I can see why "female passing" sounds bad but I was just spitballing quickly there, sorry. However, "presenting females" is horrible phrasing no matter what you think, it sounds like something about animal sex

It would have been better phrased as "those presenting as female" or "people presenting as female".
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VeeVees posted...

But what if they blow up the tim hortons? Workers can't get their morning coffee and bagel and the economy will be dead.

There's probably another Tim Hortons literally a block away.
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zebatov posted...

No. It's because nobody can because they dont know which to side with. Defending open borders knowing that I'm right, or just admitting that I'm right.

It's adorable that you think Canada has "open borders".
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Blaqthourne posted...

Ontario?

That couldn't possibly be what he meant.
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zebatov posted...

In related news, how are we versus other countries that allow little to no immigration, on immigration-based crimes?

By "immigration-based crimes", do you mean "crimes committed by immigrants" and, if so, are you seriously asking for statistics on how many crimes are committed by immigrants in countries that prohibit immigration?

And if you are asking about statistics on crimes committed by immigrants, then it stands to reason that countries with harsher restrictions on immigration and lower immigration maximums would have fewer crimes committed by immigrants by virtue of having fewer immigrants. However, to truly compare these different countries, one would have to normalize the data, perhaps by calculating a crimes committed by immigrants rate per capita where the specific capita used for the calculation only includes immigrants.

As far as I know, no one has yet collected the data necessary to make said calculation and comparison thereby.
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Well, shit, bro. I guess Canadian Multivac failed to predict that a man with no criminal background would commit this crime. Or there is no Canadian Multivac.

The alleged murderer has been arrested and charged, and his trial will begin on October 12. What more could you possibly want (that doesn't amount to xenophobic profiling of an entire race/religion)?
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Early Modern English "orc" meant "large sea creature", from French "orque"/Latin "orca", meaning "large sea creature/type of whale".

Old English "orc" meant "demon/hell", from Latin "orcus", meaning "underworld".

The other Modern English "orc" comes from Italian "orco", meaning "man-eating giant" or "ogre".

All of these technically predate Tolkien's usage, so the name is totally safe for everyone to use.
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Facebook has determined via algorithms that you and this girl have mutual friends or are somehow connected in some other way and is merely suggesting that you add her as a friend.

You can safely ignore it.
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Ferarri619 posted...

...Why can't she find a way to move on?

Why can't you?
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LeetCheet posted...

I just wonder what'll happen to sites like YouTube that depends on user-created content.

They might actually improve Content ID to better comply with Article 13.
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I was recommended his No Jump Super Mario 3D World video a while ago and pretty much instantly subscribed.
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Revelation34 posted...

That must be why all the sports movies ever created show 4 hour baseball and football matches.

You mean how they show all the important bits like an exciting triple play or a game winning touchdown, and ignore most of the boring bits like two dudes futzing around with a flag for three minutes?

Thanks for supporting my argument of leaving out the parts that would be boring or uninteresting in service of making a better film.
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Revelation34 posted...

Because clearly Hollywood has to make historical movies exactly how long it took to do something.

Yeah, maybe they should have just had Neil leap from the entryway of the lunar lander, flagpole in hand, and dunk that shit into the lunar surface while screaming an elongated "AMERICA" over comms.

Look. in a biopic, they can either show it accurately or not at all. Since there is no good way to make that moment fit, given the tone of the movie, while still being good film-making, it's better to just leave it out and show the flagpole having already been planted at a later point.
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

Yah because that would totally be a struggle.... Wasn't there a movie about a guy trapped under a rock flailing around for a few days? That worked fine. If you film it competently, you could transform the scene into that of a challenge and add suspense to it, you know focusing on Neil's struggle to get the flag planted...? But it's just easier to chalk it up to a human achievement, right?

That's not a dramatic conflict. Man vs. Nature (and, eventually, Man vs. Himself) is a dramatic conflict so known for its drama that it's been used countless times in film and literature.

Flagpole vs. Somewhat Hard Ground isn't dramatic at all. Even if you tried to make it dramatic, it would just be two dudes fiddling with a flagpole for three minutes while dramatic music swells in the background, making the sequence comical rather than dramatic.
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