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Probably not, but I won't be surprised if it does happen. Injuries are just about guaranteed, though.

Metalsonic66 posted...

TheWitchMorgana posted...

not cancelled

Wasn't it? When it was shut down and relaunched as a completely different game?

You could argue that counts as cancelling it, but it doesn't really compare to what happened with Anthem, which is launching with the promise of an ambitious roadmap to come in the future that has since been scrapped because nobody cared about it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

As I mentioned earlier, the hate crime aspect is less relevant to the crime at hand and more relevant to determining how much of a threat they are to society (which should always be the primary consideration in sentencing somebody). Somebody shoots up a church because they were bullied by some of the congregants, they're going to have fewer potential future targets than somebody who shoots up the church because it was full of a certain type of people. The former is emotionally unstable, the latter is genocidal, meaning the latter is more dangerous.

Then you can remove the narrow definition specifying a hate crime and just punish people who act in this kind of way. The issue isn't targeting a protected class, it's the mindset of murdering a collective like it's a single, inhuman entity.

I'd be fine with defining hate crime like that. As you say, it's not an issue of whether or not the target is a protected class (although the concept is usually applied to protect a class that an appreciable number of people want to target), it's a matter of killing on an impersonal basis that implies they have many more potential targets.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But is someone planning a mass murder spree at a black church somehow inherently so much worse than a white person planning a mass murder spree at a white church?

Or could we possibly agree that planning a mass murder spree at a church is pretty f***ed up no matter who is inside?

It could easily be a hate crime either way, though. As mentioned, being racially motivated doesn't require the perpetrator to be a different race from the victims, and there can easily be unifying factors other than race in those scenarios (such as the whole church thing).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's not like the people are going to be any less dead if you murdered them for no obvious reason, whereas racism makes them extra dead.

As I mentioned earlier, the hate crime aspect is less relevant to the crime at hand and more relevant to determining how much of a threat they are to society (which should always be the primary consideration in sentencing somebody). Somebody shoots up a church because they were bullied by some of the congregants, they're going to have fewer potential future targets than somebody who shoots up the church because it was full of a certain type of people. The former is emotionally unstable, the latter is genocidal, meaning the latter is more dangerous.

Of course, the distinction becomes pretty moot when talking about actual murder, since premeditated murder carries an automatic life sentence in most cases, with the murderer only getting out earlier than that if there's reason to believe they're no longer a threat. That's not really going to change between regular murder and hate murder. In this case, however, her plan was interrupted, so her genocidal inclinations warrant a longer sentence than more personal motivations would, for the sake of public safety. At least, that would be valid logic if being in prison didn't stand a good chance of radicalizing her further by exposing her to like-minded individuals, but that's another problem.

I like how they manage to both spit in the face of the EU and whine about having to do what almost every other filmmaker has to do in one paragraph. Very efficient.

This is convenient because I've been playing Stardew lately and am just coming up on the end of year 2, running out of stuff to do while I wait for spring (at which point I've got a couple hundred ancient seeds stockpiled and half my field set up with iridium sprinklers and junimo huts). New content will be fun.

Noop_Noop posted...

The original legend of zelda on NES is the only good zelda game

I've seen you say this before, but I don't think I've ever asked: Why do you like it better than the others?

AllstarSniper32 posted...

adjl posted...

It's the company that created two visibly distinct classes of player in the first place.

Nope, it seems the communities of the games did that.

The communities didn't create and sell the skins. It's the companies that create a visible distinction between players that are playing for free and players that have paid. It's the community that then ends up treating non-paying players differently, but there are absolutely things the developers can do to prevent or encourage that, depending on how much they want to capitalize on that social pressure.

Substantially more than a car, but substantially less per passenger than a single-occupancy car.

Honestly, insisting on having the full National Dex catchable in every single Pokemon game has been more of a problem than anything else, given how large it's gotten and what that means for balancing and having a competitive metagame (particularly where so many pokemon that are available aren't available without bringing them in from a previous generation). Having "only" 450 or whatever in the game is still more to catch than any game in the first 3 generations had, while being a much more manageable number for balancing purposes and ensuring people can access the competitive metagame without also having to buy the last three games to get older Pokemon that haven't been succeeded by ones that are available in this game. It's just more practical to have a smaller (but still quite large) number to work with.

Sure, it seems like a step backwards because we're so used to the National Dex, but really, the National Dex has been a mistake since its inception. Older Pokemon should only ever have shown up in later games occasionally, as nostalgic cameos. Trying to keep every Pokemon in every game was only ever going to result in impractically large numbers. This change was inevitable.

How on earth did they think that charging people $130 to buy extra hardware instead of just playing the games on the PC they already have was a good idea?

I've only played it on the Switch, which is entertaining enough, but it's limited for playing any build that requires aiming beyond what the autotarget can do.

Luggage locks are pretty pointless. Anything that isn't TSA-approved will be cut open, and the TSA-approved ones do nothing to protect your luggage against theft by TSA agents (who are the primary culprits for luggage theft). Basically, don't fly with anything you don't want opened. Any sealed package should be expected to be opened because of the risk that you could be concealing something within it.

Because holding playing cards typically requires opposable thumbs.

I believe my sister's allergic to it. Regardless, that doesn't sound normal, so I'd talk to your doctor about it.

Bulbasaur posted...

the movies being vaulted don't affect streaming.

it's literally just physical copies and theatrical releases.

Vaulting is absolutely going to affect streaming. At no point will Disney's entire library of content be available on Disney+. They'll be taking stuff down and putting stuff up as they see fit to keep people interested, exactly as they do with their physical movie libraries. The precedent is there for such practices because stuff appears and disappears from Netflix all the time, but that's because Netflix has to buy temporary distribution licenses, not because they're manipulating supply and demand.

SunWuKung420 posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

"If preparing ground beef, cook thoroughly to kill germs."

It's sad that people have to be told this.

Then again, I work with a guy who basically grills his steak until the outside changes color and the inside is still dripping red, so IDK.

Steak and ground beef are two entirely different things.

The cooking problem remains.

If you don't cook something until it's done, you might get sick from it being contaminated. That's not a problem exclusive to beef.

A steak will only have contaminates on the exterior. Ground beef can have the contaminates throughout.

Indeed. Unless you've ground it yourself, you always want to cook ground meat to 165, especially given the potential to have it contaminated with cerebrospinal fluid if the butcher's careless working around the spine (this is why ground beef is one of the biggest concerns during Mad Cow outbreaks). Steaks, on the other hand, are going to be safe inside, so you can have them rarer without as much consequence.

Silver4405 posted...

zebatov posted...

You havent beaten it unless youve got all the moons/stars. A game isnt done until its 100%. Good luck! Still about six hours left on your limit!

Doesnt the word beat refer to when you defeat the final boss and see the credits screen?

For games with a clear win condition, that's the easiest way to define it, but there's often a lot of room for debate about what it means to beat a game. Most of that debate comes from people feeling that their own goals for what they want to get out of the game are the most important. In the case of Odyssey, I enjoyed hunting for moons and whatnot enough that I didn't really care about when I beat Bowser (although it was great fun) and just kept playing until I'd unlocked everything. Beating the boss wasn't my priority.

Jen0125 posted...

I mean I get interbreeding but why are they getting their own names? They're just mutts

Same reason anything gets its own name: Because it's a unique, distinct entity that people need to be able to specifically identify. If you want a bernedoodle, asking a breeder for a mutt probably won't get you a bernedoodle.

I just wish Windows 10 actually let you do what you want. The fact that I had to go into the registry to turn off Cortana is utterly ridiculous, especially where the OS launched with a simple switch that got removed in a later update. I still haven't been able to figure out what it is that keeps randomly waking my laptop up from sleep mode, which is really bad because it lives in my backpack a lot of the time. I've tried basically everything I could find that doesn't involve the group policy editor, which I don't have access to because of course you need to pay extra for a version that doesn't prevent you from doing what you want with your own computer.

Basic usage, though? It's not bad. It does the job. I still like 7 better, but at the end of the day everyday use is just fine. Starts up nice and fast, too.

Colloquially, "black water" refers to raw sewage, so that's a bit of a stumbling block for me.

Could always make your own buns.

Smarkil posted...

There is an argument to be made in that they can keep a neighborhood from going to hell, but far more often than not, they just end up implementing bulls*** rules for no good reason.

Pretty much this. Preserving the character of the neighbourhood is all well and good, but more often than not they're run by micromanaging tyrants with nothing better to do than obsess over that one uneven blade of grass on their neighbour's lawn.

HornedLion posted...

If a child has those things, gets vaccinated, and loses them all... whats that called?

A correlation. Which is reason to suspect causality, but nowhere close to sufficient to presume or conclude it.

This is delicious.

HornedLion posted...

Vaccine injuries are indeed a thing. No question. Thats been proven. Its just that the media concentrates more on the horrors of not getting vaccinated.

It's nothing to do with the media. That's empirical reality: both the likelihood and the magnitude of the risks associated with not vaccinating are significantly greater than the risks of vaccine injuries. If anything, the media actually concentrates more on vaccine injuries because you still get enough people dying of preventable diseases (mostly influenza) that such stories aren't as newsworthy as a significant adverse vaccine reaction.

HornedLion posted...

I dont even know where you got this from.

It's pretty typical. Traumatic event happens, people look for a reason why, and they latch on to the first correlation they spot, regardless of how much basis exists for inferring a causal relationship. People like explanations when things go wrong in their lives, and tend to stop thinking about those explanations as soon as they feel adequately comforted by them.

HornedLion posted...

The consensus amongst those Ive talked to about vaccine injuries is not that they shouldnt be taken. Its that theyre being administered at an age when the risk for vaccine injuries are at its highest.

And do they have any actual studies to support that? There are ample instances of vaccines being delayed, after all, such that you could easily compare the incidence of vaccine injuries (actual or suspected) between the standard vaccine schedule and a delayed one. That's not even a case where you can cite big pharma interference, because the same number of vaccines would be sold regardless of whether or not the schedule is delayed. So what's their evidence?

Sunny, behave.

Shadowbird_RH posted...

Right or wrong, even the most moronic of individuals have the right to believe in what they want to.

For all we know, they could be right. The straight thinkers shooting down ideas that vaccinations could be harmful because of their scientific knowledge of what goes into them and the things they can and cannot do, and the anti-vax ranters trying to undermine scientific fact, only making fools of themselves...

and then a study comes out 15 years later showing that vaccines do cause developmental issues, not because of anything in the vaccines, but simply because of how they're administered. The simple act of getting a shot, to a very young child, their terror, and their parents pushing this on them rather than protecting them from it, ends up a series of traumatic experiences that results in developmental disabilities.

Wouldn't that be something?

I mean, the basic concept of a link between vaccines and developmental disabilities has already been shot down by everyone looking for a connection between vaccines and autism. The potential source of that link doesn't matter; the fact of the matter is that the link isn't there.

Full Throttle posted...

people from AROUND THE WORLD have applied for the $15 an HOUR job as an IRANIAN man who used to catch snakes and play with them as a child

I too would like a job as an Iranian man who used to catch snakes as a child.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

a ranked ballot sounds like an incredibly bad idea

Conceptually, it's not unreasonable. You end up with a result that's not necessarily everyone's first choice, but is at least most people's second or third choice, which aligns well with the fundamental idea of democracy (that is, a government that reflects what the majority wants). It runs into problems, though, when you have relatively few choices (I think we've got a grand total of 7 now if we count the bloc and the communist party), especially when 2-3 of those choices are consistently expected to be at least second-favourite for most people. It's better with larger ballots and more evenly-matched candidates.

The_tall_midget posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Trust the other person. Hence why I dont think child support should be paid until the DNA test. They should do that instead...

100% agreed. After all, if she has done nothing wrong, she would have no qualm about it, right?

If you aren't breaking any laws, you should have no qualms about having cameras on every corner, right?

She's one of the rarer ones, but random loot is random.

Because it's integral to society's ability to function.

zebatov posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

I went from the 7 to the 11 a week ago.. 0 dollars down, 32$ a month. Bill went up 3$

We get taken advantage of in Canada for more things. But hey, universal healthcare, right?

I mean, that's more than I'm paying for my plan (plus another $13/month for a warranty, which still works out in my favour over the lifetime of the contract), also in Canada. Cell phone rates get ridiculous if you want data, but you can get basic plans reasonably enough.

It took me something like 50 legendary cores to get all of the rare blades once I started actually farming cores, Kos-mos was one of the last ones.

Grendel posted...

Clench281 posted...

also, your entire point is silly. conservatism is the belief system that values things without evaluating them.

progressive belief system: Adopting change X is good because it has this befit for this reason

conservative belief system: maintain X how it is because change bad

That's also a pretty myopic viewpoint. Both conservatives and progressives are frequently guilty of ignoring inconvenient facts and ultimately both groups have what they believe are beneficial reasons for either changing things or leaving them as they are and to pretend otherwise is kind of embarrassingly disingenuous.

Indeed. Progressives are just as guilty of saying "change is always good" as conservatives are of saying "change is always bad." In order to be effective, a government needs a blend of viewpoints, both to push conservatives out of their comfort zone to make changes for the better and to rein in progressives that haven't realized they're suggesting a change for the worse.

Unfortunately, the American approach to "a blend of viewpoints" seems to be one half of the room believing anyone that isn't a straight white man doesn't deserve rights, while the other half of the room wants it to be illegal to make a profit. That doesn't work so well. You need everyone to have relatively moderate viewpoints for anything to work.

It takes a while for all the pieces of the battle system to come together, and it isn't explained as well as it could be (the first Xenoblade let you replay tutorials at any time, so I'm not sure why 2 doesn't), but I enjoyed it well enough once it got there and I figured out what I was doing.

Dynalo posted...

Never been to Europe where Ryanair operates... But they are kinda a notorious airline. Mostly known for trying to nickel and dime their customers as much as humanly possible and treating them more like cattle than humans... So good luck?

I tried flying from Glasgow to Dublin with Ryanair a few years ago on a family vacation. Mysteriously, our luggage had collectively gained 40-odd kilograms since we left home, which meant they were going to be charging us some 600 in extra luggage fees (and presumably the same amount on the return flight). The clerk that was checking us in (who apparently gets a bonus based on the amount of extra luggage fees she charges, which is insanely sketchy) was pretty upset when we were like "lolno" and skipped the flight. The tickets were only 5 each (plus 30 for an extra bag that apparently didn't give us any more allowed weight, just let us split the weight of one of those bags into two bags), so we didn't lose too much there. The logistics and extra hotel rooms needed to change the next leg of the trip around that ended up costing a sizable chunk, but if we were going to have to pay that much either way, I'm glad the money didn't go to those scumbags.

Hop103 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Hop103 posted...

She shouldn't have worn the shirt, it's showing significant political bias unfitting for K-12.

If you think that "murder is bad" is a political statement, then sure.

That shirt is saying more than just murder is bad.

That Columbus committed murder? That's not really a political statement either, unless you consider established, indisputable facts to be political statements (which, sadly, isn't too hard to believe in today's world).

Jokes aside, that's actually extremely impressive, medically speaking. You've got to get a ton of nerves and blood vessels working just right to get a transplanted penis working properly. If they've pulled that off (i.e. erections happen when they're supposed to, he has full sensation), that's a huge accomplishment.

Hop103 posted...

She shouldn't have worn the shirt, it's showing significant political bias unfitting for K-12.

If you think that "murder is bad" is a political statement, then sure.

A few weeks, when I made some for school. Before that, it had been quite a while. My girlfriend's allergic to raw bananas, so we generally don't have any around to turn into banana bread when they go bad.

The rate things are going, I'm not even sure China will be in any shape to host the olympics in 3 years.

Aaantlion posted...

Yeah, it's not 2001 any more!

https://time.com/5680759/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo/

Yes, that was also bad. Did you expect me to disagree?

madadude posted...

I'll give him a point for being the one to put it out there in an effort to be transparent, but to claim that it was okay because it was a different time... in 2010, is stupid. Just acknowledge that what you did was wrong, show why you know its wrong, and that you know better now, and you are fine by me. His infantile excuses for why what he does was actually ok is stupid.

Pretty much. Times change, certainly, but 2010 wasn't THAT different a time. He's also not actually apologizing for it so much as acknowledging that it'd look really bad if he were to do it today, which doesn't actually suggests that he accepts that it's a bad thing to do. Still, kudos for not trying to hide it.

LinkPizza posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

How was Captain Marvel politics-infested?

I think the actor that played her was insulting men or the fans of something...

It wasn't even that direct, she just said something along the lines of "too many film critics are white men" and the poor, oppressed white men of the Internet lost their minds.

HellShark posted...

You could make the time go faster by doing push ups during the loading process. It doesn't have to be push ups. Could be jumping jacks or any exercise from MARSOC short card.

When I was playing more DotA, I made a habit of holding a plank for the duration of any respawn timers I ended up waiting for. That got to be a little challenging in games that went long enough to hit the level cap (at which point respawning takes 1:40), but it did some nice things for my core strength.

So we'll get 2-3 weeks of no more duckbear, then he'll jump back into it with a few modifications because this is a deeply compulsive behaviour for him.