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As a rule, I try not to touch my poop with my hands.
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He should've smashed it with an oar so it died of painful blunt force trauma and internal hemorrhaging instead of something as monstrously inhumane as drowning.
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I have a few but they're not mine.
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That one with Halle Berry's boobs was pretty fun.

Oh, and Tremors.
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Bashing it with an oar is in no way more "merciful" where the hell do you get that idea?

Yeah, let's clobber the thing slowly over 5 minutes, breaking bones and destroying internal organs along the way. Let's watch as it's agonized screams fade away into painful wheezing. Way more merciful than simply pushing the creature into the water.

Not to mention, if he misses with the oar, he risks an agitated rabid raccoon charging and attacking him.

Or he misses and damages the boat somehow and he's either stranded or sinking.

Swinging an oar wildly is possibly the dumbest thing he could have done in that situation. Especially since at the end of the day the fucking thing is an overgrown rat.

What if he beats the thing unconscious, then gets bit or scratched tossing it overboard if it wakes up? Then he has to go through the rabies treatment. If you don't have the attacking animal present for them to test it for rabies, they have to assume you've been exposed to rabies and you have to get the (very expensive) shots.
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Cacciato is 100% correct. The guy is stupid for filming and uploading it, but raccoons carry disease and I wouldn't want that thing on my boat, either. It's a fucking rodent. It's not endangered. It's not special. Raccoons drown in nature, it happens. That this one may have drowned as a result of this man's actions can be countered with the fact that if that raccoon had chosen any of hundreds of other places to bunker down it would likely still be alive today. But that raccoon decided to try to chill in that dude's boat. How is that the guy's fault? Definitely not something to ruin a man's life over.
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Top floor of the South Tower
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Every day I exercise my rights as a free American
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I have that on PS4 and it (obviously) uses a controller so it seems odd they wouldn't have the option on PC.

Fucking great soundtrack.
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Pointless. Chances are good that some American trigger-happy murdercop will shoot her brother at some other point in his life. Just delaying the inevitable.
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Lokarin posted...

I'm getting massive downvotes on reddit for saying abortion is ok

*downvotes*
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While we're at it, legalize and regulate prostitution.
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All drugs should be decriminalized and regulated under the FDA.
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Yellow posted...

Wait, another Batman movie?

It's technically the Batfleck movie, so it's not new although since Affleck has moved on I have no idea how much of that movie has gone through rewrites.
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Wouldn't even need to be high to do it.
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That sounds amazing. I could crush a pint of that, easy.
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Oh hey Kana didn't know you had a new account. What happened to Sefrig?
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Mead posted...

Dude is legit a good actor, despite being known for such a vapid franchise

I agree. He gets a lot of flak for the Twilight movies but I've seen him in a couple other films and he's got the chops. I'm curious how this'll turn out. Only reservation I have is that his face doesn't seem like a Bruce Wayne face to me. But that's a minor hangup.
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https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robert-pattinson-batman-matt-reeves-bruce-wayne-dc-comics-1203125473/

Interesting choice.
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Dude yeah of course. This in a no-brainer. I could do two weeks standing on my head.
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Stunningly Ignorant Kyuubi lacking any understanding of the suffering of abused women. Big surprise.

At least he's consistently ignorant:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/77718489
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Also her life isn't destroyed unless we live in the dark ages and she's now branded and unmarriable whore.

You are stunningly ignorant of the psychological and emotional damage suffered by rape victims.
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Wish it included Lords of Shadow 2 but I guess that list looks ok
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sell propane and propane accessories.
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Mead posted...

Cause if theres one thing that SMT is known for, its reading books

lol
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HelIWithoutSin posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

Haven't you made quite a few topics where you go into panic mode over the weather?

Poor guy couldn't go to the hockey game because he was afraid a tornado would sneak into the arena disguised as a referee.

Yeah for real NMB posts about weather more than all the Canadian/New England posters post about snow combined
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I'm good with balloon knots
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Bee Simulator
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood
Trine 4
Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Sinking City

Plus some already mentioned (Cyberpunk, Starfield, Doom Eternal, etc.)

There's a few titles confirmed for the show I haven't heard of. Looking forward to learning about those.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Aren't Boston and Long Island accents basically the same?

Nope. Not at all.
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Zareth posted...

Don't you know, leaving your cart in a parking space helps balance your chakras.

He gets it.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Ok, keep defending bad behavior. It's a good look for you.

Keep ignoring friendly advice on how to better evolve as an enlightened, compassionate human being. Thought you were better than this. Disappointing.
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It only warrants your ignorance because you have failed to take the time to digest the ideas presented to you, Sunshine...

Try to elevate yourself to not be so self-centered and narrow-minded. Think of others' experiences before your own, and weigh your discomfort or displeasure against the greater measures of suffering being felt by those less fortunate than yourself, whose greatest pain in this moment involves an errant shopping cart.

You can be better, Sunbeam. Believe in yourself.
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Way to ignore the rest of my post

Thought you were woke, Sunshine. Griping like this... You should be beyond such pettiness. Strive to be better, Sunshine my boy
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You don't know the person who left the carriage. You don't know what they're dealing with, or how their day is going. Maybe they're 80 years old with bad hips. Maybe they just found out a loved one was hospitalized. Maybe they're running late for something, and on any other day they would've put the carriage back where it belongs, but today they were in a mad rush.

On top of that, you're criticizing others for being lazy when it would take you five seconds to get out of your car and put the carriage away yourself, or just move it out of your way. But sure, they're lazy.

For someone who carries themselves like they're all zen and evolved, this topic sure is judgmental and petty. Try to think of other people for a change. Your world isn't going to end over having to drive to another row of parking spaces because you're too self-important to move someone else's carriage.
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And besides, I thought before diving into Rage 2, how many times could they use this cleft imagery in one game?

A lot, it turns out! The cleft is used with such frequency that it feels like a visual cue: The exaggerated cleft signifies the most mutated of mutants, subhuman beasts that are caged, ridden like horses, or mounted like animals.

Early in the game, I meet a scientist riding a humanoid beast. The creature also has a cleft lip, this one less exaggerated, more like my own at birth. The creature is covered in its own drool, a straw hanging from its mouth. Theres a certain Total Recall Kuato schtick going on here between the scientist and the creature, but one thing is clear: the beast is meant to be a freak. The intention is for every player to be repulsed.

On some level, Willits told the truth when we we last spoke. The good characters arent as pretty as they were in the original Rage though most of the women in the game easily fall within that realm. But their designs arent thoughtful or interesting either. The artists depict the spectrum of weight and age with the grace of a Mad Magazine cover.

Theres a lopsided consistency to the world. The better the character, the more traditional their beauty. The sketchier the character, the more deformed. Obviously there are the rare exceptions, but by and large, the good characters arent mutated. Most human characters look like central casting actors and actresses in post-apocalypse makeup. A little dust here and there.

When I spoke to Willits last summer, I came away from the conversation optimistic. Heres what I wrote a few hours after that meeting:

I recognize I have the rare opportunity to actually speak to creators in person, that there isnt a better means for other people outside my position to have this experience. And I recognize that people of other backgrounds have for decades had to play games that treat them as targets and that they still do. But for a moment, I felt a surge of optimism. If developers can be open, if they can make efforts to find other voices rather than wait for those voices to come to them, then everyone could feel welcome to play the hero, rather than be forced to spot themselves as the villain.

That optimism is gone. I suspect there could be a later game character that serves as a counterpoint, that the Crushers have hearts of gold and have been weaponized by humans, that theres some text log hidden in the world that explains the designers good intentions. But that assumes I can last another dozen hours in a wasteland that makes me miserable.

Midway through my time with Rage 2, I sprint through a sticky night club one of those forgettable video game environments that transitions the player from one big action set piece to the next. Its the sort of generic area you see the same art asset on the wall a half dozen times because, hey, the space isnt a huge priority.

On its wall, instead of posters, hang a series of identical mutant busts, all with the same exaggerated cleft. This isnt a Crusher or the scientists beast, and the asset, while custom, is not central to the game. Now Im no expert in game design, but I feel confident saying these busts could have been removed with minimal time and effort. It wouldnt have required canceling pre-orders, delaying development, or halting production on novelty special editions.

But here it is anyway. Another mutant with a cleft, letting me know this one is truly subhuman, so far from the other humans that it can be mounted like a hunted animal. It adds the tiniest environmental flavor for some players, but makes others feel like absolute trash.

So much for a little more sensitivity.

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Not okay, Bethesda. For shame!

https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/13/18617783/rage-2-impressions-characters-enemies-mutants

Rage 2 is a fun game that makes me feel like garbage

Rage 2 uses my birth defect as a crude shorthand for mutant freak

Every time I begin to enjoy Rage 2, it finds a new way to treat me like shit.

Theres a lot of individual bits Ive liked in Bethesdas new post-apocalyptic shooter, created by the open-world geniuses at Avalanche Studios and the gunplay experts at id Software. And I have no doubt we will be unpacking what makes its open-world click in the coming days, if not weeks. But never has a game so personally, directly bummed me out.

I should have seen this coming.

Last summer, I had a chance to talk with id Software studio director Tim Willits about Rage 2. After a relatively straightforward interview running through the games grabbag of inspirations, the conversation shifted to something more personal: my birth defect and how the game presents it as a crude joke.

Rage 2s publisher Bethesda had just revealed a $119.99 collectors edition that would come with a talking, robotic bust of Ruckus the Crusher, one of the games many goliath mutants. Like all the other Crushers in the game, Ruckus has a gash running from the top of its upper lip through his nose, as if its face didnt fully form at birth.

The mutation, I explained to Willits, looks like an exaggerated cleft lip and cleft palate. The original Rage used similar imagery for its mutants, and I told Willits how disappointed I felt to see the sequel following that same path. Fiction has long associated clefts with both villainy and mental health disorders, and it appeared the Rage franchise would perpetuate this cruel, damaging misrepresentation to a broad audience.

Willits, to his credit, was receptive to the feedback. Heres the relevant portion of our interview:

Tim Willits: So you feel that its a little insensitive?

Plante: Yeah. It makes me a little uncomfortable when its always the bad guys that have the upper lip and nose removed, effectively.

Willits: You know, I never really thought of that. I mean, you know, we try to make you know, Kenneth Scott was our art director on Rage 1, and yeah, I mean I kind of feel bad now. Sometimes its hard when you you dont live in that world, so youre like, Oh, these guys So I apologize. And you know, yeah, Ill talk to the guys.

Plante: Sure. Are mutations normal for the heroes, too, in this version of the game?

Willits: Its mostly the bad guys. But we do have some the heroes in Rage 2 are not as pretty as the heroes in Rage 1. Someone did, like, the girls of Rage posters and stuff, so we are trying to be a little more balanced. And the Avalanche guys have been very good about being a little more sensitive. So I do think we have a better balance.

Ive now played a significant amount of Rage 2, and I have to wonder if Willits forgot to have that conversation. Or if that conversation was had, was it closer to a cost-benefit analysis: will enough potential players be upset to warrant the investment in improving these character designs?

I can now say with certainty that the Avalanche guys have not been very good about being a little more sensitive. Or perhaps Willits meant little more in a literal sense. As in they have made the smallest effort.

Rage 2s use of cleft lip and palate imagery in the final game is worse than I expected, and certainly worse than its predecessor. I already mentioned the The Crushers, who are both recurring bosses and environmental hazards, each of them with an identical facial design.

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Far-Queue posted...

then I would absolutely not take the money.

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What about assets I purchase? Can those be passed on? If so, I'd buy a bunch of real estate and pass that on when I die. If nothing can be passed on, then I would absolutely not take the money.
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Can the money be passed on to my family once I die? If so, then I'd do it. I'm sure my wife would be able to dry her tears on some of those fat stacks of cash.
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A lot of crockpot recipes are literally throwing a bunch of ingredients in the pot and letting it stew for a certain length of time. Super easy to cook with a crock.
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GameLord113 posted...

-bone in Boston butt
-hot sausage
Toss the Boston butt

Sounds like a good time
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This is the Alex Jones bit from today:


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Oh yeah so you were right in the thick of it. Book release is tomorrow I believe. He's been yakking about it nonstop.
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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

The guy sure loves to talk about this f***ing book.

Have you been listening recently? He talks about it every fucking day. I get that he's promoting the thing, but I'm fairly certain his audience doesn't need to have it promoted to them constantly. The members of his audience who are going to buy would likely buy it at the mere mention of the thing. Mention it once or twice a day to remind people. No need to spend half an hour chatting it up.
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Oh Irish Boiled Dinner, too. That's super easy to make.

And a seafood boil, I guess. But I usually use a bigger pot to do that. I suppose I could use the crock if I wanted to make a smaller batch. Usually do a seafood boil for summer parties so I tend to make a lot.
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I serve this over rice:

https://pinchofyum.com/crockpot-sweet-potato-lentils

Also make a mean beef stew. Don't have the recipe on hand though I'd have to look through my recipe box.

Use mine to make chicken and rice soup, too.
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Oh, sorry. I meant Flappy Bird
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The Alex Jones impersonator puppet is one of the funniest things he's done in years.
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