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Kyuubi4269 posted...

In my mind having the thumbs higher up makes two pairs of fingers (shoulder and upper buttons / grips) while thumbs lower down separate the thumb from the shoulder group and create a triangle that's stable.

What controllers are you using where stability is such a concern that you need to adjust your grip? Most controllers these days are designed well enough that that shouldn't be a major issue.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Shooters, racing games and Souls-likes. That's quite a lot of mainstream games, I'd even say the most common.

Given that I'm currently making my way through Dark Souls 3, Souls-likes were one of the examples I was thinking of when saying that face buttons get used more often and a lock-on feature exists to help compensate for not being able to control the camera while using face functions. Using shoulder buttons for weapons means the face buttons aren't as vital as they are in, say, Monster Hunter (where attacks are X and Y and B is dodge, so most regular functions are handled there), but the dodge/run button is something I use constantly enough to call the camera stick the secondary place for my thumb (though again, it's a very significant secondary function). I'll bust out The Claw occasionally when I need to run and operate the camera at the same time,

Kyuubi4269 posted...

How common are they though?

Basically every 3D action game or platformer, which is not a small number of games. Pretty much everything I use a controller for, actually, since for other genres, I usually get the game on PC and use M+KB whenever possible.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Like most strategy games, it's also great for menu scrolling when you're most likely to use face buttons and more glaringly, fighting games are dodgy with a stick.

I'd include strategy and fighting games under "2D games." I agree on menu scrolling, though again, that's usually secondary to movement and therefore having the d-pad in a non-neutral position makes sense.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

A sharp, tactile d-pad and face buttons are great and you get to maintain symmetry.

Eh, I don't think symmetry has that much merit on its own. Looks nice, sure, but I'm not usually looking at controllers.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

By its very definition yes, the toxic part is what makes it problematic, but "toxic" anything is problematic.

This too.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Disagree. The wider span on the lower half is more secure too.

It's usually more of a stretch, and for those with larger hands, you run into the potential for your thumbs to hit each other. I find my thumb rests closer to my fingers in any sort of neutral position, but ymmv.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Most games use left stick and right stick simultaneously, movement and camera.

I did note shooters as being the exception, in that they do call for near-constant use of both sticks simultaneously with face buttons being secondary functions that aren't used as often. That's about the only genre where I'd say that's true, though. Most controller-based games I play, I'd consider camera to be a secondary function. It's a secondary function that gets used a lot, which is why the WiiU's layout made some sense, but I definitely feel like the face buttons are more important.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

I find that when games are reliant on the face buttons significantly, they also benefit from using the d-pad for precision-over-speed maneuvering.

Not in my experience. D-pads are preferable pretty much just for 2D games, particularly ones where there's no benefit to partially tilting a stick. There are plenty of 3D games that use the face buttons a lot (mostly action games and platformers), and those are better navigated with a stick in the vast majority of cases. Usually, such games incorporate some kind of automatic camera adjustment to compensate for not being able to use the right stick while performing button-based actions, such as lock on options or a button to centre the camera behind the player.

Bulbasaur posted...

y'all talking like Sony ripped off having rumble in the triggers from Nintendo.

Not the rumble in the triggers, the concept of having the rumble for the overall controller being finer-tuned to simulate stuff in greater detail. That's exactly what the Switch's HD rumble thing is supposed to do.


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Pus_N_Pecans posted...

Or the very definition of the sorts of people who are the perpetrators of toxic masculinity.

Pretty much. If you think "don't do this toxic thing" is telling men to be less manly and consider that to be a bad thing, then you're promoting toxic behaviour as being masculine. That's the definition of "toxic masculinity." That attitude constitutes the entirety of the problem.

argonautweakend posted...

Yes, definitely.

There is a difference between masculinity and toxic masculinity, and as you can expect the one with "toxic" in its name is bad.

What? You mean it doesn't mean "all masculinity is toxic"? And here I thought adjectives functioned completely differently from how they usually work in this one specific phrase for no particular reason. Silly me.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Haptic feedback isn't a Nintendo created idea.

It isn't, but neither was having motion sensing built into a controller (Wii, followed shortly by PS3) or a touch screen (WiiU, followed shortly by PS4). Or, for that matter, control sticks or rumble (N64 started it). Nintendo doesn't have exclusive ownership of these ideas, by any means, but it's really quite funny how often Sony seems to adopt the ideas some time after Nintendo does so.

Like I said, though, the Switch's HD rumble is pretty unremarkable, in my experience, and putting haptic feedback into a full-size controller will likely result in a better experience. It's not a bad thing that Sony's taking such inspiration. Just mildly entertaining.

DPsx7 posted...

Oh hell no, this is the only way controllers should look.

Eh, I'm inclined to believe that the asymmetrical approach is best for most genres. The most natural position for the hands is to have the thumbs in the upper half of the controller, and most games use the left stick and face buttons more than they do the right stick and d-pad, so it makes the most sense to put the left stick and face buttons closer to where the thumbs want to be. The WiiU's approach of having both sticks on top makes sense for shooters, where the right stick is used more than face buttons and is therefore the default place to have one's thumb, but is less optimal for other genres. Having both sticks in the bottom makes sense for 2D platformers and other games that use the D-pad more than the left stick, but that's a relative minority of games these days, and I'm inclined to consider the Dual Shock layout to be a relic of how the controller evolved more so than a deliberate design.

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NeoSioType posted...

I remember early on there was talk about the possibility it could infect by drifting into the eyes.

Not sure if there's research done on that.

Most stuff can infect by drifting into the eyes, including colds and flus. The tear ducts are a direct line to the nasal passages and are usually nice and moist to help keep pathogens alive until they get to where they want to go. That's one of the biggest reasons why touching your face during all of this is a bad idea, since anything you've got on your hands can get into your eyes.

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Zeus posted...

Oh, so are people also racist against Subway? Because some of my local Subways are closed down. Are they racist against Italian places? Because a lot of those are closed down. Are they racist against... well, you get the drill. The point is a LOT of small mom & pop-run places are shut down atm. It's not "OMG! RACISM!", it's more a matter of just not bothering to operate during a slowdown.

See, THAT's how you make the point you were trying to make. "I called six Chinese places before finding one that was open" does not in any way suggest that Chinese places aren't suffering from slower business than others. Tacking on "which is about on par with my efforts to order from other restaurants," however, makes your point perfectly (albeit in the form of a subjective anecdote that's prone to confirmation bias, but that's the best we're likely to do regardless of which side you're coming from). You should have started with that instead of waiting for somebody to point out that you didn't actually say what you wanted to say.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

I'd be pissed too if they were going around making loud noise for no reason.

Eh, it's not really any louder or more disruptive than their regular sirens, and as far as random bystanders are concerned, there's no immediate, obvious reason for that, either. One more siren in the neighbourhood each day isn't really anything to write home about.

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aDirtyShisno posted...

The measure being mandated is being used by the government not to actually stop the virus but to be used as a visual reminder of social distancing. The cloth protection being required is not able to stop the virus, as only the masks being explicitly excluded and reserved for medical personnel is designed and capable to do just that.

The cloth ones are better than nothing, which is most people's only alternative to actual N95 masks. Nothing isn't working well enough, so it's time to start demanding something stronger. The psychological aspect of it - that is, seeing people in masks reminds you to keep away from them, as well as the simple act of putting on a mask to go outside prompts you to consider whether or not you really need to - is just a bonus, really.

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The_tall_midget posted...

In ANY workplace with any amount of profesionalism, the a****** who doesn't refill his work station with furniture and reactives once his shift is done gets a reputation, very quickly, that he is a lazy piece of s*** and the word gets around.

And if you inherit a workstation from a guy who's left the position, it's quite reasonable to complain about him leaving stuff understocked or messy, but you still have a professional responsibility to restock it and clean it up before you need those supplies. Especially three years after you start working in the position.

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Honestly, for a reasonably-healthy cat, insurance may not actually be worthwhile. We're paying $35/month, and in the almost-two years we've had this cat, we've had ~$800 in payouts from his policy. Had we not been paying for it, we'd be breaking about even right now, and long-term, we'll probably be coming out in the red. That said, regular expenses are easier to stomach and budget around than big surprises, which is the whole point of insurance. He also does need dental work whenever we can get the money together for it, and getting that paid for will put us ahead of the premiums for a while.

We didn't even try getting insurance for our other cat, though. We adopted her at 15 with no vet records (owner died and a fostering agency put us directly in touch with his housemate) and fairly quickly discovered severe hyperthyroidism and some mild kidney disease. I don't even know if we could get insurance for her, let alone at a rate that would actually benefit us.

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Even before all of this started, it's been a while since I got takeout from anywhere. The closest I've done since the lockdown is take home leftover pastries from work at the end of my last shift there (protip: if you ever find yourself with some stale chocolate croissants, turn them into bread pudding. **** was delicious), which I'm not sure really counts. We've just been cooking everything we've eaten.

Zeus posted...

generally speaking, Chinese places in general aren't very active right now.

And what conclusions do you think you can draw from a subset of commercial establishments being disproportionately less active than other, similar establishments? Because in my experience, when stores close despite not being legally required to, it's usually because business is down to such an extent that they can't afford to keep running. If other restaurants are able to stay open despite schools and offices being closed, that suggests that there are enough people looking for takeout to sustain restaurants, which in turn suggests that fewer takeout-seekers than normal are interested in Chinese food for some reason.

Is that reason racism? Maybe. Maybe not. There are enough other potential factors that could cause such an effect that jumping straight to the simplest explanation isn't necessarily accurate. But I can tell you with complete certainty that "all the Chinese restaurants just happen to be closed for some reason" does not in any way suggest that racism isn't at play.

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I racked up a $700 bill a few weeks back because my male cat was acting like he had a urinary blockage. I saved a couple hundred by turning down the bloodwork they wanted to do, but the urinalysis, x-ray, and assortment of drugs he got ended up being rather expensive. This was also the emergency vet, of course, so that inflated prices quite a bit. And then he still wasn't any better the next morning so we took him back for a follow-up appointment. As it turns out, he just had a UTI along with possibly some idiopathic cystitis (we'd had a flood in the apartment about a month prior and had an industrial dehumidifer and some big fans set up for ~4 weeks, keeping him locked in one room for most of that, so he was a bit stressed out), but he also had evidence of crystals in his urine that could have ended up with a blockage, so we've changed his food to manage that.

Fortunately, his insurance paid back ~$565 of that, which is really handy.

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In short: "We're copying Nintendo's HD rumble idea* and making a controller that's otherwise basically the same as everything else on the market now." Nifty. Not sure I'm a fan of how low-profile the buttons look, but I'm guessing it'll work out.

Disclaimer: I honestly haven't noticed the whole HD rumble thing contributing much of anything to Switch games and I recognize that there's considerable potential to employ the concept properly in a full-size controller, so I don't think them going the haptic route is necessarily a bad thing. Just kind of entertaining.

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Zeus posted...

So basically you're conceding that the data is fake, but suggesting that it's important we believe a result based solely on fake data?

No, I'm saying that China's numbers don't matter at all in assessing the domestic situation. A point which I've explicitly stated several times in this topic. I'm really not sure why this is so hard for people to grasp.

Zeus posted...

It could be one death and we'd try to keep it in check. Remember how strongly we responded to Ebola, SARS, and Swine Flu.

There's "we need to keep this in check by employing epidemiologists to track it and throwing resources into developing treatments and vaccines in case it becomes a big deal," and then there's "we need to keep this in check by arresting people that congregate unnecessarily because otherwise the disease numbers are going to explode and hundreds of thousands of people are going to die waiting for ICU beds." This is not simply "we need to react to this because somebody died," this is a massive public health crisis, which is why the response is orders of magnitude stronger than Ebola or H1N1.

Zeus posted...

...however that's still going to be an issue when borders re-open because the Chinese wet-markets that started this and many other recent pandemics are going to be open for business. Until China takes measures to shut those down (which is going to take substantial pressure from the international community), this is going to be a recurring problem where every 5-7 years we'll have another international health crisis originating in China.

None of which has anything to do with China's current number of cases, which is the context I made that statement in. The disease will be gone from China by the time most countries actually consider allowing non-essential travel again, regardless of how much China's currently fabricating numbers. As for the new diseases that will almost certainly be arising from China in the future, maybe a certain president should be reconsidering his decision to fire the team that had been keeping tabs on emergent epidemic candidates in China, since that sounds like something that could be reeeeal useful moving forward. That international pressure you refer to should also be happening, though as I've said many times, that doesn't need to happen until after the crisis has passed.

ninja_lootz posted...

How much is China paying you to defend them?

How do you read what you quoted and possibly get "defense of China" from it?

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If I do actually use a calculator at work, I use the one on my phone, but it's mostly just adjusting recipes (usually x2 or x4), so I usually do it in my head.

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Smarkil posted...

I believe, in principle, that everyone should have the right to their own bodily autonomy and frankly the right to make idiotic and stupid decisions. You also have the right to shun those people from society and disassociate yourselves from them for potentially being exposed to stupid viruses. As long as no one is forcing them to go to their dumbass church service, they should be able to make that decision to potentially kill themselves.

The problem, however, is that it's not just themselves that they're endangering. Sure, we have the right to shun people who might have gotten themselves infected, but that's hard unless they wear a giant sign saying "I gather in large groups every week I'm probably infected." The fact of the matter is that people still have to go outside sometimes, even with distancing recommendations in place. Cutting down on the number of people that are able to gather in large numbers helps to make sure that when people do go outside, they're less likely to encounter infected people (and, by extension, to become infected and risk infecting other people).

These regulations aren't to protect individuals, they're to protect society. Yes, society is made up of individuals and the regulations require actions and sacrifices on the part of individuals, but it's a mistake to think of this in terms of telling people not to endanger themselves. This is much, much bigger than that, and the more people comply with the recommendations/requirements, the more lives are going to be saved.

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Oh, in the disease's early stages, comparing it to the flu was pretty reasonable. Many people did so then, including myself. That was less in the "it's not a big deal stop worrying" sense, though, and more in the "you're currently at more danger from the flu so go get a flu shot if you're really concerned about your safety" in an effort to assuage fears among laypeople (fears which were manifesting as racism and xenophobia in many cases). Anyone who knew what they were talking about always knew it was going to be a significant deal for public health agencies, as is the case with all emergent epidemics (and the fact that public health agencies make a big deal out of it is why most emergent epidemics don't turn into anything that laypeople have to worry significantly about).

The problem with how Trump has handled it is not simply that he compared it to the flu or said it was nothing most people needed to worry too much about. It's that he continued saying such things well after the WHO was saying it was actually a big deal that warranted a serious response from the public, undermining their advice in ways that are still resonating (see: Duckbear's headline from last week that 9 of the 10 states with the fastest-growing case numbers voted Trump in 2016) and slowing the response from the public during the critical early stages of the pandemic. He's been two steps behind since the outbreak started, and there's no excuse for that.

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The_tall_midget posted...

It was Obama's team which emptied and did not fill the supplies. See the difference between a leftist and non-leftist, people? One can admit that both sides did something wrong, the other refuses to do so. Thank you for proving our points BlackScythe0.

I mean, if we're going with that route, shall we also blame Bush and Clinton for not amassing a larger stockpile so it would be less depleted after Obama's terms? Yeah, Obama should have replenished the stockpile. But it's been three years since Obama was in office. That's more than enough time for Trump to have corrected Obama's error, so if anyone needs to be held accountable for the current shortfall, it's Trump.

Now, if Trump had been trying to replenish the supply and simply not been able to pull it off before this happened? Then Obama would deserve some blame, because that would be a consequence of the magnitude of the problem he left behind. But the fact that it's still a problem is 100% because Trump has failed to do anything about it. The root cause is distant enough that focusing on more proximal causes is far more reasonable.

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To be fair, a number of wipes do market themselves as being flushable, which shouldn't be allowed.

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Next week. Today's Palm Sunday.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

If you return the cart to collect the coin, you're basically being paid for your service.

Pretty much. In theory, an employee who took it upon themselves to return the carts could therefore be entitled to the money, but I'm guessing most places with this system require employees to give the money to the store.

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HagenEx posted...

Obviously the most important aspect in a roguelike RPG shooter.

That's why most people won't ever enjoy the true gaming gems of the past years like Dead Cells, Slay The Spire, Darkest Dungeon and Cuphead.

"Aesthetics".

Uhh, aesthetics is basically the only reason Cuphead got any more attention than the million other indie shmups that come out every year. Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire also can give some credit to their aesthetics for how much they stand out. That's not exactly the best list for the point you're trying to make.

Also, as much as graphics whoring is silly, if you really dislike how a game looks, that does definitely get in the way of enjoying it. Genuinely bad (iyo) visuals are basically impossible to ignore, due to the visual nature of games. You can't play BoI (or any other game) without looking at its art, and that means disliking its art is a perfectly good reason to not be interested in it.

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captpackrat posted...

So... For 3 years Trump couldn't buy new masks for some reason?

Yeah, that's about my thought. I'll believe that Obama failed to replenish the stockpile, but Trump's had plenty of opportunity to remedy that.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

They usually aren't apex, there's always another species that throws them around by the neck.

Eh, a good many of them don't ever actually get shown being eaten by anything else. Some of the early-game monsters sure, but there definitely isn't much attention paid to ecological niches when it comes to bigger ones (to say nothing of the fact that there are nowhere near enough small monsters around to sustain the carnivores).

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That's fair.

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My dad lost one of his testicles to testicular torsion when he was a teenager. He still managed to sire three of us, so it's definitely possible.

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That's less portrarying evolution and more portraying related species. Those are a result of evolution, sure, but the actual evolutionary process isn't explicitly displayed. There's also no way that many apex predators could have evolved in the same regions like that.

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It's safe, but it's pretty bland, even by water standards. The concerns about not having enough electrolytes in it are pretty minor; the vast majority of your electrolytes are usually going to be coming from food (otherwise different neighbourhoods would have different nutritional requirements to account for variations in water mineral content).

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zebatov posted...

Gotta love how liquor stores are considered essential.

Yeah, that kinda baffles me. I've heard the argument that they're necessary because otherwise alcoholics would end up withdrawing, which is a major problem (alcohol withdrawal being one of only a tiny handful of withdrawals that can be lethal), but given that that could be managed by a small-scale operation that dispensed the required amount to keep them safe (potential weaning them safely off of it in the process as an added bonus), I'm not sure that really covers it all.

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I knew the portal was opening in early April, but apparently it's going to be a birthday present for me. Schweet.

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Revelation34 posted...

Shitty advice. A fucking bandana isn't going to protect you from any disease.

It's better than nothing, which is the only alternative at this point. Anything to slow the spread.

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Revelation34 posted...

I volunteer for science.

That'd probably just involve eating nuts and spooging in test tubes that they'll freeze and use for skin tests. Not nearly as sexy as I'm guessing you're thinking of it being.

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JixHedgehog posted...

State Governors recommend people stay at home -

Publics reaction- "No thanks, I'm not doing that"

The President doesn't want to wear a mask that's now recommended -

Publics reaction- "He should follow the rules like everyone else!"

Generally speaking, I'm pretty sure those are different sections of the public.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Using one data point to extrapolate the whole is very flawed.

Sure, but you can suspect something without knowing it conclusively.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

One case makes it the truth? Maybe something was wrong with the boyfriend that allowed such transmission and not a function of the nut?

It's considerably more likely that the allergen is able to cross into semen than that this one person has a specific mutation that allows the allergen to cross into his semen. It's not impossible that it doesn't apply to everyone, but the former is the more reasonable conclusion to draw from this data until further testing suggests otherwise.

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Unbridled9 posted...

Well, the problem is that the reason this virus got so bad was because the CCP blatantly lied, and is still lying. It's death toll is probably stupidly higher than what they're actually reporting (and only 'probably' because it may be higher than 'stupidly') and they're trying to now blame America for this. Like, seriously? If they had just been honest and didn't try to blame America for the virus I would be calling it Coronavirus. But trying to blame us for it? Frick no.

Oh, by all means, blame them (although as much as the CCP is to blame for the initial spread, the list of countries that haven't grossly mismanaged this thing is pretty short, so there's plenty of blame to go around beyond that), you just don't need to rename the already-named virus to do that, especially when such a name will inevitably become ambiguous whenever another wacky virus comes out of China.

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I feel like you've done this one before. Or at least a very similar one.

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Revelation34 posted...

I meant the prices of healthy food vs other stuff.

That's generally because other stuff being cheaper is a consequence of using cheaper artificial substitutes and mass production processes that often strip nutritional value away from them. There's a lot of nonsense in the health food industry that absolutely is a scam (protip: anything that lists "evaporated cane juice" in its ingredients instead of "sugar" is hiding something), but the fact that genuinely healthier food tends to be more expensive than processed stuff isn't part of that.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Especially the ones that have gone through multiple chemical reactions in order to be created. Just eat fresh veggies.

Fresh veggies also go through multiple chemical reactions to be created.

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Does The Witcher count? If not, I do have Huniepop, but just in my Humble library rather than on Steam.

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streamofthesky posted...

Bill Gates is awesome.

Crazy how in the '90's he was seen as a bad guy and Steve Jobs a good guy, and how damn much those views have flipped in the last two decades.

I mean, he wasn't exactly a good guy then. There's no shortage of not-nice things he did on the path to becoming the then-richest man in the world. But then he retired and devoted the rest of his life to genuinely making the world a better place. Just to confuse everyone.

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Demellic posted...

Vaccines are designed to be harmful because the people that created them are hardcore eugenicists and bigots to put it kindly, the ones that really do want to murder billions of people for their vision of a perfect world. A New World Order.

https://youtu.be/_3Mpw7CJJfM

And they have a devious master plan to do so by... incorporating ingredients with one-in-a-million side effects that are rarely lethal into a medical treatment that's given indiscriminately to just about everyone in the developed world. Positively brilliant!

Usually, to be a successful eugenicist, you need to be doing something to shape who survives the eugenics process. You also need to have a process that reliably removes the undesirables from the gene pool. Vaccines are administered indiscriminately and very rarely sterilize or kill anyone (more rarely than the diseases they prevent, in fact), meaning they fail utterly on both counts. You might have something resembling a case if you took the opposite approach and tried to claim that vaccines are created by eugenicists who give them out so that only the people they don't want die of smallpox or polio or measles. As it stands? You just went from "person whose confirmation bias is keeping them from recognizing the actual science of the matter" to "complete lunatic" in one sentence. Well done.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

"Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12."

Not a single actual vegetable in that formulation. All extracts, concentrates and additives. Actually, it's basically frozen soy cereal, gross.

Go eat an actual vegetable if you want to eat healthier.

So... a bunch of plant derivatives with a multivitamin mixed in. You could do worse.

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streamofthesky posted...

I think you get like 3 arts initially, and enemies don't have much health early on, so I don't remember it being particularly dull.
And pretty early on you get Visions and Chain Attacks, which on top of the ever-expanding list of arts and upgrades, adds a ton of depth to the combat quickly.

It does, there's just enough autoattacking in the early game that I understand people being put off by it.

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streamofthesky posted...

The combat is probably the one area that rubs some the wrong way.... I don't play nor have interest in MMOs, but a lot of people compare it to MMOs.

The biggest issue I see a lot of people having with the combat is how long it takes to get rolling, which I can understand. By mid-game, you've got plenty of arts to juggle and synergise and whatnot, and that's really interesting (especially if you start playing around with different PC's), but the first couple hours of "autoattack while waiting 12 seconds for Backstab to come off cooldown" are a little rough. New arts do roll in pretty quickly, though, and cooldowns get improved as they level up, so I personally feel it gains the depth it needs quickly enough to stay engaging.

xjayguyx posted...

It's vast but not that much going on from what I remember. You can't go into many buildings/houses and stuff. Been a while since I playing XBC1.

I personally found the scenery to be enough going on to make exploration worthwhile. Side quests - as filler-tastic as most of them were - made me feel like exploration accomplished something gameplay-wise, then it was just enjoyable to explore because of how great everything looked. I also really liked that zones weren't uniform levels, so exploring sometimes meant I wandered into a cave full of stuff 50 levels higher than me. That was enough to qualify as "something going on," in my books.

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It was pretty great, though it's got its fair share of flaws. Not as good as the first, but that's a pretty high bar to set in my books. It's well worth playing.

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Yeah, my birthday's on Monday and I won't be going anywhere. That's not tremendously different from last year, though (it was Saturday last year, so no classes, and I wasn't working then), so I'm not too heartbroken by that. Just me, my girlfriend, and whatever cake I decide to make.

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HornedLion posted...

I need to just buy it already. But I dont wanna pay $60.

Realistically, you'll easily get your money's worth out of it. Animal Crossing games last pretty well, in my experience. It'd be nice to save a bit if that's an option, sure, but it's not like that's overpriced.

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Muscles posted...

Resumes are there so they know people are looking for a job, I have a job so I don't need to look for a new one, I just need the government to give me the money they owe me

Provided your work manages to survive the closure, which isn't a guarantee. It's not unreasonable to have to demonstrate that you're able and willing to look for new work if that's what it comes to, especially where you've probably spent about as much time reading and responding to this topic as it would take to slap together a resume. Even more so where the resume in question doesn't even have to be something that would actually get you hired.

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