Board List | |
---|---|
Topic | It has been 80 days since Joe Biden held a press conference. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/21/20 10:41:22 AM #12 | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-19/biden-campaign-lags-in-hiring-top-staff-in-battleground-states There's also this. If only there had been some one with a well-organized national infrastructure.... |
Topic | Animorphs is getting a movie |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 11:22:21 PM #81 | FortuneCookie posted... Whoever the gay or lesbian character ends up being, it'd be funny if the movie only showed them transform into animals with high rates of homosexuality. Lesbian lioness, gay penguin, etc.Marco's the only one who isn't explicitly in a relationship. Though I guess Jake x Cassie never really went anywhere and they could skip that if they want to. Rachel and Tobias shouldn't be gay, because berserker preppy girl x orphaned nerd trapped as a hawk was always a novel romance. I mean, it would be weird if it was Ax... |
Topic | If this topic gets 500 posts before midnight (PST) I'll do what Harpie didn't |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 10:24:42 PM #131 | |
Topic | If this topic gets 500 posts before midnight (PST) I'll do what Harpie didn't |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 10:07:04 PM #114 | Good luck! |
Topic | Social media trying to cancel Yale now. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 2:43:38 PM #7 | sutree posted... The Jesse Kelly guy is clearly trolling if you go to his feed.I know he was, but he stumbled into something true by accident. |
Topic | Americans: if you could... would you switch Trump with Justin Trudeau? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 2:42:53 PM #21 | Justin Trudeau sucks, but no more than half as much as Trump does. |
Topic | Social media trying to cancel Yale now. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 2:41:22 PM #4 | Yale legit sucks. Like Harvard, it's basically a hedge fund that runs a university for tax purposes. Also, it owns many of the state's hospitals. |
Topic | How come liberals are not blaming the protest for the increase numbers in FL? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 2:38:30 PM #19 | wackyteen posted... Almost as if opening the beaches was a bad idea.There was a lady handing out masks at the protest I went to. She only gave out two, because everyone else was wearing a mask already. |
Topic | Amazon workers offered chicken and waffles for Juneteenth celebration |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 2:16:06 PM #28 | I mean, not only is it tone-deaf, but Amazon clearly possesses the means to do much more than offer free food to its hilariously-overworked and micro-managed warehouse workers. |
Topic | Per RCP, Pelosi is more unpopular than the President. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 12:56:43 PM #5 | She's almost certain to win re-election, given her bottomless warchest. Her opponent is Shahid Buttar: https://shahidforchange.us/ California has a jungle primary, that's how this is two Democrats duking it out. |
Topic | Animorphs is getting a movie |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 10:59:49 AM #75 | And they rotated the POV character, which was a really fascinating device, because we not only got to track how everyone felt, but how everyone felt about everyone else. El_Lingo posted... That's true, plus she's the way they get most of the morphs. I like the parts when they do stuff in the zoo. She just felt like an author stand-in to me though. Like it wasn't that she was just the opposite of Rachel, she was also usually the one in the right. Preachy characters usually rub me the wrong way but you're right, they couldn't take her out.I feel like that's part and parcel of the character though. Cassie was basically the group's conscience, the only one who worried about more than winning the next battle or even the war. Who valued even the freedom of a single child. |
Topic | Republican senator quotes JK Rowling in blocking bill on LGBTQ rights |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 10:25:19 AM #13 | Bullet_Wing posted... Dude, Lovecraft literally wrote a poem called "On the Creation of N******" about beasts that were lesser than man.Yeah, give Rowling some time to catch up. |
Topic | Characters with racist origins: When to salvage and when to sever? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 12:32:37 AM #7 | I think, first and foremost, you have to start from a point of understanding that our culture is pretty racist, but it used to be blindingly racist. Like, Lovecraft is an excellent example, because his racism was particularly virulent, mean-spirited, and obvious. You need to read Lovecraft with that understanding, you need to present him both as the brilliant writer of horror and suspense that he was and the racist that he was. But, of course, a lot of older literature is racially-insensitive at best. It would be unwise to erase the past, because it's important people are aware of and acknowledge just how racist it was, but I think you can definitely adapt something like Lovecraft(you would avoid certain stories and certain associations |
Topic | What are you listening to right now? v2 |
ElatedVenusaur 06/20/20 12:21:04 AM #355 | Wax Fang - Mystery Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmrawDoCV0 I'll always be listening to this. But I do have a new hotness! Courtney Barnett - Need A Little Time(Live from Piedmont Park) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpPO3Ixbm1E |
Topic | Really thinking about buying Bolton's book. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 6:53:08 PM #14 | Antifar posted... All the juicy info is online Garioshi posted... how about not giving money to a war criminal |
Topic | Animorphs is getting a movie |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 2:39:24 PM #34 | PMarth2002 posted... Closest I can think of for furry is Rachel and Tobias's relationship, since he's a bird?I mean, we're talking about a book series about a white dude, his cousin, his black girlfriend, his Latino best friend, and the orphaned hanger-on nerd (and the wacky alien whose big brother was a war hero So it was always pretty SJW, sorry righties! |
Topic | Animorphs is getting a movie |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 2:34:59 PM #29 | Tired-Insomniac posted... Jesus, I didn't realize there were over 50 damn books.IIRC, everything from after the David arc right up to the beginning of the end(the last few books) was ghost-written and is more or less filler. Basically, you could probably make it a trilogy, with the second film containing the David arc and then wrap it up in movie 3. Make it a lean, mean psycho-action type deal. You would naturally cut out most of the Ellimist-Crayak metaplot, because it works fine in a book series but would be basically the equivalent of slamming on the brakes in a movie. They should try to avoid lengthy exposition. |
Topic | Animorphs is getting a movie |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 1:44:17 PM #11 | I very much doubt theyll get this right. Animorphs was insanely violent, but did a great job of portraying that violence as terrifying and awful, necessary though it was. |
Topic | Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford. |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 11:25:35 AM #17 | CountDog posted... Still need to read that book.It's really good, I definitely recommend it. DeadBankerDream posted... Her dad, or whomever, has the most bitching moustache this side of the collapse of the iron curtain.Yeah, that's her dad, and his mustache game is incredible. |
Topic | Gender identity. I'm so confused (blogfaqs) |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 10:33:10 AM #6 | CyricZ posted... You might want to talk to someone professional about this, especially if it's something you aren't comfortable sharing with your fiancee.Yeah, definitely do this. Your fiance can be helpful (and you should talk to them), but they're not objective, by nature of being your fiance. Also, you may want to try some hormones, if you haven't already, and you should handle that through official channels. |
Topic | Joe Biden, on marriage |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 10:24:08 AM #147 | COVxy gently cradling Joe Biden, that these vicious blows may fall on his body instead of Joe's. It's going to be a long election for you pal. |
Topic | The FFV Four Job Fiesta is Live! |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 12:46:18 AM #1 | http://fourjobfiesta.com/ Info about past years: https://blog.fourjobfiesta.com/ To (officially) participate, use the handy tool on the site to generate a registration tweet and fire it off to @ff5forfutures (otherwise known as Gilgabot). The fiesta is a collective challenge run: you are assigned four jobs(one per crystal) based on the parameters you choose. You must have at least one instance of every unlocked job in your party at all times, and you may not use any job that hasn't been assigned to you. But EV, isn't that hard? FFV is actually a fairly easy game, and multiple people beat it with nothing but berserkers every year. To put your mind at ease, here are some tips for surviving early on with your wind job... Knight, Monk Just buy the best equipment you can along with a hefty pile of potions, and spam attack. The only thing that will give you any trouble at all is Garula(the Walse Tower boss), but as long as you bought enough healing items, you'll get through it. Thief Basically the above, except thieves do less damage and are less robust...so, harder. Garula will be rough, but you can (rarely) steal Mythril Daggers from the Wyverns in Walse Tower. Even one can give you a good boost in your damage output. Money shouldn't be a problem, just rob enemies. Black Mage Buy every spell you can and spam them from the safety of the back row. Garula isn't weak to anything you have, so he'll be tough, but you'll be in the back row(thus taking half damage) and have a hefty pile of potions, so you'll do okay. White Mage Congratulations, your run is basically a guaranteed success, because white magic makes it very hard to die ever. The problem is that white mages are pathetically weak attackers who struggle to kill anything, so every battle is going to be tedious. The Flail is the only source of something approximating real damage. No one will judge you if you run one freelancer until you get your water job, not even Garula is/was going to kill you. Blue Mage Yep, you're going to win, but you'll probably want a guide to find all that deliciously overpowered blue magic. Basically, blue mages learn enemy skills by being hit by them. Important early ones: Goblin Punch - From the goblins that can be found around Tycoon and the Wind Tower Vampire - From the bats in the pirate cave Flash - From the tombstone enemies on the mountain(you'll have to throw them an ether/elixir) Pond's Chorus - From the frog enemies in the secret cave behind Walse Castle That last one lets you cheese Garula: he's weak to Toad. He actually knows Toad, which he'll cast on himself to heal the status, but he doesn't have much MP, so just keep spamming Pond's Chorus until he runs out of MP and then laugh as he flails around impotently. Blue Mages can equip most weapons, but they're weak and frail, so if you're worried, you can put everyone in back and just spam Goblin Punch. If you take damage, Vampire to heal(unless you're in the ship graveyard, everything there is undead except for the boss). Here's an excellent info resource: https://ff5.mega64.net/index.php As for me, well, Gilgabot was exceptionally kind and gave me Blue Mage. Just starting in on North Mountain now. Blue Mage can probably get me through this even if I don't get anything else good, so I'm feeling great. Anyone else here running? |
Topic | Amy Klobuchar withdraws from VP consideration |
ElatedVenusaur 06/19/20 12:03:13 AM #16 | N3xtG3nGam3r posted... Lol, what? Why would i need to provide names of people that are well qualified? I dont know who the most qualified, and best fit for Democratic VP would be. It could be a person of color. It could be a woman. It could be a gay mexican man. It could be Amy Klobuchar--that is the point here. Resigning from the possibility of getting the position, and saying ''its someone of colors turn'' is idiotic. We're not in first grade, playing follow the leader...we're talking about someone who is one position under the most powerful position in the entire world. Skin color is ABSOLUTELY NOT one of the things that needs to be considered for this position. It should not be considered at all if we are to live in a society where everyone is looked at equally. People of color should be offended at a white person saying ''i've had enough fun now, i guess you can have a turn''...like wtf? Thats basically racist in and of itself...So, then why are you convinced that the person who is the most qualified isn't a woman or person of color? I mean, you admit you don't really know much about it. Because I'm not sure why you would be objecting so strongly to the idea otherwise. |
Topic | Amy Klobuchar withdraws from VP consideration |
ElatedVenusaur 06/18/20 11:37:14 PM #13 | N3xtG3nGam3r posted... Maybe they should just select whoever is best suited to the task, and most qualified, rather than put some random person in one of the most important positions in the United States, solely because of their skin color.Why, was Tim Kaine super qualified or something? You ought to put forward names if you're going to throw this out there. |
Topic | Amy Klobuchar withdraws from VP consideration |
ElatedVenusaur 06/18/20 11:20:49 PM #9 | TommyG663513 posted... LOL. Derek Chauvin certainly did her no favors.Hell, he's reportedly considering Rep. Val Demings, who was, as recently as 2018, pushing a Blue Lives Matter bill which would, among other things, make harming a cop a federal felony. She's also the former police chief of Orlando. Smashingpmkns posted... Wonder how the NYT feels about thisWell, they still have one of their endorsees in the |
Topic | We should destroy all the statues of the Prophet Mohammed |
ElatedVenusaur 06/18/20 2:07:53 PM #14 | Zikten posted... In most schools, yes, though not all. The Mughals were really fond of depicting Koranic scenes and events in Muhammad's life, for example. Certainly Wahabbism is super iconoclastic. |
Topic | SCOTUS rules against Trump administration. DACA program stays!!! |
ElatedVenusaur 06/18/20 10:45:28 AM #37 | I actually wrote a short bio of a classmate who turned out to be a DACA-recipient, so I'm extra relieved. |
Topic | We're officially old. Zoomers roasting millennials |
ElatedVenusaur 06/18/20 10:41:49 AM #105 | Fair. We deserve to be roasted too. We all do. |
Topic | Should healthcare be a societal right? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/17/20 12:28:39 AM #69 | genesis42 posted... Should healthcare be a societal right?Nobody's proposing that doctors should give you a portion of their salaries. |
Topic | Baseball writer hears at least 6, could be 8+, MLB owners don't want a season |
ElatedVenusaur 06/17/20 12:27:48 AM #39 | LOL that's wild about the Marlins. Even NFL owners, garbage though they are, aren't that transparent. Like, even the damned Bengals are trying to win and have always been, it's just Mike Brown is really dumb and really cheap. |
Topic | I would love to see Biden have a personal vendetta against Trump if he wins |
ElatedVenusaur 06/17/20 12:24:59 AM #6 | Biden will want to move forward and leave the past in the past. |
Topic | Do you still read fiction books? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/16/20 11:03:16 PM #5 | Guide posted... Russian fiction is realer than real, homeslice. Dostoyevsky predicted incels before any of us were born.He's one of my favorite authors. I have Crime and Punishment up after the John Brown biography I'm reading. |
Topic | Should healthcare be a societal right? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/16/20 11:01:30 PM #43 | I mean, every other "developed" nation has some sort of universal system. The benefit of our system is that the wealthy who can afford to spend top dollar have marginally better healthcare outcomes in terms of things like cancer treatments, more jobs are created by our multiple private healthcare bureaucracies than would exist in a public one, and wealthy ghouls can become even wealthier than they already are. A competent transition plan could take care of any disruptions easily. Plus, y'know, you can't credibly claim to give a damn about your fellow citizens if you think them being unable to afford life-preserving/improving care is cool and good. |
Topic | Is Biden a racist? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/16/20 1:03:28 PM #9 | Accolon posted... Thats amazing. But yes, Joe Biden has been a racist for a very long time. Hes not as malevolent as Trump, but thats a lot like saying something isnt as poisonous as arsenic. |
Topic | Aftermath of Walmart looting |
ElatedVenusaur 06/16/20 10:36:04 AM #63 | I feel bad for that woman, but not for Walmart. But if Walmart is the only grocery store she has access to, then that's indicative of a wider socio-economic problem. |
Topic | Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it is illegal to fire someone for being gay/lesbian |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 10:28:46 PM #119 | GrandConjuraton posted... What about the thing from last week with healthcare?It probably wont survive a court challenge, but will continue to hurt trans people for as long as its in effect. |
Topic | MLB Billiionare Owners: We can't afford to pay players pro rated salaries! |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 10:15:08 PM #7 | Austin_Era_II posted... The players are all overpaid. They can't afford a lower salary? Sell your mansion or 9 of your 10 cars. You'll make it.Its really weird how this never applies to the vastly wealthier owners and their cartel. |
Topic | Whats your favorite episode of Rick and Morty? (Spoilers?) |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 10:09:54 PM #2 | I lean towards Rickdie Rickpeat or Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri, myself. The former has perhaps the strongest Morty-centric plot in the series, with a highly varied and hilarious Rick plot inserted between it. The season 4 finale is also great from start-to-finish, the best fight in the series, and finished strong. Vat of Acid and Time Travel Snakes with Jazz werent far behind. The Facehuggers round out my top 5. Favorite in the series though? Autoerotic Assimilation is a strong contender. |
Topic | Taylor Swift: villains don't DESERVE statues |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 2:06:44 PM #6 | DrizztLink posted... Confederate statues are participation trophies"2nd place: American Civil War, awarded to the Confederate States of America (1861-65)." |
Topic | So statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc are being targeted now? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 1:41:22 PM #25 | NinjaWarrior455 posted... The Founding Fathers worship has always been odd to me. They weren't infallible and still wrote a very flawed document even at the time.Yeah, there's basically a sort of cultishness to how the Founders are often presented. The truth is they were 18th-century aristocrats who had the priorities of 18th-century aristocrats. Many of them were praise-worthy in many ways(like, Washington 100% could have gone full Cromwell/Napoleon if he had wanted to, but didn't and went out of his way to dispel any ideas his junior officers had that he would), but they were terrible in many others. Some aspects of the government they designed worked out pretty well, others did not. It increasingly struggles to govern in the 21st-century. Some would even have the good sense to be aghast that we were still running things by their lines. |
Topic | Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it is illegal to fire someone for being gay/lesbian |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 11:43:06 AM #77 | Fun fact: the word "sex" was inserted into the Civil Rights Act by Democratic Rep. Howard Smith, a segregationist, as a poison-pill meant to derail the legislation. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/does-civil-rights-act-protect-sexual-orientation/587881/ I mention it, because it's one of history's most stupendous own-goals. https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1272542740727857152 I feel like Alito is going to regret writing that. It's worth noting Alito and Kavanaugh seem to have written separate dissents. |
Topic | Scottish Parliament votes to end export of teargas,rubber bullets,shields to US |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 11:05:40 AM #9 | Hicks233 posted... That'll unlikely go anywhere.True, but it's nice to know the Scots have our backs. |
Topic | Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it is illegal to fire someone for being gay/lesbian |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 11:03:26 AM #41 | _Rinku_ posted... Good. Hopefully it'll be illegal to fire someone for being trans too."An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids," Gorsuch wrote." https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-employment-case/index.html It absolutely does apply to trans people. It seems they folded in the Aimee Stephens case. https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1272531176985681921 Reminder this is written by Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch, so babby is going to be mad on Twitter. |
Topic | All these protestors and rioters better actually vote |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 12:28:10 AM #5 | Comfy_Pillow posted... And not just in the general election, but local as well.Obama didn't even give Occupy a chance to vote before coordinating the violent crackdown. Also, it would probably be helpful if the Democratic candidate wasn't a leading architect of the way the country is now. |
Topic | Just finished The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds |
ElatedVenusaur 06/15/20 12:16:02 AM #2 | A Link to the Past is great and Link Between Worlds is an extremely well-executed nostalgia trip through that Hyrule and that Dark World. It neither leans too hard on the game it's modeled on nor does it try and keep it at arms length. I had a great time playing it too. |
Topic | Why is nobody making a big deal of the fact that the rich pay almost no taxes? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/14/20 11:27:44 PM #17 | apocalyptic_4 posted... Taxes are for poor peopleSeriously. Don't you people have a few hundred thousand to spend on a decent accountant to make the problem go away? |
Topic | Was Ronald Reagan's grave the first gender neutral bathroom? |
ElatedVenusaur 06/14/20 7:00:23 PM #3 | No, Nixon died first. |
Topic | Are you normally a very "hugging person?" |
ElatedVenusaur 06/14/20 6:55:32 PM #6 | Yeah, more so with women, but I hug dudes too. |
Board List |