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Topic | Weird to think that the Battle Of Hogwarts canonically occurred in 1998. |
Proto_Spark 06/26/20 11:56:01 PM #4 | Did they ever say a date? I always assumed it just went along with the general publication date (since Sorcerrer's stone was in 1998 and Harry goes 7 years later would place the Battle of Hogwarts in 2005. Or just a floating timeline to match the kids growing up with the books, meaning Battle of Hogwarts was in 2007, regardless of when he actually started there. IDK I could never get into the books, so I don't remember much of the minor details. |
Topic | Top 10 Comic Book Movies |
Proto_Spark 06/26/20 11:52:01 PM #8 | No particular order, and I'm gonna try to avoid MCU movies because they seem obvious. 30 Days of Night Tank Girl Kick-Ass Atomic Blonde Into the Spider-Verse Logan Watchmen Dredd (2012) Kingsman: The Secret Service 300 |
Topic | Trump to sign Executive Order directing feds to prioritize skills over degrees. |
Proto_Spark 06/26/20 11:38:00 PM #12 | TopKekBro posted... In other words he wants less educated people in government because He wants to do away with career civil service. This. It kind of sounds like one step towards being allowed to discriminate in hiring. Because how TF does the federal government install some kind of requirement for a job hiring? So much of it is based on personal ****. |
Topic | I just got AT&T fiber internet. 998Mbps download speed HOT DAMN! |
Proto_Spark 06/25/20 4:36:04 PM #47 | What the hell are y'all doing to get these internet speeds? I've got 6.3 down and 2.6 up for like 100$/month. wtf Canada. |
Topic | Jordan Peterson betrayed me |
Proto_Spark 06/25/20 3:52:07 PM #13 | au_gold posted... Clean your damn room. This. If you clean your room, cats will let you pet them. They see you and go "yeah he's got his stuff together", It's science. |
Topic | Are you going to be sad when pro wrestling is no more? |
Proto_Spark 06/25/20 12:43:27 PM #6 | Christian RULES posted... No, WWE is dead. AEW is still alive. WWE isn't actually going to die anytime soon. They're still making money hand over fist and aren't popular enough to actually face flak for any of their ****y behaviour. For context, there was a covid outbreak during the last WWE taping, because WWE wasn't actually testing anyone properly, so commentator Renee Young got her positive test by going around WWE, which led to about 1/2 the roster being at risk of having caught COVID. There's also the issue of basically every big name that isn't in WWE or AEW is apparently a sexual predator. |
Topic | Would you support open and free borders between Canada and America? |
Proto_Spark 06/25/20 10:48:01 AM #10 | Yeah but not until COVID calms down because Canada's recovery is being slowed pretty significantly based on how **** a job y'all are doing down there. |
Topic | Got a smartwatch? |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 9:32:16 PM #10 | AirJordan2345 posted... really? have you heard anything about michael kors smartwatches? Most smartwatches use WearOS that Google makes, and I don't know if I've ever actually heard a good review for them. I don't know about the watch you might be looking at specifically, but Wear OS is supposed to not be great. |
Topic | Got a smartwatch? |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 9:23:33 PM #6 | I have a Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. Supposedly the only smartwatches actually worth anything are either the Apple or Samsung smart watches. The OS for other smartwatches is supposed to be terrible. |
Topic | 200cc Mario Kart 8 is harder than Dark Souls |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 7:53:49 PM #10 | Spooking posted... Dark Souls is considered hard because it is usually babies first "hard" game. Can't tank though everything like you can in every other game. 200cc is brand new in 8 (I think) and is basically "too fast to just hold down the A button and steer" I think it falls under the same area as this, but its an entirely different play style you need basically just for this last round of racing. |
Topic | Joe Rogan: Looney Tunes Reboot to Remove Elmer Fudd's Gun |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 3:57:17 PM #55 | Lebronwon posted... I found the video he was raging about and it does kinda seem violent. With all those explosions. This feels like the same reason why lots of TV shows don't display much "relatable" violence. Using a gun is probably too close to home that these kids will likely encounter in their daily lives, while using something more ridiculous, like dynamite creates more of a cartoon atmosphere to things. You can see this, where if sitcoms and stuff ever actually display violence in a way people might actually experience (ex. a kid getting bullied at school) its such a big deal but Captain America or Thor can go superman an army of generic CGI monsters with no issue. There's also the problem of instead of using a gun, Fudd is using like a farmer sickle which will undoubtedly be more painful for bugs (if Fudd ever caught him) in a pretty gross sadist-kind-of-way. |
Topic | The goal is to get Trump out of office |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 12:13:47 PM #5 | CrimsonRage posted... it just sucks that a biden win will just mean to democrats that trump was an anomaly and that they don't need to change They didn't change when Trump actually won. We aren't getting any reasonable changes for another like 15 years until the current crop of Democrats all die. Biden will make things a little better, but probably not much. |
Topic | Can someone explain to me how 'Kung Flu' is racist? |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 10:38:40 AM #30 | ledbowman posted... Hey guys sometimes it's ok to live a little and say kung flu without being A Racist Zikten posted... it sounds stupid but the reason it's a problem is because it influences dumb racists into furthering their hate for asians. he puts it in their heads that asians are to blame for the virus and they then attack asians, even when some of them are not even chinese, because they are idiots who don't know the difference or care. even when the actual chinese are still also innocent because they had nothing to do with a government on the other side of the planet that their only connection to is its the current government for the homeland that their maybe their grandparents were born from |
Topic | Sean Hannity GRILLS Mark Cuban on his endorsement of Joe Biden. |
Proto_Spark 06/24/20 10:22:07 AM #13 | I hate when people pretend this is an actual debate. Hannity had 90% of the mic time and wouldnt let Cuban get more than a sentence in without interrupting. not to mention all the pulling **** out of his ass hannity was doing, whats Cuban going to do, fact check him during their 5 minute segment? |
Topic | Pick:[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 11:32:18 PM #20 | SrRd_RacinG posted... [K] Resident Evil 8: Village I've never played much Resident Evil, but sure, this could be cool. It'll probably go on my pile of "play for an hour, that was fun - then never pick it up again" |
Topic | PRINCIPAL says that Black People are PRIVILEGED cause they get $$ with NO JOB!! |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 8:47:58 PM #14 | boxington posted... people like her are proof that education doesn't always positively correlate with intelligence. This. Weren't these people the ones telling the kids to keep track of what they post online, because it follows you? how stupid are these people? |
Topic | lmao the WH is planning to cut support for covid testing |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 8:47:13 PM #7 | See if they kill everyone by the election, Trump can't actually lose it. This is that 4D chess everyone is talking about. |
Topic | Do you PERSONALLY know an atheist conservative? |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 12:40:39 PM #5 | Its a common part of the "I'm too full of myself to ever get off my high horse" group. |
Topic | Look at this Harvest Moon game that was just announced |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 11:34:19 AM #10 | It's using the Harvest Moon name, that means it isn't a "traditional" HM game, and the weird mobile bull**** because Natsume owns the name and want to ***** the name out for every last drop its worth. Here's the most recent actual HM game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDS3jtEjZO4 |
Topic | Is Mark Wahlberg canceled yet? |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 11:29:17 AM #12 | rodu_jr posted... what did he do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg#Legal_issues He assaulted a few black children and an old Vietnamese guy during his teenage years (in the way that its clearly a hate crime). Considering it was almost 30 years ago at this point, I don't think he's going to face any real trouble. He also hasn't been cancelled for having ****y movies yet so I don't think this will really change much. |
Topic | PSA: Buy Tropic Thunder before it get cancelled. |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 11:24:04 AM #23 | Bluebomber182 posted... gwtw is still available. jfc why do people keep spreading this horseshit? Its easier to spout bull**** so you can blame the boogeyman and most people won't bother checking it because it reinforces their narrow mindset. |
Topic | Girl Told Me She's Had Sex With More Than 35 Men. Is This Normal? |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 11:20:20 AM #33 | Bananana posted... Good lord at the misogyny and bitterness itt This. It's like women aren't allowed to enjoy sex themselves. Austin_Era_II posted... Anything beyond 5 at the age of 25 is too much. I'd make sure before doing anything with her including kissing she gets checked by a doctor. STIs are on the rise like never before. Any number is perfectly fine as long as you aren't super insecure. STI tests are a good idea, but you should frankly be doing that with anyone who is sexually active. |
Topic | Played Bioshock? |
Proto_Spark 06/23/20 12:48:17 AM #18 | Really enjoyed Infinite, but 1 and 2 are the kind of games where I play for a bit and think its cool, but never really get around to picking back up again. I'll probably get around to playing them at some point. |
Topic | wighte lives matter! |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 9:37:38 PM #9 | https://www.insider.com/game-of-thrones-white-walkers-wights-skeletons-difference-2017-8 Wights get all kinds of discrimination, they really deserve justice too. |
Topic | trump accuses obama of treason and calls for his execution |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 9:36:11 PM #9 | tbf, Trump didn't actually call for Obama's execution, he said "If it was the opposite, two years ago, 25 people would have been convicted and they would be sent to jail for 50 years. And by the way, if it were 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, they would have been executed, but we're in a different time" Just the kind of awkward gymnastics that Trump supporters are going to be bringing up when the president suggests that the previous president maybe should be sentenced to death for an unproven claim that even if its true, is not nearly as bad as some of the stuff Trump has probably done since Breakfast. |
Topic | What was the last concert you attended before quarantine? |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 5:49:01 PM #27 | Periphery last October/November. There were some shows nearby that I was going to go to like within a few weeks of Lockdown starting that I was a little bummed about not being able to go to though. |
Topic | Young people becoming less accepting of LGBT people? |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 5:46:05 PM #50 | Extreme_light posted... Maybe I should be less direct then since folks don't like the simple and direct path. Dude isn't racist but the dude straight up made racial jokes as recently as last year... straight to a black person face, and more recently dismiss any Asian American's concern about calling it the chinese or wuhan virus and mocked liberals calling Bloomberg a racist... for his clearly racist stop-and-frisk policies and this is around the time that audio came out. I would add the issue of he's so up in his own ass and refuses to get off his high horse that when he does something like make a racist joke, make a tasteless joke, or be anti-vaxx sympathetic or whatever else his common issues are, is that he never just admits he made a mistake and moves on, he always doubles down, and the things he doubles down on are always really ****ing stupid. Like that time he **** on Stan Lee literally the week he died, and instead of admitting it was poor timing, decided to double down and have a whole 10 minute monologue about how everyone who thinks comic books are anything worthwhile are useless human beings who simply don't understand the "finer things". |
Topic | Eskimo Pies to drop 'derogatory' name over racial insensitivity |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 12:23:41 PM #48 | CanuckCowboy posted... I dont know about very offensive but yeah its not something they like to be called and is actually a name given to them by settlers. This is a problem with a lot of indigenous peoples tbh, it's a fairly widespread problem, but this is a step in the right direction at least. |
Topic | Megan Fox has been sexualized from the age of 15 by Michael Bay |
Proto_Spark 06/22/20 12:10:09 AM #42 | au_gold posted... Michael Bay devoted a subplot in Transformers 4 to statutory rape, so Im inclined to believe any creepy thing about him. Michael Bay devoted an entire subplot in Transformers 4 to how its totally not statutory rape tho, its totally cool and I'm gonna have the character literally carry a copy of the statute that makes this technically ok. Like its even worse than that. https://youtu.be/DUq0HlMvQw0?t=61 I don't think its better that the guy was dating a 14 year old girl, but god this seen is so cringeworthy. |
Topic | Ah so Halsey and Kim K are both playing lawyer now |
Proto_Spark 06/21/20 10:29:52 PM #3 | lilORANG posted... Did Kim ever take the bar? Didn't she announce that plan several years ago now? IIRC she's apprenticing with a lawyer instead of going to law school. Its gonna be a few more years before she can take the bar though. |
Topic | Canceling Joe Rogan Would be the Left's Worst Nightmare |
Proto_Spark 06/21/20 3:18:01 PM #25 | Obviously the left's worst nightmare would be some kind of oppressive fascistic dictatorship, but I guess cancelling a popular podcast is much worse. also, holy **** that website looks like it was made in 2002. |
Topic | How is Microsoft Edge |
Proto_Spark 06/21/20 2:14:15 AM #8 | An_Actual_Chad posted... Which do you prefer? Edge, but Before my new computer I had a crappy cheap laptop that could barely run Chrome, and the fact that Edge runs fine is fantastic as far as I'm concerned. I like Edge, but I might have a bias against chrome. |
Topic | Is Jordan Peterson dead? |
Proto_Spark 06/21/20 2:10:32 AM #14 | AloneIBreak posted... I started reading 21 Rules or whatever his book was called. I lost interest a little less than halfway through, but it didn't seem overtly right wing to me. I was surprised to see he was the chosen intellectual of the alt-right. He's the guy all the nazi's hide behind to act like they aren't nazis. Outside of the stuff he actually preaches, he pushes some major conservative talking points and does the same "the left is the cause of all your problems" except sometimes he uses a different word for the "left". |
Topic | How is Microsoft Edge |
Proto_Spark 06/21/20 1:58:29 AM #3 | Master_Bass posted... It's pretty much just a modified Chrome these days. This. Its pretty solid though. I got a new computer recently and haven't bothered installing chrome since Edge works great. |
Topic | Worst Star Wars scene day 21: Taking the skiff vs Throne Room (Spoilers all) |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 10:51:57 PM #6 | sk8r_ryan posted... Tbf I haven't actually seen any of the sequels past TFA but I find it incredibly hard to believe that any scenes could so completely lack any positive aspects in them the way 'angel' and 'sand' do. It's a really awkward scene that's just devoid of content, contextually in the movie it makes no sense whatsoever (IMO Rey appeared to have a much more significant relationship with both Han and Leia, so both Rey Solo and Rey Organa would contextually make more sense) and out-of-context, it just reeks of awkward attempts at fanservice in a movie that was so hamfisted with its attempts at fan service. not to mention the overwhelming disappointment of being the very ending to the entire saga. It definitely belongs with "angel" and "sand" A lot of the hate for the sequels are definitely not warranted IMO (hell, some of the best scenes have overwhelmingly won the "worst scene" before) |
Topic | Worst Star Wars scene day 21: Taking the skiff vs Throne Room (Spoilers all) |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 10:44:35 PM #4 | sk8r_ryan posted... Can we just skip to the end, to "Are you an angel" vs "I don't like sand" Prob a triple threat with "Rey Skywalker" |
Topic | Worst Star Wars scene day 21: Taking the skiff vs Throne Room (Spoilers all) |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 10:27:47 PM #2 | So many of these topics are just dumb. I get no quality control, its more the blind hate accompanied with the sequels for a lot of these topics. "Oh, Rey is sailing a BOAT?! WORST MOVIE EVER" Neither of these scenes are even bad, we're just having a **** the sequels topic here. |
Topic | Why are there always so many topics about Joe Rogan |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 10:09:26 PM #3 | Because he has a super popular podcast and pretending he's alt-right gets more attention. |
Topic | Remember when you were 14 and thought Dane Cook was hilarious? |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 10:07:44 PM #16 | I haven't seen any Dane Cook stuff in years, but I'd still say his Vicious Circle show was good. idk if its nostalgia or what but I ****ing loved it. |
Topic | John Bolton wins Trump loses. Book tells all. |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 1:48:26 PM #2 | The other 15 books didnt accomplish anything, why will this one? |
Topic | Why do critics love The Last of Us 2 but players hate it? |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 12:53:47 PM #49 | Strider102 posted... Another argument could be made that You could also argue that |
Topic | Why do critics love The Last of Us 2 but players hate it? |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 11:49:59 AM #33 | hockeybub89 posted... Anyone who thinks Joel was a hero is missing the point. He isn't some evil villain or the worst person in the game, but he's just a dude who did a lot of things for himself in a cruel, dead world Good character, but not a hero. This. Joel was a really selfish, ****y character, but not anything particularly special in the world of TLOU. Hell, the entire point of the ending of TLOU is that EDIT: Also a fun fact, you can check other reviews people have made on Metacritic, and so far, most of the people review bombing TLOU2 haven't posted any other reviews. That doesn't exactly say they don't have merit, but it does help support the "really just upset over SJW stuff or something" argument. |
Topic | Why do critics love The Last of Us 2 but players hate it? |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 11:37:10 AM #14 | Timohtep posted... I would guess these factors: This. Its a perfect storm of butthurt man children and some actual problems. I can't wait for like 2 years from now when TLOU2 is considered a great game and all the people picking it up late will be like "why does this have such **** reviews?" |
Topic | People are comparing Chef Boyardee to Aunt Jemima now |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 11:22:33 AM #26 | cjsdowg posted... If they took away Boyardee I would not give a got damn. Why do people care so much about these people going away. They don't. They just want to be racist with nobody telling them to stop, and it takes weird directions whenever we get to something like "we're removing this ad character because it has a bit of a racist history and we think that's not cool". |
Topic | Ratchet and Clank developer insights |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 11:15:25 AM #2 | Cool, a new Ratchet and Clank. They haven't been seen really since the awkward movie they tried to make didn't pan out very well. This kinda sounds like its just going to be a PS5 tech demo tho. Not necessarily a problem, just we're probably going to have some dumb gimmicks going on that wouldn't be present if this came out later or on the PS4. |
Topic | People are comparing Chef Boyardee to Aunt Jemima now |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 11:12:06 AM #22 | FortuneCookie posted... It's not like a minstrel character appearing in a Popeye cartoon or Bus Bunny wearing blackface for one scene of one short. She was created to play upon the slave/house servant stereotype and was presented as an obese Black woman with a nonsensical dialect: "Lawsee!" This. also it gets a fair bit worse if you look at the older versions of the ad. Way back when it wasn't just a black lady doing a "mammy" stereotype, it was legit a white person, in blackface, doing a mammy stereotype. There's way too much baggage there to keep the character around, compared to the no consequence of getting rid of her. |
Topic | I still can't believe the PS5 is shipping with a 825 GB SSD |
Proto_Spark 06/20/20 12:00:44 AM #35 | FrankGoreHOF posted... Havent played games since the ps3 gen. Is this what gaming has become? 100+ gig installs? Only the really big AAA titles with the huge open world and stuff. I know everything included AC: Odyssey was about 100 GB, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is like 130 or something ridiculous. |
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