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Forgot the name of the story but isn't this more or less a rip from comics? I seem to remember a story where Scarlet Witch goes bonkers after losing someone and creates an alternate reality so she could be happy.
I seem to remember something about mutants after everything got righted, so it'll likely be a jumping off point for those to join the MCU.

Cobalt_Wasps posted...

woah, they tried to DOUBLE it??? lol

Yup. Not even like a $5 price hike but a full blown double, it was crazy. People went absolutely berserk because I think they tried to pull the "our service is worth it" card despite pretty much every consoles online service being trash last year.

Yet another reason to just skip this console generation, especially if Sony does it too.

I'll just stick with PC.

Look, public wise it's easy to say: Fuck those guys. And i'm on board with that.

Simple fact is, if Biden doesn't attempt to work with them at all, his Presidency is going to be an absolute nightmare because they're just going to shit on everything even more than usual.

samurai bandit posted...

That's why you must report any cripto gains on your taxes. In that sense I don't see how the money laundering via bitcoin is any different from whatever other money laundering options exist.

Generally speaking, less work involved. And a lot of oblivious hands helping you.

I do technically. I lost this accounts login info and couldn't get a pw reset for like a month many years ago. But I don't even remember what it is.

I would absolutely be happy for the entire crypto market to go under on a completely selfish viewpoint. Admittedly I want that to happen since gaming had been one of my biggest hobbies forever and it had kinda gotten in the way of my upgrades.

But, I realize at this point it's going to cause a lot of people some problems so hope if they tackle it they don't just blanket screw over everyone. Do agree it needs something to tone down how easy it is to use for illegal shit though.

Depends on the tattoo honestly, and how well it's done. No different than any other tattoo.

I mean they can, just not in california where they probably want to live.

Can guarantee most could grab houses in flyover states, but yeah. He's not wrong, it's just one of those "well technically" things.

I mean chess is a sport, assuming we're measuring physical activity video games are at least a little more active.

I don't like any politician, but I mean at least what he plans to do seems alright.

Time would be concerning but until I got something else I'd probably not care tbh.

They were complaining about lack of Asian people iirc and not much else, but I mean they tried. Miyagi's dead both IRL and in show and most of the others either didn't want to work on the show regularly or they couldn't contact, so it's more like they're just kinda in the situation. In reality though I think there's even a few Asian students that got a decent amount of time.

Also, Kreese is the Villain and was basically using weaponized political correctness to show how much of a double-edged sword it could be to people who know how to game the system, and how it can leave the actually helpless even more helpless.

It was actually really well done and I think they were purposefully trying to get the SJWs to complain.

pogo_rabid posted...

That's the only way to do it.

I'll never understand streamers (twitch streamers are the worst at this) who don't ban obvious trolls/spammers, but continually complain about them.

EDIT: And if you were not trying to troll, but got caught up in the crossfire, fuck you learn the language better before trying to "help".

Yeah, they were doing it in Indonesian so I couldn't pick it up since I'm wholly unfamiliar with the language, but she seemed a little irritated by whatever they were saying. Assuming it wasn't just mess ups and they were trying to intentionally cause drama.

Caelthus posted...

That's actually a common anti tactic to intentionally stir up discourse.

Moona had a problem with people intentionally mistranslating her in her Skyrim stream, think she just straight up banned those involved.

Zangetsu from Bloodstained. Think I'm pretty well screwed. May possibly be able to use a gun but I doubt it.

Honestly it has been for a long while, not a recent thing. It's just that all our bad tendencies have legitimately just clawed their way to the top now.

It's fuckin ridiculous they even got in the building, whole situation was a masterpiece of stupidity and really made us look like a laughing stock even more than usual.

Depends on how they act about it.

I'm one of them but willing to admit it's entirely a selfish stance. Most of what's going on isn't going to impact my life so I just don't care, and I tend to avoid people with strong political leanings as I usually see them having the same tendencies as me but they just want to be loud and obnoxious about it.

When I hear someone else say it, I mostly just try to figure out if they're just saying it to avoid drama which is usually the case, legitimately apathetic which is rare, or just ill informed .

That said I do stay informed because politics are the best fucking reality show on television. You legitimately can not get better drama.

It's a remaster so I'm expecting shiny new graphics and next to no gameplay changes.

If you can't tell what kind of media you like, critical reception isn't going to help you at all.

In the end, I would say I agree with the topic title. They kinda serve no purpose.

I haven't actually lost touch with any of my friends, which is really weird now that I think about it, and any I don't talk to any more I usually cut them off.

Honestly, the best advice I can give you at this point then is abandon Reddit completely. It really breeds an unhealthy mind set, well a huge portion of reddit does, especially if you're already feeling down or stuck in a rut it can very easily dig you in even further.

This and Discord are pretty much the only "social networking" sites I even use any more and my life has felt way less stressful for some reason. Ditched em a long time ago.

Get hobbies and interests, read up on popular TV shows and movies if they don't interest you so you can get some common ground icebreakers. Power and money being used as leverage to get a "yes" out of the people you ask out usually ends in disaster.

Most of all, don't try too hard. Don't overthink things most of all, coming off as stressed will always show.

I used to keep my interests too niche, I pretty much only play games in my relax time because I really don't like TV/Movies too much. Once I broadened my horizons my social circle opened up massively.

Eliza3 posted...

I'm not so sure they're all equivalent. . .

How are they not? You have the degenerates of every group, though sports fans are more about the gossip of various celebrities/athletes are doing rather than mock-porn, but they still ship essentially via gossip. You have the fanatics that when you down-talk their fandom will go on rants about how it's the same as x or y or how it's superior to a for b reason. You have the superfans that know literally every stat about everything involved with their chosen fandom. You also have the controversial fans that like to defend illegal or questionable traits of things happening in whatever they're a fan of.

Every fandom generally thinks it's better than every other fandom, even boiling down to divisions in the same fanbase. Anime have various individual series--same for cartoons, TV shows, movies, comics, etc. Sports have individual players, teams and pro/college/highschool.

Fans are literally the same regardless of what fandom they belong to, people just like to see only the good or bad side of ones they're with or not.

Most people like it for what it is, stupid fun anime with fun fight scenes.

Fans don't like it because wacky power scaling and poor animation.

No worse than any other fandom avatars tbh. Anime, Star Wars, Star Trek, hell even Sports--whatever, really. We're all nerds for something.

Because old controllers were fucking terrible for fighters, and only really got noticeably better in the PS3/360 era. Outside of the Sega Saturn controller that is.

Also, playing grapplers/360 input characters on old D-Pads was fucking terrible. I remember getting blisters after long play sessions.

ssj3vegeta_ posted...

Im scared to do dis lol, i don't want to break anything. Maybe I'll buy a little vacuum or blower

Well last night after playing fifa 20 on it with my hdtv connected to it, i left it alone for like 30 minutes cause i was doing other stuff. When i came back to browse da internet, it was in sleep mode(i think dats what its called) and it took longer den usual for it to wake up. When it came back on, da mouse was like 10 times bigger and it wouldn't move. Den it returned to its normal size but da mouse was laggy as fuck. It would also change into like 2 seperate purple lines at times, dats when i got scared and shut it down and went to sleep lol

I thought dat maybe since its always connected to my tv, dat its causing it to use extra power. Or maybe my wireless mouse is dying. I really hope its just my mouse

Honestly that sounds like a weird graphics driver issue, having had something similar happen before. Restarting should typically fix that.

Worst case scenario is it's an actual graphics card problem, but until it happens again or something else it's a problem that's a dramatic conclusion.

Patty_Fleur posted...

How come I'm not allowed to think AoC is full of shit and lying/exaggerating about the situation?

We all know politicians are full of it, yet when it comes to her, gamefaqs users think she's perfect. Not capable of any wrong doing.

I didn't read the entire topic but I don't think people are saying that.

I think the general feel for this is that it was an awful situation and she was one of the people likely to be targeted, so it's understandable she's shaken from even just an encounter with a rioter, and that it's a weird stance to say because people died your shouldn't fear for your life.

ssj3vegeta_ posted...

Im asking because my PC i built like 4 years ago started lagging HARD last night and I'm scared

What are you doing when it lags and, well, how is it letting? Entire system being slow or game giving jittery performance or what?

I'm no tech wizard but I might be able to help out a bit.

Honestly like 1k, assuming no monitors or peripherals, is a sweet spot since multiple gpus and the like don't give much of anything for gaming these days.

But assuming you don't need everything maxed all the time and don't want all the best and newest toys, you could probably get close to 10 years out of it if not more pending on what you play.

Every politician wants attention, but until the details come out it's a little weird to assume someone is making up a situation or overdramatizing it in this particular circumstances when all the actual evidence points to a large group of extremely angry people rampaging about, and the fact that there are people that actually died just lends more credibility.

As someone who has had shit go bad real fast around them, you don't really need a gun put to your temple to assume you're going to die or even take some trauma from it. It also doesn't cheapen the deaths or experiences of anyone else to have your own.

That said, not knowing the full details, I can understand skepticism, but it's a bit weird to assume it's a publicity stunt in these sets of circumstances.

These days I try to minimize how much I go out overall so when I do it's usually to multiple locations then home. It's honestly just more convenient to leave it on, plus it's not like it actually bothers me in any way whatsoever.

The internet made sure people don't understand that doing stupid shit in real life doesn't just get people complaining at you, but has some serious consequences.

Honestly since Covid I've just been using curb/parking lot grocery pickup, but I prefer cashiers personally.

Hop103 posted...

You always gotta get commissions like this (and most other work obligations like these from strangers) in writing, especially since extorting Vtubers is a thing.

It's not an uncommon thing in general to pull this especially if you do it for a relative unknown who explodes in popularity, not just vtubers in particular though they seem very susceptible.

Dunno, I just prefer to stay out of this kinda stuff and carry on as normal because it's almost always impossible to know what is really going on.

The PS5's internal SSD is the primary reason I'm actually leaning towards getting my first XBox since near-launch 360. Heard it was soldered in which makes me very skeptical about its longevity and not just turning the system in to a paperweight if it fails for some reason.

I only have to ask, as an American, why do so many people from America have such a fucking hard time understanding that the internet is not America?

At this point I would honestly just like to see politicians themselves banned from the internet at large. Fuckin tired of hearing from most of them.

Home remodeling. Honestly, things just kinda fell apart during COVID and the employees and boss all mutually decided to seek other employment while this was going on and think about putting it back together if things got more "normal" ever again.

Why are people acting like Twitter is some sort of necessity? It's basically a messaging service like literally every single other one out there. It's a chatroom on a grand scale. This very site we're on now, and Twitter, are functionally the same--just on different scales.

Each website is owned by someone, much in the way any walk-in business, home, apartment, or otherwise is. Generally speaking if you break the rules in any of them, you usually get asked to stop if it's something minor. Something bigger, you usually get thrown out or banned from the place.

There is no "Free Speech" on the internet. No matter where you speak, unless you host a place yourself and choose not to police it of your own free will, someone will always be holding the guillotine still above your head ready to sever you from the site if you break the rules. Even with how much the internet has changed, this is still how it works. At the end of the day, on public speech platforms on the internet, the company owning them has more say than any leader. It's awkward to think about, but true.

Not to mention, as someone who was a moderator for various fan forums and the like throughout his life, and even ran some, and has been involved in both big and absolutely huge communities... You do not want that much transparency in to moderation of a site, no matter how much you think you do. Yeah, you can be upset if someone you like gets banned or suspended and you can throw a fit, but some shit gets dark real quick and easily abused the messier it gets to follow through with your rules.

The amount of people losing their shit and posting things that will stick in your mind for-fucking-ever is astonishingly high even in small/"nice" communities. I understand why it sucks for his supporters, but I would recommend it be filed under "necessary evil" for you guys. Transparency for these places is a double edged sword.

If we're talking strictly video game characters, we could always go with the give everyone a bigger threat to unite them strategy. Just air drop an RE3 Nemesis over there.

If we're talking about heroes, at this point someone like Joker from P5(assuming they could do heart stealing thing) is probably our best bet.

She's devolved into an edgy 13 year olds power trip self insert fanfiction character.

I don't even care if he was right or not, he was a whiney bitch that I had killed in the first games dlc and he was still alive because reasons, and he should have just stayed dead.

kirbymuncher posted...

Starting out a stream with "this time around I'm gonna put a link up on my twitter for just 3 minutes just as a test" and apologizing in advance to your chat mods that they'll have to be extra busy is just sad ):

Yeah, the antis are just awful. I'm more trying to take it at face, at least she didn't have to purge it after the fact and more people enjoyed it.

Here's a happy stream that seems to have slipped by here to my knowledge. Probably don't bring up the past life too directly, but there was a nice return:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yF5ie1wxx2s