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In high school a lot of people gave me shit for being a master of pugs. It didn't help that my views radically changed during the 11th grade. I wasn't trying to force my views on anyone I just liked pugs =/

I don't think I will ever see these people again because I don't live in the same state I went to high school, but I have a Masters in Pug Science now so fuck them.

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Elder Scrolls VI: Oblivion - being visiting by Lucien LaChance for the first time, having no prior knowledge or forewarning of this event and (somehow, amazingly) up to that point never having heard the random dialogue describing how the Dark Brotherhood will visit you in your sleep if you murder someone.

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Mareen posted...

I was joking, though I didn't make that clear at all.

Like considering how Scar dies at the end of the movie (being mauled by hyenas) it wouldn't make much sense that he would end up as a neatly skinned pelt in Ancient Greece.

Ah, fair enough, I guess I unfairly assumed that this was a genuine fan theory that was gaining steam. I was still pretty shocked that people didn't pick up on this reference (and one or two were doubling down on it not being the obvious reference that it is) that I guess it was throwing a monkey wrench in my sarcasm meter, lol.

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Foppe posted...

Agrabah existed in a post-apocalyptic world, the Genie just knew his history.

That doesn't explain Al being knowledgeable enough to play along with a good many of Genie's referential gags.

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Having said what I said earlier, there is a world of difference between simple comedic callback (the pelt is quite obviously a reference to Scar) and some kind of elaborate fan theory: thinking that Scar's remains canonically found their way to Ancient Greece is like thinking that Jack Nicholson, Rodney Dangerfield, Pinocchio and electric lamps all existed in ancient Arabia, because how else would Genie and Aladdin be knowledgeable enough about them to make jokes about them?

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

I can't remember what I have seen the Disney Hades in but based on what i remember of him i assume I'd really like the movie.

James Woods' used-car-salesman-from-hell Hades is arguably the best comedic villain in Disney's pantheon. He reportedly liked the role so much that he was happy to voice the character in any and all supplemental media, such as the Kingdom Hearts games.

The movie as a whole is a little shaky at times, but apart from Hades, it's also a pretty funny parody of celebrity / pro athlete culture wrapped (very) loosely around the Hercules mythology.

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lilORANG posted...

doesn't even look like him. I hate these dumb fan theories.

Dude, just to reiterate, the reference was obvious on first viewing when I was a kid. Get your eyes checked.

I genuinely find it hard to believe that people are treating this as some new revelation / 'fan theory.'

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TIL there are actual people in this world who didn't immediately pick up on this reference when they watched Hercules as kids.

EDIT it's also a twofold reference, calling back to both Hercules' lion pelt in the original myth and (somewhat) paying off Zazu's observation that '[Scar would] make a very handsome throw rug.'

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Ah, good one vegy, you got me.

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I want to say 'well, obviously,' but considering Trump's recent string of saying the quiet part out loud, if a couple weeks go by and he hasn't yet said it in public, there's a good chance he's never said it in private.

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BakonBitz posted...

That would be one hell of a ploy that I'm not sure Trump is smart enough to do.

Oh no no no, even the slim possibility that Trump is a self-aware double agent went out the window a long time ago, that's why I specified 'unintended' result.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Trump = secret Democratic agent destroying the Republican Party

I've always held out a sliver of hope that the unintended true result of 'Make America Great Again' would be driving the GOP so far into the ground that they'd either dissolve, or finally get dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

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Sictis posted...

A shame those weapons are all worse than things you can make with crafting, lul.

While this is true and definitely a problem with Skyrim's design on more than one level, getting Smithing, Enchanting, and Alchemy up to a level necessary to make your own uber-gear is still a pretty monotonous grind to which most players wouldn't commit.

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eston posted...

He's so fucking small

I feel like Mr. Boop was bigger in earlier panels. Maybe Alec's shrinking is contagious.

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One of the improvements Skyrim made over Oblivion was doing a better job of incorporating the Daedric Lords and their quests into the world. Some of them still fall into the 'go to wilderness shrine, fetch and / or kill thing' mold, but ones like Sanguine, Molag Bal, and Namira happen much more organically. The only one I can think of that goes overboard in this regard and ends up landing in the realm of pure stupidity is Nocturnal.

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Ermac posted...

Playing through oblivion for the first time, it seems to have more depth than Skyrim

tbh Skyrims leveling system is unbalanced and feels limited

Don't confuse convolution with depth in this case; Morrowind and Oblivion's leveling system are promising on paper, but in actuality punish you for using your major skills if you want good attribute bonuses at level-up. The usual counter to this is that you shouldn't obsess over stat growth and just play the game without worrying about it, but that line of thinking itself runs contrary to the notion of actively seeking greater depth in both game mechanics and control over character development.

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Sictis posted...

Skyrim had a bookseller? I don't even remember that lmao.

Urag at the College Arcaneum is who I was referring to. I had to specify 'dedicated bookseller' instead of 'bookstore' because Skyrim couldn't even be arsed to add a single actual bookstore.

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The streamlining can negatively affect future games in less obvious ways as well. Remember how many specialty shops there were in Morrowind and Oblivion? Skyrim, by comparison, only had a single clothing shop and single dedicated bookseller in the entire province; and only one of the minor hold capitals out of four even manages to meet the smith / general goods / alchemist minimum. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if ES 6 streamlines merchant options down to 'Inn' and 'Store.'

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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

"VOTE!" is becoming an increasingly tone-deaf response.

There are two courses of action when facing off against a cheating team: A) lose, and later try to get them brought to justice over it (and likely lose at that too), or B) do your damnedest to run the score up so far over their heads that even their cheating can't help them. At which point you can then follow up with option A.

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Coloradough posted...

anecdotally, I spend my days guiding tourists from all over the US and the vast majority of them don't really care about coronavirus or think it's overblown and want all kids to return to school

So I dunno where these throngs of people who are horrified by the handling of the pandemic are but I haven't been meeting them

Florida's already lost over a billion dollars in its annual tourist trade this year - unsurprisingly, sane people don't want to take a vacation to a place where a deadly pandemic is practically encouraged to spread unchecked. Did it ever occur to you that people who are out on tours / vacations at this time are the exact demographic of people who would downplay / not care about the pandemic, and that people who are taking it seriously are staying home?

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I tend to believe that the average voter has the memory of a goldfish, and only really has their vote influenced by the two months leading up to the election; if Trump managed to get his act together in that time, the rest of his term won't have mattered. But Trump's current course of 'open up schools, let athletes play' is very likely primed to blow up in his face quite spectacularly when schools and athletic programs start seeing outbreaks in early fall and are forced to shut down again.

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And that young man would grow up to be the hero who singlehandedly prevented early-onset vaginal wetness in hundreds of women.

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kyujo posted...

the gist I've seen from idiots on facebook is that no minors should ever wear the mask because you won't be able to recognize them if they're being kidnapped

Makes sense. Every day I walk into work, I have to reintroduce myself to my coworkers because I am completely unrecognizable while wearing a mask.

I never thought I'd see genuine real-life idiocy on par with 'Clark Kent can't be Superman, Superman doesn't wear glasses!' And yet here we are.

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Heat makes people crazy.

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Knock yourselves out. Best of luck keeping a lid on the inevitable outbreaks that will do a lot more harm to your players, reputations, and bottom lines in the long run.

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Season 4 is still hard to top, and has my favorite ep in the series (Everybody Comes to Hank's). But the Blue Morpho arc is probably my favorite storyline of the whole series. Even though I too would have liked to seen it go on longer, the conclusion came way out of left field and was so damn satisfying: part of me thought we'd never actually get a straight answer as to what really happened to Jonas Sr, but what do you know, it finally happened (still a few questions left unanswered, but its still way more conclusion than I ever expected). And they tied it into the Monarch's arc perfectly; I was pretty damn giddy when Vendata showed up in the Blue Morpho's outfit, because everything clicked in an instant and I didn't even need the show to explain how that tied everything together.

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Bruh, everybody already figured out what Obamagate was the day it dropped. Everybody but you, apparently.

Also, Sad_Face is an unapologetic pizzagater. Tag and move on, please.

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Because I am older than one year old,

I think two-year-old Ben Shapiro needs a perpetual time out.

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Because I don't hate having money.

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Note to Self: avoid pulmonologists at major Midwest hospitals.

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I couldn't bring myself to vote. If I'd played Morrowind in the early 2000's, it would probably win. I want to give it to Oblivion, but the fact that I logged literally thousands of hours on it yet haven't touched it once since Skyrim released is very telling; Skyrim's flawed as hell, but that's no excuse to give Oblivion the rose-tinted treatment. I'm also currently biased towards Skyrim because I finally got the opportunity to play it with some particularly fantastic mods, whereas I never had that opportunity with Oblivion.


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lilJoe457 posted...

I mean I hope everyone is ready for the consequences of these very over exaggerated lock downs. Mask requirement and hand sanitizer stations is all that was needed. Destroying small businesses like this will only lead to a bigger monopoly with large corporations. Like you really can't just pause and put everything on hold like this. If college sports gets destroyed that means the stream line to having new sports players gets damaged. And when that becomes unbalanced it'll be the end of sports once the current crop is done. Only individual sports like golf boxing and mma will be able to create new talent.

At some point we all gotta realize we are doing a little bit too much for something that is not as deadly as first thought. Proven by how often these top scientists we are supposed to listen to constantly change their predictions or stances. But when you give the government this much power they're not gonna relinquish it easy. Pandemic was legitimate but now I think we are at the stages where they'll lie about it to keep their power. My evidence for this is looking at the corruption of every government or ruling class ever.

...okay, CE is going into maximum overdrive on fucking with my sarcasm detector today >:(

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Seems to me there's also a lot of subtle, coded ways to say something like 'fuck you,' but a certain someone decided to flip the proverbial bird at subtlety and delicate sensibilities to write the smash hit of his career.

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Some of the worst customer service / anti-consumer stories I've heard came from Century Link. Those are the geniuses who flatly and repeatedly told me 'check the website, sir' when I called to get info on their service when I first moved to my area; I realize that smartphones exist, but telling me I need to use the service I don't have, which I'm calling you about purchasing, to get info on your service pretty much soured me against ever considering them.

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pogo_rabid posted...

"it's ok if to make fun of the mentally ill as long as they disagree with me politically"

I feel like this isn't the first time I've seen the tactic of "I'll just call people throwing tantrums over masks 'mentally ill' to put everyone on their heels," and it's some pretty transparent concern trolling.

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

You guys need to understand sarcasm/satire I got marked for trolling for that post, smh

I didn't and wouldn't mark something that was most likely satire (in fact I think I only ever have marked posts that maliciously and repeatedly target a specific user), but that's the exact problem I was alluding to: political discourse / opinions have fallen so low that it's getting harder and harder to tell with 100% certainty what is and isn't satire.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

I will never get why people obsess over losers in history

Oftentimes it's because they really, really wish they had won.

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

So it's been 100 days since they last tested people? How can we even trust them? They're clearly lying to say they're better than USA since they have nothing else going on for them. People lie on the internet please don't make a fool of yourself get educated and don't be gullible.

I find it genuinely depressing that the last couple years have killed my confidence in being able to tell what is and is not satire.

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The Popo posted...

Wanting to see it is not weird.

Referring to Hitler as the Fhrer is sorta weird. Saying its a must-see-item-before-I-die is sorta weird.

Pretty much this. Does raise an eyebrow all things considered.

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rodu_jr posted...

makes it easy when you're an island nation

Unless the primary / ongoing source of our infections comes from people crossing the Mexican or Canadian border, this point is irrelevant.

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If Obama was such a great president then why did my wife leave me?!

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Smackems posted...

You. Got any Pokemon that could kill the sun?

Only Dunsparce possesses such power. But we did not worship Him as we should have, and He has turned his back on mankind.

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Southernfatman posted...

Because "THE ECONOMY!!!!!1111"

The rich and their bought politicians like DeSantis, who probably also profits in some way, don't care if a bunch of dirty poors die. They just want their money.

We're already starting to see the results of what the foresighted among us predicted at the start of this: that a half-assed response would cost us both lives and the economy in the long run. Florida's already lost over a billion dollars in the tourism trade this year, despite a brief bump in June; unsurprisingly, no one wants to travel to a place where the government is letting a deadly pandemic spread unchecked.

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I don't go much for schadenfreude these days, but I do still get a kick out of *Robocop spoilers* Emil getting doused in acid and shuffling around like a mutant before splattering all over a car windshield.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

I can't believe no one got it before me.

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