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| Topic | QAnon Congresswoman files articles of impeachment |
| Proto_Spark 01/22/21 9:34:09 PM #68 | Ruvan22 posted... But now she says she didn't actually file it because it was too complicated? really, who in the Qbase is actually going to care? She said she did it, that's all they need. Its another deep-state conspiracy... somehow |
| Topic | Biden sparks TERF war on twitter with gender discrimination order |
| Proto_Spark 01/21/21 5:08:26 PM #67 | ManicPlumber77 posted... Lol, hormone therapy makes you lose muscle mass at a rapid rate, Get a basic understanding of biochem, noob. This. There's also the fact that most major sports already have guidelines in terms of effectively allowing transgender athletes in sports. Most of this debate is just people who don't know what they're talking about throwing shade to each other, its no wonder this topic gets so toxic. |
| Topic | Critics SLAM the LIBERAL REBOOT of CW's WALKER starring Jared Padalecki!! |
| Proto_Spark 01/21/21 1:19:57 AM #15 | MrMallard posted... I've seen the promos, it looks bad. Granted, the original show was schlock - I've seen reruns, it's a mediocre action show for people's dads and grandpas. But this reboot looks bad in its own way. tbf, these are all intentional since the over-the-topness and kind of fake-ness are really well received by the teenagers who make up 95% of the CW's viewership. Teens want pretty people in over-the-top situations that they would never actually be in. |
| Topic | Why couldn't Rey and Finn be an item in the Star Wars sequel series? *spoilers* |
| Proto_Spark 01/21/21 1:15:33 AM #5 | Its because Finn is with Poe, duh. |
| Topic | Fox News anchor said Biden's speech was good... |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 6:05:26 PM #6 | TroutPaste posted... I'd say he's a slight piece of shit, and relatively good This. Chris Wallace is like, the one guy at Fox News with integrity, as seen by him at least trying to enforce rules during Trump's first debate with Biden. |
| Topic | Think we'll see the Next Karate Kid in Cobra Kai? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 6:03:39 PM #3 | What if they just completely ignore her and we see Jaden Smith instead? |
| Topic | Your weekly reminder that Gen 2's Kanto was bad and brings the entire game down. |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 4:02:27 PM #15 | harley2280 posted... I'm like 99% sure you fight Silver on Victory Road. I wouldn't really count that since its part of the regular game, just because the League is technically in Kanto. Its still wrong because you battle him in MT. Moon, and can rebattle his final team at the pokemon league afterwords. |
| Topic | Your weekly reminder that Gen 2's Kanto was bad and brings the entire game down. |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 3:41:11 PM #6 | of course there was no impact storywise, it was after the story. Gen 2 wasn't really designed like the later games, theres barely an actual story to begin with. |
| Topic | Biden's 17 day one executive orders |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 2:59:31 PM #114 | ThexFury posted... Nah, Harris is just a remake of the Holiday Special. The Lego remake of the holiday special was great tbh |
| Topic | Is this really the end of the Republican party? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:42:14 PM #28 | The best case scenario here is honestly Trump makes a new party for all the MAGA lunatics and splits the vote so the Democrats just WRECK them both in 2024, and the two conservative parties immediately merge back together even farther to the right to appeal to the MAGA crowd, because its more important to win, so everyone just needs to fall in line. So its definitely gonna be at least a net loss for everyone. |
| Topic | Calling it now- McConnell wants the impeachment to bleed momentum and waste time |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:28:42 PM #6 | Akagami_Shanks posted... it won't matter anyway if Trump follows through on his patriot party plan and splits the republican base technically if he's convicted by the senate, he won't be able to run again. I feel like even if he is, Trump might just say he's running again anyways and people will just let him. |
| Topic | Biden's 17 day one executive orders |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:09:30 PM #90 | Hop103 posted... The 100 day mask challenge isn't needed with the vaccine, it should be replaced with the much more fair mandatory vaccine requirements and fast tracking. The vaccine doesn't prevent you from potentially spreading COVID to others though |
| Topic | So now that Biden is in....When MONEY? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:05:18 PM #16 | |
| Topic | Stem and Leaf diagrams are dumb as hell. |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:03:55 PM #6 | I can this being somewhat useful if your trying to organize a lot of numbers and have to use pencil and paper instead of like, excel. Which would make doing a lot of the actual calculations easier. But yeah, this feels like an outdated concept anywhere outside of a statistics class. |
| Topic | What does the Bible say about dinosaurs? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 1:00:32 PM #51 | Zikten posted... Some guy once tried to count the age of the earth by studying all the generations mentioned in the Bible and he came up with like 6 thousand years I think This, although he kind of just... counted, assuming everything in the bible was 100% perfectly legit and exactly what happened and there was definitely no poetic license by the people who wrote it. this was also like 400 years ago, so I think we can question his math. |
| Topic | Trump left Biden a letter |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:49:23 PM #10 | Its just that "listen here you little ****" copy pasta |
| Topic | White House releases "1776 Report" |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:47:21 PM #59 | ImAMarvel posted... https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/biden-rescind-1776-commission-executive-order/index.html Its already off of the whitehouse website, based on the two links that have been posted in this topic. |
| Topic | Most of Pokemon Diamond/Pearl's best pokemon are found of the first two gyms. |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:42:29 PM #3 | You can also get Gible line this early, although it really kind of sucks in-game. |
| Topic | Can someone from the UK explain to me the point of the House of Lords? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:38:35 PM #63 | UnfairRepresent posted... what the f*** is the safety net for the House of Lords? The safety net for the House of Lords is that they can't make any legislation. The are literally just there to check for issues from the actual elected officials, and there are methods to remove these people if they aren't following their jobs (they can in Canada at least). My civics class called it a "sober second thought" lzual posted... Just out of curiosity, in the US can the senate block a law indefinitely or are there mechanism for laws being pushed through if the senate keep on blocking? I think there are technically ways for the President to just force something through if the senate just refuses to hear it, but I don't know a time its been done off the top of my head. I remember the topic came up a bit back in 2015 because the Senate was blocking Obama's Supreme Court pick, but I don't know if that fizzled out because it couldn't be done or because Obama didn't want to rock the boat. lzual posted... I agree. The downside is that while they are meant to be "impartial" they really aren't. There are 257 Tory elected peers vs 177 Labour which makes sense considering Tories have been in power for almost 15 years. Plus the awful "cash for honours" scandal that happened in 2000s. This is a fair point. I think something like this would be a little better if they weren't lifetime appointments, but that might make things more politicized. Although I could say in defence that at least the 257 Tory lords at least have more ability to reject the party line, since they effectively have job security. I know in Canada the party you belong to can technically remove you and fill your seat with someone else if they don't like you enough. I can't think of an excuse of this happening, and removing the person might trigger another election, but there's a very strong incentive to follow the party line that the Senate doesn't really need to deal with once they get appointed. Its definitely not a perfect solution though |
| Topic | ''More blood on Bush's hands.'' ''Thanks Obama.'' ''Trump's America.'' |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:27:03 PM #3 | "Bad Biden" Or more pretending that he has like, dementia or something after he stumbles over a word that doesn't matter. |
| Topic | That coward didn't even pardon Julian Assange or Edward Snowden LOL |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:26:02 PM #11 | Hexenherz posted... Why pardon Snowden, guy stole millions of classified records in the largest breach of national security history then gave it to unauthorized third parties and fled through Hong Kong to Russia. Technically we are supposed to protect whistleblowers, and he didn't intentionally end up in Russia, that was just the place he had gotten when the government revoked his passport so he couldn't leave. I'm not really gonna say he should absolutely 100% be pardoned, but I'd think Assange would have gotten one, especially considering his timed Wikileaks were a major reason Trump won the 2016 election. And Assange wasn't even pretending he was doing things for the greater good, he's just an a**hole. |
| Topic | Can someone from the UK explain to me the point of the House of Lords? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:20:12 PM #53 | lzual posted... I'd be happy if they modernised it or replaced it with something more like the German or US systems. This is why I was pushing UR so far because I still feel like new legislature should be scrutinised rather than, in this case, the house of commons, to unilaterally dictate what does and doesn't pass. The Senate in Canada is somewhat similar, except we don't have any noble families to get grandfathered into roles like this. Theres an argument that unelected representatives can be good in the case that they can be somewhat impartial and not dogged down by needing to follow the party you belong to. appointments instead of elections can theoretically prevent things like how the Senate in the US just refused to ever pass anything under Trump, or during his first impeachment voted to not allow evidence or have a real trial, because they were directly following the party line. |
| Topic | History is Kamala not Biden |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 12:10:33 PM #7 | I mean, once Kamala stops being VP we'll have a day where women will not be Vice President of the United States, unless whoever succeeds her as VP is also a woman. Like I get the point here, I'm just being a pedantic a**hole over the wording. |
| Topic | Biden's 17 day one executive orders |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 11:41:27 AM #72 | The muslim ban is STILL going on? When Trump signed it it was only for like 90 days (4 years ago!) DarkChozoGhost posted... Literally all 17 of those things are very very good |
| Topic | Where are you watching the Inauguration? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 11:21:20 AM #2 | a NBC livestream on YouTube |
| Topic | Are you saddened that there are no more physical movie rental places? |
| Proto_Spark 01/20/21 11:20:48 AM #39 | At least before Covid, There was still a movie rental place by where I used to live. It took up like 1/2 the plaza I was in, so I can't understand why it was successful into 2020, but its still there. The whole act of actually renting movies was always something I kind of enjoyed. Yeah, streaming services are basically better in every way, but you aren't actually going out to get one, and then maybe looking around to see if you can get something else because the thing you wanted isn't there. |
| Topic | "Straight Pride" organizer arrested in connection to MAGA riots |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 10:09:49 PM #11 | soulunison2 posted... *shocked pikachu face* |
| Topic | Yall think Biden gonna last 4-8 yrs? |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 7:22:30 PM #12 | If Trump could make it through 4 years with no comments after saying Windmill noises cause cancer and we should nuke hurricanes, Biden will be fine. Dude talks like an old man and we're somehow convinced he has no brain left. |
| Topic | CE cat owners..... do your cats scratch you? |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 7:01:43 PM #24 | Don't be a dick to your cat and you'll probably be fine. Or if your playing a little rough with the cat, they might claw at you a little too much and you'll have all these scratchmarks and be like "how did those get there" but you can avoid this by just using, like, a string. |
| Topic | Who are you subbed to on YouTube? |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 6:58:05 PM #16 | masterbarf posted... 200+ channels. Mostly related to science, chess, music, and video games. Not quite this many, but this. although If I ever went through all my subs, I could probably get rid of like 1/2 that I barely watch |
| Topic | Do you prefer android or apple smartphones? |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 6:55:32 PM #17 | Android, but its mostly because I'm still butthurt about the no headphone jack. Nothing else seems to have one anymore, so I might be trying out IOS for the first tie in a while when I upgrade my phone. I haven't actually heard how well the "Apple Ecosystem" actually works, but most of the actual connections revolve around the iPhone and not the MacBook. |
| Topic | "In 1935, the minimum hourly wage in the U.S. was set at 25¢. |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 10:55:09 AM #2 | I mean, by 2020 standards, minimum wage today doesn't go as far as it did in the 1950s. That's pretty gross. |
| Topic | Not getting a definitive X and Y game was a letdown |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 10:52:41 AM #16 | SquirtleSkwad posted... The group of dumbass supporting characters from that entry cemented it as the worst in the series for me. They could not have chosen a worse way to pad the game with unnecessary, annoying, unskippable cutscenes. Gen 6 really suffered for basically having so many little things that would have been great with more detail or a more polished version. The rival actually being upset that they keep losing to you would have been great if it actually lead to something, but it never went anywhere (not even as little as Hop did in Sw/Sh). All of the other characters had like one bit of personalization that should have gone farther, but didn't. Either that or 2 of them needed to be gone, and they could have actually focused on giving Shauna something to do. Skipping cutscenes would make literally every game since XY much better though. |
| Topic | Major WCW superstar returned tonight *spoilers* |
| Proto_Spark 01/19/21 12:32:19 AM #10 | Darmik posted... Do the WWE ever try to pretend that wrestling didn't peak in the 80s and 90s. Nope. The last 15 years of WWE have been built around the fact that their best years are behind them. At least WWE has used Goldberg since he came back better than they did in 2003... |
| Topic | POP QUIZ: What's the state capital of Ohio? (don't cheat) |
| Proto_Spark 01/18/21 8:07:14 PM #10 | welp, I was wrong. I'm Canadian though, so I don't really care. |
| Topic | In Arizona and Georgia, there are continuing battles for forensic audits |
| Proto_Spark 01/18/21 4:38:40 PM #28 | Tyranthraxus posted... Nothing. Even if you give GA and AZ to Trump he still loses the EC without PA I know, I meant more along the lines of "what happens if we actually find widespread voter fraud, but its all supporting Donald Trump and just makes Biden's win even more decisive?" |
| Topic | In Arizona and Georgia, there are continuing battles for forensic audits |
| Proto_Spark 01/18/21 4:08:08 PM #8 | I wonder what the response will be if Georgia actually finds 30,000 fake ballots, but they're all for Donald Trump? |
| Topic | Director of the US Census Bureau resigns |
| Proto_Spark 01/18/21 3:13:42 PM #2 | I mean, weren't there rumours of pushing out an incomplete census data for months? COVID really ruined proper census collecting, and Trump actively wanted an incomplete dataset. Not really surprised here. |
| Topic | Why is Trump being impeached? |
| Proto_Spark 01/18/21 11:27:35 AM #19 | Chunkey Simmons posted... No I didn't watch it. Did Trump say "let's attack the capital"? No, but there's more than enough context clues to say has a hand in it, and given impeachment is 100% a political move and not going to send Trump to prison even if everyone agrees Trump broke the law, it shouldn't matter if he directly says "lets attack the capital". The fact that he's repeatedly stated the election is fake with no proof, the fact he's already been charged with incitement to riot before, the fact that he refused to release the National Guard 6 times during the events on Jan 6, or the fact that it began literally right after Trump gave a speech telling his crowd to "March on the capital" or even during the siege he was calling Mike Pence and co. deliberately trying to get them to stop the count. There's so much context here, that if Trump can't get removed for this, I doubt anyone will ever be able to be justifiably removed again. |
| Topic | Thought of a killer hook for Last of Us 3 (spoilers) |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 8:55:12 PM #2 | ... I'd buy it |
| Topic | Mask mandates are a fucking joke in Ohio. |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 8:48:30 PM #27 | wtf is going on in the States. In my city in Canada I haven't even seen someone wearing a mask incorrectly for months. Occasionally I'll be walking on the street and someone like, walking a dog won't have a mask on, but in a store? I've never even seen someone arguing. J03can posted... USA really is just full of selfish, ignorant, assholes all around isnt it? |
| Topic | Scenario: It's the end of the world and only you and a 16 year old girl survive |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 5:21:35 PM #3 | I mean, probably never going to notice since I don't live in Florida. |
| Topic | IYO do you think anything is actually gonna happen on the 20th? |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 5:19:00 PM #6 | Trump is going to show up In Russia instead of going to the inauguration |
| Topic | WWE Wrestlemania Report |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 5:13:44 PM #5 | TheBlueMonk_ posted... but uh They could probably get some people into the crowd, like how AEW and NJPW have crowds now, but there's no chance they're getting 80,000 people into a football stadium in April (or... probably 2022 and maybe not even in 2023) But that was a fun stupid video, fun waste of 4 minutes. |
| Topic | Fact: Little Caesars is the best chain pizza |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 1:36:34 PM #47 | electricbugs2 posted... Is Pizza Hut really shitty in the US or something? This. Although I don't have a Papa Johns anywhere near me (or whatever a Fresh Slice is) so I can't comment on those. Litle Caesars is great for "I want a Pizza, but I don't want to wait for a pizza" so you go spent like 6 bucks and get a good enough pizza and your in and out, its great. If you want to actually order a pizza, literally anywhere else. |
| Topic | I wish Sony would try another handheld console |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 1:30:35 PM #31 | meestermj posted... Concept was cool, execution was awful. Agreed on the poor execution. Going all digital was a mistake, but only really since it was like 6 years before it really would've gone well. There were just a few too many classics on the PSP you just couldn't play without hacking it. Although to be fair, they couldn't really slap extra shoulder buttons on the Go, since it was supposed to just be a variant of the PSP. And the OG PSP memory cards at least worked in some other Sony products, since like everything was proprietary in the early 2000s. My camera and PSP shared memory cards. |
| Topic | Would WCW still be going today if they didn't sign Hogan? |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 1:25:11 PM #9 | AirFresh posted... No it was mismanaged far beyond spending money for Hogan. From all accounts it sounded like a living nightmare to work for from 1997 til its death with all the politicking and crazy shenanigans. At the same time, It only ultimately died because of the AOL/Time Warner merger and them wanting to get rid of wrestling almost to spite Turner. All the restructuring going on in late 2000/2001 if they weren't trying to scrap WCW it probably could have very easily just rolled over into TNA and then TNA would have been in a much better position its first couple years. |
| Topic | I wish Sony would try another handheld console |
| Proto_Spark 01/17/21 1:20:53 PM #23 | meestermj posted... You've forgotten the PsPGo just like the rest of humanity.I ****ing loved the PSP Go. That super cool slide to the controls was awesome. Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted... I don't really see the point of dedicated portable consoles in this era of smartphones and controllers you can pair via USB or Bluetooth. I don't personally like playing games on my smartphone, among other things playing too intense a game if I'm not also around a charger somewhere will usually mean my phone isn't lasting to the end of the day. I think there's a market for a smaller game system independent from your phone. Holy_Cloud105 posted... PSP and Vita had good games though. PSP got killed by piracy and Vita was killed because of Sony's stupid ass proprietary bullshit with the memory cards. There's also the Vita losing first party support almost immediately after a poor launch. We got... maybe half a dozen first party tier games and then it was just random indie games and waifu-junk from Japan. |
| Topic | I don't like Rise of Skywalker, but only because it didn't double down on TLJ |
| Proto_Spark 01/16/21 8:00:04 PM #38 | CM_Ponch posted... TLJ couldn't commit to Kylo being beyond redemption and instead had him continuously fail. He failed to kill Leia, he failed to kill Luke, he failed to turn Rei, he failed to stop the rebellion All of these had character reasons though. Kylo Ren is a scared little kid who refuses to actually learn from his failures and is instead lashing out at the world around him. Kylo isn't beyond redemption if he could kill Luke or crush the rebellion, he's beyond redemption because he keeps actively making these self-destructive choices. I don't think the ST needed a big bad, it needed a suitable resolution for our main characters, and you didn't need a Uber-big bad and a drawn out CGI fight scene to do so. |
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