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Castle in the Sky is my personal favourite, but Mononoke's a pretty close second.

IronBornCorps posted...

So far Princess Mononoke is my favorite. I watched Nausica when I was really young and rented it from Blockbuster, so I'll probably rewatch that at some point as well.

In a lot of ways, Nausicaa just kind of feels like an early version of Mononoke. It's good for a lot of the same reasons and shares a lot of themes, but lacks the polish that Miyazaki developed over the couple decades between them.

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Uhh, doctors in Canada definitely do fill out worker's comp forms. Maybe not ER doctors, since they usually have non-paperwork emergencies to deal with, but some manner of primary care physician will handle it (whether your regular family doctor or a walk-in clinic if you don't have one). If you're having trouble figuring it out, contact your worker's comp agency and they should be able to point you in the right direction.

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I really can't tell where this sits between classic MH style and MHW style (aside from things they explicitly mentioned like continuous areas), but my interest is piqued. I do like me some MH, and it's been long enough since I wrapped up GU that I'd be game for some more.

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Zeus posted...

And honestly, the "no shirt" part of the policy doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense anyway.

I'd guess it's mostly a modesty/appearance thing. Male public toplessness is a whole lot more socially acceptable than female, but there are still plenty of people who find it trashy or feel uncomfortable about it, so the businesses in question rule it out preemptively.

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I'm helping again again!

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zebatov posted...

Ive seen a video of someone coughing with and without a mask. Theres no way its anywhere near 95%.

I've shown you a video of a mask stopping well over 95% of the aerosol being used to test it. I'll link it again, though, to limit your ability to spread misinformation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cTDGqcUpA

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Pretty much just Smash, and even then I don't play a lot of it.

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pionear posted...

but really, Mobile Games killed the HH market.

People were saying this when the 3DS launched, and it still managed to have a successful lifetime once it got past its rocky launch window (which was mostly due to a weak launch lineup and poor marketing that failed to differentiate it from the DS). Nintendo moved away from having a dedicated handheld not because there's no market for one, but because they felt they'd be better off not splitting their resources between two systems per generation and the Switch can still fill that niche to a certain extent.

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They could, but that really would have to be just 4-5 croissant crusts per evening to avoid wasting any (butter is expensive, as is the labour involved, so you really do not want to throw any out). It might be a nice gimmick to do occasionally, but to do them in-house on a regular basis would be a lot of infrastructure investment for very little return. About the only way I could really see it working is to partner with a bakery that's already making their own croissants and have them make some every day for you, though even then they're likely aiming to have their croissant dough ready to bake in the morning and the logistics might be a bit fiddly (not that an extra 12 hours of fermentation in the fridge is going to be the end of the world).

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Revelation34 posted...

I bet you can't even make a fresh croissant pizza dough.

Honestly, croissant dough isn't all that hard to make. Just really, really time-consuming. The one time I did it at home, the recipe called for two overnight fermentation periods (make dough--> ferment--> laminate--> ferment--> shape, proof, bake), meaning the whole thing took three days. My old workplace did two overnight ferments as well, but they did a couple folds each evening before baking them off the morning of day 3. Most of that time is just letting it rest in the fridge, rather than being actively involved, but there is still a substantial amount of active labour involved in doing the folds, such that incorporating it into a commercial setting can be tricky. Especially so where not having a sheeter (not one suitable for large-scale laminated dough production, anyway) will make it hard to produce large batches of the dough and that probably means folding one crust at a time.

That's also without considering that it is completely impossible to make such crusts to order. You'd basically have to make the crusts ahead of time and freeze them, which is probably okay (using it for a pizza crust means it won't need much of a final proof anyway, so killing the yeast in the freezer won't hurt it too much), but you do compromise the quality a bit and customers might not appreciate how necessary that is.

SunWuKung420 posted...

freshly made, never frozen, preservative-free awesome dough?

Technically, if you're putting beer into it, hops are a preservative, so you can't truly claim it's preservative-free. That preservative activity does basically nothing for the dough, and nobody considers natural preservatives when they talk about whether or not their food contains preservatives (except possibly salt, depending on the quantities), but it technically is not completely preservative-free.

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Jen0125 posted...

I'm about to get sterilized just to make this guy understand

Honestly, I'm surprised you haven't already. Fewer side effects than other reliable methods of birth control, and you don't care about the primary problem with it (it being permanent). Of course, I say this having no idea how much it would cost you, which I guess could be a potential major issue.

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lolZeus

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

I dont agree with the limited time, it only benefits scalpers.

That is indeed a pretty questionable move. I get not producing all that many physical, since it's being released to celebrate a single event and probably isn't going to have enough long-term popularity to warrant continuing production, but removing it from the digital store is just weird. Presumably, it's so they can release it again for the 40th anniversary and capitalize on hype from people who missed it the first time around.

That said, if I end up deciding that it's not actually worth owning, I've got a physical copy preordered, so I'll have the option of reselling it and probably making a profit due to the limited supply. That's kind of nice to know.

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PC+Switch is still covering pretty much every release I care about, so...

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Zeus posted...

Most games aren't worth $6 an hour

Eh, I'd disagree. I'm okay with saying that $6 an hour is an okay rate for any form of entertainment that I'm enjoying. If I'm not enjoying it, obviously it stops being worth that much, but if I'm not enjoying it, it's not going to be worth anything at all and I'd feel like my money was wasted regardless of how much it cost. For the most part, I'm not interested in anything more than that binary assessment. There are certainly games that are more fun than others, and if they don't beat $6/hour I'm more willing to give them a pass because of that, but I'm basing that value assessment on a baseline of "I'm enjoying this" (which I can say about most games I've played because I have a reasonable sense of my own tastes).

Zeus posted...

many games won't give you 10 hours.

Generally not when you're looking at $60 stuff. Indie titles? Absolutely. There are tons of 2-3 hour indie games out there with lower price tags. But when you're looking at $60 stuff, you are usually going to see at least 10 hours. Many rely on multiplayer or other such replay value to get there, so if you aren't interested in that, maybe they won't be worthwhile, but that's a consequence of your personal preference and not an issue with the game not offering enough playtime.

Zeus posted...

More importantly, keep in mind that NF is $9/month and can give you more hours of entertainment than you have time.

And I just made the completely voluntary choice yesterday to spend $5 on PSO2 after playing it for 350-400 hours at no cost whatsoever. You're always going to be able to find exceptional deals that offer even more entertainment for even less money. That doesn't mean $6/hour is unreasonable, just that it's not the best. That's about the same rate you get for seeing a movie in theatres (minus concessions), while being a whole lot better than any form of live entertainment, and better still than purchasing movies (which can be rewatched to increase their value. but that applies to any permanent purchase, including games).

Bear in mind that I'm considering that a reasonable maximum, not an average. As an average, that'd be pathetic. That's just the approximate line I use to decide whether or not I'm disappointed in a game's value. As mentioned above, I'll be less disappointed if a game that fails to meet that threshold is exceptionally enjoyable (Untitled Goose Game is a good example of this, where it's hard to justify $20 due to it being so short, but it was such an absolute joy to play that I didn't mind), but that's the basic way I approach the matter.

Zeus posted...

9 times out of 10, I can't justify spending more than $20 or $30 on a game since everything except Nintendo titles tend to drop drastically in price within months of release.

Honestly, same. My general attitude is that the games are generally worth $60, but that just means they're even more worth $20-30, and I'm fine with getting that extra value in exchange for a bit of patience (especially given my backlog). I'll spend the full $60 if it's something I'm really anticipating or I doubt it'll drop much any time soon (as you mentioned, Nintendo titles), and I'd usually say it's still worth that much even if I do wait for a discount, but usually I'll wait for a sale.

Zeus posted...

Because CoD and Madden are apparently the same thing now.

Annual installments that change relatively little about the core game, extremely popular, much of the fanbase isn't overly interested in the majority of games... They're not quite the same thing (if nothing else, CoD's not nearly as bad for changing nothing between installments), but there are definitely enough parallels for CoD to be worth bringing up in a discussion about Madden, particularly as a social phenomenon.

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"I think I saved maybe two lives by closing up the country" - President Donald Trump, 2020 (paraphrased)

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Ogurisama posted...

but its not worth the AAA price once a year.

Honestly, it's pretty rare to find a game that genuinely can't be said to be worth even $60. You're paying $6 per hour of entertainment if you get a mere 10 hours out of it, which is incredibly easy to do with the vast majority of games at that price point. That's really not a bad rate. Certainly, you don't have to look hard to find better rates among other games (I've gotten hundreds of hours out of many free games), but it's still good enough to be acceptable for most people (to say nothing of the fact that anyone who's buying Madden annually is probably getting way more than 10 hours out of it, particularly where that demographic often doesn't buy many other games). Generally speaking, gaming is actually extremely economical as far as entertainment media goes, even if you're paying full AAA price.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The gamers who complain generally aren't the ones playing the game.

Pretty much. It's well known that Madden has a very sizable fanbase of people who really only care about playing the same game with roster updates each year, which is exactly the audience EA develops the game for. Most of that fanbase doesn't align with the base that people generally refer to when they use the term "gamer."

As a side note, I feel like his comparisons between this year's video game industry and last year's need to be taken with a grain of salt, given that much of the world has spent a sizable portion of this year stuck inside and unable to do much except play more video games than usual. Granted, much of the world has also had their disposable income significantly limited by being laid off, so maybe it evens out. I dunno.

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darkknight109 posted...

You ever notice that when you go out to a paintball arena, they make you wear face protection, particularly over your eyes?

Ever wonder why that is?

I'd be more inclined to believe that this was part of the police's motivation for not using paintballs if there weren't so many stories of them blinding people with rubber bullets.

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If anything, the fact that protesters are reliably getting bailed out is probably why their bail was set so high. The PD probably sees it as easy money.

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The lack of Galaxy 2 puzzles me, but I'm still getting it. It'll be nice to be able to play them without hooking up a different system, and $20 apiece is hardly a bad price (though the fact that SM64 has been sold for $10 means it's probably more like 10/20/30, but that's beside the point). Realistically, the fact that it's a limited print run means it's going to sell out regardless of what I do, so abstaining wouldn't send any message at all.

Black_Crusher posted...

I'm still kind of new to the Switch, but is there a way to play OG All Stars if you don't have a monthly account with Nintendo? I mean using their online VC thing.

Not on the Switch. The Switch's classic game offerings are locked behind that paywall.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Zeus hasn't been in here which is shocking. He is usually one of the first people in these types of threads to defend specific types of people.

I'm guessing he can't see the topic. That, or he knows that even he can't spin this into anything other than the current administration looking bad and he's staying away to save face.

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It doesn't affect how the story ends, but missing too many djinn will prevent you from accessing the optional dungeon where the game's primary superboss is. If memory serves, TLA gives you one random missing djinn of each element from the first game, but if you're short any more than that, you'll be missing out.

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Phantasy Star Online 2, mostly. I also recently picked up Factorio again and have been dabbling there intermittently.

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Clicker Heroes - 1663 hours (Idle game, so this doesn't really count)
DotA 2 - 1367 hours
Factorio - 647 hours
Path of Exile - 528 hours
Warframe - 497 hours

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Mead posted...

theyre essentially killing off any potential children they ever would have though. Permanently stealing their chance to ever become a mother. Its disgusting

Pro-lifers are rarely pro-making-life. Just preserving it between the ages of -9 months and 0.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

He's gonna be so embarrassed when I reveal I'm a guy. I got the same prank pulled on me once, didn't figure it out til he came in my ass.

Are you sure? They make some pretty realistic strapons these days. It might not have been a guy.

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Mead posted...

A lot of folks that are against abortion are perfectly fine with this sick shit

Long as you aren't killing fetuses, who cares what happens to women?

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Nintendo is stepping up production, actually.

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Well, he did build the cages, and everyone knows that having the cages built means you need to stuff them full of people that you forcibly sterilize.

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Add an "overtime" minigame?

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You should buy a blow-up doll and hide it in the bed while he's out on dates.

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Joker_X_II posted...

The punchline here is that people who think it should be capped are most likely wage-cucks who'll never see that kind of money in their lifetime.

it is a pretty safe bet that most people expressing literally any opinion will never be as rich as the richest 0.1% of the population. That's a little too tautological to be a particularly meaningful statement.

Joker_X_II posted...

But if the positions were reversed, they would do anything and everything to keep their money.

Eh, yes and no. Personally, I really don't care about being a billionaire. That's just a completely unnecessary amount of money. If I were to magically win a billion dollars overnight (ignoring the economic ramifications of such shenanigans), I'd give most of it away because even just $5-10 million would be more than enough to live comfortably on for the rest of my life (note that the salary caps being considered are intended to prevent people from becoming billionaires, not millionaires). In that regard - the strictest interpretation of "if the positions were reversed," no, I wouldn't try overly hard to keep the money.

However, if we're talking about earning the money more gradually, things get a bit different. It's because I don't care about being a billionaire that I will never become one. Conversely, if I were to become a billionaire the non-magical way, I would have to care, and caring would entail fighting tooth and nail for every dollar I could get my hands on. In that sense, yes, I'd be doing everything I could to keep my money, but that's less a reflection of my personal greed and more the simple nature of what one has to do in order to become a billionaire. Quite simply, I would never end up in that position without adopting such a mindset.

In that latter regard, your statement isn't wrong, but it makes some fundamental assumptions that prevents it from accurately assessing my character. Again, we run into tautology issues: If I were a completely different person who cared enough about becoming a billionaire to maximize my income at every turn, then I'd maximize my income at every turn. That also isn't a particularly meaningful statement, especially for the purposes of describing my (or others') current personality and values.

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Same day as Hyrule Warriors AoC. That's the second time I can think of that a Sony console launch has aligned with a Zelda release (Majora's Mask and the PS2 both came out on October 26th, 2000). Nifty.

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IronBornCorps posted...

I think a lot of this will come down to the fact it was private property, and not open hunting grounds.

That's probably the biggest mitigating factor. The driver had absolutely no reason to suspect that somebody might be sleeping in the field he was harvesting, and therefore no reason to scout out the area before beginning to work (at which point he can't have been expected to see the kid lying down because visibility in those machines is quite limited). Were it a public area, he'd have more responsibility to ensure the safety of any bystanders because he could reasonably expect to find somebody.

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Personally, I'd have cut the steak into strips before plating to make it easier to get mixed forkfuls, but otherwise, looks pretty tasty.

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I think a dance party might be your only option.

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To be fair, a bad hurricane season is not indicative of climate change. Sometimes, that just happens. It's always important to remember the distinction between climate and weather when evaluating climate change, regardless of which conclusion you're favouring (the classic example being "Look at all this snow! So much for global warming, eh?").

Now, multiple consecutive years with bad hurricane seasons and consistent record-breaking weather? There's your climate change.

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Sensual_T_Rex posted...

I got all excited thinking I could slay the miniature gargoyle thats totally not a Khorne greater deamon. Only to see the ESRB certificate in the corner and then I realized that its

Especially where the fundamental concept of the game lends itself really well to mobile monetization. Lots of opportunities to stick in timers and stamina meters and microtransactions.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

That would be. But Id be making so much pizza to justify the expense.

I'm not seeing the downside.

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zebatov posted...

In Canada hed be arrested, charged, jailed, and then dragged through the court system hoping he didnt get a jury of morons that have it out for everybody. If they found him not guilty of something, which he should be, he would not be compensated for his arbitrary detainment while he was doing time even though its innocent until proven guilty.

Most farming accidents like this I've heard of in Canada have generally just been accepted to be tragic accidents, unless there was clearly some sort of gross negligence at play that would warrant manslaughter charges.

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Wanded posted...

orient the Djinns to get the full screen attacks and spam those

This is generally what I'd do on battles with 3+ enemies (presuming you mean the AoE psynergies and not the summons). Alternate which one gets focused if there's an even number so the damage is more evenly distributed, then distribute basic attacks between whatever's left after the focused targets die. It's a bit of a pain, especially because it makes farming less mindless than is generally preferable for such grinds, but I found it was reasonably intuitive once I got the hang of it and rarely had significant issues with people wasting turns defending.

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Wanded posted...

liberals are anti vaxxers

I believe the anti-vaxx movement is one of the rare ones that is actually pretty close to equally represented across the political spectrum. You get the religious fanaticism and distrust of goverment driving it on the right, and the alternative medicine craze and distrust of corporations driving it on the left (with some overlap, of course, because nothing's that clear-cut).

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JigsawTDC posted...

If anything, all this controversy has probably only driven viewers to the film.

What? Telling people that something is evil and horrible and bad and must be stricken from the public view makes people more curious about it? Who knew?

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Don't those machines make a lot of noise?

I could believe that being surrounded by corn muffled that noise to enough of an extent that it didn't wake him up until it was quite close, at which point he was too disoriented to get out of the way in time.

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shadowsword87 posted...

Oh I know, I was saying that.

Oh, okay.

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Revelation34 posted...

How would you charge him?

Possibly manslaughter, for killing somebody as a result of operating the machine recklessly, but in all likelihood, he exercised due diligence in operating it and couldn't reasonably have known there was a kid lying in the field.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Maybe some microbe cloud is floating around Venus making phospine.

That's exactly what the hypothesis is.

shadowsword87 posted...

So it is a biological product?
Or it isn't?
Or is it both?

Would you say that... saying that it isn't a biological reaction, is a bad phrase and you shouldn't do that?

What he's trying to say is that biological processes are not the only possible explanation for this observation, just phrased really awkwardly because he's himself.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

While they are seemingly integral to what we refer to as the organic matter cycle that doesn't mean they are solely a biological product.

They aren't, but that doesn't mean "they're chemical, not biological" is something anyone with a basic understanding of the fact that biochem exists should be saying.

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