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I can't really judge. We impulse bought a Lego one at Costco pretty much exactly two years ago now (might have been later in September).

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TigerTycoon posted...

when I was watching the show when I was younger, I didn't even notice Vivian got replaced.

They explicitly point it out in the first episode with the new Vivian. They interpreted the whole "fourth wall" thing a little more loosely in the later seasons.

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If you're collecting things for investment purposes, you should probably be investing in a fireproof safe for exactly that reason.

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Lokarin posted...

That was always one of my favourite recurring gags, someone getting tossed out of the house

What's fun is knowing that they only shot the scene of Jazz getting thrown out of the house once, so he only ever gets thrown out if he's wearing the same shirt as he was in that one shot. If you see him wearing that shirt, you know he's going to get thrown out at some point.

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It's been a long time since I've had either, so things might have changed, but my recollection is that I liked Pizza Hut better than Domino's. Neither are places I tend to eat, though, so I can't say I've done a more recent comparison.

keyblader1985 posted...

I'm not picky about pizza. I even like Little Caesar's, which most people seem to hate.

In my mind, Little Caesar's is just good enough for the convenience/price to make it worth eating. The ability to just walk in and spend $5 (or whatever it is these days) for a pizza is pretty great, even if the pizza in question is mediocre at best. If I'm not in a position where I need that convenience, though, I'd rather eat just about any other pizza.

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I was under the impression that she'd been fired because she got pregnant, which forbidden by her contract. It wouldn't surprise me if some interpersonal issues exacerbated that, but I thought the actual firing was much less subjective than her speaking out about writing decisions.

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Monopoman posted...

But we all know Zeus is the biggest Republican supporter on the entire site, so I'm sure you loved Sarah Palin.

He seems to have a thing for Republicans with a history in reality TV.

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Huzzah!

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My girlfriend's mom's birthday is happening. Dunno if that counts as huge, but it's a thing.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

You can only place a review embargo when you are providing pre-release copies of a game, once it is on sale to the public there is no way to stop people from doing reviews.

Pretty much. Even with pre-release copies, it's rarely so much a formal legal agreement as it is a thinly-veiled threat to not provide advance review copies of future games if you break it, but that threat doesn't apply once the game can be purchased by anyone.

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I don't actually know if Covid is toxic. I haven't looked into its specific pathology in enough detail to know if there are toxins involved or if it's just garden-variety viral cell destruction.

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Judgmenl posted...

Calling smart people "shut downs"
????
Is this some kind of insult?

I'm pretty sure she's just referring to stuff being shut down for public health. Nothing about the context there suggests she's using the term to refer to people.

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LinkPizza posted...

You think so? I think maybe a few. But probably not a majority, tbh...

Somebody that commutes even just 15 minutes each way (which is pretty short) and works 50 5-day weeks a year spends 125 hours per year simply getting to and from work, to say nothing of the gas, maintenance, and parking costs, plus the infrastructure requirements imposed on the city by their commute (roads, parking, traffic management) and the environmental impacts. In practice, it's common to weave errands into commutes such that that time isn't necessarily completely wasted, but that's still the equivalent of three full work weeks spent travelling back and forth. Free up that time, and they're in a better position to put in longer days if needed, they have more energy available once they're at work and to get necessary chores done once they "get home," you don't have to worry about traffic-related stress impacting their work... provided their work can be done from home without introducing new problems, you get all that benefit at no cost. It just makes sense.

Is it a viable option for every job? Of course not. Probably not even for a majority of jobs (anything public-facing, for example). But there are plenty of jobs that are carried out in person purely because it's tradition to work that way, rather than because it's the best way to do it, and everyone being forced to work from home by this pandemic has demonstrated that.

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Honestly, I'm expecting working from home to persist even after the global public health crisis subsides. So many industries have been able to make it work so well that returning to the paradigm of commuting every day would just be unnecessary. It probably won't stick around to quite the same extent, since in-person meetings are nice from time to time, but so many people have been able to drop their commute without losing any productivity that it only makes sense to keep that up. Personally, I'm loving getting up at 8:15 to go to work for 8:30 instead of getting up at 7.

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hungrymike posted...

Dude was a senior in high school. Not likely he needed a baby sitter

You wouldn't think, but if he's acting like this...

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Zeus posted...

Prior to this topic, I'd literally never heard demonrats (although irl I heard somebody use demoncrats). If you hadn't posted the meme (which I know you're not capable of making), I would have assumed you just made it up. However, on any given day, somebody on Gamefaqs is using something stupider than that to describe Republicans or conservatives (and, for that matter, Democrats and liberals). Keep in mind that this was a site where people used "Sony pony" unironically.

Question asked: "Have examples?"
Words given in response: 79
Examples provided in response: 0

Personally, I don't doubt that there are plenty of decent examples out there, but the fact that you typed that much without being able to come up with a single one is just plain funny.

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Zeus posted...

Well, that's just flat-out bulls***.

He's explicitly called the whole situation a hoax, a lie many of his followers cling to even today. Within the past month, he's suggested "solving" the problem by slowing down testing so the numbers look better without actually reducing the number of cases out there. He's been doing everything he could since day 1 to pretend Covid is less of a problem than it actually is.

Zeus posted...

That likely had nothing to do with his talk of "downplaying it" because he's still undermining that advice.

So undermining public health advice isn't part of him deliberately downplaying the virus, it's just him being dangerously clueless in an unrelated way? I'm not sure that helps your position.

Zeus posted...

And bearing in mind that the advice isn't even being followed by the people who give it, which is what's really undermining it...

If I asked you to give examples of this, you'd provide maybe a dozen examples of individual instances where left-leaning folks were caught failing to adhere properly to recommendations. Maybe 2-3 of these examples would amount to anything significant (Pelosi's hair salon visit being one of them), with the rest very clearly being momentary errors or lapses in judgement. None of your examples could be successfully generalized to the thousands of public health professionals that have been involved in giving the advice to such an extent that you could genuinely say the public has been confused by their inconsistency (excepting the fact that recommendations have changed as the situation has evolved and people that lack the scientific literacy to understand how completely normal that is for this sort of situation interpreted those changes as hypocrisy), to say nothing of the fact that most such examples are relatively recent and therefore have nothing to do with early confusion.

Because we know how it would go, I'm not actually going to ask you for examples. That just saves us both some work.

Zeus posted...

as is promoting widescale protests when people are supposed to be social distancing.

If by "promoting" you mean not saying "go home guys you can whine about police getting away with murder later," then I guess, but that seems like a stretch. Simply not denouncing something is not the same as promoting it, and the CDC very much stayed within the domain of the former. It's also not like the CDC (or anyone, for that matter) could actually do anything to stop the protests, so there really wouldn't be much point in inciting the political backlash that would follow a formal denouncement. Again, that's also relatively recent and therefore cannot be blamed for earlier confusion regarding infection control protocols.

Zeus posted...

...because suggesting people stay calm while they try to get a handle on things is apparently worse than causing mass panic that kills more people than any fire would.

If you can cite Trump saying "stay calm and follow these recommendations while we figure out the best way to tackle this thing on a national scale," you can argue that that was his strategy. Of course, that would entail Trump publicly admitting he didn't know how to handle it, which his narcissism won't allow him to do, so good luck with that. Again, there are ways to minimize panic during an emergency situation, but saying "the fire's a hoax" or "don't worry guys it's not even that hot it'll put itself out in like five minutes" are not among them. Decisive leadership and direction are.

Zeus posted...

Everybody in the building already knew for at least a month about the proverbial fire.

Which is why denying and minimizing it was a terrible way to try to reduce panic. Everybody already knew there was a fire and that it was bad, so when the president started trying to say there wasn't one, the only reasonable interpretation of that is that he didn't plan on doing anything to fix the problem any time soon and everyone was on their own for figuring out how to deal with it. Reducing panic requires leadership, not denying the true nature of a problem everybody already understands.

Zeus posted...

Second, the panic WAS ALREADY causing substantial problems which were costing countless lives, considering doctors were sometimes stuck wearing cloth masks because people who were staying home anyway (because panic) were stockpiling PPE in a panic.

Which, in all honesty, means any further panic wasn't likely to cause any more harm. It's not like suppliers can have less than zero masks available, after all, and it didn't take long after the first couple weeks of panic buying for stores to put purchase limits or other restrictions on high-demand items (I like that Costco is refusing to take returns of toilet paper) to prevent that harm regardless of how people were panicking.

Of course, that still goes back to the point that decisive leadership does more to prevent panic than denying that an obvious problem exists. That panic buying could have been reduced by explicitly asking people to refrain from buying masks unless they'd tested positive because supply was so limited and they're significantly more effective for blocking transmission, but no such definitive statement was ever made by Trump. Legally mandating purchase limits as soon as panic buying became a thing would have mitigated that harm, but no such order was passed. Buying up a large stock of masks to distribute to health care workers in high-risk areas would have mitigated that harm (and also offset the depletion of such supplies during Obama's terms OH HEY BONUS), but not only did he fail to do that, he auctioned off the supplies the federal government did already have to the highest bidder instead of allocation them according to need.

There are many things Trump could and should have said and done to prevent panic and mitigate the harm of the panic that couldn't be prevented (to say nothing of what he could have done to solve the actual problem). "It's no big deal" was not one of them. Again, if he thought it was, he's clueless, but I'm much more inclined to believe he just thinks that's a good excuse to use to cover up the fact that he was just trying to make himself look better (at the cost of thousands of lives).

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Zeus posted...

His full statement is about concerns of creating a panic, which -- considering the reaction we saw early on which was bad enough as is -- seems understandable.

Man, if only there were some sort of medical and/or public health professionals somewhere in his administration that could have advised him that completely undermining the public's trust in said professionals and openly discouraging them from taking any of the precautions that were actually necessary would do more harm than some vague notion of "creating a panic." Then maybe poor ol' Donnie wouldn't have bungled the situation by acting in such profound ignorance.

You know the best way to avoid inciting panic during an emergency situation? Give people as much information as possible and advise them on how best to handle it so they know how to respond instead of panicking. Telling them there is no emergency and undermining the advice they need to handle it just means more people get hurt and ultimately end up panicking because they don't know what to do when the fire reaches their door. This is something anyone who's ever participated in a fire drill knows. The goddamn President of the United States should certainly understand it, such that any claims he makes of "trying to prevent a panic" are either completely clueless (in which case he's horribly suited for the job) or a flimsy excuse he's trying to use to cover up the fact that he was actually just trying to protect his image (in which case he's horribly suited for the job).

Zeus posted...

despite the fact that our national supply of PPE & other supplies was greatly depleted under Obama and previous administritations who didn't bother restocking stuff, this is completely Trump's fault!

You're still beating that horse? Yes, Obama should have restocked those supplies. So should Bush. So should Clinton. And so should Trump. He had 3 years in which to do so (roughly half of the time between the end of the H1N1 epidemic and the end of Obama's last term, that being one of the major factors in the stock's depletion). The fact that he didn't even try means he can't blame Obama (or Bush, or Clinton) for them being depleted.

If he'd tried and been unable to find the funding to pull it off? Sure, maybe. If he'd made partial progress but not enough? He'd deserve kudos for that and more of the blame would fall on Obama for leaving such an insurmountable problem. But no, he ignored it, and he needs to take responsibility for that decision.

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dedbus posted...

Really of all the banal studies out there that people are positively or negatively effected by things like tying your shoes rabbit ears style vs granny knot, people aren't effected in any way at all by a sudden change of most of society covering their face?

Neither of the responses to your post said "there's no psychological impact." Both said "data exists so you should use it to do real science instead of assuming your way to a baseless conclusion." "But there's probably some sort of impact!" is a valid response to the former (which nobody said), but not to the latter (which everybody said).

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SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Already seeing his cultists claiming he did it to prevent a panic as if downplaying a deadly disease and lying about it to everyone is the perfect solution for that. XD

Bonus points because they'll then turn around and demand Xi's head on a platter for downplaying it in China.

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dedbus posted...

It's probably reasonable to assume mask culture would have some unintended phycological effects.

Not really. Enough other communities (mostly in East Asia) have been using masks consistently for long enough that there's no reason to assume any such thing. You can collect actual data and draw empirically substantiated conclusions instead of assuming.

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If anyone's looking for an example of toxic masculinity...

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papercup posted...

Too much duckface and spray tan.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Rubber band machine gun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQ9mcELq4E

Alternatively, a similar design that launches mini crossbow bolts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKrHnYexBic

Less flesh-friendly, though.

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Entity13 posted...

To make matters worse or more ironic, watch the "boy" grow up to be a mtf transgender. Then the couple will have done so much damage over... what exactly?

I did like an article I saw about a couple who threw their kid a second gender reveal party to help them come out as NB (I think. Might have been some other manner of genderqueer). They full-on said "apparently we got it wrong the first time, so the least we can do is help set the record straight," which I thought was pretty cool. They just had a cake with grey icing, though. No explosions.

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Also, pretty much everybody expected the BLM protests to cause a massive surge in cases. Suggesting that nobody thought they were risky or that no cases have been linked to them is an outright falsehood. That they generally haven't has surprised everyone and demonstrated that wearing masks outdoors does more to prevent transmission than anyone had realized (which makes some amount of sense, because sunlight both kills viral particles trapped by the mask and helps keep the mask dry enough to continue working).

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Neither console will likely have a meaningful lead over the other within the first month. They'll both be around for the better part of the next decade; the first month doesn't mean much (especially with the continued support for current consoles to draw out the upgrade period).

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T0ffee posted...

Dunno how much post-game there's gonna be considering everybody dies at the end lol.

I mean, HW1's post-game stuff didn't depend on people surviving. It was all very much non-story content, involving characters that didn't even have a story presence and/or made absolutely no sense in the context in which they were presented. Adventure Mode was purely gameplay, with very little attention paid to canon or thematic accuracy except when it was needed for a specific challenge (which rarely had anything to do with the game's main story). To that end, everybody dying shouldn't impact it too much.

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Rune Factory 4 is one of my favourite games ever.

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Jen0125 posted...

They found an illegal bar operating in Brooklyn with 300 people in it. Like.. Why

There's a town in Ontario that's had most of its cases linked to a speakeasy nail salon that remained open despite orders to close such businesses. Like, you full-on had to go around the back and give a password to get in. These are some truly insane times we live in.

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"Failed" is an exaggeration. Bumps like this are typical in any vaccine trial. It remains to be seen whether or not it will be able to overcome them, since it's a given that many candidates will end up failing, but it's too soon to give up hope on it.

Clench281 posted...

Trust in this vaccine trial is lost because something happened that happens in all vaccine trials?

To be fair, this is really the first time humanity has ever been sufficiently invested in the development of a vaccine to keep tabs on everything that stumbles. That's part of why people are responding with such distrust to public health agencies changing their minds: They're not used to paying attention to the full scientific process and they don't expect so many wrong guesses, so they see such changes in consensus as a sign of incompetence. This is completely normal and well within expectations for any vaccine development process, but it is going to sow distrust because the general public isn't scientifically literate enough to know that and hasn't paid enough attention to prior vaccine trials to know to expect it.

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Aculo posted...

i own hyrule warriors on wii u, and never played it once. maybe i'll give it a shot, ok?

It's a pretty good time. It does fall into the typical Warriors game button mashing, so if that's not your thing, it might not hold your interest, but if you like that, it does a very good job of filling the niche.

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It will, of course, remain to be seen if they do a good job making this, but I have to say that the idea of using a Hyrule Warriors game to tell the story of the Calamity is bloody brilliant. The whole large-scale warfare thing really wouldn't have translated well into a regular Zelda game (nor into one like BotW), but it's practically tailor-made for a Warriors one, especially with the number of major characters that participated in the battles. This works so perfectly that I almost have to wonder if they deliberately set it up with how they presented the story in BotW. My interest is very much piqued.

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In some hypothetical situation where the bad person is unambiguously evil and the good person is unambiguously good, and the only reason the bad person hasn't been taken down already is because they've masterfully outwitted the justice system such that it's been impossible to prove their guilt, sure. Unfortunately, life isn't a comic book, so situations that are so clear-cut are pretty rare. More often, the "good guy" is acting based on their personal biases, rather than on the basis of any sort of objective good, and the basis for calling the "bad guy" bad is merely that they're breaking the law (in which case anyone breaking the law to take them down is giving up any moral high ground they had), which makes the whole situation far more complicated.

In practice, it needs to be determined on a case-by-case basis, which is exactly what happens. People who kill their would-be murderers are allowed to justify their actions as self-defense, reasoning that they prevented a worse crime from occurring by their actions. People who round up prostitutes and feed them to pigs are not, reasoning that they have committed a worse crime than they prevented and are therefore themselves a criminal. Vigilantism is generally discouraged because it bypasses the checks and balances of the justice system, but the system is equipped to punish that bypass as needed when that does occur.

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Zeus posted...

Really? Because I was actually going to do a countdown right before keyblader showed up. We're totally out of sync! And referring to each other in the third-person.

Protip: If you're going to turn somebody's word choices around on them in an effort to make a witty retort, stick to more concise phrases than that, as well as making sure your reworded version actually works. Otherwise, what you're doing just comes off as being roughly equivalent to reciting the entire spiel that follows "I'm rubber and you're glue," which was cringey and embarrassing when I was 6 years old, let alone 25 years later.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

And of course the ways to use a certain mask outside boss rooms in Majoras Mask.

Thematically, I kind of liked the fact that preserving those glitches meant waiting until the moon fell, unable to do anything about it. Like you were dooming yourself and the world around you in exchange for being nigh-omnipotent for the rest of the world's existence.

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Revelation34 posted...

A person wouldn't be eating paper like that unless they were on drugs.

Or playing pica-boo.

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dedbus posted...

I imagine if they breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth the mask will be performing exactly how it's supposed to from what everyone has been saying about how they are supposed to work.

Probably even more effectively since the ridge of the nose is the more compromised portion of the seal anyway.

Hypothetically, yes. There have been a couple studies done that find that breathing like that can yield comparable effects (at least in terms of protecting others) even if the nose is uncovered. That said, you're proposing that people maintain full conscious awareness and control over their breathing for the entire time they're wearing the mask (which can very easily be several hours), as well as that they breathe gently enough to not force some air out of the nose (since the nose isn't sealed off while breathing through the mouth). It's also going to do very little to contain coughs/sneezes. Perhaps more significantly, that's almost impossible to assess compliance of, meaning enforcing mask mandates becomes much harder and people would absolutely take advantage of that to get away with wearing their masks more comfortably, effectively undermining the entire effort to get people to wear masks.

It mostly works on paper, but it's not at all a practical strategy to promote and employ in the real world.

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LinkPizza posted...

Tbh, Idk. I've never tried. But I also wouldn't want to go back into the dungeon a second time for fairy hunting, so...

I think I've always gone for the hookshot route, but having to revisit it later is rather annoying, especially where fairy progress doesn't carry over between cycles.

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Full Throttle posted...

The deputy says she often leaves her car door open incase she has to retreat from vicious dogs

NMB became a police officer?

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Revelation34 posted...

You'd be in danger even if you're wearing a mask?

Yes. A sizable percentage of respiratory infections enter the body through the eyes, which masks do nothing to protect, and any sub-airtight mask isn't going to provide complete protection against nearby droplets. As everyone with any idea what they're talking about has been saying from the beginning, masks do more to protect others than yourself, since they work well for capturing most of the droplets we breathe out and also help to slow down the air we exhale (meaning droplets don't carry as far).

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If they're getting CO accumulating in their mask, they should probably refrain from smoking in it.

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faramir77 posted...

Snowpeak in particular just straight up isn't fun, plus it has the most bulls*** hidden stray fairy in the game (requiring you to slowly glide down using the Deku Flower from the top floor, into an alcove hidden by a false wall).

Can't you just Scarecrow's Song your way into there if you come back with the hookshot? Or am I thinking of a different one?

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No complaints.

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I was always a fan of Swordless Link in OoT, just for the sheer range of other glitchy behaviours it enabled once you pulled it off.

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It's never really interested me. $300 is like two weeks' groceries; paying that much for a single meal (whatever the quality) just seems ridiculous.

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