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GEKGanon posted...

$30,000 a year?

Um... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't making money on ROMS the thing you're ABSOLUTELY NOT SUPPOSED TO DO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES if you're trying to keep your ROM operation as legal as possible?

Nintendo has gotten involved for far less, so honestly, what the fuck was this person thinking trying to make money by selling pirated Nintendo products illegally? Are they just that stupid?

I assume he made that money by running ads on the site, I highly doubt he was charging people to download game.

Kinda funny people getting pissed at this when this is a two way street if you have a smart thermostat or smart lights and lose internet you will be using the neighbors internet to run them.

The amount of bandwidth this shit takes up is also extremely small, it's not like you are sharing your internet and then they are downloading games or movies or something. The vast majority of the bandwidth people use is when streaming or downloading something, if you remove those two uses for the internet it uses like 5-10% of bandwidth for everything else.

Ogurisama posted...

There is a few factors going on here
Covid has really slowed down production of manufacturing. But on top of that, lots of companies are actually trying to move their manufacturing facilities out of China, which is causing more issues.

On top of those scalpers, cryptominers, and even people just hoarding cause there is a shortage are making it even harder to find things.

I assume that is partly because of Trump's tariffs he put up a bunch of tariffs to punish companies from importing from China. Biden could have removed them but so far he has kept them in.

TinyTankX posted...

I suppose that makes sense. Makes me wonder why theres this rush to put things back to normal if the virus is still clearly affecting the infrastructure of different industries.

Well in some areas the restrictions are harsher but the main thing people don't think of is the manufacturing of one item relies on another.

If I am making say a PS5 I need to contact like 30+ other places to get the parts I need to build it. So if even one of those places has some restrictions or can't fill my full order I can't build as many as I want.

It's not like one factory does all of the creation and building of a PS5.

I mean Covid is basically the main reason behind everything from what I hear, the manufacturing process is being limited in some cases and it's causing less supply of things.

I have heard of many items being higher priced that people don't even think of. It hasn't hit food prices as much but outside of that it has impacted many industries.

Pretty damn conceited to think that after the Earth has a cataclysmic event the only people alive will be the 19 of them or some shit.

I have a feeling the script will be pretty hard to track down, I mean even internally at the CW HQ they consider the show to need heavy work.

So odds are we never see what the current pilot is, plenty of TV shows every year never make it past the pilot stage. A good number of them we never see a single bit of or even hear about.

wpot posted...

Ehhh...not really. The cast is top notch and they give it a memorable moment or two, but it's more or less a standard 2000-era raunchy movie without much creativity. It wouldn't be made in the MeToo era, and rightfully so.

I think most people like the film overall, it has over a 7 on IMDB. Sure if you hate some edgy content then it might not work, but I don't find MeToo being a problem here, guys trying to get a friend laid is a real thing that happens.

The movie also quickly evolves into a typical rom-com when he himself actually meets the right girl through normal means. So while his guy friends try to encourage him to hook up with nearly anyone, that is not the point of the movie at all.

Shit American Pie and Superbad are far more raunchy and focus heavily on the characters getting laid no matter what.

FatalAccident posted...

Is the film any good?

It's very funny in my opinion, it might not be the right type of movie for everyone but I think most will find it quite good.

adjl posted...

This summarizes the issue as clearly as anything I could say. Satire only informs or enlightens people that already agree with it (in which case it often isn't all that informative or enlightening). Those that don't agree dismiss it as a joke, instead of anything to learn from.

Well I mean getting anyone to change their mind about anything is a huge ordeal, a great example is the flat earthers they think that NASA and the government want to convince everyone the world is round based on some grand conspiracy.

They can't tell you the point of this great grand conspiracy, but they know it's real. I'm sure even in 20 years from now we will still have a die hard group that think that Biden stole the election from Trump, even though throughout those entire 20 years no new evidence that proves this will be found.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Also, George Carlin died in 2008 and had plenty to say up until he did. It's hilarious that people pretend like he died in the 90s and would've 'lampooned woke culture today'. Perhaps, but I think he would've had a lot stronger words for other hypocritical factions of the American governmental system.

Carlin always spoke out against the fat cats and those that really control this country. Woke anything would be so far down on his list of shit that pisses him off.

Especially what some consider woke stuff like oh look this movie has a primarily female cast, or oh look this movie shows a woman that can get shit done that is woke.

Mud's were the primary reason I gained the ability to type very fast.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd rather euthanize all the humans first.

That sure would kill a great number of dogs that could probably not survive in the wild.

jsb0714 posted...

If you think about it, only 2 million signatures isn't that great for a petition to just give you money.

You act like everyone in America knows about the petition and has made a decision to sign it or not.

KodyKeir posted...

That's the same argument against raising the minimum wage, spoiler alert wages stayed stagnant for thirty years and prices still went sky high.

The problem isn't the peasants begging for enough to live on, it the top 1% who make more in a day then you will ever see in your entire life combined.

Nah, if minimum wage was enough to live on for a single person we would see prices skyrocket!

$10 for bread
$9 for a gallon of milk

Just look at the other parts of the world with a better minimum wage they literally can't survive!

I do laugh at those that think that the rich getting exponentially richer doesn't raise prices only when the bottom 20-30% of the country gets more money.

Mead posted...

Its obvious now why there was and still is so much irrational pushback against bodycams for cops

they want cops to keep doing this without anyone knowing

I mean it seems like this footage is mostly coming from random cameras around and phones, I think most cops turn off their bodycam whenever they are really going beyond the line.

The Chauvin footage if memory serves was from a random person filming it with their phone.

What's really odd about this shit is that this is happening with a very notable case going on. I guess Chauvin was right this is just standard procedure.

It shouldn't be standard procedure but it is.

When you play the game it gives very little info about the series it's based on, the game is clearly designed for those new to Record of Lodoss.

While I'm sure some hardcore Record of Lodoss fans might know a bit more about what is going on it's not needed.

It's funny when people keep throwing in Sci-Fi games or games where a modern day character travels to a vastly different world into this equation, sure if we were 300+ years in the future Mass Effect 1 would count but we aren't.

I mean the first Ni No Kuni starts off in a like 1940's Europe or something but it spends 97% of the game in a fantasy land where it's basically medieval times.

aiyobro posted...

I always thought dave chapelle did a skit where he dressed up like reemus and sang the zippididoo da song with a slur but i guess not

There was an SNL skit decades that actually made fun of the Song of the South and claimed that there was a far more racists version that existed only for Walt Disney to show at parties. In that video you see a clip of the zippdidoodah song that SNL made up and it's very racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWr5SLg8hSE

Actually I was wrong it appears there are no official versions of the movie on DVD it's only available from Disney on VHS. So this movie hasn't been printed by Disney since the early 90's and original VHS copies are very pricey.

Mead posted...

any good?

It's a solid movie but it's extremely outdated and could be offensive to some.

Disney has basically done everything in their power to make everyone forget about it even with a disclaimer they won't ever put it on Disney+ or release it on Blu-Ray.

Well since it was Montana that makes sense, though I will say if parents really want to go out of their way to press charges it can happen in other cases depending on state law.

I could see an overprotective father flipping out if he catches his 16 year old daughter fucking an 18 year old guy.

I have heard of some states where they have like a 2 or 3 year rule to prevent throwing 18 year old's in jail for screwing say a 17 year old or something.

My GF from high school way back turned 18 before I did by a few months, without that rule technically my parents could press charges for that.

Pretty horrible options here I'm sure plenty have it once in a rare while like once a month or every few months yet we only have frequent options like 1-6+ times a week.

Zeus posted...

I guess you're probably not familiar with the source material and are basing your opinion on the more recent games, but the setting is reasonably close to what you might see in some cities. While there are futuristic elements and fantasy, the overall theme was very contemporary. When you go through the core book (I *think* it was a core edition, I'm not sure what happened to my copy), it has suggestions for encounters in convenience stores.

Additionally, the cyber-tech is often pretty low budget. The potential upgrades include installing a shotgun in somebody's forearm, something that you kinda can do with modern technology. Granted, part of it is that it was a future as envisioned in the 1980s and it was only set maybe 40-50 years in the future (which iirc they've pushed out)

And your other favorite, Werewolf: The Apocalypse >_>

Even if you go by that the original games still had magic and thing's like elves and dragons bro. So even if we go with the oldest version of Shadowrun the 1980's version which I owned as a kid it still doesn't fit.

Like I said it's a futuristic setting mashed with fantasy elements. Shit even back then the hacking done was by jacking into computers and entering a VR inside the computer world, and I recall that very well because the first Shadowrun source book had an elf jacking into cyberspace. I also recall you could become like wolverine and get claws put into your hand that could be retracted.

Zeus posted...

Shadowrun is pretty close to modern times.

Otherwise some of the GTA games kinda fit the bill, as do the Saints Row games (overlooking that SR4 has aliens, and then just ignoring Gat Out of Hell).

Honestly, unless you're kinda changing the idea of "set in modern times" to be some weird alt-verse with magic, etc, crime-themed games are probably the most logical choice. The kinda modern take on the quest, for instance, would be something like a heist (which would bring together a group of "adventurers" -- with very specialized skills -- on a mission to face overwhelming odds to get their hands on an item or loot).

However, if you are going magic, you'd probably just do urban fantasy of some kind.

Shadowrun is like modern times?

Have you played any Shadowrun game? The games are like 30-40 years in the future and they have advanced cybertechnology that people can put into them, and the other major change is magic and non-human humanoids are around.

It's like if someone took Cyberpunk 2077 and combined it with the stuff you see in Dungeons and Dragons. When I think modern times I don't think of random fantasy elements in a futuristic setting.

Anyways the only game I know of that has RPG elements in the modern world that is not a Mother game is the following.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/258910/Citizens_of_Earth/

Cruddy_horse posted...

I've never seen a single second of He-Man outside memes and the iconic scene with the sword. THis show came out in 1985, who even cares about it at this point.

Some people that grew up watching it in the 80's probably. Shit some 35+ year old's still collect the toys.

Damn this new service Netflex sounds awesome, I really like the idea of a streaming service built around flexing.

He-Man is a great start on a service like that.

PK_Spam posted...

Im sure Kevin Smith is gonna do everything in his power to satisfy all the 30-40 year olds who still fondly remember He-Man for stuff outside of memes.

Probably gonna be mid but people are gonna eat it up anyway, just like most of the Castlevania anime

I mean the original show is not that great, I'm sure to most 10 year olds or younger He-Man was magnificent but really the show does not hold up well at all.

Hopefully those cats are neutered or else they may have a stray cat problem after this.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

okay but theyre still doing season 6, right???

Yes, a good number of shows on this list are getting one more season.

Ozark
Better Call Saul
etc..

This list is a little off because a good number of shows listed are getting 1 more season and then they are wrapping things up.

adjl posted...

Pretty much. Counterfeit ID's would also be inevitable, plus it's considerably more work for businesses to enforce an ID requirement than to just call out people that aren't wearing masks. The logistics of it are just too complicated to justify doing it, particularly where the alternative is just continuing to require masks until case numbers get low enough (which, despite some people's insistence, really isn't a big deal).

I mean even with a no mask needed ordinance across the country businesses could still require one if they deem it so. The same way a business can refuse to serve someone that refuses to wear a shirt or put on shoes.

Now that business might find some very irate customers with that assuming other businesses nearby drop the requirement but just saying.

adjl posted...

I'm not sure why you chose to only read the final quarter of my post, but I think you'll find the rest of it answers pretty much every question you asked there.

To explain: If the CDC is announcing this, it's because they've determined that fully vaccinated people do not present a significant enough risk of being infected or transmitting the disease to warrant wearing a mask. I don't doubt that, especially as vaccination rates climb. That's not the problem.

The problem is that countless idiots are going to use this to justify eliminating mask mandates and/or lie about their vaccination status so they don't have to wear a mask. Unless mask mandates are kept in place, that's going to result in rising case numbers among that population, diminishing the effectiveness of existing vaccines and creating a breeding ground for variants that may get through the existing vaccines. This is also going to mean that, if a variant emerges that isn't prevented by the vaccines, the vaccinated population is going to be particularly vulnerable to that because they aren't masked, and especially so because getting them to wear masks again after telling them they don't have to is going to be hard.

Don't get me wrong, it's good that the science is supporting this, because that's a major milestone in the fight against covid. I also don't doubt that the CDC has analyzed the data properly. I just don't trust the general public to not screw this up.

I mean if the government really wanted to ensure only those fully vaccinated people get this they could create an ID or something that shows that they have been fully vaccinated. It would be quite an expense creating a special ID just for that though, so I doubt it happens.

In life I categorize people into five categories

Stranger: Someone I really don't know at all.

Casual Acquaintance: Someone I am somewhat friendly with when I see him/her but do not consider a friend.

Friend: Someone I would hang out with, and have done so at least some of the time.

Close Friend: Someone that I consider a great friend and feel a close personal bond with.

Family: Obviously someone I grew up with and have likely known my whole life.

Just because she was happy to see you and took your number, this likely was more of a casual acquaintance thing especially since you waited on her multiple times over the years. She might have taken the number just to make you feel better and not be as embarrassed in the moment where she was really thinking yeah I don't think I will ever use it.

It also has to be factored in how friendly she is with other random people, she might just be a very outgoing person that always seems super happy. So the overjoy to see you might just be how she behaves seeing anyone she knows.

Dmess85 posted...

The CVS down the street from me has calculators at 5.99

Sure but in app form it should be way less than 9.99 I could see $1.00 for it or something but $9.99 is insane. You can find a ton of Calculator apps on IOS and Android for free with ads or $1-2.

Pretty damn ridiculous price on the calculator $9.99.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Considering what ranch is, it would be quite strange if I added it, regardless of microwave times.

I'm there with ya man relish and mustard is all I ever put on my cereal and you see heathens putting ketchup on it.

I think if Bill Gates wanted to be President he would have ran by now, I mean even before Trump ran in 2015 he had looked at running multiple times throughout the years.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Doesn't it come pre installed with Windows?

Phew, then it's only people that use Linux or Macs then.

Yeah, this guy really has no clue about the value of the games that he was selling. Pretty rare today because Ebay is so ubiquitous anyone can look up the value of any game in seconds.

You see guys like Pat the NES Punk talk about how hard it is to find good video game deals at the flea market because most sellers price by Ebay.

Until it's in your hands, this deal could be snatched up or the seller could realize they are vastly undervaluing their games and pull it.

I mean when a guy sees a hot girl and thinks "Damn, I want to bang her." is not the same thing as a deep emotional bond with a partner.

Sure a relationship built purely on sex and physical attraction is doomed to failure down the line, but most aren't built that way. Now can sex be an important part of a relationship sure, but if it's the primary driving factor to why you are with a person that is pretty bad unless both parties are just like a FWB thing or it's a fling.

It's basically like saying "When I watch porn I only like seeing girls between ages 18-25 therefore no one could ever find a 50 year old woman attractive."

The first picture is probably the least furry version of female Sonic I have ever seen. It's basically a normal woman wearing a hedgehog costume that still shows off her female assets.

shadowsword87 posted...

If y'all don't like her music, you can just not listen to it.
Nobody's forcing you to listen to it.

In their brain if they don't like it that must mean the music is trash!

Must be nice to be so fucking conceited that they think their taste in music is so definitive that everyone that actually likes her music just has no taste.

GanonsSpirit posted...

Returnal looks fun, but I just can't justify spending $70 on a roguelite.

With how good Hades was I would have been fine paying at least $39.99 for it if not more. I think AAA companies rarely look at roguelites because they consider it a niche genre if this Returnal does well though that will change.

VioletMassacre posted...

Theyre new and its a topic about her. Its funny how quick she changed from covering herself to this.

She has stated she had body issues in the past, many teenage girls go through that process bro.

I also will say she is one of the most unique pop stars on the planet, since most pop music is about up tempo stuff that is more fun. Billie makes extremely melancholic songs that are usually about sad things. Her most mainstream song when hearing it is Bad Guy and if you watch the video for that it's also pretty damn off.

It's nice seeing a pop star that doesn't try to just copy what Britney Spears did 20 years ago. Another thing she does most pop stars don't do is make her own music, she works with her brother to make all the music. Most pop stars have writers and in most cases a group of people make the beat then they just sing the song.

I also will say while they have not put an actual Auction House in the game, sites like Poe.trade have made it extremely easy to buy and sell items. The stash system even works with sites like that so you can set a stash public then put up prices for things and Poe.trade will list them.

So they are not directly inhibiting trading by making it all done in person and using the in-game systems to do it.

Ogurisama posted...

I like the episode Pikachu zaps team rocket

My favorite episode is the one where Team Rocket shouts "Team Rocket, Blasting Off Again!"