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| Topic | Times when a retcon actually made a piece of story retroactively better? |
| DEKMStephens 08/14/21 7:26:38 AM #69 | cuttin_in_farm posted... The Fate series being retconned from being porn.Strongly disagree, Fate Stay Night feels really empty because they stripped away all the porn. Fate Zero is fine but that was never porn in the first place. I think most of the other material is bad however, so I could see graphic sex improving them. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Is The Sims 4 the most absolute bloodsucking DLC of all time? |
| DEKMStephens 08/07/21 6:23:51 AM #3 | I suspect there will be fighting games outpacing that price tag maybe --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Why we have the Electoral Votes (for those who don't know): |
| DEKMStephens 07/31/21 12:36:01 AM #24 | Rypt posted... To put it into simple terms, if we go by the popular vote, then what happens is the few states with highest populations of people (California, Texas, New York, etc.) will be making the decisions on how the entire country lives. Smaller states like Delaware, Rhode Island, Idaho, Nebraska, etc, would basically have no say so in anything. And that can lead to riots, protests, and possibly revolution.Isn't that why the Senate exists --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Afghan translator the US left behind was beheaded |
| DEKMStephens 07/30/21 4:39:16 AM #35 | Yeah it is interesting; apparently the US did a pretty good job of resettling Vietnamese translators after Vietnam but have done a terrible job with Afghanis. One wonders if this will come back to bite the US when the next conflict takes place in Greenland and they need Inuit translators but no one wants to help or w/e --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Left Leaning peeps, what is your most conservative view? |
| DEKMStephens 07/25/21 9:23:18 PM #130 | I'm going to go with rules and limitations on abortions are arbitrary. The reason why this presents as "conservative" is that prereqs I'm not advocating either for and against abortion. Society has deemed we (may) require some level of restriction on the operation but I don't think any point in the pregnancy is particularly more ethical than another, so whatever the requirement is it will be arbitrary. Therefore harder prerequisites to abortion are as justifiable as weaker ones, if we have requirements. Granted by the same measure this means I also wouldn't care if there were none, and abortions are freely available, which is very unconservative. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Conservative children publisher Brave Books debuts with Elephants Are Not Birds |
| DEKMStephens 07/24/21 8:05:04 PM #54 | Depending how that story is framed it seems like the takeaway could just as easily be that other people are jerks who won't let you do what you want to --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Are you boycotting Activision Blizzard? |
| DEKMStephens 07/23/21 7:54:11 PM #7 | No, i stopped playing their games a few years ago when they doubled down on their support for a totalitarian regime. This certainly does not improve my opinion however --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Capitol riot: Zach Alam wants to represent himself |
| DEKMStephens 07/23/21 12:50:46 AM #8 | Ruvan22 posted... Nice! Meta punPresident Trump will be reinstated next month so the dude is pretty confidence the law will be on his side --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Tumblr starts letting bloggers charge a subscription |
| DEKMStephens 07/22/21 12:21:24 AM #2 | Charging money to not even see porn --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | New trailer for "I am not Starfire," about Starfire's hot daughter! |
| DEKMStephens 07/20/21 4:31:01 AM #76 | I don't mind it conceptually but visually it is kinda ugly. Guess I am just used to the "normal" style DC cartoons use to portray characters --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Texas Governor: "those fleeing Texas will be arrested" |
| DEKMStephens 07/15/21 3:34:27 PM #81 | Can they just do that? Remove a speaker? --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | You ever wonder why blue is so rare in Animals? |
| DEKMStephens 07/12/21 12:42:21 AM #8 | Blue pigments have only evolved a few times in nature and is not widely spread. A lot of blues in nature are structural rather than pigments. What that means is, microscopic structures form which bend light in such a way that they appear blue. Blue eyes vaguely work this way. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Would you watch a Roman Empire zombie show? |
| DEKMStephens 07/11/21 5:44:42 AM #4 | I feel like it'd be unnecessary because of the show you are referencing. Unless they decided to make an English adaption of it and reframe it to be some point in European history --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | 11 year old prodigy plans to make humans immortal |
| DEKMStephens 07/07/21 4:59:19 AM #5 | 1337toothbrush posted... Replacing body parts with mechanical parts seems like something of a dead end when compared with growing biological body parts. There's already work being put into growing parts from your own DNA. If you desire modifications, you can modify your DNA and grow parts from that. Regardless, best of luck to him.I guess one idea is that if you got machine based augs you'd be able to make something better than you could using base biology. Maybe this kid will make Deus Ex a reality lol --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Women say men who play video games are immature |
| DEKMStephens 07/07/21 3:44:58 AM #78 | WingsOfGood posted... Staying silent during an argumentThis is a weird one to me, I feel like it'd be more mature to say nothing at all than kick up shit --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | ok but real talk how the fuck does an entire baby fit through a vagina |
| DEKMStephens 07/05/21 6:14:43 AM #41 | Choco posted... Are the straights okay? --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | The Klan marched through Philly yesterday. |
| DEKMStephens 07/04/21 9:36:12 PM #106 | Why did they travel all the way from Texas to do this? --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | So nothing outside the movies and disneyplus is canon for the MCU |
| DEKMStephens 07/04/21 4:57:26 AM #31 | I am further disinvested in Marvel now. Good chance I probably wasn't going to watch anything moving forward anyway, but now it feels like all those shows I did watch were a waste of time --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | FFXIV topic |
| DEKMStephens 07/02/21 5:38:40 AM #6 | Update, got 50/50. Didn't even get the Field Note drop from a duel either. Bozja = DEAD CONTENT --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | FFXIV topic |
| DEKMStephens 07/01/21 9:38:01 PM #4 | I for one have 49/50 Bozjan field notes Curse u Sartauvoir!! --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | YouTube bans outlet that covered and criticized right wing conspiracies |
| DEKMStephens 07/01/21 8:25:12 PM #33 | YugiNoob posted... YouTube is just really weird with what it wants to penalize. MxR got strikes for making fun of a super fat whale of a woman, showing a kid holding sparklers, and having Jeannie humming a little bit of the Mission Impossible theme lolThe thing that gets me is how they refuse to give their second channel a plaque. YouTube is very arbitrary --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | 10 Million dollars but... |
| DEKMStephens 07/01/21 4:21:02 AM #1 | Every time you walk into a room Tip Drill by Nelly plays as your theme song.
Vote
-The song will be uncensored. -The music is "magical" in that it is inexplicably experience by all with no clear source. -This "power" will last until you have spent all the money. -Money is USD. wdyd? --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Rapper Kodak Black under fire for throwing $100K into the ocean |
| DEKMStephens 07/01/21 12:38:14 AM #72 | I thought destroying/discarding money was a crime --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Why do humans have teeth problems but animals don't? |
| DEKMStephens 06/19/21 2:02:32 AM #21 | |
| Topic | Sooo, why is Lola Bunny over-corrected? |
| DEKMStephens 06/18/21 1:45:10 AM #328 | Itty bitty kitty committee I have nothing to add, just saw Darmiks last post and that popped in my head and I wanted to share. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Does Doja cat have an Asian fetish? |
| DEKMStephens 06/16/21 1:50:01 AM #22 | White supremacists often do --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Sesame Street x Bloodborne |
| DEKMStephens 06/14/21 11:37:40 PM #4 | I feel like these are a little lacking because not everything in Bloodborne is the same washed out colour --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | I'm here to kill Chaos. |
| DEKMStephens 06/14/21 6:19:37 AM #69 | |
| Topic | Anyone have a pic of what Gameboard topics looked like with the update |
| DEKMStephens 06/13/21 3:08:03 AM #1 | Before it was rolled back? A friend of mine missed it and I want to show him how bad it looked. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Loki singlehandedly destroyed the MCU's worldbuilding *episode 1 spoilers* |
| DEKMStephens 06/10/21 4:20:48 AM #71 | The disrespect the MCU showed towards the older shows which I was invested in (namely Netflix MCU and Agents of SHIELD) is why I have given up on the MCU. Might be good they care now, but too little too late. This alongside dropping the ball with Star Wars and and also probably Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean was kinda the nail in the coffin for live action Disney in my eyes. Not to mention the unending stream of unnecessary live action remakes... --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | still nobody to take the throne from Two Best Friends |
| DEKMStephens 06/08/21 8:08:49 AM #11 | I was only a fan of the shit storms but man, Octobers are way less interesting without them --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | President Joe Manchin, on legislation to expand voting rights |
| DEKMStephens 06/06/21 11:59:25 AM #49 | Solar_Crimson posted... Agreed. People seem to think that with Trump out and Biden in, things will be just fine, but actually, things are going to get much worse if the Dems don't grow some balls, and if the people get complacent again in 2022 and 2024.Probably don't even need to get complacent, Republicans passing enough laws at the State level it may not matter --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Why would anyone want Amazon Sidewalk activated? |
| DEKMStephens 06/01/21 3:42:46 PM #7 | Sounds like COMMUNISM or something idk --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Europe country tier list |
| DEKMStephens 06/01/21 6:50:59 AM #4 | All those countries are in the European Union. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Europe country tier list |
| DEKMStephens 06/01/21 6:49:33 AM #2 | Iloveyou5 posted... baltic states which arent EUAren't all three Baltic states in the EU? You may need to redefine because you may be extending the term to countries that aren't typically included --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | A topic about gender dysphoria |
| DEKMStephens 06/01/21 2:26:01 AM #68 | Good topic Mallard. The topic was an interesting read on the bus to work this morning. I personally have always leant towards the "social construct" gender idea, which has left me perplexed by some aspects of transgenderism/gender dysphoria. Thats not to say I try and enforce my ideas on others; I am very much of the opinion it isnt my right to tell people who or what they are. I certainly do my best to address people with their preferred pronouns when I am aware of them. As such, I typically have kept my opinions to myself because probably no one would care, except those who may take offense (namely transgender and non-binary people). Which is why I dont share my opinions, I am not looking to actively offend people. Anyway, with the please dont think I am transphobic out of the way One thing I have always found strange is what gender truly means. Under the thought process that it is a social construct, I have come to two soft conclusions: 1. gender is somewhat meaningless; and, 2. we should be trying to break down what I interpret as gender barriers. An example of what I mean by this is, men should be able to wear dresses and skirts. No questions, side glances or the like. It should just be socially acceptable. The ideal I am thinking of isnt necessarily gender neutral mind you, but I also cant really articulate the real meaning of gender anyway. The one thing that always really gets me is transgender people who are comfortable in their bodies (i.e. they dont have a need or desire to transition through hormone therapies and/or surgery). This kind of makes sense in relation to what I have said above, if a man wants to wear a dress he should be allowed to. But this maybe a fairly amateur or even mediocre analysis of the subject matter. I liked the topic a lot because it challenged my ideas with thought and philosophy I hadnt considered backing it up. Reading some of your posts I wonder if I have been non binary all this time without realising it. Maybe I subconsciously wish to subject others to my own view of what gender should be versus how it exists in the world? Or maybe I simply want to wear a skirt (I wouldnt in reality; too cold where I live)? Who knows? But as I dont believe gender has strong meaning to me I probably wont dwell on what I am, people can just call me whatever they like as long as I know they mean me. I hope my post is coherent, and again I am not looking to invalidate anyone here. Fun fact, my browser refreshed twice while typing this so I ended up doing it the third time in MS Word :))) --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Wife came back from the US with a classic American snack |
| DEKMStephens 05/24/21 11:22:00 PM #63 | I live in NZ, I remember peeps showing up for one Easter when I was like 7 and never seen them since. They probably are awful but I kinda wanna try one --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Putin threatens to 'knock out the teeth' of foreign aggressors |
| DEKMStephens 05/21/21 12:26:35 AM #2 | This is like a Trump style rant almost, wonder if it is more articulate in Russian --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Did anyone enjoy Jupiter Legacy on netflix? |
| DEKMStephens 05/20/21 12:02:14 AM #2 | I thought it was going somewhere but then it just turned out to be what I thought it would in episode 1. Somehow I failed to notice it's bad reviews when u went in, rookie mistake --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Oh no, male Viera exist in FF now, and they're hot |
| DEKMStephens 05/14/21 11:22:35 PM #5 | They look terrible lmfao. Bet they have all the issues with hair and hats female Viera do too. --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | Disney did not have to throw out the Expanded Universe |
| DEKMStephens 05/14/21 5:36:30 PM #33 | BLAKUboy posted... Solo would've been better withoutDid this happen? I saw the movie and legitimately don't remember Man Star Wars sucks these days --- ----- ------- |
| Topic | fun fact: the 'watergate scandal' wasn't about water |
| DEKMStephens 05/10/21 8:44:55 PM #16 | Watergate gate --- ----- ------- |
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