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I don't understand how all these games get shit for being too close to the original but the Link's Awakening remake doesn't get shit despite being a 1:1 replica of the game world so there's absolutely nothing new of any worth to find aside from the throwaway build-a-dungeon thing.

You want an updated remake of an old 2D game, look at Metroid: Zero Mission.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The trick is that everyone in this universe is immortal outside of cutscene deaths, so he really isn't killing anyone.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Winrawr posted...

Everything you said is true, but it's not something that would happen from an occasional bite of fast food unless you have digestive abnormalities like IBS which may respond to fatty/salty food.

How would any of that require long-term behavior? A sugar rush, the most common negative effect, definitely happens after a single meal. Effects from overeating will happen after a single meal as well.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Winrawr posted...

Because it tastes good. Fat, grease, sugar, and salt taste good to all people. We are biologically programmed this way.

The societal rejection of fast food has caused you conform to those standards, which causes you to feel disgust towards the food. In response to this internalization, you 'feel sick' after eating fast food. It's very similar to how everyone thinks that they got sick after a COVID shot, even though statistics say only like 4% of people feel sick after getting the shots. It's also the same reason why so many white women have can't have gluten and feel sick, despite not having celiac disease.

Ah yes, because the brain being inclined to like fats and sugars means that they will never have negative effects on digestion. This is why you can eat a huge bag of candy and feel great.

Fast food literally gives you a sugar rush from all the added sugars and simple carbohydrates. This will naturally lead to mood swings and generally feeling crummy and exhausted afterwards. It is also high in saturated fat which is hard to digest and has very little fiber which aids digestion. It's full of non-food fillers which can also have various effects on the body. The meat itself is of varying quality depending on the specific item, such as nuggets and most cheaper chicken sandwiches including ground-up bone and other waste parts of the chicken. Additionally, fast food is designed to encourage excessive portions by using various tricks like the appeal of salt, sugar and fats combined with ingredients that aren't filling and an expectation of ordering multiple items together, with normal portions being ridiculously overpriced while much larger items have a small marginal increase in cost. Virtually everything about fast food will make the average person feel like shit after eating it in the intended way from a biological standpoint.

Yet you spew complete shit out of your mouth with confidence because you're just that full of yourself.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Almost all of them, from local places to fast food to dine-in chians, have priced themselves out of desirability IMO. I think I eat out like twice a year now instead of almost weekly.

Ironically, Five Guys has gone from being a place I almost never would pick due to the price to being relatively affordable due to not increasing their prices while everyone else increased by 30 to 100%.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

saspa posted...

So... which 4 party members to use, which do you like? I'm so conflicted, so far it's always Velvet of course, and Laphicet too. Magilou for more area of attack spells, and 4th being... Eizen? Eleanor has some high attack for some odd reason, more than even Velvet somehow, so not sure if to put her or Eizen. Rokuro, much as I like him, just doesn't seem as strong as the other 2 so he's benched/backup party.

You don't use four party members in this game, really. You have three for the player and three for the AI. I generally keep Magilou accessible for the player because on higher difficulties the game becomes completely, totally impossible to survive without liberally using her soul break to prevent spells that will wipe the party from being cast in certain areas, plus Look a Shooting Star (Spirit Drop) is very abusable for gaining souls. I generally had Eizen and Velvet available as my other two, but there are some fights where Rokurou does really well, and I gave everyone some playtime.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Guide posted...

Not entirely, but people underestimate what it means for a thing to spread exponentially. Say someone doesn't know or doesn't care that they're infected: How many people are they exposed to in a normal day? On a walk, at work, at the supermarket.

This is a big part of it.

Say that you have a virus where each person who gets the virus will infect, on average, 1.5 other people one week later, then immediately lose the virus. Say you start with a single case and this model of spreading holds for an entire year. By the end of the year (using 52 weeks for simpler math), there will be about 480,000,000 current active cases and 1.4 billion people will have had the virus altogether.

Now let's say, in the first week, you take actions that reduce this rate of spread to spreading to 1.1 other people on average. Take a guess as to how much of a difference this makes. At the end of the year, there will be about thirteen active cases and just 142 people will have had the virus over the course of the year.

Real life models aren't quite that simple and countermeasures aren't that effective, but the point is that what might look like a very small differences in the rate of spread has an absolutely enormous impact when things are growing exponentially. Even dropping that rate from 1.5 to 1.4 infections per person prevents about 1.36 billion of the initial 1.4 billion cases in the first year.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

pegusus123456 posted...

That would be option 3, suffer in the dark.

The Mantis Lords are meant to act as a beef gate. Tbh, if you beat them, you can probably manage Deepnest just fine, it'll just be annoying because it's dark.

Ah, I thought you meant entering the actual pitch black areas, which you don't have to do at this point to get this item.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

You don't have to do any of those. You can just continue to explore the area you'll in, and you'll find a progression item, the tram pass.

Note that this item is not the only way into any areas, but it may absolutely be your first way into multiple different areas, because the game is almost completely non-linear after getting the Mantis Claw. (Something like 80% of the game is open to you at that point, although it's more like 40-50% if you don't know of the hidden routes that you generally find from the other side the first time.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Garioshi posted...

iirc the AI will never use mystic artes. Any party composition works fine.

The AI definitely uses mystic artes and will spam them if you let it. There is a BG use setting for each character.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

luigi13579 posted...

Many will say it's overrated because there weren't many RPGs on the GC. The puzzle dungeons aren't for everyone either.

But I still love it.

Puzzles in dungeons are still more interesting than the literally-just-a-bunch-of-straight-hallways dungeons of games like in Tales of Graces, at least. But yeah, Meltokio Sewers and some of the others are really, really tedious at times with all the slow animations and lengthy retracing of the same paths repeatedly for no real reason.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

kirbymuncher posted...

Naming all 151 gen1 pokemon is a pretty common quiz

if you want a little more variety, try naming all 165 gen1 attacks http://www.psypokes.com/quiz/amnesiaattack/kantoattacks

I got 95 and feel like I really should have done better but just blanked out on so many of them.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I feel some sort of pride in only forgetting one pair of shitty two-evolution-stage water types since there's like ten of them in gen one.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Trill__Cosby posted...

You clearly don't know anything about TS.

I have hundreds of hours in TS2. It has absolutely nothing about it that a first-time player will not grasp within a few minutes other than learning what the different weapons do.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Wait, how is Timesplitters this hardcore game that isn't designed for casuals? Isn't literally all you do in that run and shoot, maybe hit the alt fire button for some weapons?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Reminder that other sites are also doing sales at the same time. Check Isthereanydeal before buying. Saved $9 on Persona 5 Strikers by not getting it on Steam and instead buying the Steam key from Newegg.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

This isn't the guy who writes SMBC? No? Well there goes my interest. On to the next topic.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

TsunomakiWatame posted...

Finally a Nintendo franchise that actually pushes its plot forward for once instead of recycling the same plot ad infinitum.

I think Kirby technically does this? Xenoblade Chronicles and Pikmin do too. Their other pillars really do repeat the same premise a lot, though. Zelda sometimes breaks from the norms with games like the Capcom and DS Zelda games.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The whole system is basically built around soul bursts and being able to use them as much as possible but not stupidly.

Basically, soul bursts extend your combo in very powerful ways at the cost of removing one soul from your bar and giving it to a nearby enemy. In addition to resetting your soul gauge (as does everyone's), Velvet's heals her (also, as does everyone's) and makes her unkillable but starts draining her HP and lasts until you empty your soul gauge with attacks or hit 1 HP, which then gives her a super move and ends the state. It's really overpowered and brainless up until the hardest difficulty because you can just mash through everything and win on lower difficulties due to the fact that the finisher that triggers at 1 HP will almost always stun something and thus give you another soul. Then you hit the hardest difficulty (unlocked lategame, probably not even really meant to be tried until NG+/extreme postgame) and suddenly everything's almost immune to stuns and everything is pain and death. It's very binary.

The following rules about souls apply to both you and the enemy:
The more you have, the longer your combos can be and thus the stronger your offense.
The more you have, the more susceptible to damage and stuns/status effects you are.
When a battle participant is stunned or given a status effect, they give a soul to the attacker that inflicted the effect.

So you can see that this naturally encourages a flow where, by using your soul gauge to extend your combos, you'll make yourself increasingly likely to get those souls back and extend your combo even more, and keep the enemy taking more damage since they have more souls. (Note that there is zero randomness with stuns and status effects; they build up with a points system from the attacks that inflict those effects.) However, if you blow all your souls, you'll have a hard time getting combos started, and it's possible that you'll drop to one soul (awful) if you get stunned while at two. On the other hand, you're more likely to be stunned with more souls, so the onus is on your to guard/evade and protect them.

Additionally, if you hit every single weakness an enemy has in the same combo, the enemy becomes MUCH easier to rough up in all sorts of ways (damage, stun, stagger, status effects) until the combo ends. However, there are some weakness types that are much harder to actually find attacks to exploit than others.

Everyone has a completely different playstyle, and even the casters are extremely dynamic because of how spells are now just combo pieces as cast times go way down later into combos, and you eventually unlock the ability to cast a low-level spell but then extend the cast time to make it a higher-level spell instead, letting you have a bunch of spells on the same button. (You can also backdash/sidestep in place of a combo stage to get to the faster spell casts more quickly.) One of the casters has crazy high mobility with how his soul burst works and is really fun for it, as he'll often open enemies up with spells, then jump to them and weave in a melee combo, then cast a max level spell at super speed to stun the next enemy and repeat.

Later on, a system is even introduced to switch between characters during battle (as in, from the reserve members) which can be done mid-combo since they come in with an attack.

I will complain that at high difficulties, the game becomes almost a joke in certain areas and you are almost forced to spam one particular member's ability that stops enemy spells, because there will be like five enemies doing nothing but cast spells that take three seconds to cast and kill everyone they hit. Not sure what's up with that design...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Children do get erections at a very young age, but they aren't tied to sexual desires and are basically just random. I definitely remember asking my parents about what was going on when it happened when I was like five or six or something like that. I'm pretty sure they don't achieve sexual stimulation from touching it (or if it's there, it's to an extremely mild degree, similar to touching around the anal area) and can't reach orgasm from it.

The materials shown in those pictures don't allude to masturbation and are almost certainly just about not touching your body in ways that are socially inappropriate when around other people.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

pegusus123456 posted...

Oh, that's fair enough lol. I think I'm basing that on when I played it as a kid and my build presumably was terrible.

We were almost all there once, yeah. My first playthrough used Vivian very heavily because Fiery Jinx is really really good out of the box. Actually, Fiery Jinx is still really good no matter what because it's the first access to full-screen AoE you get, and it's not too expensive for the cost. The only downside it has is that some enemies are immune to fire.

Nowadays, though, I understand how to pick up the Mega Rush P in chapter 1, buy Quick Change ASAP, and by level 4 or 5 I have a badge setup going that has a partner with +5 attack much of the time. Once you can buy Point Swaps in chapter 3, they start to work as a nice way to refill your FP while setting a partner to 1 HP easily.

Even without the fiddlyness of Mega Rush P, just putting on the Power Plus P badge from chapter 3 eventually becomes pretty feasible even if it's expensive, although it's better for Goombella than lot of the time since it's +2 to her damage while it's +1 for everyone else's basic attack. Yoshi will still hit for a minimum of 1 per hit if the first hit does at least 1 damage, though, and if you get up to big attack numbers (e.g. Power Lift + other boosts stacked) then eventually every point of attack is +6 damage for him. A +20 attack Yoshi hits Bonetail (2 defense) for 99 damage, for example, although you can do all sorts of nutty stuff like that if you allow badge stealing or game corner badges.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

pegusus123456 posted...

I've never really rated Ground Pound or Stampede tbh. If an enemy has even a single point of defense, they do nothing.

If your build is terrible and has +0 attack, this is true.

I would generally recommend never considering a build with +0 attack again, though.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

radical rhino posted...

Goombella is best character. Bobbery is easily the best in combat, though, unless you want to abuse Vivians shield move against a boss.

Bobbery is good under speedrun conditions, but if you're actually fighting all the battles and thus have a ton of BP, he only has 1:1 attack scaling on everything except his time bombs (a pretty situational move, though still good) which also can't hit everything. He also is a pretty big tax on your FP if you want to use his AoE.

Stampede has the best scaling in the game for an AoE, Multibonk/Ground Pound (depending on what multibonk gets capped at) have the best for single target. If you're running stacked Mega Rush P + Quick Change then Bobbery won't get much use. There is also Rally Wink to think about which can kind of just be way better than all other partner moves in certain builds.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Tenlaar posted...

I am very curious about what in the world they could need that information to prove.

If they have some communication from a sender with a throwaway email saying, "I just saw this story. Looks like our friend Huber got busted," that would certainly give them a reason to want this information.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

CADE FOSTER posted...

are you saying inflation hits even when pay is stagnant for years damn

McDonalds roughly doubling prices of small-dollar items in just a few years isn't just inflation, for certain.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The McDonalds here hasn't a $1 item in like, five years. And it's just a regular old small McDonalds on the corner of the street in the middle of a medium-small college town, not in some big commuter hub or other common reason to have higher prices.

For some reference, here are the prices for the sandwiches (not combos) before the 9% meal tax:


Edit: Actually, apparently this third-party menu is wrong. All the prices are significantly higher than this. A McChicken is $2.69, a 4-piece nuggets is $2.19... yeah, I haven't eaten there in nearly two years now since it's literally more expensive than fucking Five Guys, which is already way above what I want to pay for a meal but is at least a billion times better quality.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

snowman9267 posted...

Let it be said that if you pick the monkey in 1v1 Timesplitters 2 you're subhuman garbage. Thank you.

I recall Robofish just being Monkey but immune to fire.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Holy shit, people are dense.

The marketing tagline is literally "prepare to die". The fact that it is difficult is the main selling point of the game. The terms "the Dark Souls of ___" and "Dark Souls difficulty" are memetic industry phrases at this point. Why the fuck would From (or the game fanbase) ever want to compromise this?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Flamer_Blue posted...

I see numerous threads like this being posted and I think people should know what the vaccine does and what it does not do.
What it does;
It gives you full immunity.
What it does not do;
It doesn't make your body unable to still catch the virus.
You can still get covid but you won't develop symptoms.

So with that in mind, non-vaccinated people who are around vaccinated people will still get covid and because they don't have the immunity, they will get sick.

I wouldn't make such an absolute statement as "full immunity", but it was effective enough that zero people in the clinical trials required hospitalization if they caught COVID (note that this would be about 1% of people who get COVID in the general unvaccinated population). The highest vaccine efficacy (after two doses) is about 95-98%, so it's not like no one who is vaccinated will ever be infected. However, it's going be more like getting a cold if you've been vaccinated, as you'll have mild symptoms, be less contagious, and generally won't suffer much more than inconvenience from needing to stay home for a bit.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

BlueTigerLion posted...

You aren't thinking ahead. If it spreads among the unvaccinated long enough a covid variant immune to the vaccine you took could happen.

And please tell me how literally zero change to the mandated behavior of unvaccinated people affects this? Like do you think that there are just millions and millions of people who wear their mask every day in every interaction but have just been waiting for the chance to pretend they are vaccinated so that they can take their masks off around their friends and expose them?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

JoeBurrow posted...

there is absolutely no reason for this to be happening already especially given how a large portion of the country will just not wear a mask and lie about being vaccinated

And it won't affect you if you're vaccinated. If you're not, you're still advised to wear a mask.

Also, I think you're probably greatly overestimating the number of people who will do this, and the densest public spaces are probably still going to require masks anyway.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

If you want to side with science on this, then accept that the risks aren't actually very significant if you're vaccinated, and the reality is it that we would most likely literally never stop wearing masks again until the end of civilization if we waited for any better benchmark than "Your trip to the grocery store in your car is about as dangerous as your exposure to the other people there."

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The original The Legend of Zelda's second quest has entirely different dungeons.

Viewtiful Joe removed enemy attack indications on the highest difficulty, and all difficulties change enemy formations.

Wario Land 4 moves treasure chests with required and optional items to different secret areas with each difficulty and changes the level escape timers, plus makes some changes to enemy and hazard placements.

IDK, there are probably like a thousand games you could list if you had played enough.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If you are vaccinated, wearing a mask does basically nothing in preventing you from getting the virus or spreading the virus. I guess you can keep wearing one though and be a science denier.

This isn't really true. Masks are still extremely effective. The vaccine efficacy (based on number of doses and which brand you got) could be anywhere from like 50% up to 98%, so there's still some chance of infection. It's just that cases will be mild and not nearly as transmissible if vaccinated people do get infected.

It's more like we're moving to the point where we've accepted this thing will run through the population forever, but can be made not especially dangerous, than that the vaccine is a step towards eradication.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Why is this not a felony? How in the world is this not a felony?

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

He kind of has a point that the government requiring it for public spaces is questionable, as excluding people from government buildings based on this comes at the detriment of free speech. If you are vaccinated, being around unvaccinated people poses minimal risk to you anyway.

The actual reason he gave, that sharing this one detail of your medical history is so invasive that it justifies increased risk to public health, is absolute pants-on-head absurdity.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Demon1050 posted...

For every gun death they report on there's untold THOUSANDS of lives saved by the very fact that people are able to defend themselves to begin with. You'll never hear about it on the TV thus people see the deaths and think it's a closed and shut case. Far from the truth guys, no offense but please use your brain!

This is not only meaningless because the number of gun deaths reported on TV is not something to base policy around, but also completely misleading horseshit. The rate of using a firearm to defend yourself from a violent crime is around 1/900th of having that firearm stolen, and the rate of it killing a family member via suicide or accident is even higher.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

coh posted...

It's literally impossible to make any cross species hybrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_hybrids

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

CHM_Punk posted...

I never once stated that the United States does not play their role in carbon emissions, but please carry on with your America bad rhetoric. The narrative painted by Facebook environmentalists sitting on their ass sharing Greenpeace and David Avocado Wolfe posts that also happen to be writing rant statuses about the United States not doing much or anything about climate change is grossly inaccurate.

You definitely sound like an absolute nutter if that's your response to deconstructing a graph. Of course the US is doing a lot, but a lot of its policies are directed towards the same things (like product standards) rather than the large-scale industrial reforms that would be needed to sufficiently combat the issue.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

CHM_Punk posted...

Your words are whining about the source material potentially being misleading. The image is from MediaBiasFactCheck and highlights the factual reporting and solid record of Our World in Data. The doomsday rhetoric that a number of posters on CE operate under about the United States being so terrible and bad does not line up with the hard evidence that can be provided lol.

You do understand that that graph shows the US producing about half the CO2 emissions as China despite having less than 1/4 of its population, right? The amount produced is reflected by the size of a region's colored area, not its vertical placement. The regions are ordered arbitrarily on the vertical axis.

The first plot, of annual CO2 emissions, has the US at about 5 billion tons and China at about 10 billion tons. The second plot a couple posts above this shows that the US has produced 3-4 times the amount of China in the last 250ish years combined, but that's not a particularly relevant number for anything.

CO2 isn't the only relevant gas anyway...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

PIN because FaceID has become a victim of the era of masks.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Bad_Mojo posted...

I'm not taking early vaccines for the same reason I don't get the first launch of a console, a better version will come along. I can wait just fine for it

All versions of the vaccine currently available are close to 100% effective when it comes to reducing symptoms to a mild enough level that your body simply fights off the virus without requiring any medical attention. By "close to 100%" I mean "literally zero people or one person required it".

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Trump: we no longer have a free press.

Also Trump: as acting President, actively makes a point to threaten the livelihood of journalists who criticize him.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Are you only counting morality systems that aggregate your choices and give you an ending out of two options? There are plenty of games where you are given decisions like being charitable vs practical, being ruthless or holding yourself to morals, and plenty of games that give fairly realistic consequences of these actions (e.g. if it's not a crime, you won't actually be punished and it will often make your life easier, but the people you wronged might hate you; acts of selflessness may in fact not result in personal gain). KOTOR and KOTOR 2, despite some very binary story forks (like KOTOR 1 definitely goes with "literally the spawn of Satan or Good Guy Who Saves Everyone" as the choices for the ending fork), have many, many gray options and paths where there is no clear best choice.

An example is a trial in KOTOR where you can go in with video of what happened in the incident and immediately announce that your client is guilty, or you can manipulate a victory, or you can just make only truthful claims but also cross-examine everyone and maybe still lose but also reveal every actor's motives which changes the case's nature and the sentence as a result. There are many instances where being unwilling to lie or hide your motives even for a moment results in terrible outcomes because the other actors have no reason to respect that.

In the Witcher series there are many instances where you decide the fates of criminals and despicable people who beg for mercy and a chance to reform, and the consequence of the choice is basically just what it says on the tin; if you're optimistic and willing to easily forgive, sometimes the other party will appear later as actually reformed, sometimes they'll commit another crime, sometimes they'll just break their promises and flee.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Amy Chao posted...

I hope her and nairo are cancelled forever.

Nairo literally is taking his case to court because he didn't willingly initiate anything sexual and he was allegedly raped and blackmailed over it...

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia