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metralo posted...

For the love of god do not visit the US right now

I have no plans on it for the next several years

which sucks, because Duluth and Minneapolis are beautiful cities and fairly easy to get to

i'm also gonna miss the shit out of Culvers

while visiting, since there's a town a few hours across the border that used to be a fairly popular tourist destination for people here.

Apparently some people have mentioned either being bothered by border staff or regular people, and in one case apparently someone was approached by (what I assume is) ICE while in a public place and they demanded to see her documentation.

Y'all are getting weird down there

California sinking into the ocean would destroy the US economy, and all of that other land he bought is also probably getting seized by the US government almost immediately if anything like that ever happened

I highly doubt the Democratic establishment is competent enough to send a hitman.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

That's home ownership though. It's great and terrifying, all at once.

I'm earning what I thought was a decent salary and it was like "yeah more than half your monthly income goes to expenses depending on what kinda place you get" :')

I guess renting and splitting places for as long as I did skewed my perspective haha

Sorry I should've clarified, I meant I feel like I'm getting sick because prices are way crazier than I thought they would be lol

oh god i feel like im gonna be sick

Wait was this that blind governor that got caught cheating on his wife or w.e.?

Dunno which way I'm leaning

His district went for Trump by 53% in 2024

They're getting what they voted for

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HighSeraph posted...

Can't even fathom why there's a choice when the developers clearly wanted one to be "right"

"Life forces cruel choices"

I think the Verso ending is probably better but there's major ethical and moral problems it raises, namely that everyone in the Canvas is definitely sentient and you've basically condemned all of them to die

The Maelle ending has its own, more obvious drawbacks in that we actively see Maelle deteriorate and start puppeting those around her. Also the implication that she'll likely die from staying in the world too long.

I wouldn't say either is the "right" ending

Holy_Cloud105 posted...

The Verso ending has Maelle left alone by her family and shes hallucinating the friends she lost in the painting with Gustave beckoning her over to them. The whole family is full of terrible people who dont know how to talk to each other and they give you no reason throughout the entire game to care about any of them. The characters you do care about end up dead.

Suicide by Canvas isn't much better. Alicia slowly deteriorating while puppeting the worlr around her.

Then she dies, the Dessendres are down two kids now, the Canvas and everyone in it is erased anyway.

At least in the other ending she and the family a CHANCE, however miniscule and flawed it may be

argonautweakend posted...

The vote is now showing a republican YES go to a NO, so now it says 207 YES, 5 NO.

interesting.

Apparently it was Thomas Massie, which is kinda nuts lol

Yamata_Demon posted...

The circumstances are actually worse for Alicia. Aline lost her son Verso and she retreated into a canvas because she couldn't overcome her grief. What do you think Alicia will do if Verso's canvas is destroyed? Alicia effectively lived a second life in the canvas and her friends and family reside inside the canvas. Destroying the canvas literally puts Alicia in the shoes of Aline. Alicia is highly likely to create another canvas and recreate Gustave, Lune, Sciel, etc., just like Aline recreated her family.

If you take an optimistic outlook on the Verso ending, particularly with how the family behaved at the funeral, then you could probably imagine that Alicia comes to some sort of acceptance and resolve down the road.

Who's to say she doesn't create a new Canvas, not as a way of avoiding her grief, but as a way of celebrating her brother?

217 Nays

Yamata_Demon posted...

That sounds like the Paintress 2.0.

Ehh the Paintress was a unique set of circumstances, and a lot of that stemmed from the grief and trauma the Dessendre family was trying to work through.

They've mentioned before they've painted hundreds of worlds before and most of those are probably not... quite that bad I imagine

Xenogears15 posted...

It's pretty clear to me that the Canvas went kaput, along with her and the Gestrals in it. I have little hope she survived, but I hope she did.

I mean we know next to nothing about how the Painters work but there's nothing to say that Alicia can't work through her grief and maybe paint a new, better world with her old friends in it again someday, right?

Xenogears15 posted...

The title of that letter, IIRC, was "A Life to Dream", wherein painted Alicia begged for Verso and real Alicia to find common ground between the painted and real families so they could live in peace.

And Verso symbolically tosses that letter in the ocean because he just wants to end it all.

That slid past me, damn

Xenogears15 posted...

I hate that Verso literally threw away the good ending with that letter, though. What a dick.

Wdym?

I selected "A Life to Paint" but immediately regretted it because it's a fucking existential nightmare waiting to happen. As evidenced by the last shot of Maelle very obviously losing her mind.

Plus once the Canvas inevitably kills her Renoir and Aline will destroy it anyway. At least Verso's ending gives the family a chance at some sort of healing.

gawd damn i love this game

oh my god it's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s0nIxBLZio

Darkninja42 posted...

They confirmed awhile back that they're not. 2 minute mode

Not gonna bother with it then

So did they ever say if they were doing the career mode for the THPS 4 remake?

Gamefreak making a game that doesn't look like crap wtf

Charged151 posted...

Audience score up to 80%

Audience scores are almost always crap.

I wouldn't trust the average person's views on media

Like Mike have Sully's blue and purple fur and Sully being all green and scaly

I randomly thought of this the day I saw the movie when I was a kid and I giggled like crazy

I still think of it every few weeks

JoCrazy posted...

stop blaming voters.

When the issue is with an elected official how do you NOT blame voters??

NeonPhoenix posted...

Oh it's not real? Whoops

was it not obvious that it was an edit

i thought you were doing a bit lol

Honestly I've already cut out most social media and I've become much happier as a result, so if YT finally gets around Firefox and ublock maybe that'll be the push I need to leave that place for good

I think if the phone is mounted then it should be fine, but also I despise meal delivery services with a white hot passion so I'm gonna "fair, next" this one.

What was his quote about that other guy on there who was gay?

Something like "Well, some people like steak, some people like lasagna. That's why restaurants have menus" lol

$18 a month for no ads?

Y'all are getting hosed.

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If Carney is the leader I'm probably voting Liberal.

I know a lot of people who were leaning CPC seemed to like him too.

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no amount of border fortification would help anyway

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

You realize this every man for himself attitude is exactly how shitbags like Trump get their way, TC?

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It would be bad for us lol

We're too entwined with the US via NAFTA (I will never call it the USMCA). It would fuck over a lot of stuff in the US, but it would really be cutting off our nose to spite our face.

The goal for Canada should be to diversify its trading relationships since the US is no longer a dependable partner, but that will take a long time

dang that ozempic really did him no favors

Treats are making people psychotic.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-to-dodge-trump-tariffs-on-day-one-reports/

Donald Trumps promise to put a 25-per-cent tariff on all goods imported from Canada is reportedly on hold, with the U.S. president backtracking on a promise he repeatedly made in the lead-up to his Monday inauguration.
Instead, Mr. Trump will issue a memorandum today that directs the U.S. government to study trade policies and evaluate trade relations with China, Canada and Mexico, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
The executive memo will direct federal agencies to study two issues that Mr. Trump has railed against for months: trade deficits the U.S. has with many countries, including Canada, and the currency policies of other countries.

Okay so this is officially not my problem anymore.

Good luck down there, guys. You're gonna need it.

Walmart.

The only decent local grocery store is a 20 minute drive across town and I'm boycotting all the Loblaws stores near me.

If I'm gonna give a heartless mega corporation money it may as well be one that isn't price gouging me.

Also in actual answer to the OP, wasn't BlackDoomShadow the dude who alluded to the fact that he didn't have the will to live anymore and was just kinda waiting for a few things like LOST and w.e. to wrap up before he took his life?

If that's the dude, I remember him getting into a pretty healthy relationship and making a point to cut back on his posting here.

Afro was a swell dude. I remember teenaged me reading Pokemon 0 or whatever it was called and thinking it was the best thing ever.

Lokarin posted...

kinda shocking how people will just give up driving altogether over a $1.5~$9 fine (based on car size)

which to me illustrates that those people didn't need to be driving anyway

"Alarmo" sounds like the name of a Smiling Friends character

I'm actually partial to Mr. Deeds

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I like how its Dems fault for some reason and not the fault of the people actually doing the shit

oh please god no

The shit with his son creeped me out the most.

Like he's a complete monster for everything else, but that stuff just grossed me out in a completely other, unique way.

I suppose now is a good time to reveal that I never liked Gaiman and always thought he was overrated af

Megaman50100 posted...

I was always annoyed how side plots would get pretty much abandoned between season.

that one analyst at Miami Metro who was hording serial killer stuff and seemed to know that Dexter was the BHB lol