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No, it's just really effing cold. It's warmed up to a balmy -39 so far. It was like -45 this morning.

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Zareth posted...

Can you play as Dogi in 9? I wanted to play as him in 8 so bad.

Nope. Old man Dogi is once again benched.

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Dmess85 posted...

i might pre-order the switch port from NIS america store

I debated waiting for the Switch version since that's what I played Ys VIII on, but decided to just get it now

Lokarin posted...

it's pretty much BEEN 40 years since the last game...

Then again, I haven't seen Dogi since Mask of the Sun, IIRC

Canonically it's only been 3 years between Ys 8 and 9, but those 3 years hit the Wallcrusher hard.

Ys 8 Dogi:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/isu/images/7/7e/Ys8_Dogi.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170603171057

Ys 9 Dogi:
https://www.siliconera.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/011-8.jpg

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Dogi looking like he aged 40 years since the last game.

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Jen0125 posted...

None because I work from home

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TheOkHornedRat posted...

there is a difference between a job and a career.

a job is a paid position of regular employment whereas a career is an occupation taken for a significant portion of your life with (and here is the important part) opportunities for progress

Why does it even matter to make the distinction?

Also, the "opportunities for progress" part you bolded is laughable and makes no sense. A line cook has far more avenues for progress than a head chef. Ergo head chef is a job since you have no more opportunities for progress, but a line cook is a career since you have so many avenues you could take here.

TheOkHornedRat posted...

it is literally a title that is meant to denote your education

Only if the title itself is protected (which "Chef" is not). Anyone can call themselves an accountant with just on the job training, only "Chartered Accountant" is protected. So what makes a self proclaimed Accountant more of a career than a self proclaimed chef?

Another good example in the US is Engineer - not a protected title either ("Professional Engineer" is protected). Anyone can get a bit of on the job training and call themselves a software engineer, no computer science or engineering degree required. What makes this more acceptable than someone calling themself a chef?

Just weird and frankly depressing focus you have on the matter. If someone enjoys the work and it pays their bills, does it matter in the slightest if there is a distinction between "job" and "career". That person has made it their career and that's all that matters.

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I tried this a week or so ago. Best fried chicken I've ever had.

https://basicswithbabish.co/basicsepisodes/hot-chicken

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hungrymike posted...

Very hyperbolic of u. Marches are not treason. Trump even said peacefully according to what dynalo just posted. If a few idiots got over excited and stormed the capital that is not on trump.

You can't spend twenty minutes telling people over and over that he and they were robbed, that the election was a fraud, that they need to fight for their rights, that they need to march, that they can't take no for an answer, that they can't be weak, and that they are losing their rights, and then at the very end slip in "peacefully" to try and have something to point to when people call you on inciting a riot.

No. Absolutely unforgivable. I'll repeat this again. His speech should have been absolutely nothing other than "I'm sorry I have said things regarding election fraud that were untrue. I have lost this election and would like to congratulate President-Elect Biden and wish him well, and I encourage you all to do the same. Thank you for your support."

That is it. That's all that should have been said.


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hungrymike posted...

Just curious what crimes. What incitement to violence. Genuinely asking cause I only ever saw him call for peace

We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesnt happen. You dont concede when theres theft involved.

Our country has had enough. We will not take it any more and thats what this is all about. To use a favourite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.

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Were going walk down to the Capitol, and were going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. Were probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because youll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

Stoking the flames and insisting dozens of times that there was election fraud, insisting people go and march on Capitol and demand Congress puts him back in power. I don't care if he uses the word "peacefully" at the very end. He got the crowd angry and riled up and then told them to march on the Capitol. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly how his supporters would react and it was exactly what he wanted.

His speech should have been a concession, an admission that there was no election fraud and that he lost, with calls for calm and to welcome the new President. Instead he insisted he won by a large margin and told his supporter to demand Congress make that happen.

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I just finished getting all the achievements for it.

Probably my second favourite DQ behind 8. I definitely recommend playing it.

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Huh, reading through this made me realize that apparently most of the places y'all shop at don't have item limits for self checkout.

Here pretty much every self checkout is limited to usually 16 items, depending on the store. So if you have a full cart, you have to use a cashier. Which makes sense because a cashier will absolutely be faster than you if you have a full cart.

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I go with whichever will be faster,

Which means I use self checkout about 95% of the time.

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I blitzed through most of the game over the holidays. I'm deep into the post game stuff now and should be able to wrap things up this week.

I really enjoyed the game.

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Lacrimosa of Dana is a more fleshed out and long action rpg. It's a 40 hour game. It's also one of my favourites in the series.

Origin is a much shorter game, maybe 10 hours, but there are three separate characters to play as, none of which are Adol. So that's negative points from me right there.

I vote to play Lacrimosa of Dana, but it may not be a terrible idea to play Origin first just to see if you like that style of game.

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I've been playing it over the holidays, just finished Act 1.

It's very nostalgic, and I've been enjoying it. Yes, the music is unreasonably loud by default, but that was easily fixed by toying around with the audio settings.

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I don't know what I expected, but it was not that and I regret clicking on this topic.

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I get a call at least once a week where a robot from "the legal department of Canada" threatens me with "enforcement action".

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DoubleOSnake posted...

was this years ago? iirc guess isn't that big anymore

Don't know about his, but this was when I was young and dumb. Maybe in 2010 or so? Something like that.

For what it's worth though, I didn't throw those jeans out until about a year ago.

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Ogurisama posted...

$120 or somewhere around there from Guess

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I don't like living with other people.

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Hello fellow kids

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Normally nothing. Grandparents usually get nothing and my parents only get something if I feel like I found something I feel like they'd really want and would use. Both parents actually get upset with me if I get them anything.

This year though, I'm toying with the idea of putting together some gift baskets for everyone. Nothing fancy, but I think that would be nice.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Nope. Not by blood nor by law.

So if you've been dating someone for five years but haven't tied the knot for one reason or another, you shouldn't bring them with you to a funeral?' I'm sorry, that's just ridiculous.

Also, if we're going strictly by definition, law doesn't make family either so wives and husbands would always be exempt from the rest of your family other than the children you had together.

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EclairReturns posted...

My cousins brought their husbands and boyfriends to visit my mother, and I didn't really think well of the gesture.

Husbands and (long term) boyfriends are family. If one of your cousins was having a hard time with it, having their significant other their to comfort them just seems logical.

I assumed this would be about inviting a friend that the family doesn't really know. Husbands and wives are, in my opinion, automatically invited to all family events that the actual family member is invited to, both good and bad.

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shadowsword87 posted...

The fact that MaRo will literally produce content while just driving to work, is honestly inspiring.
That dude will just talk about magic for hours and hours, and he said "this is normally a boring time, let me just talk into the void".

The most mind boggling part to me is that he does it with zero editing. He just hits record and stop. Then posts it. If he is unhappy with it, he doesn't edit it, he just rerecords the whole damn thing on a different drive.

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It's time for another drive to work, coronavirus edition?

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Getting back into Destiny 2 with Beyond Light

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Xfma100 posted...

Not sure if I should buy something now, or wait until Nvidia's and AMD's new GPUs are more readily available.

It's really hard to recommend that anyone buy a 2000 series Nvidia card right now. If you're able to, I'd recommend holding off.

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Wanded posted...

imo the focus should be lowering the price and doing things that don't use force or violate freedom.

Forcing the price to be lower sounds like it goes against those wishes. You also can't really "shop around" if you got stabbed and need surgery. You get taken to whoever is closest, and they fix you up. What if afterwards you find out they charge double or triple what the doctor in the next town over charges? That's kinda why regulation is a good thing in this industry. Your body isn't like a car where you can just get a quote on it from a mechanic and then call around to see if people can do better.

And quickly on your point of youtube vs articles - articles are always faster to go through in terms of amount of information vs time. First, youtube videos tend to try and be more entertaining (and thus less relevant), and second, people talk slower than they read. If you gave me a transcript of the YouTube video, it would be literally faster for me to read that than it would be to watch the video. The main reason people hate youtube videos for stuff like this though is the sensationalist takes that aren't as common in written articles (which is part of why you probably don't like articles as much, as sensationalism is often more entertaining... It's why they do it)

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Wanded posted...

i didn't actually read whatever is in there i just sent the first article i stumbled upon to make clench happy but to answer what you say

You expect us to watch god damn youtube clips when you won't even read articles you posted to defend your arguments? Really?

Wanded posted...

people aren't dying, i keep asking liberals for footage of people in dire need of medical attention where the hospital just goes "whelp no money, no treatment, bye!" and no one has yet to supply, that is because the system takes care of everyone.

I'll go ahead and just requote what I said, since like your article, you also clearly didn't read what I posted.

Dynalo posted...

Dying because you can't afford treatment. Or getting treatment anyways and then declaring bankruptcy.

Note the second sentence there where they still get treatment, but it throws them into financial ruin. And sometimes, like with cancers, they wait too long because "I don't feel that bad and can't afford to go to the doctors". By the time they do go it's too late. This IS well documented. Doctors aren't out there denying treatment. People are dying because they can't afford to even go and see them in the first place.

Wanded posted...

why not try lowering the price first via a free market,

Because people still couldn't afford it. If you live paycheck to paycheck, any price above $0 is too much to go and see a doctor for an annual check up.

Wanded posted...

tax discounts

Only works if you have the money up front and can wait for the tax discount. Therefore doesn't work for those people that are paycheck to paycheck.

We agree price is the issue. We disagree on there being a way to fix it without government being involved and insurance going away entirely. Far more people struggle day to day with paying their bills than I believe you realize. I just want these people to be able to go to the doctor and not have to worry about how they'll pay for it.

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I just replayed Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana and had a lot of fun with it. It's an action rpg.

Jen0125 posted...

Okay, Octopath Traveler or Fire Emblem 3 Houses? I've played neither and have never played a Fire Emblem game

I've put a lot more time into Fire Emblem, but I've also been a fan of the series for a very long time.

Octopath Traveler was a very good throwback to old school rpgs though, so if that's what you're looking for, it's a good choice.

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Wanded posted...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/health-care-basic-facts-and-hard-truths/

I'll go through this by each point in the article.

1) Yes, all health care programs have challenges. But do you know what's worse than a waiting list? Dying because you can't afford treatment. Or getting treatment anyways and then declaring bankruptcy. Waiting lists aren't even a huge concern, as patients are always seen on the basis of criticality.

2) This would be fixed by government run health care. That way, coverage would be access, because everyone would be able to access health care.

3) Why is this article written as though insurance is still in the picture? If you get rid of insurance and have health care come from taxes, that fixes the issue he pointed out about "not enough young people signed up to offset the costs". If everyone is paying into it, those cancer bills can get split across the whole system and no longer be crippling. Keep insurance out of this.

4) Again, this article is written as though Medicare is in addition to existing systems. Keep insurance out, put everyone on the same level, and all these problems don't exist. Most of the issues he listed here are because there are options besides medicare. If there weren't, medicare (or whatever the new national program is called) would have to get significantly better, and there would be pressure from the entire public to make it better, rather than just those who are currently on it.

5) Again, let's create a new and better system rather than trying to point to something old and say "I don't want that".

6) I mean, this is true. No matter what, if you institute national health care the people at the top end will not be happy. Whatever the new challenges (waiting lists or whatever) are will absolutely hurt them moreso than folks at the bottom. But no one will have to worry about dying because they caught a very treatable disease. I think that's worth the pain of some folks being unhappy.

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That was not at all what I expected when you said orange chicken.

I'm sure it was still good but I always associate orange chicken with deep fried goodness. I make it on occasion, but I hate dealing with the oil after, so I rarely deep fry anything.

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Ogurisama posted...

Roast chicken, potatoes and such

Pretty similar to my dinner then. Just finishing mine up and it was delicious.

Now I have a pile of dishes and leftovers to clean up and put away.

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Ogurisama posted...

Chicken

Just... Chicken? A big ol slab of bird?

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I don't want any of you in charge of anything too important.

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Making a classic chicken dinner tonight. The chicken should be done in about 20min. Having mashed potatoes, charred corn, salad, and gravy with it. Sunday dinners are always lovely.

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They originally called for 200-300mm of snow here today, but have since revised that to 100-200mm. It hasn't started blizzarding yet, but it rained this morning and now it's lightly snowing.

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GunslingerGunsl posted...

You'd be surprised how many older PotDers are still around.

You'd think we'd have found something else to do by now

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I'm about to make some pancakes for lunch. I'm having a very lazy day today.

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Could I get that 2-4 inches elsewhere?

Seriously though, I'm like 5'10 and I'm plenty happy with that and would take the money easy.

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Private roads may indeed be better maintained, they also don't have to maintain every road ever. There are going to be roads less travelled, and someone needs to build and maintain those roads. I'm fine with my tax money going to subsidize that, and not be hit by tolls on every single road I drive on.

I enjoy being able to go up far north for some backpacking, on roads less travelled. Thankfully, these roads exist because we pay taxes and the government builds them. Private companies would just let all the town's and parks die because there's no money in it.

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zebatov posted...

Cons would have won, though, if the election was based on votes. Im not sure why they wouldnt agree to that reform.

"Won" wouldn't exactly be how I'd define that. They would be the defacto leader, sure, but they would also have fewer seats that they do now, the overall opposition would be significantly stronger (NDP + Green Party combined wouldn't be that far behind them).

It would make it much harder for them to push across any of their agendas because no one wants to work with the Conservatives. They would be the leader, but the Liberals and NDP would make all the decisions. They're better off with the current system and trying to get a majority, something that is nearly impossible under proportional representation, which is why they don't want it.

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zebatov posted...

Well... we had that in Canada. The party that won last time realised theyd lose if they got rid of it, so they didnt, and now they run minority control.

I don't feel like that's entirely accurate. The Liberals did indeed promise election reform, but the issue was that there was no way they could get everyone to agree what it should be.

Conservatives benefit the most from the current system and wouldn't approve any change to it.

The Liberals would basically never lose an election again if they got ranked ballot like they want.

The rest of the parties all want proportional representation, particularly the NDP as they often have far fewer seats than the popular vote indicates they should. Hell, the Green Party should have 22 seats based in popular vote compared to the 3 they actually got. This would make it so we'd never have a majority government ever again, which could be argued to be either a good or bad thing.

Basically, the Liberals knew they wouldn't get Ranked, and the current system is a lot better for them than proportional. The other parties wouldn't settle for ranked over proportional as it's only slightly better for them, so there was nothing left to discuss and the promise was scrapped.

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You know, I assumed this was just a shitpost, but holy hell you can actually buy stock in companies that run correctional facilities.

That seems wrong on so many levels.

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I'd like a balance that mostly involves working from home.

I miss having some of the meetings be in person. I feel like planning sessions and scoping out projects is significantly better in person. But the vast majority of my work is pretty much the same regardless of whether I'm at home or in an office.

I expect that when we do have an office again, I will continue working mostly from home and will go to the office once or twice a week.

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Zangulus posted...

Arbys

Zangulus posted...

sounded good.

???????

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Made a salmon poke bowl. It's pretty tasty.

I also picked up snacks to munch on while I watch the world fall apart tomorrow.

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I couldn't tell you the first one I used

I do know that I asked Jeeves a lot of questions though

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I don't understand why anyone would care about this, but I'm happy for you anyways

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