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Ohio doing a solid-red to solid-blue speedrun.

A part of me wants to play it for the MW2 maps, but another part of me knows that it wasn't just the maps, but the mechanics and brokenness that made MW2 special. This probably just won't feel the same, Idk.

Wish they just did a MW2 remaster honestly.

Also, I feel this is just part of the hatetuber-industry. Don't get me wrong, CoD is kinda garbo for many reasons, but I don't think this is something new, and feels more like engagement farming where you take something that isn't really that much worse than how it's usually done, and make it look horrible in order to generate interest for your posts/videos. Hatetubers are an incredibly large industry nowadays tbh.

Not that I want to be seen as going to bat for Activision as I'm no bootlicker, but I also hate this market of overdramatizing something in order to sell that hatred.

Smallville posted...

yeah do you think less math should be taught ? like stuff above algebra 1? have heard others say this. That it's importance is vastly overrated

No, math isn't about retaining how to do problems. It's about developing our problem-solving skills in a way that is practical and affordable. Like, I don't think any Geometry teacher expects you to remember how to do proofs, but it's a very good way to get you to think about the mechanics that go behind something. It teaches you not to just accept that something is done, but how it is done.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I know I've already brought up Mythbusters but they covered that too and showed if attacked by someone with a knife within a certain distance you are unlikely to be quick enough to draw a gun before getting stabbed. It was either within 20 yards or feet. Probably feet.

Out of 3 attempts he only managed to shoot him once but still got "stabbed"

Now if you both already have your weapons out it evens it up a bit

I love Mythbusters... but like, even if we assume that was the pinnacle of gun draws, why can't the person with the gun actively be moving as they draw their gun in order to keep distance?

Very sad :(

pnut027 posted...

I bet youre one of those smokers who sees nothing wrong with smoking half the shift while everyone else does your work.

No because I view smoking in a very negative light.

Calc 3. I dropped in my 2nd year of college, which never sat right with me (it was purely due to poor work ethic causing me to miss way too many classes, and I could no longer rely on what I would say are above-average skills at picking up math), so I redid it in my 4th year, even though I had no real good reason to other than my pride. Ended up getting an A in it (this was during the spring semester of 2020, so Covid year).

Unfortunately, I knew that was my limit. I am really good with the idea of mathematical concepts in the realm of pure math, but have never been able to grasp physics, which math starts to blend with at its higher levels in many ways. Was a little depressing to feel like the dumb kid in the math class.

pnut027 posted...

1. If youre scheduled to unlock the store for customers and are late, now someone else has to be pulled from their job to do yours, and get back to their own work.
2. If youre scheduled to give a presentation to an international client whose culture values promptness and can damage your relationship, but you show up late, now someone has to fill in for you.
3. If you have clients who made an appointment, and youre late, someone else has to take time from their client to greet your and get them situated.

1. I waited outside of a Target for 10 minutes until someone who was doing inventory finally opened the door. The poor guy bitched the whole way because the jerk didnt just disappeared and he had to take time from his own work.
2. We had to brief a Japanese colonel on how we were planning to maneuver our aircraft for a large air show that was coming in. The superintendent was late coming in so I had to do a crash on the slides and pretty much stall until he came walking in.
3. My wife makes her hair appointments months in advance. If she is late or a no-show, she would have to pay a fee. The girl she went to would regularly show up 15-20 minutes late. Another girl from one of the other studios would have to stop with her client, get my wife situated and then tend back to her own client. My wife finally moved on when she decided to loc her hair.

You being late affects your boss less than it does your clients/customers and the people who have to pick up your slack.

Holy rube goldberg. Why are you working for a billionaire that is stealing from you when you could be using that creativity to create some very interesting stories?

pnut027 posted...

Showing up on time *IS* standing with the workers.

Your coworkers are the ones who have to take on your work when you decide to fuck around.

No, 3 minutes doesn't destroy your co-workers.

And this is propaganda from the billion-dollar corporations who would rather see us fight one another than the true enemies that is them.

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I would support you getting the most out of your job. Your bosses steal from you; learn to earn some of your dignity back.

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A few minutes late doesn't kill anyone. Management is always the enemy.

Stand with the workers always or you are never standing with them.

Holy boomers in this thread. Get back to licking your boss's boots. TC should be applauded, not denounced.

Lol at Fandom buying FAQs right before they probably are about to bleeding, and need cash to survive.

Unless Fandom does something soon, I think the wave of independent wikis is only going to get larger.

I only hope they choose to sell the FAQs for cash when the time comes.

Watching the series about Semekama and the Marsh pride and they keep reusing the same scenes.

I don't mind the corny GoT narration as I can separate the narration from the truth of animal nature, but there are entire episodes of the same scene + narration of previous episodes. Beautiful shots, but it's like they took 2 hours of footage and made 10 episodes out of it.

Gamespoht posted...

So it's back to midness after Guardians 3, who here is shocked?

James Gunn is pretty good at what he does. DC couldn't have picked a better person to lead their ship. If DC fails after this, there is no hope for that franchise.

Actors are important and can make a bad movie enjoyable, but it starts with the writers and directors to make a good movie. Even then, I think the directors have been solid picks. Raimi is great at what he does and always is able to add a unique flair to his movies (I think there were some really enjoyable scenes in the MoM and the acting itself was fine). He got a lot of blame for that movie, with some calling him a hack, but people need to start looking at writers here.

Assuming Trump is on the ballot, the MAGA cult will be in higher numbers next year...

but 2020 showed that Trump on the ballot helps democratic turnout too, and with abortion on top of that... while I think the Senate most likely will flip, I have to feel that Republicans are going to have a disappointing "win" similar to 2022, especially if the house flips right back to the democrats.

No matter what voters say, a single issue usually takes precedent over anything, and every time abortion laws are on the ballot, it has not been pretty for the elephants. Texas better tread lightly as they have had some close contests for what used to be a MAGA haven, and their governor is not helping the cause.

Roe vs Wade being overturned was the monkey's paw wish for the Republicans.

Users here would be quite surprised at how many of the cult-classics they love and call masterpieces were critically panned (or just considered meh) back in the day.

Hell no. That sounds miserable.

Agent_Stroud posted...

I actually liked Randy Newmans theme song that he wrote for season 2 onwards. You do know he actually went back and made it into a complete song several years back, right? So awesome of him to give the fans of Monk an unexpected treat if you ask me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdF3E2NVI8&pp=ygUkaXQncyBhIGp1bmdsZSBvdXQgdGhlcmUgcmFuZHkgbmV3bWFu

So did I; it was extremely fitting for the show, and had some pretty good lines. I have listened to the full song, but didn't know it was only completed after the fact, assumed the show just took a shortened version to fit in the allotted time. That's pretty cool!

Shishiwakamaru posted...

I was never a huge fan of Monk but I do have some knowledge about it. IMO it goes downhill basically as soon as they changed the theme song, and also Mok's new assistant (Natalie) is a downgrade from his first assistant (Sharona) as a character. I forget when these moments happened in the series though

Also IMO Murder She Wrote > Monk without question

The theme song changed after season 1....

Agent_Stroud posted...

Oh, snap. Youre right! For some reason, I had mixed the two up in my head. My bad.

All good, I have the benefit of a recent viewing, haha! It was a pretty good episode because of shenanigans like that.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

It was a fun show but really doesn't need a follow up. It ended in a way that things were already wrapped up.

Eh, honestly, COVID-19 is a pretty good background for this film. It really does feel like the one event that could greatly affect him since the finale.

Agent_Stroud posted...

I still like the whole The Fugitive gag from the first part of the series finale, both when Monk snagged the pocket of his prison jumpsuit on a tree branch and it ripped, causing him to have to search a random camp for the correct color of thread to sew it back up again, as well as the canine units being unable to track Monk due to his constant habit of having to touch random things coming in handy as he literally touched the trunks of every single tree in the woods apparently. XD

That was the season 6 finale, not the series finale.

The internet has a weird thing at acting like a movie that was a coin flip for if a reviewer liked it or not should be universally hated. I feel some of the best films are going to be the ones that are in the 40-60 range as the decades come and go.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

She actually played Regina in the Broadway version too

Honestly, happy for her. If she was killing it in her Broadway role, enough for them to think a movie would be successful, she should get the opportunity to make the big theater bucks.

I want a Beetlejuice musical movie adaptation with Alex and Sophia returning. Love the way Sophia sings (there are rumors that she left on bad terms, but I feel those rumors are false given many different factors and people just like drama) as she really has a mastery of her voice, and Alex has done a wonderful job recreating the Beetlejuice character in a way that is iconic in its own right apart from the Keaton version. Obviously, won't happen any time soon due to Beetlejuice 2 being a thing, but still.

Also always felt Hamilton could get a movie adaptation. I feel it would get quite a nice budget to bring the musical to the big screen with the level of success it had.

I just watched Monk, and I loved it! Very cute show.

I still think there's some money in a Pysch/Monk crossover, but Tony is starting to get up there in age.

MatzoTov posted...

When's the last time a movie came out that was not a sequel, remake, reboot, continuation, or contain some semblance of the phrase, "based on true events?"

Creativity is dead. It's easier to just repackage old shit for nostalgia over actually creating new stories. People will watch it regardless.

Do you think The Thing (1982) was a showing of a lack of creativity?

I loved spartans as a kid so spears were always cool to me.

Spears are the weapons that helped propel our species as a whole.

That being said, swords are easy to design in a way that can make one look iconic, and sometimes I feel like buying one for fun.

For some reason, the 90's and onward generations struggle to accept perfectly reasonable remakes.

Imagine if The Thing or Little Shop of Horrors (a musical remake), both iconic remakes that outdid their original counterparts (and the originals were considered good for their time) came out today? People would cry about it and say Hollywood has ran out of ideas and that the original was good and didn't need a remake.

Bulma died to me when she chose to go short hair and never went back.

Long hair supremacy.

Abortion is the kryptonite.

Many in the pro-life liked the idea of the overturn, but when reality hit, they realized abortion laws can affect them. Now that abortion laws can be done in action and not just words, people don't want to support such candidates.

As memories before I was 4/5 are non-existent, OoT is in that category I call my first "games" along with Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, and probably another game or two I'm forgetting.

I had no idea what I was doing, and could never beat any dungeons by myself, so it was mainly just cluelessly walking around Hyrule field, Kakariko village, and Hyrule city (someone must have gotten past the forest temple for me as I certainly did not do that myself).

That was gaming in general, though, for me.

It's one of those things that to avoid the darkness known as death, they created something darker: purgatory.

As a kid, something like the shadow realm honestly sounds cooler than just death anyways.

Edit: In a way, some of the weird things in kids' television led to some cool, creative solutions. Like, to avoid saying "I will kill you," many kid tv shows used quite a few cool combination of words to say the same thing without using the word "kill."

Sometimes restrictions can lead to more creativity than flat out just being able to do anything.

Twitter morons that shout for stuff, but with no realistic solution in place because they want to sound like good people.

50% of them are probably bots too considering we are in the age of information bot wars.

NeonTentacles posted...

That would be fun

I say, we are about at the age where making an international meet-up is more feasible than probably in the mid 2010's and berfore.

I would be so down. Having an actual group is probably better for these trips too.

We are slowly setting up the CE pilgrimage fund so we can all go to Japan. Join us TC.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

If it persists, please seek a doctor who can refer you to a neurologist. Don't let stuff like that fester.

I'll definitely get to it if it persists. I hope it's just a random thing though.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Any new meds or stopped taking any recently?

Nope, everything is same ol' same ol'.

LeoRavus posted...

Are you going through some type of withdrawal?

I had it bad when I stopped drinking. Still have it at times where I feel like I'm falling when looking at the sky

No, only drank maybe 3-4 times a year. Don't do any drugs. Medication I take is for asthma (inhaler and such), which has been life-long.

Not going through a special diet or anything of that nature. It's probably just years of unhealthiness in general showing signs here and there.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Vertigo sucks. I'll get an attack every once in a while and then I'm screwed for the day.

I've never experienced this prolonged dizzy feeling before, not even after huge nights of drinking.

Literally upon waking up, before my eyes even opened, the first thing I experienced was this weird sensation of my head spinning like one of them wacky Paper Mario items. I just feel this cloudiness in my head now as my brain is struggling to connect with my body fully apparently.

I thought it would last for like a few minutes.

The dizziness has been going on since I woke up. Tried eating and hydrating to check some stuff off but it's continuing.

Just wanted to go to the zoo today :(

I still am of the belief that polling has been overestimating Trump Republicans, and that Trump won't do any better. Once the average voter is reminded who Trump is again, they'll go with the choice that looks more normal (Biden).

Remember how the 2022 red wave became a red whimper.

the_crow13 posted...

Aquaman made a billion. The sequel has the amber heard factor dragging it down plus DCEU irrelevance so itll likely give The Marvels company in that billion to bomb camp

Oh yeah, completely forgot about Aquaman 2, lol.

Yeah, very weird to have two in that camp so close to each other! Although I didn't expect Aquaman 1 to do well, and it did what it did, so maybe 2 will somehow catch me off guard as well. While the internet won't forget about Amber, I wonder if the demographic that went crazy for Aquaman will care as much.

I wonder if this might be the biggest drop in perhaps revenue% that a sequel might ever have if the trajectory continues.

We're talking about a 1 billion+ dollar movie. Drops like this usually are over a series of movies, not like that.

Of course, if the movie is good, I think it has a decent chance at legs. GotG3 had an admittedly disappointing opening for the type of movie it was, but because it was considered great by many, it helped it move to a respectable box office.

The worst part is Gen Alpha is going to be the Andrew Tate generation. Eghh.

Edit: Basically saying all those guys on twitter are going to be a taste of what's coming real soon.

I think it will be March 7th, 2024. A couple days after the Super Tuesday, in which he realizes he's never had a chance.

trivialbeing posted...

people itt are gonna whine and say it's unfair because not game accurate or whatever

Honestly, Peach is just so much more fanartable than Bore-ah and 99% of other gals. She's the perfect lady. I love her, I love her, I loveeee her