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HagenEx posted...

Ontopic:

Prime Lana Rhoades was breathtaking.

I dunno man, she seems like she's primed for the camera pointed at the sheets.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/6/AAWh3OAAC7ga.jpg

But to contribute, Kelly Wang, or Amelia Wang, whichever she goes by nowadays. She got attention specifically because she was "too pretty" to be in porn. She's a special case since she most likely went in porn to rebel against her dad. I really want to know her story in case I have a daughter. I don't want to fall into the same trap her pops did.

Full Throttle posted...

West and Sagal accepted byt DiMaggio's team did not and saw it not as competitive to the market or the legacy of the show and it fell apart after West and Sagal took the offer without consulting him.

They side counter offered with more competitive quotes and both sides couldn't come to an agreement as his offer would be bumped up more than the other 2.

Fair point. West and Sagal jumped the gun here, I wish there were more coordination between the 3 teams.

If you had the opportunity to shoot the breeze with scientists, industry renowned game designers, billionaires, politicians, basically anyone doing something interesting with their lives, why would you say no?

Joe Rogan's podcast in a nutshell.

Is this the reason why we saw no Capcom news in the last Nintendo direct?

They're products made for entertainment. If you want to put food on the table via videogame development, generally the better selling games thrive purely from offering entertainment via compelling gameplay, not by making a statement.

__starsnostars posted...

Canada's policy of requiring people to quarantine when crossing international borders if they are not vaccinated is not unique. A lot of countries have adopted such regulations.

Checking around and it seems quarantining for 10 days with proof being negative isn't enough. American truckers are completely barred from entering Canada if they're not fully vaccinated as Canada rescinded their exception for truckers in terms of entry without vaccinations.

SweetieBeIle462 posted...

I'm surprised these didn't start in the US

It started because Canada is issuing a vaccine mandate on the trucking industry. The states are divided on vaccine mandates (heck, even liberally dominated states are rescinding their statewide mask mandates for some reason) so there wouldn't have been a country wide consensus to issue a mandate of this scale.

thronedfire2 posted...

and thats why the trucker protest will end up being a 100% waste of everyones time

Well, I'd rather they be a nuisance than have a hand in preventing lives from being saved.

In any case the trucking protest is having an effect as Ottawa's government is now freezing donations to the protest.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/02/11/news/ontario-court-freezes-donations-givesendgo-halting-millions-collected-truckers

Nintendo has a ton of studios. While there is the main Nintendo development company, it's composed of several development teams on top of having a number of subsidiaries and affiliates. And among Nintendo's inhouse studios, there's always a group that works on low budget experimental games like LABO or Wii Sports, and this is most likely an output from them. So what if this dude wants Wii Sports Part 3? There are other games and other studios to follow and Wii Sports is not going to take up much resources or affect other games' development pipeline. For instance, Monolith soft's Xenoblade 3 had a couple buddies of mine elated and analyzing every frame of the trailer and shocked the release date is set for September. Conversely us FE fans are busy sulking that Intelligent Systems has yet to offer anything new while we're getting another Warriors games, expanding the 3 Houses universe (and now setting the precedent for even more Edelgard alts for the Heroes mobile game, to our chagrin).

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I don't see how this is mocking the trucking protest. One of the deaths at CHAZ took place because the police couldn't get in the area to give the clear for the ambulance to come in to treat the victim. The Ottawa protesters making sure there's an emergency lane open speaks to how well organized the protest is.

It's pretty relaxing taking your horse for a ride across the country. And I agree with the other posters that horses are quite useful in battle situations when escaping from guardians or just dealing with hordes of enemies with the mobility your horsey provides you.

Chunkey Simmons posted...

if you're not black, you don't have the right to an opinion on how the n word is used.

Megastar rappers spam the n-word all the time in their music and their profits, fame, and influence are derived from a demographic where it's considered faux pas to say the n-word. I think that's a textbook case of hypocrisy right there.

Why do you believe that only black people should have a say in how the n-word is used when it's integrated into America's pop culture that influences the entire world?

UnfairRepresent posted...

By your logic the fact her outfit was black could be "perceived" as a political statement by a f***ing moron. You can percieve anything as anything. People percieve Harry Potter as satanitc.

If 0.005% of the population get offended by a color of an outfit, that's a "you" problem directed at that 0.005%. Now if 50% of the population gets offended by a color of an outfit, or interprets the color of the outfit negatively, then clearly according to that population, that outfit is making a negative statement.

We're almost 2 years from the summer of 2020 riots. That wasn't free. To think BLM was an innocent protest and the billions of dollars worth of damages lost and the lives lost in those riots were outliers, that's foolish.

Tsuyoi3 posted...

Hell, when racists on here bring up "why doesn't BLM protest black on black crime" it's rightly pointed out that it's about systemic issues with police.

Anyone could make a case that if you reduce the amount of black on black crime, it would reduce the interactions with police and reduce negative encounters. The death of Amir Locke was tied to the police hunting for a suspect connected to a homicide. This is the reason why the crime rates are brought up in regards to the police brutality issue, blaming the police isn't going to reduce the amount the bullets flying in my neighborhood.

UnfairRepresent posted...

It's really not

"Leidy is 12 and she's trying to share the fact that she matters. There's nothing political about that."

And she's getting a first hand experience of her intentions for dressing with a statement isn't always going to align with how it's perceived by others and you have to account for that if you're making a statement.

Nu_Jersey_Devil posted...

We took a horrible demeaning word and changed it to mean a term of endearment and love.

The issue is not everyone sees it the same way. Some think it should only be used by X group of persons, and even worse, there are a number of people within that group who also use it as part of their everyday vocabulary demonstrating hypocrisy and fostering resentment from other races. If it were societally accepted that the word's usage wasn't dependent on the race of speaker, we'd make some strides in progression and acceptance. But alas.

Relient_K posted...

Black lives matter is not a political stance. By presenting it as one you are outing yourself as absolute scum.

The BLM movement is most certainly political. Not everyone agrees with their message (due to different interpretations more often than not) or how they're delivering their message.

Yeah, not buying it. If Inafune stayed at Capcom, he could have finished the title. I've heard he continued development of titles without a full greenlight before. The idea of the amount of participants engaged on a specific Capcom forum to greenlight a title, I think Capcom didn't give a damn and was only giving lip service. It'd be more believable if Capcom was still supporting Mega Man beyond the classic 9 and 10 games and didn't cancel every other Mega Man title and made laughing stock of him in Street Fighter x Tekken.

It would a joy to see Battle Network back in the spotlight again.

KeeperOfShadows posted...

If anything, the comment is dumb because it didn't really need to be said. Nobody is being forced, and everyone knows that people can choose not to take it.

Trucker Protest in Canada is about a vaccine mandate, i.e. the government trying to force the industry to get the vaccine. This is why people all over the US have been vocal about being against it from before any state could issue a mandate, to discourage state governments from trying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7YifIIJGB8

Surprisingly this one and the "Rapper comes into the studio sad" got the age restriction block and not the "Rapper snitches on himself" video. Definitely not clear at all on Youtube's metric for age restrictions. Hilarious videos though, I hope he finds a new platform keep doing what he enjoys.

@atmasabr For your deleted comparison post regarding Portland, bear in mind that the President didn't have the authority to bring the National Guard into the state. He had to get clearance from the city mayor I believe, who told him to fuck off. The summer of 2020 was very enlightening as it demonstrated just what the Presidential position is not capable of doing in relations to state security. I have to respect that state's rights supersedes federal mandates even if it's not working in our favor for things like country wide mask mandates.

https://twitter.com/floooaady/status/1490740880831127559?s=20&t=9MpoJUi_PCOzrxBEFA90Vw

From the replies.

And I don't understand where the contradiction is from the OP. I told myself I planned on being 5th in line for the vaccine way back when. Then I got cold feet and decided to wait and see. It certainly didn't help the amount of contradictions the MSM pushed in the year of 2020.

SydneySweenHero posted...

lol this is definitely fake. I hope >_>

The leak came from Capcom's servers directly. Regarding Monster Hunter, the only thing I've seen changed is that Sunbreak got bumped to be released earlier than intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__GJuqLb00

Guide posted...

People were totally calling Cosby's case "cancel culture" though

But the complaints going on right now against against cancel culture weren't directed toward instances like the Cosby Case. It's for things far more petty and inconsequential, hence why I called out Tommy's post since he generalized it abstractly when the criticism is far more directed.

TommyG663513 posted...

Tons of awful bad faith takes on cancel culture ITT

Yes, Mencia was cancelled. Everyone is in favor of some forms of cancellation for some offenses and against it for other offenses. Literally everyone believes in cancel culture to some degree and saying "cancel culture isn't real" is a brain dead take.

Cancel culture is any widespread backlash a person receives or even just the threat of it controlling their actions.

It isn't all bad. Sometimes cancel culture is a very good thing. It depends on the person and what they did.

A lot of what gets people cancelled is whatever is "trending." So a social media algorithm is sometimes partially at fault.

When people rail against cancel culture, it's usually a specific part of it they don't like as opposed to the entirety of it.

Nowadays, people are rallied on twitter to "cancel" a person for petty reasons. "This guy said something rude 10+ years back, he needs to lose his job!!!". This is the what people are calling out cancel culture for, not for instances like Bill Cosby being accused by several dozen women of sexual assault or the the well accepted cardinal sin of plagiarism in the comedy field.

If they have government jobs, why don't they buy a home or rent apartments? Or are they not living the typical life of a homeless bum that we're all thinking of?

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Well no one cares about the results if they are useless!

Proof of Work was first coined and formalized in 1999 paper by Markus Jakobsson and Ari Juels. Fast forward to 2009 where its biggest use case, the bitcoin network was released. It's pretty shortsighted to say such a statement when technology generally lags behind the science for decades. Even moreso when you made a comparison with your cellphone having so much computational power when the tech is built off of the science solid state physics, which is an application of quantum mechanics.

Umbreon posted...

50k?
Dude's a billionaire. Make him drop a cool 5 million at bare minimum.

Get that greedy and if he's petty enough, he'll could waste a couple hundred Gs to put together a team of lawyers to bring you pain and misery in court.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Does this mean you know Sergey Nazarov, and if so what do you think about the theory that he's Satoshi?

I was just joshin' with the insider joke. We had insiders from years ago, but no one leaks anything on /biz/ anymore since it's heavily monitored by the team. But staking is aimed for release this year and simple release date alone will drive up the price due to pure hype and speculation, so it's a very safe bet to make. That being said, besides the circumstantial evidence that points to SN==SN, it would explain how he managed to get one of the scientists who coined Proof of Work to cowrite the original Chainlink whitepaper and be the chief scientist of Chainlink Labs. Also, it was always a bit suspicious that Sergey was gungho about building smart contracts from before Ethereum was even released.

Turtlebread posted...

wow that's unbelievable why isn't everyone doing this ????

not everyone has an insider to profit off of, I'm afraid.

I'd take half the million, dump it into Chainlink, pay myself $75K and give the rest to my pops to shut up my mum about money. I'd at the minimum 10x the 500K within 2022.

There's no reason to go for chump change when there's a ton of information out there to grow or solidify your wealth and start preparing a retirement fund now.

Good luck OP. Good luck.

FL81 posted...

I discovered the series through the awesome music

Ryza 1's music, I had to go look for the album. It's rock solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfV0Gh4YHiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9oRj0Hn0Vo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaKh21KVh10

Really, you'll be sorely disappointed if you play the game for fanservice. But gameplay, specifically the crafting -> exploring for more materials to craft more things loop is quite addictive.

I've got distracted from playing Ryza 2 by other titles, but the first was a really wholesome adventure game. Ryza's voluptuous design was just a welcome bonus and I recall hearing Ryza 2 maintains the same the same kind of atmosphere.

Now, I will be speaking out of turn since I didn't finish Rorona, and only finished Ryza of the entire series, but a dream Atelier girl for me would have the artstyle of Hidari, specifically the elegant and classy design of Ayesha, but with Ryza's body type. Give me that, and revive the time limits (if you can manage a solid story around it), and I'll be satisfied.

@ToPoPO posted...

How is it looking for LINK?

$14.58 right now. If I had money to spare, I'd buy more. The market action right now is irrelevant. I'd be worried if your mum or gram gram were using services not knowing it was powered by Chainlink and the price was $20. Then I'd start worrying about my financial future. In any case, on New Year's day, Chainlink released a video by the CEO outlining the initiatives for the year; staking, CCIP (cross chain interoperability protocol), and becoming an enterprise abstraction layer. It's an hour long video and I just mentioned the most important things (and will mention other important tidbits below) but you can check out the video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShbzR7mlog

Staking has been talked about for years but Chainlink is only now planning to release it because a number of decentralized oracle networks (DONs) have become profitable and no longer need to to be subsidized by Chainlink. So now the economics are in place to make staking worthwhile. Other staking protocols are essentially them paying staking participants a fee (via the interest rates) to incentivize them holding. Chainlink's staking protocol is to maximize security. If your node isn't up to snuff, you'll have to fork up your link holding to not maintaining a certain standard. This will be interesting because I don't believe every crowdsourcing node operator will accept every staker's tokens as it'll dilute the profits and there more than likely will be diminishing returns in how much visibility you'll get with a large sum of staked tokens. It's definitely going to have some interesting economics and it'll be needed for the coming abstraction layer to connect enterprise companies' systems (or internal blockchains) to public blockchains and for CCIP.

CCIP is something I'm super interested in just to see what kind of impact it'll have on the industry. Cross chain bridging is a heated and competitive field but I think Chainlink has an advantage because they're already integrated with over 1000 projects on multiple blockchains. They securely pass data, so it seems like a natural evolution to pass instructions too. A lot of people are theorizing that Chainlink will siphon a lot of value from Ethereum and pit Ethereum and every blockchain together to have them prove their right to exist. I want to be optimistic about Ethereum's future since they're the most secure blockchain for smart contracts (to exclude the BTC out the picture) and if anything, the price feed contracts that everyone depends on for DeFi should be on a Layer 2 roll up that depends on Ethereum for security. One thing I'm really excited about in is seeing how you could create a dapp that depends on multiple blockchains. I know the Ethereum Name Service would be thrilled to have the same readable name be usable on every blockchain instead of you manually managing multiple addresses. If I were to build a project, I'd try to build a ERC-20 ****coin washer with Monero's blockchain >_>

But regarding the topic at hand, there was a congressional hearing and they invited Chainlink's chief scientist Ari Juels to testify. Holy cow he did something I never thought was possible, he fudded the heck out of BTC, basically saying it was not necessary for the industry. Now granted, the BTC is completely removed from the rest of industry as it doesn't have viable support for smart contract development. But its importance comes from the tokenomics and having the largest network giving it the security to be treated as digital gold. To basically handwave off its value like that, why would you do this?

And even more shockingly, Chainlink's CCIP development is directed by Ben Chan, the creator of WBTC, wrapped BTC, basically BTC on the Ethereum blockchain where they lock up BTC on the BTC network and mint token equivalents to be used on Ethereum's blockchain. CCIP will basically mesh all blockchains together so you could have the best of everything. So Juels' words comes off as horribly disingenuous but of course the congressmen won't know since they're not privy to this information. You can check out his 5 minute opening statement here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1623&v=S39ywwB3crI

But yeah, the market may be in shambles, but if you're excited for the tech, don't worry about the market. Good things are happening.

Let's rephrase the question: Suppose when you receive your vaccine, you receive an NFT to describe the necessary data pertaining to the shot. Would you guys be opposed to needing a vaccine NFT for authorization to eat in at indoor restaurants?

After Gen 6, I skipped the generations and decided to wait for the Diamond/Pearl Remake. But then the remake was revealed and shattered my hopes and dreams by being such a lazy looking and bare bones remake.

There's no salvation for this franchise. It's doomed to pump out new generations to align with the anime, Nintendo has zero power to do any quality control at Gamefreak due to how the Pokemon IP ownership is set, and each new installment will continue smashing records.

Vicious_Dios posted...

Leave Science, History/Geography, Mathematics, and Music untouched.

Remember, history is written by the victors. For instance, we know that a good number of famous persons were draft dodgers for the Vietnam war while there were a few notable politicians who served for that war. You can (and people have) frame the draft dodgers as people who were unpatriotic, but if you delved into the matter further, 68% of all available males that qualified at the time dodged the draft.

And mind you, guys went through all lengths to make sure they fail the qualifications. Some guys partook in a fine glass or 2 of soy sauce every day to induce hypertension. There are stories of lads downing 3 pizza's every night to hit obesity to avoid the draft. Other men got braces. Or a letter of exemption from the doctor. Some voiced their opinion outright that they refused to fight for the cause and were jailed as a result. Because of this country wide fiasco of so many men refusing or dodging the draft, President Johnson's Secretary of State of the time, Robert McNamara introduced a plan, Project 100,000, where they enlisted overweight, disabled, low IQ and autistic men to fill the quota which was an absolute disaster.

The reason why I bring this up is that you can't avoid bias in history. Someone's story will be told. Someone's story will be omitted. And this is all to mold a perspective that is favorable to the storyteller.

So for a parent, obviously there's only so much you can influence a curriculum (never say never to the power of a good PTA I guess...) but you'll have to do your due diligence in find the values of the school and ascertain that their values and their standards meet your own.

pokedude900 posted...

What you're not taking into account is that there are only about 80 million people in the world who own any bitcoin (and probably substantially less own even $1000 worth), whereas several magnitudes more own gold. And that's only talking about in its pure state. Virtually every citizen of a first world country on the planet owns something that contains gold within it.

In the case of 100% crypto adoption, as I've said before, banks would create currencies and peg them to the BTC. The energy consumption won't scale up 1 to 1 with the userbase this way. In addition, this would replace the current banking system and reduce a considerable amount of overhead.

It's a fool's errand to look at the energy consumption and say blockchain is awful for the environment as it misses the nuances of what it aims to achieve and what grander benefits it would have should it achieve its goals. You gotta start learning about smart contracts. That tech is revolutionary, nothing short of life changing.

pokedude900 posted...

The f*** are you even talking about? Gold is valuable because it's a finite and relatively scarce resource. It has nothing to do with energy consumption.

The cost of mining gold in conjunction with above is what gives gold the properties it has to be a store of value across the ages. For digital variant of gold, it also cannot be easy to obtain, hence why I brought up gold as a comparison.

Also, a google search brings up that the bitcoin network consumes less energy than the gold industry.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/research%3A-bitcoin-consumes-less-than-half-the-energy-of-the-banking-or-gold-industries

Tmaster148 posted...

Lol.

The current banking system has regulations to protect the consumer and uses less energy than cryptos (at least in countries like the US). So it's funny you think there's even a remote change crypto is going overtake the banking system.

The current banking system also allowed for a centralized entity to print out 40% of all U.S. currency in circulation in the past 2 years. This is unacceptable.

uwnim posted...

Have they stabilized yet? As long as their value is dominated by the collective whims of speculators, they can never take over the banking system. A currency needs to be relatively stable. Currently the massive energy requirements are doing absolutely nothing useful due to people viewing them as things to invest in and not actual currencies.

The purpose of the massive energy requirements is for security purposes. Gold wouldn't be as valuable if it were cheap to obtain. Same with the BTC. You want to have a network no centralized entity controls else you'll have instances like what's going on with the US currency being inflated with no community consensus. What I see in the future is that banks will create currencies that are pegged to the BTC or ETH or some basket of currencies. This way you have the security of the BTC where you don't need to worry about your savings devaluing by shenanigans, but you can essentially use the BTC in practice since it's currently too slow to be used in grocery store type transactions, where you don't want to be stuck at the cash register waiting for the transaction to process. Now if there's massive adoption, you don't have to worry so much of the volatility because everything is done in BTC.

Mind you, this is the tip of the iceberg of what the blockchain field has to offer. Web3 is going to be an absolute nightmare for a lot of sites because they eliminate the need for a middleman by what I'd say the blockchain's most innovative spinoff technology, smart contracts.

pokedude900 posted...

1. They're bad for the environment due to the excessive amount of energy they consume.

Stop falling for propaganda. Yes, Proof of Work Blockchains consume a ton of energy, but that's required for the security of the blockchains as BTC and ETH are aiming to absorb the current banking system.

K181 posted...

He's right to be mad at those fans. There are a load of people that don't give a shit about him and only care about him to get more books.

Enjoy what you have and be pleasantly surprised if you get more.

Dude, your fans are not your friends. They're your fans specifically for the things you've produced.

rexcrk posted...

I kind of wish that people would just stop talking about this NFT shit.

Then it would probably just go away and wouldnt even be an issue anymore.

NFTs have been in existence since 2017 or so and have been in active development since. They're here to stay. Right now, we're in speculation phase as we inch towards use cases that aren't possible in Web2.

If I were to write a story for a cartoon show and had the skills to pull it off, I'd have an adult as a protagonist, but have the MC as a teacher managing kids. School of Rock comes to mind now that I've typed this out. But I'd go this route because I enjoy mentorship in stories and the idea of being responsible for others' well being even if you're not obligated as though you're a parent.

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1482223521791201280

This blew my mind away when I saw viewership counts for Rogan along with other big name news media.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/rvdcea/oc_joe_rogan_viewership_vs_mass_media_ratings_for/

11 million viewers to CNN Primetime's 0.82 million. Holy flying fish. No wonder people want his podcast pulled. Really, you'd have an easier time convincing Rogan to adopt a podcast style where he brings on interviewees who can represent both sides of an issue well.

darkphoenix181 posted...

What do you think that means?

Let me rephrase since I misspoke. If I choose not to go the path Jesus spoke of, this doesn't imply that I love money, it's that I chose not to take his route to become perfect.