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I played competitive (but also console) Overwatch at a high level for a short while, to the point where I was fairly high in the EU top 500 and I was in a team competing in tournaments for (piddly amounts of) money. I played MK Wii competitive but less seriously, as well as some FIFA/Halo tournaments at cons. I'm also planning on joining Link to the Past speedrunning tournaments soon, particularly for randomiser (my times are good enough to qualify and probably get through a round or two in tourneys, but I don't have the streaming setup rn to actually compete given the rules).

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NightMarishPie posted...

Hey everyone, stop responding to TC. Thanks

Responding to these troll topics isn't going to convince the troll, but it might make people lurking think about it a little more.

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Hanukkah

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It says there's nobody with my surname in the country I live in. Guess I don't exist.

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Star Wars

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B8 will love this

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I take issue with the wording, but I'd say yeah, a little. People feel threatened by "SJWs" due to already being insecure (in their masculinity, race, religion, or any number of other things), and react to being challenged on their previously safe self-identity by throwing the toys out of the pram. I think the videos, quotes and outrage over "SJWs" that are in a ton of mass media have contributed to people gravitating towards the right simply because more people consume right-wing media than left-wing, on average.

I'd also say that people on the left are often naive and don't try to play the game when they get media opportunities. Right-wing people will often raise "concerns" or rephrase a nastier stance on the issue to make it more palatable, whereas someone on the left will just say what they think. Frankly, racism and sexism and what have you are more emotional topics for those who have suffered from them, and it makes it more possible to portray the left and particularly women as irrational or shrill or bossy, painting people on the right as the "rational" or "normal" option. It's a little depressing, because you shouldn't have to dress basic human decency up for people to agree with it, but I think we're at that stage and probably have been for a long, long time.

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Was not expecting that! So much nostalgia for Perfect Dark, even more than Goldeneye.

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half_silver28 posted...

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills

Also I was sad to see Walk by Foo Fighters wasn't in the poll

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I thought it was unironically Goku for half a second. Great reveal though

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Sheep

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Iodine posted...

According to twitter he said "the Negro".

The Romanian way of saying "black person" or something to that effect is very similar sounding, which seems to be what most people think he said. Insensitive but not as bad or intentionally nasty.

Also, it was a coach so player numbers aren't happening, but it's also really easy to just... not address someone by their race? Like, it's not really necessary

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Ween - Ocean Man

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Soccer/football can definitely be not only boring but outright awful, which is something not many sports share. However, I think the best bits of football are also so much better than most other sports and it's such a varied game compared to almost every other sport. To whoever said football is crap aside from the goals, there's so much good stuff aside from just scoring chances. Watching someone put in a really good tackle when the game isn't great and watching it suddenly come to life is so fun to watch, and end to end games (which are increasingly common, I find) even without lots of goals are just great to watch all the time.

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I was expecting Libertarian Socialist or even Anarcho-communism so Syndicalism is a little interesting. I disagree with it for a few reasons, but I think part of the reason I got it is because there's quite a few leading questions which shift you one way or another? Not quite as well done as the other tests by the same person, although I'm sure they'll adjust it if it's a totally new one

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I left my house twice in the two weeks before I was symptomatic, both times just to go grocery shopping, and while wearing a mask. I washed my hands immediately after coming back and didn't touch my face at any point before that. So I either got it from an asymptomatic roommate, a roommate who tested negative, or from a shop despite taking every precaution except physically decontaminating every item I bought. I'm in what was one of the worst hit areas in my country, but this thing is incredibly contagious and easy to catch and my senses still aren't normal two months on.

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I agree that Diamond/Pearl aren't great, but I also agree with pretty much all the rest of the praise in the thread. There's a lot of average designs, but the good ones are probably among the best in the series. It's got the best Champion, makes most Pokmon at least useable with the physical/special split and addition of lots of new moves, it made competitive actually viable with lots of new strategies and options as a result, plus adding tons of items, and has a great soundtrack. It also just had a really nice and distinct vibe compared to the newer ones, which can feel a bit more hollow in places. The plot obviously isn't great as per usual for a Pokemon game, it's a little slow, and there's issues with the TM/HM system still, but the amount of content in the game is ridiculous considering its time. Plus it introduced online. I think HG/SS being even better in comparison push it up the ranks even more, with two of the four/five games which are considered the best being released within a year of each other, and also being two of the most content-heavy.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

It limits your ability to judge situations in a logical way. Logic is all about taking in new information and coming to a conclusion based on that information. Extreme ideology leads you to basically forego gathering information and instead default to whatever the extreme ideological conclusion would be.

I have a few problems with this. Firstly, I agree that gathering information is important regardless of ideology. However, almost no source of information is free of ideology. Maths and physics are about as non-ideological as you can get, yet the leading academic theory of how the universe is constructed a couple of years ago required physicists to come up with at least 6 new dimensions. We either come up with ideology and use the science to validate it, or use new ideology to validate the science. Ideology is just the lens through which we view things and radical ideologies are necessary to push the boundaries: at the time Darwin's writings on evolution were ideologically extreme, or Galileo talking about how we orbit the sun. I think it would be naive to say that what we might now consider extreme ideologies are never going to discover a genuine truth about the universe or life as a result of their ideologies, regardless of how far we have come from the examples I gave (again, I'd point you to the literal construction of new dimensions required for string theory to even attempt to explain the universe as a modern example. Maybe it's still wrong and you could point to the ideology as part of that, but it's also pushed the boundaries of physics in a way which it wouldn't if it only accepted and considered facts it could see.)

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CyricZ posted...

This is seeming less like a "surface level" take already.

Nothing wrong with that demographic, plus it's a pretty damn big one! It's just that they're generally privileged enough to not have life or death situations to worry about above politics, while also often lacking some sort of direction that comes from religion or being marginalised in some way. If you wanted you could narrow it down even further to straight/bi and lower-middle to middle class men, and probably a few other things. Those people don't necessarily have values in common though, which is why I would call it surface level.

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King_Hutton posted...

This is the most leftist post that happens so many times unironically every single day

I think that post is peak internet leftism and I say that in the most affectionate possible way

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On the surface level, I think there's a bit of truth to that statement. Most far-right or far-left people in western liberal democracies are either raised from very young with that thinking (usually on the basis of fundamentalist religion), or are white, single, atheist/agnostic men under the age of 40 who spend a lot of time on the internet. But I also think there's an incredible difference in values with a lot of people, or at least their interpretation of them, which makes the other side just impossible to understand.

I think the extent of what everyone's arguing about with horseshoe theory really depends on the type of far-left. Like, far-right ideologies tend to be pretty similar (nationalistic, birth or religion-based in and outgroups enforced by the state, extreme lack of welfare, high relative military spend) no matter which one you look at. The only real exceptions are radical libertarians (as in 0 welfare Ayn Rand types) and most of them are happy enough to live within a state as long as it doesn't tax them (and there's few enough of them in the first place). On the other hand, pretty much everyone on the far-left disagrees on everything except capitalism bad welfare good. Some of them are, imo, not much better than the worst of the far-right (systemic murder of dissenters, which is pretty much the only way the far-left has gotten into power to date given all large far-left societies I can think of have sprung from far-right ones). However, a lot of the ideology behind more libertarian socialist ideologies on the far left is just straight up nicer, more positive with its view on humanity, and doesn't require purging anyone. Definitely a bit unrealistic (at least right now) given the current state of society, but I think it's the ideal we should eventually strive for.

tl;dr: Maybe for some types of people or on the surface? but overall I think the difference in ideal state from a diverse and accommodating society compared to a literal ethnostate with closed borders and biological/social eugenics is enough of a difference that comparing them is a bit silly.

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Niko/Initial D - Night of Fire
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

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Code Geass

I don't remember if he ever cheated at chess but there we are

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Gotta be Nixon or Harding. The blowjob isn't far behind, but anyone voting Russia has a short memory.

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Rugby

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Current Events

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LttP > Chrono Trigger > Earthbound > Super Metroid > DKC2 > Mario World > Star Fox > Mega Man X > Mario RPG > F-Zero > FF3 > FF2

Never played FF2 but I assume it's worse than 3

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In because I have literally nothing to do and followed along with the last game and dammit I knew my eurobuddy Death was scum because he wasn't just saying all of my thoughts as I read along, plus I want a chance to pretend I am indeed below-average and washed up. Obviously fine with being cut if space is needed for players from last game, and I'd also be more than willing to replace. My signup does come with a promise of moderate to high activity, though!

Flavour is "Axe Dark Temptation(tm) for your teenage nephew"

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Clifford

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I'll be up for games pretty much any day next month between everything being closed and uni being done for the year.

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Tag

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Overwatch

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I genuinely understand the skepticism about taking the vaccine: it's being rolled out incredibly quickly and some poorly-tested vaccines could definitely have unforseen effects. However, having looked into the creation of it more, it's completely different to other vaccines and in a manner which is far safer.

The most similar vaccines work off a live or inactive virus, whereas this particular vaccine works off a tiny part of the mRNA of Covid, which basically causes the body to recreate a part of Covid (which is completely and utterly incapable of causing any damage or morphing into Covid - it's literally just protein, not a virus in any way unlike the similar vaccines) and teaches the immune system how to respond to and kill the actual Covid-19 virus.

This (so far, it's obvious really early in testing) is a ridiculous breakthrough and looks so much better than most projections for a vaccine given its success rate. Like, this shit gets us herd immunity easily if as many people get it as people who voted in the US elections. The only possible situation in which this vaccine is likely to be risky is to people with compromised immune systems in some form. These are exactly the people we're trying to protect by getting the vaccine anyway, since they can't take it. It's probably the most important individual scientific discovery to your everyday life in years and it you're considering not getting it, please do as much research as you can. Hell, I'd be happy to point you to some good resources or explain some of the science behind it. If this vaccine and similar ones gain traction and get past their storage issues, it will save millions of lives and allow billions to live far more normally.

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In as a replacement

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Tom
Korra
Arthur
Bojack

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Fable 2 is an obvious one but I think that's the intention and it kinda works. The climax comes a little before the boss. I think Sunshine is a great call and Pokemon X/Y has a mediocre final boss which is just so unremarkable.

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Yes

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I would be shocked if Biden doesn't win when the votes are all counted, but getting Trump to actually accept the result is a completely different matter. Embarrassing for it to be this close regardless.

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BetrayedTangy posted...

Yeah I think it's easier to view lazy designs like Seel and Grimer as pretty basic and harmless. Whereas things like Stunfisk or Bruxish are actively ugly.

I actually think stuff like Stunfisk is better than Seel. It's meant to be ugly, Seel is just the blandest thing ever.

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The Tatami Galaxy

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HHH is the game posted...

This isn't really valid either. People who try to be a police officer are most likely trying to do a good thing, not hurt people. So good cops should walk away in spite and leave the police office to be 100% bad cops? That is what you want? You also do not have to be part of a religion either.

Discrimination is discrimination. All muslims aren't bad because of terrorists. All cops aren't bad because of murderer cops.

If you are saying all muslims aren't bad and understand why that is true, but then also go around saying ACAB I would take a real long hard look at yourself

I would argue that Islam is not a force for good, and cops are not a force for good. You can be good and be a part of those institutions, but I think it's very difficult if you are not actively pushing for reform. However, the police are inherently, in my opinion, an unjust power structure, while people may still identify with Islam without agreeing with or sympathising with almost any of its beliefs (which includes most Muslims who have integrated into Western society). Police have no choice but to enforce their rules, while Muslims do often choose not to.

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Bio1590 posted...

I need to find it again but I remember reading a study commissioned by the government in either the UK (as a whole) or just England, that was specifically in regards to Muslim immigrants and found that the kids of said immigrants were generally more secular than their parents and even those that were adherent were less...idk I want to say "strict" about it than their parents? But obviously that's the UK.

Oh yeah, for sure. I think that's the most common path, based on anecdotal experience too. Almost nobody in terms of numbers goes on to be a terrorist, after all. My point was mostly to argue that the idea of "just deport them/stop them coming lol" doesn't really work when most were born and radicalised while in that same country. It's not some group of mindless jihadists running from Syria to kill all the white people.

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Bio1590 posted...

It really is amazing how many of these incidents happen in France vs everywhere else in Europe

As far as I can tell from looking into this quite a bit, most of these attacks worldwide are from radicalised second or third generation immigrants (this part is speculative, but I would imagine most first generation immigrants are either just struggling to get by or actively wanted to move to that place), of which France has a lot compared to other European nations due to its colonial history. I think the recent history of satirising Islam has also stirred up a lot of trouble, as rightful as the satirists were to be allowed to do so.

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They're both hideous in the best possible way.

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Spooky Scary Skeletons

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9/11

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OoT > SM64 > MK64 > PD > MM > Goldeneye > Banjo > Paper Mario >>>>> Smash

Not played WWF

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Single-biome planets

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The piano in SM64

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Han and Leia's romance

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