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| Topic | I knew better but did it anyway. |
| adjl 05/12/24 1:37:27 PM #9 | faramir77 posted...
No, the beef is just prepared by a kid getting paid minimum wage, and thus is likely contaminated with loads of salmonella. Your body reacts that way because in all likelihood the tacos they sell are literal poison. Salmonella usually takes a day or two to start showing symptoms, or at least 8 hours. If you're seeing results within the hour, it's not from salmonella. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Billionaires pay less taxes than you |
| adjl 05/12/24 1:33:55 PM #8 | ItIsSoOver posted...
Certain people (who probably share a lot of views with TC) aren't in favor of a flat tax, which could fix this issue Yes and no. The problem with a flat tax is that losing, say, half your income when you make $20k is devastating, but losing half your income when you make $20M has very little impact on quality of life (and none whatsoever on your ability to survive). To that end, if it's determined that the tax needs are X% of the country's total income, taxing everyone X% is going to disproportionately hurt the lower class without actually doing that much to alleviate the overall tax burden. However it works, something needs to be done to ensure that people whose basic survival hinges on keeping as much of their income as possible get to do so. Are tax brackets the best solution? Maybe, maybe not. The problem with tax brackets isn't that the idea doesn't work at a fundamental level, it's that the system of deductions and exemptions needed to make it work is too complicated for anyone without a good (and expensive) accountant to take full advantage of, plus there's been significant lobbying to ensure that those deductions work in favour of those who don't actually need them because they're the ones with the resources needed to lobby. I could see a flat tax working with a much higher minimum income threshold (like you get taxed the greater of X% or whatever takes you down to $75k), but even that would require some rejigging to catch the multibillionaires who ostensibly only make like $10 a year because of how they've structured their wealth. You'd also probably still end up needing some extra deductions/credits (like $75k goes a lot further for a single person than for a person with three kids), which pretty quickly starts devolving into the same overcomplicated nonsense we've got now. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | can't even play league of legends anymore |
| adjl 05/11/24 11:42:01 AM #2 | Hopefully the player base doesn't...
*sunglasses* ...Riot. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Rabbit and Steel, a four-player raiding game that feels like FFXIV (has a demo) |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:54:45 AM #6 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Guess I never knew that FFXIV was actually a 2d horizontal bullet hell... I can't speak for FFXIV, but most raid bosses in WoW functionally were (at least the last time I paid attention to WoW, which was like 2010), just with a ground-level perspective. Positioning, dodging AoE attacks, and other movements that happen as part of executing any given fight rarely include any sort of verticality, which means they're effectively 2D bullet hells (or at least bullet hell-adjacent games) masquerading as 3D games. Abstracting them into 2D doesn't actually take much of anything away from the fights' executions. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | why are mods actually enforcing the politics rule |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:18:10 AM #30 | Count_Drachma posted...
idk, can't be any worse than Red Ventures. RV set a very, very, very low bar, given their wacked-out CEO's directives. Are you unaware of the steps Fandom has taken over the last couple months? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Aurora borealis in Arizona |
| adjl 05/11/24 10:11:15 AM #3 | I tried to see if I could see anything here last night (Nova Scotia), but I'm within the city and it was pretty cloudy, so no dice. I've seen some other shots from around the province, though, which is pretty nifty.
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| Topic | Rabbit and Steel, a four-player raiding game that feels like FFXIV (has a demo) |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:35:46 PM #2 | An experience similar to raiding in a WoW-like MMO, but without having to schedule around, rely on, or talk to other people? Colour me intrigued. I'll have to check out the demo
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| Topic | Rarest Ice Cream flavor you ever had? |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:33:21 PM #10 | There's a Syrian ice cream (booza) place here where I had rose-flavoured ice cream once. That's not that crazy (especially if you look pretty much anywhere middle eastern), but I think it probably qualifies.
Also Tiger Tail, but that's not so much genuinely rare as it is unpopular. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/10/24 10:11:31 PM #382 | https://imgur.com/5fZxjyY
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| Topic | It's a good thing there's nothing political worth talking about right now |
| adjl 05/10/24 5:59:34 PM #11 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
If you were to believe Reddit - about pretty much anything - you'd be very gullible. You could probably find Reddit telling you not to believe Reddit about anything. What then? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Honestly I think banks and law enforcement should start giving more attention... |
| adjl 05/10/24 2:02:58 PM #6 | Dikitain posted...
I don't think there is much that law enforcement can do since most of the scammers are in other countries (mostly India and China). Outside the jurisdiction of all but international courts (which really don't have any power in the first place). The biggest thing that could be done would be to require some form of authorization for any international money transfers that would let scam transactions be screened out. That would, however, have pretty substantial effects on global commerce, even with some kind of system whereby some entities could be pre-authorized to not need to have every transaction checked, so I'm not sure it's a worthwhile tradeoff. It also wouldn't do anything to stop scams that get their money through gift cards, so odds are implementing such a measure would just shift most scammers to those instead. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | i'm pretty sure i have tennis elbow and i don't know what would have caused it |
| adjl 05/10/24 9:27:05 AM #3 | You can get it from some of the muscles in your forearm being too tight, which can happen from inactivity. Notably, it was one of the things my physio gave me stretches to avoid after I broke my elbow and was stuck in a sling for a couple weeks, which left me with a very stiff forearm. In that state, I found that the repeated thumb motions of playing controller-based games gave me some tennis elbow, so maybe yours has been caused similarly.
You can stretch out your forearm by holding your arm out straight, grabbing your outstretched hand with your other hand, and gently twisting the arm until you feel a stretch in your upper forearm (both directions can offer stretches). Don't go too hard, since you don't want to hurt yourself, but it can help loosen things up. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Hornyposting ITT >:D |
| adjl 05/09/24 9:59:48 PM #4 | https://imgur.com/WrbiK1m
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| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 7:33:16 PM #11 | That's the same vibe as "winning the lottery isn't even that great because you lose half of it to taxes." It's a weird fixation on what's being "lost" as though that somehow overshadows the tens of millions of dollars you still get that you otherwise wouldn't have.
If I can put in a few seconds of trivial effort to ensure some entitled prick gets punished for parking like an entitled prick, and I get paid for those few seconds of trivial effort, I'm not going to get pissy over that reward being less than face value (especially not by the same margin by which all other income in the country is less than face value, meaning the purchasing power of any net income has already been scaled by that margin). That's still money I otherwise wouldn't have had in exchange for something I'd consider doing for free. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 3:55:28 PM #6 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
Remember you'll probably have to pay like 60% of it back in taxes. When it comes to things like parking across driveways or in bike lanes, I'd be fine with just making it legal to key the car or smash a window. To get even 40% of a cash reward is just icing on the cake. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Someone in one of my claims filed a police report for water damage |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:49:53 PM #16 | Well then that's just plain dumb, instead of being a logically consistent course of action that was just blown out of proportion. This particular devil no longer deserves my advocacy. Good day, Satan.
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| Topic | Sweden encourages parking snitches... |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:43:02 PM #4 | Krow_Incarnate posted...
You mean I get to report inconsiderate a******s and get paid for it? When's the next flight? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Someone in one of my claims filed a police report for water damage |
| adjl 05/09/24 2:41:06 PM #14 | It only makes sense if they somehow believe it to be intentional vandalism and not just an accident/oversight. That's still a bit of a stretch for a leaky pipe, but it's the only answer I can come up with.
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 9:39:37 PM #43 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
luckily i can just download a completed save so i don't have to go through the entire game just to unlock everything. That was honestly the biggest thing that kept me from bothering with hell mode. I didn't start the game with it on because I rarely start games on whatever "hard mode" is, and once I was in a position where I wanted more challenges I couldn't be bothered starting a new file when I could just crank up the heat instead. And then I got bored of the game before really getting into it, so hell mode never happened. I'm generally a huge fan of Hades' difficulty system, but hell mode stands out as being needlessly cumbersome to activate. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What TV shows are you watching/recommending? |
| adjl 05/08/24 5:36:54 PM #4 | My girlfriend and I have been watching Darkwing Duck for the first time. It's a good time.
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 5:34:59 PM #31 | It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure it's the one on the far right.
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| Topic | Microsoft just shut down Tango Gameworks and Arkane |
| adjl 05/08/24 5:30:21 PM #12 | Exclusivity is kind of dying out altogether. With how account-based consoles are now and the extent to which digital libraries tie people down to whichever platform can access them, it's becoming increasingly harder to get people with one console to jump ship to another. That means there's generally more money to be made just selling more copies of a given game by putting it on new platforms instead of keeping it exclusive and hoping it's enough to convince people to buy your console.
Nintendo, of course, continues to just do its own thing, but they're also not really competing against Sony or Microsoft in the direct sense, so they don't have to convince people to buy their console instead of a PS/Xbox/PC. Just to buy it in addition to one. I figure this is actually what Sony was banking on with the whole Helldivers PSN thing: If players have to have a PSN account to keep playing the game, that gets them into the Playstation ecosystem and creates further opportunities to sell them incentives that will drive them to choose Playstation the next time they're shopping for a system. It backfired, though, because PC players in particular are already thoroughly entrenched in the PC ecosystem due its decades of backwards compatibility. That's inevitably going to result in an audience that would rather stop playing this one game than let themselves be dragged into a new ecosystem. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/08/24 4:19:10 PM #357 | https://imgur.com/penu4Q2
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 1:16:34 PM #27 | Cruddy_horse posted...
Where is it said they are using this? This is the first I've heard of it, and the Steam page doesn't have the statement that needs to be included if games used generative AI. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I have personal responsibilities I need to do and aren't doing |
| adjl 05/08/24 12:57:18 PM #11 | What a nonsense warning that was. That was just gaming news, not actual political commentary.
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| Topic | Update update! update this and update that.. |
| adjl 05/08/24 10:36:37 AM #10 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
it's reactive development instead of planned Sure, but I still wouldn't necessarily characterize it as "updates" when it's exclusively reactive. I'm not "updating" my leg by tying a splint to it after breaking it. ConfusedTorchic posted... our immune system also receives definition updates regularly Vaccines would definitely qualify as an "update," but it's one that's applied externally instead of being something the body does itself. Regular immune system function is, again, strictly reactive, in that it only addresses things that a given individual has already experienced. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | nintendo will be announcing their next console this year |
| adjl 05/08/24 10:30:56 AM #22 | faramir77 posted...
I don't remember hearing anything about the Switch in March 2015. In fact I very specifically remember first hearing about the Switch in the fall of 2016, followed by its sudden release in March 2017. It was known that Nintendo was working on a new system for a while before the Switch was actually announced, but the window between the official announcement and the Switch's launch was indeed quite short. They kind of rushed it out once it became apparent that the WiiU wasn't salvageable, which I'm guessing was a call they made a few months after Smash 4 failed to turn it around (which would have been determined in early 2015). There were a bunch of games still to come in 2015 and early 2016 that they let play out, but then support for the WiiU trickled off and transitioned directly into promoting the Switch. Zareth posted... They cracked down on it after it was already released. It was known about for years. Somebody on Nintendo's legal team wanted to play it. That's the only explanation. That, or they couldn't do anything about it until it was actually being distributed. There's nothing illegal about modding your own games, after all. The problem is distributing a ROM and/or a product that uses their IP without permission. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/08/24 9:32:07 AM #351 | Honk
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| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/08/24 9:31:20 AM #23 | If you aren't doing 64 heat, are you even a real gamer?
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| Topic | Should I call this girl I met last night? |
| adjl 05/08/24 9:29:50 AM #13 | MrMelodramatic posted...
Yeah why does making friends suck so hard. Even keeping friends is a whole ordeal. A huge part of making friends is simply being exposed to a person for long enough to get to know them and to mutually realize you want to be friends. It's easy in school because you're stuck with same few dozen peers (who live in the same area and are a similar age to you and therefore already have a couple things in common) for several hours a day for a couple years straight, plus whatever extracurricular activities you do, and every year you get a new batch of peers rotating in to get another shot at being friends. As an adult, though, group extracurriculars tend to fall off and work takes over the role of consistent day-to-day interactions. Work involves longer exposures than school, but tends to have lower turnover, involve directly interacting with relatively few people, and has fewer guarantees of common traits/experiences, so you get relatively few chances to meet new people and the odds of finding compatible people are lower with each attempt. Other than that, meeting new people is mostly relegated to things like going to bars/parties or chance meetings in special interest businesses (like a library or game store), and those are unreliable enough that anyone not extroverted enough to recognize and latch on to a potential friendship immediately probably won't get another chance (complicated further by the fact that so many people doing that are looking for a romantic relationship that anyone on the receiving end who doesn't want that is likely to blow off attempts at simple friendship). Consider the last year, and ask yourself how many different people you spent more than 20 hours with in that year, whether that's actively interacting with them (in person or remotely) or just being present near them. 20 hours is an arbitrary number, but it illustrates the point pretty well: That's not actually very long (hanging out for a total of two hours each month beats it), but outside of coworkers I'm guessing you haven't achieved that for many people that aren't already friends/family. That's why it's so much harder to make friends as an adult: The structures of your everyday life rarely expose you to new people for long enough to develop new friendships, unlike the structures of everyday life when you were younger, and that means you have to actively try instead of just relying on circumstance to make friends more naturally. If you want to make friends, the best thing you can do is join some sort of regular extracurricular activity like a sports league or musical ensemble. That gives you that structure of regularly spending time with people with whom you share at least one common interest, usually also with at least a little bit of turnover so you get some new opportunities periodically. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | nintendo will be announcing their next console this year |
| adjl 05/08/24 12:03:23 AM #18 | papercup posted...
Funnily enough, they have never gone after the Mother 3 translation, and they have to be very aware of its existence. Given how adamantly and publicly they've insisted that they will never localize Mother 3, they might not even have a legal case to shut down a translation, especially if it's distributed as a patch and not as the ROM. It gets significantly harder to claim there have been/could be damages if they've explicitly said "we're never going to sell this or anything like it." I don't know that anyone making a fan translation would have the legal resources needed to put that to the test, particularly with no profit on the line, but I feel like the blatant doublespeak of "we will never sell X but also you're preventing us from making money if you make it so people don't need to buy X" has got to at least throw a bit of a wrench into the case. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's a game where you can win every single battle and still lose? |
| adjl 05/07/24 11:48:32 PM #33 | darkknight109 posted...
I mean, is "Chance Time" really a battle? If you're not the one who landed on it, there's absolutely no input from you. It's not like you had a chance - even just one based on luck - to alter the results in any way. It's at least a point of conflict that involves you. Functionally, Chance Time is identical whether you land on it or somebody else (disclaimer: there may be some hidden weighting based on who lands on it of which I am not aware), so if you would consider it to be a battle in which you participate when you're the one doing the formality of punching the dice, I don't know that it makes sense to not consider it one when somebody else is doing it. Of course, conversely, that same argument could be used to say that it's not a battle regardless of who's doing it or from whose perspective you're considering it. Mostly, though, I'm just using "battle" as a catch-all term for every event in the game that contributes to the progression and final outcome in some way. Some of those are more active than others, but I think it makes sense to apply the term that broadly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/07/24 10:17:53 PM #13 | Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...
This ruined 30XX for me. I played the first early access release to death and have barely touched it since then Vampire Survivors comes immediately to mind as an example for me. I got in early, and for a while I was keeping up with content patches enough to maintain 100% achievements, but eventually I just lost my drive to keep doing that. It's since gotten tons more content, including a couple proper DLC packs, and I'm sure I'd enjoy getting back into it to experience them all, but because I played it enough before to be satisfied with what I played, it's hard to find the motivation to go back to it. Heck, even with Factorio, despite it being one of my favourite games ever, I've never actually built a Spidertron because I played it enough in early access to be mostly done with regular games, meaning whenever I do pick it up again it's either a vanilla-based challenge or some giant modded playthrough that I end up burning out on before I get to endgame stuff like that. The upcoming expansion will almost certainly change that, but I'm still keenly aware that playing so much of the game before it launched has cut back on my drive to experience launch and post-launch content. In Hades' case, I can say that I enjoyed getting the true ending, but if I'd instead played the game to the point of being satisfied before it was implemented, I wouldn't care enough to go back to the game to unlock it when it was added. If Hades 2 is mostly content-complete but just lacks an analogous true ending, I'm going to steer clear for now because I know I'd just burn myself out of seeing it later. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/07/24 4:36:42 PM #343 | https://imgur.com/NLUS8zi
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| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/07/24 1:52:37 PM #339 | https://imgur.com/ttk4Opi
Sufferedphoenix posted... Does blow my mind how many of these juvenile sex cases are a case of incest though. Like so far its been every single one That's likely more a matter of it only being treated as a serious sex crime if there's incest involved than an indication that juveniles aren't committing non-incestuous sex crimes. Happening at home also generally makes it easier to catch. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | nintendo will be announcing their next console this year |
| adjl 05/07/24 1:45:47 PM #11 | Yellow posted...
They cracked down on Mario romhacks before Mario Maker and emulators before virtual console, and another example I can't remember. Other times they crack down because something goes viral, like an ambitious mod. There's generally something that triggers their lawsuits. Those are specific crackdowns, though, not just a broad strokes crackdown of "stop pirating the thing we're still actively selling." Those just reflect that Nintendo's actively selling the Switch and its games and would prefer to limit people's ability to play them without paying for them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Hades 2 baybeeeeeeee |
| adjl 05/07/24 9:43:03 AM #4 | The problem I have with early access is that I end up getting my fill of the game when it's incomplete, then the complete version has to add enough stuff to motivate a replay for me to come back to it and experience the whole package. With the number of unplayed games I have, replaying old ones isn't exactly a high priority for me most of the time, so I'm not a huge fan of gating the finished game behind that kind of motivational hurdle.
In practice, Hades was amazing and I'd definitely want to replay 2 to experience the whole thing, but I can also just wait for it to be done first and eliminate the issue altogether. I am hyped, but I have no shortage of other stuff to play in the mean time, so I'm fine to wait. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | nintendo will be announcing their next console this year |
| adjl 05/07/24 9:34:05 AM #5 | Not surprising.
ConfusedTorchic posted... nintendo always cracks down on stuff like that regardless Indeed. I'm still expecting something very similar to the Switch, at least keeping backwards compatibility so they can build on the Switch's success (particularly where the Switch is the first system Nintendo's released without any form of hardware BC since the Gamecube, and even that arguably had it with the Gameboy Player), but them cracking down on emulation is just a normal Tuesday. It doesn't indicate much of anything about their future system plans. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Where is the furthest place youve been from home? |
| adjl 05/07/24 9:22:19 AM #15 | Bern, Switzerland. I had to actually check if it was further away than Vancouver (from Halifax, NS), but it's about 5300 km away and Vancouver is only about 4400.
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| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| adjl 05/07/24 9:20:18 AM #335 | Sufferedphoenix posted...
While this truck is crazy if I'm not mistaken you can slapped with a sex offender label just for pissing outside and getting caught. Something I'm betting 90% of men have done at least once. Indeed. The sex offender registry is far easier to get onto than it ought to be, with consequences that are much further-reaching than they ought to be in many circumstances. I am, however, very comfortable assuming that the owner of that truck is somebody who belongs on it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Update update! update this and update that.. |
| adjl 05/07/24 9:15:18 AM #5 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
humans are in a constant state of updates I'd argue it's more a constant state of repair than updates. "Updates" suggests that it's a preemptive measure to prevent something from going wrong or otherwise preemptively change things, but most changes the body makes to itself are in response to something that's already happened and needs correction. The only real "updates" we have are puberty and our growth into adulthood, both of which are suites of changes that happen to prepare us for a future need (respectively, babymaking and aspects of life that require adult size/strength). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's a game where you can win every single battle and still lose? |
| adjl 05/06/24 9:50:50 PM #31 | wpot posted...
^ But it's by design, right? It's primarily meant to be played by groups at parties and allow anyone to potentially win via random mechanics (such that whoever owns the game doesn't have an insurmountable advantage...as with many others). Irritating for me, but possibly fun for casuals. Yep, for better or worse, that's the design. Personally, I'm less keen on party game design that makes it so anyone can win regardless of how well they play than I am on party game design that makes it as fun to lose as to win, but it does mix things up to prevent people that aren't as good at the game from feeling like they have no chance the whole time, and that's not bad. Mario Party can just be a little extreme about it sometimes. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | why are mods actually enforcing the politics rule |
| adjl 05/06/24 5:06:49 PM #24 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
Most current events discussion (both on this site and in general) always devolves into stupidity. And there's no real reason for it to be here in the first place. There's "no real reason" for any of the social boards to exist at all. To single out any particular topics of discussion (especially such broad, poorly-defined ones as "politics") as being pointless makes very little sense. Aside from those with defined topicality (like Sports or Religion), social boards have evolved naturally to just be places where people talk about whatever's on their mind with no concerns about topicality. Certain topics have had to be made off-limits for the sake of keeping everything civilized and in line with the ToS, but other than that these are boards where pretty much anything goes. If you're going to start nitpicking about what discussions "belong" here, PotD should be wholly replaced by the Actual Poll of the Day board, and if that's what you actually want, you should probably just leave. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Crazy bus |
| adjl 05/06/24 2:40:42 PM #9 | Having fun isn't hard/
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| Topic | Money |
| adjl 05/06/24 1:44:15 PM #3 | I usually have a bit of cash on me, but the vast majority of my transactions are debit/credit.
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| Topic | What's a game where you can win every single battle and still lose? |
| adjl 05/06/24 1:42:26 PM #28 | The earlier games were also pretty bad for "It's the last turn and you've been leading all game? Oops, looks like it's time to give all your stars to somebody else and there's nothing you can do to stop this." That's not strictly "winning every battle and still losing," since your overall loss is a consequence of losing that one critical battle (a loss which was entirely luck-based), but it's no less frustrating for it.
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| Topic | You have a royal flush and opponent just made a bet of $10,000 |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:30:57 AM #38 | ItIsSoOver posted...
you make it very obvious you've never played a high stakes game Uhh, duh? The vast majority of people have never played a high stakes game, by simple virtue of the fact that vast majority people don't have the money to play a high stakes game. You shouldn't need any actual observations to help you make that assumption. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Helldivers 2 delisted from countries without Democracy |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:23:41 AM #10 | Metalsonic66 posted...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/drBNoqoHzn "We're still learning what's best for PC players" Translation: "We didn't realize PC players already have too many accounts to manage and would resent our efforts to sneakily bring them into the PS Network ecosystem to make it easier to sell Playstations to them." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Crazy bus |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:20:58 AM #2 | There's no such word as busalooey.
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| Topic | How do I wipe this song off the face of the earth? |
| adjl 05/06/24 8:20:39 AM #4 | Hotel California was already inexplicably stuck in my head, so that's kind of weird.
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