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It means you have the propensity to bring good and bad if the situation suits you. More importantly you dont care whether it brings one or the other is what makes you a true neutral.
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Dynalo posted...

Talk to any of the people with more structured schedules (CS, engineering, sciences, etc) and ask the students there which electives they took. 90% of them will give you the same answer - because they knew that specific class was easiest.

And then there's me, who took a few higher-level organic chemistry classes as electives >.>

Yeah just because people are colluding the purpose of a university with its ability to get you a job doesnt mean thats how a university should work. Youre SUPPOSED to go to a university for intellectual pursuits not for cush jobs.
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I was talking more about verbal threats/harassment. Theyre considered just as seriously as physical. Idk why this would be a new slippery slope for manslaughter. Depending on the level of involvement.
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Jen0125 posted...

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Jen0125 posted...

i don't find it sketchy at all. why shouldn't there be consequences if you torment someone so badly they commit suicide?

because its not always going to be as cut and dry as this case.

so what? that's what a police investigation and trial are for.

Okay but like if I told you to go rob a bank and you did, should I be arrested for being accomplice to a crime?

well technically you are an accomplice. you ordered someone to rob a bank and they did.

Also you basically have always been accountable for your words as much as your actions. Its just being considered more in the case of verbally tormenting someone to kill themselves.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Jen0125 posted...

i don't find it sketchy at all. why shouldn't there be consequences if you torment someone so badly they commit suicide?

There's a difference between "tormenting" and "telling"

Well it has to be a little more involved than saying go kill yourself once out of context. To be honest though there's no reason to ever say that to someone. Like ever.
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helIy posted...

only time i remember jen exploding is when chaos and whoever bullied taco

she was pissed

Wut. I never bullied taco.
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Ive mostly had flings. Never anything quite so consistent that i can confidently say ive had sex 100+ times but i can recall at least 23 sexual partners so i will confidently say ive had it at least 60 times.
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With two quick notes that Britain wouldn't have been able to halt the nazi advance on the western and African fronts w/o the weapons being sent from the U.S. (but supplying arms is several tiers below actually doing the fighting, of course) and that Russia's "heroics" weren't intentional but a "hoist by his own petard" moment where Stalin had allied w/ hitler out of convenience and was betrayed and caught by surprise.
But yeah, U.S. involvement helped end the war sooner, but Russia was already on a course to eventually defeat them and by far took the brunt of the fighting and casualties (pretty sure they were the country w/ the most losses, and by a staggering amount over the others...though again partly their own fault for the purge Stalin did on his military before the war and simply not even having as many weapons as soldiers).

I'm glad the U.S. did enter the war and help end it sooner. But Russia sacrificed and contributed more than any other country, albeit not by choice.

No disagreements here.

It's just a pet peeve of mine when people don't realise the significant contributions of the non-American allies (USSR in particular) and/or overestimate exactly how much impact America had on the war. While certainly far from a non-entity, the US was not the one-country game-winner American historians like to paint it as.

I mean they're not wrong. They were key to a faster victory. Who knows how long the war would have been without America's assistance.
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I thought it was an okay movie. Mediocre by every measure. People definitely were overtly critical by calling it trash. It's no the room.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Everything to do with Kylo Ren was amazing and everything else kind of sucked, it was really weird.

Came here to say this

Finn and Rose simply didn't belong. You could cut almost their entire subplot out of the movie and it would have played out the same.

Why does everyone say this? The movie would have played out extremely differently if they had succeeded. They failed because they didn't get the trust worthy codebreaker. Instead they got a evil scoundral who betrayed them. I feel people miss the importance of this subplot. They would have not only escaped with the three ships they had, they would have also escaped with the crew completely alive. The resistance was done for if the vice admiral didn't sacrifice her self. The mission would have succeeded if they got worthy spies in there, also the reason why finn and rose were chosen for the mission, is because poe could trust them. The whole point of the movie was to show how important liea was to the resistance.

I'm pretty sure the whole point was that an unproven leader shouldn't refuse to tell her subordinates that she has a plan and be an ass to anyone who asks her what her plan is for no reason while intentionally feigning to not have a plan other than just letting the entire crew die.

Also, escape pods that are somehow cloaked but not cloaked if you know they are cloaked?

Also, needing to power up escape pods kind of defeats the purpose of escape pods.

Or she Holdo didnt have a plan till late in the movie and wasnt saying anything so people wouldn't panic. The movie only takes place over 18 hours and the whole thing seems really bleak from the start.

I was under the impression the code breaker disabled the cloaking. Hence the handsome sum he was paid.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

No I did not miss the 5 seconds where they blew up a planet no one's heard of and they were like "wow the entire Republic is dead now" and never mentioned it again. I think the director forgot about it though.

It was a decently big deal. They discussed how the rebels have no more reinforcements which is how you got to where episode 8 went.
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i didn't really like it that much

i'm sorry what now

how could you not

that game was goty for years it didn't even release in

It was boring and they only spoke Japanese which was weird for me. And there was too many Digimon evolutions per Digimon like wtf that's too grindy 4 me.

Dudnt like cyber sleuth much either. Not very compelling story. Gameplay was kind of slow and stale.
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chaosbowser posted...

Nice tits bro

Working on moving up to a B cup some day =p
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ooo it worked.
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How are y'all getting pictures to embed. mine doesn't work
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shipwreckers posted...

People keep voting Lich King, but honestly, that cinematic sucked. Compared to the other ones, it was rather boring (just glamour shots of the LK, and a cheesy monologue). I think many people voted that one simply because WotLK was their favorite expansion (so it's just endearment by association, or just a flat-out misreading of the topic title, thinking the question was in fact regarding the expansion itself and not merely the cinematic).

No. Just no. The cinematic may not have a lot going on but sometimes the best things are succint and minimalistic. The monologue juxtaposes really well with what you're watching in the scene.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

Heaven forbid somebody have a multi layered opinion on something.

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KogaSteelfang posted...

I was really hoping Billy would have his face ripped off by one of the Demodogs.

Did you not watch the whole thing? His dad was the real villain in this. He was just an innocent person.

Not exactly. Max was also on the receiving end and she chose to not take it out on others or apologize when she did go over the line.

Yes the dad was the bigger villain but Billy was still a piece of shit taking it out on others.

I wouldnt say the dad was much of a villain at all. Billy didn't even notice his step sister sneak away over the course of ...several hours. Something that he was left responsible for. Then when his dad asked about it he was a complete unapologetic douche about it. Smacking your kids for the amount of attitude he was oozing in that situation wasnt exactly villainous.
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Rockies posted...

I'm also calling bullshit on all these people saying they beat MM and ALttP at age 7. OoT came out when I was 7, but I probably didn't beat it until I was 8 or 9, and the other two are harder. I don't think I used a guide to beat OoT, but I watched a lot of my older siblings playing it on their own files first, so I knew what to do, and they might have even played for me on certain parts.

The time limit in MM was frustrating for me at age 10/11 (and this is with knowing you could slow it down), so I can't imagine a 7 year old would be a fan

sounds like you were a dumb kid. I don't think i needed help on the puzzles at 7-8 but I was always pretty bad at figuring out where i had to go next. still am. so i did use a guide for that. Completing the game did require me to look things up too but finishing the game is well within the abilities of a 7-8 year old. The game isn't like mechanically demanding or anything. Kids and apparently adults get caught up in the time limit but you lose minimal progress. Most of the time all you need to do in three days is get like one item and then you can start off in the new 3 days from after getting that item. If i got to a dungeon on day 2-3 then I would just restart the time limit so that I could get a fresh 3 days...and you should be able to solve a dungeon in 3 slowed down days even at 7.

*note* The game is probably too hard for a 7 year old to complete. I don't think i was able to complete the game until I was older. This is because the time limit becomes a considerable factor when you're actually trying to get all the masks.

I like how you call him dumb and then agree with him completely

I didnt though. The game isnt too hard for a 7 year old to get through. Its probably too hard for a kid to do everything in it though. Even then. Completing SM64 is probably harder and plenty of 7 year olds play that.
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Rockies posted...

I'm also calling bullshit on all these people saying they beat MM and ALttP at age 7. OoT came out when I was 7, but I probably didn't beat it until I was 8 or 9, and the other two are harder. I don't think I used a guide to beat OoT, but I watched a lot of my older siblings playing it on their own files first, so I knew what to do, and they might have even played for me on certain parts.

The time limit in MM was frustrating for me at age 10/11 (and this is with knowing you could slow it down), so I can't imagine a 7 year old would be a fan

sounds like you were a dumb kid. I don't think i needed help on the puzzles at 7-8 but I was always pretty bad at figuring out where i had to go next. still am. so i did use a guide for that. Completing the game did require me to look things up too but finishing the game is well within the abilities of a 7-8 year old. The game isn't like mechanically demanding or anything. Kids and apparently adults get caught up in the time limit but you lose minimal progress. Most of the time all you need to do in three days is get like one item and then you can start off in the new 3 days from after getting that item. If i got to a dungeon on day 2-3 then I would just restart the time limit so that I could get a fresh 3 days...and you should be able to solve a dungeon in 3 slowed down days even at 7.

*note* The game is probably too hard for a 7 year old to complete. I don't think i was able to complete the game until I was older. This is because the time limit becomes a considerable factor when you're actually trying to get all the masks.
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Idk i think i was 7 or 8 when i played MM so he should be able to
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Fire emblem
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If it makes you feel better TC FFXIII was my vote for favorite. As far as being a fan of the trilogy thats a whole other matter. I dislike that they slowed down the speed of the game with every sequel. 13-2 was pretty good but Lightning Returns was just a straight up mess. That game was just pure otaku fanservice.
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Wasn't the biggest fan of part 3 but part 4 was great
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darkknight109 posted...

Source on this?

Article from this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/04/national/tackling-signs-japan-youre-not-welcome/

Also the fact that its permissible is the problem not that someone put up the sign and took it down. That would never fly here. Their racial ignorance is so deep they're not even aware they're being racist. Not to mention this isn't as bad as all the hate speech that has been going around the past few years against koreans. It was only recently that they passed a hate speech bill because it was escalating so much.

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I find it amusing how you say this, then act like a practice which is not widespread in Japan somehow is representative of all of Japanese culture.

The fact that its permissible is the egregious bit. It says a lot about a country when someone can do something so overtly racist and receive little to no backlash for it. What i find amusing is your inability to realize the problem. darkknight109 posted...

Also, the "equality" I referenced wasn't purely racial in nature, although the fact you assumed that's what I was talking about says quite a bit on its own.

It says that in America at least inequality is largely racial? Sure inequality exists among white individuals but its not quite as bad as what you see comparing it between races.

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You misunderstand - I didn't say the white population was shrinking *proportionally* (as in, whites now make up a lower percentage of the population than they used to); I said that the white population was shrinking period. As in, if you count up the raw numbers, there are fewer white people in the country today than their used to be with no signs of that changing anytime soon.

That...wasn't really my point.It is irrelevant which color population is shrinking. My point was that our population continues to grow because we have a strong immigrant population which we encourage where as japan does not and entirely of their own choice. Japan's deflation is totally amenable.

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trange, then, how in the 80s and 90s - back when their culture was far more conservative around these issues - their economy was booming and was amongst the hottest on the planet.

It's ridiculously oversimplistic to say that Japan's entire economic situation is because of one facet of their culture. That would be like me saying "America's economy crashed in 2008 because they have legal guns and keep shooting all their workers."

No their economic situation is not due to one facet of their culture its due to myriad of facets of their culture since i mentioned two different ones in this discussion with you alone. Gender values and Xenophobia are different things altogether. However the fact of the matter remains they've more or less dug their own hole.
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darkknight109 posted...

The Japanese would argue that America has that same overt racism

They'd be wrong? Things like Japanese bars (not actually limited to bars) that only admit Japanese people are Jim crow tier while most US racial inequality involves more subtle individual instances of racism (which are significantly more difficult to catch) rather than a racist practice approved by the public. The KKK may exist in america but they do not represent America as it is today in any shape way or form.

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The white population in America is shrinking too. Across all ethnic groups, were it not for immigration, the US would be in the same vote as Japan.

So I guess you're saying American culture sucks

You fail to realize that part of our culture is about welcoming immigrants and that's why despite our white population shrinking we continue to prosper. so no i'm saying american culture is great. Also, white people aren't the only americans you racist.

Meanwhile, Japan's racism/xenophobia is negatively impacting their economy because they do not want a large immigrant population. On top of that they're having difficulty tapping into half their potential work force because of their shit gender values. Their shrinking economy is entirely the fault of their culture. There are solutions to their shrinking economy but they are held back by their values.
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In med school and recently have taken an interest in rock climbing
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darkknight109 posted...

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Yeah but japan in many ways shafts itself with its cultural views. You can see the way their views plague their society from high suicide rates, hikikomori, deflation, and even their businesses suffer from their particular cultural values.

That's one way of looking at it. The flipside of that, however, is that Japan has extremely low crime rates, particularly violent crime (in some cases you are literally over 1,000,000 times more likely to be the victim of a violent crime - depending on the crime in question - in America compared to Japan), has an extremely advanced economy (3rd largest in the world, despite having the 11th highest population), and enjoys the longest life expectancy in the world.

Every culture has their virtues and vices - culture goes a long way to determining what your society is good at and where it fails. If you asked the Japanese about Western values, they would probably comment negatively on rudeness/a lack of respect, rampant violent crime, significant inequality, and a generally selfish nature.

I don't agree that one is necessarily better than the other (though in individual areas, that can absolutely be argued to be the case); they are simply different.

I would snort at the significant inequality. Japanese culture has overt racism and gender values reminiscent of 1950s america.

While their values did get them to where they are now somehow. Its currently plaguing them. Their economy and population is shrinking. Japanese men aren't defaulting to waifus because they have such a great culture. At the very least Americans have the decency to acknowledge our rampant violent crime needs to be addressed in some way while the Japanese still attempt to give themselves a masturbatory pat on the back about how great their shit parents are.
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Yeah but japan in many ways shafts itself with its cultural views. You can see the way their views plague their society from high suicide rates, hikikomori, deflation, and even their businesses suffer from their particular cultural values.
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In the West, this resolution is deeply unsatisfying, because a parent who discards their child's love in favour of pushing them to financial, academic, and/or social success is a bad parent (indeed, Western culture would say he has missed the whole point of being a parent in the first place); in Japan, the character often has a tragic air to them, because they gave up everything - even the love of their children - in order to ensure their child's success. Not only would they be considered a good parent, they'd be considered a great one for sacrificing so much for the sake of their child.

I would argue that it isnt a sacrifice. Its a failure to identify what their children really wanted. That trope is just some garbage to justify bad parenting. The child being successful is only the best case scenario. In most cases the child might not be successful at all or on in the worst case commits suicide. In the former the child and parent are now estranged with nothing to show for it. And in the latter how great of a parent are they now when the pressure they put on their child for their sake was too much for them to handle?
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PK_Spam posted...

I'm surprised you've read through this whole thing

And lol I knew it! Emeraude absorbed Lambda. Guess she's the final boss after all

Wow spoiler alert

Real talk though it wouldn't be a Tales game if the final boss didn't join you for a bit.

That doesnt happen in tales of zest, xillia, vesperia, xillia 2, abyss, or berseria
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Skyward Sword.

I liked spirit tracks >.>
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Super meat boy?
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Well, that's the point, you're not really supposed to 100% everything in a non NG+ playtrhough. You can do it but typically it requires a guide, serious management and/or knowing to unlock certain things as early as possible like the Temperance link in P5.

Yeah, I guess it's fine but it feels a little weird is all, like I can't see all the content of the game due to the time constraints. But I'll probably play ng+ anyway

I managed to 100% confidants on first play through but needed guide for correct answers (which i mostly used for the sake of time since i could have just saved and restarted when i failed to give a right answer). Time management is easier than its ever been with considerable wiggle room. I didnt follow a guide on the scheduling and still had like 2 weeks of nothing to do but go to the gym.
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I don't know why the game gives you so many nights where you can't do anything except sleep. There's no point to them, they should just be skipped.

in P3 and P4, they would just skip those little interstitials.

and everyone hated it because you couldn't save, and it would be literal multiple in game day cutscenes that sucked ass.

so they added them to P5, so you could save in between them.

and everyone hates it because no one likes anything.

People love to bitch
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Jen0125 posted...

chaosbowser posted...

Dude. Youre obese.

that could depend on how much muscle mass he still has couldn't it?

my boyfriend is like 5'6 165-170 but he's not overweight or obese

It's unlikely that he's all that dense anymore since he's not worked out in like 4 months. Also word i'm 5'6 and 160.
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PK_Spam posted...

Let's forget about that

The important part is that I'm currently the fattest guy in my office at 175 lbs. the other guy stands at 2 or 3 inches taller than me and is 165. The last is 140. Also taller.

Dude. Youre obese.
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but I was told I was underweight I was 6 ft though

That's still not underweight, but do you live in Sweden?

Its underweight for a 6 foot person. You have no business weighing 150 at that height.
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I hope he means 195 with 1 leg because that is sad.
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You're getting fat.
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