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| Topic | Semi Finals Match 2 |
| darkknight109 04/29/24 3:52:33 PM #7 | I called it from Round 1 that Samuel was going to the finals. So far, that's looking like a solid prediction.
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| Topic | It kinda makes me sad to see GameFAQs finally dying. |
| darkknight109 04/29/24 7:40:09 AM #41 | I just enjoy the place as a little slice of 90s-era internet, one of the few that's still running these days.
I still don't really get why the "forum" model of the internet died out. Nothing that's replaced it seems like an improvement to me, at least in terms of being able to find stuff. Even Reddit - which is the closest thing to forums that still exists on a large scale - is suboptimal thanks to the way that the upvote/downvote system skews both conversations and how posts/threads get ordered. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Why do you think fandom decided to axe the sex and sexuality board? |
| darkknight109 04/26/24 7:07:51 PM #27 | captpackrat posted...
Wasn't there a poll that showed the site actually trends older than you'd think?Depends on what you think the core demographic of GF is. Most of the users still on the board are longtimers because the site is, by its very design, a relic of the 90s/early 2000s internet, so it's mostly people who were kids and teenagers in that era who are still posting (i.e. people in their 30s and 40s now). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| darkknight109 04/25/24 4:08:53 AM #207 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/88b2c705.jpg
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| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| darkknight109 04/25/24 1:06:11 AM #205 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/425e1873.jpg
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| Topic | Did you like Alien more or Aliens? |
| darkknight109 04/25/24 1:01:06 AM #14 | Aliens is great, but Alien is a classic.
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| Topic | What are your sincere thoughts on the Epic Games Store??? |
| darkknight109 04/24/24 6:06:55 AM #22 | GOG.com is literally the only online game store worth using.
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| Topic | Do you like Bretons? |
| darkknight109 04/22/24 4:48:48 AM #2 | More of a Chaos Dwarf guy myself.
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| Topic | Just tried "Big Turk" chocolate bar for the first time. WTF |
| darkknight109 04/19/24 1:31:01 PM #4 | Ferarri619 posted...
Outside it's chocolate but inside it's like gummy bear or jubjubes or something.That's literally Turkish Delight. It's what the chocolate bar is named for. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 11:18:54 PM #108 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I did have some rather lengthy suspensions for that.Having seen some of the things you were suspended for in the past, no, you weren't. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 11:02:09 PM #105 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I've been saying for years that if you aren't allowed to express one side of a discussion then discussion is not actually allowed.I've never seen anyone banned for expressing a political opinion. I've seen people banned for discrimination, hatred, advocating violence, and misinformation, but unless you feel those are political views, that's not what this is about. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Favorite dishes from Japanese cuisine? |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 11:00:37 PM #15 | Kimbos_Egg posted...
tell me you know literally nothing about Japanese food without telling me you know nothing about Japanese food.Take it from someone who spent the better part of a year there, the idea that all Japanese food is raw is a western myth. At some point 30 years ago or so, someone decided that sashimi was the only thing that Japanese people ate and for some reason this perception just will not die. SomeUsername529 posted... There's plenty of cooked food in Japanese cuisine but a defining element of quite a lot of it is either raw or unaltered (such as dried or fermented) ingredients.No moreso than western cuisine (unless you think that all sandwiches are made with cooked ingredients or something?). Again, trying to paint this like it's a Japanese thing is laughably inaccurate. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I didn't expect the mods to defend Fox News |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 6:56:32 PM #13 | adjl posted...
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you misinterpreted what happened. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Favorite dishes from Japanese cuisine? |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 6:54:35 PM #8 | I tend to like their broth dishes - ramen, udon, soba, shabu shabu, etc. A lot of their meat dishes are sensational as well - karaage, yakiniku, wagyuu steak, and so on. Hell, I don't think I've ever had a bad meal in Japan, so long as it was served after noon.
Kimbos_Egg posted... Not really a fan of their food tbh. They tend to keep their ingredients in the rawest state possible.Tell me you've never eaten Japanese food without telling me you've never eaten Japanese food. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| darkknight109 04/17/24 6:51:18 PM #97 | adjl posted...
Honestly, I'm expecting this won't even change that much for most social boards in the long run, gradual death of CE aside. For the first few weeks there'll be efforts to close "political" topics, and particularly butthurt posters may be able to get rid of posts/topics they don't like by marking them as political, but long-term I doubt it'll be worth mods' time to actively police boards where nobody has any problems and stamp out political discussions and we can probably just keep posting as normal. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that official policies don't exactly amount to much (like committing to removing problematic ads), and while I expect there'll be a concerted effort to keep up appearances in the early days, I doubt it'll last.And, of course, there will be the major question (thus far unanswered by the powers that be) of what, specifically, constitutes "political" (and, therefore, banned) discussion? If Justin Trudeau comes to my home town and I write about it, is that political? If there's a protest against him and I write about that without editorializing, is that political? If there's a mass shooting and we write about that, is that political? If no, what happens when people start discussing the causes and the discussion drifts (as it invariably will) to gun laws and mental health treatment, where is the line where it becomes political? If the latest Marvel movie comes out and a historically white character is cast as a person of colour, is posting news of that political? Is discussing it political? If there's a protest that draws a police response, is posting support/condemnation of the police actions political? This is one of the many, many reasons why this move is so dumb. "Politics" is this massive, roiling grey area that is ill-defined, with no clear boundaries. If you tasked me with banning "political" speech on a forum like this, I would respond that unless you key in your definition a lot more tightly, a ban of that nature is borderline unenforceable. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | sequels that were so successful that nobody even remembers the previous one(s) |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 11:36:00 PM #11 | Every Legend of Heroes game before Trails in the Sky.
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| Topic | Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 11:31:45 PM #33 | Wow, LUEing their most popular social board and banning one of the few topics of discussion that actually drives engagement is... certainly a decision.
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| Topic | If Biden loses the election... |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 11:08:14 PM #77 | OhhhJa posted...
Which is why many people were saying a near full on shutdown of the economy was a terrible idea and now we're seeing why. It's taking years to recover and really it never will fully recover because let's be real... these prices are never reverting back to pre covid levels. Now people are barely surviving, and in many cases, they aren't surviving. So we've effectively created a global economic crisis when many people were saying that was absurd and it wouldn't happen.No one who was paying attention was under any illusions that there would be major economic costs to the full shutdown - one does not simply mothball the economy without consequence, after all. However, I disagreed - and still disagree - that the alternative would have been any better. The US actually showed us this firsthand, because a lot of Republican-led states tried to minimize their lockdowns and were the first to come out of them. Yet their economies suffered just as much, if not moreso, than the blue states that went long on their lockdowns. The problem with a global pandemic is that the economy was doomed to suffer no matter what people did. Shut down large parts of the economy? You get the results we're seeing today. Don't shut down anything? A lot of consumers and workers will stay away anyways, because people don't want to risk their lives just to make their corporate overlords an extra percentage point on the quarterly profit report, and those who don't will have their ranks winnowed by the disease you're fighting, which is going to make everything worse (by both weakening your labour force and reducing consumer confidence, which is exactly what happened in those red states that opened up early). Turns out that filling up your economy with sick workers and turning your places of business into plague houses isn't good for the economy either. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If Biden loses the election... |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 5:14:47 AM #61 | adjl posted...
His rationale is that because the loans were paid back, no harm was done and therefore Trump shouldn't be punished. Obviously, if the loans weren't paid back there'd be no question of his liability for whatever damages were incurred, but in this case it's less a matter of punishing him for causing damage and more a matter of punishing him simply for breaking the rules (rules which need to exist).It's more than that. Trump lying about his property values let him secure a loan at a lower rate, because the bank thought it was taking on less risk than it actually was. In essence, the bank should have been paid much more money to finance the loan in the form of higher interest rates, but they lost those profits because Trump defrauded them. Muscles posted... He's pretty bad and has hurt this country with his rampant spending and printing money, thus causing inflation (it is also because of greedy companies, but printing so much during covid came back to bite us in the ass too).If you're going to blame Biden's financial policies for inflation, you might want to consider what's happening in other countries. Specifically, every developed country on the planet fought high inflation after COVID ended. That's not a result of any one government's monetary policy, that's a result of a massive surge of consumers suddenly getting back out into the real world (thus causing a glut of demand for goods and services that had previously been inaccessible during COVID) and supply chains taking 1-2 years post-COVID to fully bring themselves back online to pre-pandemic levels (thus choking supply of many of those same goods and services). High demand + low supply = soaring prices = inflation. And the US has actually done fairly well for itself, all things considered. Compared to other G20 economies, the US is actually slightly ahead of the curve, typically ranking somewhere in the 5-10th spots for inflation. For my own view, I think Biden has been a perfectly adequate president. He hasn't been worldshaking, but he's shown competence and has been a steady hand at the wheel, which the US badly needed after the Trump years. I think most of his accomplishments kind of work against him for how low-key they've been - he did an excellent job rallying the world to Ukraine's aid in the immediate aftermath of the 2022 invasion (and would be continuing to reap dividends if the Republicans in the House would stop dogfucking for five seconds and do their job), his infrastructure bill is sorely needed, and his management of the economy has been solid. His only major misstep has been his handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict - regardless of your views on the belligerents, it is quite clear that Biden's maximal and unconditional support for Israel has not yielded any influence over Israeli decision-making, illustrated most vividly in Israel's complete lack of interest in facilitating humanitarian supplies or stopping West Bank settler violence, despite entreaties from the US to do so, and their decision not to inform the US of a strike against the Iranian consulate in Syria, a major escalatory action that put American troops and assets at risk and threatened (and still threatens) to touch off a wider conflict in the region. Thus far, I'd probably give him a solid 7.5/10. Maybe 8/10 if I'm feeling charitable. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 2 Match 1 |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 5:05:19 AM #7 | Nade_Duck posted...
tbh bugs vs daffy is gonna be the deciding match regardless of whether it's the finals or notI honestly could see Speedy potentially beating Bugs. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What are the most powerful abilities in games that end up useless? |
| darkknight109 04/15/24 2:43:04 AM #17 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Longbows, +Range Skills, Boots, +Movement Skills, Teleportation Staves and Dancers are all options to deal with that, depending on the specific game in question.-Longbows are generally bad -+Range skills are not in most of the games -Boots are rare and typically have better options to use them on -+Movement skills are both not in most games and are typically not native to snipers or generals -Teleportation staves are rare, with a limited number of uses (and, again, generally have better options than saving an otherwise lacklustre unit). -It is frankly a waste of a dancer to use them on a general or a sniper most of the time. It's Fire Emblem, so any unit *can* be saved if you don't mind abusing game mechanics and/or pumping them so full of stat boosters that they would never pass a drug test for the rest of their lives, but this raises the obvious question of why you would bother doing that when you have an entire roster of units that don't require nearly as much effort to make worthwhile. PikachuMaxwell posted... Biggoron Sword and Great Fairy's Sword in Zelda.In what way are either of those useless? Biggoron Sword is literally better than the Master Sword in every way except for fighting the final boss, fighting the Flare Dancers in the Fire Temple (due to a bug), and activating some glitches, and it can be acquired immediately after getting to adulthood and freeing Epona. Great Fairy's Sword, similarly, is purely an upgrade over the equippable swords. About its only major drawback is you have to clear out nearly all of the last "main" dungeon to acquire it, but it is still good in the Secret Shrine and/or fighting the last boss if you don't have the Fierce Deity's Mask (and it is excellent in randomizers, if you are fortunate enough to get it early). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What are the most powerful abilities in games that end up useless? |
| darkknight109 04/13/24 3:11:06 AM #9 | -Most of the high level spells in Super Mario RPG don't do appreciably more damage than weaker spells or even normal attacks, and are absolutely not worth their sky-high FP costs.
-Megid in Phantasy Star Online is semi-useless thanks to its low activation rate against most enemies (it's a one-hit kill attack, but its activation rate is based on how low the enemy's EDK stat is; in Ultimate difficulty, most enemies have an EDK high enough that it's far faster to just kill them the normal way). -If we're allowed to go with entire classes, both the Sniper and General in Fire Emblem have historically suffered from this. The former would be amazing in a game that didn't include counter-attacking; the latter would similarly be great if the game design included more defensive maps instead of ones that expected you to move against enemy positions, often penalizing you if you take too long (by having recruitable characters get killed or enemy thieves loot treasure chests, for instance). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If Biden loses the election... |
| darkknight109 04/12/24 12:33:00 PM #26 | hungrymike posted...
He's not perfect, and one could levy some valid criticism against him, but a traitor he is not.I would say inciting a violent insurrection against the government and refusing to participate in the peaceful transfer of power between administrations, all because he couldn't stomach the fact that he lost the election, makes the label of "traitor" perfectly apt. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | AZ Supreme Court makes abortion nearly totally illegal |
| darkknight109 04/10/24 2:09:53 AM #7 | Between this and the Florida decision, state courts are doing everything they can to throw the election to the Democrats this year.
Republicans are the very definition of the dog that caught the car. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 1 Match 15 |
| darkknight109 04/10/24 2:07:54 AM #4 | My predictions:
Round 2: Daffy Duck vs Hector the Bulldog Bugs Bunny vs Speedy Gonzales Road Runner vs Sylvester Granny vs Beaky Buzzard Marvin the Martian vs Lola Bunny Foghorn Leghorn vs Porky Pig Michigan J. Frog vs Yosemite Sam Elmer Fudd vs Tweety The top quarter of the bracket is pretty stacked, with Bugs, Daffy, and Speedy all being pretty heavy hitters. Whichever of those three is left standing when the dust settles has basically punched their ticket to the finals, because I can't see anyone else in the top of the bracket dethroning them. The top half also is notably more difficult to call, with the toughest match-up of the bracket (to my eye) being Bugs vs. Speedy. I could honestly see that one breaking either way. The bottom half looks much quieter. There's an outside chance Porky puts up a fight against Foghorn, but honestly I don't think the outcomes of any of those match-ups are in much doubt. Round 3: Daffy Duck vs Speedy Gonzales Road Runner vs Granny Marvin the Martian vs Foghorn Leghorn Yosemite Sam vs. Elmer Fudd Clean sweep by the west side this round. Only one I'm on the fence about is Marvin vs. Foghorn - I could see Foghorn carrying that one, honestly. Daffy vs. Speedy is the heavyweight match-up, but I think Daffy is going to take it comfortably. Round 4 Daffy Duck vs Road Runner Marvin the Martian vs Yosemite Sam Neither of these seem difficult to call. This will be passing time until the final. Round 5: Daffy Duck vs. Yosemite Sam I'll be pulling for Sam to win, but honestly I think Daffy's got this. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Looney Tunes Round 1 Match 14 |
| darkknight109 04/08/24 11:22:02 PM #4 | Yosemite Sam is my sleeper pick to go far in this contest.
He is the best Looney Tunes antagonist by a fucking mile. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| darkknight109 04/08/24 11:20:30 PM #50 | Devil_May_Cry posted...
I pray every day the proof is uncovered to redeem Israel on the global stage.Might as well pray for the US to uncover those WMDs in Iraq while you're at it... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If you earn a million per year it'd still take 1000 years to be a billionaire |
| darkknight109 04/08/24 9:11:43 PM #10 | Zareth posted...
That made me realize that a billionaire could easily do the same thing with real life money. "Oh look at these supercars, let's see, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one..."The way that conceptualized it for me was that you can easily understand how life looks like to a billionaire by just adjusting the prices of everything around you. Like, let's put the "average" billionaire pay at $600 million a year - that's about 10,000 times the average US annual salary. So in order to figure out how much something costs to a billionaire, pretend you're an average Joe and divide the cost of anything by 10,000. Ultra-luxury hotel room? Those can be $10,000 a night; to a billionaire, that costs $1 a night. High-end Lambo? The Aventador SVJ Roadster starts at $575,000 - to our billionaire, that's like spending $57.50. Luxury property? $100 mil will get you into the top 25 most expensive properties on the planet; to our billionaire, that's a $10,000 purchase - certainly not something you're doing on the daily, but doable with some saving and planning. Executive assistant to run your life for you? Pay her the equivalent of $20 a year and you're set. Want a private jet to travel the world in style? For somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 (plus maintenance and salaries that will wind up being a couple bucks a year to you), it's yours. Perhaps you're the philanthropic sort and want a building named after you? Shell out ~$10,000 and you can buy a decent new hospital for a community in need. It gets kind of unreal when you start putting real numbers to it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| darkknight109 04/08/24 6:57:56 PM #47 | captpackrat posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9294081c.jpgI'm about 80% sure that's a llama, not an alpaca. The facial structure is different. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme 35: can finally run for president |
| darkknight109 04/06/24 5:29:52 PM #13 | captpackrat posted...
Sheared alpacas look like a half-assed attempt at Photoshop.The funny part is, they don't recognize each other after shearing, so immediately after a herd gets sheared, there are typically a series of fights where the pecking order gets re-established and everyone remembers who is who. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If you earn a million per year it'd still take 1000 years to be a billionaire |
| darkknight109 04/06/24 5:19:07 PM #4 | My favourite perspective on how ridiculous the level of wealth the ultra-wealthy control is this one.
If Jesus Christ, circa ~24 AD, decided that he didn't want to go through with the whole "dying for humanity's sins" thing and instead decided to make himself immortal and grant himself a dailystipend of $200,000 - as in, he wakes up every morning, there's another $200k in his bank account - and he didn't spend a single penny of it... ...he would just barely crack the top 5 for highest net worth on the planet. 2000 years times 365 days a year (we'll ignore leap years - they won't make a tonne of difference anyways, since they account for a sub-1% level of wealth on this scale) times $200,000 a day is $146 billion. That slots him in just ahead of Larry Ellison (net worth: $141 billion) on the all time wealth list, but behind Mark Zuckerberg ($177 billion), Jeff Bezos ($194 billion), Elongated Muskrat ($195 billion), and Bernard Arnault ($233 billion). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How much do you weigh? |
| darkknight109 04/05/24 12:28:08 AM #29 | I'm usually about 190, but I do martial arts training 5 nights a week, so it's a healthy 190.
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| Topic | Favorite peanuts character |
| darkknight109 04/04/24 9:32:45 PM #9 | I love Snoopy, but I also have a soft spot for Peppermint Patty as the "misfit" of her group. The arc where she sees the little red-haired girl that Charlie Brown always swoons over and breaks down crying because she feels like she'll never be seen that way is one of the most legitimately touching moments in the entire series.
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| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| darkknight109 04/02/24 7:29:44 PM #11 | Lokarin posted...
oh, right - it didn't go through; china/russia vetoed itA subsequent one did pass, much to Israel's outrage. ParanoidObsessive posted... Sometimes, like it or not, when you're at war, you're going to hit some civilian targets by accident.Considering Israel's actions in this war, up to and including killing three of their own hostages who were waving a white flag and yelling for help in Hebrew, this *really* strains the definition of "by accident". Or, to put it another way, if I get in my car, point it at a busy intersection, put on a blindfold and floor the gas, I might not have intended to run over the pedestrians I wind up killing, but calling it an "accident" would be a stretch worthy of Gumby. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
| darkknight109 04/01/24 6:39:07 PM #8 | Dikitain posted...
2 months salary.I've always wondered if those executives that only get paid a $1 salary and make all their money in stock options could get away with buying their wife a ring-pop as a wedding ring. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark where real people, they wouldn't even be that rich |
| darkknight109 04/01/24 6:31:31 PM #14 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
Bruce Wayne has been described as a trillionaire in some storiesYou know, it's kind of a sad commentary that when I was a kid (and even afterwards), this would have been laughed at as being ridiculously unreasonable, but it's honestly not that far-fetched anymore. Up until the late 90s, no one had even managed to amass more than $25 billion (and even if we adjust for inflation, the world's richest man only held $20 billion to $40 billion for the entirety of last century, aside from Henry Ford in the 40s). Now we have multiple people with net worth north of $200 billion (i.e. a more than fourfold increase in roughly 25 years). Barring a major financial collapse, most of us will probably be around to see the world's first trillionaire. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I have a slow and unhurried natural rhythm |
| darkknight109 03/31/24 1:37:25 AM #3 | Venixon posted...
Sooo you're naturally laid backApparently. Fortune cookies aren't allowed to lie about this stuff. It would be false advertising. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I have a slow and unhurried natural rhythm |
| darkknight109 03/27/24 10:01:45 AM #1 | My fortune cookie said so.
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| Topic | austin powers reboot with timothy chalamet as austin and will sasso as dr evil |
| darkknight109 03/22/24 7:39:46 AM #10 | I feel like the time for Austin Powers has passed.
Half the "schtick" of the first movie (i.e. the only one that was actually any good) was them poking fun at all the tropes of 60s-era spy movies, which hinged on nostalgia from Boomers and early Gen-Xers that were raised in the 60s and 70s. Few kids or young adults today would be able to understand the references, unless they're ditching him being a "60s spy" altogether (and if they are, what the fuck's the point of the reboot?). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | 2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees |
| darkknight109 03/21/24 5:35:17 AM #27 | adjl posted...
https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/inducted-games/Some of these are wild. WoW being a first-ballot inductee is... odd. I agree it should be in there, but on the first ballot, ahead of fellow nominees Minecraft, Pokemon, and The Legend of Zelda? Even Sonic the Hedgehog probably warrants a higher billing. Honestly, Minecraft - a.k.a. the best-selling video game in history - taking six attempts to get in is crazy. Also, WTF is Barbie Fashion Designer doing in there? I can understand pretty much every other inductee except that one. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | 2024 Video Game Hall of Fame nominees |
| darkknight109 03/21/24 5:28:43 AM #26 | Of that list, Asteroids takes top spot for sure, with runners up to Sim City and Myst, in that order. The rest I'm not sure belong in there - *maybe* Resident Evil and/or Ultima, but I don't see the rest of these as being HoF-worthy (and honestly, even Myst I'd say is borderline).
The original Metroid was fair for its day, but Super Metroid is where the series really took off and set the template for Metroidvania-style games. Guitar Hero was fun and trendy in the mid-2000s, but if we're talking rhythm games DDR really deserves the nod above GH (assuming it isn't in there already). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme Topic 34: Memes aren't real |
| darkknight109 03/20/24 2:31:04 PM #372 | captpackrat posted...
Without street cars or some similar vehicle, streets would be so blocked with traffic that progress would be impossible, downtown business would be a memory, stores would be without patrons, and property would be valueless.Well, three out of four ain't bad... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Remember video game instruction manuals |
| darkknight109 03/18/24 6:39:47 AM #12 | captpackrat posted...
And I remember the copy protection that took the form of a sheet and a red filter that you placed over it to read the code.I remember having a solid 3/4 of the TIE Fighter codewords from the instruction book memorized, because I kept misplacing it and not being able to sign in to the game. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | WWYD? You can live in any House/Condo/etc for Free BUT... |
| darkknight109 03/17/24 11:46:16 PM #24 | I already live in my dream home, so no.
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| Topic | Meme Topic 34: Memes aren't real |
| darkknight109 03/17/24 7:20:35 AM #324 | Nice to see that Ben has also memory-holed the prequels.
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| Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
| darkknight109 03/15/24 4:47:07 AM #71 | Tora_Sami posted...
I used to think he was the Tesla of our generation, turns out he is just the Edison.My once sentence descriptor of Musk has, for quite a while now, been, "A man who is convinced he is the next Bill Gates, but who is actually the next Donald Trump." --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
| darkknight109 03/14/24 3:37:52 PM #63 | OhhhJa posted...
So you don't think successful business magnates can be hyper intelligent?"Can be"? Sure - I never said they couldn't be hyper-intelligent, I said there's no correlation between high levels of intelligence and the ultra-wealthy (if I wanted to say that ultra-wealthy are seldom or never hyper-intelligent, I would have said those two traits are negatively correlated). The traits generally correlated with billionaires are high starting wealth, high degrees of risk-tolerance, greed, and a certain level of narcissism and/or psychopathy. None of those require above-average intelligence. OhhhJa posted... It's a different type of intelligence from what it requires to be a scientist or academic, but I don't think it's fair to make the qualifier for not being intelligent "not being a scientist" lolI'm referring to the general definition of intelligence, which is someone who can learn, understand, retain, and formulate complex concepts and ideas quickly. I know much ink has been spilled in the last couple of decades about "different forms of intelligence"; bluntly, I don't know how much I agree with that movement, because a lot of it smacks of trying to shoehorn the phrase "intelligence" into various different definitions - of sometimes questionable veracity - as a balm to the ego of those who don't meet the "classical" definition of intelligence. That said, it's mostly an issue of semantics; I know multiple people who never finished high school but are master craftsmen who can make works of art with their hands (and everyone on the planet knows an athlete who is dumb as a brick but who earns more in a year than most of us will in a career for their talent at their sport of choice) - I generally call that "skill" rather than "intelligence", but it's different names for the same concept, so call it what you will. OhhhJa posted... That said I don't think high intellect is a very big factor in becoming a .001%. By far the most common denominator between the mega rich people is being born into generational wealthAnd on that, we are absolutely in agreement. ZayKayWill posted... Apparently there are some people speculating that he doesn't even know how to program or engineer stuff and that the people he hired are the ones doing all that?Do you think no one knows Musk personally? The dude gets very involved in running his businesses. There are plenty of anecdotes about him from those who have worked with him that suggest he has no fucking clue what he's doing. To pick one example, one of the stories that came out of Tesla claimed that at least one of the workers had a "Musk script", which would just open up a window and spit out lines of fast-moving, meaningless text, Matrix-style, because Musk thought that was what coding was supposed to look like and he would get angry at people for "not working" if what they were doing didn't look like how he thought it should. I can't personally speak to his competency when it comes to coding (because my own coding skill is extremely rudimentary, so I largely would have no idea as to whether his opinions are valid or not) or engineering (I am an engineer, but I've never heard any technical statements from Musk on engineering that I could evaluate, and even if I did, I'm not a mechanical/automotive engineer, so there's a good chance I wouldn't have the expertise to make a proper evaluation if he's talking about cars specifically), but others in those fields have pointed out issues with things that he's said that certainly makes me question his intelligence. ZayKayWill posted... If he really was as stupid as people make him out to be, why not replace him with someone who could actually do the job better?And how would they do that? Those who work for Musk don't have the capability to replace him, and those who could (i.e. shareholders at his publicly traded companies) would face an uphill battle (he owns a sizable chunk of stock in all of the companies he has that are publicly traded, which limits the capability of other shareholders to force him out by requiring their vote to be near-unanimous) and also largely don't care about his personal competency so long as he keeps making them money. Notably, he did get fired from his first gig as a CEO - of Paypal - for what amounted to incompetence at running it as a proper business. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | IYO: What's the worst RPG on the NES and SNES and Genesis (etc)? |
| darkknight109 03/14/24 2:27:34 AM #13 | There was a Japan-only Tenchi Muyo SRPG for the Super Famicom I played ~25 years ago that was pretty bad. That one's probably the worst I've played.
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| Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
| darkknight109 03/14/24 2:20:55 AM #33 | ZayKayWill posted...
Do you really think that someone of average or of below average intelligence could have become literally the richest man alive?Unironically yes. Intelligence and extreme wealth are not correlated. If they were, we would see the ranks of the world's ultra-wealthy dominated by scientists, researchers, and academics, rather than autocrats, business magnates, and celebrities. I have no idea where this, "It takes brains to be rich" myth started, but it's literally never been true at any point in human history. Some of the world's richest men throughout history have been objectively dumb as fenceposts. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
| darkknight109 03/13/24 5:09:36 PM #11 | Colonel_Lingus posted...
I don't think he's a completely mindless buffoon, but he does and says a lot of stupid stuff.I have met many people over the years who I wouldn't consider "smart" or "intelligent", but most of them still aren't complete idiots in every single category. Rare is the person who is an absolute moron in every single field of life. Hell, I knew one guy who was obviously pretty "slow" (later found out he was actually considered legally disabled by the government because he had an I.Q. below 80), but he could sail a boat better than I ever will. So I don't necessarily think that "not a mindless buffoon" should be our minimum qualifier to call someone "smart". Anyways, no, I don't think Elon is smart; I think he had the good sense to surround himself with smart people and take credit for their accomplishments, but like all narcissists he eventually fell for his own propaganda and deluded himself into thinking that it was his genius, rather than his money, that was the reason for where he was. From what I understand, Tesla had multiple people whose full-time job was managing Musk and ensuring that his ridiculous ideas never got to see the light of day (and the absence of those people at Twitter was what caused a lot of the problems following the takeover) - that's not usually something you associate with legitimately intelligent people. Or, as someone on Twitter succinctly put it after the takeover (not an exact quote, but I don't have the original source on hand), "I heard a lot of people call Musk a genius for his SpaceX stuff; I don't know anything about rocket science, so I thought he must be a genius. Then I heard a lot of people call Musk a genius for his Tesla stuff; I don't know anything about electric cars, so I thought he must be a genius. Then I saw his opinions about computer science; I know a lot about computers and I can safely say the shit he's saying is some of the most moronic stuff I've ever heard anyone say, and now I'm wondering about just how much of a 'genius' he really was in the other two companies." --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
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