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CombatBonta-kun posted:It wouldn't happen to be CKO would it? I've been going for a while because it is a great workout, but beyond that it almost feels like a bit of a cult mentality with some of the people.
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Toriori posted:You don't loving talk about dumplings that way! No one is bad-mouthing dumplings. They're delicious but you certainly wouldn't want to be dating one... would you? <trap_set>
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Silly Newbie posted:Doing the most complex movements in weightlifting for time, with reps counting much more than form, is inherently dangerous. Modifying the form of common exercises, like pull ups, so that you can do more of them is also inherently dangerous. Those are the two things upon which crossfit is built. Rhabdomyolysis is another reason that Crossfit is dangerous. There is very little being done in classes to prevent it, and the trainers all know about it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-robertson/crossfit-rhabdomyolysis_b_3977598.html
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Marvel announced today that Thor stopped being worthy to wield Mjollnir, and the hammer will pass to a woman, who will henceforth be called Thor instead (it's probably Angela from Spawn). Here's some reactions from the Internet.      
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Jul 15, 2014 21:45
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A friend on Facebook just shared thisquote:I was educated to I pass it on 
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Jul 15, 2014 21:52
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As a person that doesn't read comics is this something that they've been building up to at least? Like this isn't just some sudden PR stunt to get people to buy new sexy lady Thor comics?
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:As a person that doesn't read comics is this something that they've been building up to at least? Like this isn't just some sudden PR stunt to get people to buy new sexy lady Thor comics? Apparently this is not the first time there was a girl Thor. And there was also a a Thor frog. Comics are weird, I'll stick to the movies.
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I'm so confused. Does being able to lift Mjolnir magically cause your name to be changed to Thor? It's not like it's a title or something. Wonder Woman lifted it once. Is her name also Thor now?
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rodbeard posted:I'm so confused. Does being able to lift Mjolnir magically cause your name to be changed to Thor? It's not like it's a title or something. Wonder Woman lifted it once. Is her name also Thor now? comic books are silly and do not take them seriously please
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Nckdictator posted:A friend on Facebook just shared this Who knows what the gently caress this is going on about, but, more importantly, why can't these people use even remotely proper grammar and punctuation? They seem to know what the words mean (most of the time) and what proper order everything goes in (some of the time), so why can't they put the little bits and bobs in the correct, loving place? edit: hmmm, it's not pulling the other quote, but it's like four posts up. PervertedLogic has a new favorite as of 22:17 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess the original Thor will have his power return (and/or the replacement is revealed to be a secret agent of evil) within a year at most.  It'd be pleasantly surprising if she stuck, but my "Marketing Strategy to Boost Sales" Sense is going off.
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rodbeard posted:I'm so confused. Does being able to lift Mjolnir magically cause your name to be changed to Thor? It's not like it's a title or something. Wonder Woman lifted it once. Is her name also Thor now? In Marvel, the hammer itself is what gives Thor a lot of his powers, so anyone deemed worthy to wield it is for all intents and purposes Thor. It's more complicated than that but Afraid of Audio posted:comic books are silly and do not take them seriously please
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rodbeard posted:I'm so confused. Does being able to lift Mjolnir magically cause your name to be changed to Thor? Kinda. In Marvel's bridge between Norse myth and the comics, Thor disobeyed his dad's orders so Odin stripped him of his godhood, kicked him down to Earth, then put a lock on Mjolnir that it couldn't be wielded by dickheads. "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." So yeah, if you can lift Mjolnir, you become the Thunder God. If you lose Mjolnir or somehow become unable to lift it, you lose those powers.
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Oh no my stupid comic about a man with a hammer is now a stupid comic about a woman with a hammer. What shall I do?
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Apparently this is not the first time there was a girl Thor. And that weird alien guy Beta Ray Bill. But unlike all those others, I'm sure this is the one that will stick and be the new Thor forever.
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PervertedLogic posted:[...] why can't these people use even remotely proper grammar and punctuation? They seem to know what the words mean (most of the time) and what proper order everything goes in (some of the time), so why can't they put the little bits and bobs in the correct, loving place? Don't worry, you're not alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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 This one popped up a few times by multiple people today. It reminded me of my experience with Burning Paradise Video. It was a local indie type video store that specialized in Grindhouse/Exploitation genre films and hard to find films. The old location they were at was a bit out of my way so when they relocated closer, I specifically budgeted to plunk down a couple hundred bucks on a wild spending spree. Just walking in the door and looking at the shelves, I saw several films I was ready to buy without blinking an eye. Turned out all the shelves were rentals only, and asking the bored guy at the counter where was the stuff for sale, he waved towards a dinky shelf rack on the wall that was mostly the same current stuff I could get at Wal-Mart and none of it was what they had on the rental shelves. Thinking it was maybe a space issue, I asked if what they had for rentals was also available for sale and was told no. I ended up walking out without spending a thing and feeling rather disappointed. When I'd see postings from the owners ranting about people not patronizing local businesses and being horrible for shopping at chain stores, I couldn't help but think if they reversed what they had for sale with what they had for rentals, I would've been a steady customer of at least a hundred bucks a trip minimum. From what I heard, they've since gone out of business.
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M_Sinistrari posted:
As someone who does I/O Economic Analysis every so often, money spent locally at a chain store still has a tremendous impact on the local economy. The typical multiplier is usually around 1.4. Meaning that for every dollar of direct impact (money spent) there is an impact (indirect and induced) of $1.40. And that's not even including jobs created directly, indirectly, and induced. Same goes for tax revenue, blah blah blah... So yes, support local businesses, but remember that chain stores are local businesses too. They have local employees, they provide local services. Scarf has a new favorite as of 01:18 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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M_Sinistrari posted:I ended up walking out without spending a thing and feeling rather disappointed. When I'd see postings from the owners ranting about people not patronizing local businesses and being horrible for shopping at chain stores, I couldn't help but think if they reversed what they had for sale with what they had for rentals, I would've been a steady customer of at least a hundred bucks a trip minimum. From what I heard, they've since gone out of business. "They didn't do what I, personally, want" is not the same as "bad business model." You just told us this businesses specialized in hard-to-find movies, then complained that they didn't keep shelves full of those movies to sell to you. You then make it sound like this failure to stock the for-sale section with the movies you wanted to buy somehow resulted in the business losing customers to "chain stores." That makes no sense, since the entire point of the business, and the reason you went there, is that you can't get the product in question from chain stores. There's a pretty good chance that if the demand and price were there, they would have been selling the movies instead of renting them. By definition, hard-to-find items are, you know, hard to find. They sell it to you, then maybe they find another one, maybe they don't. In the meantime, they can't rent out what they don't have. They can have your $200 from one sale, or they can rent the movies over and over. It's probably not their failure to sell you movies that drove them out of business. Scarf posted:So yes, support local businesses, but remember that chain stores are local businesses too. They have local employees, they provide local services. I go out of my way to patronize local businesses, especially mom-and-pop enterprises. Doing so is easy in Cleveland, and Miami, and many other places I've lived. Doing so here in Vegas is a significant challenge. Everything is either part of or owned by a monster enterprise.
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RareAcumen posted:Don't worry, you're not alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc Hey that was a pretty cool video. I mean, I honestly though Weird Al was dead, literally.
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Centripetal Horse posted:"They didn't do what I, personally, want" is not the same as "bad business model." You just told us this businesses specialized in hard-to-find movies, then complained that they didn't keep shelves full of those movies to sell to you. You then make it sound like this failure to stock the for-sale section with the movies you wanted to buy somehow resulted in the business losing customers to "chain stores." That makes no sense, since the entire point of the business, and the reason you went there, is that you can't get the product in question from chain stores. They regularly advertised they carry these particular genre movies, and granted I didn't see what they had at their old location which was larger, they still pitched they were the place to buy from. Had they changed their advertising to reflect they were going more in a rental direction or were predominantly rentals, that would've been different and I wouldn't've bothered going in because I was looking to buy. The small sale section they had featured things like the Transformer films and other mainstream stuff. Even if it was just a small section of Grindhouse genre films and the rest rentals, I would've cleared the sales rack out easy and been a regular customer as long as they kept up stock. I know it's a very niche market, to be honest, when I first heard about them I was surprised that there was a store that specifically specialized in the genre because I didn't think there was enough demand to warrant a dedicated store + costs to it.
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M_Sinistrari posted:I know it's a very niche market, to be honest, when I first heard about them I was surprised that there was a store that specifically specialized in the genre because I didn't think there was enough demand to warrant a dedicated store + costs to it. Apparently there wasn't, if they've gone out of business. This is the sort of thing the Internet excels at.
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PervertedLogic posted:Hey that was a pretty cool video. I mean, I honestly though Weird Al was dead, literally. Yeah, I got linked that one too and I was like "Hey, that could go in the Idiots on Social Media thread!" Just like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA7kKNu2Y
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Cut my friend out of this since he was sharing to make fun of it:
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Zero One posted:Cut my friend out of this since he was sharing to make fun of it: Reminds me of this /b/ classic:  Don't trust ANYTHING you see on the internet, kids.
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PervertedLogic posted:Hey that was a pretty cool video. I mean, I honestly though Weird Al was dead, literally. "Son, Al Yankovic blew his brains out in the late '80s after people stopped buying his records. He's not worth getting into trouble over."
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Welcome to the Tea Party! Didn't the Tea Party unironically post Bioshock Infinite concept art to support their cause?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't the Tea Party unironically post Bioshock Infinite concept art to support their cause? That was Fox News: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/03/fox-news-quite-likes-the-bioshock-infinite-logo-apparently
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Finisher1 posted:That was Fox News: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/03/fox-news-quite-likes-the-bioshock-infinite-logo-apparently Also a tea party Facebook group. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/12/16/tea-party-group-unironically-utilizes-bioshock-infinite-propaganda/
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Zero One posted:Cut my friend out of this since he was sharing to make fun of it: Are you sure this isn't one of those whatchamacallits? A joke?
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Zero One posted:Cut my friend out of this since he was sharing to make fun of it: It's probably a joke lifehack, but putting your average metal silverware in a microwave for a short period of time won't actually wreck it. More likely it'd do nothing at all, not even heat the drat thing.
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I thought the point of the fake lifehack was to hurt the person attempting it when they try to touch the spoon?
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Maybe you should put a spoon in your microwave and see how hot it gets. Try one minute, or ten minutes, whatever, see what happens.
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And now I have a cell phone pic of a monitor (and maybe even some other steps in between considering the artifacts)
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Apparently this is not the first time there was a girl Thor. Wonder Woman also held Mjolnir during Marvel vs. DC. I don't think she revealed her name, though. Storm (616 or the main continuity) has held it before, too. (Actually, that would have made their battle a lot more interesting.) Also, Throg is awesome.
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Anita Sarkeesian posted this on twitter. Which one of you nerds wrote this because I refuse to live in a world where that end line isn't ironic.
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PicklePants posted:Wonder Woman also held Mjolnir during Marvel vs. DC. I don't think she revealed her name, though. Storm (616 or the main continuity) has held it before, too. (Actually, that would have made their battle a lot more interesting.) Yeah, but Thor Girl, Wonder Woman and Storm were all just examples of women deemed worthy to possess the power of Thor. This is literally the real Thor turning into a woman, which deserves all the nerd rage in the world, because it's never happened in comics before! Except it has.  (That's from the 1999 miniseries Earth X, written by Jim Krueger, based on notes and concepts by Alex Ross. And in case you're wondering if it's sexist to consider being a woman intrinsically humiliating, yes, it's sexist.)
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CrowsNestMutineer posted:Yeah, but Thor Girl, Wonder Woman and Storm were all just examples of women deemed worthy to possess the power of Thor. This is literally the real Thor turning into a woman, which deserves all the nerd rage in the world, because it's never happened in comics before! I'd be humiliated too if I had 10 boobs.
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Failboattootoot posted:Anita Sarkeesian posted this on twitter. I don't think this actually happened
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