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I remember trying to watch Torchwood on Netflix, and being bored out of my mind. I think I watched 2-3 episodes, but my brain immediately forgot everything after I stopped. The only impression I have left is of a more boring version of Dr. Who.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:31
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Paladin posted:Oh, don't worry. This is just barely more than one step removed from "Also, I'd really would have liked to work as a guard in a Nazi-deathcamp".  What is up with this guy? Also, he wrote Caesar incorrectly. This is the most important point.
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Nov 30, 2020 17:36
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Kim Justice posted:YouTube has a front page? :o I'm exclusively using the front page, because it has this handy list of whatever my subscribed channels have put out recently. I think I stopped using bookmarks on YouTube back around 2010/2011, when I made my own channel and started uploading videos. Since then the subscribe-button has been my bookmark
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Dec 13, 2020 17:59
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Mischalaniouse posted:I watched Cats a month ago with some friends who went on about how it was the most ridiculous thing ever and honestly I was just kind of bored? It wasn't even an enjoyable trainwreck for me, I just wanted it to be over. Maybe all the think pieces and videos over the last year overhyped its badness for me. It could also be that your taste is just different. I certainly don't want to watch Cats: The Movie, I already didn't want to watch the musical. Cats is not something I find interesting. If someone forced me to watch this movie, I'd just gnaw my own neck off to escape before I die of boredom
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Jan 2, 2021 12:47
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:lmao holy poo poo it's still limping along at the staggering pace of one page per year Yeah, just like El Goonish Shive, it seems to be a survivor among this kind of webcomic. The Wotch seems to have gone through several artists over time however, while EGS stayed the course and just slowly improved. Compare the first strip with the last one, and you can feel your brain break because of the difference.
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Jan 9, 2021 22:48
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Bug Squash posted:iirc the myth busters demonstrated this was false. When a ship goes down you can usually pick-up anyone in the water afterwards. Below decks, you're poo poo outta luck, but you're always better learning to swim. Wait, there was an episode where they torpedoed a huge battleship, killed hundreds of people and counted how many of those were or were not sucked under?  What I'm getting at: I'd like to see their methodology before deciding to believe them
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Jan 14, 2021 15:55
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Bug Squash posted:They had a moderately sized barge that they sank and measured the amount of suction (negligible), then tried it out in the bay with Adam Savage. I never heard this from Americans before I joined SA, only non-americans, so this is wrong. That methodology seems very bad, too. You can't just extrapolate from a single ship size without taking into account how much more water progressively heavier hulls would displace And if they get their basic math this wrong, then my only conclusion based on your explanations is that the mythbusters did a bad experiment
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Jan 14, 2021 17:52
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Bug Squash posted:I mean, aside from the myth busters there's also the fact that it doesn't seem to have ever happened, and loads of occasions where a guy on even large sinking ship floated just fine. Well, the mythbusters could still be right, it's just that their work as shown isn't impressing me! Also with the way large ships often go down, it's probably hard to prove if it's the mass of the ship or some flooding holes in the hull doing the killing. Some warships also go down so fast or so bad (e. g. capsizing) that there are lots of interesting ways to drown beyond simply getting dragged under.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:52
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macabresca posted:I once came across a bum review dubbed in Russian, that was kinda neat. I wish more people would do this the opposite direction, too. I've found two Russian channels (one about video games, one about movies), and the guys are quite funny. Trouble is, not every video has English subtitles. Hell, I think one of them only has like 1/3rd of his vids subtitled. Then I somehow got a couple Japanese channels that were recommended by this thread, but only maybe 1/10th of their poo poo has subtitles in a language I can actually understand. Kind of frustrating, makes you wish we could just finally end this 200+ language bullshit and just put them all into a blender to make one, global language everyone can understand.
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Jan 17, 2021 17:03
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Kamrat posted:Yeah, I guess the gaming channel you're talking about Kinamania, the channel behind Dendy Chronicles, it's one of the funnier Russian ones and I wish there was subtitles for all their videos. What's the other channel that you mentioned about movies? Yeah, Kinamania was who I meant. The movie channel is gone by now, I think I must have purged it from my subs at some point in the past. Too bad, that guy had 1-2 funny horror movie reviews, but I've seen them so long ago all details are gone from my memories. And everything else on his channel was unsubbed, and therefore incomprehensible. 
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Jan 17, 2021 20:03
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfdls1fqJE I'd like to watch, but it was hit by a copy right strike here in Germany, the Tele München GmbH has it blocked, because apparently the video uses stuff from this German company? Weird.
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Jan 24, 2021 11:01
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Bug Squash posted:It's astounding that in a field full of notorious unrepentant assholes Ultimate Warrior managed to out do them all. Yeah, it's incredible how he pulls this off, he even managed to out-rear end in a top hat Hulk Hogan. Which I didn't thought possible. But (looking back at the Ultimate Warrior comics) maybe I should have expected this. Anyway, if Hulk Hogan can step next to you and look like a hero, you maybe should loving rethink some of your life choices, imho
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Feb 4, 2021 18:50
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Archer666 posted:It's the intangible part of a business' worth. Doesn't seem that insane to me, tbh If it's intangible, how does it have a value?
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Feb 6, 2021 22:31
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I had a genuinely interesting course about the Economics of Transportation and a lot of it was mapping out highway flows and discussing the problem of intersections and temporary rushes and the pros and cons of different policy options. I feel like the devs of SimCity 4 could really have used that one
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Feb 7, 2021 01:19
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DC Murderverse posted:I know this is about his previous video but I think Todd broke his record time from saying something to that something being proven wrong when he made a Morgan Wallen song his top track of the year Have you considered that maybe he isn't wrong, but instead all those guys are watching his videos, and go do the opposite just out of spite? He could definitely make a killing on covering lovely musicians, though. Think about it: We pay him to cover someone who sucks rear end, and that one then goes gently caress you, Todd!  and becomes good
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Feb 7, 2021 11:23
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Sydin posted:I don't exactly buy that a 16 year old is more emotionally equipped to process Saving Private Ryan than a 15 year old is. It works like this: Until you're 16 years minus 1 day old, you only have animal-level intelligence. Then, as soon as the clock strikes midnight and you turn 16, additional circuits inside your real human brain come online, giving you self-awareness. From then on, you're a real human and equipped to process Saving Private Ryan
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Feb 8, 2021 13:53
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Depends. Does he also get really excited and happy if he likes something? That's what I liked about Spoony the most: His manic energy. I've found reviewers who are 100% angry and only angry to be terribly exhausting and dull. If you can't add some genuine maniacal laughter into the mix then and when, 
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Feb 9, 2021 17:28
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Dapper_Swindler posted:this. i never got the "lets mock spoony" poo poo. like bob/coffin/McIntosh/ doug/angry joe/etc mocking i get for various reason(not the weird stalky poo poo, i just me laughing at their weird bad takes or lovely content sorta) , but spoony is just ill and its really depressing. dude was funny and i still hope he is getting help/gets help. Apparently he got help, but bad news, man: In a later rant Spoony offhandedly remarked that his psychiatric treatment was cancelled or something. Either it was too expensive or his healthcare stopped covering it, I can't remember. Either way,  US healthcareRe: LordKat. His thing at the beginning was just playing games the AVGN had trouble with, and finishing them. The more he strayed from that dumb, but kind of cute concept, the more evil started to leak out of him like he was just some sort of imitation-human made by aliens out of some left-over garbage. I don't know how much of his descent was him getting high on huffing his own farts, and how much of it was his genuine shittyness leaking through more and more with each imaginary fame point to his stats. In the end, he made some dumb video of him sucking on a strawberry and I was so disgusted I never watched anything made by him ever again. It coming out that he was a lovely person was the least surprise ever, at least for me.
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Feb 9, 2021 23:33
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Terrible Opinions posted:It also generally entails removing the pop filter on your mic so people can hear your mouth noises, because it is ultimately just another sort of weird porn. For some reason few things infuriate me more than if I can hear someone's mouth noises. That poo poo just sets me irrationally ablaze with hate. YouTubers: If you do this where I can reach you, I will enter your dreams to tear you apart from the inside. Be warned.
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Feb 10, 2021 22:04
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Okay. But what about God? Jesus doesn't exist, so probably not. Though the real Jesus, the person, was all about love and poo poo, so if he was still alive, he'd also probably be fine with this weird sex thing.
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Feb 11, 2021 20:54
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Ghostlight posted:kirby doesn't have cross-slash. Yeah, Kirby is more like actual G-God, not just his puny prophet
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Feb 12, 2021 00:41
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Man, if this is true, I have to go back to Kirby one of these days. Back then, not even the secret hidden difficulty mode of the original Kirby's Dreamland could stop me, and I even bulldozed my way through the harder NES-game.
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Feb 13, 2021 19:06
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Augus posted:Mario 3 didn’t have mid-level checkpoints because Mario 3 had short levels Yeah, recently I played some Mario 3 as part of my SNES Mario Allstars, and I was surprised myself about how short the individual levels are. Mario 3 with level checkpoints would be ridiculous.
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Feb 14, 2021 07:59
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Speaking of Final Fantasy, the Run Button guys started a 7-part Marathon of Final Fantasy VIII. It's hilarious, mostly because the one playing knows next to nothing about how the mechanics work and even with explanations, he bumbles around like a 5-year old playing his first video game.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBMIZ0WbHo He keeps un-equipping all his skills because he can't wrap his head around junctioning, it's amazing. I'm also sucker for bad GF jokes.
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Feb 15, 2021 20:20
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Groovelord Neato posted:The name is dumb. When I first heard it I thought it was gonna be a space opera (the title conjures up an assault on Saturn's moon). Same here, when I learned the truth I was devastated and shunned AOT irrationally for months as dumb fantasy crap before I got over myself. But then I didn't have enough time for reading more than the first couple volumes anyway, so that was a waste of time. 
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Mar 2, 2021 20:29
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:There was an old article on Cracked.com, back from when they were covering people with weird jobs, that interviewed a group of "real" ghosthunters. They made fun of a lot of the more obviously fake ones and joked about how all of their tools were just guesses about how ghosts even work. Like someone just decided that EMFs were usual for finding ghosts. Also how they had to deal with mentally unwell people who wanted delusions confirmed and scammers who wanted to get some of that sweet haunted B&B tourist money. The thing is, if you're mentally unwell you often don't know or realize this yourself. So all those ghosthunters talking about having to deal with mentally unwell people who wanted delusions confirmed? Talk about sad and funny in one package.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:24
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Bakeneko posted:I can’t stand games with a real-time countdown, except when it’s only used very sparingly for specific missions. Otherwise I feel like the pressure ruins the enjoyment I would’ve had from taking things at my own pace. I'm kind of torn on this. On one hand, gently caress countdowns in video games, on the other, as long as the consequences aren't permanent and final, I can deal with them as some sort of extra spice. Like in BoF5, where running down your dragon countdown just lets you enter a new-game plus with some bonuses. Or if it is for specific quests and I can save beforehand, that's fine too. What I can't stand is a final, un-negotiable time limit like in some Atelier-games. I remember playing Ayesha, and when the timer neared it's (mild, to be fair) end, I had to get crack'n to reach at least some of the end-game goals. It was really annoying, since if I had hosed up at this point, I would have been forced to basically start an entirely new game. There are also some adventure games where an invisible clock is ticking down, making you a dead man walking after a certain point without telling you. gently caress off with that poo poo, game. Falling into a hole and getting a funny epitaph is one thing, but just sandblasting all your progress down to zero is hellfuckery.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:51
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Nuebot posted:If we're talking alternate universes, I want one where the prequels and sequels came out in in reverse. So the new trilogy back then, and the prequels now. You know, that makes a lot of sense. Too bad the prequels came because Lucas back then feared he'd never have the budget or time to make the sequels he wanted to make. Though if we're talking alternate universes, if movies were reversed Lucas would make the sequels and some other guys the prequels, wonder what that would do to the films?
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Mar 10, 2021 10:05
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RareAcumen posted:I'm mainly annoyed because I'm worried it'll go the way that 'do your own research' did with people falling into every conspiracy theory as long as it mentions a Jew in charge of anything in any fashion at some point. To be honest, the alternative of "I guess you have to believe whatever someone in a position of authority tells you, huh" isn't any better. People doing their own research and loving it up is mostly a failure of education, imho: If educational institutions can hammer proper critical thinking into children at young age, it cuts down on a lot of conspiracy theories as it reduces their potential number of victims enormously. On the other hand, if proper critical thinking could lead to workers criticizing the corporations they're working for more, and the corporations controlling the government via corruption make sure this part of education gets suppressed, minimized or taken out entirely, you have a problem. Then you get absurd situations where some random guy happens to find a website about a book written by some smart sounding guy about how Atlantis was totally real and in Bolivia??? for some goddamn nutso reason and then they're just hosed. No critical thinking? It sounds kind of neat and they swallow this bullshit unthinkingly. Telling the same guy later that Atlantis was made up by a Greek guy to make a point and anyway definitely not in South America, and they will just double down on this crap. Then it's too late and only a flamethrower can cure this level of dumb.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:58
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No.1 Special posted:The Jimquisition - I Can't Believe A Developer Tried To Kill My Channel Oh yeah, I should watch this. I saw some twittering about the channel being targeted by copyright strikes and was like "hell is this poo poo?" Nice to see the assholes in question apparently lost the battle. What was even the endgame here, hoping Jim thinks making a new channel is too much work?
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Mar 22, 2021 15:40
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Twitter is making me inspired. I just got this idea for a short story: A SkyNet-like AI wants to end mankind. It uses its power to collect all the bad poo poo we've said and done in the past, puts it in the worst possible light and then shares it with everyone, so everyone will know everything about everyone. What follows are the End Days, a never-ending ocean of blood in the streets, as humans kill each other in a rage. Then the AI just uses its drones to sweep away the few hundred survivors. Sadly, for copyright reasons I probably can't call this story "Twitter Apocalypse"
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Mar 27, 2021 12:20
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Jamie Faith posted:Doesn't Mara, the person in question upvoting said tweets kinda prove it? That's not really the same thing. "I hear from a friend of a friend" and "The person in question liked the tweet talking about her experience" is 2 different things Indeed. I would rate "I hear from a friend of a friend" at about 200% more reliability when compared to "some person liked a tweet", it's 2 different things all right (they're both poo poo and should taken at the very least with a full kilogram of salt)
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Mar 27, 2021 14:47
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Well, apparently I know nothing about Twitter jargon, so I bow out of this discussion before digging deeper.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:13
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ErrEff posted:"I wanna speak to the manager, you should be fired because the product I want is out of stock" Man, this brings back memories. I was an apprentice IT-System Electronician and got settled with RMA in my old company because no-one wanted to do it and often had to go out in front and talk to people who sometimes got really weird about their repairs. Luckily I'm here in Germany, so no-one takes these sorts of people serious. Especially not if you're mostly a System House with an online-shop as side business, not an actual shop on the street. My three favorite customer experiences: 1. The Dumper (some guy who dropped his trashed notebook on us and even agreed for a paid-for inspection by the manufacturer to see what the actual repairs would cost, and then never called back after hearing the costs, when I finished the notebook was still with us in storage two years later, and of course by then lawyers had to be called to make the big dummy pay for the inspection he had agreed to in writing) 2. Big Finger (some older guy not even that overweight, but cursed by nature with fat sausage fingers, he thought his notebook was broken and didn't want to accept that his notebook worked just fine, only after three demonstrations by me, with my own thumbs, did he give up trying to demand repairing the on/off switch) 3. The Girlfriend Abuser (some dude so far gone he not only confused the neighboring warehouse for our building, he actually made his girlfriend call in to attempt to buy a new printer in a messed-up attempt to argue "if she can order a new printer, this must mean there are tons of them in your warehouse, give me a new one as replacement" with me, eventually he told me to my face that I was a liar because I wasn't staring him down) 3 is my favorite because buying a new printer would have taken 1-2 days delivery time. Guess how long it normally took for the manufacturer to send a replacement for your broken printer directly to your home? 1-2 days. Dapper_Swindler posted:I care. I think Lindsay is terminally online and said/says a lot of dumb poo poo. I think she should actually work through that stuff with people but I also don’t think she is a purposeful malicious person. I don’t blame her for looking on twitter because she is gonna get declared Excommunicate Traitoris no matter what actually sticks. I also think there is a thing of Lindsay is kinda of personality wise an rear end in a top hat/abrasive so she doesn’t keep friends long and tends to burn bridges easy which doesn’t help you when the tallys start getting read aloud. I often feel like I can relate to Lindsay because I too am a huge idiot, abrasive rear end in a top hat and have a giant ego. If my YouTube-channel had an actual following, I would have my own swarm of Jamies telling me how much I suck. (And they would be right.)
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Mar 27, 2021 18:17
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Jamie Faith posted:Thanks and yeah, I think this whole "Apologies are about control!" thing is a very lovely, cynical and kinda chuddy way to look at things. There have in fact, been cases where someone famous did something shifty, got called out, went "oh poo poo sorry guys, my bad" and people went "its cool This probably comes from upbringing, if I can take out my one module in psychology and communication I had to take in university and wave if for a moment: There's a school of thought which assumes all communication is like combat, with the side changing their opinion more "losing" and the side changing less "winning". Some of my stepdads where like this and are the reason my mom is now single again. Essentially, in an environment where every apology is seen as a weakness which a deranged maniac will use as an excuse to jump down your throat, you get people like Lindsay and me. (Though obviously I can only speculate about Lindsay's family, some people are natural assholes, after all. And I don't know her. It's just that I think I can recognize the mental damage caused by growing up in a family filled with bastards.) Edit: And yeah, you're OK. I just wish people like you would criticize me, in my nightmares it's people like moviebob and I shiver
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Mar 27, 2021 20:15
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". You just never hear about those times because that kind of thing isn't what ends up trending on twitter or get screenshots of it posted in this thread.
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bobjr posted:I remember AGDQ trying their best to kind of make it not sound like a huge insult to him, but he stopped donating after that. Imho, he should have continued spite donating twice as much and regularly, both because it's pennies to him and to redistribute money away from him
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Mar 29, 2021 18:46
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Dawgstar posted:The one that blew my mind was.. I think it's called boutique medicine. We're back to doctors making house calls except it costs a fortune and also the level of care you get is ridiculous. Too bad it doesn't work anymore like until a few centuries ago, when being super rich came with the risk of also being super dead thanks to the "care" of your super special doctors
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Mar 30, 2021 00:56
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FuturePastNow posted:As a 13 or 14 year old playing SimCity 2000 I discovered that I could raise all the money I needed by lowering taxes to 1 or 2% to grow population, then crank the tax rate up to the maximum 20% for a few years, then drop it back down and repeat whenever I needed cash. The first SimCity for SNES was even more hosed. You could just drop taxes down to minimum all year to lure people into your city, then in Mid-December you could crank up taxes up to maximum, watch a few smart people run away as fast as they could, before tax day happened and you got taxes as if you had taxed at maximum the entire year Rinse, repeat
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Apr 2, 2021 10:01
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Clip-On Fedora posted:
Wasn't this a good thing? Private persons shouldn't own carriers, imho
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Apr 2, 2021 16:36
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Mr Phillby posted:Maybe its that thing where old horror movies lose their bite over time? Did the shining spook Speilberg real bad back in 1980? Definitely not. I sometimes rewatch John Carpenter's The Thing, for example and it still holds up incredibly well. (Though it probably helps that all the creature effects are actually physically there. CGI, even really good looking CGI, is always cursed by having to do the uphill battle of not having physical presence, with knock-on effects like actors having to fight more to emote fear if there's nothing they can even see to react to, stuff like that. You have to think about it this way: Getting assaulted by weird puppets can still be scary, even if they look a bit silly, but it's really hard to get spooked by a bit of harmless light swooshing by. And actors in horror movies often don't even get that "harmless light" part of CGI, they get nothing. )
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Apr 4, 2021 11:42
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