Quote from: Best Boss on December 17, 2017, 05:34:43 AM

Why didn't anyone just quickly take out Paparoni

the robots would have just protected him

Probably wouldn't have if Gohan had just attacked him while the robot was defending against Vegeta and Goku's energy beams. Instead of doing this whole "I'm not gonna waste this chance" and fire on the robot, he could've just kicked the shit out of the wizard dude.

>not a single person remembered to include the undisputed masterpiece in their ranking

Second amendment  used for its purpose when?

I know you're joking, but probably never. It's one of the biggest flaws with the whole "armed militia ready to overthrow the government turned dictatorship" argument. The American people, probably now more than any other time in recent history, are extremely divided. Each side has its own "breaking points" but what these are and where the limits lie are completely different. The general idea of stopping a tyrannical government from oppressing its people is the same, but what constitutes tyrannical and oppressive is very subjective. The alt left might think it's acceptable and even good that the government starts throwing people in prison for using the wrong pronoun for trans people, while the alt right might rise up against what they perceive as tyranny. Vice versa, the alt right might think it's the right thing for the government to round up all Muslims in camps and deport them, while the alt left might see this as clear oppression and revolt.

Even within each (vague) group, there's going to be a lot of different opinions on when violence and the use of firearms is necessary or called for. Some will continue supporting peaceful protests and put their hope in the democratic process to fix things, while others will call for violence much sooner. The "absolute" breaking point of full on soldiers marching through the streets and shooting people for having the wrong opinion is not going to happen, so there's always going to be massive disagreements on what the tipping point is. And this isn't anything new. Think back just a few decades of the revelations of mass surveillance in the US. Many people were appalled and opposed it tremendously, but millions agreed with the likes of Nixon that this was in the country's best interests and security.

If a large group actually rises up against the government, it will cause an all out civil war and things will backfire tremendously. If a smaller group rises up, it'll just be seen as a bunch of stupid nutjobs acting up (as is the case with the "sovereign" people who hold down a ranch, start a cult and get into a fight with the FBI over illegal activities).

And all of that doesn't even touch upon the other issues, like what would happen after a revolt. If it failed, we'd see insurgency warfare in a civil conflict with the government and the other groups cracking down on them hard. If it succeeded, we'd now have a new and even more tyrannical government in place that'd be oppressive over the other sides.

It sounds nice at first and on paper, but it either needs a society with similar views of what government behavior is acceptable and when revolts are the answer (which in the US is about as far from being the case as possible) or a government that crosses an absolute line quickly and boldly (which in the US is never going to happen). In recent history, non-violent protests and the use of the democratic process has been much more successful to bring change than armed violence. Armed militias are much more likely to lead to tyranny than prevent or overthrow it.

Also, don't forget that this is now headed for the courts. The real battle for the American open internet is really only just beginning.

i've never been to a film with an intermission, but i actually don't mind the concept

Not the biggest fan. It's a pretty unwelcome break and it exists only to get people to step outside for a minute and buy more popcorn or soda.

Quote from: Flee on December 14, 2017, 12:50:55 PM

I didn't use my phone during the movie you shits. For whatever reason, the movie had a break in the middle. Literally never seen that before over here.

I didn't realise those were still a thing. Last time I saw one was during the Chamber of Secrets.

I haven't seen one in forever either. Last one was when I was in Montana and saw a movie there. I'm hoping this was just a dumb Star Wars thing here and not a new trend.

Goddamn I'm already annoyed with so much shit in the movie. Here's to hoping the second part is going to be better.

Looks good dude. Change your front box art and do a spellcheck though. Plenty of errors in there.

Props to the dude on the left for keeping his composure with these people.

>I'm not having sexual relations. By choice.
>By choice?
>By choice.  I've just chosen not to engage.
>...doesn't that make you gay?

Comedy gold but damn sad too.

Also, host seems like a pretty solid guy. Clueless and a bit blunt, but seems like he's fair at least.

Who's left standing at this point? Looks like we're getting close to the big final. Gohan, Vegeta and Frieza have all been slacking off for most of this. Time for them to do some work too while Goku gets ready for Jiren.

Probably custom made for the commercial. No hits for the lyrics and Shazam doesn't recognize it either.

Quote from: Flee on December 10, 2017, 05:39:46 PM

Street FIghter 30th Anniversary edition containing 12 of the classic games with online matchmaking for some of them.

https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/939989924727595008/video/1

specifically:

Street Fighter
Street Fighter II (vanilla, champ, turbo, super, ST)
Alpha 1, 2, and 3
Street Fighter III (vanilla, second impact, third strike)

Games with matchmaking are underlined; HD remix and USF2 aren't included. A pretty dope package nonetheless.

also, top 8 for capcom cup is currently live

Yeah, watching it a bit before bed. Pretty interesting at times.

it worked for me because i simply don't allow trailers to color my perception or expectations anymore, which is also why i can't bring it to myself to hate games like no man's sky, even though the internet says that i have to

I don't think the internet really wants you to hate the game but just how it was managed. I never cared about it and haven't even played it, but there were a lot of shitty things surrounding the game. Blatant lies of mechanics and features that were advertised but never put into the game, really bad performance and constant crashes, a very late embargo on reviews and major delays on review copies being sent around so that the game launched before the reviewers had a chance on pointing out the issues with the game (which many suspected was intentional to stop people from finding out about the game's flaws and shortcomings), gameplay and events shown at events / trailers that were completely different from the final product... From what I've heard, the game's a lot better now after a year of patches and expansions, but a lot of the criticism was pretty valid. It's more of a "don't support the developers after how they lied, fucked up and misled people about the game" than a "you've gotta hate it because it sucks" type of deal.

you might like the fact that doom is on the system, and that it plays much better than you'd expect (not that i've played it—i'm going by the word of others), but not if you can't deal with anything other than k+m

which sonic games have you played, out of curiosity

Bit disappointing those games aren't any closer, but it's good they're at least on their way. I'm not too interested in Doom. Not because I mind playing FPS on console (I played tons of Halo, CoD and many others on the Xbox 360 / One over the years), but I already own the game on Xbox and PC. It's good, but I don't see any reason to buy it again on the Switch just to play at lower framerates and a smaller resolution.

I couldn't tell you exactly what Sonic games I played. I owned one or two of the 2D ones back on the gameboy and then played Adventure 1 or 2 on the Gamecube (I think 2). I'll admit that this was a long time ago though, so my opinion might have changed. I was just always more of Mario guy than Sonic. The linear speed made it feel more like a "on rails" button pressing game than a normal platformer, although I guess the 3D one did somewhat better.