Quote from: Flee on May 16, 2015, 04:46:09 AM

The death penalty is never the answer.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Spoiler

Usually.

ECHR confirmed for Sith instrument aimed at world domination.

Not screwed at all.

In all likelihood, almost all of these are going to be awful. A few years from now, the movie market will be so over-saturated with capeshit that it'll collapse.

so that all the mods know when you rekt someone?

I have seen this happen. Multiple times.

Quote from: Flee on May 15, 2015, 03:24:51 AM

Quote from: Madman Mordo on May 15, 2015, 02:28:54 AM

And yeah, Giraffes are endangered FYI.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, giraffes are "least-concern", meaning they're not even near-threatened, let alone endangered.

That doesn't change the fact that many sub-species are endangered, and numerous local populations have been extirpated.

Of course. I condone the killing of these animals just the same. Just pointing out that "giraffes are endangered" is a factually incorrect statement.

when i like-like a girl i am a true romantic.


brb stargazing with my love on a blanket in the bed of a truck out in the country

one day I will find a girl who intoxicates me with her presence, who can level me with her eyes

Best feeling in the world. I melt when she gives me that smile.

>alpha
>furry

Jive please.

Stuff like this is the reason why you don't want to leave the ECHR. I'm not sure if I can see this bill fly there.

Quote from: Flee on May 14, 2015, 09:47:36 AM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on May 13, 2015, 08:22:35 PM

Noob teleport attack spam = best

God fucking dammit I was just about to post that. Up down Y or something, no?

Yeah something like that, you teabag then teleport.

I don't have fighting games myself but my friend has a few, so when I go over to his we sometimes play <.<

Soul Calibre something 4/5/6?
Knightmare heavy sword slam spam (Triangle Triangle Triangle = Perfection)
Non violence is best violence, made a gandhi looking fellow and did nothing but lurk near the edge of the ring and throw him out.
Then for MK I spammed noob's teleport beatup and lizardman's sideways jump kick shit.

Funny as fuck because he plays them quite a lot and I just straight up button spam and win e.e

Ever played Soul Calibur 2? Definitely the best one. The Gamecube version had Link from Zelda, being the cheapest character in the entire game. Link had a certain move that allowed him to block an attack and use the forward momentum of his opponent to just sidestep and send him flying. My friend beat almost the entire game on the hardest difficulty without taking a single hit by just waiting near the ledge while blocking and then throwing the opponents out of the ring.

Good times, but so cheap in actual matches.

May I remind you all that "NSFW responses in safe-for-work (SFW) threads are not allowed, due to spoiler problems on Taptatalk".

Although I do think this rule could do with some revising at this point.

Did you write this?

I didn't go, no.

Quote from: Flee on May 13, 2015, 05:23:44 AM

Quote from: Rocketman287 on May 07, 2015, 04:46:22 PM

So like........should I blow my copy up, or burn it?

Sell it. I sold my copy less than a week after the game came out. Reached level 20 and realized there was nothing left but an endless grind with no story and nothing but bullet sponge bosses. No regrets.

Once you reached up to level 20 that was when you realized the game is nothing more than grinding? Nowhere before that that thought didn't come into play?

Not really. The first 20 levels went nicely with the "story" and natural progression. New missions to do, places to go and so forth. It didn't feel like a grind at that point. It's only when I realized that the only way to progress after that was to put more time into the awful crucible, or replay the same old missions in the hopes of getting random drops of better armor that would allow me to go past 20.

Also, nothing in my posts shows that I didn't already realize this earlier. It is just that before level 20, there was still new and somewhat interesting stuff to do. It's only when I hit that level that it became obvious that unless I would buy the DLC, all that was left was playing the same missions over and over with increasingly spongy enemies for no purpose other than to get random drops.

So like........should I blow my copy up, or burn it?

Sell it. I sold my copy less than a week after the game came out. Reached level 20 and realised there was nothing left but an endless grind with no story and nothing but bullet sponge bosses. No regrets.

Quote from: Flee on May 12, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Eh, I didn't realize that post would be so long. Apologies and props to you if you read through all of it.

Thing is though, the Tories aren't actually gunning to leave the ECHR. They just want British courts to have primacy in interpreting it.

You'd still have the same risks though. Most of what I said before went through the UK courts first, and they saw no issues with the old regime. They said that prior government censorship on publications that the government deemed unfit was perfectly fine. They agreed with the regime of indefinite detention and therefore lower standards of fair trial for people who could be a terrorist or danger to the state. They felt that an extremely broad wiretapping regime with hardly any safeguards or supervision was acceptable.

The whole point of the ECtHR is that it has primacy. That if your own government adopts a very questionable policy that infringes on your rights and then refuses to even listen to any concerns, you have a higher, less biased and more objective court that you can go to. If the UK courts once again becomes the highest authority on human rights, there is nothing stopping them from reverting policies. "Thanks for the advice, ECtHR, but we don't think that a priori censorship of publications that speak bad of Islam infringe your right to free speech because it divides our society. And we also don't think that prohibiting protests against anything involving Islam or feminism is wrong, because it's just hate speech anyways."

You are one of the people who often criticizes the increasing social justice in the UK. How political correctness is valued more than human rights. If I were in your shoes, I would be scared of making these people alone the highest power in terms of human rights. While the ECtHR is generally progressive, it has often proven to be traditional in the sense of upholding respect for the rights, only allowing them to be limited under strict conditions and safeguards. I would not trust the UK (or my country for that matter) to hold itself to the same standards.

And just for some extra information, there is going to be an advisory function of the ECtHR, allowing any court to ask for its opinion without it being binding.

So yeah, while the ECtHR is isn't perfect, it is a very valuable institution that had done a lot of good. Justice at a national level is often politicised, and national courts have often proven to be reluctant to condemn their country's policies for numerous reasons unrelated to actually defending human rights. Having a supranational European Court is a great remedy against the erosion of human rights.