Anything we can do about the site looking like this every single day? Manually banning the accounts or deleting the posts is a tedious waste of time and doesn't do anything as the bots just come back or make new accounts. Since they all tend to come from the same parts of the world that we have no legitimate users from and fill out every piece of profile information (all these bots have a Yahoo Instant Messenger account tied to their profile, for example), maybe we can just blanket ban accounts that fit any of these criteria.

Quote from: Flee on August 14, 2019, 04:50:33 AM

Quote from: FatherlyNick on August 12, 2019, 09:13:48 AM

Didn't every other country implement some sort of gun ban / buy-back after a mass shooting except for the US?

Not every country but it's a common theme. Australia in 1996 with the NFA, the UK in 1997 with the FAA, Belgium in 2006, New Zealand in 2019... Not all had a buy-back too but countries do tend to make serious changes to their gun laws after these kinds of massacres.

reactionary trash

As sad as it is, those people probably are going to get what they want. Two dozen preteens were massacred at school in Sandy Hook and the only real consequence was that the sales of the rifle used by the murderer skyrocketed. Not a single federal law or large-scale gun policy initiative followed. In 2012, the American people decided that the slaughter of those children and others was bearable and little more than an unfortunate inconvenience not worth doing literally anything over. In the eyes of many, that realization marked the end of the gun control debate. There can be a hundred more mass shootings and a million more dead by firearms, and it probably won't make the slighest difference. Facts lost.

Bruh

Japan, Guatemala and Venezuela have all done the same thing. It's partially because of the risk of mass shootings but also because of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that some of these shooters used to justify targeting people from outside the US.

Isn't that the show that runs at like 10 FPS? I saw the trailer once and noped out because of that.

The Slayer would be absolutely legit and is a much better character than a literal plant in a pot. He could be a great addition to the game. Throw some rip and tear metal in there and have some demon voice lines for his trailer / cinematics. 10/10

Quote from: Jono on July 13, 2019, 04:15:48 AM

Quote from: Flee on July 12, 2019, 08:18:59 AM

Oh man.

End this man's career, Flee

Joke's on you, it never started in the first place.

There's just so much in this post that is just completely and factually wrong. I'd be happy to go over some of it very briefly but unless Deci decides to want to listen to actual facts, I feel like it would just be a waste of my time.

I don't believe for a second that any meaningful ballancing is going to come out of the company that unironicly has VGC as it's "'''competitive""" format.

Either way I haven't enjoyed trying to get into competitive Pokemon since I first tried it in X and Y anyway,  and Sun and Moon left a bad tase in my mouth so it's gonna be hard to sell me on this Gen anymore.

>literal children's franchise with only a small minority even interested in competitive pretends it can't include pokemon because of "balance" reasons when the community (and later the devs themselves) for years now has had to come up with its own tiers, restrictions and stipulations just to counter the game's imbalances and make matches somewhat fair —- all in a game where utter randomness already matters so much (damage modifier, accuracy of moves, critical hits, inflicting status effects, amount of multi-hits, turns spent sleeping...)

Is this a joke?

Gotta be honest, but the pokedex announcement kind of killed most of the interest I had in this gen. The main reason I even got back into the main games back in like 2016 is because you finally could legitimately obtain all 720+ pokemon with just XY + ORAS. I never completed a full dex of any of the previous games because I stopped playing them by Diamond / Pearl and the version exclusives + special event pokemon made it pretty much impossible to begin with, so actually being able to catch and train virtually all of the pokemon with just 2 games (and then trade the last few in the GTS or get the mythical ones through the 20 year anniversary thing) was amazing and scratched that nostalgic itch. It was a lot of fun to catch them all with my girlfriend and complete that living dex.

But this? Just a small amount of all pokemon available and having to pay to transfer a bunch of your older ones? Yeah, fuck that.

Literally the only decent argument against it is that it would result in stupid people having it done in poor circumstances without proper medical training or equipment.

Everything else, including Verb's list of bad points and contradictory attitude towards consent and suffering, are stupid and easily refuted.  There's something about this topic that strikes a nerve because all reason and consistency goes out the window in an instant. Thankfully the practice is rapidly going out of style even in the US.

Disappointing final episodes but they had their moments. Jon stabbing Dany was very well done. The final attempts at pleading with her and seeing if she might still change and listen to reason, only for her to end it all on "they don't get to choose" with a big and convincing smile. That was a solid scene.

So there's a gazillion different timelines where Thanos still wins in the end and we're still supposed to root for the heroes who literally risk destroying the universe or some shit for their own specific timeline?

They don't dig into it that far but the way I figure it works is that the alternate timelines are only created when someone travels back and does something that affects it.

This is kind of explained by the bald wizard lady when she talks to Banner. She summons the orange light beam to illustrate what happens when you remove the time stone from their timeline. It creates a divergent timeline where they don't have the stone and shit hits the fan because they can't defend themselves (she doesn't specify it, but I assume she's referring to Strange using the stone to rewind time over and over again to barter with that one monster in his movie).

So you've got the main timeline (A) which is the one we're in. This is the only timeline up until someone travels back and changes something. This doesn't affect the present or future of A but instead creates an offshoot timeline B starting at the moment of the change.

In short, this would mean that there's one Thanos for every timeline that is created upon time travel. Thanos from timeline A (the main one) is dead because Thor chops his head off at the beginning of the movie. Thanos from timeline B (the one from 2014 where Nebula gets captured) is also dead because he traveled forward in time to timeline A where the gauntlet turned him to ash. All the other Thanoses presumably continue to live but get their asses kicked in the end.

The main issue with this is that while Thanos never wins, he also keeps existing. Because in all other alternate timelines, things essentially pan out the exact same way they did in the main timeline - all the way up to the point that the alternate timelines catch up to the big finger snap and also have to go back to get more stones and thereby create more spinoff timelines that keep going through the motions over and over.

Second problem is that one timeline where their actions in the past allow Loki to get away with the blue stone. That's the one timeline I see that majorly deviates from the main timeline A in a way that could change the entire outcome so that Thanos wins. Thinking back about it, the Avengers really did fuck up and just leave. That is unless Loki somehow does manage to get away with it in the main timeline (I don't remember what happens in that movie so that might be it).

That, or there really just are infinite timelines and Thanos does win in trillions of them (but still loses in infinitely more). I believe that Fury tells Spiderman that the multiverse is real in the trailer for the new movie, so that's a real possibility.

And damn, what a fucking post this is. I don't even like superhero movies much or care about the MCU.

They explain a lot of those gripes in the movie itself. There's literally an entire scene about how "standard" timetravel as we know it from other movies like BTTF doesn't work, courtesy of Banner. You can't change the present by going back in time and doing things differently. Time is not a linear thing. If you travel back to the year 2000, the current present just becomes part of the past in this timeline. Your actions in 2000 are then actually the future when compared to the current present, and you cannot change things that have already happened by doing something in the future. There's some sense to it as the movie essentially treats timelines as alternate universes.

That's why the entire point of their travel is not to go back and kill Thanos or stop him in the first place. It's to bring back the unbroken stones from different past timelines to repair our own. Changing something in the other timeline only changes the future of that one. It's the entire reason Cap brings the stones back to their respective timelines at the end.

Quote from: Flee on May 05, 2019, 01:07:16 PM

Congrats. What kind of degree? Master's?

he said AA

Oh, I had no clue that's what AA stands for. I thought he just missed a letter when trying to type "AMA" again.

Big wins for remainer parties at local elections, and losses for Brexiter parties.

what could this possibly mean

UKIP lost 80% of its seats. Wonderful.

I don't know many Digimon but remember liking the evil clown one when I was a kid.