Wish something could happen to cause an influx of new members.

I definitely prefer Steam and consider it a superior platform, but even if Epic's launcher was just as good, I still really dislike third party devs making games exclusive.

A perfect example is Bloodborne. I love the Souls series and I'd love to try Bloodborne as well, but I don't own a PS4 and so it's not an option for me. Destiny was another good example. Xbox players payed the same price as PS4 players and yet received a version of the game with significantly less content; in a game with too little content at launch to begin with.

I detest these types of things in gaming.

Is this completely separate from the DCEU then?

Word, the design of the characters isn't amazing or anything. I was never huge on the vanilla character designs from 2 either, aside from Zero, though none of them were bad or anything. Hopefully they'll still have interesting and fun abilities and play styles, and maybe skins and heads can make them a bit less boring.

So it was announced a few days ago finally. This is probably the only upcoming game that I have any degree of hype for. I haven't felt any sort of anticipation for a game since Dark Souls 3. I just hope they release it on Steam. I'm not really a fan of having to use multiple different game launchers.

I've heard people complain that it looks more like a BL2 DLC, that the graphics aren't really improved much at all, but honestly I think the graphics are perfect and I don't really care to have much more than an updated BL2 experience with new characters, guns, and a new campaign.

Edit, whoops can Flee or Cheat move this shit to gaming, idk why I thought I was still in that forum when I posted smh.

Sleep or lots of distractions. Sleep will only work if it's daytime, however. If I'm stressed at night then it will always come with terrible insomnia.

I've thought for years that I should give meditation a shot again but I'm a horrible procrastinator and all I can seem to manage is wasting time.

Your immune system is gonna be wrecked.

Nah, never have. My life isn't interesting enough to document anyways.

I had bought a few games I never played or finished like Prey, Doom, Shadow of Mordor, among others, but I don't really plan on playing through or finishing them any time soon. I haven't been as into gaming as I used to be the past few years.

leadership figures within the alt right like Bannon

Bannon is right wing, but is he a white nationalist though? As far as I know, the alt right is defined as being a white identitarian movement.

I see the term alt right thrown around constantly to refer to anyone controversial or prominent on the right, even people like Ben Shapiro who is Jewish and hated by the alt-right. I don't understand how so many people can just casually label various run-of-the-mill conservatives as being white supremacist.

Fucking FOSTA-SESTA ruining the internet. Although, I don't really give a shit about tumblr.

People need to recognize that it's very important to at least try to have a dialogue with the other side, and to advocate for that. It's not going to be easy and I don't think anyone is expecting it to be. But this increasingly pervasive attitude within our society/culture that the other side isn't just wrong but is actually evil, beyond reasoning or redemption, and that discourse with them is somehow a bad thing is just an absolutely abhorrent idea, in my eyes, and a serious threat to society as a whole.

Sorry, but I just don't believe PewDiePie fosters racist or sexist ideas. I don't know what this vile community you're talking about is, I haven't seen it. The "community" I have seen, his fanbase, is full of a very diverse range of people. The guy has nearly 90 million subscribers, and you are bound to have virtually every type of person within that many people, good or bad. PewDiePie has made some mistakes, but it's pretty obvious to me that he doesn't advocate for racist or sexist ideas and I'm not going to hold him responsible for what fringe wackos do or say in his name when he doesn't condone it and has no control over these people. Some people might say he shouldn't be edgy when he has such a large subscriber base, but I don't believe his right to be edgy should be forfeit because of that.

Obviously this was a horrible tragedy, and I can't even imagine how all the people affected are feeling right now.

Aside from that, however, something that really bothers me is that apparently this guy's ultimate goal was to exacerbate the division in the current culture war and create more division and hatred between the two sides. From what I've heard, his manifesto talked about working towards the balkanization of society, causing non-identitarians to begin taking sides with identitarian movements, ultimately leading to a race war.

Now people are pointing fingers at each other and using this tragedy as a tool to attack their political opposition (as they do with virtually any high-profile news event, terrorism or not), and they're giving the shooter the exact thing he wanted.

Quote from: Aether on March 14, 2019, 11:06:09 PM

Yeah I'm pretty much of the belief that anyone should be allowed to exercise their rights as long as they aren't infringing upon another person's rights.

Do you think that extends to speech as well?

I think people even have the right to express that other people shouldn't have certain rights, as long as they aren't inciting violence. (things like saying, "these people shouldn't be allowed to vote or to own property." "these people shouldn't be allowed due process.")  The line for me is drawn where expressing their opinion turns into actually encouraging people to go and infringe upon other's rights.

What I am unsure about is people shouting down others. If someone is speaking in a public space and others come to disrupt their speech and prevent them from being heard, I feel like they technically have a legal right to do that as long as they are just "speaking" themselves, but I think our culture shouldn't promote that kind of behavior. People should protest as much as they want to, but let the person you're protesting say what they're going to say, especially if other people want to hear it.

I really just want Ironman to be the one to land the final blow and end the villain, whether or not he ends up sacrificing himself in the process. He and Doctor Strange are definitely my favorites of all the heros as they're just regular humans who managed to attain power through their own respective means and hold their own against a superior being like Thanos with the gauntlet.

At the very least, I'm going to be extremely disappointed if Captain Marvel just swoops in and saves the day entirely since she's supposed to be the strongest now. I don't expect that would happen, so hopefully I'm right.