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Serious / Re: Trump was right, and you should be angry.
« on: June 04, 2016, 10:32:40 AM »
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"But let me get something straight," he continues. "A wall isn't going to change anything, new mandatory minimums for illegal migrants will only fill up these prisons and Americans can't afford to keep it up. So everyone might as well just take a deep breath, enjoy the Donald Trump show, but realize all 30 million illegals—yes, I said 30 million, because I think there is way more that 11 million—are here to stay. Our people run the border, they are ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement], we are becoming the law, and it's only matter of time before we take over Congress.

"Just get over it, people," Sepulveda says. "It's going to be OK."

Anyone living in a border state without their head up their ass has known this reality for quite some time. It's often just chalked up to southern-state racism in the media, though.

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Gaming / Re: Possible Halo Wars 2 Artwork
« on: June 04, 2016, 10:00:46 AM »
>energy warhammer

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Gaming / Re: Overwatch
« on: June 03, 2016, 05:57:21 PM »
I may just have to get this game sometime.
Not cross-platform; don't care anymore.

There are no PS4/Xbox cross-platform games, and PC players have a significant advantage over console players in shooters.

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Serious / Top-tier banter from Clinton on Trump
« on: June 03, 2016, 11:08:15 AM »
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/06/02/trump-literally-said-all-those-things/

I don't normally just copy entire articles without commenting, but holy shit:

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This is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia.

ANDERSON COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?

TRUMP: Saudi Arabia, absolutely.

This is someone who has threatened to abandon our allies in NATO – the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before the strike us at home.

TRUMP: “We don't really need NATO in its current form. NATO is obsolete… if we have to walk, we walk.”

He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008.

TRUMP: “I’ve borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts... I would borrow knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.”

He has said that he would order our military to carry out torture...

TRUMP: “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works… Waterboarding is fine, but it’s not nearly tough enough, ok?”

and the murder of civilians who are related to suspected terrorists...

TRUMP: "The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families”

even though those are war crimes.

TRUMP: “They won’t refuse. They’re not going to refuse me, If I say do it, they’re going to do it.”

He says he doesn’t have to listen to our generals or ambassadors, because he has – quote – “a very good brain.”

TRUMP: “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things...my primary consultant is myself”

He also said, “I know more about ISIS than the generals, believe me.”

TRUMP: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.”

You know what?  I don’t believe him.

TRUMP: “We don't even really know who the leader [of ISIS] is.”

He believes climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese...

TRUMP: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

and has the gall to say prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes.

TRUMP: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured, ok? I hate to tell you.”

He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin...

TRUMP: "I will tell you, in terms of leadership, he's getting an 'A,' and our president is not doing so well.”

and picks fights with our friends – including the British prime minister…

TRUMP: "It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship. Who knows?"

the mayor of London…

TRUMP: "Let's take an I.Q. test... I think they're very rude statements and frankly, tell him, I will remember those statements."

the German chancellor…

TRUMP: “What Merkel has done is incredible, it’s actually mind boggling. Everyone thought she was a really great leader and now she’s turned out to be this catastrophic leader. And she’ll be out if they don’t have a revolution.”

the president of Mexico…

TRUMP: “I don't know about the Hitler comparison [President Nieto made]. I hadn't heard that, but it's a terrible comparison. I'm not happy about that certainly. I don't want that comparison, but we have to be strong and we have to be vigilant”

and the Pope.

TRUMP: “I don’t think [the Pope] understands the danger of the open border that we have with Mexico. I think Mexico got him to [criticize the wall] it because they want to keep the border just the way it is. They’re making a fortune, and we’re losing.”

He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.

TRUMP: “I know Russia well. I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago, Miss Universe contest, which was a big, big, incredible event.”

And to top it off, he believes America is weak.  An embarrassment.

TRUMP: "I think we've become very weak and ineffective."

He called our military a disaster.

TRUMP: “Our military is a disaster.”

He said we’re – quote – a “third-world country.”

TRUMP: “We have become a third world country, folks.”

That’s why it’s no small thing when he talks about leaving NATO or says he’ll stay neutral on Israel’s security.

TRUMP: “Let me be sort of a neutral guy.”

It’s no small thing when he calls Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers.

TRUMP: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

And it’s no small thing when he suggests that America should withdraw our military support for Japan, encourage them to get nuclear weapons...

TRUMP: “And frankly, the case could be made, that let them protect themselves against North Korea. They’d probably wipe them out pretty quick.”

and said this about a war between Japan and North Korea – and I quote – “If they do, they do.  Good luck, enjoy yourself, folks.”

TRUMP: “And if they fight, you know what, that would be a terrible thing, terrible. Good luck folks, enjoy yourself…if they do, they do”

Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about Iran or its nuclear program.  Ask him.  It’ll become clear very quickly.

TRUMP: “When those restrictions expire, Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go." (Politifact: False.)

There’s no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf-course deal.  But it doesn’t work like that in world affairs.  Just like being interviewed on the same episode of “60 Minutes” as Putin is not the same as actually dealing with Putin.

TRUMP: “I got to know him very well, because we were both on 60 minutes, we were stablemates and we did very well that night. You know that.”

He wants to start a trade war with China.

TRUMP: "These dummies say, 'Oh, that's a trade war. Trade war? We're losing $500 billion in trade with China. Who the hell cares if there's a trade war?”

And I have to say, I don’t understand Donald’s bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.  He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre; he said it showed strength.

TRUMP: “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

He said, “You’ve got to give Kim Jong Un credit” for taking over North Korea – something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie.

TRUMP: "And you've got to give him credit. How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals…. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games.”

And he said that, if he were grading Vladimir Putin as a leader, he’d give him an A.

TRUMP: "I will tell you, in terms of leadership, he's getting an 'A,'

What’s Trump’s [ISIS plan]?  He won’t say.  He is literally keeping it a secret.  The secret, of course, is he has no idea what he’d do to stop ISIS.

TRUMP: “I do know what to do and I would know how to bring ISIS to the table or beyond that, defeat ISIS very quickly and I’m not going to tell you what is… All I can tell you it is a foolproof way of winning.”

Just look at the few things he actually has said on the subject. He actually said – quote – “maybe Syria should be a free zone for ISIS.”  That’s right – let a terrorist group have control of a major country in the Middle East.

TRUMP: It's really rather amazing, maybe Syria should be a free zone for ISIS, let them fight and then you pick up the remnants.

Then he said we should send tens of thousands of American ground troops to the Middle East to fight ISIS.

TRUMP: "We really have no choice. We have to knock out ISIS. We have to knock the hell out of them… I would listen to the generals but I'm hearing numbers of 20,000 to 30,000. We have to knock them out fast."

He also refused to rule out using nuclear weapons against ISIS, which would mean mass civilian casualties.

TRUMP: “I’m never going to rule anything out—I wouldn’t want to say [if I’d use nuclear weapons against ISIS.]”

Trump says over and over again, “The world is laughing at us.”  He’s been saying this for decades.

TRUMP (1999): "[Saudi Arabians] take such advantage of us with the oil... and they laugh at this country.

TRUMP (2010): "I know many of the people in China, I know many of the big business people, and they're laughing at us.”

TRUMP (2011): “We have become a laughingstock, the world’s whipping boy”

TRUMP (2012): “The world is laughing at us."

TRUMP (2013): “After Syria, our enemies are laughing!”

TRUMP (2014): “Mexican leadership has been laughing at us for many years”

TRUMP (2015): “The Persians are great negotiators. They are laughing at the stupidity of the deal we’re making”

TRUMP (2016): “We can't afford to be so nice and so foolish anymore. Our country is in trouble. ISIS is laughing at us.”

He bought full-page ads in newspapers across the country back in 1987, when Reagan was President, saying that America lacked a backbone and the world was – you guessed it – laughing at us.

TRUMP (1987): "The world is laughing at America's politicians as we protect ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need, destined for allies who won't help… "Let's not let our great country be laughed at anymore."

And it matters when he makes fun of disabled people...

TRUMP: “Now the poor guy -- you oughta see this guy [imitating disabled reporter] ‘aaah, I don’t know what I said, aaah, I don’t remember.’”

calls women pigs...

TRUMP: “Does everybody know that pig named Rosie O’Donnell? She’s a disgusting pig, right?”

proposes banning an entire religion from our country...

TRUMP: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.”

or plays coy with white supremacists.

TRUMP: "I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."


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The Flood / Blue Angel 6 was killed in crash yesterday
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:52:41 AM »
http://airshowstuff.com/v4/2016/blue-angel-6-killed-in-crash-during-smyrna-tn-practice/

Captain Jeff Kuss was practicing a split-s maneuver shortly after takeoff (a regular part of the Blue Angels airshow), in which he rolls inverted and levels out the opposite direction. He lost control and put the aircraft in a field rather than ejecting and letting it crash into a nearby bowling alley (this is largely speculation but has been supported by various accounts).

Just saw these guys preflighting their jets on the way in to work yesterday. These guys haven't had a crash in over a decade, and I can't imagine what they and their families are going through right now. Coincidentally, the Air Force equivalent team, the Thunderbirds, also had a crash earlier yesterday morning after performing at a graduation ceremony in which the president was speaking; their pilot safely ejected.

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Gaming / Re: Uncharted series - first impressions
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:32:13 AM »
Uncharted 1 is clunky as hell but its okay I guess. I wouldn't say it aged well but the Nathan Drake Collection fixed some stuff even though it still feels sluggish.

What're your thoughts on just watching the remaining cutscenes on YouTube and just skipping ahead to Uncharted 2?

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The Flood / Re: What is this from
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:19:40 AM »
http://freefonix.wikia.com/wiki/Freefonix

Literally just Google reverse image search

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The Flood / Re: Communism vs Capitalism
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:14:07 AM »
Probably communism, because everyone gets fucked equally.

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Gaming / Uncharted series - first impressions
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:13:06 AM »
So I'm making my way through the Nathan Drake collection to build up to Uncharted 4, and I figured I'd share some first impressions. Not a full review or a narrated playthrough like Verb's doing.

I'm only on Uncharted 1 right now, and I'm really hoping the series gets better from here.
Good:
-Great voice acting, animation, and writing (even if it's unoriginal)
-Solid pacing (the 'tutorial' stage transitions seamlessly into the normal game)
-Doesn't include unnecessary origin stuff or backstory info

Bad:
-The game is frustratingly linear
-The climbing is superior to the first Assassin Creed (released around the same time) but is linear and the camera is often locked in awkward places
-The shooting elements are mediocre and don't add anything to the game except to provide filler between puzzles
-Puzzles are...kind of stupid.
-The camera and lighting make it difficult to solve puzzles or figure out where to go

Overall it's a fun game but I'm just trying to blow through it in the hopes that the later games improve on these issues.

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The Flood / Re: X-Men: Apocalypse
« on: June 03, 2016, 10:02:53 AM »
Olivia munn is 10/10 tho

I liked her on AotS but now she just gets fanservice roles.

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The Flood / Re: I have a question about Syrio.
« on: June 03, 2016, 09:46:37 AM »
He didn't have a sword, though.

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Doesn't seem like a particularly good alternative to current solar cells, since the potential electrical energy of rain from the sodium is pretty weak, and piezoelectric materials appear to already do a much better job at harvesting energy from rain or wind, even in experimental stages.

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The Flood / Spoiler X-Men: Apocalypse
« on: June 03, 2016, 09:40:12 AM »
Kinda sucked, right?

Michael Fassbender was good, but beyond that the talented actors are completely wasted (Oscar Isaac is great, but his character is incredibly boring), and don't forget to include the  JLaw dickriding that every movie she's in needs, despite the fact that she has one acting setting: pissed off rebel teenager. She basically does nothing in the movie, and her mutant powers are never used to accomplish anything. James McAvoy tries his damndest to keep a straight face during some of the stupidest Professor X writing in any X-Men movie, especially when he gets into a fist fight with goddamn Apocalypse. The action was almost entirely an actor floating in front of a green screen while yelling, the entire Weapon-X arc was filler, and Sansa Stark still can't emote to save her life.

Other stupid stuff:
-Prologue: huge pyramid is completely demolished by two conveniently place blocks, somehow
-50% of the movie is slow motion CGI scenes of dust and debris floating around
-JLaw's speech at the end
-Jean ex machina
-Magneto, a genius mutant with prolonged life did not realize there was metal in the ground
-Apocalypse can instantly disintegrate anything, but decides to go easy on the X-Men
-Psylocke's supercharged power is just...a slightly bigger purple sword thing?
-Olivia Munn was in the movie
-Bad guys' armor looked like cosplay
-Good guys fly from Alkali Lake (west coast USA) to Cairo in about 5 minutes

Last Stand/10

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Props for killing Quelaag. Even after multiple playthroughs she still gives me trouble.

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The Flood / Re: "Outside dog"
« on: June 02, 2016, 02:23:49 PM »
many cultures don't view dogs as members of the family like most American families do. For example when I visited my family in Italy a few years back they owned a couple dogs, but the animals were all kept outside on either a chain or in a fenced area, and their purpose was to watch and guard the area. they didn't view them as pets but as assets.

That's kind of different though -- they're bred and trained to be guard dogs. Most outdoor dogs treated as pets  are essentially neglected.

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The Flood / Re: "Outside dog"
« on: June 02, 2016, 12:27:33 PM »
"Outdoor dog"

aka

"I'm a lazy, shitty dog owner"

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Don't be a Jody, bro.

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The Flood / Re: if i were to start watching anime
« on: June 02, 2016, 10:02:08 AM »
One season should be plenty unless you're dealing with shonen like Naruto or One Piece with 700+ episodes.

A lot of animes are just a single season and then a few OVAs anyway.

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The Flood / Re: DON'T TALK TO ME OR MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER EVER AGAIN
« on: June 01, 2016, 03:08:57 PM »
Verb, there's not much use in trying to tell someone else what is or isn't important to them.

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Serious / Re: YO WHAT THE FUCK MY NIGGA
« on: June 01, 2016, 03:07:07 PM »
No issue here.

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The Flood / Re: DON'T TALK TO ME OR MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER EVER AGAIN
« on: June 01, 2016, 12:01:08 PM »
Did Rowling even have a say in the cast? She's a shark-jumping, pandering hack, but this is pretty inoffensive.

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The Flood / Re: How to sleep for more than 8 hours
« on: June 01, 2016, 09:36:29 AM »
Melatonin + blackout curtains

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The Flood / Re: FFL alternatives
« on: June 01, 2016, 09:35:22 AM »
You're gonna need a passport to leave your country, regardless.

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The Flood / Re: vfd means volunteer fire department
« on: June 01, 2016, 09:34:34 AM »
The books are great though.

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The Flood / Re: FFL alternatives
« on: June 01, 2016, 09:30:47 AM »
Peace Corps
Any missionary/humanitarian work
Any security contractors (though you'll often run into a requirement for combat experience)


I'm sure ISIS would take some young western volunteers, too.

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The Flood / Re: Just another day on the job
« on: June 01, 2016, 09:27:12 AM »
The Fountainhead is pretty decent tbh, fam

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The Flood / Re: Hanging, electric chair or gas chamber
« on: May 31, 2016, 10:07:07 PM »
Gas chamber. Insufficient poison means I live. Electrocution and suffocation would be horrible.

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Serious / Re: Crouching Libertarian, hidden Democrat
« on: May 31, 2016, 05:56:20 PM »
VPs are pretty harmless, though. Just look at how completely absent from the political sphere Biden has been.

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I'm sure many events have influenced my worldview, but I can't point to any one in particular. I definitely have changed my beliefs after months of discussion about some event, like Benghazi or the Snowden leak.

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