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3451
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:57:18 PM »
OT: Are you trying to 100% the game OP?
Yep. It's one of the only games that seems really fun to finish 100%.
3452
« on: January 19, 2016, 07:18:19 PM »
So apparently my childhood was deprived of joy, because I finally played this for the first time and I have no idea how I managed to experience games like Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Jet Force Gemini, Conker's, or Rayman without playing Banjo Kazooie. I remember picking it once or twice -- maybe in the waiting room at a doctor's office or a demo somewhere -- but I never got into it.
I'm not going to do a review because apparently everybody else has played and loved it, but so far my favorite aspect is the music and sound effects, and my least favorite is the shitty camera control that seemed to exist in most similar games at the time. I'm in Click Clock Wood, which is probably one of the most impressive levels I've ever played in a game. I'm at 100% completion for each level so far without using guides, but I'm not sure about being able to find all the notes in this one.
Anyways, post stuff about this game and how stupid I am for not trying it before.
3453
« on: January 19, 2016, 06:54:02 PM »
The scenes I mention take place in the... Ehm, immediate aftermath of such acts. To be frank I don't think strong sexual content, written or visual, has any place in Star Wars.
I completely agree. I'll check the book out.
3454
« on: January 19, 2016, 06:43:05 PM »
About halfway through Twilight Company. Gets so much better towards the middle.
I'm reading Lost Stars.
Get your sex scenes outta my Star Wars Claudia Gray you fucking heathen.
Sex scenes in a young adult book?
3455
« on: January 19, 2016, 05:38:29 PM »
Why'd you go on such a big kick about consent being the foundation for fun if you're just going to say fun is harmful and meaningless?
Consent is the foundation for all human interaction--not just recreation. Unfortunately, humans are very needy creatures. We need food, clothing, shelter, oxygen, and moments where we can relax and have fun (otherwise, we'll go insane). I consider all of these things burdensome, but we still need all of it.
You recognize that fun is a necessity for survival -- a psychological mechanism to allow our body to reduce stress, recover, and socialize (and I mean that in a broad anthropological sense, not just 'talking') -- and yet you continue to say it's wrong for some reason. I know you're not one to back down especially after being coaxed throughout this entire thread, but I think you can still make a strong, cogent argument for the detrimental effects of alcohol while dropping the point that fun is wrong.
3456
« on: January 19, 2016, 05:29:17 PM »
Fuck self-pleasure, fuck happiness--productivity is all that matters. Fuck happiness.
Why'd you go on such a big kick about consent being the foundation for fun if you're just going to say fun is harmful and meaningless?
3457
« on: January 19, 2016, 05:21:23 PM »
It is kind of pussy-ish to need to drink to be social.
Nobody really does this though except alcoholics, which is universally vilified. People drink socially because it gives you something to do with your friends, and at the same time makes most people more cheerful, relaxed, and open to new experiences. It provides basically the same function as any other shared activity, like a meal, a sport, a movie, etc. To ridicule people for drinking socially is essentially making the argument that socialization is best done devoid of any outside stimuli that could possibly affect your interactions with people. It's inane.
3458
« on: January 19, 2016, 05:06:05 PM »
A lot of the aneswer being felt had to do with blacks not getting as many good roles as whites.
This is completely true.
3459
« on: January 19, 2016, 03:57:27 PM »
Dude, that's insane.
I dig that people don't need that much money, but Goddamn that's a lot going to the government.
Yeah well, when you've got half of the country not paying a dime in income tax and half of the political spectrum seeing spending as a solution to everything, it's not a big surprise.
3460
« on: January 19, 2016, 03:53:55 PM »
Anyone wanna get in on the fun?
Not particularly.
3461
« on: January 19, 2016, 03:52:19 PM »
I'm confused, the 52% tax rate. They take over half of said person's earnings?
Half of anything earned over $10,000,000. A tax rate is only applied to the income within the bracket. Our current brackets are: 10% $0 to $9,275 15% $9,275 to $37,650 25% $37,650 to $91,150 28% $91,150 to $190,150 Under this plan, take someone making $20M for example. Under $10M, they'll be taxed for roughly $4M. For every dollar above $10M, they'll be taxed at 52%, so $5.2M. Their total income tax would be $9.2M out of $20M, with a marginal tax rate (average rate) of 46.1%.
3462
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:51:52 AM »
I usually try to present this stuff without tainting it with my own bias, but I'm sharing this exclusively because of how insane it is. This is the literary embodiment of white, upper-class liberal Westernism. Masturbatory, masochistic, navel-gazing laments about how awful it is to be white and have so much privilege -- simultaneously accusing white people of not recognizing their own privilege while viewing every single political issue from the perspective of an entitled caucasian that thinks people of color just get shit on at every turn, and it's his job to stand up for them. If you can stomach nonsense that drones on well past where it should have ended, read on. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/10/white-man-pathology-bernie-sanders-donald-trumpPreview: Spoiler At this point he asked me to roll down my window. But it was all fine. Like I said, I’m white. For people who love to dwell in contradictions, the US is the greatest country in the world: the land of the free built on slavery, the country of law and order where everyone is entitled to a gun, a place of unimpeded progress where they cling to backwardness out of sheer stubbornness. I’ve never been to a place as white as Iowa. The whiteness of my existence was my iPhone and the fumes of bourbon and beer, and the game from last night and the tingling in my thigh. The tingling in my thigh was my body – the reality I can’t look at because I’m too afraid of my mortality. The fundamental difference between the Trump and Sanders crowd was that the Sanders crowd has more money, the natural consequence of the American contradiction machinery: rich white people can afford to think about socialism, the poor can only afford their anger. The ancient dreams are still so vivid here. In the United States, 240-year-old writings can be recited by heart by people who cannot be described as educated. Documents written by men who owned slaves are spoken of as if they could solve the problems of today and tomorrow and any conceivable future no matter how distant.
Thomas Jefferson believed that the constitution should expire after 19 years, so that the dead would not have dominion over the living. That fate seems to have arrived. The Americans are in constant debates with ghosts and their conversations with dead people are most powerful, most ferocious, at exactly the points where they are most nonsensical. They state defiantly that all men are created equal when any casual observer of life knows they aren’t. They claim that men and women should be judged by the content of their character, when nobody can know the content of another’s character. These dreams, these impossibilities, are the absolute and real foundation of their nation. And the dreams are so entrancing that it’s unclear whether the problem is that the Americans believe them, or that they don’t. It’s supremely childish, either way.
3463
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:42:40 AM »
Older is better, but just date both for a while until you're ready to be exclusive.
3464
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:37:40 AM »
Favorite food?
3465
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:37:22 AM »
Favorite color?
3466
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:37:02 AM »
Favorite book?
3467
« on: January 19, 2016, 08:21:56 AM »
Why not just bump the thread on the first page of Serious?
3468
« on: January 18, 2016, 08:22:49 PM »
Now watch a 12 year old do the same thing: Spoiler He pusses out after 10 seconds.
3469
« on: January 18, 2016, 03:47:18 PM »
And you don't think that's taking a bit of a gamble that might backfire on you?
I just don't understand what you're getting at. Which part of it is a gamble -- that I don't spend all my money hedonistically satisfying all of my desires? That I set aside money so that later in life I can live comfortably without working, or raise kids without fucking up my life? A huge problem with people these days is a complete lack of planning; many young people don't save money or establish credit or build experience or education when they get the chance. That's not a gamble; it's insurance.
3470
« on: January 18, 2016, 03:16:32 PM »
But the point I'm trying to make, is why don't they try to get things done sooner normally without having death or something knock on their door and give them a boot in the ass to move?
That's my question. Why do they need that?
For the same reason. Right now I eat healthy, exercise not entirely for fun, save 20% of my income in a retirement plan, and plan for the future specifically because I assume I'll have one. If I knew I would drop dead in a year, you can be sure I'd do it fifty pounds heavier without a penny to my name, fully satisfied that I'd lived all I could in that year.
But I don't do that now because I assume I'll live well into retirement and have plenty of time to do what needs doing.
You're talking as if there's no middle ground to be had between potentially living your last and living a long life. Kinda disappointing a little bit, don't you think?
I don't understand what you're saying. I don't just wallow in misery while I wait for life to happen, but I hedge my enjoyment of life in preparation for living later.
3471
« on: January 18, 2016, 03:13:44 PM »
Maybe if you kill yourself, you don't get your shit back, or something. I can't think of any other explanation.
Maybe someone else has a better explanation of the mechanic, but the game uses some last recorded location you were at to drop your souls. Retrace your steps backwards from your death. If you jump off a cliff they should appear on top of the cliff, not where you landed.
3472
« on: January 18, 2016, 03:01:18 PM »
But the point I'm trying to make, is why don't they try to get things done sooner normally without having death or something knock on their door and give them a boot in the ass to move?
That's my question. Why do they need that?
For the same reason. Right now I eat healthy, exercise not entirely for fun, save 20% of my income in a retirement plan, and plan for the future specifically because I assume I'll have one. If I knew I would drop dead in a year, you can be sure I'd do it fifty pounds heavier without a penny to my name, fully satisfied that I'd lived all I could in that year. But I don't do that now because I assume I'll live well into retirement and have plenty of time to do what needs doing.
3473
« on: January 18, 2016, 02:43:51 PM »
So, I ask, why should the presence and awareness of death be the extra push you need to get up and do things in your life that matter to you? Because you suddenly know that you have this exact amount of time to work with before you'll never get another chance?
1. You have a homework assignment due tomorrow
2. You have a homework assignment due next month
Which one motivates you to get it done sooner?
Both. The one that's due in a week, obviously, since I have a shorter time frame to work with.
So you understand the answer to your question, but you just want to be argumentative.
3474
« on: January 18, 2016, 01:23:29 PM »
So, I ask, why should the presence and awareness of death be the extra push you need to get up and do things in your life that matter to you? Because you suddenly know that you have this exact amount of time to work with before you'll never get another chance?
1. You have a homework assignment due tomorrow 2. You have a homework assignment due next month Which one motivates you to get it done sooner?
3475
« on: January 18, 2016, 01:21:36 PM »
Welcome to Virginia
I'm sorry you chose Norfolk of all places. Place is a dump.
"Chose"
3476
« on: January 18, 2016, 10:22:05 AM »
http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160117Thought you guys might enjoy reading this. It's nice seeing a story about scientists working so hard on preserving a species, in the midst of constant political drama in the news. As always, the full story is in the article. Here's a selection to get you started: Here's the story: About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there's a bigger island, called Lord Howe Island.
On Lord Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It's a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a "tree lobster" because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world. Local fishermen used to put them on fishing hooks and use them as bait.
Then one day in 1918, a supply ship, the S.S. Makambo from Britain, ran aground at Lord Howe Island and had to be evacuated. One passenger drowned. The rest were put ashore. It took nine days to repair the Makambo, and during that time, some black rats managed to get from the ship to the island, where they instantly discovered a delicious new rat food: giant stick insects. Two years later, the rats were everywhere and the tree lobsters were gone.
Totally gone. After 1920, there wasn't a single sighting. By 1960, the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryococelus australis, was presumed extinct.
There was a rumor, though.
Some climbers scaling Ball's Pyramid in the 1960s said they'd seen a few stick insect corpses lying on the rocks that looked "recently dead." But the species is nocturnal, and nobody wanted to scale the spire hunting for bugs in the dark.
[...]
What happens next? The story is simple: A bunch of black rats almost wiped out a bunch of gigantic bugs on a little island far, far away from most of us. A few dedicated scientists, passionate about biological diversity, risked their lives to keep the bugs going. For the bugs to get their homes and their future back doesn't depend on scientists anymore. They've done their job. Now it's up to the folks on Lord Howe Island.
3477
« on: January 18, 2016, 09:46:43 AM »
Basically just practice parrying anything with a spear, just shield out the rest and poke.
I'd like to know his current build so we can kinda know how he's going to play. I usually play the somewhat quick lad with heavy hitting weapons, kind of a best of both worlds thing.
Usually, in any game that allows you to boost your stats, I try to make my character a jack-of-all-trades, even if it's not necessarily a good idea to do so.
Not a good idea in Souls, but once you unlock equipment upgrades your stats become less important.
3478
« on: January 17, 2016, 10:24:20 PM »
3479
« on: January 17, 2016, 08:44:19 PM »
can you parry
Sort of?
Parrying isn't an essential skill. Get the enemy's timing down first, then practice parrying them.
3480
« on: January 17, 2016, 08:40:06 PM »
"So how would you like your healthcare?" "Just fuck my shit up." Individuals would pay a 2.2 percent "premium" and employers would pay a 6.2 percent payroll tax to fund the healthcare plan. Individuals making $250,000 to $500,000 a year would pay a tax rate of 37 percent and those making more than $10 million would pay a 52 percent tax rate, according to details provided about the plan. "Thanks fam"
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