Obviously endgame spoilers for those that haven't finished the game.



I got all four umbilical cords and ate them, but after killing Gehrman I ended up with the bad ending where the hunt begins again, replacing him as the hunter's guide. What possible other actions were there? All optional bosses were killed, as well.

nvm, I'm a scrub and only ate two. The others were in my inventory. I had a save file uploaded before the fight so it's not a big deal.

Were the programs exposed unconstitutional? Maybe. Personally, I think so.

I don't really understand why people think their opinion matters so much. His argument is pretty much, "I think 'x' because I think the decision in case 'y' should have meant 'z', and that's what I believe." We've got 7 different Congresses upholding it, 14 years of Supreme Court support, the president, directors of the NSA and Secretaries of Defense all agreeing on its legality and necessity.

He proposes we cut the NSA entirely? How absurdly naive and privileged do you have to be to think that such a benign form of intelligence-gathering should be cut? He claims all the data over the past 14 years only tracked down a cab driver donating money? That's fucking dishonest bullshit. You have to be out of your mind to think that having access to a large, continuous stream of analytic data is not vastly helpful in the grand scheme of tracking terrorist cells and coordinating offenses. It's not like a TV show where a tiny piece of data cracks a whole case, it's about establishing profiles and trends to maybe identify weaknesses in the organization and exploit them offensively.

It's rather preposterous that people would still think we have no privacy with third parties when we basically store everything with them today.

What? How is that preposterous? It's a widely accepted notion that we sacrifice privacy for convenience and cheaper access to new technology. Google sells your search and purchase history, tons of websites will sell your phone number or address, Facebook uses the entirety of your posts to target specific advertisements at you...the list is endless. It's not that you have no privacy -- that's the entire point of the FISA court and anonymous algorithms -- it's that you're not entitled to the security of every minute piece of data that is associated with yourself. You know what it takes for police to tap your phone line and listen to your calls? Probable cause and a warrant. You know what it takes for the NSA to reveal even just the phone numbers involved in a flagged call? Articulable evidence that the phone numbers in question were in direct contact with known terrorist cell phone numbers. And to actually read a text, or see name or location data, or heaven forbid they tap a phone? Who knows? But it's far more than simple police procedure, with exponentially higher importance.

The programs are one of the major policy issues we face in my opinion. They are a direct threat to freedom of speech; to give an example, 1 in 6 journalists have considered self-censoring due to surveillance. Another 1/6 have considered it at some point. The surveillance has a history of being used on subversive thinkers, like MLK. Some of the NSA's activities included spying on Occupy Wall Street, which incorrectly, was viewed as a threat to national security.

Oh for fuck's sake. Individuals threatening to withhold their free speech isn't a violation on the part of the government. And to compare the NSA to the surveillance done in the past is absurd; first of all, metadata collection isn't even close to surveillance. It's anonymous and autonomous.

As for Edward Snowden, I appreciate what he did

Yeah, exposing ongoing operations and surveillance techniques, likely compromising allies and covert agents sure is appreciable. The irresponsible, ignorant release of millions of documents without redaction sure is appreciable. Statements like his just make it so much easier to throw his opinion in the trash.

So a commentator on Fox says conservatives should support gay marriage, and you give him shit for doing so?

Well the are Japanese are very homophobic and treat homosexuality is a joke, so a change isn't happening.

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"so what do we do now?"
*cue shot of american flag*
"we rebuild"

that was literally the closing line of the movie. they said that. verbatim. fuck me, what a waste of $8.

Wow, Verby, you really dropped the ball on that script.

I love GRRM's work, but goddamn, he's such a cunt to his fanbase.

>took him more than half a decade to write a ADWD
>is taking him 4 years and counting to write TWOW
>moans about "pressurization" when fans rightfully question his lengthy process of writing
>talks shit about people who like to write fan fiction

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he was just improvising a pretty neat idea he had in 1996 just to keep the money flowing. He already stated the series could possibly extend into another 3 books.

That's ridiculous. I'm on book 4 and it's unforgivably slow. I can't handle another four gigantic books.

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Absolutely. The guy hosted drug trafficking, child porn, weapons trafficking, and potentially (though I believe unconfirmed) criminals for hire including murder. The guy's a scumbag, and there's really no way to excuse it.

Whoa whoa whoa. Silk Road had a very strict policy of no advertisements for child porn, weapons, and assassinations. Don't know where you got that misinformation.

Four Chan better enforces their no CP policy than they did.

Yeah but they didn't endorse it which seems to be what people are trying to say.

That's kind of like torrenting sites saying they don't endorse piracy.

LEGO Batman: The Video Game. It's just so deep and compelling.

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As a Christian I consider marriage to be a literally sacred covenant between two people. Obviously that's not at all the institution we have in the secular world, and in that regard I see marriage as a legal binding between two consenting adults for the purpose of familial stability, economic convenience, social recognition, and a personal bond of love most importantly. Religiously, I'm opposed to polygamy and I don't see a particularly convincing secular argument for why it should be instituted. It seems like, as a society, we're not ready for its implementation by any means. I also think the family unit is essential to social stability, and I'm not really sure how widespread polygamy would affect that.

Closest: Meta, obvi

Furthest: somehow, Challenger and I manage to disagree on basically everything. No matter what subject. I don't even know how it happens, and I think it's kind of funny.

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Absolutely. The guy hosted drug trafficking, child porn, weapons trafficking, and potentially (though I believe unconfirmed) criminals for hire including murder. The guy's a scumbag, and there's really no way to excuse it.

Pretty sure there wasn't any child porn on Silk Road, though.

Definitely was. Ostensibly prohibited by the terms of service, but it was prolific.

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Only problem is that I also am strongly in favor for nationalized health care.

Take it from a Brit--you don't want that.

Go down the Canadian, German, French or even Singaporean route.

I'm just saying that it's better than having to go into surgery and then being bankrupt. Let's say your appendix is about to burst, and you have to go in. You can't help that, it just happens sometimes. That will bankrupt you over here, or cost you a shit ton of money.

Unless you have a nifty thing called 'health insurance'.

But not everyone does, even after the ACA and state programs. I went without insurance for a while because I simply couldn't afford to be taking home any less than 100% of my paycheck.

Defund social security and either allow people to take that money home and spend however they want, direct it to mandated minimum health insurance provided by employers, or keep the deduction the same and funnel it into subsidized healthcare. There are solutions, and it doesn't involve rocket science.

I think all government employees should be provided health care, and all private companies should provide health care. In my opinion, it's a smart investment in the employees and reduces risk. In addition, real healthcare reform needs to revolve around drastically changing the way healthcare is provided in terms of cost and risk, and a complete overhaul of the malpractice system which accounts for much of the staggering costs of procedures.

Can we also address the issues with long term field hygiene and feminine PH balance?

No, that's sexist.