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The Flood / Steak Reminder
« on: May 26, 2016, 07:50:54 PM »
REMINDER: If you eat steak with ketchup you should be forcefully removed from the gene pool.

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Gaming / Comfy/cool shit in video games
« on: May 24, 2016, 10:53:00 PM »
>Play an RPG
>There's a desert themed city
>There's also a tower dungeon with 4+ floors



FFXII spoiled me so going back to XIII is hard but Taejin's Tower is always fun, and Dahaka was a was a difficult yet fun challenge at the end.

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The Flood / Having a child or kicked in the balls, more painful?
« on: May 23, 2016, 11:35:12 AM »
Upon extended time standing in a urinal, my mind wanders during the moments of bliss. It's at these times where some of my best cognitive works take form. Namely in this instance, the answer to the age old question:

Which is more painful: Going into labor or being kicked in the balls?

Well the answer is quite simple and easily: Being kicked in the balls.

Some may be baffled by this response, but I assure you that upon researching this with several males and females, this is the only correct answer. Upon questioning mothers whether or not they would be willing to have another child, I'll get answers such as "Of course" or if they don't something like "I don't have the money or time" whereas if I ask a man if they would ever want to be kicked in the balls again, it's a universal "No." If labor is so painful, there is no logical reason to want to go into it again which a conflicted number of women would say they do, whereas no man has ever said to me he wants to be kicked in the balls again.

I rest my case.

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Gaming / FFXIV Channel
« on: May 22, 2016, 10:05:33 PM »
YouTube


What should I do to my unedited gameplay videos to attract views? I have a shitty headset and I'm afraid of recording my own voice.

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The Flood / Literally worst than a nightmare last night
« on: May 20, 2016, 05:20:21 AM »
I keep my computer on when I go to sleep, probably haven't shut down my computer in a solid three weeks. Woke up this morning to my computer strangely making a reboot noise. I turned on the screen and saw that it was trying to install Windows 10. I instantly yanked out the power cord screaming obscenities and put it back in to see if the computer was still worth saving (better having a wasted $2k computer with W8.1 than a perfectly fine W10). Everything works fine and okay and it's back to 8.1 but I had to go and turn off auto-updates.

Easily the most horrifying experience in my life.

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The Flood / AMA Wasn't invited to a friends wedding AMA
« on: May 19, 2016, 08:48:00 PM »
Kind of upset by this. A buddy of mine I've known since middle school is getting married in August and didn't invite me but goes and invites my brother in Cincinnati. I don't recall anything negative happening considering he was over just a month ago to talk computers with me. I'm really confused by this but my brother says he'll talk to him and see if anything is up.

AMA I guess....

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Just had to call Square Enix support because I couldn't login into PlayOnline. Had to give the guy my Square Enix account username "TheFriskyIan".......

Remember folks, when coming up with a username, think about how you might need to give it to somebody in account support over the phone. I could literally hear him holding in laughing. Well at least I get to go back to playing FFXI....

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The Flood / 2016 Ghostbusters Reminder, a friendly PSA
« on: May 17, 2016, 10:31:14 PM »
Reminder: You are NOT a misogynist just because you refuse to watch a bad movie that is bound to flop by the laws of physics.

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Lately the cries of "Misogyny" have become more and more unbearable as of late. The trailer looked like shit, the CGI was awful, the jokes were cringey, and ultimately it failed to entice people to go see the movie. Just because a movie has a bad trailer doesn't mean it's shit, but it DOES hurt the movie's view since it's supposed to show what to expect, and this new Ghostbusters certainly left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

James here tells it how it is, this movie is going to flop and it's going to flop on the fact it is a cheap cash grab and no amount of snobby SJW critic bitching is going to stop the inevitable trainwreck that is 2016 Ghostbusters.

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Serious / Just one more month UK posters
« on: May 17, 2016, 02:12:50 PM »
You guys get to vote in just over a month on whether or not you want to leave the EU.

You guys can do it, I believe in you. The UK will make The Great Escape. I sincerely hope none of you are fed lies into believing the EU is somehow beneficial to you.

Unnecessary overreach does not trump your independence.

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The Flood / I'm in over my head
« on: May 16, 2016, 12:49:09 PM »
I picked up an extra shift today at Animal Kingdom and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I'm sitting in the break room right now freaking out because I don't know what to do when I clock in or where to go.

Please comfort me ;_;

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Serious / Bars in NYC can not refuse alcohol to a pregnant woman
« on: May 15, 2016, 05:16:05 AM »
The grand ol Imperial City is currently at it again, now with a warped definition of "pervasive" and "discriminatory".

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For the first time, the city is explicitly prohibiting restaurants and bars from refusing alcoholic drink orders to mothers-to-be, with new guidelines that say doing so would represent discrimination under the city’s Human Rights Law.

“While covered entities may attempt to justify certain categorical exclusions based on maternal or fetal safety, using safety as a pretext for discrimination or as a way to reinforce traditional gender norms or stereotypes is unlawful,” the guidance released by the Commission on Human Rights on Friday says.

Here's a little gold nugget from the aspiring hopefuls in that God forsaken city:

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“I looked forward to my Friday night margarita during each of my pregnancies, and I think they contributed to a happier, healthier pregnancy for both mom and baby,” wrote one New York Times commenter.

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Septagon / Been having site issues lately
« on: May 11, 2016, 06:02:55 PM »
Yesterday I had some form of an error that prevented me from getting on for about half an hour, and an hour ago I had a 502 Bad Gateway. All the "Isitdown" sites kept saying Sep7 was fine but I know that's bullshit because I couldn't get on through my phone either.

Has anyone else had trouble with the sites the past few days or is it just my location?

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The Flood / I've sewed the seeds of a lazy cat
« on: May 11, 2016, 12:29:20 AM »
For whatever reason, I've had some allergic symptoms come up whenever I'm around Mordred. As a result, I don't really play with him as much as I used to, which leads to the result of him being lazy and just lays around all day either crying for more food or sleeping.

Well that has in turn came back to bite me in the ass. I just went to take a piss and I'm greeted with a fucking roach on the wall. After having PTSD-like flashbacks of when I tried to kill them myself and they evolved to flying, I immediately went and fetched Mordred to have Sir Fatass of Wales do some good for his home land for once. Unfortunately, he just stared at the roach idling on the wall and then turned around, walked away for a bit, and dropped onto his side right on the floor outside the hallway.

So now I have a bathroom on lock down until tomorrow morning when I can get some pesticide from my mom's house, a lazy cat in the middle of the room just staring off into space, and I really need to pee.

What do.

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The Flood / AMA Completed my Sazabi HG AMA
« on: May 10, 2016, 05:36:26 PM »
Despite not being a Space Nazi, I can't help but appreciate the more menacing design of the Zeon's Mobile Suits over that of the Federation designs which is basically either a bright multicolored Samurai or a silly looking robot with guns on its shoulders.

Spoiler

Anyways, AMA.

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The Flood / How to cope with being a bad driver
« on: May 05, 2016, 05:29:11 PM »
On the way home I almost caused an accident. I was doing a left turn, the green arrow for a left turn didn't appear but I noticed when watching the cars in front of me go, there was like a three second delay between the oncoming traffic stopping and the traffic to our right going which gave one car enough time to make a left turn before the traffic started.

I tried doing the same but there was no three second delay and having already committed I drove right in front of a guy who was already in the middle of the intersection. There was no honking or yelling behind me, but I still know I did a really dick move and put at least three people in danger. I feel fucking awful and I really wish I could slap myself half an hour into the past.

How do I cope with being the fucking douche of the road my parents always warned me about?

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The Flood / Absolutely Typical
« on: May 04, 2016, 10:44:20 PM »
I need to be up at 5am but of course I can't fall asleep and my body is super hot so I end up sweating under the blanket.

This happens literally every night before my work week starts and it pisses me off because I'm going to get no sleep and I'l be more miserable than I need to be on my "Monday". I'm not taking sleeping pills because I'll just sleep through my alarm, and I already have my AC running at fucking 73 in the house. Does anyone have any ways at cooling down my room some more? Although I'm starting to think my body is just over heating instead of the room.

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The Flood / Cooking with Ian, I need help
« on: May 02, 2016, 03:13:30 PM »
Got four chicken breasts thawed and ready to go. What the fuck can I do with them?

I have in my pantry: Some seasoning, two cubic fucktons of rice, Kraft mac'n'cheese. In my fridge I have: Some soy sauce, Mexican blend shredded cheese, some butter.

I eat out mostly, and I haven't gone grocery shopping in almost two weeks.

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The Flood / Sunday Night Muthafuckas! DND Edition!
« on: May 01, 2016, 08:55:52 PM »


SUNDAY NIGHT MUTHAFUCKAS!

WATCHAN, PLAYAN, LISTENAN, EATAN, DRINKAN, FEELAN!

What you up to Sep7?!

This would be a DND night for me, but my group kicked me out because I kept trying to go over the top and push the line, and they said I crossed it after I dropped a house on another player and deflected an anvil with my fist.

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The Flood / ITT: Objective Truths
« on: April 29, 2016, 07:22:15 PM »


Toy Story > The Incredibles > Inside Out > WALL-E > Up > Finding Nemo > The rest of their films > Cars

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Everything below for those to lazy to click link.

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With Nico Nico Super Conference 2016 gearing up, director Hideaki Anno will be talking about his latest film Godzilla Resurgence. Twitter has flooded with pictures of a "ShinGoji" maquette at the event, giving fans a more detailed look at Godzilla's new, shockingly mangled and decidedly polarizing look.

Love it or hate it, the maquette's extreme detail gives us a more thorough look at the most mutated looking Godzilla design yet--Sporting what appears to be seven rows of spines and a massive, serpentine tail. There even seems to be a hint of inspiration from the initial, 1954 concept art of Godzilla's head resembling a mushroom cloud. Take a look below.

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The Flood / Khara specifically hiring animators for Shin Eva
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:14:42 PM »
IT'S REALLY REALLY HAPPENING!

Original text:
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募集要項 2016年4月28日更新 エヴァンゲリオン次回作を含む、弊社スタッフを募集いたします。

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Application Guidelines 2016 April 28 update including the Evangelion next work, we will recruit our staff. Student, does not matter experience. Please apply to specify the employment start hope time as the best match.

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Gaming / Final Fantasy XI Reboot
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:16:46 AM »
Square Enix and their partnership with Nexon finally released some news on the Vana'diel Project announced a while back. They are currently making headway in their attempt to reboot FFXI to the mobile market. It is said that will offer the same amount of content and quality XI had up to Chains of Promathia.

And personally? I think this is dog trash no matter how much gold paint SE tries to put over it. They have been squeezing the mobile cows tit for far too long now and they should've just made a FFXI HD for the current console generation/PC, or a single player FFXI for current consoles/PC. The current FFXI isn't going to last much longer (which is a shame since I only have three hours of playtime on it), and as such they need to keep all of their main numbered titles available for people, but having one be available only on Mobile is such a shitty business move.

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The Flood / ITT: KS Objective Truths
« on: April 27, 2016, 08:01:02 PM »
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Hanako > Lily > Emi = Shizune > Shit > Dog shit > Rin

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The Flood / Dear Psy, I hate you
« on: April 27, 2016, 06:29:28 PM »
But only for the next 24 hours. During this time frame, I will be a total jerk to you.

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But afterwards you're back to being cool again.

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The Flood / Tolkienism and the decline of fantasy tales
« on: April 24, 2016, 06:29:07 PM »
I cooked this up a while back when Skyrim launched, found the file sitting in one of the random folders in The Archive on my HDD. Although quite some time has passed since Skyrim's launch and now, my opinion on the subject unsurprisingly has remained unchanged.

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It's unfortunate that medieval fantasy tales have reached this point, but it's more unfortunate that the opinion of the masses do not agree with the claim that is about to be made. That claim being the fantasy stories are on a decline in terms of quality, and ironically the problem stems from the man who once breathed new life into and is now no longer able to influence it with his works anymore. This man of course is J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkienism while not in any way negative by its own right, has led to the disappointing state of story telling within this genre.

This is by no means a criticism of Tolkien's work. He is one of the best world builder's of his time if not of all time. His attention to detail is without equal in this day and age and no one's fantasy work has been more expertly studied than his. Looking at the different cultures, geography, characters, and social norms of Middle-Earth, the amount of work, effort, and sheer love of story telling is within every aspect of every story within this universe. Simple locations such as a barren cave, or a small stronghold seemingly in the middle of nowhere appears more important or somehow has vital importance simply by how it's played off. As stated before, Tolkien clearly has a talent for bringing out a made up universe and incorporating enough elements to make it feel as alive as possible.

However, it is this blinding success of his work that has led to the genre's downfall. Usually when some form or type in a media/medium reaches mass appeal, it dies out and what's left gives content creators of this type a bit more freedom and how to express this. What I mean by this, I'll use the example of vampires in popular media. After the ever popular Dracula we see vampires go by one after the other almost likes clones of each other, but in today's view they have taken on different elements, traits, and standards than what was previously defined as a "vampire".

Medieval Fantasy however, does not allow for this. In the place of evolving and crafting new interpretations of familiar aspects, Tolkienism instead has made the genre become reliant on a very rigid and very specific set of rules. A perfect example of this problem would be the concept of dragons. Dragons are by far the most damaged by this system of Tolkienism. If one wanted to write a fantastic tale about dragons, you better make them as real as possible. Wings must always be a part of the front limbs/arms, a rough/leather-like hide, and can not have too much of a neck but not too small as well. Indeed dragons are the most restricted in the genre, and Tolkienists take pride that their view of dragons is much more life-like than the story tellers of say, the far-east which either have them as nothing more than giant snakes with wings or they are criticized for having too many fantastical elements to them (four limbs plus wings, furry hide, too slimmed).

And it is this very structured set of rules that is throttling the genre. You can't branch out from what Tolkienism has defined or your work will be criticized as being too fantastical; however isn't that ultimately the point of the genre? Create a village with houses made of flowers atop tress, that will be condemned. Create forests that have you imagine a world full of vibrant colors of blue, green, red, and it will be criticized for being too child-like. Do you have a universe where goblins, orcs, elves, and trolls aren't the norm? Tolkienism says that's silly and your story will be called such. What's the point of letting your ideas run wild if your imagination truly has to be limited? 

THIS is why western fantasy has been on the decline. Imagination is suffocated by rules, restrictions, and scenarios that shouldn't have to be taken into account. Every piece of media that has focused on this genre has been jumbled copies of one another in their attempts to ride the coat tails of Tolkien's success. Yet they only are able to reach half-fame if that. By God if the man were alive today writing a new world, it would be his advocates and fans of Middle-Earth to be the first lash out against him for not adhering to the restrictions he unintentionally placed on the genre. Earlier I commented on the dragons of the far east and how their designs greatly differed (the latter variation ironically coming as inspiration from the west's original idea before the great shift for realism), the difference in the story telling there is that artists know that they don't need to be restricted by a set idea of what something should be like. We KNOW what a dragon looks like and as long as it contains enough elements for us to recognize it as a dragon, the other aspects can be embellished for the sake of the story.

Writers of these worlds would do wise to deviate. In the form of art, rules are meant to be broken, and imagination is king. There will be no true great success until stories begin to shape themselves rather than let what has already been shaped around decide what they'll be like. It is through deviation that creators are able to finally look at these stories from a birds eye view and see what could make them better. However this will never come if you simply take one universe, scramble it around and call it another. When change finally does come to this genre, what will happen to the authors of today and where will these fantastic stories take us next?

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Serious / Porn is a public health crisis in Utah
« on: April 20, 2016, 12:17:04 PM »
lol!

"Welcome to Utah, please leave your Playboys on the roadside in front of our sign."

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"If a library or a McDonald's or anyone else was giving out cigarettes to our children, we would be picketing them," Weiler said. "And, yet, our children are accessing pornography on their tablets on these sites and we seem to be OK with that."

This is some next level bullshit right here.

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Gaming / Large or small clans/guilds
« on: April 20, 2016, 10:31:57 AM »
So my Free Company was just disbanded, Out of 10 or so people that were on every night it went down to just me being active and one guy just signing in to tend to his garden and Chocobo. So now I'm without a guild, I still have the 4chan chat channel to keep me company though.

But it puts me back into a situation of having to decide if I want to be part of a large or small group. Back in the Halo days, I preferred being a part of a smaller group. It kept the number of people actively doing custom games, social games, or ranked games somewhat consistent. Here in MMO's I'd rather have a smaller group due to the nature of MMO's being over-glorified IRC chat channels. My only problem with a smaller group is having to break the ice with people who are already close knit with each other.

I was wondering what you guys prefer (if you do clans/guilds at all). Perhaps I can get insight for my decision when hunting for another Free Company.

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The Flood / Anyone have any funny videos?
« on: April 19, 2016, 11:04:13 PM »
Got a nose bleed from raging at Halo, need something to get my mind off the shitty games I kept getting back to back.

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The Flood / I've been thinking about school lately
« on: April 19, 2016, 03:24:01 PM »
So a year ago I made the decision that I'd rather work through building my career than education. When I posted my decision on B.net a year ago, I was met with quite a but of criticism, mostly because everyone thought I was being irrational in doing so. They may have been partially right.

While I do admit, I turned my back on it because of other completely unrelated matters at the time made the upkeep of work impossible. However, four years after graduating high school, I'm still incredibly bitter about how fucking uncaring the education system is to me as a student, and in all honesty? At the time I felt college was no different. I'm partially to blame though, I had no idea what I wanted to do so I just took Gen Eds part time, one or two classes a term without ever really deciding on a major. So after I while I may have felt that it wasn't the right place for me, especially when councilors and advisers had no interest in helping someone who didn't already have a plan set out.

Now I'm kind of looking back from a birds eye view and seeing things from a more objective lens. I'm significantly more happy with where I am now then I was a year ago. I [kind of] have an idea of what I would want to do, and I've been making sure to look up what paths they take to ensure I'm not stuck with any more Gen Eds than I need. It will be sometime though before I do go back, my living situation being the biggest wall to that, I have zero interest in moving back in with my mom but if I can't get room mates that aren't fucking squatters It'll be longer before I can get back into the swing of things.

Does anyone have any advice as to how I should proceed with possibly starting up school again? I don't really know where I left off outside of what core classes I had already finished.

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