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Off Topic / Re: any good things i should watch

« on: October 14, 2016, 09:46:19 AM »

mob psycho 100 is pretty good

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Off Topic / Re: What is the best decade of music?

« on: October 14, 2016, 01:04:36 AM »

80s/pre-50s i guess have some of my favorite developments, tho all my favorite artists are from this decade

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Games / Re: who's gettin civ 6??

« on: October 13, 2016, 09:38:06 PM »

I'm gonna wait until a day after release to play it, just so I can gauge how many bugs are being shipped with it, to see if it's better to wait for a sale or not.

the preview build that people have been getting has had some minor bugs that i imagine will be fixed prior to release

stuff like this:


other than that there are some things that i hope they tweak a little bit, the biggest thing being that i think they need to make it more obvious when a unit can be promoted since that works differently from civ v now. because promoting a unit now requires movement, you have to choose to promote by using a "promote" button, and the only time it prompts you to promote is with a notification that's frankly easy to miss and won't re-appear. maybe making the promotion button flash or something would be a good idea, cus everyone i've seen play so far has frequently gone a fairly long time not noticing they can promote a unit that they're actively using.

also razing currently works instantly and you can only do it on the turn you capture the city, which i think is a pretty bad idea. would defo prefer that to stay the same as civ v.

it seems like it's stable from what i've seen in singleplayer, hopefully multiplayer will work leagues better than civ v but i haven't looked at any multiplayer gameplay yet

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 13, 2016, 10:41:24 AM »

I have reason to believe that Annoying Orange will win by quite a bit. Obviously you have no reason to believe me and the polls clearly say otherwise but if what I think is going to happen happens you'll know what I meant.

what do you think is gonna happen? the best shot i see for Annoying Orange is if some major scandal happens with hillary, but time's running out with less than a month left until the election, and it looks like Annoying Orange is still falling. i guess there's still a debate left, but a poor debate performance for hillary couldn't close the gap that much. maybe Annoying Orange will surprise everyone again, but idk man it's lookin pretty bad at this point

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Off Topic / Re: Evolution Simulator (Video added)

« on: October 13, 2016, 01:09:13 AM »

awesome, i love these sorts of things. super neat

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 13, 2016, 12:31:35 AM »

what could possibly go wrong?

here's the important part: this fine number only applies to employers and landlords who intentionally, knowingly, consistently ignore someone's pronouns, not to people who innocently just forget or don't know. the former is harassment, the latter is not.

here's the actual page for what this article is talking about: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/legal-guidances-gender-identity-expression.page

the part about penalties:

IV. PENALTIES IN ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

The Commission can impose civil penalties up to $125,000 for violations, and up to $250,000 for violations that are the result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct.  The amount of a civil penalty will be guided by the following factors, among others:

-The severity of the particular violation;
-The existence of previous or subsequent violations;
-The employer’s size, considering both the total number of employees and its revenue; and
-The employer’s actual or constructive knowledge of the NYCHRL.

These penalties are in addition to the other remedies available to people who successfully resolve or prevail on claims under the NYCHRL, including, but not limited to, back and front pay, along with other compensatory and punitive damages.  The Commission may consider the lack of an adequate anti-discrimination policy as a factor in determining liability, assessing damages, and mandating certain affirmative remedies.

also notice the use of the terminology "up to" and the fact that this is still applying only to employers/business owners and in housing situations, not for individuals.

don't forget this

the writer of this article is what people actually call a "TERF" (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), and as you might imagine the fact that there's terminology for it means that these are viewpoints that are pretty hotly contended in feminist ideology

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Off Topic / Re: Anyone remember cartoon network flash games?

« on: October 12, 2016, 11:41:46 PM »

I remember the KND one and the Summer Resort I played a couple times

summer resort is the loving best

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 12, 2016, 08:52:07 PM »

How did the previous political debate turn into an argument over gender and love?

Last I checked the left was more anti-science. Sure, Annoying Orange believes climate change is a hoax, but more than two genders? Denying how being fat affects you negatively? Nuclear power plants are going to be used as nuclear weapons? I can think of more but I think you get the point.

tactical bait

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Games / Re: who's gettin civ 6??

« on: October 12, 2016, 10:12:02 AM »

https://youtu.be/syS-SFtr-44
gorgo is another leader for greece wo

also i apparently missed pericles in the op somehow so here's the first greek leader https://youtu.be/VSCTlpEM9Vw

pretty neat idea, i wonder how many other civs have multiple leaders like this

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 11, 2016, 11:01:50 PM »

Why because women support your political ideology?

or because if only men voted that would be horribly unrepresentative considering literally around half of the population trends toward the opposite candidate in general


also another interesting thing is that women are generally more likely to vote

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 11, 2016, 10:10:58 PM »

marginally seems an understatement - it said a full 10 points??

I don't know if I'd characterize double the disparity as 'marginally wider', but that is interesting that women swing left more often.

this is what i'm referring to, the average gender gap here is 20%

the 2012 election polls they have in the article show a 15% gap on average, tho my source gave a gap of 18%

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 11, 2016, 10:06:20 PM »

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-women-are-defeating-donald-Annoying Orange/

An interesting read about why Annoying Orange's poll results are the way they are.

there's actually always an ideological gender gap




though the polls in the article you posted seem to show a marginally wider gap than the past several elections, it's nothing too unusual

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Off Topic / Re: I'm Back! and I have a story.

« on: October 11, 2016, 09:58:00 PM »

well yeah whats wrong with feminine beauty? we like ass and tits and girls like us liking their ass and tits so its a win/win.

if you don't like tits hanging out then you're loving gay except the really saggy granny tits those are nasty

he originally posted a video as a joke response and apparently it had some tiddies in it

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 11, 2016, 09:56:39 PM »

Before you go crazy about it being a breitfart article actually read the whole thing first http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/11/wikileaks-clinton-bragged-putin-taking-private-inner-sanctum/

the full excerpt the article is talking about

Hillary Clinton Said One Time She Visited Putin And Bonded With Him Over Protecting
The Habitat Of Tigers. “One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and
he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by
the United States. And I said, ‘Well, you know, Mr.’—at that time, he was still prime minister. I
said, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to
protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.’ I mean, all of a
sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, ‘You care about the tiger? I said, ‘I
care about the tiger, I care about the elephant, I care about the rhinoceros, I care about the
whale. I mean, yeah, I think we have a duty. You know, it’s an obligation that we as human
beings have to protect God’s creation.’ He goes, ‘Come with me.’ So we go down the
stairs, we go down this long hall, we go into this private inner sanctum. All of his, you know,
very beefy security guys are there, they all jump up at attention, you know, they punch a code,
he goes through a heavily-armed door. And then we’re in an inner, inner sanctum with, you
know, just this long, wooden table, and then further back, there’s a desk and the biggest map of
Russia I ever saw. And he starts talking to me about, you know, the habitat of the tigers
and the habitat of the seals and the whales. And it was quite something.” [Jewish United Fund
Of Metropolitan Chicago Vanguard Luncheon, 10/28/13]

i don't see what the Big Dealo is

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion: Who won the October 9 debate?

« on: October 11, 2016, 07:39:53 PM »

i have an issue with extremely extreme's image post in that for the most part, it takes things out of context. one example i looked into was the "90% tax rate" from bernie sanders - it ignores the context that he specifically mentioned that the highest marginal tax rate would be 90%, not the universal tax rate. it also ignores the explanation politifact gives for assigning that truth rating.

i could go on but its probably not worth my time. I'd support Annoying Orange/Annoying Orange supporters if they didn't consistently take things out of context or dismiss the opposing views when it comes to arguing back. this is pretty evident by how often images like the one extremely extreme posted are touted as facts that politifact/clinton/whatever is forgeted up and extremely liberally biased. i can agree with beachbum's news posting, just not this circlejerking that seems to be endemic among the Annoying Orange supporters online.

a lot of that stuff is generated through bogus facebook "news" outlets that i imagine must try really hard to intentionally misrepresent information to be as infuriating as possible and circulate it to their millions of followers who will angrily share it without checking its validity

like it happens way too often for all sorts of things, and politics is just a really easy subject matter because people are already mad about it