Kal-El814

3 hours ago, stepee said:

It’s funny how all the talk here is about Nintendo when they are the ones doing fine, but just missed their target window (by not much) for their new highly anticipated product.

I wonder about the extent to which Nintendo embodies this meme for most of the posters here (which is now 3+ years old at least):

The Wii was released almost 20 years ago now, there are many people who have no real memory of Nintendo hardware being anything other than a Nintendo adapter. And to that extent, the value proposition for the hardware isn't really relevant; there's no other way to get at that content, so... what are you going to do? Most people that buy the thing aren't trying to do an apples to apples comparison. Their only real flubs in my lifetime are the absolute bungling of the Wii U in every way and initially launching the DS at too high a price point. Beyond that, they're the same company that needed Sega to come along and make the Genesis or we'd all still be playing on the NES.

Aside from that, their whole thing is shit like... Eiji Aonuma has been making Zelda games since 1998. I don't think you get games like BotW and TotK without someone who has so much experience with one franchise riffing it into contemporary trends. Kinda like Balrog with God of War, I don't think you can chase that, you need the experience. Nintendo just has more people like that than anyone else.

On 2/18/2024 at 12:47 PM, Spork3245 said:

What? When?

I think he’s made voiced some vague “concerns” about censorship and the like when Chappelle was being criticized for antisemitism. I don’t think he literally said he was concerned about “cancel culture going too far” but he was voicing similar complaints. Comedians in general are at no real risk of being censored and Chappelle is certainly less so than almost anyone else in comedy, so that objection specifically is weak. 
 

I don’t think Stewart engages in the kind of shitty bothsidesisms that, say, South Park did with the giant douche vs turd sandwich stupidity. But you know, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a thing and he went in Maddow afterward and I believe literally said that both sides have ways to shut down debate… so I don’t think it’s super surprising that Stewart occasionally gets this rep. 

4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

GOLLY GEE! I WONDER WHICH CHARACTER SHE COULD POSSIBLY BE PORTRAYING?!?!

This kind of stupid fucking shit is why I maintain that trying to “not spoil” adaptations of 50 year old media is just... so silly.

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"It required so much work to keep that secret," Villeneuve told EW. "Everybody signed with their blood."

Why?? Why so much work?? Who cares! The notion that time, money, and energy would be spent through 2024 to keep a casting “secret” for a film adaptation of a book that came out when Lyndon B. Johnson was president absolutely boggles my mind. What a world.

2 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

Yes, and with Switch they found a way they didn’t have to.  It starts with a solid game people want at the launch.

The world wasn’t ready for Feel The Magic XY XX

Libraries are wonderful, it is no surprise that certain segments of the population want them destroyed.

5 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

.As for control, you'd truly have to ban unprotected sex to be consistent with the manslaughter idea.  And you basically doom your society with that in theory.  Which is unhinged, but also not a pro-life argument.

No. Birth control can fail. Barrier methods can break or not be used correctly. Hormonal methods are not perfect, nor are IUDs. And so on. If penetrative, vaginal sex could result in a fertilized embryo, why does that potential “child” matter less simply because its existence is less probable? Intentionality makes it manslaughter, not murder. But you can’t play the “that’s just how biology works” card simply because it would make things inconvenient or legally impractical. 
 

EDIT - the simple reality is that if a fertilized embryo is a child, then any fertility clinic that does IVF is participating in the indefinite incarceration and eventual mass execution of children, and the process is one of the greatest moral sins humanity has ever undertaken. 

The notion that a fertilized embryo is "a child" is absolutely fucking batshit, as it implicates anyone who has ever had a miscarriage or who had a fertilized egg fail to implant on the uterine wall, which is almost everyone who has ever brought a pregnancy to term, as someone who committed manslaughter. This shit is completely unhinged, and the push for rulings like is only takes place because of the misogynistic and patriarchal desire to control reproduction. It's despicable. 

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

How is the jetpack?

It's pretty great. Depending on the difficulty and how many people you've dropped with, the game isn't always super well equipped to handle players that are on high structures, so you can pick things off as they chase your buddies around.  It works pretty well that way against bugs. Less useful against robots in my experience, since some of them can just blast rockets at you.

Hit level 10. I'm a jetpack boy now.

1 hour ago, Xbob42 said:

It's so weird that they skip straight to "what if [worst idea possible]" instead of what if it made it a trillion times faster and easier to generate decent assets for things like games or movies that are absurdly expensive and time consuming and are a large part of the reason the gaming industry is starting to take a billion fucking years to release games?

AI has amazing potential uses, and these dipshits can't even fathom them because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

It's all grandest stupidity. Imagine if the thing you did for fun... made shit you could sell to people! And they hope people don't realize it's just an MLM for dudes. At least with real MLMs, the skincare products or detox dust actually exists, I suppose.

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests | Mashable

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These numbers are legitimately shocking.

 

But Elon said he'd get rid of the bots, I don't understand.

6 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Fentanyl is absolutely a first line treatment for pain in emergency settings. I give it all the time.

Must be a huge pain in the ass to get into full PPE every time you administer it, what with accidental proximity being potentially fatal and whatnot.

1 hour ago, ort said:

I think the problem isn't the fit of the suit, but that his giant disgusting butthead-esqe water baby melon head makes it look them look all weird

I have a bobblehead as well, though I'm ticker than Gaetz is. The problem with the people I mentioned is definitely the fit of the suits.

That jacket doesn't fit. It should be in the Hague for defying the Geneva Conventions against torture for what it's doing to that button. And while there's nothing wrong with a slim fitting pant, it just doesn't work with that jacket. He looks like one of those popsicles with two sticks. I think the issue with that list of people is they have the assumption that because they're slim, they need to dress to emphasize that and lean into it too hard, or feel that slimness makes whatever they're wearing look good. I appreciate that fashion is generational and a lot of people dress so they don't look like the preceding generation; a lot of younger people are wearing looser suits again, for example.

But his stuff just... doesn't fit.

11 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

Doesn’t juggernaut’s helmet do that?  Might just be confusing the two.

Juggernaut's did, I think, yes. Magneto's helmet at some point back in the day kinda gave him telepathic powers, or something like them?

Whenever I think about "old" X-Men stuff, I'm reminded that a bunch of shit that people assume came from the comics actually came from the movies, like Magneto's helmet blocking Chuck's telepathy. I assume there's similar stuff from the cartoon that I'm just not remembering.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

House panel obtains texts allegedly showing Gaetz setting up 2017 Florida Keys trip with woman his associate paid for sex: Sources - ABC News

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House investigators have obtained texts that allegedly show Rep. Matt Gaetz, in 2017, setting up a trip with a woman who a close associate had paid for sex, sources say.

 

Why the fuck do redpill morons insist on buying suits with horrible fits. Gaetz, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh... every time I see them wearing a jacket they look like they're so afraid of dressing like their dads that they insist on wearing a coat that doesn't look comfortable, fits poorly, is too small, and too short? These people have cash, and Jordan Peterson specifically clearly splashes on custom clothes. The actual fit is just... so bad. I don't get it.

10 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Tesla Cybertruck owners claim $80K, stainless steel vehicles developed 'corrosion,' 'rust': reports

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Two members of a Cybertruck owner's forum claimed that they found "orange rust spots" and "corrosion" on their brand-new trucks, which cost almost $80,000.

 

It's almost like cars have paint and clearcoat on them for reasons other than vibes, what a world.

51 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

So how did it feel? The fentanyl I mean. 

I didn't really "feel" anything, I was mostly hyper fixated on watching them jerk my busted leg back into place and it really only feeling like someone had a slightly too-tight grip on my ankle for several moments.

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

I suppose anything is better than Zaslav getting his hands on Paramount.

18 minutes ago, Jason said:

I wonder how long until it takes until I'm monkey pawing that comment. 

Probably already took place between those 2 posts.

I too have a fentanyl experience from when they reset my broken leg bones. For whatever reason the pain between the break and when I got to the hospital wasn't that bad, so I didn't accept any meds at all. They informed me that moving the bones back in place would be significantly more painful than just laying around so they gave me some fentanyl before they put everything back where it belonged. I barely felt anything despite them jerking shit around while it was being reset, I received a local injection and not a lollipop, another black mark on the hospital's customer service.

8 hours ago, Bacon said:

I'm finding Season 3 to be very grating.

The entire series has been misery porn and then season 3 decides to flanderize itself with this aspect.

I kinda just wish Homelander would go apeshit and kill the world. Feels like the ending this series deserves.

Misery porn is a good way of describing it. I like The Boys moment to moment but I don't always feel as though I like the show broadly, and I think that vibe is why.

The game is just so stupid in a really smart way. It's great.

If wishes were ponies...

58 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

@Kal-El814

Spidey cartoon Venom is one of the better Venoms!

more like derp state