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Apparently most games I've played this year came out earlier or were released on Switch on this year but came out earlier.
Excluding those:
- Pillars of Eternity 2
- Far Cry 5
Shit, I guess that's it or just about!
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41 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:
Why do I feel like this is just legend's weak attempt to crowd source his settings for Skynet?
2 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:Skynet AKA Legend is trying to take over the world!
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15 minutes ago, Slug said:
I see what you're getting at. It just rubs me wrong somehow. I'd assume the program would be tax-funded. The thought that I could be paying for a public benefit that I don't get to make use of because my kid is a D student or something just doesn't sit well in my head. It'd be like denying someone that free health care because they don't go to the gym and love tacos a little too much.
What I was thinking was that each tax-paying, established resident and qualifying dependent gets X years from initial college enrollment (to cover folks who maybe don't want to or can't go to college immediately out of high school) to earn their degree, academic performance during that period not being a factor. Any education beyond that (whether they fail to earn their degree in the covered time or desire to continue into higher level programs) they would have to pay for themselves or secure private funding.
To your point, I was actually a terrible student in high school. It wasn't until halfway through college that I became serious. Although I may have acted differently in high-school if I knew it would affect my ability to go to college free or not. I'll consider your suggestion. (Even though I'll never have the opportunity to directly act on any of this maybe some day a candidate will come that pushes hard on this kind of thing!)
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18 minutes ago, Slug said:
I'm on board. ¡Viva Leyenda!
I think the only thing I'd adjust on your list is not making the paid college merit based. If someone has been resident in and paying taxes to a state for some determined period of time that should translate into X number of years of state college credit each for them and their dependents.
That's an interesting direction. My motivation was to try and combat paying for people going to college who weren't really working at it, but making it available to anyone who was actually serious about learning. I would absolutely be open to considering other alternatives, or maybe it's a concern that just wouldn't be worth the overhead to try and combat.
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The first thing I would do is hire (yes, hire) a panel of experts to challenge me on all of the following ideas and design the actual policy which is beyond my expertise.
All policies would be recommended with cause and effect reasoning and forecasts. A second body of experts would be hired to monitor the effects of the policies and evaluate whether they were failing to hit the forecasts or had unforeseen negatives consequences. Upon these events, the policies would be reworked by the original team, or someone other than the evaluation team with a new set of forecasts.
My initial draft of goals would consist of the following:
- Free health care
- UBI and scrap other welfare programs
- Cheap government-regulated housing options
- Increased pay for teachers
- University full-paid scholarships for anyone above a certain performance and who maintains their GPA and credits in college
- Free easily-available abortions
- Legalize and regulate marijuana
- Legalize and regulate prostitution
- Decriminalize all drug use
- Science-based drug rehab covered under government health care
- Send fewer people to jail with permanent record marks in favor of more community service demands
- Reduce military funding over some TBD time period by 25%; work with NATO to distribute responsibility.
How insane am I?
EDIT: adding one more
- Much stronger gun regulation. Personal ownership would be acceptable for certain kinds of rifles suitable for hunting. All guns released for such ownership would have to be explicitly approved and be more like an ESRB system to avoid people gaming fixed rules. No handguns would be allowed for personal ownership. However, various other kinds of guns (including hand guns) could be "owned" if they were stored at gun-regulated ranges which is the only place they could be used. The security of these ranges would be required to be similar to that of a bank.
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amazing!
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I'm playing Hollow Knight on Switch. I'm not good at these kinds of games, and I really dislike having to walk back through the same section to replay a boss, but the game is too good not to play. I don't know how I had never heard of this one when it was on PC. I just beat the Soul Master and am going to take a break because my thumb hurts now
On 6/26/2018 at 11:32 AM, Paperclyp said:Currently doing a new game + of dark souls remastered, playing hollow knight, playing Skyrim, and actually a little pillars of eternity and FF6.
Too many at once.
I really should go back to god of war.
I'm not a fan of Souls myself, but in general that's a solid line up of games!
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19 minutes ago, Jason said:
Seems pretty easy to me to tell whether or not anything new's been posted...
That's not actually quite sufficient. It could be new because someone responded to a topic you've already seen but passed on. Or, maybe someone did make a new topic, but then a different one you've seen got bumped above it. Unless you actually go frequently, inevitably you're going to miss something. But since most checks yield no return, frequently checking is a bit silly and annoying.
I really don't think you can make this easily disappear by suggesting people just check more frequently or pay attention more. As far as I can tell, it's a pretty common phenomenon on message boards and I don't see why it would suddenly change.
If the sub community simply doesn't care about that phenomenon, then that's fine. Maybe you guys have reasons for keeping it small that I don't appreciate that are more important to you. Or maybe you actively don't want certain people responding. But I think that's going to be the effect all the same and it's why I would vote to change it.
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29 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:
You still didn't answer why you'd miss topics with the way things are now.
But I'm glad you conceded. Wade's word is law. :P
Also, there's a thread on the NES Classic in GG, so win!
I thought I did, but maybe I didn't express it well. I don't end up going to the subboard often because it's slow moving enough that usually there is nothing to new to see. The consequence of not visiting it often is that I end up missing things when there is something new that would interest.
Maybe that's just me, but my impression is it isn't an uncommon. I've certainly had it happen in the reverse. Post something in a slow board and it gets little to no attention; post it in an active board and lots more people respond. Clearly there were more people interested than was indicated by the slow board, and it's just that they don't visit the slow board often enough to generate the discussion. Given that, I don't think not visiting slow boards and missing relevant topics is only something that happens with me
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4 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:
There's really no reason for you to miss topics that pop up on that board, if you're so inclined to contribute. I didn't think you cared about that area, anyway.
We enjoy our little community. Just leave it as is.
I mean, there's a limit to this, right? You can over consolidate something or over fragment it. We could fragment our board into separate boards for different genres. Someone could still argue that there is no reason to miss anything, but it simply becomes more annoying to fuss with all that at a point and that will lead to more apathy in searching in general. Same thing here. We just have different lines where we'd put the cut off.
I still play retro games ever now and then. These days, more usually PC retro games, but I did also just buy an NES classic.
I've already said it's fine if you guys feel strongly this way--I'll manage to get over it
I'm just explaining why myself (and maybe others) might care even though we don't historically post on the board.
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4 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:
With "The Academy" or a Science board?
Both!
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8 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:
Sorry, Wade has spoken. He promised us.
We enjoy retro discussion and don't want it getting swallowed up in GG, where that would most certainly happen.
Why do you care so much, anyway? I don't see how it would bother anyone.
Also, fuck discord.
If you guys feel strongly about it, that's fine. But my reason for caring is simply because on many occasions for other boards or subboards I find I've missed topics I would have otherwise discussed. Having MS and Sony, for example, in GG has made it much easier for me to stay on top of all the boards. The same could be true for retro. If D1P was a big as Neogaf/ResetEra, then I would wholly endorse separate boards, because those boards move way too fast to have just one. But we're not. I don't think those threads would get swallowed so quickly, and I'm be more likely to see them and contribute to them.
I'll add that without the required tags (as it was before) I could understand why you'd still want the sub, because there would then be no way at all to make sure you see the retro-specific stuff. But with tags now, you can. You can just filter it and it takes about just as many clicks as it did before.
Again, if you guys feel strongly otherwise, that's fine. But I honestly think it would be better the other way and I would be more likely to participate (as would possibly others) therby growing the sub community and increasing community discussion in general.
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9 hours ago, chakoo said:
You only understand games that we let you run your simulation on. So get back to work you CS Go bot!
Fine. Do you want to play a game? This one looks fun...
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8 hours ago, Jason said:
Right but I was responding to Rodimus saying he already snagged a system.
I understand, I just wanted to give the PSA for the rest of us who missed it! (I snagged one for my wife)
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3 hours ago, Jason said:
Gamestop has them back in stock online: https://www.gamestop.com/accessories/nintendo-nes-classic-controller-ships-by-7-13/165702
Won't ship until 7/13 but at least you can secure one.
Not just the controller, the system is available again too (same wait for 13th though).
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Being "proud" about it is odd no matter how well the country is doing. But if you're asking whether I like be associated with America, that is something to which the answer could be yes, but unfortunately is no.
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9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:
Those of us in the Retro community love our little sub-board. We'd be highly upset to see it go.
Sorry, Legend, for once, you have a terrible suggestion.
Damn kids with your... old games...
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10 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:
Don't even try and tell me you wouldn't watch that! Fuck, that would even put Kung Fury to shame!
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13 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:
I honestly just don't know what to say anymore. It's absolutely mind blowing to me that there are so many people this fucked up. When people are this far gone, how the fuck do you fix the situation?
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I want to offer the hypothesis that these sub topics would be more active in the main board. It's not that I'm uninterested in them, but I'm going to forget to check them and will miss threads in which I would have otherwise contributed.
If a topic has enough activity that the parent topic and it fight for attention when together, then you should probably have a whole new board, not just a subboard. But that's not the case, and I think by using the suboard you're relegating the topic to obscurity.
Just a thought for those of you who want it separate and are the current active contributors.
I vote we collapse Retro and PC Tech into tags rather than suboards
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I explained why I cared (and so did Nokra) but I think we both have stated that while we do have a preference, neither of us care "so much" and are completely willing to defer to your guys preference
Also, that we haven't really joined in on the discussions is kind of the point. The nature of the setup makes it less likely for us to participate, whereas we would be more likely to participate in it via a tag because we would see it.
As for why not a single board, it's because to my knowledge there is no such thing as hierarchical tags, and dealing with such tags would become messy. For example, there are many subcategories to video games, and many for CEB/Newsroom. Given that, it is convenient to be able to filter based on that meta category, and that's precisely what a separate board does. Whether something with clear subcategories warrants its own board would be a function of activity over those subcategories.