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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 14, 2013, 12:07:03 AM »

I would be very happy with that, actually. Having the same person who's speaking it actually put it into their words would help that greatly. What kind of approach are we going for and how do we want to come off, exactly?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 10:03:27 AM »

I'm sorry, but that is about how I feel about Chang. :[ There's probably a more apt comparison if I thought about it, but I can't say it'd be much more flattering

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 08:40:06 AM »

It was funny at first...until he started talking and doing his whole "I am ablahblahblah...the magiciiaaann hahahahahah i need to make silly voices to be funny" shtick. It seems like anything funny that involves him is at his expense and when he's not talking or really doing anything. Again, maybe I'm just crazy, but he seems to follow the Dane Cook book of comedy where jumping around and making funny voices = comedy gold!

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 07:47:11 AM »

Really? I can't think of any moments where he actually made me laugh and wasn't a throwaway, really annoying character. It seems like most of his bits are "look at me i'm so super silly DALALALALALA CHANG CHANG CHANG ridiculous thing". I feel like Ken Jeong is the little kid Dan Harmon feels really bad for and lets into the group even though all he does is yell and repeat jokes and say random things hoping it sticks

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 04:17:22 AM »

I think Chang probably just needs to stop being a character please

he's so annoying

why is ken jeong still in comedy

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Teen let off the hook because of bad parenting

« on: December 13, 2013, 02:47:19 AM »

Blanko is very wise here; this has been my feeling about the whole justice system in general. America's is terrible.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Teen let off the hook because of bad parenting

« on: December 12, 2013, 09:37:27 PM »

I do think 20 years in prison would have been much, and I was pretty horribly upset hearing about what happened myself.  There's a whole bunch of physiological and hormonal changes going on in teens, and, while he definitely should understand the consequences of his actions, if he genuinely was worse off because of bad parenting (which, on top of those changes that muddle your thinking and judgment, would only make things worse), then Alchemist's option would have been much better.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 12, 2013, 07:19:49 PM »

Motherfuckers!  I bought these games for twenty dollars just a couple of weeks ago, and now they're fucking free?

http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013

Fuck!  Shit!  Goddammit!

Just found that and am trying to get through how waterlogged their servers are at the moment. Are they for Steam or do you have to use some crappy GOG client?

Neither, they're stand-alone downloads.

That's not so bad, then. Would've preferred Steam for convenience, but.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 12, 2013, 07:10:20 PM »

Motherfuckers!  I bought these games for twenty dollars just a couple of weeks ago, and now they're fucking free?

http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013

Fuck!  Shit!  Goddammit!

Just found that and am trying to get through how waterlogged their servers are at the moment. Are they for Steam or do you have to use some crappy GOG client?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 11, 2013, 10:18:04 PM »

http://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-reveal-that-fallout-4-is-real-set-in-1481322956

Interesting...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Zimmerman could be innocent

« on: December 11, 2013, 04:11:14 AM »

@Yaakov: There's no excuse for double-posting when you're making shorter posts like that and you've acknowledged such yourself before. Edit your posts if you have more to add.

Anyway, I agree mostly with Rama here, but I very mildly agree with Sean that men have a much, much harder time arguing abuse. Social stigmas basically pressure men into staying quiet because people expect men to be "tough" and to not show emotion or weakness, plus there are plenty who believe that women can't abuse men and if they do get hit, they should just suck it up. I wouldn't go as far as saying women "bitch and moan" about it; domestic abuse is a serious issue and is not something someone should put up with.

I can't fully understand some women's trains of thought (e.g., Rihanna—he beat her to a pulp and she kept wanting him back!), but I know it's a complicated thing.

All that said, I don't think it's something either sex should have to deal with. As a nice rule of thumb, I just don't hit people period. If I ever slapped or hit a guy I'd see little reason he couldn't do the same back.

So yeah, I don't know what's going on between Zimmerman and his girlfriend, but I think it'd probably be best for both of them if they weren't together, no matter who is the one that's actually to blame.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Thread for talking about council nominations.

« on: December 10, 2013, 11:23:10 PM »

I thought the admins weren't going to be part of the council?

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 10:39:03 AM »

Sure, it'll cost more than a console, but the games cost a lot less

This is probably the best argument for PC. I've got so many amazing games on Steam and I've spent so little. And I mean triple-A games, hugely acclaimed games ,sprawling games, everything, often for ~$6 for several of them at once thanks to all the bundles you can find around the internet. Then Steam's sales—not even their Summer sales, but just the sales they have weekly—make it really hard to argue that a PC is more expensive. If you buy games, you are doubtlessly going to save a huge load buying them for PC.

also i should point out i have all these games on a pc that can't even play them, that's how good and impossible to pass up these deals are. When I do get a good PC...oh lord I will have so many games to play.

Also, really, Nintendo has the only consoles worth getting, IMO. They're the only ones with experiences you consistently can't have on PC, partly due to the exclusivity of their games and partly because they try new things with the consoles themselves. Whereas Sony/Microsoft will have intermittent exclusives, Nintendo is guaranteed to have a ton every generation, if mostly because their first party games are wonderful.

So that's why I'm probably just going to stick with my Wii U and 3DS this generation. I don't see any real need for a PS4 or a One. I might grab one in a year or a few years from now when they're cheap and have exclusives that aren't worth passing up. Until then my money will be better spent building a gaming PC.

Also, the "exclusives" issue with PS4/One might not be an issue this gen.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)

« on: December 10, 2013, 10:09:24 AM »

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile: I've been wanting to listen to them for a long time, and Foxy and I were chatting for many hours the other day and he was awesome and lsitened to Arcade Fire's Funeral at my suggestion and loved it, so I decided I'd return the favour and listen to this since he suggested it. :] While there were a couple songs I didn’t like a lot, the vast majority of this album is amazing. I’m a huge fan of industrial stuff from what I’ve heard and this only reinforces that. The band has an awesome way of using distortion and general dissonance to create an amazing atmosphere, and Trent Reznor reminds me of Marilyn Manson a bit in that his voice just oozes pain, the way he can use it to embody the terrible emotions he feels. My favourite part of the music, though, is easily the sounds of the music itself. How harsh and grinding some of it is, but how it can also be so light and sadly beautiful with little more than dark synth pulses and little flecks of piano. Overall it is a seriously awesome album that ranges from ambient to loud, distorted guitar bursting your ear drums. And it is wonderful. My favourites of the 23 tracks were probably, in no particular order, “Starfuckers, Inc.”, “Underneath It All”, “Where Is Everybody?”, “The Big Come Down” and “The Mark Has Been Made”.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Make music!

« on: December 10, 2013, 06:42:24 AM »

I haven't made anything I'm confident posting yet.

It's a goops

www.goop.com ?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Make music!

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:18:50 AM »

I don't play any instruments but I've made some stuff in various programs; lately I've used Propellerhead Reason, though by "lately" I mean "not as much as I'd like 'cause I'm too impatient to learn it". So I've made stuff here and there.

Mainly I just want to get a piano so I can learn that. :[

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:15:19 AM »

Steam's working on that. Although you could just walk into a store and buy an ok-ish pre-assembled PC since 1998.

I have never gotten an in-store PC at console price that wasn't notably worse than consoles and just generally didn't suck in various ways.

Case in point: the one I am on right now. It's two years old and about as powerful as an Atari 2600. >:[

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:37:03 AM »

Yes, because people buy consoles.

It is indeed a vicious cycle. Buuut I'm not going to sit out of amazing exclusives just to make some statement.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:31:35 AM »

If PC got all the exclusives the consoles do, I would not buy consoles. As it is, it doesn't. :[

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 11:19:38 PM »

Dead Rising 3 is 720p at 30 FPS with frequent drops.

Sometimes dropping to 10-12 FPS, even, which makes it worse. Not to mention like Call of Duty and Battlefield had to be lowered to 720p on Xbox One 'cause they couldn't make it run as well.