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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really a good example. He was fully masked and all the people involved were black (the bank teller who called the cops, the cops that showed up, etc.). He was also sketchy with writing an awkward note to withdraw a large sum of money and that he wanted it done discreetly. It was still a fuck up on Bank of America’s part, but in this instance I give the bank teller some amount of understanding when the entire context is taken into considering. Ryan Coogler even said he was satisfied with how BoA apologized and whatnot.

  All that being said, if it was a poor person in this situation… I highly doubt the outcome would’ve been so cordial

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecto patronum my ass!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahah, the scene where he opens his inheritance vault with all the bullets. Man, thanks for the laugh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you even treat that? Seems like a pretty permanently damaging toxin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cover of that book is something else hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re a global criminal organization, you ensure immunity by blackmailing and/or extorting every single person in a position of power as much as possible. There’s a reason these monsters have gotten away with it–and continue to get away with it–for so damn long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she just doesn't understand me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Is this a volume control limit, then? I thought it was just a parental feature that caps how often they can listen to music on their earbuds (which seems absolutely insane to me), but I guess volume control would make a bit more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zootopia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very fair point, thanks for providing further historical context.

  There are definitely some older kids movies even that have some, “wtf?” aspects about them by today’s standards. Hell, we started watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit a year ago or so with one of our younger kids and my wife and I just looked at each other, “ehhhh maybe this isn’t really kid appropriate after all,” and turned it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Venus.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple TV is the only streaming service consistently putting out good content at the moment. To me, it’s like how HBO used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zootopia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a parent with young kids, G movies will literally have nothing scary at all. Both PG or G won’t have vulgar words, but PG might have like “butt” or something very minorly offensive.

  For example, in Zootopia, there are some “intense” scenes where the animals go feral and chase other animals. The chased animals look terrified for their lives. This can cause some younger kids to get scared/frightened by those scenes. In a G movie, there would be nothing that intense. Zootopia also has some innuendo humor, e.g. the scene where the fox takes the rabbit cop to an animal “nudist” yoga club. G movies wouldn’t have that type of humor.

  Hope that clears it up for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP has a realization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bit unfair. How do you explain all the IR sensor and radar evidence in some of these incidents? In those incidents, the objects weren’t defying the laws of physics, necessarily. It only seemed unlikely that any lifeform as we know it could survive the G-force that would incur from such rapid acceleration, which–in my opinion–means the objects were likely drones of some kind.

  I don’t necessarily believe the sightings are aliens, but I do think they warrant further and continued inquiry. There have been too many of these “orb” sightings around military aircraft and naval ships to simply ignore/dismiss them outright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP has a realization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a random throwback reference, hahah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I ever think of when it comes to mitochondria is Parasite Eve and spontaneous combustion/mutants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally though⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turnitin is such garbage. I hated it in grad school in the mid 2010s, I can only imagine how fucking awful it is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't relate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really tried to enjoy RDR2. It’s got some great qualities, and the acting, writing, and cutscenes are phenomenal. But… The gameplay… I’m all for slowburn walking simulator type games (e.g. I loved Detroit Become Human, among others).

  But with RDR2, the world is so massive and yet there was no sense of excitement when finding stuff. You get just about all your upgrades fairly early in the game. There’s no sense of character gameplay progression. And after just a few hours of traveling around, it felt like I quickly had seen all the random event variations on the roads/trails (e.g. stop bandits hijacking a wagon, robberies, etc). I don’t know, it just felt like a hyper realistic GTA5: Western, but without all the plethora of goofy shenanigans that game has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could always go the fake nail route. My SO has been doing that for a couple years. It’s way easier than painting and you can get all sorts of cool designs and patterns, especially for holiday themed ones (hers right now have glow in the dark ghosts and pumpkins on them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pow--⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it just an American carbon copy of a Japanese show?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon is just making a fake post. Literally no college would authorize this type of shit and I’d argue there could be grounds for a civil lawsuit if they did. Paying them tens of thousands of dollars and one of their professors admits to just auto failing students because there’s too many in the class? Nah, I’ve attended 3 different schools before I graduated (I moved a lot), and every single one would drop you before class even began or within the first week if the class was too full.

  If this did actually happen to OP, I can guarantee there’s more to the story they’re not telling us. But I’m going to assume it’s made up or extremely exaggerated/altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but I hear that’s the culture of Americans being told what to believe and do based on their feeds.

  Hate to break it to you, but this is becoming the norm globally as more and more people got addicted to smartphones and social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. FH4 and 5 are fun, but the monetization is obnoxious and it often felt clunky just to get into fun racing activities quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly don’t understand why anyone gave a fuck about Nintendo caring about Palworld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, not all indie devs have the luxury of having a huge budget cushion from a previously highly successful game. People need to eat and have a roof over their heads, and $20 is pretty wild when you consider it took TC over 6 years to make the game. It’s just unrealistic to expect every game be $20 or less.

  And it may be a wildly unpopular opinion, but I truly think Silksong isn’t worth more than $20-30. It’s not a massive game and the mechanics, story, and world aren’t that deep. It felt like a Hollow Knight expansion (which is what it was originally intended to be, per the devs themselves) vs a true sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't see that coming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was literally announced in February 2019. We’ve had to wait over 6 years for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf movie is the 8800 from? That and the top right are the only characters I don’t recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New York court has temporarily blocked the city from installing a bike lane in response to a lawsuit from local businesses owners, who alleged it would compromise public safety⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But… The business owners stating that the proposed street was dangerous is exactly what you just quoted…? I didn’t say you were worried about the business owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New York court has temporarily blocked the city from installing a bike lane in response to a lawsuit from local businesses owners, who alleged it would compromise public safety⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoa, you’re upsetting the pitchfork mob by agreeing that the business owners might just have a genuine concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shamelessly stolen from Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, well, that’s a different situation from the one I interpreted here, I guess. Yeah, unreasonably rude customers of any kind are awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shamelessly stolen from Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But…why? I never faulted people asking for any sort of discount when I worked retail. Why blame them for simply asking if there was a way to get something cheaper? I couldn’t give a fuck if corporate was making less money while my fellow citizen saved some cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather, it isn’t sustainable at its current pricing model. It takes the average studio team 3-5 years to make 1 AAA game.

  Microsoft’s internal studios (excluding the ones they just bought over the last 4-5 years) have made Halo Infinite and… Hmm… Is the Forza studio considered OG first-party? I’ll just lump them in as well, since they’ve been associated with MS for awhile. So 2 major games in the last ~8 years. Then you have the major studios they just bought: Bethesda and Blizzard/Activision. Bethesda has released 2 major AAA games in the last 5 years while under MS ownership (I think Doom Eternal came out before the purchase). Blizzard has done 1 and Activision has done 1 CoD game.

  So MS paid $7.5b for Zenimax/Bethesda and $68.7b for Blizz/Activision, for a whopping total of $76.2b. Starfield sold around 3m copies, Diablo 4 has generated around $1b in revenue since release (chose revenue since it’s a live service game and that includes copies sold), and Black Ops 6 has sold… I’m not sure, a quick search doesn’t show any hard numbers, just Xbox propaganda that it “was the biggest release in franchise history.” (I say propaganda bc many of their larger shareholders weren’t super pleased with how much it cost to purchase Activision, so of course they wanted to spin it as being a smart investment).

  And it costs MS a lot of money to license some of the bigger games to come to GamePass.

  I just don’t see it being sustainable without cost increases. And if the cost goes up, they’ll turn off customers. And we’ve already seen that their cheaper, indie studios aren’t safe from being axed despite releasing successful hits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We definitely play on the XSX as a family a lot more than the PS5 that’s collecting dust upstairs. Its smaller form factor makes it much easier to use as a gaming console in our main living area. But yeah, GamePass is a crazy good deal if you know how to use the conversion trick (buy GamePass core for like 2 years for $80-100 from key reseller, then convert it to Ultimate on MS site at a 2:3 ratio or whatever).

  That being said, everyone knows GamePass isn’t sustainable long-term. Microsoft truly is killing their gaming division with such short-sighted planning.