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    Anthem

    in Computer and Console

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    P.S. We should start a "Developer Dead Pool", and make bets on the order in which BioWare, Blizzard, or Bethesda will be dead.

    *snickers* What on earth are you talking about. Didn't Blizzard just announce record profits? Isn't Bethesda gearing up to release Doom, Wolfenstein and Rage titles soon? Just because comment sections are salty doesn't mean they're in trouble.

     

    BioWare on the other hand, haven't been doing too well. I blame EA.

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    The Political Thread - Browncoat edition... down with the Alliance!

    in Way Off-Topic

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    image

    coulda' been almost any o' those scandinavian countries, and they choose norway?

     

    https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/

     

    norway is almost as dependent on raw resource exports as is russia, which ain't a compliment, and nearly 60% o' all exports is petroleum-based. as such, norway suffers from extreme volatility o' currency.

     

    is also geographical much smaller and cultural far more homogenized than US. problems facing norway is a bit different.

     

    US50.jpg

     

    got vast stretches o' highway in the west and midwest o' US with absolute nothing to mark passage save mileage markers. is no wonder infrastructure improvements is so daunting. just one example.

     

    coulda' used any scandinavian nation as an example, but we get home o' whale killers and recreational seal clubbers who is as over dependent on oil as russia?

     

    however, we get the point. there is examples o' socialism working okie dokie for folks.

     

    HA! Good Fun!

    The picture also referred to Norway as "countries" and "they".

    TV's Vast Wasteland

    in Way Off-Topic

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    Netflix' The Dragon Prince.

     

    Starting out really promising. Animated fantasy show created by Aaron Ehasz, who wrote or co-wrote 59 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (For reference, the show has 61 episodes.)

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    What did you do today?

    in Way Off-Topic

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    Today I learned the meaning of the word "retcon". Somehow I made it is through 47 years without knowing it was even a thing.

     

    Some folks have waaaayyy to little too much time on their hands.

    Curious, what about retcons makes you come to the time-wasting conclusion?

    Two of my coworers were discussing why the technology in the new Star Trek movies and new show was so much more advanced than the TOS. They decided it had something to do with something that happened in the enterprise show. I chimed in it was because the TOS was made in the '60s and the new stuff is, well... new. Apparently that wasn't the right answer.

    That sounds like they're just making stuff up. That's not a retcon, that's headcanon and that IS a waste of time. :lol:

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    What did you do today?

    in Way Off-Topic

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    Today I learned the meaning of the word "retcon". Somehow I made it is through 47 years without knowing it was even a thing.

     

    Some folks have waaaayyy to little too much time on their hands.

    Curious, what about retcons makes you come to the time-wasting conclusion?

    Forum edit function too... sensitive?

    in Obsidian General

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    Back on topic? Ok. I just made another mistake and I can't edit it to add a letter without it showing that it was edited. Damn my rusting English. :facepalm:

    And this is a problem because...?

     

    This thread continues to be an expression of insecurity. Oh em gee, someone might see an edit and think something!

     

    It doesn't matter, it won't be changed, and it isn't funny as a running gag. Let it go.

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    Weird. Random. Interesting.

    in Way Off-Topic

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    What are you talking about? Fight Club is a literalized parody on why the manly man ideal is just another uniform you're forced to wear by peer pressure and eventually leads you to cause destruction. Members of project mayhem don't even get a name, leading all the manly men who join fight clubs right back to the empty disillusionment that our nameless narrator starts with. Well, except for, you know, Bob, who has breasts and isn't manly enough so pretending otherwise gets him killed. The book goes even further, where in the end the narrator is institutionalised because being Tyler Durden, the narrator's anthropomorphic personification of manliness (who is the villain) is a literal mental illness.

     

    I'd get into it more but I'm really not in the mood considering this place's track record. Go check out Folding Ideas' video on the topic, he explains it well enough.

     

     

    If that's not enough, go ask the author. ;)

     

    Edit: Used the word literal too often.

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