Everything posted by Bartimaeus
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nfl 2020-2021
Looks like the CFL is going bankrupt as well, .
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Could've fooled me - he looked slow and completely ineffectual, and didn't land a single hit, .
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Intel Thread
lmao, man, screw Intel
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Politics XXXVIII (A Nontotient)
Clarification: are we mass murdering Nazis, or mass-murdering Nazis? I'm cool with either way, I just want to make sure I wear my fascist/anti-fascist outfit appropriately.
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
@Mamoulian War This is such a brain-dead fight.
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Politics XXXVIII (A Nontotient)
That's because coconut milk is mana from the heavens.
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The TV and Streaming thread renewed
Before watching the trailer, I was thinking "you know, you could probably do some pretty cool stuff with an animated Star Trek show that would've been very difficult to do - or at least do well - with a live-action", but then I actually watched the trailer, and yeah, nah, I'm good.
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Intel Thread
PSA to the clowns who make this forum software (who I know will never read this, but nevertheless): your lack of a plaintext/bbcode mode is bad and you should feel bad for removing it.
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Why do consoles suck so much these days?
I was gifted an Xbox One some years ago (would never buy one myself, given its horrid games library relative to Sony and especially Nintendo). It's a horrific user experience. Update every time I turn it on combined with absolutely lousy download speeds (I have a gigabit connection...and it takes 15-20 minutes to download a 1.5GB patch...what the hell, Microsoft? I know I don't live exactly close to major civilization, but that is so slow relative to every other content provider). These updates seem to be re-inventing the wheel for the UI every time too, which means stuff is constantly shuffled about for no real reason. Ads everywhere. Annoying prompts constantly. Login or you might as well not own this console. Terribly slow everything due to using an HDD with games sometimes exceeding 80GB. It is just the worst user experience and it makes it so I never, ever use it, and should've just sold it the moment I got it (...which I probably would've done, but couldn't realistically without seeming like a terrible person to the person that gifted it to me, bah). Awful console.
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Politics XXXVII (The 12th Prime)
Even though this photo has an obvious devil horns thing going on (I'm shocked nobody noticed it before releasing it), he looks so tired, haggard, and...human?, that I realized I somehow still feel a shred of empathy towards the man. I wonder by how many years being president will shorten his lifespan from all the stress and such. It can't have been worth it.
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nfl 2020-2021
Big yikes at the "Hitler was right" players across the NFL and NBA over the past couple of days...especially when combined with the absolutely deafening silence from other players (remember how quick everyone spoke out against Drew Brees?). 2020 definitely needed that on top of everything else.
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Build Thread 3.0
Unrelated, but did anyone else hear about MSI's well-liked CEO falling to his death from the top of their headquarters in Taiwan today? Unknown if accident, suicide, or homicide.
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Imagine how much more stupid this game would be to play through with a melee build.
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nfl 2020-2021
Their attendance numbers were at 95.6% last year, which is right about average - however, that says nothing about the number of home fans vs. away fans. I never see any Bills games, so I haven't seen first hand if their fan attendance is bad.
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nfl 2020-2021
Bills have announced that they will have no fans at their games, and I've heard the Packers are contemplating the same. Redskins are possibly changing their name. Cam Newton signed with the Patriots.
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The Best Musical or Comedy Drama Action Film thread (THIS IS THE GENERAL MOVIE STUFF THREAD)
The Red Turtle (2016). Bleh. Highly rated, but I have little to no appreciation for visual storytelling, and this was a very dull Little Baby's First Art, so it was not for me.
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The Best Musical or Comedy Drama Action Film thread (THIS IS THE GENERAL MOVIE STUFF THREAD)
Yeah, some time after watching it, I learned that the director is an actual bonafide pedophile that wanted to do way weirder and grosser stuff with the film, and it was pretty much a miracle that it turned out as well as it did. The Handmaiden (2016). I forgot I had gotten this a while back, forgotten who made it, had no idea what it was about before starting it. Whoops. That was different.
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Politics XXXVII (The 12th Prime)
People are dumb. I live in a tiny, tiny town and have been hearing fireworks go off every once in a while every night from 11PM-2AM for the past couple of weeks.
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R@nd0m V1d30 G@m3 N3w5
How do you know it's a controller? These sorts of trailers usually look more like some kind of scripted movement specifically tailor made to look smoother and more cinematic than normal controls (that, or some people have gotten really good at just making it look that way, since nobody who actually plays games moves the way trailers like these show the player moving). The real question is why is the field of view about 60 degrees, what the hell - feels claustrophobic...and not in a good way. The player's hands coming directly out of their face is not helping matters, either.
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Shrine is a stupid, unpleasant area...but at least it wasn't another crappy swamp area that seemingly every Souls game has. Barely remember the boss.
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Politics XXXVII (The 12th Prime)
???
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Politics XXXVII (The 12th Prime)
It's a twist on an Animal Farm line: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
I've played through DS1, DS3, and DeS on NG+ at SL1, I definitely have a formula down for how I approach things in these sorts of games by now, .
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
I was shocked that this guy was a Lord Soul, given the obvious and painful limitations of his design. Don't think I got hit even once by him, but of course, with Souls games, I usually spend a few minutes being super cautious and studying a boss's movements before I start attacking.
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Politics XXXVII (The 12th Prime)
Could American Evangelists Spot the Antichrist? Never gave any credence to Revelations or any similar prophecies throughout the Bible, always felt Revelations was written by a true madman ("John of Patmos", aka "John the Revelator"), but it is rather eerie and unsettling how specific some of these get. Some of them, of course, are loose interpretations, but that happens when dealing with vague "prophecies". The ones about having a conflict at the southern border and attempting to exact payment out of that southern country while also inflicting distress upon their people is a little too much specific for that to not be uncomfortable...