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Disney "quitting video game publishing", Disney Infinity also being discontinued. Don't have a proper article yet - only have this fiscal report that says: "Items affecting comparability during the quarter ended April 2, 2016 included a $147 million charge in connection with the discontinuation of our self-published console games business, principally Infinity (Infinity Charge)"

I think Kaine was merely making an observation on the history of U.S. voting rights (and why it makes a sort of sense women didn't have the right to vote in light of your comment about it) - nothing more, really.

I was also speaking of mothers and housewives, too - like I said, that definition is still used today, and it's probably for good reason(s), but... On a different note, according to FOX News, "There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into." It'd be pretty hilarious if they actually did do that (and assuming the story is true and FOX isn't just making crap up).

When "being a part of the workforce" is defined as "being paid for your work", anyways. Which it is today still, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzLmOhJe5I

Isn't that rather KaineParker's point, though - that it's really not that hard to believe based on the current state of affairs? Although his post is actually pretty ambiguous, but that's how I understood it...

Things will be much more interesting, I imagine, when AMD releases info on Polaris (which, to my understanding, is supposed to happen late May-early June, but I could be wrong).

That makes a lot more sense, because she didn't look quite like herself (Audrey), and well, she looked a little too old based on the year of the movie. Which makes sense, because Katharine was 44 when the African Queen came out, while Audrey would've been just 22! Must've read the names too fast. I like Bogart, unsure about Katharine, but the combination of them here, well...it wasn't the greatest. On a side-note, why can't I hit enter? It just makes a space instead... testing testing testing Oh, neat: BBCode is just broken now, apparently. How swell!

A bunch of old movies were on this morning on some random channel, and I didn't have much to do. I watched Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, We're No Angels, and the African Queen. The latter two star Humphrey Bogart (and the African Queen also has Audrey Hepburn). We're No Angels was easily the best and pretty genuinely decent, while Invasion of the Bodysnatchers was also O.K., I guess. The African Queen was just kinda dull and boring, though...

The entire movie kinda sucked from beginning to end. From the moment he picked up that hand thing to beat that kid's face in down on Earth (or whatever), to the super weirdness of finding the Queen at the very end, the movie's tone was helter-skelter and it was paced so unevenly. Ender was supposed to spend years training with the other children - instead it's just a few weeks in the movie. There's no sense of...anything concrete in the movie - no sense that Ender is a good tactician, or that he's a good leader, or that he's mature in any substantial way beyond "I can make serious faces and talk in a normal tone of voice like an adult", or that he's earned the trust of his subcommanders. The entire movie's just a big waste. Which I kind of figured it would be as soon as soon as it was announced - it's oh so difficult to have good child actors, and you need simply brilliant ones if they're going to try to carry a film like this all by themselves...and you need actually good writers and screenplayers. They didn't seem to have any of these elements, much less all.

Yeah, and in the process, the director make Ender unlikable. Brilliant.

Pascal looks decently nice. GTX 1070 for MSRP of $380, roughly equal to Titan X's power. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4i88rj/nvidia_have_announced_the_gtx_1080/d2vy0al https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4i88rj/nvidia_have_announced_the_gtx_1080/d2vyjdf

Specifically framed in such a way that it's clearly just to make fun of the person being quoted, I would say so, yes. I mean, that seems like bullying to me.

But I often love those kinds of posts...although I don't like it when it's done ad nauseam like it seems some of us have been doing lately, and I probably wouldn't love it if you did it to me, and I'm sure you've had opportunity... And really, this just ties into the general point I made way earlier in the thread about basic civility to one another...there's just that little difficulty of "not being a massive hypocrite" that I'm struggling with...so I guess your way is probably better.

Well, of course: my lack of civility was occurring before I read those points. It's a brand new day, Gfted, full of broadened insight and increased self-control! Heh, is what I WOULD say if I was actually capable of becoming a better person - fat chance of that, eh? But real talk, it was really nice not reading any of his posts in this topic and others over the past few days, so I'm going to try reaally hard to keep doing that*. You ratfinks can all have him to yourselves - enjoy. *And, well, if that doesn't work and it continues to be a problem, I presume I will be having a private discussion with moderation on "what Bart shouldn't do on the Obsidian forums" one of these days sooner or later...

Of course I was 'whining' over multiple pages, and of course I had Bruce quotes in my signature that, yes, I suppose were rather bullying. I never really thought of it as bullying, but I suppose it fits the bill well enough. I never disagreed with those points. I disagreed with your notion that I was totally unreceptive to other people's counterarguments on the matter: "but I guess 'cause triggered' will rule the day".

That afro kinda just looks like a glitch on here...

Volourn actually doesn't bother me that much, because he's more just the inflammatory type. I'm still not a big fan of people just being able to call each other Nazis at the drop of a hat...but these are the ObSSidian forums, so I guess it's the poison you choose to drink...

Yeah, when I quoted you, it gave me the latest updated version of the post instead of what I actually had visible. Guess I forgot to add that part back. Walk me back from the ledge? I literally totally and unreservedly agreed with 213374U's points, as much as I didn't want to. You know, these last few posts of yours have made me think you didn't even read the, and I quote, "[...]multi-page whining threads" you mentioned earlier. I mean, I can't imagine any possible reason why you wouldn't... ...but if you're gonna bother to mildly trash talk me, at least do it right.

But...I already said I was the one replying to Bruce most of the time in "serious discussion" threads over the past couple of years. Wouldn't that be me disagreeing with him if that were the problem? (e): Also, nice emoticon stealth-edit.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Triggers me beyond the capability for HAPPY thoughts, yes. ...But hey, if happiness is your rationality, then I can see that. I don't agree, but I can see it. See? Different thought patterns aren't the problem here.

What? I changed my signature from a bunch of quotes of dumb things Bruce has said to one of my favorite quotes. Isn't that...better? Unless you think the quote itself is related to Bruce...that's a pretty big stretch, though. Doesn't share my thought patterns? Well, let's see here...I am generally - generally! - able to make friends with both liberals and conservatives, theists and nontheists, people who are impulsive, people who are compulsive, people who are neither, people who are from my country, people who are not, people who share my favorite football team and people who "inexplicably" do not...even though I obviously can't share all of these traits myself...so uh, I guess I would need more information on the individual in particular before I could commit to an answer.

You're so good at summarizing what people are saying, Gfted. ...Actually, wait, that's not what I said at all. It's not like I'm going into every topic calling him a Nazi or something, now is it? ...Perhaps that would be a more effective strategy, though... No, I think Volourn's already tried that.

I was wondering where the "her" came from: took me a few re-reads of my own post to figure that one out.

Those are undeniably great points. Nevertheless, it has made for a completely miserable forum experience in regards to those kinds of threads over the past couple of years for some of us, which is probably why some of us complain so much about it*. *Myself almost certainly the most, of course.