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Yeah, it was pretty funny how Pfizer early on was looked at as being the best while Moderna was the "cheaper but still good-ish" option. Can't say I'm too unhappy with having gotten all Moderna.

I don't think most normal people care an iota what Pfizer says in of itself - Pfizer's a corporation looking out for its bottom line, just like 99.9% of all corporations. But if you distrust the corporation, and you distrust the CDC, and you are presumably not listening to any other country's disease-presiding institution or accepting studies done by any of them or anyone else on their behalf, where are you looking to for information that would impact your decision?

I'm continuing to cheer against the Bengals so that they can continue to win, so I really "hope" you're wrong about the Bengals winning. As for what the Bengals did...yeah, most teams should do what the Bengals did, but a lot easier said than done, right? Consistently hitting on a decent amount of your draft picks year after year is basically impossible for an extended period of time - doing it for just a few years in a row usually gets you a pretty good run of success (particularly if you get a QB out of it), doing it for a handful usually gets you a Super Bowl at least. A number of teams have trouble doing it even once or twice in a given ten year period, though.

48 episode-long Stardust Crusaders. Season 1, 26 episodes: Phantom Blood / Battle Tendency Season 2, 48 episodes: Stardust Crusaders Season 3, 39 episodes: Diamond Is Unbreakable Season 4, 39 episodes: Golden Wind Season 5, TBD: Stone Ocean Also, "Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan", a short 4-episode side-story thing, came out in between Diamond Is Unbreakable and Golden Wind.

Perhaps...but on the other hand, not engaging with bad faith actors at all to begin with results in discussions moving forward without them, which necessarily limits how far their viewpoints may propagate in the first place. We've all certainly seen situations where a certain poster comes out of nowhere with some bat**** crazy viewpoint...and then someone else magnanimously ignores that post and replies with something else entirely, and the entire thread continues on without ever having addressed the insanity of that particular poster - it's quickly forgotten. Without being engaged with, you are forced to repeatedly speak into an ever-expansive void...and that is the very situation which results in a poster feeling alienated and as if they're wasting their time with posting, or at least with the way they currently like to post.

HoonDing deliberately makes himself obvious, which in turn doesn't inspire any paragraphs of writing from anyone else in reply, because we all recognize such silliness for exactly what it is. Is it still trolling if we're all in on the joke and always treat it as such? After all, there's no trick that results in us wasting genuine thought or emotion (and never mind our time) if we're all perfectly cognizant of the situation. Compare that to the countless times you have gone through the trouble of writing paragraphs and repeating yourself ad nauseum to someone who was never in the market of even slightly shifting their view...with no intellectual honesty or integrity on display, you have wasted hours of your time trying to reach someone that was never remotely reachable in the first place, and yet who apparently expected you to remain open to whatever silly agenda they were trying to push. That, to me, is a much more insidious form of trolling than just about anything else I can think of.

If me being obtuse in a sentence or two gets somebody else to write paragraphs, and then I go and do the exact same thing again for the same kind of reaction, I do believe the goal of...how do you say it, "trolling", has been accomplished.

Yes, well, the fact that she wasn't the first was a crime in of itself! ...I may be shifting the goal posts slightly here.

Author's comment on the video: Oh, thank god, . They show a character selection screen at some point during the video, and she's not in it.

Ah, a fellow Daisyist! I always believed Daisy to be the...well, actually, wait - for a long time, I always thought she was the worst, but that's because she was aggressively loud and obnoxious. In my group of friends that played these silly Mario sports/party/racing games, I always played as Mario, pretty much the most inoffensive of all the characters...until one of my friends trolled me by picking Mario before I could. I said "alright, well, screw you, I'm playing Daisy I guess", and everyone but me has regretted it ever since. For yes, while she is the loudest and most obnoxious of all characters...when she is being loud and obnoxious on your behalf, you can't help but love her personality and charm. Win or lose, she'll be perpetually groaning, whooping, crying, and yelping at everything and everyone, and I think that's really what party gaming is all about, . I don't know whom David Jaffe is, but...let's see here: Sounds a lot like that one journalist that tried to play Cuphead and couldn't figure out how to jump + dash for a solid couple of minutes in the first ten seconds of the tutorial that explicitly laid out how to do it in signs above the player's head...except that the Cuphead guy at least knew how awful he was.

Sorry, I actually can't read, hence the strange response - I thought you said she was revealed to be an awful person long before she got on Twitter, but upon re-read, you did not say that at all, just that you didn't care about Harry Potter to begin with...which makes a lot more sense. Whoops.

What, were the hook-nosed goblins that nobody liked being the bankers in the Philosopher's Stone already too much for you?

I'm going to repeat myself: Princess Daisy is not in the new Strikers game. Princess Daisy was one of the more heavily marketed characters for the original Strikers games. She could do what Princess Peach could not, which was gleefully scream, yell, kick, run, punch, and...well, sport - prim and proper Peach (and Rosalina) couldn't do any of that*. Does no-one else see or care about the tragedy of the best Nintendo Princess no longer even having a place in what is essentially her own dojo**? Ooh, I'm so mad, I might change my avatar... *Ignore that Peach was literally in the original Strikers game - she was weak and pathetic, not even fit for holding Daisy's jockstraps. ...Do athletes wear jockstraps in soccer? Do women wear jockstraps in soccer? (e): I have been informed that jockstraps are, apparently, for jocks only - women do have an equivalent called..."pelvic protectors". Well, that just doesn't sound the same in every day usage, I have to say. **Well, at least she'll always have Super Mario Land...on the original Game Boy...

Yeah, death of the author is the only way to stay sane, especially in this age of Twitter and JK Rowlings. I shouldn't have, but I burst out laughing at this. Thanks internet, thanks George Lucas...and thanks majestic, .

Well, I hope you'd heard this before and it wasn't me that ruined it. Personally, I never really thought about it that much - the conversation just sounded like a writing device to indicate that something had occurred in the past that left Marion the big mad at Indiana, and that's really all it had to be as a way to quickly setup some character history as well as some motivations for how they were going to act towards each other for the rest of the film. Then the internet happened, and I was told that no, that's there because the creators of this film deliberately thought out that Indiana raped the poor girl when she was anywhere between 10 and 12 years of age. Thanks internet, thanks George Lucas - very cool.

I was recently informed that the Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian apparently shows up at some point during Stardust Crusaders, because it happened to also appear in Gilmore Girls and the person I was talking to about it knew it from there. I suppose it's appropriate enough for that particular chapter of JoJo.

The thing that really confuses me is that Spielberg apparently said that "she had better be older than 22" (22 - 12 = 10, she would have been ten years old, George Lucas - quick maths!)...and then the very next thing he says is that "let's make it her fault by having her be promiscuous". What the hell, guys? Luckily, all that really materially exists of that idea in the film is that one solitary thread of conversation, especially because the actress, Karen Allen, was actually in her late 20s at the time of filming.

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan in 1978 during the brainstorming process of creating Indiana Jones: An actual conversation between Indiana and Marion from the first Indiana Jones film..: Thanks, George - glad I'll remember this one anytime I re-watch Indiana Jones.

Princess Daisy has been dropped from the base roster in favor of that hack fraud Rosalina. Nintendo, you are dead to me.

I don't know if it makes sense to keep the Wii U asterisk if Fire Emblem is actually on the Switch...unless you also happened to own a Wii U, I suppose. If you're one of the other ten people that own a Wii U, then you can do whatever you want, just like me! Also, I thought Fire Emblem Warriors was a joke, but no, it's also somehow a real thing. I know there's some kind of market for these, but they seem to make me long for the heat death of the universe, which is not a great feeling.

I remember trying the first Hyrule Warriors when it came out on Wii U* and more or less having a small mental breakdown where I couldn't stop laughing because of how hilariously...nothing everything about it felt. It was a real "am I even alive right now" kind of surrealist/existential experience. Based on the evidence, I do not believe that the Dynasty Warriors games were made for me, and I think that is okay. *Yes, I am one of the ten people in the entire world that own a Wii U, so you can laugh at me for that one.

Hah, majestic wanted the rest of us to watch that one a while back, but none of us bit. Looks like he finally found a kindred soul with the same taste in anime as him, .

It's a good thing you're giving us descriptive text, because it kinda looked like Cobra broke his neck and was lying there horribly paralyzed without the description...although that interpretation was better. Guess I'd learn how to play Bach real quick. I mean, how hard can it be? Let me Google it real quick... Oh.

Top five, don't @me. I mean, probably - there are a lot of them and they're kind of hard to see individually, . Okay, this one is pretty clearly a fox and not a cat.