fair enough
now nintendo direct is the hype these days (kind of) in terms of "presentations"
i will stand by your statement that indies > AAA games (Unless it's Capcom. Recently Capcom has produced nothing but bangers)
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now nintendo direct is the hype these days (kind of) in terms of "presentations"
i will stand by your statement that indies > AAA games (Unless it's Capcom. Recently Capcom has produced nothing but bangers)
I think Nintendo falls a little to this pitfall of predictability. They are still able to shock me, but less so. That said, compared to Sony, MS, or the bigger publishers, they are muuuuch better off
I remember when ten years ago, Capcom pumped out RE spin off after RE spin off, released RE6 (I never played it myself but many people disliked it apparently), the weird DmC game, cancelled all of the Mega Man projects and were all like "yeah, we'll be biggest publisher in the world :)", and I was like, no, fuck you Crapcom
But man did they make a turnaround in the last couple of years. I don't know if its new management or something but I think they really found their place and can balance making the fans happy whilst making good money for themselves and doing good management. That's exceedingly rare for any media company, but in gaming especially
Capcom perfected mechanics in DMC and, oddly enough, Monster Hunter. People get really hyped with those two franchises, myself included, because despite being flawed, they are above standards (probably superior) compared to other AAA games that pop out of company asses.
tbf that isn't hard to beat
To me the draw of dinosaurs is the mystery of them. We actually barely know a thing about them. We don't know what color they were or what they looked like at all, besides the bones. There's all sorts of weird possibilities. What if they had tentacles? Tentacles don't have bones so we have no way of knowing. Not that they had tentacles, though, that's just an example. They could've been as smart as we are. We are just assuming they aren't very smart because of their small skulls, but brains don't leave fossils so it could be. But besides the land before time this is rarely explored.
It feels like pop culture all got an idea of what dinosaurs are, and what dinosaur tropes are, and then just copied each other. They created false consensus. And that limits what people are doing with them, and it limits dinosaur media. That we've all just agreed on all their traits rather than embracing and exploring their mysteries.
So while I agree with your critique of dinosaurs I'm still reticent to throw out the whole concept. Because I think they have more potential than that.
Okay I fully get your point and you swayed my opinion towards the direction of liking dinos, whilst speaking out things that formed my current opinion that I never fully formulated
I think it's just unfortunate how dinos are imagined. If we found a fossil of a hippo today, we may have assumed that they were scaled predators that lived in land. Not the crazy amphibian, herbivorous mammal we have. The fact that they can't swim and still live in waters, or the way they eat watermelons would be lost to time. What if there was a crazy dinosaur like that? Let's say a feathered carnivore that hunted by shedding it's claws and throwing them at their targets? Would be cool
One Piece had some weird dino stuff in some of their later chapter, such as triceratops flying by spinning their head, or brachiosaurus being able to shoot a serpentine body. Whilst that is used for only cmedic value, it's very interesting and entertaining. I wish more media would take such risks
both of these go hard as fuck
it’s not my fault you left the pizza in the fridge for 2 weeks it was fair game bitch
that just shows how much of a smogon baby i am, sheesh
anyone else cant connect to showdown?
i apreciate the likes, but i still need an answer.
were at 10 replies, and i still dont have an answer. i dont even need one anymore, its about the princible.
i apreciate the likes, but i still need an answer.
were at 10 replies, and i still dont have an answer. i dont even need one anymore, its about the princible.
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though this trans gal does have some good news:
This is genuinely bizarre, even for me, but... I think I've finally found a partner in the great world of romance. Holy shit, I'm now immune to the following image
okay, jokes aside, I hope I don't fuck this up, this person is... genuinely great. They're a year younger than I am, me being a sophomore and them being a freshman; but they've made my brain creepy crawly self-doubt bugs go away--at least, temporarily. I don't see myself as worthy of them (is this even the right thread for this?), but we'll see how it turns out.
okay we get it candy you became a simp, shut the fuck up and read your book
This is genuinely bizarre, even for me, but... I think I've finally found a partner in the great world of romance. Holy shit, I'm now immune to the following image
okay, jokes aside, I hope I don't fuck this up, this person is... genuinely great. They're a year younger than I am, me being a sophomore and them being a freshman; but they've made my brain creepy crawly self-doubt bugs go away--at least, temporarily. I don't see myself as worthy of them (is this even the right thread for this?), but we'll see how it turns out.
okay we get it candy you became a simp, shut the fuck up and read your book
Recently I have been thinking about the Mohs scale of hardness and as a result thinking about what kind of rock I would be if I were a rock. I am definitely stronger than talc (1) and gypsum (2) but definitely weaker than corundum (9) and diamond (10). So this leaves us starting at calcite (3) and ending at quartz (7). Calcite will dissolve in common household items like vinegar so I am going to rule that out while orthoclase (6) and quartz will scratch to knives and steel, respectively. Given that both knives and steel can puncture human skin I am also ruling those out. This leaves us with fluorite (4) and apatite (5). I have been stuck deciding which of these I would rather be which makes me think I am a bit of a 4.5 on Mohs scale. But to be honest I don't think I would want to be a rock if I had the choice so this is mostly just a brain exercise. What do you guys think?
if i was a girl and i did that, i would be hated by every other girl on the planet for perpetuating a stereotype.
Stereotype? I just heard the South Park version of Honey Boo Boo say that and I thought it was funny
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I couldn't decide. I ended up being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
In english class today, we were shown a bunch of articles regarding cellphones and teens usage of them. And among them was this beauty.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449671/
This article, from a licensed medical professional, had me laughing out loud before the article even started. the sub-header read as follows:
“These days we have Smartphones, Smart cars, Smartboards, Smart everything, but consider this: if the technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?”
This sounds like something a fourth-grader would write. This medical professional, unironically used wordplay as an opening argument for her article. The doctor in question? Rebecca McNutt. You can't make this up. I was hysterical. This sounds like a parody written by someone in their early teens. And the article continues to make the writer look stupid. In the second paragraph, there is a typo. and not even a minor one. It is one that makes the sentence unintelligible.
People spend their time more likely on social media, do business emails, academic search, finding answers to questions, and playing games.
This person is on a mission to end their career, and shes on world record pace.
I read more, and it gets even better!
Not only are there more incoherent sentences, but in the third paragraph, we are treated with this sentence:
"Salvatore Insiga, a neurosurgeon at Northwell Health's Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, New York, considered that nonetheless that there is no solid proof between cell phone radiation and tumor risk but the possibility still exists."
Cancer was not mentioned in the article prior to this. There was no lead up. McNutt just decided to put in her article a baseless claim that smartphones might cause cancer. Rebecca McNutt, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department Attending Physician, Off-Service Residency Evaluation Coordinator, Mercy Site Director made a baseless claim that cellphones cause cancer. This is a professional, who got degrees in Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh, Medicine from Yale University School of Medicine Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University, and Engineering Mechanics from the United States Air Force Academy. I've seen conspiracy theories with more evidence than this article.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449671/
This article, from a licensed medical professional, had me laughing out loud before the article even started. the sub-header read as follows:
“These days we have Smartphones, Smart cars, Smartboards, Smart everything, but consider this: if the technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?”
This sounds like something a fourth-grader would write. This medical professional, unironically used wordplay as an opening argument for her article. The doctor in question? Rebecca McNutt. You can't make this up. I was hysterical. This sounds like a parody written by someone in their early teens. And the article continues to make the writer look stupid. In the second paragraph, there is a typo. and not even a minor one. It is one that makes the sentence unintelligible.
People spend their time more likely on social media, do business emails, academic search, finding answers to questions, and playing games.
This person is on a mission to end their career, and shes on world record pace.
I read more, and it gets even better!
Not only are there more incoherent sentences, but in the third paragraph, we are treated with this sentence:
"Salvatore Insiga, a neurosurgeon at Northwell Health's Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, New York, considered that nonetheless that there is no solid proof between cell phone radiation and tumor risk but the possibility still exists."
Cancer was not mentioned in the article prior to this. There was no lead up. McNutt just decided to put in her article a baseless claim that smartphones might cause cancer. Rebecca McNutt, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department Attending Physician, Off-Service Residency Evaluation Coordinator, Mercy Site Director made a baseless claim that cellphones cause cancer. This is a professional, who got degrees in Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh, Medicine from Yale University School of Medicine Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University, and Engineering Mechanics from the United States Air Force Academy. I've seen conspiracy theories with more evidence than this article.
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