syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
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i will never stop being baffled/horrified/bewildered by food stamps, as a concept
Why? I'm pretty sure the Canadian system works roughly the same way.
No we don't
We have welfare programs but they just give you money and let you buy your own food where you want and how you want and trust you won't spend it on liquor and cigarettes
Yeah I don't know of any other country that uses food stamps. The American welfare system just seems so needlessly complicated, like everything else.
Sonic Spinball (previously known as Spinball Whizzer), is a steel spinning roller coaster made by Maurer Söhne of Germany and sponsored by SEGA. The ride is located in the Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It is based on SEGA's number one franchise Sonic the Hedgehog. "Sonic Spinball" itself was an early pinball game released for Sega's Mega Drive, Game Gear and Master System systems, which is referenced in the ride's theming.
Originally opened in 2004, the ride was known as Spinball Whizzer and featured a loose pinball machine theme. The name was a pun on the song Pinball Wizard by The Who. It was decided in late 2009 that the ride would receive sponsorship. The roller coaster was therefore given a red and blue track repaint; new decoys, signage and audio, including songs from the games (with the station announcements done by Sonic's current voice actor Roger Craig Smith). The ride re-opened to the public on 13 February 2010 during the park's February half term event.
SEGA's sponsorship was set to end in 2013 as part of the three-year deal. At the end of 2013 the sponsorship was renewed, and will continue until 2016.
like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
As I walked past the breakroom TV, the BBC/CNN lady said "Obama said the United States Government will no longer victimize the families of kidnap victims"
I either misheard, or missed the context of that line, because it makes no sense as written.
People who try to ransom their family members were under threat of prosecution for giving material aid to a terrorist organization.
They should be. Paying ransoms not only encourages future kidnappings, but it directly funds them. The blood of every future victim is on their hands.
Kidnapping should always, 100% of the time be a law enforcement / military issue.
this is one of those sentiments i find to be practical on paper
but if my family member has been taken hostage, my primary concern is getting them out of danger, not necessarily doing the pragmatic thing
Sure, which is why it should be illegal, and on a similar note, why we should have well trained and funded anti-kidnapping units so as to offer a better alternative.
i don't know the situation with whole foods but the way you become a SNAP authorized retailer is by applying for it.
i think the requirement to not buy alcohol and tobacco is fine in spirit although ineffective (people who want alcohol and tobacco are just going to do swaps to get them) and so should probably be removed
i am not sure you know what you are talking about re: SNAP being restricted to "places we want poor people to shop"
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like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
As a story ME1 is pretty great.
As a game it is showing signs of aging badly, yes.
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As I walked past the breakroom TV, the BBC/CNN lady said "Obama said the United States Government will no longer victimize the families of kidnap victims"
I either misheard, or missed the context of that line, because it makes no sense as written.
People who try to ransom their family members were under threat of prosecution for giving material aid to a terrorist organization.
They should be. Paying ransoms not only encourages future kidnappings, but it directly funds them. The blood of every future victim is on their hands.
Kidnapping should always, 100% of the time be a law enforcement / military issue.
this is one of those sentiments i find to be practical on paper
but if my family member has been taken hostage, my primary concern is getting them out of danger, not necessarily doing the pragmatic thing
Sure, which is why it should be illegal, and on a similar note, why we should have well trained and funded anti-kidnapping units so as to offer a better alternative.
i don't necessarily disagree
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I am definitely getting a raw deal out of my Playstation Plus membership right now, though. The game offerings for PS3 are abysmal compared to what they were before the PS4 came out.
Hmm hmm hmm....
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i dunno though
i don't see any evidence a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" policy really does anything to reduce terrorism
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like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
they won't do ODST and Reach?
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I am definitely getting a raw deal out of my Playstation Plus membership right now, though. The game offerings for PS3 are abysmal compared to what they were before the PS4 came out.
Hmm hmm hmm....
they're often better than the PS4 games though
fwiw
that's not helping
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"think not of the cum swallowed, but of the cum yet to be swallowed" - kaceytron
inspirational stuff
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i will never stop being baffled/horrified/bewildered by food stamps, as a concept
Why? I'm pretty sure the Canadian system works roughly the same way.
No we don't
We have welfare programs but they just give you money and let you buy your own food where you want and how you want and trust you won't spend it on liquor and cigarettes
Yeah I don't know of any other country that uses food stamps. The American welfare system just seems so needlessly complicated, like everything else.
it makes sense when you realize that as a society we hate the poor
like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
As a story ME1 is pretty great.
As a game it is showing signs of aging badly, yes.
It's not something I would play frequently, but prior to playing ME3 I did a straight run through of ME1 and ME2 to prepare a canon character and having not played ME1 since it came out, there was enough nostalgia and good timey feelings to make it an enjoyable run.
However, I wouldn't replay it again any time soon.
i think the requirement to not buy alcohol and tobacco is fine in spirit although ineffective (people who want alcohol and tobacco are just going to do swaps to get them) and so should probably be removed
This is a terrible idea. I'd rather SNAP goes the other direction and stops covering cola and chocolate bars.
like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
As a story ME1 is pretty great.
As a game it is showing signs of aging badly, yes.
ME1 is still my favorite for this reason alone, and it probably always will be. I've mentioned before, but the final sequences of that game leading up to the ending is the most intense and memorable of any game I have ever played, and never before has a game made me feel more like a Big Gorram Hero than Mass Effect 1.
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like for instance, Mass Effect 1 is in the developer preview program, with 2 and 3 likely to be available before Andromeda is released. So it will be the only console where you can play the entire series.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
I don't want to play ME1 again.
I want to get through it because I do want to be able to make different choices and stuff and see how it affects the sequels.
That being said, I do not play shooters on console because I am bad enough with KBAM, no need to exacerbate the problem.
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As I walked past the breakroom TV, the BBC/CNN lady said "Obama said the United States Government will no longer victimize the families of kidnap victims"
I either misheard, or missed the context of that line, because it makes no sense as written.
People who try to ransom their family members were under threat of prosecution for giving material aid to a terrorist organization.
They should be. Paying ransoms not only encourages future kidnappings, but it directly funds them. The blood of every future victim is on their hands.
Kidnapping should always, 100% of the time be a law enforcement / military issue.
Nope
It does reward kidnapping, directly. It does say to kidnappers "Yes, this is something you can make money doing if you do it again", and it does nothing to disincentivize kidnappers from repeating what they just did.
No, it does not make the family members who pay it at fault or responsible for the crimes the kidnappers continue to commit henceforth. That fault lies entirely on the kidnappers for making the choice to kidnap again. There is a huge gulf between the two things, and you are obfuscating the two. What you are doing is straight up victim-blaming.
It's in the same neighborhood of saying "If you don't report a crime committed against you, you're to blame for that criminal continuing to commit those crimes" and that is really fucked up
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gamestop is doing a thing where trading in a 360 or ps3 will give you $150 towards a new xbone or ps4
i don't particularly want a ps4 for anything i can think of right now, but i'd love to get rid of my old 360. and who knows maybe someday i'll want the ps4
Beware, the deal applies to the Slim 360 only. And you probably have to give up a 360 controller, too.
i think the requirement to not buy alcohol and tobacco is fine in spirit although ineffective (people who want alcohol and tobacco are just going to do swaps to get them) and so should probably be removed
This is a terrible idea. I'd rather SNAP goes the other direction and stops covering cola and chocolate bars.
jackbooted thugs deployed to slap candy out of children's hands
As I walked past the breakroom TV, the BBC/CNN lady said "Obama said the United States Government will no longer victimize the families of kidnap victims"
I either misheard, or missed the context of that line, because it makes no sense as written.
People who try to ransom their family members were under threat of prosecution for giving material aid to a terrorist organization.
They should be. Paying ransoms not only encourages future kidnappings, but it directly funds them. The blood of every future victim is on their hands.
Kidnapping should always, 100% of the time be a law enforcement / military issue.
Nope
It does reward kidnapping, directly. It does say to kidnappers "Yes, this is something you can make money doing if you do it again", and it does nothing to disincentivize kidnappers from repeating what they just did.
No, it does not make the family members who pay it at fault or responsible for the crimes the kidnappers continue to commit henceforth. That fault lies entirely on the kidnappers for making the choice to kidnap again. There is a huge gulf between the two things, and you are obfuscating the two. What you are doing is straight up victim-blaming.
It's in the same neighborhood of saying "If you don't report a crime committed against you, you're to blame for that criminal continuing to commit those crimes" and that is really fucked up
its probably a 'listed' 250 gb harddrive with some of the disk space being taken up by system stuff or file management or whatever
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I have very strong feelings about food stamps and welfare and the last time we talked about it things got heated, but I will say that I agree pretty much completely with Matt on this topic and I find the current system infantilizing and offensive on a number of deeply personal levels.
ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
i feel like making it illegal to pay the ransom to get your family member back is like making it illegal to attempt suicide (NOT THE BEST ANALOGY WARNING)
like you aren't really solving the problem, and you're making things worse for some of the people involved
Auuuuuuuguh. DAMMIT. The trade in deal needs an Xbox with 250 GB of storage, mine has 229.
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
Not sure if serious post, but pretty sure a 250g 360 will only report around 230 free after OS is on it. They never sold a 229G model.
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@Winky keep in mind that Miyazaki was also saying that stuff in the 1980s - his reflective essay on the life of Tezuka was entirely framed around him saying things like "everything Tezuka said or thought was wrong", that Tezuka's work had ruined the Japanese animation industry, etc. There's another essay published in 1982 where he derides animation that isn't within his specific vision, and says that the advent of home video will finally be the death knell of bad/limited animation (since it will just start cannibalising itself) and he can start getting stuff he likes out there.
There's definitely changes that happened in the period, and the presentation I'm giving at a conference next week is mostly about the changes in narrative structure that changed between the pre- and post-1990s, but Miyazaki has always loathed the animation industry spawned by "Tezuka's curse" (aka anything limited animation).
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yeah I don't know of any other country that uses food stamps. The American welfare system just seems so needlessly complicated, like everything else.
A Sonic Spinball rollercoaster?
England, we need to have a serious talk.
I don't think anyone who has played all three wants to play ME1 though.
Sure, which is why it should be illegal, and on a similar note, why we should have well trained and funded anti-kidnapping units so as to offer a better alternative.
i think the requirement to not buy alcohol and tobacco is fine in spirit although ineffective (people who want alcohol and tobacco are just going to do swaps to get them) and so should probably be removed
i am not sure you know what you are talking about re: SNAP being restricted to "places we want poor people to shop"
As a story ME1 is pretty great.
As a game it is showing signs of aging badly, yes.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
i don't necessarily disagree
Hmm hmm hmm....
i don't see any evidence a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" policy really does anything to reduce terrorism
they won't do ODST and Reach?
they're often better than the PS4 games though
fwiw
that's not helping
inspirational stuff
it makes sense when you realize that as a society we hate the poor
It's not something I would play frequently, but prior to playing ME3 I did a straight run through of ME1 and ME2 to prepare a canon character and having not played ME1 since it came out, there was enough nostalgia and good timey feelings to make it an enjoyable run.
However, I wouldn't replay it again any time soon.
This is a terrible idea. I'd rather SNAP goes the other direction and stops covering cola and chocolate bars.
ME1 is still my favorite for this reason alone, and it probably always will be. I've mentioned before, but the final sequences of that game leading up to the ending is the most intense and memorable of any game I have ever played, and never before has a game made me feel more like a Big Gorram Hero than Mass Effect 1.
I don't want to play ME1 again.
I want to get through it because I do want to be able to make different choices and stuff and see how it affects the sequels.
That being said, I do not play shooters on console because I am bad enough with KBAM, no need to exacerbate the problem.
Nope
It does reward kidnapping, directly. It does say to kidnappers "Yes, this is something you can make money doing if you do it again", and it does nothing to disincentivize kidnappers from repeating what they just did.
No, it does not make the family members who pay it at fault or responsible for the crimes the kidnappers continue to commit henceforth. That fault lies entirely on the kidnappers for making the choice to kidnap again. There is a huge gulf between the two things, and you are obfuscating the two. What you are doing is straight up victim-blaming.
It's in the same neighborhood of saying "If you don't report a crime committed against you, you're to blame for that criminal continuing to commit those crimes" and that is really fucked up
Wait, is that actually a policy? I thought it was some sort of TV trope.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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I think at this point I have 6.
yes, i'm ok with this
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
it's the dumbest truism
Unless you're Spiderman.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
it's the USA's official stance, paraphrased
How dank scheck.
Was this implemented after you guys negotiated with all those terrorists?
So, last Tuesday?
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw
like you aren't really solving the problem, and you're making things worse for some of the people involved
Called medical, saw my doctor three hours later.
Not sure if serious post, but pretty sure a 250g 360 will only report around 230 free after OS is on it. They never sold a 229G model.
There's definitely changes that happened in the period, and the presentation I'm giving at a conference next week is mostly about the changes in narrative structure that changed between the pre- and post-1990s, but Miyazaki has always loathed the animation industry spawned by "Tezuka's curse" (aka anything limited animation).
is there a link you or spool could share