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.
There's DLC where you just make choices and watch a cinematic!
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JeanHeartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
i don't see any evidence a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" policy really does anything to reduce terrorism
Wait, is that actually a policy? I thought it was some sort of TV trope.
it's the USA's official stance, paraphrased
Was this implemented after you guys negotiated with all those terrorists?
So, last Tuesday?
no see
if we negotiate with them they aren't terrorists
until maybe later when they are again
Also known as ''ennemies of my ennemies are my friends''
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
I have been lusting after a Martin & Co. for many moons now and your acquisition awakened old hungers (altho I was slightly more partial to the sound of the spruce top over the mahogany, in spite of the latter's loveliness).
And I impulse bought yet another hundred dollar electric (since none of my guitars are with me) and have decided to set a goal in Rocksmith hours with a very expensive reward.
So thanks for that.
you're welcome!
@surfpossum the one i got is actually sapele, not mahogany, but the sound is very very similar. it has a really rich bassy/mellow sound, not so much jangle on the high strings, which is exactly what i want for folksy stuff where i palm mute and hammer/pull the low strings, or do fingerpicking
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
but this is da problem
american citizenry wants socialism, explicitly believes that the current distribution of wealth is unfair, but shies away in horror from candidates professing to be or labelled as socialist init
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).
Alright, so after reading this post I wiki'd Tezuka to see what else he'd made besides for Astroboy and Metropolis, and I'm ashamed to learn that he had made a film in 1970 called "Cleopatra: Queen of Sex" and I didn't even know about it!
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that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
It is basically accepted fact that the majority of people in the United States deplore Socialism for a number of reasons tied to both the Cold War and our institutional aspirational and puritanical beliefs about work and getting what one is Deserved. However, it is also established political fact that an even larger majority of people simply adore the things that socialism delivers in this country and would support their expansion so long as they weren't called things like Welfare or Assistance or Obamacare etc etc
The messaging war on these issues is very neatly controlled by the extended right wing, to our detriment as a society in my opinion.
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Man I got a bunch of mouth ulcers and I'm used to them but today I discovered another thing in my mouth that doesn't look like a regular ulcer and doesn't actually hurt.
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
It would be "victim blaming," if they weren't literally paying the bribe to the local police, buying the AK-47s, and the windowless van, and the chains in the holding cell, and the disposable mobile phones and SIMs, etc. It requires resources to run criminal enterprises, and they are knowingly and willingly (albeit under coercion) providing those resources. That's just normal blaming.
This is actually a great example of what I was talking about before. Worrying about victim blaming, AKA people's feelings, taking precedence over actually denying resources to violent criminal enterprises with the long term goal of eliminating them via a combination of economic strangulation and direct action. The thing is, long term, more people's feelings will be hurt by expansive, wildly profitable, wildly successful kidnapping rings (which are often used to fund dangerous insurgencies, so throw in bombings and public terrorist executions and the like to the list), than by telling them they are responsible for the consequences of their own actions, and that it isn't okay to fund terrorism.
Socialism is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all. Six-in-ten (60%) say they have a negative reaction to the word; 31% have a positive reaction. Those numbers are little changed from when the question was last asked in April 2010.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
but this is da problem
american citizenry wants socialism, explicitly believes that the current distribution of wealth is unfair, but shies away in horror from candidates professing to be or labelled as socialist init
Oh fuck I forgot it says how much much memory it has on the hard drive
aaaaaaand thank god oh man it says 250GB
oh man okay so my parents are gonna talk about it
still not might get a One but hey it feels so much better to have it be a possibility rather than not even having to possibility because of 21 GB
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
a buddy of mine who is a doctor in california did a rough estimate of how much my wife's whole shindig with the medical system over the past six months would have been had we not had medical insurance in the US, surgery included
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
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no see
if we negotiate with them they aren't terrorists
until maybe later when they are again
There's DLC where you just make choices and watch a cinematic!
Also known as ''ennemies of my ennemies are my friends''
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183713/socialist-presidential-candidates-least-appealing.aspx?utm_source=Politics&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles
got linked in this thread
kind of
more like
how much money you got
you're welcome!
@surfpossum the one i got is actually sapele, not mahogany, but the sound is very very similar. it has a really rich bassy/mellow sound, not so much jangle on the high strings, which is exactly what i want for folksy stuff where i palm mute and hammer/pull the low strings, or do fingerpicking
the spruce tops have a good classic sound though.
pretty clear there
maybe not for everyone, but definitely for me
also people really like sports
my wife is having a nerve sheath tumor removed from her thigh in about a week
the total cost of the entire process over the past six months, from doctor visits to ultrasounds to blood tests to MRIs to now surgery
is
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socialism
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
i dunno if 50% no is a vast majority
or a majority
just love to see how bad the socialist shit is
can i swipe u left or right or however it works
we haven't tried the other way though, things might get way worse.
oh sure
but that was where the whole Craig T. Nelson clip came in
where a lot of Americans hate the word socialist
but love policies and procedures and programs that are basically socialist in nature
but this is da problem
american citizenry wants socialism, explicitly believes that the current distribution of wealth is unfair, but shies away in horror from candidates professing to be or labelled as socialist init
Alright, so after reading this post I wiki'd Tezuka to see what else he'd made besides for Astroboy and Metropolis, and I'm ashamed to learn that he had made a film in 1970 called "Cleopatra: Queen of Sex" and I didn't even know about it!
i suppose that's possible
Hello SiG.
It is basically accepted fact that the majority of people in the United States deplore Socialism for a number of reasons tied to both the Cold War and our institutional aspirational and puritanical beliefs about work and getting what one is Deserved. However, it is also established political fact that an even larger majority of people simply adore the things that socialism delivers in this country and would support their expansion so long as they weren't called things like Welfare or Assistance or Obamacare etc etc
The messaging war on these issues is very neatly controlled by the extended right wing, to our detriment as a society in my opinion.
correct
um, where are you getting that number?
I think it's just the formatted/unformatted difference.
If I'm right I'm going to lol at you for a few days.
i think i missed the very beginning of that
but yeah
socialist if a poisonous word in american politics but not because we actually hate socialist policies
if sanders self identified another way i bet those numbers would look different
It would be "victim blaming," if they weren't literally paying the bribe to the local police, buying the AK-47s, and the windowless van, and the chains in the holding cell, and the disposable mobile phones and SIMs, etc. It requires resources to run criminal enterprises, and they are knowingly and willingly (albeit under coercion) providing those resources. That's just normal blaming.
This is actually a great example of what I was talking about before. Worrying about victim blaming, AKA people's feelings, taking precedence over actually denying resources to violent criminal enterprises with the long term goal of eliminating them via a combination of economic strangulation and direct action. The thing is, long term, more people's feelings will be hurt by expansive, wildly profitable, wildly successful kidnapping rings (which are often used to fund dangerous insurgencies, so throw in bombings and public terrorist executions and the like to the list), than by telling them they are responsible for the consequences of their own actions, and that it isn't okay to fund terrorism.
are pew polls good?
what would happen if he self-identified as african-american tho
#topical
that's not fair
thinking subway is food can actually kill you
if you think obamacare is socialism you're just wrong
I'm not sure I agree with either of these sentiments, but I absolutely adore this analogy.
Bernie Sanders is the hero we need
Alex Salmond is the hero we deserve
aaaaaaand thank god oh man it says 250GB
oh man okay so my parents are gonna talk about it
still not might get a One but hey it feels so much better to have it be a possibility rather than not even having to possibility because of 21 GB
I would not risk a near-certain victory on the hopes that we could educate the people who do not know he word they hate they don't actually hate.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
but jesus h christ
what a nightmare
yes the "americans are idiots, if they only really knew what they believed they'd agree with me" argument.
I'm not a fan.