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2024-07-22 at 4:40 PM UTC in What's on your active torrent list.
I'm unsure if disclaiming that the DBZ and Naruto was for a child and not me makes me seem more or less creepy, so just go ahead and assume whichever one is worseThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-22 at 3:12 AM UTC in I smoked Weed 4 1/2 hours agoI smoked weed four hours and 20 minutes ago
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2024-07-22 at 3:10 AM UTC in How do I stop my 14 year old from being so sex obsessed?something something nonce threadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-20 at 10:31 PM UTC in any of you think Japan
Originally posted by Elbow They were basically the only country in Asia to industrialize in the 19th century. If not "advanced", the Meiji restoration shows a capacity for forward thinking far beyond that of their peers. Consider that Chinese people are still eating bird nests and drinking 3 penis wine for medicinal effects in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four. As regressive and backwards as Japan may be, they are leagues ahead of their neighbors.
I don't know about "empire", but had they played their cards slightly differently during the second world war (ie "not done a cheeky sneak attack on pearl harbor and been nuked into submission for it"), there's a solid chance they'd have a few more holdings in the pacific. Might have even held onto a unified Korean peninsula.
That's true, and it's impressive that Japan managed to rapidly go from a feudal society into an industrial one without the rampant corruption and general dysfunction that almost always comes along with exposure to western technological heroin. But remember that what we're being impressed by is that Japan went from feudal society to what Britain had already been for a hundred years, which they managed to do with the introduction of western ideas and science. That doesn't say "more disciplined and advanced (than Britain)" to me, since the very thing we're talking about is an act of catching up to English industrialization.
Originally posted by Warcry Maybe I meant culture wise and militarily supposedly in a very short time span after being isolated foe centuries they took on industrial power nd steam engine and other tech guns and were able to start dominating Asia.
Saying one group is more "culturally advanced" is pretty whack, but even if you really drink the western liberal democracy koolaid, Japan is still like half a century behind on the social trajectory the western world has followed. They may give amerifats a run for their money on the shiteating consumerism front, they're pretty advanced there in the same way stage 4 cancer is advanced, but I'd still say us yanks take it.
In terms of military... they have none, they're functionally a vassal state of the US. In WWII they did pretty good running over still-industrializing regional rivals, but got steamrolled by the US. American discourse around the bomb is pretty telling, then and now American victory in the pacific was assumed and the argument for splitting the atom on them was that a ground invasion would have a higher death toll than nuking a civilian population. There was never actually a military contest, just a matter of how expensive American victory was going to be.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-20 at 2:29 PM UTC in ElbowIs it though?
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2024-07-19 at 4:21 PM UTC in Crowdstrike anti-malware breaking Windows PCs this morninglol crowdstrike. Honestly most large outfits in the security space are basically cargo cultist chimps with keyboards imo. I worked for a mid size security company for a while, all the brains in the org were in the c-suite or sales (shocking, I know) who outsourced everything to vietnam supervised by a handful of onshore people who either didn’t know what they were doing or had given up trying to do anything more than make the sales material not be sufficiently untrue so as to open the company up to litigationThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-20 at 12:02 AM UTC in Top 3 Failures on this Website XXL EditionRIP Bill Krozby, you got cuck'd by a pom, a pedo, and a person of colorThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-19 at 6:20 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shotThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-05-21 at 5:31 AM UTC in Kinkou Has a Bad Drinking Problem
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2024-07-19 at 1:09 PM UTC in The Witcher 3 is on sale
Originally posted by Elbow And I uhh… I hate to say this, seeing as it's magical to you, but I dropped The Witcher 2 when I ended up playing it too, much like I did the third game. Couldn't even tell you why, really. I want to say it had something to do with it feeling like it was made for consoles, and maybe I ran into some mild bugs? I don't know. My memory is dogshit. If I'm being honest, I probably just didn't have it in me to power through another long ass game hot on the heels of ~100%ing the first game (especially with the promise of a third, much longer game looming in the horizon), and allowed mild irritations to crush my will to keep going.
I get it, 2 is far from a perfect game. It's a narrative heavy slog with a pretty uneven difficulty curve and gameplay that's... well it's better than skyrim but worse than darksouls, so if want an action RPG from the era for gameplay just go souls. I want to say it's darker than 1, not that 1 was sunshine and flowers, but it had a kind of whacky levity to it and 2 was more srs bsns. So I'm not sure I would even recommend going back to it unless you just want a good solid witcher story and some context on the sate of things at the start of 3.
A meth feuled witcher run would be poetic though, something about ingesting toxic chemicals to enhance your combat abilities.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-18 at 11:28 PM UTC in The Witcher 3 is on sale
Originally posted by Elbow I mean there's a reason CD Projekt Red got to make 2 sequels and Cyberpunk 2077: they made a good game, and it paved the way for their future successes.
The Witcher 3 is undeniably very good though. I don't know what it is about the first game that I found so charming, and found so lacking in the much acclaimed third installment. I want to say "the first game knew it was a game, and it had no pretentions about being anything greater" but that just sounds good to me, and I don't how true it really is.
What order did you play them in? You said you didn't play 1 on release, but did you play it before 2 or 3? I started with 2 and it still holds some magic for me. I suspect a lot of the appeal of the series is in how different it from the rest of the WRPG genre, and it's kinda jarring initially but definitely a change of pace from beth-style games where a silent protagonist emerges in their early 20s with about 3 sentences of history at best and proceeds to be an empty vessel to be filled by the player's ambitions.
I spent a lot of W2 confused about what was going on, then after going back to 1 I realized it wasn't because I missed a game but rather because "here's a bunch of characters with elaborate backstories we're not going to tell you" is kinda just how witcher stories go. I think W3, with its aim of mainstream success, dropped some of that. I mean you do kinda show up and all the kings and busty ass sorceresses already know you but they actually explain it sooner than later. You end up learning a lot of things as Geralt does, rather than having this weird disconnect where the character you control is constantly saying stuff that you as the player didn't know.
And I think that was part of what made it unique. Like if you want to geek out about witcher stuff you say "Geralt did this, Geralt did that" as much as "I did this or that". You control the character in combat and some of his choices but he's got his own thing going on and no matter what you're not going to turn him into a moral crusader or total villain. I distinctly remmeber in W2 being really gungho about want to side with the elves and not _really_ being able to take sides and feeling like the game was shoving it's grey/grey morality system down my throat. But in a good way! 3 kinda had this going on, G-dawg would bashfully grumble in his sexy baritone if you tried to be too good of a guy, but you could swing pretty far out of character in terms of being charitable, supporting political causes, etc.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-15 at 3:07 AM UTC in Donald Trump just got shotThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-14 at 6:44 PM UTC in Question to hts
Originally posted by Warcry So again explain the f whores like all those cam whores on the dark web?
FUYS?! Do you think brown people like getting waterboarded? Do you think electrocution turns them on?
No?
Then how do you explain all those videos from guantanamo bay?
Fuqin checkmate non-prdophiles! #WREKT <air horn> <air horn> FATALITYYYYThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-13 at 3:32 PM UTC in Schmuck Lanny is Covering up his break up (Frala jumped ship)Julian is my role model. I often wonder what’s in that glass and how many times they have to refill it in a day of filming.
I play smash one handed because it’s unfair to play with two, I got my GSP so high that if I don’t handicap myself I only get matches with like two other players in my region and they’re both turbo sweatlord kazua players so I don’t even really play mains anymore and just troll rollhappy zoners with fox or falconThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-14 at 6:01 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shotLow iq leprechaun posting detectedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-12 at 1:58 PM UTC in Jesus ChristJesus Christ you’re boring kafka, that’s the real JC moment here. I literally scroll past and won’t bother to read one sentence posts from you because they’re so fucking boring. Even nonciat has to write a couple sentences before causing my eyes to glaze over, at least his gay porning can occasionally get a chuckle. With you it’s just every single post without exception is you jerking yourself off over being whatever the fuck the Irish equivalent of trailer trash is.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-13 at 8:58 PM UTC in Adults who play video games are LOSERSThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-12 at 8:18 PM UTC in Lanny, Frala ever do this 2 u?Lala indeed gets angry to the point of violence when I eat the food that I buy for us.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-14 at 3:49 AM UTC in Donald Trump just got shotPump'd full of lead, Trump is still not dead
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2024-07-11 at 11:03 PM UTC in Jesus ChristThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
