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2024-07-20 at 8:17 PM UTC in When husbands prefer porn to their wivesThe 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 7:47 PM UTC in Biden asked to step down, still says he is running for POTUSHonestly it would be extremely funny for me personally if Biden stays the course. If he wins, it means Trump lost to a literal braindead vegetable and that will be hilarious. If he loses, Trump is the second person in the history of the republic to have a non-consecutive two term presidency and everyone gets to gloat about how fucking retarded it was of the dems to run a literal braindead vegetable against the most charismatic man in politics.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-20 at 7:31 PM UTC in any of you think Japan
Originally posted by Lanny The dominant mode of medicine was basically witchdoctoring well into the 19th century and they couldn’t consolidate power within a tiny island nation without stimulus from the west. Japan is cool and all but I’m not seeing the “advanced and disciplined” thing
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.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-20 at 7:23 PM UTC in Anyone have info on the last Samuraiこの文を認めるのは、ただこの場の名声を高めるためである。The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-17 at 2:26 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shotFuck, dude. I'm losing my mind. The right's gone all cancel culture-y after the shooting. I always knew on some level that I was politically homeless being a freeze peach troon and all, but man... if the right doesn't even value speech anymore, that's basically it. It's ogre. Everyone's a censorious scold when you scratch the surface just a little.
Not that this directly affects me, being in Canada and all, but like... the run on cultural effects are not good. I feel like the only way to restore balance is if someone assassinates Biden and then Trump (and it has to be in that order). Turn the system off and back on again. -
2024-07-19 at 12:03 AM UTC in The Witcher 3 is on sale
Originally posted by Lanny 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.
I kind of lied. I actually played The Witcher around the time it came out, and I fucking hated it. To the point where I was basically turned off of the gaming output of the entire continent of Europe, with the notable exception of England (God Save the King!), after briefly playing it. I thought it was janky European garbage, and I quit ~immediately. I remember the alchemy system being insane, frustrating nonsense. This is something that was 'fixed' (I hate to call it a 'fix' since the issue really probably was that I and many others were too retarded to grasp the Polish genius on display) in the Enhanced Edition of the game, so I must have played it within 12 months or so of release when the alchemy system was still weird.
If we aren't counting that, which I'm not, my first game was Witcher 3. I put like 15 hours into it, thought it was pretty good, but ended up dropping it. Half a year later I played it again, same thing happened. Got a little bit farther, but couldn't see it through. In the end, I decided next time I would play Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 first so I could import my save from game to game. The way it was meant to be played, y'know? So I did that. Or tried to. I kicked the absolute shit out of the first game and loved every minute of it. I was confused that I enjoyed it as much as I did, because I remembered thinking it was garbage and being confused by alchemy and it was just... fine. A good, solid game.
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 probably need to go back and try all that again at some point in the future. On meth. Or something.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-19 at 2:15 AM UTC in Hey sxeonThe 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 1:21 AM UTC in I want thanks before I earn them your way, GODERATORSorry. Don't think that's gonna happen for you, bud.
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2024-07-18 at 6:49 PM UTC in eating slop, watching slopscron has been gone a while
starting to worry, as usual
also lol hope you die brad, xoxoThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-14 at 7:01 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
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2024-07-14 at 8:34 PM UTC in Adults who play video games are LOSERS
Originally posted by Lanny Bro, you know the game is supposed to end before year 3 right? If gramps doesn’t approve of you by then, then you’ve been hella inefficient and no one will ever love you because you failed to be industrious enough to minmax pastoral life into the dirt
Grandpa approved of me and lit all his stupid candles, but he's dead, and now I have to appease my surrogate blue grandfather. I "beat" the game, but did I really beat the game? I have to reach the summit. I have gone from cultivating crops to being a cultivator. I will achieve perfection and become a xian, and Mr. Qi will reward me.
But it's so much work. Oh man it's so much work. Maintaining relationships with everyone in town..? Blegh. I already did that for 3 years! A lot of them still hate me.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-13 at 11:15 PM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
Originally posted by frala
Unfathomably based.
Imagine trying to kill a guy to [presumably] stop him from destroying (y)Our Democracy by fairly winning an election, failing, getting lit up by secret service, dying, and handing the election on a silver platter to the guy you were trying to kill in the process. Amazing.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-14 at 8:29 AM UTC in Donald Trump just got shot
Originally posted by Donald Trump Non stop violent rhetoric. It's not an election, it's a BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HUMANITY. Eventually some scumbag is going to start shooting, the same way they shot Ashley Babbitt.
You looked great up there Donnie. Loved the fist pumping. You really showed some immense energy on stage, which juxtaposes favorably against Sleepy Joe's catatonia.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-13 at 2:37 PM UTC in This Lannyism In America is shameful as fuck
Originally posted by Donald Trump Everyday hundreds of Ukrainian men get their arms, legs and faces blown off on the eastern front for no real reason.
Not wanting to lose part of their country to Russia in an imperialist revanchist war of conquest is actually a pretty good reason, as reasons to get yourself killed in a war go. Far more real of a reason than any American IED victim in Iraq.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-12 at 4:18 PM UTC in Biden or TrumpI am voting for Trump.
"But Meikai, you're Canadian!" you might say. Yes. And if Biden supporters don't want me crossing the border into New York and heading to Pennsylvania this November to cast my vote for Donald J. Trump, they can ask their senators to make sure they pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act and hope Biden doesn't veto it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-07-11 at 10:29 PM UTC in I will now be accepting apologies for past wrongs committed by users of this forum.This is the most homosexual tension I've seen on the forum.
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2024-07-10 at 3:37 PM UTC in wut did u dream about last nightThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-09 at 6:17 PM UTC in Do you think a DIY nuclear bomb is possible?It's probably possible for someone out there to DIY a nuke. Someone rich and connected. Zuck could probably DIY a nuke if he really wanted. It is decidedly not possible for most people interested in nuclear DIY (thankfully). Honestly: nuclear DIY is for shmucks anyway. I get the appeal of making some big fireworks, but if you really want infamy... if you really want to achieve supervillain status... the answer is biohacking. Homebrew bioweapons are ~infinitely more feasible for the dedicated autist who wants to get revenge on the world.
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2024-07-09 at 8:26 PM UTC in Wall of ShameThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-07-09 at 4:41 PM UTC in Fuys, we need more meth and pornThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
