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Seasoned_Greetings ,

Man, this comment is just fucked. Who argues that an 11 year old isn’t the victim for being black mailed?

A internet troll, that’s who. Someone so condescending and self-righteous that they have to link that traumatic experience back to their own childhood to prove how right they are

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Source: my childhood

Jesus man, you can’t be serious. That is like the epitome of all the “I’m better than you” condescension I’ve seen so far, and I’m not even a quarter way down your profile page

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Look, I’m not here to open this argument back up with you. Just pointing out that you’re in various posts arguing over pointless crap and asserting you’d do it better.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

That’s a pretty flimsy line of thought. You’re losing your edge, bud.

Of course, the point is that only a narcissist would think to compare a child in this situation to themselves in an attempt to find fault, but that’s gonna go over your head because you’re just around to disagree.

Anyway, this is just another example. I’m not gonna engage more than that

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Nah bud, you said it. You said you were raised right and it wouldn’t have happened to you.

Anyway, I’m over expecting consistency from the way you argue. You don’t really observe that anyway

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Ooo look at you getting into the nitty gritty defending yourself to someone who actually doesn’t care. I’m not the person you’re arguing with.

The downvotes on your post speak for themselves. It’s pretty clear what you meant, and it’s pretty clear you meant it condescendingly.

I’m just saying. You say you’re not arguing. But the evidence is all over the place over just 8 hours

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I honestly can’t tell if you’re still trolling or you really don’t get what’s wrong with what you said. It’s great. You’re an awful human being either way

Seasoned_Greetings ,

That’s the spirit. Broad stroke denial. Of course you can’t be wrong! You literally don’t know how to admit fault! That’s why you’re so condescending all the time, because you are unerringly, always right.

I guess it makes sense that you have to be a narcissist to play a troll so well.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

👆 Sarcasm and condescension

Seasoned_Greetings ,

oldbaldgrumpy

Not exactly a controversial opinion from your demographic

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I would go further than that and assert that when you say most people, because of your specific demographic, you really just mean the people you know, who are outside of the range of groups actually accepting the kind of change you’re against.

In a way, you’re right. Most people that you find to be rational would agree that it’s just plain ridiculous. It’s just that the groups that you don’t find rational are growing and the groups that agree with your mindset are shrinking.

The evidence of that can be found by just observing how often this kind of thing happens at all. It used to not happen. Now it does enough to make news kind of often.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Honestly, still your fault for starting that mess before dinner

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Dude, this is depressingly true even on the smallest scale. I work for a guy who employs 6 people. He owns his business. We had him come out on site to help us one single time last summer and almost had a heatstroke doing what the rest of us do every day. But he’s the one who makes the phone calls and signs the checks so he makes a lot more than us.

I still would rather make a living doing this than working for a faceless corporation, but there are some aspects of capitalism you just can’t escape.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

You make a solid point. He assumes the risk and that’s why I’d still rather work for him than a big corporation.

The point I was making was just that the actual value of our company is created by us and we see a much smaller percent of the profit than he does. That compounded by the fact that he physically cannot hold the company up by himself comes off as condescending from our perspective sometimes.

He’s also a bit power trippy about it too. Like in that “boss vs leader” meme, he’s definitely the boss. Your dad sounds like a leader.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

You end up with a genie begging you to make a wish every waking moment of your life, ala “three thousand years of longing”

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I’d get a team of the best lawyers I could find to sit down with the genie and me to hash out a lengthy contract devoiding any intentional curse and put in a hefty monetary incentive for the lawyers to get it right, as well as punishment clauses for breaking it, then wish that the genie had to unwaveringly abide by that contract. That way, if he makes me suffer he has to suffer too or redo my request to my satisfaction.

Then I’d probably write in a steady, better than average and reasonably liveable income without having to work for it for the rest of my natural life.

Pretty sure I saw this concept in an early episode of fairly odd parents.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

If my wish is for the genie to abide by the contract, then the thing holding him accountable is his own magic, not a human or court. The lawyers aren’t there to follow the law, they’re there to see that the contract is logistically sound.

If a genie cannot be beholden to his own magic, then there’s really no point in expecting any kind of wish to be free of a curse anyway because he’s just going to do whatever he wants regardless of what you wish for.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Immortality has its own set of complications. Like seeing everyone you love die. Out living the earth, solar system. Being stuck for eternity in the heat death of the universe. I mean, I guess a longer life but not immortal might be desirable. Personally, my only wish would be to live comfortably.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I mean sure, but assuming that he doesn’t have to abide by the wish in question in any way pretty much voids the point of this entire post right?

At this point in the argument, on your logic, the post itself might as well be “Make a wish, it doesn’t matter what. A malevolent genie is going to arbitrarily screw you”

So then what’s the point?

Seasoned_Greetings ,

This is exactly my point. The genie, and by extension this post, isn’t interesting unless the genie is bound by his own magic somehow. So why assume he is not?

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I seriously considered getting one for my wife about 6 months ago. She’s a casual controller gamer on her laptop, so I thought I’d spring for something with a little quality for her.

I had an official Xbox controller in my hand ready to check out and decided against it because when I looked, there were so many accounts of the controller just falling apart on people. It’s not worth paying a premium $80 for a controller that doesn’t last a year.

She still plays on a 10 year old black 360 controller with a wireless adapter and has zero problems.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

The very first time a game tells me I have to pay for something with real currency in game that isn’t purely cosmetic, it gets dropped. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let a game tell me that the blue triangles are mtx only.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Good things exist, pay no attention to the bad things!

Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

If war is unavoidable, wouldn’t it be a good idea to have an international council capable of condemning tactics that lead to total destruction?

The concept of war crimes and international courts aren’t there to concede that war is acceptable. They are there to grapple with the fact that war is inevitable and try to mitigate the worst, most horrific and lasting consequences.

If the international courts had the power to stop war crimes they would, but they don’t have that power. All they do is condemn. Why is it hypocritical that they condemn war crimes when they don’t have the power to stop wars either?

Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

Woah dude, you’re putting a lot of words in my mouth.

It may not be wrong but but it’s not exactly useful unless you can believe it can be avoided

There’s no metric saying that war crimes weren’t avoided by condemning them.

Also, we don’t use mustard gas anymore. We don’t use zyclon d. Or agent orange. There are plenty of tools of war we don’t utilize anymore because we condemn them as war crimes, even if there’s no actual, tangible punishment for utilizing them.

There’s plenty of evidence for the effectiveness of just calling those things war crimes and condemning them.

Are you going to say that you prefer a world where we didn’t condemn and phase out more brutalistic forms of warfare in the name of alleviating hypocrisy? Because grandstanding about how not all war crimes, or war, can be averted, is advocating for a world that’s much worse off for the lack of restraint.

Edit: I’m not deaf to your point that the individual participants of war are no more deserving of death than anyone else. But is preventing some death in the name of sparing women and children morally the same as just letting everyone be killed for a concept of equality and justice?

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I always assumed it was blood pressure problems. You can’t be a republican politician without being outwardly irrationally angry all the time.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

A grapple gun that can pull you up a building like batman. I was bummed when I found out those don’t really exist

Seasoned_Greetings ,

My town, in a surprisingly conservative part of Louisiana, has an artist residency. They pay $700/month and supply a studio to 3 artists for 9 months out of the year.

The hours are whenever the artist has the time (so as not to interfere with their jobs), and the stipulation is that they have to be available twice a month to teach evening classes about their individual style. They have to have enough pieces by the end to fill a show, as determined by the board that assigned them for the year. But there’s no hard number of art pieces required.

All this to say that it can be done. Even if right now it’s just a few artists a year in one town, the concept is there.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

LEAs have been shown to actively track women who use search engines or messaging services to seek information about abortion services. There’s a non-zero chance that women who they suspect, and their friends and family, are tagged in their system when they search the plates of someone passing by.

It’s not about lying to cops, particularly if they can already prove you were seeking those services in the first place. At that point they’ll arrest you with probable cause.

They already use that kind of system with drug dealers. If they suspect you sell drugs, they will tag your name and plate and find a reason to pull you over if they spot you. Why would they hesitate to track women like that?

Seasoned_Greetings ,

It goes like this:

We know you’re traveling to get an abortion, we have your messages and search history. It is illegal to use this highway for that purpose. You are under arrest.

Whether they are correct in issuing an arrest doesn’t matter for them because they have qualified immunity. They let the courts sort it out.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I mean, I get that that’s something. But that only sounds very slightly better than overdraft fees in the first place.

“Pay us now, and when you go over it’s fine unless it’s more than you paid us”

But the thing is, overdrafting that small amount isn’t even significant to a bank. They mostly use the ability to overdraft as an excuse to impose a fee. They can and do deny charges that they don’t think they can impose a fee for.

So it kind of sounds like your bank just tricked you into paying ~3 of those fees up front with the promise that they won’t charge you more unless they have to.

There are banks out there that don’t charge overdraft fees at all. Capital one stopped recently. They just threaten to close your account when it sits negative for too long.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I know the banks need to make money, but aren’t there any legitimate ways they could do so without screwing people over in the process.

Oh there are. They make so much money before they extort their customers. You see, banks make their money by investing the cash that’s deposited in them. They don’t have to have liquid cash available for all of the funds for every single customer. They just have to have enough to cover their average daily withdrawal amount bank wide, which is a fraction of their total value.

The rest of their money goes into avenues specialized in making money off of money, eg., investing.

On top of that, banks are typically insured for money that they may not have, just incase they reach the limit of what they need vs what they have on hand. For amounts large enough per customer, that’s a government insurance called FDIC.

So yes, they do have a legitimate way to make money, and it’s the same way that banks have made money since the very first bank came into existence. They invest. But you know, capitalism demands that they ever increase they’re profit margin. So not only are they making money by investing huge, unfathomable amounts of money and making the interest back, but they also have to squeeze their customers like ripe lemons to appease their own investors.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I don’t see win2000 or vista or 8 in that list. Not including those demonstrates within your anecdote that Microsoft is capable of putting out shitty half-step OS’s that people pretty widely dislike.

That’s what 11 feels like. In ten years people will be fighting the move from 12 to whatever is next, and people might not even talk about 11. Like they don’t talk about 8.

That’s because, like with the pattern of those other three disliked OS’s, Microsoft is going to to have to be reminded that people won’t just accept a polished turd. They will actually have to make a good OS with a reason to upgrade.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

My gran had a pc with 2000 on it. I still have an old laptop with 8 on it. 8.1 failed too. Don’t act like those OS’s were nonexistent.

Nobody looks at those 3 OS’s with rose tinted glasses. 10 isn’t the best operating system, but let’s not pretend that 11 is such a major upgrade that people will fall over themselves to get it. That’s literally what the OP is about.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

This is what I’ve been saying. They probably don’t care if little Jimmy knows how to skirt the id requirement by using one of the thousands of sites that don’t comply with Louisiana’s stupid law, but it sure would be a shame if word got out that major democrat nominees uploaded their id to a porn site one day several years ago.

This kind of law is a thin veil of “think of the children” in order to orchestrate future extortion.

Do you know any good JRPGs with engaging gameplay similar to SMT?

I normally find turn-based combat really boring but I find Shin Megami Tensei games so engrossing in part due to the combat. You need to pay attention to mechanics and properly prepare for each boss fight if you want to overcome them. It’s not about just gathering enough exp. Do you know any games similar to SMT when it comes...

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Just to add my opinion on this list:

The Etrian odyssey series is uniquely ds/3ds style gameplay with the touchscreen map that you must make yourself. Highly recommend.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 does turn based tactics better than any game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played so many. If you like heavy world building rpgs and turn based battles that are as developed as they come, you owe it to yourself to grab this one on sale. Also, d:os2 is the precursor game and engine that eventually spawned Baldurs gate 3. So there’s that.

Bravely default and bravely second are both lightning in a bottle mixes of story telling and turn based combat. They are spiritual successors to the older final fantasy games by the same studio. The class/subclass system with the brave/default mechanic is absolutely sublime and unlike any other turn based game out there. Plus the story itself is amazing. Definitely worth picking up.

OK, that’s all I wanted to say.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

This patent is borderline “there are 4 lights” shit. What’s to stop the ‘passcode’ from being “I sure am hungry, let’s get mcdonald’s” and pavloving the general population?

Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

Voters don’t have that much say in who becomes president. The system is rigged. You either get fascist red or diet fascist blue. Until the first past the post system is eliminated it’s going to stay rigged.

American voters are too busy trying to prevent the right from taking over to consider what our only option’s current stance on foreign policy is. Add to that the crippling fact that about half of our voting population actually does want a red flavored fascist take over.

If not for our zionist president, we’d have a dictator wannabe entering his second term. It’s not a good situation.

Edit: I’m not saying this post isn’t propaganda bullshit, just that relying on the American voter to vote on foreign policy morals isn’t going to get you very far.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Microsoft is not primarily a game publisher. They develop the thing the games run on, while they also own other studios that publish and develop games.

That’s vertical integration for a company that also happens to own other vertically integrated assets. Not horizontal just because other game publishers exist under Microsoft.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

The reason is retention. For a company that sells a service where they pay a single overhead (like maintaining a structure) it always makes more sense to lose a little money and retain a customer if prices are going down elsewhere.

That is to say if your internet plan is $80 and they have intel that a local competitor has started selling a similar plan for $60, it makes more sense to spend 3 minutes talking to an existing customer about lowering their bill to $60 rather than let that customer discover a cheaper plan and switch to someone else. If they let that customer switch they lose the whole $80 whereas if they just lower that customer’s price they only lose $20.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

It appears that the principal is backpedaling really hard. Even so, the kid still lost out on the scholarship because she missed the deadline to apply through the school.

The mother said in response to the principal’s apology,

“It’s too little, too late. I even told him on the phone conversation when he made it to us at noon today asking us to come into the office and he mentioned reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was done, and the damage that he’s done to her is done. I also told him I gave them the opportunity when I came in there at 7 o’ clock the next morning, to try and rectify the situation at that point. Now, with somebody holding his hand forcing him to do something, an apology being enforced it’s too late,” said Rachel Timonet

Seasoned_Greetings ,

They are greedy, but not stupid

The difference between greedy and stupid grows smaller every time the shareholders demand a profit. The only proof you need of that is tracking the OS development from win7 to win11.

The logic “We know you guys pay $120 for a license but here’s ads on your lockscreen” was called stupid 10 years ago.

Then, “We know you guys pay $120 for a license and deal with forced updates and lockscreen ads, but here’s a framework for ads in your file explorer” was called stupid a few years ago.

Now here we are listening to them say, “We know you guys pay for a license and deal with ads all over everything you’re doing with mandatory updates and setting reversion when we don’t like what you’re doing, but we’re also gonna charge you $10/month indefinitely” and saying to ourselves that they can’t be that stupid.

The reality is that there’s no reason to push a new version of windows that doesn’t make them more money. This is that.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

It’s possible that compared to the way the OP regards the average Microsoft user, they might just consider apple users more like monkeys at a keyboard and felt no need to mention them.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Do you realize that those two goals go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive? For example, there’s no benefit in OS usability to putting out a single line error code as opposed to even the slightest detail as to what went wrong. That’s not “making their products easier to use to attract customers” as there’s not a single person in existence that judges an OS on how little they have to know about an error.

That’s mystificatiom of the system.

While it’s true that an overall goal of a company like ms is to sell more operating systems, that doesn’t mean that learned helplessness isn’t in the syllabus somewhere.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Ok, but the solution to “lots of users don’t know the difference” isn’t “we might as well show so much less that we reduce the entire problem to a nondescript code that can mean several different things”

There’s literally no reason to do that except to discourage people from solving the problem in the first place, because the users you’re referring to won’t do it either way.

I don’t get why this is a controversial opinion?

Seasoned_Greetings ,

I believe the prompt was to reform the constitution, not the system. In case you forgot, or don’t know, the states ratify the constitution. Not the other way around.

In a perfect world, sure. States need not be framed as rigid individual governments. In a scenario where the fed is overthrown and the states are intact, there’s nothing stopping the states from just saying “nah, we’ll form our own country”.

Which if that’s you’re goal, I guess sure. The reason Texas hasn’t done that already in the current system is that the federal government is there to stop them and they don’t have the numbers.

I think your assumption in this thread is that the states already don’t have power, which isn’t even close to true. In the meantime ranting about how states are insignificant kind of comes off as missing the forest for the trees.

Frankly, that’s a ridiculous scenario

I will say that the irony of you calling a hypothetical that I made ridiculous, and then immediately presenting a more ridiculous scenario isn’t lost on me. So thanks for that.

Seasoned_Greetings ,

Smaller states do have less of a say. The house and senate have to work together. If the majority of people don’t want something, it still doesn’t happen. The purpose of the senate is to prevent the smaller states from getting no say.

It’s not that hard to understand.

Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

No political system is immune from gaming. You’re trying to fix a problem every government has on some level by disenfranchising smaller groups in general. That problem would and does still exist in the house alone. I mean, the house is gridlocked right now, and it has nothing to do with the senate.

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