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2024-02-04, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
i feel like that can only extend so far though. I've never seen Superman turn in Trigon or Darkseid to the police for example. at some point no one in their right mind would think you're "going too far" if you permanently remove a very large, very dangerous threat when you have the chance.
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2024-02-04, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Rater would know better than I, but I don't recall Superman or anyone ever being able to take them alive to have to make that decision in the first place. Darkseid I believe at least has a good-ish counterpart who could plausibly cast judgement of some kind on him?
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2024-02-04, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Ignoring the fact that such a person would likely be sentenced to execution and would almost certaily be convicted assuming a relevant authority...
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I imagine that the victims surviving victims of such a monster would be more comforted by the idea that the rule of law has stated that what that person did is wrong coupled with said monster being humiliated via conviction by due processes—all of their crimes being aired for all to see and condemned—and finally the just punishment bein handed down from on high.
In comparison, if I just come in and beat the man to death, the slaves are probably just gonna see me as just another big strong monster. They'll be waiting for the other shoe to drop.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2024-02-04, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I think using comic book examples (at least of the typical DC or Marvel variety) might make arguments about whether nor not handing over their enemies to the authorities is the right thing or not extra blurry.
In real life, imprisoning a convicted criminal is usually a more or less permanent solution (prison escapes happen, but they are fairly rare) or at least permanent until society sees it fit to let the criminal out. In comics, Batman handing the Joker off to the police after his five hundredth escape from Arkham Asylum seems... less than ideal.
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2024-02-04, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Can't say i see it that way.
Personally if i was a victim of one of those planets, I'd see the courts as holding up and wasting time. The monster should be dealt with so people can start healing already. the longer they're kept alive the more likely it is they'll escape, or someone will try to save them, or they'll find some way to talk or bribe their way out of punishment.
Just. Get. It. Done! The sooner he's gone -for good- and not making any more people suffer, the better.
if you want a big show-and-tell saying what they did was wrong, it can wait until AFTER the monster has been removed from the equation. Less chance of rallying sympathizers that way.Last edited by Draconi Redfir; 2024-02-04 at 12:15 PM.
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2024-02-04, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I have a lot more that I want to say about this but I'm having trouble figuring out how to say it without explicitly naming real world terrorists and dictators.
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Suffice it to say that in general there is more certain and immediate closure to one of these being killed by commandos or an angry mob than there is to sending them to a kangaroo court that's just going to hang them anyway (or worse, a real court that's probably going to let them walk on a technicality).Last edited by Bohandas; 2024-02-04 at 12:43 PM.
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2024-02-04, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
yeah i'm feeling like we might be skirting a bit too close to fourm rules here. perhaps a topic change is in order?
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2024-02-04, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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All videogames should let you save wherever you like. Saving isn't a game mechanic, its a usability feature
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-02-04, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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untrue.
one time i rescued a man, talked to him, and he proceeded to run out the door and get into a fight with an enemy.
i hit turn based mode to try and give myself the time to catch him, but he and the enemy kept fighting in realtime outside of my little turn-based bubble. the man died.
Turn-based mode only gives you a small little bubble. Just let me pause everything so EVERYTHING stops. If nothing else, it'd help the game load in all the assets when loading in a new region.Avy by Thormag
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2024-02-04, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
What's the deal with chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry icecream in the same tub? It should be chocolate, vanilla, and coffee because they're all beans
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2024-02-04, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hot take: coffee is unnecessary.
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2024-02-04, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cofee icecream tastes better than actual coffee.
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2024-02-04, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
chocolate is the superior coffee.
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2024-02-04, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Hot take: chocolate is overrated.
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2024-02-04, 04:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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how dare you
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2024-02-04, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-04, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-02-05, 03:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-05, 04:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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I believe this is the case because coffee tastes bad. Coffee ice cream is good enough that I will have it if offered, but I find it to be the worst flavor of ice cream. When I created Cursed -1 Hot Chocolate of Coffee Taste by trying to making normal hot chocolate using a coffee machine's water heating function, I found myself unable to finish it because I disliked the taste.
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2024-02-05, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-05, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
While I can't really argue with the bitterness (it's an acquired taste, at best), if you're burning your mouth on coffee you're drinking it too soon. (That said, the fact that you have to wait a little while between making it and drinking it isn't exactly a point in coffee's favour).
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2024-02-06, 12:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Exhibit A. This, folks, is just one of the things that can happen to people who take some kind of quasi-religious stance against coffee.
I have nothing against people not liking coffee. Taste is taste, and there's no point arguing about it. But people who try to extend that personal dislike to everyone else? - they can get lost. In a blizzard.
Why is "bitter" an argument against it? You may not like it, but there's plenty of people who do. Can't we both be allowed to enjoy our own tastes?
As for "burn your mouth" - yeah, that's not a problem with coffee, that's a problem with very hot water. The flavour is irrelevant. The same thing would happen if you were dumb enough to drink overheated soda, but nobody claims that's an argument against soda. Why should it be one against coffee?"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-02-06, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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The phrase "skill issue" was invented for this scenario.
And yeah, bitter flavors are valid. Just because you don't like coffee or citrus doesn't mean other people aren't allowed to lmao.
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2024-02-06, 05:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
There's nothing "quasi-religious" about caffeine being merely an adenosine-receptor antagonist, and not a caloric source.
The post after the one you quoted was mildly offensive and could be described with that phrase, but that's not the one you quoted, so it clearly isn't the one you were responding to.
EDIT: Also, I'm not sure how "your phone's autocorrect function will create nonsense phrases like 'cabinet does it actually' when you type things that are technically true but also mostly irrelevant" is a particularly strong cautionary warning, nor an accurate one.Last edited by enderlord99; 2024-02-06 at 05:28 AM.
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2024-02-06, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
My point wasn't that autocorrect sometimes makes mistakes and should be turned off, but that people who leave it on should reviow their content, after posting even if they can't be bothered before posting. I do review most things I post, and still some things get through, but I'm pretty sure I cut it down by at least 90%.
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2024-02-06, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
*sips coffee* Ahh, I love the smell of strong opinions in the morning.
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Why? Because I need a very specific brush size (1/4" - 1/2") to be big enough for coverage but able to fit average nooks & crannies. I have other brushes but this is by far the most useful.
And believe it or not, the most economical way for me to get those brushes in my area is to buy them in giant variety packs that contain a bunch of crap brushes I don't need (example).
Things like this are basically the only good option at the stores in my area. There are other "high quality" brush packs for $50+, and there are smaller packs with finer tips than I need. But if I want to get another 2-3 of that brush size that I need, the cheapest way to do it is, believe it or not, to buy these ridiculous grab bag packs. Half the brushes in them are obviously garbage and another third are things like the foam sponge -- useful to have one or two, but I have no reason to amass them in bulk.
The first one was kind of nice to get -- I've found niche uses for the other brushes. But I have no reason to buy another one. So now I've just been making do with the usable ones from this first pack. For over a year.
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2024-02-06, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by enderlord99; 2024-02-06 at 11:03 AM.
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