he’s applying the same rules as previous administrations is disingenuous.
I’m going to have to say “citation needed” on this.
I’m aware that Obama was (and previous presidents also were) strict on immigration, but that doesn’t absolve the current administration of their actions; and I’m not really keen just accepting the claim that it’s all lies on its face.
Christ on a cross. . .
Why do some people say “Jesus H. Christ” or “Christ on a crutch”?
What is the “H” supposed to stand for, and why a crutch?
I never understood why people say that.
Google doesn’t seem to think “incendiarily” is a word.
Not that I’m complaining, but why was MalàStrana banned?
So, threadcrapping and shitposting (basically incendiarily derailing a thread) again after being told to quit it.
chyron just put a big [REDACTED] pic in your sig and be done with it.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
Done. Sort of.
I’m Protesting Christianity
WIR :p
Actually, according to wiki, the word Protestant does use “protest” as its root word, as the original term was political in nature but acquired a broader meaning over time.
Not that I’m complaining, but why was MalàStrana banned?
OK, this is a mistake:
So notice how the AT-AT head is facing 90 degrees from the body, a feet I’m pretty sure it cannot achieve.
feat*.
Although its head probably also can not touch its feet.
http://www.newsweek.com/philadelphia-mayor-trump-egomaniac-eagles-959311
Philly mayor has some words for Trump after the whole ‘you can’t come to the whitehouse anymore, superbowl champs’ fiasco.
Trump can go fuck himself.
Fox can also go fuck themselves
I’m sure Rule 34 probably still applies.
Ooh, apple cider doesn’t have alcohol? My mistake. It was cider. With alcohol.
Hard cider.
But then, what is apple cider? Isn’t it just apple juice?
Apple cider is raw, unfiltered, unprocessed apple juice. Spiced apple cider has cinnamon and nutmeg and stuff like that in it. None of this involves alcohol. Hard cider contains alcohol.
…in the US. From what I’m reading, “apple cider” is an alcoholic beverage in other regions, because apparently apple cider is not shelf stable and will ferment over time.
Apple juice is pasteurized, and therefore can’t ferment.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/apple-juice-vs-apple-cider_us_58065dd3e4b0b994d4c1c9e1
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/apple-cider-vs-apple-juice
If Catholicism didn’t recognize the New Testament books that contradict its practices then I wouldn’t hold it against it as much.
The New Testament in the Catholic and Protestant Bibles is the same.
I think mfm is saying he wouldn’t hold it against Catholicism as much for doing what they do, if they weren’t hypocritical about it by also deciding to hold a text as sacred that says they shouldn’t do the things they do.
The reception to the trailer was largely negative.
The reception was negative because actually-it’s-about-ethics-in-games-journalism (see also: misogyny in gaming culture). I would say there are women in the game because there are women gamers who want to play as women.
How did we get into a video game discussion in the politics thread?
Anyway, I think there should be some WWII games that do it accurately and some that do imaginary WWII stuff.
MFM’s problem is the ones inbetween. The ones that are just kinda sorta maybe somewhat accurate.
I don’t agree though that adherence to historical accuracy need be binary. I do agree that people are stupid, and that corporations market to stupid people because stupid people have money, but it’s the stupid people who are ruining society not the entertainment made for them.
I love the Zelda games. I replay those from time to time.
So what do you think about them turning The Legend of Zelda into an Assassin’s Creed/Shadow of Mordor style sandbox? Ruining the franchise, or going back to its roots?
JEDIT: For the record, my opinion is:
Okay, I’ve played plenty of Breath of the Wild by now and…wait for it… I can’t say it’s my favorite Zelda game.
It’s sooo different from the other games. I know people who complain about previous 3D Zeldas being too formulaic, but because this Zelda game so different in style, scope, and difficulty, et al., that comparing Breath of the Wild to Twilight Princess or Wind Waker is almost completely unfair. It’s almost a completely different genre of game.
I’ve been playing this game for several dozen hours now. I don’t recall how many. So much so that I’m addicted to it.
I love this game. It’s fantastic. But the catch is I’ve played several other open world games before, and so certain aspects feel derivative. Yes, the towers in BOTW are better than those in Assassin’s Creed. Yes, the open world action swordplay is better than in Shadow of Mordor. Yes, this game takes solid gamplay mechanics, improves them, adds fantastic story and dialogue, and rolls them into one amazing experience. But sometimes I’m playing the game and I feel like I’ve done these things in other games, even though this does it better.
This is in contrast to other Zelda games, where no one else does it quite like Zelda. If any other game copies Zelda gameplay, it’s them copying it–not it copying them. It’s as though Zelda basically wrote the book on action adventure games. But Breath of the Wild is largely consolidating and improving on existing mechanics from other properties. There are movies that I love that do this–like Star Wars. I love Star Wars. But I haven’t seen the films and serials from which it was derived, and so I don’t compare it to them.
So that’s why I’m perplexed about where Breath of the Wild sits on my personal list of favorite Zelda games. It’s wonderful, but it’s derivative; while the other 3D games are original but formulaic. And I don’t mind the formula because it just works.
My problem is that another thing that I kind of liked back in the day, first-person shooters in a historical setting, has been ruined.
Historical setting =! historical accuracy. If you like historically accurate shooters, play those shooters and not the ones that are not.
All it shows is a total ignorance of history and it’s done to appeal to unintelligent people that are won over by such things.
So Oklahoma! is offensive because people never thought Oklahoma was so wonderful that they would break out into song and dance about it?
I’m just saying that storytelling doesn’t have to be true-to-history. If people are stupid enough to cite the fiction as fact, that’s on the stupid people for not doing their research, not the writers of the fiction. It’s not akin to peddling fake news that dupe the gullible, as Fox News does, since the game never claims to be an accurate depiction.
I understand that Gladiator and The Patriot are largely popcorn movies, and Apollo 13 has obvious inaccuracies if you know anything about NASA’s standard procedures. If people use these films as sources to cite actual events, that’s on them for being ignorant, not the writers for telling a story people will enjoy.
Respawning is historically inaccurate.
Also this.
Can’t find the Video Game thread
In the Media subcategory
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Video-Game-Thread/id/1456
here’s some more video game PC revisionist history bullshit.
Battlefield is supposed to be historically accurate?
I don’t know about Battlefield, but older WW2 games, the kind I played as a youth in order to distract myself from how much everything sucked, paid great attention to historical accuracy. Everything looked and felt like WWII, including, by the way, women and black soldiers fighting in settings where they actually fought. In an old Medal of Honor there were black soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge levels because the military was desegregated for that battle. And women were Russian snipers and were in the French resistance. I don’t get the need to lie about history and I hate fake history. I’m a big history buff.
Yes, women were in the military but they were not in roles designated for combat. But again, it’s a video game, and it doesn’t have to reflect historical accuracy.
It should. I find revisionist history to be quite sickening.
But I don’t think COD or BF should have to be confined by “that didn’t actually happen”. Yes, portraying the Nazis as open to racial diversity is completely ignorant of the core ideology of the Nazi Party itself. But having women, bionic or otherwise, in a video game designed to entertain the modern market, doesn’t really have anything to do with rewriting the past for some liberalist agenda.
It’s just a story told to entertain. One might as well complain that the real John Adams didn’t actually have a telepathic connection to his wife as portrayed in the film/play 1776… or complain that the actual Declaration of Independence shouldn’t be depicted as physically signed, pen to paper, by all the delegates on July 4th, since the reality is that it actually wasn’t.
Should I try watching Discovery? I’ve heard the most horrid things, and I’m a huge fan of TOS.
No. My understanding is that the last little bit of Season 1 starts the crew adopting some semblance of Prime-Universe-Starfleet’s ideals, but I haven’t watched that far. Early Season 1 has a tone to the characters that feels more at home in The Walking Dead; retcons TOS side-characters from once being mischievous to now downright sinister; throws in the word “fuck” at least twice for edginess’ sake; throws the concept of respecting the chain of command out the window; and completely screws with what tech should be available at the time.
So unless whoever it is over there that’s running things gets their act together and does it right (like The Orville does), that will be an emphatic and unequivocal “No.”
If you ate magic beans what would happen?
Can’t find the Video Game thread
In the Media subcategory
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Video-Game-Thread/id/1456
here’s some more video game PC revisionist history bullshit.
Battlefield is supposed to be historically accurate?
Yes, women were in the military but they were not in roles designated for combat. But again, it’s a video game, and it doesn’t have to reflect historical accuracy.
it’s adherents are told they must confess their sins to a priest
As a Baptist (ie. Protestant), I and those in my church believe in the priesthood of the believer, so no I am not told I have to confess specifically to an ordained minister. In fact, since Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest, I can confess to Him directly.
I use notepad and then lie about it
Notepad++.
For writing a letter or a short paper, Word is fine. But for anything longer or more complex, there are far better options.
I work in a law office, and use WordPerfect.
WordPerfect uses streaming code (like HTML), so it’s a lot easier to fix mistakes in the formatting without ruining the whole document. It’s really too bad there aren’t any WPD editors on mobile.
Outside of work, I’ve used Google Docs, but it’s extremely barebones comparatively.
Watching the e3 Sony presentation patiently waiting for Death Stranding. I am so fucking pumped.
I like the look of Smash Bros. Ultimate, but otherwise unimpressed with Nintendo’s showing.
No Yoshi. No Metroid. Makes me kinda sad.
JEDIT: But I totally immediately installed Fortnite on my Switch.
