Ace T'Ken

17276667. Thanks for the memories.

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

Just eat it. The whole thing. One sitting.

After that most recent Saint's Row game, I can't say I'm surprised.

It felt like it was designed by Tumblr, sold on an unpopular platform (Epic), left out most of what was good from the previous entries, was attrociously buggy, and had deeply disappointing DLC.

Nobody wanted it and it felt designed by committee.

Like Blizzard, most of the talent that made them great to begin with wasn't there any more.

The reason that you are running into situations like this is because you (the meme creator position) don't witness the Centrist also vehemently argue with right-wing policies frequently.

You only see them argue with you and therefore have a skewed view of them and their politics. If you are left wing, and argue for left-wing policies in every case, that means you will also be argued with by somebody who believes political nuance and not just waving a party flag.

The right wing also shits on centrists because they think they are secretly left-wing since they argue with some of their stupider points as well.

These people are not secretly right-wing and just don't have the balls to say it. That is a horrendous take no matter where you fall on the political spectrum the only serves to limit conversation.

So since you're the one providing the labour in the transaction, this means you're getting a tip FROM the gas station, right? R... Right?

Because the post is shit maybe?

It is getting downvoted because you are asking how to receive free money without providing absolutely anything of value.

The only people who will deliver the kind of relationship that you are looking for is probably your parents.

The Jaunt by Steven King

One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.

Am Canadian. Can confirm.

Never got into Harry Potter since I was too old. This game was really fun to just explore and I constantly felt a forward momentum. Some of the stories were good, and some were awful.

I would absolutely play a sequel just based on the well done sense of discovery alone. I just wish more of what you found was impactful instead of cosmetic.

I am 40 and Canadian and have lived in three provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario). I have never seen bagged fucking milk.

There would be no way for them to gain that knowledge. I could believe that they potentially lost their primary language and spoke a mild amount of other languages that they had picked up by osmosis...

But I am doubtful that they would be able to have a full conversation with a native speaker.

There's no way the human brain could just conjure up a fully functioning secondary language that the person had no exposure to.

Does anybody know why Tixati is banned on private trackers? I switched from it quite a while ago but they didn't really say why.

It can and has since I started using it about 3 years ago.

• Every thread against people not strictly aligning with Leftist politics will be boiled down to: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists on the other side, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also secretly fascists who just won't admit it)!”

• Anyone with passable writing skills will be downvoted because creating cogent arguments against them is hard, and heaven forbid anyone see a smart argument that doesn't align with your views perfectly.

• In a similar vein, people will use the downvote as a "fuck you" button without commenting or adding any value to the conversation whatsoever.

(Edit: Yes, yes. You're all hilarious. I may not have a button to hit, but fuck you too.)

I wonder why they would kill old videos instead of just removing those 10-hour plus loops of the same song over and over again that nobody watches. You'd think those giant loop videos would be taking up far more space.

Embracer still owns all the IP. It may still happen if they think it's financially viable!

One of many reasons for this could be your choice of topics, the location of the argument, and your perception. Any Centrists in the argument may be on your side of that particular issue and therefore are appearing left-leaning to you at the moment.

You not looking for them does not mean that they are not there. Them not coming out and identifying themselves continually does not mean they are not there.

Just like anything in science, your perception is not reality, especially when it seems that you are looking to enforce an opinion, not find the truth.

Most of the Centrists I've spoken to also tend to argue the issue, and not the side. They see sides and at-all-costs group membership as a form of lunacy.

I don't have rich parents either. I got loans to pay my way through college. The system sucks.

But I didn't ask random strangers online to just throw money my way for no particular reason.

It's pretty common in Kickstarter circles to pledge a dollar to gain access to the pledge manager and decide if you actually want to make a purchase there.

I assume that's what those people are doing?

I've actually heard religious people talk about the idea of aliens.

Essentially their conclusion was that it doesn't rule out aliens because it doesn't say God didn't make other planets with life.

Now I'm confused... What do YOU call a normal North American muffin?

Like a blueberry bran one or something.

This is a bad strawman argument.

"There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy self-identified fascists, and lily-livered wimps who can't pick a side!"

If someone says that they are "centrist" they are not telling you that they base all of their opinions on being in the middle of any two positions. That would be stupid and is an insane argument to put forth on your part.

They are telling you that they agree with neither major party on everything, and find that both parties have views that they don't agree with. It's pretty easy to come to that conclusion because the US two-party system packs in an almost incoherent mishmash of beliefs into exactly two sides.

There is absolutely no contradiction in being for police reform, and against riots lasting for days. There is no contradiction in being for gun rights, while also wanting limits on them. There is no contradiction in wanting functional government services and universal healthcare, and thinking that free markets are effective. There is no contradiction in wanting a more balanced budget, and government services to be funded.

The idea that there are only two (or maybe 2.5 depending on where you live) sides in politics is a strange delusion created by your two party system.

That's what I hoped but the FAQ doesn't say why. All it says is that it only accepts two clients, the S-tier ones on this list.

You're correct that it has been overblown in the past. That does not invalidate what is occurring, doubly so since we have scientific proof now.

You are equating "Old man yells at cloud" to "hundreds of nuclear scientists says cloud of radioactive gas is harmful and here are dozens of papers proving it."

They are not the same thing.

No no, that's Alanis Morissette.

I don't like people making baseless accusations. I defend people on all sides when people are wrong about their opposition. I hate it when people think they know what others think and project incorrect (and often evil) bullshit on each other. It's important to be right with the right reasoning and conclusion, not just one or the other.

I care when Christians purposely mischaracterize Muslims, and I am neither of those groups. I hate people being wilfully wrong because their group fetishizes a certain angle of the truth instead of the boring reality of the situation.

Ideas are important and I don't feel we can get out of the current shitty slump we're in politically unless we clearly identify and discuss the world. Labels and group membership make that harder to do.

So no, I don't really identify as a Centrist, but you may think I am. I don't "identify" as anything. I am me and I'm more complex than a few easy labels for you to slap on. Labels make it easier to dismiss people and ignore their words.

If I took the label Centrist, then that means I take the baggage you hold for the word, and I abjectly refuse to do so.

I made no assumption about where you discuss anything. It was one provable example given.

I excuse none of the most vile parts of conservatism. I am not your enemy. I am not happy with status quo.

However, I hate the political "adjustment" of language, no matter which side carries it out. I hate making words more vague to try and mask reality. I hate how easily and liberally Nazi is thrown around.

I do not like polarization. I do not like driving away people who disagree with me. I do not like "cancelling" people no matter which party carries it out. I believe in innocent until proven guilty.

And I really, really fucking hate forcing people to believe what I do because their goddamn group membership word matches mine.

But there definitely are though. Why wouldn't you, say, protest the factories where these things are made? Not just hold up some signs outside, but blockade those businesses in.

Maybe find out who their major shareholders are and publicly shame them. Dig up dirt on them. Do anything you can to stop them.

Maybe find the neighbourhoods that those shareholders live in and blockade those.

Protest at the schools that their children go to letting them know their parents are murdering people overseas.

It took me like 3 minutes to think of those and those are far more effective than what is going on in this news story. Are protesters in America really that short-sighted but they can't think of anything better than annoying other normal people and making enemies?

This is like protesting the food in a prison cafeteria by beating the shit out of your cellmate, and then calling him complicit because he ate food yesterday.

They're not targeting the right people, they're simply turning normal people off of their message.

And maybe a less brutally aged console to play it on.

I had to go look them up, but it seems that some have protested manufacturing plants, though not in a terribly effective way. The protests seem to be short-term, and none of the other things I mentioned have been done anywhere I was able to find.

I've seen plenty of stories involving protests uselessly blocking main thoroughfares however.

They don't have PR. They're not a cohesive unit. I don't generally even like calling myself Centrist because I hate labels and don't like the way they encourage group-think. There's probably scads of Centrists I wouldn't get along with as well.

You are casting a broad (and incorrect) net over a wide swath of people.

I would make none of those arguments you proposed.

I have a very strong environmental bent. I feel the world should be made uncomfortable now to avoid apocalypse. I would break apart mon- di- and even tri- opolies. I would overhaul the copyright system to enhance competition specifically because we're in a period where small companies are not capable or competing in the arenas that megacorps do. I would remove loopholes from tax and legal laws.

I would enforce corporations cleaning up after their messes. If that cleanup is too expensive for them to bear, then they should not be making those messes to begin with.

I would also refuse immigration from countries with more population than can be supported. I would push for a more cyclical global economy instead of relying on inter-governmental debt spirals. I would implement UBI.

I meet none of the standards you have laid out.

Who are you to tell me what I am, other than confidently incorrect?

You had me at apolitical.

To quote myself above:

One of many reasons for this could be your choice of topics, the location of the argument, and your perception. Any Centrists in the argument may be on your side of that particular issue and therefore are appearing left-leaning to you at the moment. See Penn jillette, Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and scads of psychologists authors for example of centrists who often appear to be one side or the other depending on the issue presented (and have been mislabeled as both sides by people not willing to understand nuance).

You not looking for them does not mean that they are not there. Them not coming out and identifying themselves continually does not mean they are not there.

Most of the Centrists I've spoken to also tend to argue the issue, and not the side. They see sides and at-all-costs group membership as a form of lunacy.

Just like anything in the world, your perception is not always reality, especially when it seems that you are looking to enforce an opinion, not find the truth.

With 400 permutations of "Fuck this clown" and "how can I block mentions of him" in the comments.

Unfortunately, shitty billionaires make the news. Get rid of billionaires and they won't be in the news.

Counterpoint: They used to be able to memorise the works of Homer.

March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails

And yes, it does make me feel better.

There was no judgment being made. I simply restated what you had said in a slightly sarcastic style.

A judgment would be "What you were asking is painfully stupid and therefore maybe you're too dumb to actually go to college."

There's a substantial difference.