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The zillionaire wins at everything off camera before the events of the story. The dumb kid wins at everything on camera during the events of the story, and inherits the zillionaire's legacy. Until he writes a prequel, it's a win for Wade by default.

Oh boy because I made a statement bout Harry Potter didn't I? Oh wait... I didn't? So you don't know my views on Harry so you're assuming that my views make my views on Rey somehow inconsistent? I mean I just responded to Frank and notably didn't talk about Harry Potter so one would assume I don't ...

Let me put it this way. No one cares whether you like their use of the word Mary Sue so why don't you suck a snorble? Yea you get people who staunchly refuse to engage in what actual people arguing mean when they say Mary Sue instead of the definition you want them to use as it was crafted for fanf...

If something does not fit there, it does not go there. If it fits there, it can go there. -Many human beings will try to make it fit by force. I had to push so hard on the last CPU cooler I replaced that I thought for sure I was going to snap something on my motherboard. I stopped and started over ...

Let me put it this way; why don't you stop bitching that people think you're wrong for using Mary Sue the way you're using it and start saying snorble. This would solve the problem equally as well as saying everyone who disagrees with you should say snorble. The rhetorical trick you are trying to pl...

If Luke circa episode 4 is supposed to be some kind of your big gotcha, then you really need a better brand of gotchas. Luke spends most of the movie being a sidekick to Han until the very end where he contributes to victory through combination of prior skill (piloting) and advancement during the m...

People who use "Mary Sue" to mean "bad, boring character" are dumbbad. We're trying to have a language that is more functional than "X GOOD, Y BAD, ME SMASH," and that requires a certain level of conceptual specificity be attached to some of our words. If you do not ack...

1) Computers are a big purchase and can easily last for 5-10 years depending on your needs and your willingness to upgrade. Put actual time into shopping for this and make sure you're getting the most out of your money. Don't be lazy. Lazy is easy now, but you'll pay for it over the life of the mach...

It is important to be aware that this shit gets made by people . There are meetings. People go to them and words at one another. There were discussions about that character's design. As white obviously isn't the only solution to the problem of visual distinctiveness, there are reasons beyond random ...

I refuse to believe the people bitching about Prak's rant aren't aware of the thriving interracial porn industry which is mostly just black dudes banging white girls. Obviously, How To Train Your Dragon is not trying to capitalize on that market, and whatever, I'm not particularly comfortable judgin...

That highlighted post which currently reads "qwertyu" used to be an explanation. I do not know why he changed it. Maybe he learned something new which completely invalidated the original text. Maybe his boss found out, and he was told to shut his mouth. Maybe there's a pending lawsuit to w...

I don't know if that twoot was retweeted in irony, or do thousands of english speakers seriously think minecraft invented witches living in swamps Neither, you're being dumb. A certain subset of conservative "philosophers", for reasons I will never understand, have a peculiar obsession wi...

I had surgery for my wisdom teeth and they gave me vicodin. It was perpetually uncomfortable in a weird "my mouth is all fucked up" way but not at all painful. When the vicodin ran out, I realized, oh yeah, I have a body and bodies are supposed to feel all kinds of tiny little sensations a...

phlapjackage wrote:Unless you want to torture the English language

Who doesn't? It deserves it.

This is the dumbest shit. Ancients weapons are not "about" momentum. They leverage a physical mechanism (muscle fiber contraction) which will not go appreciably faster past a certain point no matter how light you keep the system, which means the KE-optimizing strategy is to grab the heavie...

Seeing all those 80/90% to hit chances at basically max range for these weapons is insanely bad game balance. I can understand why you would increase the typical use accuracy to 70%-85%. Doing everything right and still consistently missing shots is a really frustrating and pointless way to slow th...

Maglag, yes, props to you for figuring out that villains need to be villainous. I do not know why you think this means they need to be stupid. I really think you're not quite getting the complaint here. Murdering half of all the things to impress a girl would be villainous, and not particularly com...

Incels are a "what horrors dwell in the dark corners of the internet" thing, and probably (for the time being) a mostly English-speaking phenomenon. It stands for (in)voluntary (cel)ibate, i.e. "I would like to have sex, but no one wants to sleep with me." On its own, there's abs...

Overheating pro tip: without frame caps, lowering settings does not decrease load, it only increases frames. The game will still use 100% of your GPU (or CPU). Vsync is the easiest way to frame cap a game, but vsync also tends to cause more input lag than a straight frame cap so I hate it.

Yeah, Infinity War's Thanos is what happens when you have a Totally Deep Idea, except you're an idiot and it isn't. "I'm evil lol" would have been a better motivation. The comic book's "I want to fuck Death" would have been a better motivation. Anything would have been a better ...

It's pretty much impossible not to 'enforce' a narrative on your players. Any rules link between two things is some kind of statement about the narrative relationship between those things. The necromancer spell list is an enforced narrative - the narrative that people who have spooky zombie magic al...

I feel like this is proving way more difficult than it should. Scott does not just have a "what the fuck is up with your exes trying to murder me" character arc in which he is reasonably angry about people trying to murder him and Ramona doesn't want to talk about her awkward past and it d...

I'm not sure you're trying to understand this conversation. Pilgrim does not just bitch about all the people trying to kill him, which is another thing that would not be slutshaming. He bitches about how he doesn't know if he can trust Ramona not to dump his ass, which starts with freaking out about...

You are not following this at all. Being insecure about your partner's ability to commit because they change their hair every couple weeks is comically dysfunctional. It is the kind of thing that ends up the plot of a sitcom episode about the goofy asshole Costanza-type character. It's not slutshami...

Now that's just silly. If you have the tech for a bionic face, you have the tech to add some form of automatization that runs the "correct" behaviour for most situations with no need of manual triggers. The most advanced prosthetic limbs we have right now are made by hooking up sensors to...