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  1. Katana
    I get the sense that blonde and white can be a bad combination for certain interests. If you're asian, indian, redheaded, etc., it becomes more normal for you to be "quirky" and unique. I admit that somewhere in the back of my mind, blonde/white/geeky forms the stereotype of "Hm, I wonder if they're ACTUALLY that geeky, or if they're playing an act for attention." It's an unfortunate learned trait. It's possible I've received marginal discrimination for being white, or for being a guy - the latter one being a bit hard to avoid, and one you can only really think of if you're viewing things as an "Elephant-based society". (I can't find the explanation on google, but basically it's where people are viewed as how different they are from elephants, as opposed to how different they are from married, white, heterosexual, christian males)
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    This video contains major spoilers for the ending to Spec Ops: The Line. If you mistakenly believe that you are never going to play that game, then go ahead and watch it - and immediately regret that you didn't experience it on your own, by playing through it all. One way or another, an excellent Source Filmmaker video.
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    I'm kind of glad I've never had ramen. My parents made my family homecooked meals, and over a long period of time I learned the kind of disgusting stuff that goes into any food that you can leave in your pantry for four months and still eat. I'm sure I'd like it if I ever tried it, but it can't be very nutritious for you. That said, I've not often been in the sort of financial situation that demands low-cost food like that.
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    I tend not to run adblock. If a site runs ads I find annoying, I just stay away from that site. On the plus side, it results in conversations like this. "Morning, sir. The full-page popup you requested is running, sir." "Excellent! How much has our click-through rate increased?" "Negative five-thousand percent." I don't see what's so intolerable about YouTube though. TV works the same way - only with MORE video ads. They serve you high-bandwidth content with very little effective way of monetizing it, AND they now pay the producers who reupload pirated copies of anime, and low-effort Lets Plays, for them. Even if they do everything badly, people still make use of them, and they've gotta make money somewhere, right?
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    Honestly, I feel like chocolate or ice cream would feel a bit sickening after a bit too much of it. And if you're going to nail it with super-healthy magic for LIFE, you'll want to have a lot of it. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, appetizer... I think I'd say potato chips. Even given my skinny frame, I end up having a lot more of them than is good for me.
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    To be fair, the methodology likely isn't restricted to just pretty girls. I'm sure more than once depressed people have posted on internet forums like these with "I'm worthless, my life is headed nowhere" hoping for people to state otherwise. (Obviously, they don't want to believe they're worthless, but could use outside encouragement) Yeah, I never noticed the growth of the term "selfie", but it can't be an entirely new thing. It's kind of just an obvious extension now that decent cameras cost like $4 to solder into a phone, and phones now have two.
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    Ask away!

    Katana replied to Silver Blade's topic in Ask a Pony

    The remarks about guns are actually kind of surprising - some reports of life as a patrol officer tend to suggest that they rarely ever need to draw their firearm. I suppose it probably depends quite a lot on the city in question.
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    It almost might be kind of interesting to make that change IF a large number of people in my proximity also were without internet. Then we might have people going outside and talking to their neighbors and stuff. Ah screw it, I even get books and video games from the internet. It's pretty hard to get away from.
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    Doesn't this already kind of work in the comic book universes? I only have video game knowledge, but two huge examples...In Injustice: Gods Among Us, the superheroes stumble upon an alternate dimension where Superman is a totalitarian bad guy. In Batman: Arkham City, well...yeah, there is an important "spoiler moment" at the end of that game that would muck around with anything happening in comics. It's definitely possible to take existing themes, fantasy inventions, etc, and put a different world-spin on it out of interest. I don't think this shift necessarily needs to be destructive.
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    For a lot of other positive stories, I found this site which I like to check up on from time to time. http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
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    I feel kind of sorry for the people who had invested into the expanded universe, but one way or another, this is a hard lesson to take in, and it goes like this:... Q: How do you kill a vampire? Is it garlic, stakes, crosses, a complex procedure involving cutting off their head and burying it in a cemetery? A: The fact is, you can kill a vampire any way you like, because they don't exist. You can pretty much decide for yourself what parts of fiction you believe in and don't believe in. One way or another, Disney wasn't likely to mesh their newer stuff in with the expanded world, so nothing on its own has been lost. The same is true for MLP at times. Honestly? Some of my favorite stuff comes out of the fans, not from the show or comics. Definitely not canon.
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    gaming Best Free FPS?

    Katana replied to iiNANOii's topic in Media Discussion

    Team Fortress 2! All the unlockable / purchasable weapons are "side-grades" that often have major hidden disadvantages when compared to the primary weapons. Loadout is a bit more mindless than TF2, and is just as cartoony, but has a bit more intense gore. Alien Swarm is top-down, but very fun co-op, and features a levelling system. Also, if you want to completely avoid monetization/multiplayer: Cry of Fear is a Half-Life 1 mod (that no longer requires Half-Life 1!!) that you can install through Steam.
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    Here's why. Also because...there's not really any reason for "elitism" among console players - some people just have a PC, rather than an Xbox or Playstation. It's their preference.
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    I like how Titanfall has largely made it difficult to sit in one place and snipe. Team Fortress 2 also makes sniping enjoyable, but have quite a skill curve to it. You're super-vulnerable, but you're the only class with no long-distance falloff. The worst of snipers clog up a team and do absolutely nothing useful. Then, the rare best of snipers simply walk all over the whole server. That second case is EXTREMELY rare though; and it's honestly more impressive than annoying when it does happen.
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    I'm surprised Captain Martin Walker, the protagonist from Spec Ops: The Line, hasn't been posted. I'll spoil bits of it, but try to keep it vague enough that you'd still have incentive to play it.
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    Well there's this Furry Dating Simulator... Two that I've been playing that use very high-spec computers are Titanfall and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. Titanfall is a Call of Duty styled shooter, MULTIPLAYER ONLY, with very low emphasis on teamwork. That said, it DOES make itself differ from Call of Duty with a number of varietal aspects of gameplay. There are "NPCs" all over the map that are pretty easy to kill, and tend to add a bit of "chaos" to 6v6 matches. You can wallrun, double jump, and ride ziplines in either direction. To fight campers, one of the activated abilities lets you see through walls. And of course, there are Titans - getting kills will bring you one sooner, but everyone gets several a match. Unfortunately, the game requires Origin, EA's version of Steam. I hadn't really liked AC3 much, but Black Flag ended up being a mix of the standard AC freeroaming collection/mission quests, with a LOT of Sid Meier's Pirates; many pirate tropes taken right from action movies, which is awesome. (Random example: One island fort is magically protected by a constant hurricane. While attacking it in your ship, you will have to dodge tornadoes) Of course, some F2P games you should try include Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2 (I HATE the latter, but it's popular enough that I figure you should at least see if it's your thing)
  17. Katana
    Probably the Lever-Action Rifle from Killing Floor. There are, admittedly, numerous weapons in that game that could take down the army of zombies faster, but nothing feels more rewarding than hip-firing and hearing that "klick-KLACK!" of the lever. It's also a ₤200 weapon that can be used to take down the bigger enemies with headshots.
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    movies/tv Elsanna, Yay or Nay?

    Katana replied to Huntress's topic in Media Discussion

    Shipping them is like a slap in the face to brotherly/sisterly love. You remember J.D. and Turk in Scrubs? There's nothing gay about them, stop trying to force it.
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    movies/tv Teen titans go

    Katana replied to Digit's topic in Media Discussion

    Yeah, I get the sense this show has some very bad blood from people who enjoyed the previous one, which had a more serious vibe part of the time. (I took the time to watch "Haunted", apparently one of its darker episodes) But, as someone who never bothered with the originals, it can be funny. Once in a while it goes a bit too far in thinking it's onto something humorous (that "Meatball party" episode...) but other times it's pretty hilarious. I especially like the occasional Batman jokes, like having Batman and C. Gordon out fishing in the background. "Hello, Titans Tower?....No, this is Titan's Tower. You're looking for the Batcave.....Hm? I'm sorry, I'm not authorized to give out that number."
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    Wouldn't the backlash be the same, though, if it happened the other way around? Don't take this theory threateningly, but I'd like to pose a hypothetical situation marking why that's a really bad idea. A kid finally snaps in the middle of planning his school shooting, and takes his family, and several neighbors, hostage in his home. When one of them manages to get word out to the police, the police send a pair of patrol officers nearby to confirm the incident. Since the officers hardly ever see actual armed "combat" during their careers, the hostage-takers manage to surprise them, shoot both before they can radio in, and then kill two hostages for calling the police. They then relocate somewhere else, no one ever hears from them again, and the station only figures out what happened after two hours pass without a check-in from the officers. A big waste of money is one thing, but I can't really blame the police for being careful. Keep in mind that they don't make it a simple task of saying into the phone "Oh god there's a lot of them! Send the whole army!" There are entire sleazy internet networks where people talk about how to do it "convincingly".
  21. Katana
    (Context: The previous quote called for the prankster's arrest) No way!! Wishing the prank-caller dead would definitely be over the limit, but I absolutely expect jail time for something like this. It would be one thing if a few patrol cars were lured to the house, wasting a bit of their time to check out a report. But the art of quote-unquote "pranks" like this is to get all the available forces on task in such a way that they can't immediately verify the danger - hostages, reports of a psychotic person, automatic weapons, etc. This case had SWAT fully prepared and planning to storm the house, helicopters, snipers, and other complete wastes of resources. Consider that if one of those officers saw the wrong thing, or someone was threatened in the wrong way, someone could actually have gotten injured or killed - in a situation where NO ONE was in danger to begin with. There was a recent article where an officer accidentally shot dead a 6-year-old boy because they assumed the apartment they were investigating to be MUCH more dangerous than it actually was - and upon opening the door, in a split-second, they mistook the toy gun in the boy's hand for a real one. What's more, I don't blame SWAT at all for taking that position of readiness - If I was a hostage, and had just barely gotten away from my captor to call the police about it, I would NOT want SWAT's reaction to be "Eh, let's send a few guys just to make sure it's not another prank call." There's an estimation that the total cost of this operation, without even a bullet fired, exceeded $100,000. I absolutely, positively expect the punishment of this prank caller to stain his criminal record, and for the fallout of this to ruin his life.
  22. Katana
    I make Garry's Mod and Source Filmmaker videos! Like this one:
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    It's a dig on the whole "Teleporting your favorite character into another completely thematically different dimension just because you like the character" idea. Normally it's relegated to bad fanfiction.
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    In all honesty, I love Ace Attorney, and I duly respect they did a great job putting it together, but the theming just seemed a bit awkward and questionable to me. Teleporting your favorite character into another, very thematically different, world just for the heck of it, and trying to keep everything semi-serious, breaks a lot of immersion.
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    I think when I first knew of Team Fortress 2, before it released, I thought "Well, it might be fun to try after I'm done with HL2: Ep2 and Portal. But the Team Fortress games were always just the reign of elitists who master conc-jumping and stuff." But honestly, even from the first few days playing TF2 it was so incredibly fun. It's very difficult to make the game fun for newbies, and simultaneously an engaging game for pros.
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