Here No Longer

Have fun thinking I'm a bad person for having an opinion then. Of course it's going nowhere, and you should have figured that out a long time ago.

Wow the density of that is hilarious. Your first reply to this was almost two freaking hours ago.

Yeah, my first replie was 2 hours ago but I literally spent 30 seconds on it. I'm not starting working on my replies the second you post yours.

But that wasn't the point. The point was that you wasted two hours of time arguing with me when it was pretty obvious it wouldn't go anywhere.

Yeah, Lucas is a bit on the sluggish side. His up-smash attack is powerful, but is very slow.

It sure did. Weren't we talking about husbandos?

Speaking of sluggish, I'm excited to play Ike in Smash Ultimate. He seems to be a lot better.

We were. But hey while we're on the topic of Smash, Marth is majestic...  

I actually mained Ike years ago, before swapping to Lucas. I will also be interested in giving him another shot.

Marth is great. I'm quite fond of his special attack .

As a libertarian, yes yes I do!

My life doesn't have to be affected at this exact moment for me to see all that is wrong. Tax cuts for the rich, ruining the EPA, embracing coal for the rich lobbyists, ruining relations with other nations, having absolutely no decency whatsoever, going as far to insult entire states just because they don't agree with him, him lying all the time, he spouts xenophobic and nationalistic garbage at a constant rate, I can go on and on and on and on, but those that support him never listen. So my words are not for the purpose of convincing, but just a result of tiredness fueled boredom.

How is trump xenophobic? 

@Kyoshi Not really, they pretty much just call it the "clear liquid diet." Pretty much the only solid food allowed in it is gelatin, but even then it counts as a fluid, and it works for that kind of diet because it requires no chewing.

But it's not really the most healthy thing to pursue over longer periods, as it lacks nutrients and calories, and it's really only a good idea when you absolutely can't eat solid food.

I definitely would not suggest any exclusion-based diet though for people, because it just makes you miss out on important nutritional supplementation.

But I will say do NOT listen to the food pyramid. Seriously, it's a joke made to promote a high carb diet.

@Dustleeshus

@2nd Amendment Brony I can't argue with stubborn hypocrisy.

How do i remove this thread from my notifications.

@Phosphor welcome to politics. Blame everything else but the dude resposible.

This belongs in Debate not in Status Updates. We aren't Facebook. 

...Even as an Undertale fan, I have to agree. Granted, it does a good job at emulating the 16-but RPGs of yore such as Earthbound, but I honestly agree it's become a joke at this point.

@Kyoshi And of course Undertale fans hyping it slowly makes hyping it become a meme (which is essentially what it is at this point). Hey, at least it isn't Minecraft Steve. I may like Minecraft, but THAT has NO place in Smash, not even remotely... It's also not Goku or anything stupid like that. 

I used to want Undertale until I saw it for what it was. A mediocre at best RPG trying to be good and different. Though I do think it seems like it has a decent story to an extent, but it seems extremely overrated I agree.

With all this said though, I think we all know who the absolute best character addition to Smash would be:

Jake Conway.

Sadly, it is more than that single thread. The issue has become more and more prevalent on this site lately.

@Kyoshi Yeah the straight pride BS is going to completely p*** me off very soon. I've seen some of that around and it's ridiculous. There's a point to gay pride parades that should be blatantly obvious to anyone with even a quarter of a brain but morons want to say that if we have a parade everyone should. UHM NO. I shouldn't even have to explain why. If I do to anyone, then they don't deserve to or want to know, quite obviously.

Though I do agree that it's been abused by big business to become a month-long advertisement for how GOOD of people they are.

I can't even say (for my own good) what's super rudiculous about this, but do I wish I could. 

@Renegade the Unicorn But I actually do mean that in all seriousness. They actively attempt to divide society into economic and social classes. They however have actually ZERO interest in redistributing wealth unlike you might hear from some Democratic politicians.

I try and avoid politics here, but I've seen what you've mentioned from too many people . 

@Cash InI would if it weren't made extremely difficult in the current political climate. It ends up being so frustrating that it's impossible to avoid. 

I heard that too. Hear it's pay to win

But yes UwU I love da gay mafia spider druggie

If I wasn't already kind of a furry before Hazbin, I am one now partially because of him... and Alastor...

Angel Dust:

He Attacc

He do Cracc

But most importantly

He over here lookin' like a Snacc

I think that's the main anxiety point with this virus, it certainly is for me. The fact that this virus is so hard to detect as it can take a while to even show any symptoms. That thought alone is nerve wracking thing for me, as I absolutely do not want to catch it because I do not want my dad to get it, I live with him.

more people have died from the flu, hell more people die in car crashes than catch corona 

and its hard to see how infectious it is with such a small infected group worldwide

its still less infectious than the common cold, and the flu

Is what we say now...

@Pastel Heart And the very same people offended by that not only don't have a problem with those awful things happening, but actively support those horrible acts.

It's like I don't care, just let me look at whatever lewd stuff I please including lewd art of reggie... (As long as nobody's hurt).

@Dusknoir These types of moral guardians have been around for ages. From the "please think of the children" Simpsons movement to Mortal Kombat to GTA to everything that is fun on the internet.

It makes me mad because me and my generation spent our lives resisting the squares who wanted to control our lives and what we consumed, and many of the same people who resisted that have now become the morally outraged themselves. Never would I thought you could become an angry soccer mom before the age of 40. I'm preaching to the choir but I'm sick of people being shamed for liking or enjoying something that harms none; that shame is damaging and creates self esteem issues and incomplete ego building. I've learned to embrace my status as a weirdo and avoid toxic people but many haven't.

Let people indulge so they do not compulse. I learned that in a book~

But...thats how the world works...it runs on stupidity

@AveryGamerDude No, some jerk on YouTube trying to say Gen 4 is overrated who clearly is being very selective on what they perceive about it. Not talking once about how DP are trash-talked absurdly often for dumb reasons.

Oh okay, ha ha! I actually agree with you. Until Sword and Shield came out, I've seen a LOT of people say Gen 4 is the worst and most forgettable Gen.

@AveryGamerDude And this idiot's trying to claim people say the opposite, which is simply untrue. I almost always see it in the middle of lists at best most of the time, and I've seen it in the bottom SEVERAL times on YouTube lists, and every time I see it below third, most of what's said is an attack piece on Diamond and Pearl that is totally inane and ignores every other game in gen 4.

@Dusknoir

So, a minarchy, basically? That's definitely an improvement, but I feel a complete abolishment of the state in favor of horizontal democracy would be a more efficient way to protect freedom. The idea of the founded USA was what you'd consider a minarchy but that degenerated due to the corruption of leadership. I just want authoritarianism to disappear, and to be able to live my life happily, being able to get the help I need and not be told no or restricted by this giant beurocratic berlin wall called capitalism. I didn't mean to say that all left libertarianism is anarchist necessarily though, my apologies, just that anarchists are left libertarians and the terms are mutually exclusive to describe me. There are libertarian forms of Marxism (such as council communism) and agorism that could be called left libertarian. Syndicalism is in large part anarchist, though.

I'd say out of all the presidents, Lincoln would be my favorite, he was incredibly progressive for his time in an agrarian United States. He allowed for a healthy pass through the capitalist era towards the industrial era. He even exchanged letters with Marx, funnily enough.

OH YEAH I REMEMBER THE PATRIOT ACT, what an absolute farce that was. What I liked about the 00s was, while the state was pushing new restrictions on the people, they pushed back harder. The counter culture that the 90s produced and propelled forward was bearing fruit, and came full circle in the early 10s, but not quite far enough. Everything since then has felt like going back 40 years.

I don't think Biden, or anyone becoming president will fix the issues. They are limited by and moulded by the political serpent they participate in. It's preferable to a Trump presidency, things won't quite be as bad, but Biden is still a big business liberal and he will still put his corporate friends over the working class every time. He, like Obama will oppose working class movements worldwide, though not as maliciously as Trump. Positive reforms can come, but not enough to bandage the crisis. The fact he was against MFA means I and many others won't be getting the help they need either. There's gonna be a rough ride ahead either way. I'm willing to stand up and say this isn't acceptable, I just hope others do too before it's too late.  I'm willing to face whatever comes, if I have the strength, for a better future.

@Pastel Heart

I suppose that's something to call it. I personally have worries about anarchism becoming exactly what it despises in practice: an authoritarian philosophy. The questions that really seem to warrant asking are questions like the following:

• Who exactly determines whether an organization is legitimate or not? If it would always be ALL of society, and not just a "leader of the mob" if you will, then it's no issue.
• If the former would be determined by a leader of said mob, would he be able to abuse said power for the group? If not and the group would be beholden to abide by the principles of the ideology, then no issue.
• If this were abusable and the mob wouldn't immediately protest to somebody abusing the group's power to deem organizations illegitimate, then what's to stop the group from essentially ruling over everyone else like an authoritarian regime would?

There's been a very, very recent example of one such society that has had the wrong answers to every question, that society being the CHOP. Murder rates shot up, and in fact most of these murders were either committed or sanctioned by the leader of the mob behind it. However, especially if the first question is answered the right way, I have a lot of agreements on the philosophy and the core of it.

Lincoln? You mean the same guy that violated the Constitution to imprison people arbitrarily under accusations of being Confederate spies? https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0005.103/--lincoln-administration-and-arbitrary-arrests?rgn=main;view=fulltext Or the same one that was legitimately racist and wanted to free as few people as possible from slavery because he felt black people were inferior to whites? https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation I actually put Lincoln in the bottom half because the man actually had less respect for democracy and equality than most people seem to think.

I personally think of FDR as my favorite president. He did apparently try to overreach a little bit in terms of authoritarian power over the government, according to some sources. But in my mind he's the closest we've had a to a democratic president. The only real bad thing he did was something the people wanted, being internment camps for the Japanese Americans. He saved the country twice, once from the product of unrestricted capitalism (the Great Depression) and the second time from the effects of a Nazi victory of WWII on the European Front.

If we were sent back 60 years, it would be an improvement in terms of foreign and economic policy. I personally believe that every single president since Nixon has been a bad president, and even then LBJ I'm a bit ehh on considering although he made a lot of progress in very important ways, he also further focused on the Vietnam War first went into by Kennedy (who frankly is another president that's much worse than people realize, along with Lincoln). Really ever since the Korean War, every single conflict the US was involved in has been an offensive war the States actively wanted to start. As for social policy, that is one place we've improved significantly and I will more than readily acknowledge that fact. Socially speaking the US 60 years ago was absolutely intolerable by modern standards especially south of the Mason-Dixon line.

@Dusknoir

Reasonable things to be concerned about, and I'm happy to answer, just keep in mind I'm not no Chomsky or LSR.

• The question of what makes an organization a legitimate authority or not is a key component of anarchism. Since anarchism both in theory and practice has been a democratic ideology, it is next to impossible for one such "leader of the mob" to appear. If someone tried to do such a thing, they would be undermining the democratic process and would be illegitimate authority, undermining the democracy.
• Someone can be a leader, or be in charge of something, but if they abuse that power they can be recalled from that post at any time. For example, in the Free Territory of Ukraine, Nestor Makhno was considered leader of the army that protected it, but the communes themselves were ran horizontally by the workers there, and Makhno himself was merely a figurehead and organizer of the army that protected the territory from the White Army and later the Red Army.

Mob mentality, as it exists, I see is a phenomenon of a product in a capitalist society, as groups of oppressed may turn anger outward towards a greater region. It's things like racism, sexism and so forth that enforce and feed things like mob mentality, when in an anarchist society where the needs of all can be met and issues can be resolved in a democratic manner, this kind of tribalism becomes obsolete.

As for CHOP, I thought it had a lot of promise, a free zone with no police; but this was a long term protest for the most part, most did not go in with the intention to create a classless society. Many elements were liberal in nature, though I do commend the direct democracy from what I've read. I haven't read or heard anything about there being any leaders, or sanctioned killings against individuals personally, but if true, that's not the what I'm looking for. Anarchism is against all illegitimate authority and for the well being and liberty of all. The state of CHOP was very different from say, Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, which was a strong example of anarchism in a developed industrial country.

Well, those reads are quite the eye openers. I'm pretty disappointed but not surprised. I'm not a big fan of FDR either after the mentioned debacle about him putting Japanese citizens into concentration camps, and while the new deal did help restabilize the economy it also crippled the socialist movement in America at a time where people were ready to drift leftward after years of being screwed. I wouldn't give him too much credit for winning WW2 either, if that's the case I'd have to thank Churchill and Stalin too. I'd say Obama would be my favorite president because he as a person was funny and he was the first pro LGBT president in history, but that's also soured by his support of tbings like ending internet neutrality and classifying the left wing rebels in Greece who were fighting the Golden Dawn "terrorists". But apparently GD weren't. Nice.

Definitely agreed on Kennedy, Nixon and the Korean War. It's like the Cold War took all of the hope that existed after the Nazis were defeated and just blew it all. Nothing good came out of it and we still feel the effects of the US and USSR's little game of Risk. And considering the state I'm living in now had homosexuality criminalized all the way up until 2003, I can definitely see the country as a freer place socially, but that like any other reform was won through pressure and suffering. Atleast hopefully now the state can't take that away again... for now.

@AveryGamerDude Even then at least SJWs didn't only do it to be spiteful towards a specific group of people.

I watch politically incorrect comedy.

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Apparently to one of such people, the newest Star Wars movie was about White genocide

To me, The Last Jedi just sucked because of fail writing.

I did get lucky indeed...

Hopefully the wait will be worth it.

It was more than worth the wait, I think.

I don't mean to discredit Bernie; I still want him to succeed and hope I'm wrong, if he does win.

@WWolf I remember Bernie explaining that the taxes would raise on the upper middle class and the rich, and gut the absurd military spending to pay for a lot of his policies including Medicare for All. The real money saver is that in the current system there is a private portion of it as well, and the system Bernie proposes and actually wrote into an actual bill that he brought up in the debate would eliminate that completely (which would actually save the government some money, because no insurance companies are on the payroll). Really all it is is making it so the government grants all of its citizens public access to healthcare without any money-making from the private insurers and big pharma (because it also addresses that problem that's been getting more serious over time). 

To assuade doubts about his system, it's been implemented in every other developed country, and it's proven to be straight-up better. Everyone gets access to care, and rarely if ever does anybody have to pay for it directly. There's a reason people are going to Canada and Mexico for medicine and in some instances healthcare (A lot of people actually fly to El Paso to cross the border to get dental procedures done because it's actually cheaper to do that than just go to a Dentist in the US, so I've heard).

Oh it's much cheaper in Mexico to see a dentist; I've had a whitening over there and a cleaning a couple of times  (although we were visiting relatives; we didn't just go to see a dentist).

I think I'm neutral on private insurance companies; they're no angels, but if people want to keep their insurance through marketplace, I'd say so be it. That would just mean there are fewer people in the pool for the public option. I'm not sure if costs would be proportionally cheaper if fewer people were in the public healthcare pool (as a result of fewer claims) or if the cost decreases as more people are in that pool.

But yes, healthcare isn't as expensive as huge profits are .

And amn right I agree with cali! 

@Blivy With the wildfires and an insanely high cost of living, arguing for California over most states is almost like arguing that you want to have no chance to get anywhere.

Correction: The state that I mentioned isn't A. It's A+, as I changed the format mid-way through making it.

Oh yeah well that is indeed nuts....wow.

I still need to get a switch one of these days. 

@Kyoshi aww I love Mario Kart Wii. We still play it all the time.

@Kyoshi Huh I don't remember having to get used to 8 Deluxe's controls all that much even on joycons... That hurt my hands after a while though.

Welcome to Mario Kart!

You say that like Hillary Clinton and Kellyanne Conway aren't apples and oranges.

https://www.wnd.com/2016/07/above-the-law-hillarys-huge-scandal-list-explodes-to-25/

@CloudMistDragonAnd that makes Conway's crime excusable...

Can we all just agree that if you commit crimes like these two you’re a piece of shit and so are the people who  try to rationalize it?

Granted, there are a few people just getting shook because transgender got mentioned, however its up to them how they react about people being transgender

@Sherbie It is up to them how they react about it, which is exactly why it's so stupid that people get offended by the mere mention of such a topic. People really should think before they act in such stupid childish ways.

yeah, agreeing wih you there,

some were less than elegantly placing that point of being shook

In fact, if anything it's the opposite of greedy because they theoretically could make more if they were on other consoles. But why would they do that anyways?

Yeah, I mean, Nintendo doesn't need more money. They have far more than Sony and Microsoft could ever dream of.

And some people have said they're "failing" (before the Switch obviously, which on its own outsells the XBONE that came out 3 years earlier). Yeah, no they aren't.

@AveryGamerDude I think Gen 1 or Gen 2 is probably the worst gen to be honest.

If you’re gonna pick on G1 at least pick on actually shitty designs like Grimes. I don’t know what you’re on but Butterfree is fucking adorable 

@Kiryu-Chan Voltorb isn't shitty? Paras isn't shitty? Rattata isn't shitty? What are you on?

@DusksuD So how does putting a female protagonist in a game count as "liberal agenda", then?

@Renegade the UnicornHonestly, I didn't really care to find out. Even if I looked at it, it probably would have been utter nonsense I couldn't make sense of anyways.

Yup.

I'm more of a Star Trek fan myself to be honest.

Episode 3?!??!  How dare you? There isn't even podracing, or informing those of the perils of sand!

#DownWithDusky

#MeesaSoSoMad

This is outrageous. It's unfair...

But in all seriousness, Episode 3 was my second favourite.