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Tarquinn2049

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  • What video game did you not expect to like as much as you did?

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  • I learned so many things about myself with that game. Mistakes I would have made in real relationships had I not been taught by a game that it was actually "the bad ending". I thought I was helping, but I was hurting.

  • What video game did you not expect to like as much as you did?

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  • Hehe yeah, such simple games, and yet me and my sister are there day 1 for every release.

  • It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

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  • He isn't technically able to do most of the stuff he does do. He just does it, and then time passes and then it gets declared retroactively illegal... but it still happened. He'll probably get punished at some point... right?

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    the one where ross says a slur

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  • That's interesting, just looked it up assuming I had likely heard the uncensored version at least once in my life, curious what could be removed from it. But yeah, turns out I have never once heard the full version. That is a very good example.

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    the one where ross says a slur

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  • Well, specifically the plot is that she was gender surprising everyone on the force. The ending reveals that her gun had dug into everyones hip at one point it would seem.

    Writing her as that kind of person is definitely demonizing trans, but their reactions were the normal overblown homophobia of the time. Not trans specific. It wasn't just the idea of her being trans causing the reaction.

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  • Also, the implication at the end is that she had been fooling around with many of them and they were all just realising her gun wasn't digging into their hips either. It's not just recoiling at the thought of a trans-gender person.

    In real life, it's normal to not 'surprise' someone with your gender. They should know full well and be accepting of what they are going to find long before it is revealed.

    Of course writing her as having tried to trick most of the police force with her gender is for sure demonizing trans, and was also a 'fear' at the time. Like somehow trans people are doing it to ruin other peoples lives, instead of stop their own from being ruined.

    Outside of that, it was the normal overblown reaction to homosexuality that was common at the time. Just in real-life cartoon style, which was Jim Carreys shtick. Plunger to the face is very much how a cartoon character would try to clean something off their face. Except it would probably pull their whole face off leaving it blank and they'd have a floating pencil draw a fresh one on.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • Ah, well there is an official classification, that is what I am going by. An origin story can still be called an origin story even if it's the first story, if it follows the origin story format. If however the first story doesn't follow the origin story format, then it isn't an origin story even if it's the first story.

    An origin story is named that based on what happens in it, it doesn't have to be a pre-quel to qualify.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • Origin stories tend to resonate with people, it's basically "how did this person go from being a normal everyday nobody, to one of the most powerful people in the universe" and, if done right, you can empathize with their journey.

    Some origin movies maybe suck at that, but that is them squandering an opportunity, you get alot of potential baked-in just from the concept alone.

    The Matrix was maybe one of the most successful uses of an origin arc, but most origin movies have a similar free boost, whether the rest of the movie supports and earns that boost is up to them. But many still do.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • I liked reloaded and revolutions even on first viewing, but I didn't need them to feel the same way the first matrix movie felt in order to consider them good. Like, The Matrix stood out from pretty much every other movie I had seen before. You don't get that a second time right away, especially from another movie of the same type about the same thing. They continued and closed the story very well, but none of them were an origin story, and origin stories are pretty much always more awesome than the other movies in the same series, no matter what order they are made in.

    The Matrix was unfollowable, and they managed to follow it ok. They were always gonna be worse in comparison, but they aren't actually bad.

    I haven't seen Resurrections, not for any particular reason, just keep forgetting anytime I do manage to remember it, before I remember it long enough to see it.

  • World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

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  • It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

    Where as someone that doesn't know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it's like radiative heat or something.

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • My solution is that my screen is 20 feet away and battery powered, and I keep the batteries on a separate floor, so every 2 hours, I have to get up and do the stairs at the very minimum. But I also tend to walk around or do my life while using the screen, since it also floats around and follows me wherever I go. And when not using a floating screen, I just visit other random worlds that tend to involve alot of exercise, like people trying to murder me but I have swords, or magic, or guns... or maybe a world where the objective is dancing... but usually the murder worlds.

    Been doing VR for 10 years now, only the most recent headset (Quest 3) has been a full-day headset, before that, most headsets were 6-10 hours at most even fully modded. Looking forward to future headsets too, now that they don't have to come from meta anymore to be good. It's crazy how much firing most of their workforce and replacing them with AI has tanked their software and firmware dev. They used to have it all(enough that it was worth buying their stuff despite meaning you have to buy 'their' stuff), but then they threw away what they had, first the software and firmware, and then at a critical point of time they decided to throw away hardware too.

    Looking forward mostly to Steam Frame at the moment. And of course with my lifestyle, the number 1 expansion port upgrade I'll be getting is high-res color passthrough. Glad I get to pick it rather than having to use whatever is good enough/cheap enough for everyone. I would easily sink 200$ into that feature alone if someone makes one worth it. Rather than whatever 20 dollar 'pretty good' option would have made sense to include en masse by default.

  • Professor Reinstated After Being Fired For Charlie Kirk Post

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  • The apology is literally "sorry we didn't fire him properly", there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn't fire him correctly.

  • 'An Absolute Joke': Trump DOJ Partially Releases Epstein Files, Many Heavily Redacted | Common Dreams

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  • There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We'll know once they've all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we'll see.

  • Deputy AG: Bondi to hold back 'several hundred thousand' Epstein docs in Friday dump

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  • It's really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They've gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don't want them protected, and republicans don't generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it's quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

    So yeah, anyway.... it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

  • Poor baby

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  • "Why did you make my food so hot and hard to get too. It's hurting me!" *takes another bite "it's still hurting me!"

  • "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

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  • Man, and they talk about how we are simultaneously all-powerful and blundering fools.... always the hypocrits.

  • This close

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  • Hehe yeah, the atoms of the separate fingers are closer than the atoms making up each finger, while I like the concept they were going for, they have accidentally made the fingers literally 'closer than' touching.

  • Republican declares second "civil war" has started in US

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  • I declare "bankruptcy"!

  • GOP hopeful 'ShamWow guy' cries discrimination: 'Like putting you in the back of the bus'

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  • I don't know if the plastic in his face is causing problems with his brain, or if the problems with his brain caused him to put plastic in his face. But either way, he looks super weird shaped now. And the brain problems speak for themselves.