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@dustryder
Removing Fallopian tubes is also a fool-proof way to achieve his goals.
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@TheRealNihilist
Literally only a big robot. All you did was escort it.
He has hilarious. Super anti-communist robot that hurled nukes. It was a very epic battle for the purifier.
A courier can do what he likes. You have a set path yet people still rarely stay on track about the main quest instead do side quest. It is the same problem with Fallout 4. Why are you helping settlements/ people in Megaton when you should be looking for your father?Sure a courier could find the man that shot him but do they really want to? There isn't really a choice for the Fallout 3 character since the only real hurdles to progression of finding your father is of course main quests but not side quests. Players chose to do the side quests instead of focusing on finding their father.
Personally disappointed with Fallout 4, but for other reasons. They made the faction choices very diverse, but it was so short that you really couldn't get immersed. It had next to no interesting side quests like Fallout 3 and NV did.
They focused on side quests because the game ended soon after you found your father and the side quests were really good.
Old World Blues for the all round content.Dead Money for something new and I liked the Begin Again song.Honest Hearts for Joshua Graham and the two guns. Everything else was meh.Lonesome Road for the finale as if I even cared about this barely mentioned story in the first place and I was for sure bored out of my mind listening to Ulysses
Old World Blues was also hilarious.
Dead Money was super different from the base game. The holograms were a bit stressful which is okay, but navigating the city got a bit annoying. Fog made it hard to find your way around and the frequencies at times were infuriating.
Honest Hearts was pretty meh overall. Not much content, and it was a generic story that seemed taken out of the Bible. Wasn't bad, though.
Lonesome Road had really good lore/story purposes. Gameplay value was decent.
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@TheRealNihilist
I am biased because I played Fallout 3 first as a kid, and had an amazing time. I also really liked the Enclave as the main villain. Liam Neeson is your father! Finding him was a better story than being some random courier. Had Liberty Prime in Fallout 3.
That being said, the combat in New Vegas was better, and I liked the fact that you could choose factions. Better dialogue options, which is to be expected from Obsidian. Old World Blues was best DLC.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Thanks, bro. You are sane as well.Bmd is a sane person
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@Greyparrot
What if there was a “U” and a picture of a literal crane on said map?Nah, they can't even find Ukraine on a map.
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@HistoryBuff
They are so afraid of them it is making them say batshit crazy stuff.
Like they did with Trump >:)
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@Greyparrot
Who?
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@Alec
Not for invading them, but aggressive foreign direct investment to control their economy would be fine.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
My score has changed quite a bit
Got left/right: 2.5
Libertarian/authoritarian:3.23
used to be further right and authoritarian
What is yours?
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@Alec
It's drastically different from China's one child policy. You can still have kids, you just need to pay for a reversal vastectomy every time you want a kid. You claim that it would result in a loss of life. If anything, my policy prevents life from being killed since it prevents unintended pregnancies, and therefore abortions.
But if they neglect your laws and have kids, you kill them. I don't see how you are going to impose this on other countries peacefully. Seeing good old trustworthy America snipping your pecker. They will especially trust us after the syphilis experiments we had in Guatemala!
Given that it provides freedom for the unborn by preventing them from existing and therefore, preventing their deaths, I'd say it's libertarian. It also liberates the woman from unintended pregnancy once implemented. It frees people up to do sex without the fear of unwanted pregnancy.
Um, false.
Taxing- not libertarian.
Forcing people to do things with their bodies (you know, the whole reason the Libertarian party supports abortion)- not libertarian.
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@Salixes
To those that participate in sinking themselves to the nuts into (a) man's dirty shit-pipe, it is, I assume, the most "natural" thing in the world.So, what if you substitute "man's" to "woman's"?
I don't have the statistics and quite frankly it's none of my business but isn't that what 80% of heterosexual men do?Then why single out homosexuals in particular?
I can't speak for all religions, but the Catholic church is against all forms of sexual activity whose purpose is not procreation. So, they are against sodomy, regardless of sexual orientation.
Furthermore, they don't single out gays in any way. If the gay guy marries a woman and has kids, which occasionally happens, they are perfectly fine with it.
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@Alec
Wow, great idea! Just like the China one child policy! Don’t have kids, or we will brutally murder them. That is totally a libertarian concept, not tyrannical or dictator-like....
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@Alec
The fact is, states are not countries and therefore shouldn't have 100% autonomy. There are duties given to both the federal government and the state governments. The federal government has taken over roles that it was not intended to, such as regulating intrastate commerce. By supporting the constitution, conservatives are therefore against the infringement on 'state rights'.
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@Greyparrot
Oddly enough, I agreed with almost everything he said in the first half of the video. Strange how orange man bad changes people
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Lmfao! That was pretty good.
Nah, man. According to him, open borders cures everything. When they debase Americans' wages and excessively tax them to pay for the vasectomies, they will be below the wealth threshold to have children. Then, all of the impoverished people will die off. Poverty will be 100% eradicated based on Alec's five year plan.
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@blamonkey
I got super busy and forgot about this. I will respond eventually :P
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@Greyparrot
Lmao, thanks. Don't have to respond to that nonsense now.
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@Imabench
Hehe, I respect the honesty.
It could be because I am a conservative, but I don’t really view Trump as being extreme, outside of maybe refugee status. He hasn’t really reduced spending. His abortion reforms are non-existent. Taxes got lowered, but not radically. Deregulating faster than regulating. Seems like a standard moderate Republican.
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@Outplayz
Pete is getting me interested but i think you should be sharp left against the right. The right has always been sharp right... i want to see how sharp left does.
I struggle to name one Republican president that reduced spending and bureaucracy and gave power from the federal government back to the states.
Please, enlighten me as to how you believe we have gone hard right historically and you haven't gone hard left against us(not sure if you are arguing that as well). FDR and LBJ come to mind if not.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
This law is so sexist! Women should get their tubes tied instead.
#Triggered
Also, lol. Probably. Honestly, all of this non-compliance will probably solve the debt problem. xD
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@Alec
Oh yeah, and what are the penalties for not letting the government snip your pecker?
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@Imabench
Honestly, I figured she would get a huge lead being the "compromise candidate", but she blew it. If Biden stopped telling everyone to vote for someone else, he might be able to pull off a win.
Just for fun, if Sanders won the nomination, would you vote Trump or Bernie? (Just completely ignore third parties like most Americans for the sake of the question).
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@rbelivb
In the world in which they formed a monopoly and then cooperated with domestic surveillance programs to use that property to invade the privacy of users against their will.
We agree that monopolies and private companies colluding with government surveillance agencies is bad. That should all be rectified, but I have yet to see how essentially providing "reparations" will in any way help the problem.
It would be missing a big part of the picture to say "banks are part of the market" and therefore equate deliberations by banks as equivalent to purchasing decisions subject to the normal supply and demand fluctuations which would occur in other markets. Sure, even states are "part of the market" in a sense, but their decisions are not subject to market forces in the same way as an independent private firm or individual. The position of banks in the market is largely determined by state intervention.Insurance companies are "part of the market" too, but would you argue that their incentives to maximise profits are well aligned with the best interests of their customers?
Maximizing profits in no way inherently a bad thing. It can lead to bad results. Insurance companies in their states essentially have monopolies over large regions, which is why the incentive to profit is going unchecked and leading to bad results. If there was competition, they would have to rely on getting more customers to gain a larger market share. How do you steal market share from competitors? You either lower prices or raise the quality of your product/service. So, in terms of monopolies, profit maximization can be bad. In a competitive market, it is an amazing incentive that works for consumers.
And the reason banks aren't subjected to as many market forces wouldn't generally be on the hands of conservatives. You have FDR to thank for that. Many small banks that aren't "too big to fail" are, though, as they will face harsh consequences for mismanagement of assets and won't receive bailouts.
It is ironic that you don't see these as related: you resent those who would take welfare, yet you defend the same system that produces welfare dependency in the first place. In other words, you defend the majority of jobs being reduced to rote tasks under the employment of some supposed genius CEO - jobs that are easily automated or replaced subject to the judgments of management. You say in the same paragraph that they should "do those things for themselves" yet also imply that the jobs don't exist for them to "climb" into.
I am saying that graduating, working, and not having kids out of wedlock are very important and currently they will help you escape poverty. However, I think it is important to also fight job-killing regulations and high taxes that limit the availability of said full-time jobs.
It's not just that they hypnotise people into randomly buying their product. Rather, they invest heavily into data harvesting which allows them to precisely target users and gain an edge which is almost impossible for the competition to overcome. They then share this information with whatever government agencies request it.
Well, if they are using data to find something that will satisfy a want or need of a consumer, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, if the price is too high, they will still shop around and look at competitor's products if they have an inkling of intelligence in them. I'm assuming that people don't just buy a computer or car just because one got advertised to them once on the internet, but I could be wrong. Still against government invasion of privacy.
If you were to argue that differences in wealth should be only proportionally as wide as differences in measures of competence such as IQ, this gap would be orders of magnitude smaller than the gap between today's elite and the majority of ordinary people. Even the highest IQ genius is not 125 billion times more competent and capable of discerning innovative, good ideas, than the average person.
You are focusing way too hard on the whole "IQ" thing. Everyone is unique. Just because you have a high IQ doesn't mean you deserve more money or less money. There are many different ways to compare people. If you aren't the smartest guy, but you are very creative and ambitious, you could still make a lot of money. You should be given more or less money based on how well you use the skills that you are given, not based purely on what skills you possess. It is just that, generally speaking, those with higher IQ's will be able to take on more difficult tasks that pay more because of the value they create.
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@rbelivb
If a company like Microsoft has cooperated with mass surveillance or any privacy breach of their customers, then some means may be needed that go beyond taxation. For something like Faceboook, legislation could force them to make their code fully open source, and their copyright ownership could be revoked. Also, to make the internet more equitable overall, peering connections could be made illegal for any firm connected in any way to the state.
In what world is it a good idea to force companies to license out their intellectual property?
It is a question what we trust more: the judgment of some individual, or the free market. An individual investor naturally has a bias against risk: a very different, innovative idea might have a higher potential payoff, but it is a riskier investment than a derivative, predictable idea. They also have a bias against any company which would directly compete with their own company, or those they are affiliated with.
Sorry, bro, but banks are part of the market. "One individual" is a gross mischaracterization of banking. You think that the one person listening to the entrepreneur's idea is the only one with bearing on the situation at that bank? Additionally, do you really think that there is only one bank to go to? You said "one individual" as though this person isn't an employee of a company that wants to turn a profit and that they have one option. Kinda silly.
You also completely ignored the venture capital point. Multiple investors (investing is a huge part of the MARKET) come together and fund large projects. People invest in crazy projects all the time with huge profit potential. They invested in Ventria, which put human proteins in rice to cure diharrea. I would be shocked if you considered that a "predictable" idea with little risk.
First, it is a misconception to claim that, simply because someone's bad outcomes follow from their decisions, then we should not try to improve their condition. Much of the time, people under worse conditions will also make worse decisions. If you are deep in debt, you live in a bad neighbourhood, and so on, you will be more likely to be depressed, which will make you more likely to waste money, and so on. People's decisions are conditioned by their circumstances.Second, the current economy is hardly characterised by an abundance of innovative entrepeneurship. The "cheaper" products and services (Facebook, Google etc) are often "free" on the surface, but are really paid for by the data they harvest, which allows them to funnel customers into a narrow range of products and services and solidify their monopolies.
You are very unlikely to end up in poverty if you: finish high school, have kids AFTER marriage, and you have a full-time job. If you cannot do those three easy things for yourself, no amount of stealing from the rich and redistributing wealth could ever fix your predicament. My point isn't that we shouldn't attempt to help these people's positions. We should work to bring jobs that give them the ability to climb out of their position. I don't think that giving them blank checks that they didn't earn is a good way to do that. My point is also that wealth inequality is permanent because people are different, and that any attempt to handicap successful people and give it to poor decision-makers is a terrible plan.
So, you think that Google and Facebook are just able to manipulate people into buying their products? People aren't capable of shopping around and buy anything they see an ad for? Sure there are plenty of dumb people, but to make such a broad statement is quite foolish.
IQ is generally only a useful measure of someone's ability to succeed in following pre-established (and culturally conditioned) rulesets, but does not very accurately predict innovation, creativity and entrepeneurship. For instance, an IQ test might establish how well someone will perform when hired to work for someone else at a conventional job, but it is not at all established to predict their ability to run their own business or work independently as an entrepeneur.
And I mentioned other measures such as ambition and creativity. As soon as you realize that not everyone who paints a lot can be the next Michelangelo and every computer geek cannot become Bill Gates simply because not everyone is that intelligent and market savy, you will understand how untenable your position really is.
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@rbelivb
So, you want to steal money from people that earned it in order to subsidize their competition? Nice, bro!
Banks want to make money. They will loan money to people with good ideas that will likely make that money back. Also, you are completely ignoring the fact that not everyone can be Bill Gates.
If only they had some more money! They wouldn't waste it on the newest iPhone or a pair of Jordan's. Their bad saving habits and other bad life choices like not finishing high school obviously have nothing to do with their impoverished conditions, correct? It is those nasty, innovative entrepreneurs that offer cheaper, better products/services who are keeping them down!
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@rbelivb
Because beyond mere survival, most of people's needs and wants are based on their ability to meaningfully contribute to and influence the society they live within. Maybe you had an idea for a tech product, but Microsoft has so much leverage in that industry that they can price you out of the market, even though their product is less innovative. So instead you need to get a job sweeping the floors of a building owned by Microsoft. Maybe you can still provide your needs and some wants, and maybe your life is even more stable and comfortable than it would have been as an entrepeneur, but your life would be much less meaningful.
I support anti-trust laws, so........ yeah.
This is why we have banks: to loan entrepreneurs money. If you have a bad idea or bad credit history, you aren't likely to get money. Otherwise, you can. Also, those dastardly rich people you are complaining about engage in a nice little thing called venture capital, where they invest in startups. Middle class people cannot do that, but the rich can. If you get rid of the rich/big firms, which is obviously what you intend to do, venture capital may cease to exist.
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I think the goal should be to make everyone better off than they were before. I don’t understand why we should consider how envious the poor may be of the rich people’s wealth.
If I can provide for my needs and some wants, why should I care that Bill Gates, a man much more innovative and ambitious than myself, is much more successful than me?
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@TheRealNihilist
Guess you are not for freedom. You are for rules which infringe on what people do.
Guess you are not for freedom. You want private individuals to infringe on others' freedoms.
Link to the dictionary?
I used the browser dictionary. https://www.google.com/search?q=freedom&oq=freedom&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l4j69i60j69i61j69i60.4204j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
This is about rights and you deny it? You have rules which bound people's freedom but you make that exception as if freedom is when these people can't do these things.
If your action inherently robs another person of their freedom, what do you do? Do you give the aggressor the freedom, or do you give the victim their freedom? These are mutually exclusive choices. You have much more freedom for the victim and slightly less for the aggressor if you outlaw murder. Therefore, there is more freedom in general than there would be if you didn't impose that law.
What is your definition of fabrication?
I said "fabricated". Means "invent" or "create". Why do you keep asking me to look up basic vocabulary words?
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Don't forget about 3D printed guns
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@ILikePie5
How are you going to know who has and who doesn’t have an “assault” weapon.
Cuz gun running doesn't exist lol. If AR-15's are banned, that means no one has them or can get them!
Left: Just because you ban drugs doesn't mean people won't get their hands on drugs.
Also Left: Let's ban guns!
People with common sense: *see obvious contradiction*
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@TheRealNihilist
Then it is not actually about freedom only about rights.
I shall repeat myself with different wording. Third time shall hopefully be the charm. To maximize freedom, there should be laws to prevent you from taking away others' freedom. Murdering someone takes away their freedom.
Freedom is defined as:
the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
Sure, you are restrained from "acting" when murder is illegal. But, by killing someone, they cannot "act, speak, or think" anymore because they are dead. Their freedom from being murdered is therefore more important than your freedom to murder.
Thus, outlawing some things maximizes freedom.
No it doesn't. This is basically you adding in 1+1=2 means God exists. There is no link to freedom and protecting rights because they are antithetical to one another. Protection is a restriction. You are stopping people from doing something and maybe even restricting the very person who is being protected allowed to do.
In order to maximizes freedom, as defined above, you must protect their rights. They have a right to life, and by protecting that right, you are also protecting their freedom. They are very much related.
What do you mean by exist and do have a better representation of the next option you gave or is that the best you can do?
Are rights something fabricated by the government, or do you believe that people innately have rights (such as to life) because they are human?
That was the best I could do by only putting in as much effort as you have been.
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@TheRealNihilist
Murder laws stop killers engaging in their freedom.Rape laws stop rapists engaging in their freedom.Theft laws stop thieves engaging in their freedom.Need I go on?
Lol dude. Did you not read what I said? I literally said: "Well, you are supposed to have some rules that prevent you from infringing others’ freedom. That is how you maximize freedom without anarchy." You quoted me as saying that, yet you are pretending that I am against the very rules I advocated for. Murder is an infringement on your rights, which limits freedom. Owning a gun doesn't infringe on anyone's rights or freedom in the same way that owning a car doesn't.
I was speaking about freedom. Can you define it?I'll take about rights as well, I require evidence of where these rights come from or it is conjecture.
Freedom includes protecting your rights. Do you believe that human rights exist, or are they just some construct that we randomly came up with?
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@Alec
There are trillions of reasons to not vote for Bernie
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@TheRealNihilist
Well, you are supposed to have some rules that prevent you from infringing others’ freedom. That is how you maximize freedom without anarchy.
As we are seeing in Virginia, people aren’t really willing to stand for infringements on their rights. Now, if they incrementally limit freedoms, people generally don’t notice and they do lose it.
This could get into some basic territory because I believe rights exist outside the government and the role of government is to enforce those rights. You seem to think rights only exist in government.
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@TheRealNihilist
If the government tried to take people’s guns, you will notice that a lot of people will start “losing” them
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@Greyparrot
I don't care about the 2020 election. I want to see Berny supporters destroy the DNC.
What do you think will happen? I feel like a lot of voters just elect someone based on whether or not there is a D or an R behind their name. Essentially, most moderate Democrats hate Republicans and will likely just refuse to come to our side. They might stick with their comrades.
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@sigmaphil
Well utilitarianism is for bringing the most benefit to the most people. That doesn't necessarily mean listen to the majority of people lol. Rational ignorance.
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@sigmaphil
In terms of principle, yes. In terms of utilitarianism, no.
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@Greyparrot
It is a little too dangerous if Bernie wins. If he somehow wins the election, we are royally f***ed. But if someone like Biden won, we are still f***ed, but to a MUCH lesser extent. Plus Trump would have an easy time tearing apart Biden's cornpop stories.
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@Greyparrot
We shall be as tolerant as lefties have historically been. Gulags, anyone?
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I don’t believe that it is necessary that the intolerant will overpower the tolerant, so long as we have our Second Amendment 😎
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@TheRealNihilist
Has any major updates happened or has very little changed between Bush to Trump?
"On January 9, 2020, the House of Representatives voted 224–194 to pass a non-binding War Powers Resolution to limit the president's ability to pursue military actions against Iran without congressional consent"
Technically this has changed, but it is "non-binding", so not really.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
If you want to say that generally males are more dominant and intimidating than women which can allow them certain privileges or leeway, I would agree with that, however a dominant personality is not exclusive to males and some women (not many) can also be physically intimidating.
And don't forget that being dominant is not always a good thing. Sometimes it is a "privilege" to be more compassionate like when working with sick people or children.
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@TheRealNihilist
How does it work?
Bush, Obama, and Trump have been sending troops to the Middle East, many of them engaging in conflicts. Congress has the right to declare war, and presidents have been working around that.
Are you saying Europe can still be as diplomatic as they are now without the US?
Not entirely. China has the second most military spending, then Saudi Arabia. Russia is 8th. A lot of European countries are also at the top, though. African countries spend a few hundred million vs the billions spent by the UK. So, in terms of dealing with Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia, there could be difficulties. But for most countries, this wouldn't be an issue with us out of the picture.
Some countries like Iran and areas like Palestine have a strong bias against us, so it would probably aid diplomacy if we weren't involved in those.
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@TheRealNihilist
Is this supposed to be how it works or what you would hope it to be?
How it is supposed to be and how I hope it to be.
Without a military diplomacy can't occur because other countries won't take you seriously. Saying diplomacy isn't reliant on the US is not true, without the US military the diplomacy of other countries would be based on how much military power they have on their own.
European countries still have decent militaries, they just pale in comparison to ours. Compared to Middle Eastern and African countries, European countries are very strong militarily-speaking. We are definitely a boon to a diplomatic deal, but we need to quit walking back on promises before everyone loses faith in us.
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@Barney
The 2018 men’s World Cup’s global audience was massive: 3.572 billion including out-of-home and streaming viewers.
The 2019 Women’s World Cup global audience exceeded 1 billion, FIFA estimates.
It is incredibly difficult to determine how much each makes because some rights to broadcast for men's soccer are bundled with rights to broadcast women's soccer as well. Not even FIFA knows how much each respective sport generates in revenue.
These estimates do show that men attract over 3x the viewership, at least for the World Cup. This shouldn't be surprising because the men's competition is much more intense. In fact, a 15 and under squad of boys beat the women's national team in 2017.
I think that the only logical position to take on this matter is that, in some ways, men are privileged, and in some ways women are privileged. No one group has everything better. Men get screwed on custody and alimony. They also are pressured to pay for dates among, have historically been expected to be providers, etc. Men are privileged in not having to deal with child birth, they are naturally stronger, etc.
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@HistoryBuff
actually, it very strongly reinforces that idea. A bunch of liars were able to convince stupid people to do a very stupid thing. Governments all over the world have learned that asking the country if they want to do stupid thing is a horrible plan.
And yet, you are from the party that wants mob rule democracy for presidential elections by getting rid of the electoral college.
Give me a break. You convince stupid people that you will give them a bunch of free crap and that the evil corporations/their owners will pay for it. When the majority of the public is against something you like, you say they cannot be trusted. But when they want something you support like universal healthcare or some debt bailout, "hey man, respect the will of the people".
You agreed that "the public cannot be trusted with major decisions". Interesting mental gymnastics.
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@Dr.Franklin
Iran has created a wall of countries that support them
Perhaps if we didn't occupy countries like Iraq against their will and didn’t go to war with half of them, they might support us....
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