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glad needle
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Sounds like some shit the Rayne Syndicate would do

barren sierra
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is that the one where they get turned into ghosts

night plume
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That's when Haunter decides to help him defeat Sabrina

cobalt briar
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yeah they get turned to ghosts and spent some time with the Gengar family IIRC

night plume
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You know, Ash doesn't actually earn half his badges 🤔

cobalt briar
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it's all part of the plan

barren sierra
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the first season he earns none of the badges

peak folio
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How many times did Ash die in the series?

barren sierra
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onyx just straight up lets pikachu win else hed fail his first gym

night plume
night plume
peak folio
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Mewtwo doesn’t count? wth

night plume
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Mewtwo erases everyone's memories at the end.

peak folio
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Oh that’s right

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I totally forgot about that

barren sierra
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that doesn't mean he doesn't die

glad needle
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Also, wasnt there a trainer abusing his Charmander

peak folio
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That’s still a death, though

north thicket
barren sierra
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Screw the deaths, im pissed over the oversized tentacruel and Dragonite

night plume
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I counted it as a death, I just said the show only acknowledges 1.

night plume
night plume
barren sierra
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The one arriving with the town flood

night plume
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I think that was the episode with... Uglina...?

barren sierra
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you put much faith into me remembering details About a show that gives me a hate boner

cobalt briar
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and then that timid Charmander grew up to become a dickhead when it grew up

night plume
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I loved it as a kid, even if Ash angered me

glad needle
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And about a franchise that makes me want Nintendo destroyed

barren sierra
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it becomes a dickhead the moment it turns into a Charmeleon

night plume
leaden nova
night plume
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Don't think I've seen that one

leaden nova
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Except him coming back from that makes even less sense than the Mewtwo movie, at least Pokemon tears were explained. He just gets ||pulled back from the trippy afterlife realm where he's trying to chase Pikachu's spirit mirage (like yes actually)||

barren sierra
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What getting shocked on a bike does to a mf

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while its raining

cobalt briar
night plume
cobalt briar
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Ash owes Team Rocket so much

peak folio
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That’s literally consistent with the games at the time, he used charizard all the time until he stopped listening

night plume
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🤔Since they added that lamp pokemon that evolves into a chandelier, and it is a ghost, does that mean a Pokemon chose to kill ash and pikachu in the Sabrina/Gastly/Haunter/Gengar episode?

glad needle
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I still call it pokeslop

barren sierra
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il never forget james extending arm just grabbing Pikachu in that one episode by miss directing a finger

north thicket
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-# tho that pokemon is native to unova which is like 4 gens later than the kanto region

night plume
barren sierra
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a random antique from unova was mixed with a pokemon

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Damn feddex

glad needle
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So, those Typhlosion leaks would have fit perfectly into the show

teal iron
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? no

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Over you do realize there is almost certainly a document somewhere in the pocketpair headquarters that has an equally incriminating writeup of highly questionable "lore", right?

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This isn't some pokemon-exclusive phenomenon

glad needle
teal iron
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EVERY fictional universe has questionable if not outright nsfw lore

glad needle
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What more damning leaks can Pocketpair have

teal iron
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""lore""
Dubious whether it's canon

novel sun
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Literally what I was typing up lol. Can hardly consider purposely cut content lore

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All it tells you is that at least one employee's mind went to that kind of stuff, and someone with more authority said "yeah we're not including that"

glad needle
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How much worse can it get than Lovander being Pal Diddy

cobalt briar
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I can only imagine how many artists took that Typhlosion thing and just ran with it in their own ‘expressive ways’

north thicket
novel sun
cobalt briar
hearty sonnet
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Fill a blunderbuss full of pens

deep idol
solid sun
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see, I want this, for palworld.

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I hope this will come in the planes and games update.

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we will get remote controlled vehicles or various types too in that update, that we can do races with.
Can put pal-themed stickers on them etc, colour them.

hearty sonnet
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While I do think Palworld could have a vehicle or two in the future maybe, I don't think it will be the way Craftopia is haha.
I feel like Craftopia will be their game for sandboxy vehicle content & Palworld will always be about the Pals

deep idol
hearty sonnet
deep idol
# hearty sonnet Why not indeed?

I just thought of this: commanding a whole battalion of tanks crewed by cattivas, fuacks, dazzis, lifmunks, and other small dexterous pals. 😆

peak folio
hearty sonnet
humble parrot
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Palworld and Conquer

deep idol
peak folio
teal iron
peak folio
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starting?

deep idol
# peak folio https://x.com/dclaretxrevolt/status/2049930916001095766

Battletech has the perfect battle machines that could be turned into toys (their Atlas would likely be a bestseller. They are already making Urbanmech plushies).

I am also sure you would love a return of Zoids to the toy market. I once had one of the hammerhead sharks and loved it. It is still around, but it is now a shell of what it once was. If they ever restart production, I would buy another one.

peak folio
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There’s like two Zoids available in the US rn

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I think the Leena Special got reprinted if you preordered from Japan

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But yeah it’s still a thing over there.

deep idol
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The one I have/had is one that came in pieces and you assembled, like a Bionicle. It even had a wind-up engine in it.

peak folio
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I think they pretty much all do

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Battletech has their minis but haven’t been into that in a minute

sick flame
peak folio
deep idol
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Here are some of the shenanigans I have been getting into on that game:

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So, yeah, Battletech is quickly becoming my favorite sci-fi franchise.

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What's more fun than watching a bunch of giant robots beating the snot out of one another?

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Oh, wait, I have one: Piloting one of them yourself! 😆

peak folio
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Battletech is interesting, there’s so much lore

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Like science warhammer or something

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-# though later in the timeline gets pretty weird

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I don’t think I’ve been exposed to anything too far past 3050 (clan invasion)

deep idol
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Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is uniquely poised to cover those three most interesting events. It already has the Clan Invasion.

peak folio
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Oh I didn’t know it got to that point

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The Succession Wars are a big wad of time

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The other mentioned stuff are during the third

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Clan invasion peak

sick flame
peak folio
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Since like every Mechwarrior game dances on that

deep idol
peak folio
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I might have that mixed up then, it’s been a while. mono_yumcha

deep idol
peak folio
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Old DOS CD-ROM game

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There were enhanced versions later that added mind blowing technology like texture mapping

deep idol
# peak folio Mechwarrior 2

That looks so much older than the 1990's. Then again, I never played any Mechwarrior game older than the 4th installment, so...

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🤷

peak folio
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3D was new in the 90s

deep idol
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I heard Mechwarrior 3 was very good. I should probably check it out in the future.

peak folio
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Mechwarrior 1

deep idol
peak folio
maiden narwhal
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Talkin about mech games, where’s the virtual on? Or the freebie that looks like it plays similar to it

peak folio
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https://virtual-on.sega.jp

電脳戦機バーチャロン シリーズ公式サイト

1995年にアーケードゲームとして登場した「電脳戦機バーチャロン」シリーズは、巨大ロボット（バーチャロイド）による3次元仮想空間内での高密度かつ高機動な戦闘を実現したアクション・シューティングゲームです。TS（ツインスティック）によるダイレ...

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Wow, it works

maiden narwhal
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I got some virtual on gameplay on my X timeline weeks ago, caught me off guard. The competitive scene was still rockin

peak folio
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I haven’t even tried Mechabreak yet but that’s more airborne I think

maiden narwhal
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Land and air, if I recall. You could build tanky ground units or swift flyers, or whatever in between

peak folio
unborn mauve
teal iron
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"AI is the future!" takes another hit!

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BHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

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Gotta say anyone who makes these abstract "brain" arts is gonna make a killing because every "news" outlet MUST use one when mentioning AI

peak folio
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It’s a neural net illustration

teal iron
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That is definitely not what a neural net looks like

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They do not make them in the shape of a brain

peak folio
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Learn to appreciate clever art. croajirokek

teal iron
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It's a bunch of sci-fi retrofuture gobbledegook

mental summit
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This artificializes my intelligence thinking_depresso

peak folio
teal iron
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I was gonna post the one about Artificial Intellgence vs Natural Stupidity but this came up and is much funnier

peak folio
peak folio
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Gamestop posting themselves getting roasted

humble parrot
peak folio
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Yeah, Not sure how that’ll actually work, but everyone is doing absurdly leveraged buyouts these days so we’ll see.

tough comet
mental summit
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Estop
Gamebay

peak folio
cobalt briar
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wait, how does GameStop have more worth let alone enough worth to buy eBay of all companies

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April Fools was last month

peak folio
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GameStop os worth like a quarter of ebay

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Unfortunately WSJ is paywalled

cobalt briar
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I wish I had copious amounts of imaginary money

mental summit
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<@&505995738564526080>

deep idol
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Not interested.

mental summit
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Ty

deep idol
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It seems we are having another wave of scammie-bots rolling in...

peak folio
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That account was on this server since 2024

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A lot of these are like that

deep idol
peak folio
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Discord accounts getting hacked left and right.

deep idol
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8-year old account got stolen last year in February.

peak folio
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Oof

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And Discord just doesn’t help people get their accounts back

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They literally just won’t do it.

deep idol
peak folio
deep idol
peak folio
deep idol
peak folio
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I thought it was western

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Though you’ll see some of the same mech designs in Macross.

deep idol
peak folio
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There was a domestic Battletech cartoon in the 90s though.

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Macross predates that by a decade or two, idk. croajirokek

Some of the robot designs got borrowed by Battletech. I’m fuzzy on all the licensing details, but with Harmony Gold bringing over Macross as Robotech in the US, and FASA doing Battletech, something happened that triggered a legal dispute over the common designs.

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I’d have to look it up to see how that was all sorted out.

deep idol
deep idol
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A Marauder wailing on a Centurion.

peak folio
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Yeah, you might see a Marauder but that’s a Zentrati officer’s pod.

silver pewter
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"BattleTech: The Animated Series (1994) was the first and only cartoon based on the franchise. "

peak folio
peak folio
deep idol
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I don't really know what is going on here. Typing, perhaps?

peak folio
deep idol
peak folio
deep idol
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They did the same thing with a Fafnir.

peak folio
peak folio
deep idol
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Just found this one. This Hunchback nailed the J. Edgar pretty hard with that punch.

silver pewter
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Other than Gundam Wing, I basically only saw Power Rangers as a kid.

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Anything else you more or less had to go to FYE and get VHS Tapes.

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Other than say something that was already vintage in the 1990's like say Astro Boy.

peak folio
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I do highly recommend Macross, it’s old and looks old but it’s fantastic.

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There are some recognizable battlemech designs in it, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Battletech

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Dead game

cobalt briar
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say your prayers Valve

humble parrot
solid sun
silver pewter
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Its animation honestly holds up just fine.

worldly gate
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Macross Plus.
Some of the best music ever.

gusty marten
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So anyone played S&Box? Do you find it fun or flopped like the review said?

dusk quartz
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I don't have interest for it, chill

gusty marten
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Some of the game i watch from Streamer have few that i interested in, but i'm planning to bought in next month

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So for now Craftopia will keep me hooked for while

sick flame
solid sun
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especially since it costs 20 bucks to access worse than Early Access Indie games.

lethal tinsel
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Imma kill ur dog if do use Cringetok right now...

sick flame
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I'm not surprised that the creators of Garry's Mod messed it up so badly.

worldly ivy
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I mean the stupid physics is part of the charm of the source engine in the first place

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I bet it’s part of why GMod machinima is still popular today

honest rivet
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If the ragdolls aren't funny, why bother?

cobalt briar
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it’s apparently got paid skins too

honest rivet
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Alas, long gone be the days whence a realistic (for the early HD era) man can engage in physics antics alongside Megaman X, Spongebob, and Freddy Fazbear.

worldly ivy
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We yearn for the stupid

honest rivet
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The sheer delight of running Mirror Dungeons in Limbus Company and realizing you accidentally chose a theme pack with a banger boss theme.

sick flame
solid sun
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that should not surprise anyone really

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it's the only game that came out in the last two months by nintendo

gusty marten
sick flame
sick flame
worldly ivy
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Frozen 3

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Do we really need a Frozen 3

glad needle
jaunty kraken
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1375297057585369108/1500085634029588650/i-made-my-favourite-pokC3A9mon-out-of-clay-3-v0-cxc128j0jeyg1.png?ex=69f7271d&is=69f5d59d&hm=3912f96354b1dbcc6d7e94d77df529ab9a0547a1185c82a82a5d2a6bd1123c3c&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1375297057585369108/1500085634608529408/i-made-my-favourite-pokC3A9mon-out-of-clay-3-v0-kgphn7j0jeyg1.png?ex=69f7271d&is=69f5d59d&hm=488a752fd272d32fe23b6bd9a98c232755ec81822479139dfdf935d805081e5d&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1375297057585369108/1500085635631812618/i-made-my-favourite-pokC3A9mon-out-of-clay-3-v0-4xlcs7j0jeyg1.png?ex=69f7271d&is=69f5d59d&hm=61d6245b23dda9d17550fd7f678ebeb00b4f3deca4f717c3a7b429fd844ae2aa&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1375297057585369108/1500085636261216408/i-made-my-favourite-pokC3A9mon-out-of-clay-3-v0-ygmsv8j0jeyg1.png?ex=69f7271d&is=69f5d59d&hm=f5f6df3d91f6b624c284615233fb2f054cd2a2760d063dec1f5159f72ef7395c&
@brazen storm @pine glade @unborn mauve @novel sun @odd mesa

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it was supposed to be four images but the links got messed up

jaunty kraken
unborn mauve
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Nice ❤️

solid sun
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<@&505995738564526080>

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ty

simple aurora
sick flame
kindred sleet
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Speed run to the grave soda edition

bright nebula
teal iron
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Hmmm

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Highly suspicious

bright nebula
teal iron
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You know why

bright nebula
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This is normal game with google shop

teal iron
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Send link
"pls click"
No further interaction

bright nebula
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This is no scam

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I just need friends to play with

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@teal iron If it's a scam, report it to the moderator. ?

maiden narwhal
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Did some googling, it’s a legit game. But why not join a facebook/reddit group or something for the game if you’re looking for other folks that play it?

bright nebula
maiden narwhal
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Ok? You can add the people already playing

silver pewter
maiden narwhal
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Bio checked. Bio annihilated

bright nebula
maiden narwhal
teal iron
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<@&505995738564526080> does it even need explanation

maiden narwhal
solid sun
deep idol
sick flame
maiden narwhal
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Depends what I’m doing on the phone, but it’s usually 1 or 3 (now typing as 3)

deep idol
teal iron
maiden narwhal
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1 for driving teehee

humble parrot
peak folio
novel sun
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4 but sometimes that left thumb joins the team

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Not too fond of swipe-typing

worldly ivy
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So I found why slay the spire 2 is getting review bombed in China

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The devs patched an infinite exploit that allowed you to win any fight easily

barren sierra
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2

peak folio
sick flame
worldly ivy
bitter agate
deep idol
bitter agate
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Lol now I can't find the video... Nice one YouTube

sick flame
hearty sonnet
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Metaburger

night plume
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It needs meat between the big bun and little burgers.

worldly ivy
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The Burgburg

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THE SUBURG

night plume
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Lol, the suburg

peak folio
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I feel like the sliders should be continuously spinning inside the larger bun.

sick flame
peak folio
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If not food, why sandwich shaped?

worldly ivy
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They are BEAN BAGS

peak folio
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Diana gonna hack some skeletons or something

worldly ivy
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So if she’s a robot in normal Pragmata, what is she here

hearty sonnet
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A god damned witch

maiden narwhal
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Master Illusion mage

lofty cove
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I had the game in early access and now it's not in my inventory anymore on steam do you guys have an idea why ? And what can i do to get it back without paying 2 times for the same games

maiden narwhal
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Check the game’s forums on Steam. The devs may know more about it that anyone here

barren sierra
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which is basically a construction powered by magic

peak folio
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-# ||LAIKA boss||

maiden narwhal
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Props to stop motion film makers, wooooooweeee….

worldly ivy
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Stop motion directors spending 8 hours slightly moving a doll for the best 5 seconds of animation you’ll ever see:

peak folio
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Animation of any form is quite grueling

worldly ivy
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It’s horses time

peak folio
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Can’t say that I have

peak folio
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hate AI timelapses

idle root
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<@&505995738564526080> help!

teal iron
mental summit
glad needle
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I wonder, do the people who never stop irrationally hating AI also hate Diana?

mellow zinc
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Just feeling good this weekend. Hope you all are having a good time as well 💖

teal iron
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The latter is why she's the former

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Because in this society, good technology is a work of fiction

glad needle
teal iron
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Half of that technology is engineered to fail

glad needle
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Sounds a lot like my grandma, actually

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Except that she actually can’t see well enough to use or understand any modern technology, and she hates it anyway

tranquil obsidian
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bee of distraction go

mental summit
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🍿

glad needle
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Why is that bee twerking?

mental summit
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Oh wait you don’t look stuff up you just ask grok or whatever and it told you the bee was twerking

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Sure it’s twerking at the strip club so it can fund its crypto casino or whatever

teal iron
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According to Google search, they do this to manually pump oxygen to their flight muscles to warm them up

glad needle
teal iron
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Which
Insects basically do not have blood, they have an "open" circulatory system so oxygen enters their body through the entire surface and is moved directly to their cells

glad needle
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We also heat up with a lot of movement

teal iron
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This is why they are generally very small
Oxygen concentration in the atmosphere is too low for the open circulatory system to allow anything bigger

peak folio
mellow zinc
teal iron
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We should raise oxygen levels by 2% so bees are huge this will have no negative consequences as long as nobody tries to use a grill ever again

glad needle
mellow zinc
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Ah damn

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I can't send gifs 😭

glad needle
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GIFs are disabled in this channel, and that’s probably for the best

peak folio
teal iron
glad needle
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How tf are yall doing that

teal iron
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Embeds

peak folio
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Links embed

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You just can’t attach anything here

mellow zinc
cyan cliff
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I bet Pocketpair could make a more faithful adaptation of Animal Farm using nothing but Palworld assets.

cobalt briar
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better savor tenor while it lasts until it goes kaput June 30

teal iron
cyan cliff
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You haven't heard of the new pro-communist Animal Farm movie?

cobalt briar
maiden narwhal
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That label would only fit if the corpos win in the end

teal iron
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I'm gonna open up the synopsis and it's gonna be slightly anticapitalist, like 2 lines critiquing capitalism

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And that's the basis for this "pro communist" label

peak folio
maiden narwhal
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The free animals want to keep their freedom. Crazy, right? rooSHRUG

honest rivet
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Honestly it's kinda weird that people keep coming to this channel to be objectively wrong about politics. Like not knowing that George Orwell was a socialist or being oblivious to the fact that liberals exist outside of the English world.

cyan cliff
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I've always known he was a socialist. He also recognizes the limits of human nature.

maiden narwhal
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This is the only channel folks can get away with “soft politics”, but only for a bit cat_happy

humble parrot
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Git bannered

cyan cliff
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I still think Palworld could do a better adaptation.

maiden narwhal
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What pals would be the “more equal” pals? Those that are capable of handiwork? Humanoid pals in general?

cyan cliff
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Rushroar

teal iron
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nah he looks way too stupid

novel sun
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A quick scroll through the Pal dex seems to say that Lunaris is the only Pal with a "I'm the master and you'll do what I tell you to do" mentality

peak folio
teal iron
honest rivet
novel sun
cyan cliff
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Can't have 2-legs on the farm

teal iron
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but yeah I agree Lunaris in charge sounds like a great idea

novel sun
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But then Lunaris would be portrayed as the villains

peak folio
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It’s gotta be a pig, sorry

novel sun
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Is the plural of Lunaris Lunari?

cyan cliff
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actually it might be hard to be faithful to the "two legs bad, four legs good" part

peak folio
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Lunarex

novel sun
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And just like that, the idea of a Lunaris-Tyrannosaurus hybrid is out there

worldly ivy
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I’ve thought about that paldeck entry and all I’ve thought about is them not being happy if they lost their ability to see

And that led me to have a Lunaris Sona with injured eyes

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Her name is Kaguya and she has no art

humble parrot
worldly ivy
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Lunariseseseseseses

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Has a text to speech stroke

peak folio
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Animal farm staring the most non-animal thing ever conceived

teal iron
worldly ivy
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So like

Why are people hating on Animal Farm?

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Firstly, is it a good adaptation of the book?

teal iron
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idk apparently it isn't scathing enough criticism of "communism" as if anyone even knows what that word means anymore

novel sun
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Idk about the political argument around it, but as someone who read the book recently and learned about its irl history of Orwell fighting to publish it, Lamborghinis and butt jokes seem like an awful adaptation based on the first trailer alone

honest rivet
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Honestly I wouldn't trust anyone's opinion on the politics of it unless I saw it myself. A lot of folks like to hold up dead people who can't speak for themselves as paragons of their own political ideology regardless of what the dead person actually stood for.

simple aurora
teal iron
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I'm just skeptical that a "pro communist" interpretation of animal farm could possibly exist

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Like at that point you just can't call it an adaptation it's just a whole other plot using the name

solid sun
teal iron
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It is if you believe

deep idol
tardy geyser
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hey ^^

honest rivet
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Using 100% of my brain to remember what shape Lamball is for my fanfiction.

floral robin
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Are they gonna make a channel in the discord when the card game releases?

solid sun
honest rivet
cobalt briar
honest rivet
cobalt briar
honest rivet
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Fascinating.

cobalt briar
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always glad to be of help mono_yumcha

rough fractal
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Hello

honest rivet
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Assuming a spherical Mozzarina.

worldly ivy
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Cylindrical cube

solid sun
honest rivet
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Wait... a cone then? That's kinda round.

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More pointy than anything though.

solid sun
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white cone hats come with a stigma

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they will accuse you of only being able to play turks and do a fast castle into Castle Drop Janissary spam.

solid sun
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the last 12 challenges in KH 358/2days.

solid sun
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down to the final 7

peak folio
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FixupX ·
unborn mauve
astral breach
peak folio
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-# ||I’d have a bunch of immortals that do no damage, ig||

night plume
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I kinda want it

peak folio
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I question the security permissions if it can just read what’s in your library as well as your engagement with them.

barren sierra
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we are talking a triple digit of 0 hours played backlog

peak folio
sick flame
peak folio
balmy trail
peak folio
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Don’t make it weird cat_cry

solid sun
solid sun
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any centurials around?

sick flame
cobalt briar
deep idol
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So, there is a connection between daydreams and regular dreams? I don't know. I have had dreams so bizarre, it makes me question the reality my brain percieves.

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Here is a dream I posted about in October last year:

"I have had one of the most bizarre dreams I have had in a very long time. I daresay the whole thing was AI generated. The whole thing was a cobbled mess. There is a lot of ridiculous content to unpack here, so this will be a little long.

Character Cast: Mario, Princess Peach (who looked like she was drawn like a cartoon character from Bendy and the Ink Machine without the creepy aspect, and colored with blue ink), Ultron from Marvel Comics, and a miniaturized Battlemaster ‘mech from Mechwarrior.

Scene Settings: a run-down apartment alley and an abandoned, overgrown factory. For some really weird reason, there were Mechwarrior rotary autocannons just firing everywhere. At what, I still have no clue.

Plot line? I am not even going to try to figure it out. Ultron was clearly the villain, but he was not giving Peach the Bowser treatment, or even putting her in danger at all. I couldn’t discern much more than that.

The thing I remember most about this was Mario had a really odd-looking “grappling hook”. It was actually some kind of bolas, with the weight ending in a chocolate-frosted doughnut weighing as much as a sledge hammer. During the dream, he was using it effectively enough to sling around like Spider-Man (while in the dream, I thought it was cool, but now that I am awake, I only see how ridiculous it is).

Verdict: I need to see a psychologist to figure out why (let alone how) my brain used an AI generator to create this abominable concoction. 😵‍💫 "

humble parrot
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Your dream is gonna get you sued, man

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Nintendo and Disney are prepping their lawyers as we speak

deep idol
humble parrot
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I'm joking

deep idol
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I knew you were joking.

sick flame
night plume
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:p

teal iron
novel sun
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A contract with who?

teal iron
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Their artists

novel sun
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So what I'm hearing is that they only own their artists' imagination

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Ultron is still free to fight donut-grappling Mario

cobalt briar
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damn they just don’t stop don’t they

peak folio
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🗿

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There’s still like half a dozen paid DCCs, there’s no point in doing that.

worldly ivy
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They would charge 1200 a month and still take the big donors if they could get away with it

teal iron
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Who?

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Matt Workman?

barren sierra
peak folio
cobalt briar
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how much influence have those donors had over Blender anyways? even if they’re AI donors I doubt they’re contributing just for some sus AI agenda

humble parrot
worldly ivy
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Knew it

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There isn’t even anything Pokémon about them besides the box

peak folio
glad needle
worldly ivy
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Ok I agree this is bad but not worth killing people over

cobalt briar
glad needle
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These situations warrant police in full riot gear, at bare minimum

cobalt briar
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Blender community is gonna get hella aggressive if they see something they don’t like

humble parrot
glad needle
peak folio
hearty sonnet
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Devil fund

peak folio
maiden narwhal
peak folio
cobalt briar
peak folio
cobalt briar
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I guess at the very least Anthropic isn’t as bad as OpenAI

peak folio
cobalt briar
peak folio
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Beat me to it

maiden narwhal
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This is GameStop with midnight releases all over again… aniblobsweat

glad needle
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I don’t even bother looking for Pokemon product. So glad I never got into Pokemon

hearty sonnet
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Pokemon is just Palworld for babies

glad needle
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I never got into it because it was too kiddy friendly, and because Nintendo never released a game for PC

cobalt briar
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I wonder if there’s anyone out there who has relationships with their pokemon cards

glad needle
peak folio
cobalt briar
hearty sonnet
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Pokemon fans are disturbed individuals

glad needle
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I swear, kids would be safer playing with Wixen AND Katress at the same time, than with some Pokemon

hearty sonnet
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Vaporeon

glad needle
hearty sonnet
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Who the hell sees a Vaporeon and says "oh hell yeah girl what that ass do"

glad needle
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It’s not even human-like

cobalt briar
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Someone who wants to come up with an excuse

barren sierra
peak folio
maiden narwhal
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Hey guy, did you know…

barren sierra
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It can chop wood for you, mine or tend to your fields

worldly ivy
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Do they have insect lifespans or human lifespans

hearty sonnet
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All Pals are immortal, they only die when you kill them

worldly ivy
hearty sonnet
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They need to die to death in order to be killed

peak folio
humble parrot
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This is not going to end well

barren sierra
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"non binding pledges"

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Thats like open ai saying "Yeah well buy 40% of world ram"

novel sun
peak folio
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In this case they can’t act on it until the money is actually there

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As opposed to the nonsense the entire market pulled with OpenAI’s scam

teal iron
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Esports tournament but they have to play on budget laptops with improperly configured video drivers and using an improvised dial up network

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The first round is would be competitors attempting to get the game running

barren sierra
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everyone gets to play UT1 on the voodoo card

sick flame
tranquil obsidian
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"best i can do is $5"

peak folio
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https://fixvx.com/wario64/status/2051083256250970130

Wario64 (@Wario64)

WSJ: GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $56 Billion ($125 a share)

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen - "EBay should be worth—and will be worth—a lot more money. I’m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars."

Cohen has a commitment letter from TD Bank to provide around $20 billion in debt financing to help make a deal possible

vxTwitter / fixvx ·
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Some details past the subscription wall, I gather

novel sun
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TD Bank apparently covering 1/3 of the purchase up front

humble parrot
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Tower Defense Bank

peak folio
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They’ll still need to finance the rest

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Which is technically doable

cobalt briar
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what is it with banks and covering for expenses that will do nothing to benefit them at all for big corp

peak folio
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Oh they certainly see an upside

novel sun
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Isn't the bank like the only one to get guaranteed benefits? Either interest or taking ownership

peak folio
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The first several years goes straight to interest just like most loan amortizations

teal iron
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Yeah that says "debt financing" so that means a loan which has interest

mental summit
teal iron
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It is literally the purpose of a bank to give out money with the intention of taking more back later

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Like that is what we designed them for

cobalt briar
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ugh

novel sun
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To clarify, "taking ownership" is the outcome in which GameStop's gamble doesn't pay off and they can't keep up with interest

teal iron
novel sun
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Idk how banks claiming stocks works though

peak folio
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We’re seeing massively leveraged buyouts lately like with Activision and EA. After those, this one almost seems reasonable. croajirokek

teal iron
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leveraged buyouts when unassisted sell-ins walks in

peak folio
cobalt briar
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how embarrassing must it be to say ‘I was bought out by GameStop’

peak folio
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I forget how many computer mall stores they did

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Like Electronics Boutique

cobalt briar
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the last place I’d ever sell my belongings through is a store that gives you back 2% of the resell value of each game they buy from you

deep idol
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I don't know how long they will last there at this rate.

peak folio
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Still one EB?

deep idol
peak folio
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guess not

#

Not sure who you’re referring to

night plume
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EB Games?

peak folio
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I thought they were all renamed to Gamestop ages ago

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Oh hey, press release

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https://investor.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-details/2026/GameStop-Proposes-to-Acquire-eBay-at-125-00-Per-Share/

GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 Per Share

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) today submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire 100% of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) at $125.00 per share in cash and stock. The offer represents a 46% premium to eBay’s unaffected closing price on February 4, 2026, the day GameStop started accumulating its position in eBay. GameStop has built a 5% economic stake in eB...

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This pretty much explains how it’ll work.

solid sun
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@honest rivet a game about a dying sun, and all manner of life having to adapt to it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700/Arx_Fatalis/

Steam
Arx Fatalis

Journey to the World Of ArxExplore A Fantasy WorldThis critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war. The sun has disappeared from overhead to shroud the world in eternal darkness, fo…

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

2336

Metacritic

77

worldly ivy
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What does that say?

Arx-

worldly ivy
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I have preordered

The Kat plush

unborn mauve
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https://youtu.be/yKWvLi5b4-s?is=H1uvN8g8b8NJYJKV @sacred mango @jaunty kraken

YouTube
Two Idiot Germans
WALKING CORPSES | A SERVERBLIGHT Story

The dead will think you're calling for them...

Check out the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6sHlYHJPWure1ktHr6GnBHUB7mYnfGp

Read the story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ServerBlight/comments/1t2m7bh/walking_corpses_a_serverblight_story/

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▶ Play video
sick flame
jaunty kraken
unborn mauve
night plume
peak folio
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Oh might be different in Canada, yeah

night plume
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I was so sad when they were bought out here. I preferred them to Gamestop.

peak folio
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Electronics Boutique used EB Games and EBX, but I think all the US stores became Gamestop

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I honestly don’t remember if Gamestop branded stores sold PC games since they weren’t my first choice to check.

night plume
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I don't recall PC games in any of the stores near me.
But, they were small and barely had room for console games and some accessories

barren sierra
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used electronics and stuff sell well here, they should move across the Atlantic

hard peak
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Oh, but they already have!

I have a decently famous store near where I live that sells precisely that

barren sierra
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I have several near me too but id like competition for pricing

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why would i buy gale of darkness for 200 when it could be 150 or lower

hard peak
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I think I see what you mean, and it makes sense!

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Competition is basically what tells others to step up their game afterall

barren sierra
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Correct, you want sales, do better, you paid pennies to people selling it to you anyway

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your return margins are already absurd

bitter agate
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Git good bro.

solid sun
peak folio
hard peak
deep idol
night plume
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I feel he made a deal with the store to do that o.o

peak folio
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I don’t know

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Employees can’t do anything about it

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And those displays are already appearing on ebay

mental summit
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Well, they could do something about it, but they’re not paid enough for that

night plume
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Something I appreciated when I cashiered is that the store had a security guard to stop that kind of stuff and make sure the employees remained safe.

I hate the mentality of, "let them steal it, safer for all parties."

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Most stores also get gov funding/repayment for stolen merchandise.

peak folio
humble parrot
teal iron
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Truly incredible society we have

mental summit
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And like mal said, the stores will usually be refunded somehow

peak folio
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It has nothing to do where I work, this is clearly a Target store.

teal iron
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Well yeah it said in the tweet

peak folio
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Cause if the Target x Pokemon promotion

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Man, my phone really hates the word “of” apparently

teal iron
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Mine does that too

peak folio
mental summit
# peak folio Cause if the Target x Pokemon promotion

And what target is outlining in their job description “hey random cashier I know we’re paying you like 10 bucks an hour but if somebody takes this Pokémon display I need you to tackle them and pin them down or you’re terminated”

Like who the fuck thinks like that, lawyers would be calling up the employee asking if they could be a part of the case with how much of a slam dunk it should be

teal iron
peak folio
mental summit
humble parrot
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Every store here has at least 1 security guard, because the government isn't paying them shit for stolen stuff.

mental summit
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Your messages are really vague

peak folio
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Sure. croajirokek

night plume
mental summit
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🤷‍♂️

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Smokescreen

teal iron
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I feel we should have a better society where people to not regularly feel compelled to do things like this

night plume
queen vale
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In the UK whn I worked retail a.. few years ago, we were explicitly told not to tackle robbers, if someone wants the contents of the till to hand them over because it's not worth the liability or the risk to the employees. Don't know if that's changed in recent years

night plume
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Ty Discord for not loading half the messages xD

night plume
teal iron
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But oh well

night plume
teal iron
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I mean if you're not gonna stop literal actual theft from a store then why bother having a store with price tags

mental summit
night plume
teal iron
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Admit you're just preying on people's better nature to be polite and follow given rules

night plume
humble parrot
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I wonder if the stolen goods are paid off by the government in public sales price or their buy-through price

mental summit
teal iron
humble parrot
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Because if it's in public sale price, the store is making a profit of it

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Even if it was stolen

teal iron
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Why even sell if you just allow theft

night plume
mental summit
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Nah you’re all good I got confused there for a second too

teal iron
night plume
teal iron
peak folio
night plume
teal iron
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Only a true narcissist would enjoy punching a mirror, after all

night plume
queen vale
teal iron
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Er
...
Maybe that's backwards

mental summit
# teal iron Why even sell if you just allow theft

Well, this is a bit disingenuous. Theft is against the law, oh no, somebody steals from the store, why do you expect random employees to do the job of the police (or Whats supposed to be their job) by upholding the law

humble parrot
# teal iron It probably is tbh

Well, that would explain why theft is allowed, it actually benefits the store by getting a sale off something that would've been lost otherwise or possibly not sell. All fed off your tax money, I guess.

peak folio
queen vale
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Theft isn't "allowed" as much as "accounted for" in Shrinkage

peak folio
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If the thief has no repercussions despite the rules, it’s effectively allowed.

night plume
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I remember getting in a lot of trouble over shrink o.o

Noticed the shrink price was incorrect on a lot of things and corrected it >.>
Learned it was done on purpose and I inadvertently doubled the shrink amount <.<

royal shuttle
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It's not priced in, it makes prices go higher. Stop spreading that falsehood.

queen vale
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The store intake, output, sales and such takes into account shrinkage. I never said it was priced in, just factored into stock numbers

royal shuttle
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Stores close down over rampant theft, we live in a low-trust society because the legal system refuses to do its job and instead puts all of society in a minimum security prison.

teal iron
mental summit
# peak folio If the thief has no repercussions despite the rules, it’s effectively allowed.

Well the repercussion in this case is the law, which is supposed to be upheld by a police and justice system that is paid through taxes.

You wouldn’t expect random passerby to stop a robbery at a bank, so why would you expect a random employee to try and stop someone. There’s cameras everywhere, the cashier and passerby can notify that they were stolen from, but it’s entirely unreasonable to ask someone to play vigilante, which is also against the law iirc

queen vale
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Local supermarkets have anti-theft tags on meat, I'm aware rampant theft is a problem. Products like washing powder, other consumables are frequent targets because of their easy resale.
It's not a good thing, but it's also viewed in the same lens as car crashes these days, it happens so much, steps are taken, but there's only so much can be done with a system that has humans in it

teal iron
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Con men at big chain stores set up rackets where the insurance pays them big bucks for "theft", they probably don't even accurately count the stolen items they just give a sob story and the insurance hands them a fat stack which is mostly paid for by anyone else but the insurance and the chain

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Probably
That sounds accurate to things companies actually do

peak folio
queen vale
humble parrot
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Funny thing is, despite all the issues here, petty store theft like that is rare

teal iron
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And then when people catch on and start really taking stuff the store whines that it's too much!! (It isn't) And closes down

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Like I said
Better society is what we need

night plume
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I remember reading where WalMart(idk if it was as a whole or an individual store) was told "No" to getting theft reimbursement.

When covid hit, they kept having higher and higher theft reports. Someone looked into it and found they were just reporting a random number to get the kick back.

humble parrot
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Security guards have a checkpoint at the exit where they check your receipts and items. Most are caught before though, by cameras.

mental summit
teal iron
humble parrot
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Not having security guards also saves on costs for the store

peak folio
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The point still remains at the end of the day

mental summit
peak folio
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Even though the clip about stealing pokemon displays has evolved into an existential philosophy

queen vale
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It's about risk, value, and is it even worth it in some cases - the insurance costs for the security, vs letting someone just walk off and write off the value

limpid vessel
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I'm gonna scalp palworld cards

mental summit
limpid vessel
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Friends get no upcharge

peak folio
mental summit
queen vale
night plume
peak folio
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Why is “they can’t do anything about it” so offensive to you?

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It’s true.

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What even is there to get this worked up about?

mental summit
peak folio
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I’ll leave it there then.

queen vale
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I mean can and can't do anything about it does depend on the socioeconomics, like do they bother putting security guards out or just bulletproof glass and don't let people near the products, ect

barren sierra
teal iron
peak folio
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Haven’t stopped at that one since. Apparently the neighborhood has a problem…

humble parrot
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I wonder why

queen vale
peak folio
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Just wild to go shopping for basic stuff and it’s caged

queen vale
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Yeah

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You get to the door and are thinking "Shit, no i didn't steal anything did I" from guilt association

barren sierra
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the other ones are fine

night plume
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The walmarts in my area now have toothepaste, some mouthwash, and some deodorant in the locked cases.

They claimed it is for children safety, but the aisle over is all the aspirin, pain killers, cough syrups and those are within reach >.>

queen vale
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Well yeah, can't possibly have the kids have healthy teeth now, otherwise where will the money come from

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I hate how this is satire but could not be

peak folio
novel sun
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At this rate shopping for essentials is gonna be from vending machines

night plume
night plume
peak folio
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They have those in some hotels, I guess

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For people who forget stuff, I guess, though usually the front desk can help with that

night plume
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Hotels make sense. People forget a lot of basics often, that offers the guest an easy way to get it and the hotel and added income.

peak folio
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mhm

barren sierra
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good, good, this makes me happy

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wai no embedd

humble parrot
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Skill issue

barren sierra
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This, this gives me hope for the future

peak folio
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-# ||Nobody should be putting their faces in there at all||

mental summit
novel sun
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Yeah they should be enforcing the law, but even if they're trying their hardest to do the best job possible, they can't just teleport to your property and stop a home invader in the blink of an eye. It sucks but sometimes self defense is required

barren sierra
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Thats when laws don't drink water for me anymore

mental summit
peak folio
barren sierra
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100 buckys is a big ask

unborn mauve
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i see you

peak folio
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It’s an expensive controller but at least the sticks aren’t using pots

teal iron
peak folio
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No

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Maybe the Switch 2

barren sierra
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premium controllers don't go over 70ish

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Also my price appears to be 135 mono_yumcha

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After shipping and import taxes

peak folio
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Well “premium” controllers get really expensive, but those are’t sold for value or entry point

novel sun
peak folio
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Joycon 2 is some $95 a pair, I think

open scaffold
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Problem is the cops are minutes away when seconds count

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Police can’t teleport and until they arrive you have to be able to defend yourself

glad needle
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Shotguns are the absolute best guns for this

cyan cliff
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Slug

hearty sonnet
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Yes

peak folio
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-Bust into someone’s house
-Owner pulls out shotgun, shouts git out
-Robber calls out the minimod saying the owner ain’t the police
-Brains get blown out

humble parrot
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Like the founding fathers intended

open scaffold
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Just as the founding fathers intended

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Damn you for typing faster

humble parrot
silver pewter
peak folio
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Back when controllers were like $20

open scaffold
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Scalpers

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hate scalpers they ruin everything

peak folio
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It’s safe to assume the first wave of any of Valve’s new hardware will sell out instantly.

maiden narwhal
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Not surprised it’s out of stock that quick. And I bet the new vr headset will follow suit… cat_sad guess I’ll wait til the year after or so to get one

peak folio
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If you want one you’ll probably want to refresh the page the minute it comes out. harapeko

maiden narwhal
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It’s cool, I’ll wait. Let the hype die down. Did the same for ps5, kinda

peak folio
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PS5 took forever to be available

night plume
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I remember going intona gamestop and they had a single PS5. My partner snd I were debating on whether or not to get it while the guy behind us on line was hopping back and forth eying it like it was his next fix.

Since we couldn't come up with at least 3 games we wanted that we couldn't get on Steam, I told the guy behind us to go for it.

He grabbed that thing so fast xD

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If I remember correctly, I think the employee said it was a pre-order that was never picked up.

barren sierra
maiden narwhal
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When I went, it was a small line for GameStop+ customers that they emailed and told us to show up

peak folio
cobalt briar
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I'm surprised they lasted a whole 30 minutes

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apparently they lasted an extra hour in Europe according to some people

peak folio
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I don’t know if the site had any traffic issues

barren sierra
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And that's about the only thing i use it for cause where ps5 games

peak folio
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Not into action/adventure, I take it

barren sierra
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depends

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is it a monster hunter game

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haven't really played one since the ps2 era

peak folio
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Those aren’t first party anyway

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I know the meme is funny and all, but you gotta try to not find anything to like. Chillet_hee

barren sierra
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well yeah thats the point of a console, exclusives for ir

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i dont see a reason to get pal world for it cause i use a PC

peak folio
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That ain’t first party either.

barren sierra
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i found it really hard even after years to justify having it in the house

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Is there games for it after 5 years

peak folio
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You can probably sell it for more than what you paid if you feel that way.

barren sierra
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im yet to sell any electronic purchased in my family since the 80s

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I find most use when its no longer suported

peak folio
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There’s a lot of people out there that want it more than you do. croajirokek

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But price go up

barren sierra
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Ive already gotten an estimate on my collection at ~200k euro

peak folio
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That’s like a charizard card

barren sierra
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Consoles, physical games and tvs

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Approximately ~3k items

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+-

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Now i don't intend to sell a speck, but should dire needs arrive, i can

novel sun
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Man I wish I never sold my Wii

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Thankfully still have the SNES though

peak folio
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Wiis are cheap to get, at least.

barren sierra
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and the ps4 Homebrewed will run wii games

peak folio
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Did Wiis just not sell over there?

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There’s so many

barren sierra
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oh there is buyable ones just nothing under 150

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About the same id pay for several other newer consoles that can run other stuff

peak folio
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Seems really high

bitter agate
mental summit
# open scaffold Law enforcement takes time to get to places

Oh my Christ I’m not denouncing self defense. I’m saying that if you are robbed, it is not your job to play vigilante, hunt down the thief, and cuff him yourself, that is law enforcement’s job, because they are the ones tasked with Enforcing the Law

peak folio
mental summit
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Also, risking your life for a mega corporation that couldn’t give 2 shits less about you is just stupid

bitter agate
open scaffold
# mental summit Also, risking your life for a mega corporation that couldn’t give 2 shits less a...

how does defending my house and family=risking my life for a mega corp also you dont go "vigilante" and hunt them down you shoot at them until you kill them or they run out of the house disposing of the threat you dont go running after them down the street shooting at them the whole point is there is a very serious threat and you need to get rid of it and until you do your life and your dffamily's life is at risk

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people value my stuff and my family lives over theirs tuff luck

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its best to lock yourself and everyone in a bedroom or bathroom and call 911 keep them on the line and have a gun with you stay there until police arive

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i dont see how thats stupid

bitter agate
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It's best to fill them with enough holes that all their marinara runs out before EMTs arrive... Can't testify if you can't testify

peak folio
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😅

novel sun
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Are there actually people fuelling this behavior?

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Like who would buy a $25 cardboard box just to hold their Pokemon merch?

hearty sonnet
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A pokemon fanatic would do that

peak folio
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Just go to UPS Office or something

leaden nova
worldly ivy
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This is why they’re having quizzes in Japan

mental summit
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(Martha is a cashier)

peak folio
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Watersaur

open scaffold
open scaffold
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was responding to these messages focusing on home invasion

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sorry if i did not make that clear enough

mental summit
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Maybe I did not make myself clear either, either that or we have a ton of target glazers who would jump off of builds because target’s ceo told them to or whatever

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But basically, yes, you’re allowed to defend yourself and your property

Target’s charizard and gengar cardboard cutout isn’t your property, and you’re not required to try and fight the person to get it back, that’s not your job.

And even further than that, self defense doesn’t always work, other guy could have a gun or worse, and you certainly shouldn’t risk your own life to die fighting him just because he stole some pearls on a string

hearty sonnet
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What's worse than a gun?
A torpedo?

mental summit
open scaffold
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to be fair if a gengar cardboard cutout is in my house and someone tries to steal it imma shoot em because its the principle of the matter

hearty sonnet
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I ain't fuckin with nobody holding a torpedo

open scaffold
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in my house my property

open scaffold
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torpedo's dont really explode in the sense of a gernade

hearty sonnet
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If a dude has a land torpedo, he's probably got a plan for it, he's likely got things figured out

mental summit
hearty sonnet
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If it were just 4 kids, I'd use my finger gun

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peak folio
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whats more likely to happen is a few burglars break into your house in the middle of the night and wake you up thats when you grab your shotgun off of the mount on your bed and call 911 and if you have anyone in the house you gotta make sure they are safe

peak folio
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I post this short ass mfer walk out with a couple pieces of cardboard and this just goes on literally all day.

mental summit
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risk vs reward if its just you in your house lock yourself in your bedroom with a gun pointed at the door with 911 on the line but if you have family in the house that puts there lives at risk what happens if they find them hiding when the police are still 5 minutes away yes your right there is no guarantee of survival they very easily could kill you but they could also very easily kill your mother father sister brother girlfriend boyfriend etc point is you weigh the risk vs the reward and if its worth taking the risk

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if your by yourself no its stupid to confront them but that changes if you have family or other people in the house because its not just your life at risk its theirs as well

bitter agate
peak folio
mental summit
# open scaffold if your by yourself no its stupid to confront them but that changes if you have ...

Exactly, risk versus reward, if they just want material possessions and aren’t going to shoot anyone, and you’re outgunned, yes, probably safer to let them go (but still tell police afterwards)

But even then it’s risky, let’s say you miss your shot, because it’s dark and you only graze him a bit, and he shoots you back and kills you. Congrats, your family is fatherless, and now said shooter may hurt your family because there’s nobody to stop him, and he’s pissed because he was shot.

A good man doesn’t just defend his property over principles, he also defends his family, and it turns out he can’t do a real good job defending his family if he’s dead

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what do you suggest you do if someone breaks and you have kids in the other room ]

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also you dont know if they just want material possessions

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you cant know these things in the moment and maybe that is all they want they assume no one is home and dont know you and your family (kids and a wife) are in the house

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so many unknowns and risk's im curious what your approach would be

mental summit
# open scaffold so many unknowns and risk's im curious what your approach would be

Frankly, the threat of death should be enough to scare them off, if they’re only robbers,

if it seems like only one person and they haven’t noticed me absolutely I’m taking the shot

However, if it’s multiple, and they’re all armed, it’s not like I’m the main character of an action movie, I would not risk shooting unless they got near the door with the rest of my family, then yeah low odds you succeed but the alternative is worse

leaden nova
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But there’s no reason to risk bloodshed especially if theyve made it apparent they don’t want to shoot anyone unless forced to. Don’t give them a reason

leaden nova
# peak folio https://gonintendo.com/contents/60510-pokemon-tcg-vending-machines-being-gradual...

But yeah as for the scalper issue, the only solution I can think of is simply making every card TCG product made to order. Everything else is an exercise in folly (as they are finding out). They can then limit a certain number of product based on shipping address. The most scalpers can do then is get PO boxes and pay people to also preorder it then give them the boxes. But anyone who also actually wants one for themselves and orders within the preorder window can get one without scalpers beating, stealing, or shooting them.

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you have to go out of your room to get to your family out of safety also you dont know if you dont want to shoot how can you know you see a gun or a outline of a gun you shoot to kill you dont take that chance that they might not want to shoot in those seconds of hesitation they could end your life you dont take chances in a home invasion you dont know there intentions you dont know if they are armed or not you dont know if they are scared with a gun you dont know if they dont have a gun and you cant afford to take the risk

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point is you grab your family and hide somewhere but if you see someone you shoot them even if they outnumber you (also why you want to use a shotgun with buckshot)

mental summit
# open scaffold you have to go out of your room to get to your family out of safety also you don...

Ok, since you’re so trigger happy, you wake up in the middle of the night and hear something downstairs, you start sneaking down, and suddenly hear a high pitched shatter, you run down, see an outline of a crouched down person holding a gun shaped object, and without hesitation you shoot and keep shooting just to be safe, you turn on the lights and oops, you murdered your son who accidentally dropped a plate of cookies in the middle of the night, the “gun” was a piece of the broken plate he’d been trying to pick up, and the extra shots guaranteed he’ll bleed out by the time paramedics arrive.

If you think this wouldn’t happen to you, you’re just wrong, your mind attempts to fill in the gaps of things you can’t perceive, and it sounds like with you, we know exactly what your mind would fill the gaps in with

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or you can use common sense you wake up to the sound of breaking glass and hear people loudly downstairs going through stuff you see the light from there flash lights and can hear them whispering these hypotheticals are pointless if you use critical thinking its not hard to listen for people rummaging around through your shit your son would be smarter then to make so much noise and wouldint be going through your shit also most people have a phone which they use to call their son to wake them up just to confirm and tell them to stay put until you get them

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if your stupid yeah you can easily fuck up but if your smart and use your thinker you can avoid fucking up

bitter agate
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If someone is in my house and they broke a plate, they're catching lead.

mental summit
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Damn appreciate the honesty, fuck them kids or whatever they say nowadays

bitter agate
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Well I also don't have people just stop by

maiden narwhal
humble parrot
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By reducing supply Chillet_confused

peak folio
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It seems to imply that allocating some machines is just making it worse for everywhere else.

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Coming from nintendo though, who knows.

hexed sentinel
humble parrot
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The direct short-term impact of this is an increase of pressure at the places that sell cards still

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More scalpers in a single location.

peak folio
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I mean nobody stocks cards, they just sell any restock instantly

cobalt briar
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when did this sudden rabid insatiable hunger for Pokemon cards start escalating so fast

barren sierra
maiden narwhal
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Vending machines were a mistake. Wanna stop scalping? Vend online only, limit amounts per account/address

humble parrot
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When some youtuber started a market bubble with them

hexed sentinel
humble parrot
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Just like it happened with video games like a decade ago

cobalt briar
hexed sentinel
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You should be worried about scalpers targeting Palworld cards next

cobalt briar
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I am

peak folio
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If Palworld cards get that valuable

maiden narwhal
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I’m not. Too niche. Maybe after a few years

humble parrot
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"X person sold old shit that was cheap for 3 billion or whatever" and the rest just snowballs until the bubble pops and the market stabilizes

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I remember watching a documentary for the video game bubble one

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Of how one guy owned several grading companies and was making a killing with this, also started off the trend

cobalt briar
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It feels as though the world is losing its mind over collecting and hoarding every single Pokemon-related thing there is except for the games

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cards, merchandise, pop-tarts now apparently

hearty sonnet
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I think it's amazing that Pokemon is still afloat despite how much it sucks

peak folio
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The machine is unstoppable

humble parrot
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Man, It's gonna be impossible to find

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That was years ago....I remember watching it when the new of that Super Mario Bros. copy selling for millions broke out

hearty sonnet
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Oh shit it is May 4th

humble parrot
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Man, RIP Star Wars

bitter agate
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No trilogy needs to be 9 movies...

hearty sonnet
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That's like a trilogy of trilogies

bitter agate
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I didn't take trilignometry in school

peak folio
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They should have used Timothy Zahn’s books for the sequel trilogy

tough comet
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mono_cat its also international fire fighter day.

novel sun
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Dang, having it on May 4th is unfortunate

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Those humans and their darn pop culture

worldly ivy
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For your May 4th present

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Disney might be considering retconning the entire sequel trilogy

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Just a rumor but still

rustic basin
peak folio
mental summit
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Yeah feels like that rumor has existed since the movies came out, considering theyve made so many games and spin off shows around it, does not seem they have any intention of retconning it. Hell if anything the may 4th sale on steam shows mostly sequel trilogy stuff

hexed sentinel
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Windrose

humble parrot
# 
Days later, on April 30, the studio pushed out a "housekeeping" update addressing SSD and CPU usage, connectivity issues, missing building blocks, and various bugs.

The results were dramatic: pre-patch, RocksDB was generating roughly 90,000 - 130,000 writes per second, while post-patch testing during sailing (one of the heavier write scenarios) showed an average of just 20 – 30 writes per second, with peaks never exceeding 60 writes/sec. Players with the game installed are advised to update as soon as possible.
hexed sentinel
humble parrot
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Rip

hexed sentinel
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Glad I bought a 12TB HDD years ago.

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I make backups every month.

cobalt briar
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oh heavens

hexed sentinel
cobalt briar
silver pewter
hearty sonnet
silver pewter
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9 is still single digit, so I feel like it isn't too far fetched to just call it a Nonalogy.

simple aurora
barren sierra
tough comet
barren sierra
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I hear this gif, screw you

void dagger
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Oh... 👴

sage topaz
violet kelp
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Youtube being the moodkiller as usual

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was watching a rabbit care video and scrolled through comments to see a video thumbnail of someone putting live rabbits in a blender.

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With gore

solid sun
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that is not allowed under youtube guidelines.

worldly ivy
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Who the fuck let that stay up long enough to put in a comment section

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At this point I’m just disappointed

violet kelp
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With comments cheering it on "nature rules" types.

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Idk, sucks to see how normalized it is to see rabbit torture on youtube.

solid sun
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this is why I don't watch any kind of animal videos

worldly ivy
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I’m disappointed in the people making these videos, I’m disappointed in the people who think it’s funny to post them in places they clearly don’t belong, and I’m disappointed in the people hyping them up.

violet kelp
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Oh but the second a dog gets hurt

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Awful still, but I do want to point out the hypocrisy.

violet kelp
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He really likes the Skyrim ambient ost so I used to just keep the game running so he can relax near the speaker.

violet kelp
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Maturing is realizing nature sucks and being grateful with what we have in our lives.

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And animal abuse pisses me off so much, I had this neighbor who used to abuse his dog, I never knew how bad it got until police got him.

winged zinc
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Question did pocketpair make Windrose as well? Or it is a publishing deal? I saw a new game pop up on Steam and I wasn’t sure if it was made by them?

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Can anyone answer this?

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<@&505995738564526080> can someone help me? Plz

north thicket
mental summit
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Iirc its publisher but only for Japan

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But go double check

zealous sky
winged zinc
kindred sleet
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. . .

north thicket
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bruh

kindred sleet
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🐧 waddles away

zealous sky
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they have a contact email on their website 🤷‍♂️ and palworld is released worldwide, why would it be only for japan ? 🤔

winged zinc
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I found the contact on the website I will read though it

winged zinc
north thicket
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-# it's almost as if this is not the job of a moderator

peak folio
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solid sun
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media literacy is lost on these people

peak folio
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It’s the answer straight from the horse’s mouth, that ought to help.

queen acorn
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Morning everyone

peak folio
simple aurora
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When games back then were simple.

void dagger
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Knights and Merchants was far from simple lmao

open scaffold
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Nintendo had to sell a guide the size of a dictionary for players to learn how to play legend of Zelda back in the day