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by pacobird
Fri Aug 16, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Bogus, batshit, banal, bizarre, or bicubic: Assorted News
Replies: 1752
Views: 449119

Re: Bogus, batshit, banal, bizarre, or bicubic: Assorted News

Beyond the absurdity of it - and no, whatever other bullshit the Supreme Court wants to pull they are not going to enforce an adhesion contract this ludicrous, your partner needs to listen to better podcasts - it is not clear to me that Piccolo agreeing to the terms would even matter here because he...
by pacobird
Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:33 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Hot game deals
Replies: 856
Views: 257411

Re: Hot game deals

Amazon's got 10% off deals on some denominations of eshop and psn (and I assume xbox) gift cards.
by pacobird
Sat Aug 19, 2023 4:38 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Our Collapsing Civilization
Replies: 464
Views: 149450

Re: Our Collapsing Civilization

Büge wrote:


how would that even work tho
by pacobird
Tue Aug 15, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Animes
Replies: 672
Views: 211228

Re: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Animes

Baki Hanma is the series at its best, which is a series of absolutely zero-stakes conflicts between the world's strongest men interspersed with the entire history of martial arts explained through Chat-GPT hallucinations.
by pacobird
Wed Jul 12, 2023 5:41 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Game musings and news
Replies: 2107
Views: 552493

Re: Game musings and news

Thad wrote:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”

This is good. It means we're winning.


by pacobird
Wed Jul 12, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Diablo: What fresh hell is this?
Replies: 152
Views: 59513

Re: Diablo: What fresh hell is this?

a lot of y'all still don't get it

unique holders can use multiple malfeasance tokens on a single pain shard

so if you have 3 malfeasance tokens and 1 pain shard you can create three new shards

Tonight's helltide event is essentially a minting event for both wound imps and tortured gift chests
by pacobird
Wed May 03, 2023 10:50 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and branding irons
Replies: 267
Views: 86004

Re: Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and branding irons

The Ed Sheeran lawsuit is a threat to Western civilization. Really. I mean it's nice that we're finally getting copyright op/eds with headlines like that in the Washington Post, but y'know, copyright law and enforcement have been utterly deranged for the past 30 years or so and it would have been n...
by pacobird
Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:05 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 648
Views: 92696

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

The rule of thumb for the American court system is that barring a Constitutional requirement to the contrary the motivating impulse behind everything is to allow the courts themselves to operate at maximum efficiency. Justice for litigants or defendants is desirable, but ultimately incidental, and a...
by pacobird
Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 648
Views: 92696

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

In the other cases, they do a preliminary hearing in front of a judge that otherwise works the same way. It's definitely more efficient than a grand jury.
by pacobird
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:39 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 648
Views: 92696

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

As I understand it: It's somebody saying "A crime happened and I think this person did it." It's "charges" against someone if a prosecutor does it, and an "indictment" if a grand jury does it. You skip this phase and go straight to "arrest" if a police office...
by pacobird
Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Final fucking fantasy 22 3/4
Replies: 481
Views: 145115

Re: Final fucking fantasy 22 3/4

The villain this time around is extremely popular, and for very good reason. He's phenomenal. He first showed up in late Stormblood spouting the usual Ascian pomposities, but as we move into Shadowbringers , he demonstrates inventiveness . He's sympathetic . He is flawed in ways that are appropriat...
by pacobird
Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:12 am
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: The Democrats Will Also Shit Themselves.
Replies: 335
Views: 74197

Re: The Democrats Will Also Shit Themselves.

In more positive news: Michigan poised to replace Iowa as early Democratic presidential state Good. I said after the clusterfuck of the 2020 primaries that maybe this would finally convince people to stop treating Iowa like it was important, but I didn't expect it to happen in such an immediate and...
by pacobird
Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:56 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Animes
Replies: 672
Views: 211228

Re: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Animes

Kristine is watching Chuck and my diseased manchild brain cannot stop considering it isekai
by pacobird
Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:42 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Barefoot and Pregnant
Replies: 578
Views: 163566

Re: Barefoot and Pregnant

Mongrel wrote:First shot back from the administration.



Give SCOTUS a week, lol
by pacobird
Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:18 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Barefoot and Pregnant
Replies: 578
Views: 163566

Re: Barefoot and Pregnant

IMO, this will be seen as a precipitating event in a serious crack-up of the United States, not because of the contentiousness of the issue but because of the already full-throated commitment of some states to help the citizens of others break the law. It will be an actual crisis of federalism unles...
by pacobird
Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:09 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Barefoot and Pregnant
Replies: 578
Views: 163566

Re: Barefoot and Pregnant

So, I usually stay out of the politics talk but, I've heard that Lincoln just straight up told the Supreme Court to shove it . Couldn't everybody just agree to stop taking the Supreme Court seriously and ignore them? No, because the supreme court is not asserting authority here, but abrogating it. ...
by pacobird
Fri May 27, 2022 12:59 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Final fucking fantasy 22 3/4
Replies: 481
Views: 145115

Re: Final fucking fantasy 22 3/4

Metal Slime wrote:


when you take the elevator to the top of Shinra HQ instead of the stairs
by pacobird
Wed May 25, 2022 10:01 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Rooty-tooty point and shootys
Replies: 523
Views: 150919

Re: Rooty-tooty point and shootys

And unless you're rich, powerful or connected, they usually do little to solve those crimes beyond maybe filing a report and resenting the victims for bothering them. actually now that I think about it this is wrong; the police don't solve crimes against rich people either, rich people call them to...
by pacobird
Wed May 25, 2022 2:41 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Rooty-tooty point and shootys
Replies: 523
Views: 150919

Re: Rooty-tooty point and shootys

Yeah, and even if they did reliably solve crimes there's nothing about that activity specifically that requires them to be armed
by pacobird
Wed May 25, 2022 2:23 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Rooty-tooty point and shootys
Replies: 523
Views: 150919

Re: Rooty-tooty point and shootys

1. The fact that the responding officers intercepted the shooter, got into a firefight, and fled I find it kinda hard to believe that the school heard an actual firefight and didn't immediately lock all the doors, so I think it's more likely that any extent of "engagement" by police was t...