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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not from a technical perspective. All the issues I can think of arise out of ethics boards and the inherent flaw of having humans administrate the study/tests.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't recall specifically. Something about the nature/person of God and/or the power/role/creation of angels/demons probably.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

My one complaint with the movie (from a film/storytelling standpoint) is that it would have been a better film if it ended a scene earlier, but because of who it is marketed to they have to add a final scene to soften tone of the movie. It also had one or two points that I thought were theologically inaccurate, but it was otherwise a pretty decent movie.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm pretty sure mandatory blood draws (if you refuse field and/or station sobriety tests) are literally the law, and upheld as constitutional, in several states.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

You cannot be forced to donate blood...

You can though. Dont believe me? See what happens if you are pulled over for DUI and refuse to comply with the tests.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

Houston has a huge energy sector, and lots of unincorporated areas that make Harris County less lefty than the city proper, but I doubt that Harris County will be voting republican again anytime soon.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

Oh, hey, the AI is getting better at picking topics that might get a click instead of immediately reported as spam. It's still using handshake accounts though, so probably sub 70 IQ still.

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8BitArchitect 15 points ago +15 / -0

Look, I'm trying to spare Brandon some "when AK-50?" harassment, OK?

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8BitArchitect 29 points ago +29 / -0

He's a guntuber who happens to also be a licensed manufacturer (which means he can do cool shit like legally manufacture a full auto Luty SMG.) At least on guns he seems to be exactly what we need in the legislature.

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

Technically I think there are two/three major Presbyterian denominations in the US PCUSA (this one) and PCA are about diametrically opposed on most major issues and split in the early 2000s over things like this and women "pastors".

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

Regarding the games you brought up that I've played.

Risk can be fun if you have a group that likes it, and you understand that your goal can't be winning (because you'll lose at least 2/3 games you play.) The themed variants that have teams mitigate a lot of the issues that the base game has (though they often introduce their own) but are fun if you like the theming (I remember loving LoTR Risk.)

Catan is fun but I hate how long it takes me to set up. The expansions/extensions amplify both points.

I'm kinda addicted to Dominion. I'd played DC Deckbuilder with some friends in college and found it interesting enough, but didn't firmly grasp the "meta." I had another friend introduce me to Dominion a couple years back and it quickly became one of my favorite physical games, to the point where I own somewhere between half and 2/3rds of the expansions.
Advice on Dominion: Start with the base set (as in "Dominion", not the "Base Set" that contains the basic cards used in every game) and one of the suggested setups that leaves out the more complex cards, and try the digital version on Steam/Android/iOS if you don't have a group to play with since that will let you familiarize yourself with the mechanics and try some of the expansions to see which (if any) you want to purchase (playing in person is more fun though, in my opinion.)

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

/u/Lurker404 I don't know how many hipsters there were, but I definitely saw some redditors (of note: a dude in a miniskirt.) But yeah, other than missing the tiktok/twitter whores that assessment was pretty accurate.

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8BitArchitect 10 points ago +10 / -0

Not an arcade specifically (where the machines are what makes them money), but I went to a barcade (the games are free and they make their money off drink sales.) about a year back and that was fun when there was a game I could play with my buddies, but when I found a machine for one of the classics (that I'd grown up playing in collections or on MAME) they were kinda disappointing. Also there were too many annoying people there.

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8BitArchitect 10 points ago +10 / -0

What about PC? Why would you port it to a last-gen console but not PC?

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8BitArchitect 19 points ago +19 / -0

Notice how only one of these things is a success.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

More shocking is that they only existed for like five years (as CCR) and in that period produced seven studio albums. I don't think most bands produce seven singles in five years.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

Infinite was fairly even handed until the second DLC. Then they made Daisy Fitzroy only do horrible things because she was told she had to for the timeline to be fixed.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

Bunch of games I'd been following that were under $5 (most under $3, some even under $1) that were mostly some combination of strategy, puzzle, and roguelike/lite. Also a couple slightly more expensive games that had some nostalgia value to them, and Outer Wilds, which was recommended by a friend who I find tends to have reasonably compatible preferences for games with me.

I'd list the specific games, but it's like 20-30 in all and you aren't gonna get a discount on them now, so maybe come back to this post at the next sale after I've been able to play them and tell you which are worth getting.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

That looks fuckin' cool. Even if it's a bit less "practical" than traditional empty-hand or stick/knife martial arts, it'd be fun to learn.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

"cis" isn't an a acronym, it's a prefix. It basically means "normal", but we can't just say "normal" because that would imply (correctly) these fags are weird.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

And Civ IV Complete + your favorite mod(s) is vastly superior to that.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

I have more hours in Civ IV and it's various expansions/mods than any other game/series. I played a fair bit of V and BE but I don't think I broke 1k hours on either. I bought VI recently when I could get everything for under $20, played maybe 20 hours or so between a few games to test certain things out, and decided I'd rather never play it again.

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