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yeldarb1983 1 point ago +1 / -0

fair, lol.

also, he was one of those actors that teens swooned over when he was younger, wasn't he

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yeldarb1983 3 points ago +3 / -0

right!?!

hard to believe she'll be sixty in a few months...

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yeldarb1983 3 points ago +3 / -0

right!?!

hard to believe she'll be sixty in a few months...

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yeldarb1983 2 points ago +2 / -0

Obama

...that does seem to be the tipping point. I remember my mother calling him a Manchurian Candidate (learned a new word that day, lol), and I remember the campaigning for him being off-putting, though I always chalked it up to him being a Dem, and me coming from a pretty conservative family...

...and I remember the gaslighting at the time about him being elected having "nothing" to do with him being black, and thinking it was bullshit even then...

wow, thanks, you've given me a lot to think about... =)

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yeldarb1983 5 points ago +5 / -0

...it's weird how many examples you find when you start looking for them... people having been posting so many I hadn't even thought of...

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yeldarb1983 -2 points ago +2 / -4

I don't disagree, at least for characters who are supposed to be attractive like this one, just clarifying.

...don't really want Aunt May to be played by megan fox or taylor swift circa 2001, lmao... that would be...weird...

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yeldarb1983 18 points ago +18 / -0

in this case, it's a matter of context.

Silent Hill was part of the, for lack of a better term, "holy trinity" of survival horror games(Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark being the other two legs) when it came out, and two was in many ways the defining entry in the series, introducing long-running antagonist Pyramid Head, and composer Akira Yamaoka to the franchise, among other things I'm sure die-hard fans could name that I can't. It's been a fan-favorite of the games for years.

Couple that with the relatively good, but mildly off-putting movies and the HD remakes on the PS3(PS4) where Konami made some rather unfortunate voice-acting choices (Mary Elizabeth Macglynn? as Mary/Maria? really!?! she's been a part of the team forever, and she's a great voice actress, but a terrible choice for the role in question), not to mention konami seeming to go out of their way over the last few edit:years to alienate some of their best talent, and a mediocre remake rises to the level of a refreshing return to form.

...when you then compare it to the state of the industry as a whole with titles like Concorde, Dustborn, etc. and that mediocre remake rises even further to a nugget of polished gold in a sea of diarrhea horseshit.

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yeldarb1983 -15 points ago +1 / -16

it's a woman...she's based on the voice actress, she just happens to be in her forties, late thirties if she has an addiction problem...

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yeldarb1983 0 points ago +1 / -1

lol, I remember rolling my eyes at the twilight thing...only to catch myself with a team cap button on my walmart vest years later. 🤣😅

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yeldarb1983 2 points ago +2 / -0

no doubt, lol.

I really don't know if there's anything to it, I just thought it was an interesting pattern is all.

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yeldarb1983 4 points ago +4 / -0

there does seem to be an attitude that it's their role to shape the will of the people rather than follow it...

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yeldarb1983 1 point ago +1 / -0

Semi random, but some old dude falls last week, in a fucking hospital lot and no one will move his ass for hours LMAO. There is something wrong with these people. "compassion fatigue" is their excuse.

from the article:

Foster said she was shocked the hospital couldn’t do more for the man, who was injured mere metres from the hospital’s doors. She said staff told her because it was an emergency, it was an issue for the emergency department.

Bureaucratic paralysis... don't know what the term for it is, but that's my best description.

Meanwhile the Premier (I assume equivalent to a governor here in the states?) completely misses the source of the problem, which means he'll make the problem worse (emphasis mine):

When asked about the incident, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said no one should have had to wait that long for an ambulance, and said he’s looking into what happened.

Could doctors and nurses be frozen into inaction by regimented bureacracy be the problem? oh, certainly not, but maybe the doctors and nurses were just at fault for not stepping outside the little box you drew with red tape for them:

“I understand some people have reached out to people who were working inside the building. We’ll try to understand what — is there any liability issue for them to come in the parking lot, all these types of things,” said Houston.

...and here come the gibs...:

He added that while investments are being made in health care, the case serves as a reminder more improvements are needed.

Once more with the ambulance nonsense, the man shouldn't have needed to wait for an ambulance when there's healthcare professionals right fucking there :

“There are standards for sure for ambulance response times. And, you know, we look at the data on how often that’s met. It’s being met more often,” he said.

...People like this make me ill...

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yeldarb1983 2 points ago +2 / -0

yeah, but both sides still wanted a majority market share. they also had different strategies for getting their computers in front of users. Apple targeted schools while IBM targeted businesses. Both were hoping to familiarize users with their products so they'd be more inclined to want to buy what they already knew how to use. (Besides, IBM made most of their money selling to those businesses anyway. corporation needs a looootta workstations, not to mention possibly mainframes and/or AS/400s...)

meanwhile, one company benefits no matter which side you choose with the cap/ironman, edward/jacob, or batman/superman thing.

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yeldarb1983 11 points ago +12 / -1

lmao. the thing is with the console wars is there were competing brands vying for your dollars. this was one brand pushing people into camps based on character that were both owned/licensed to one brand.

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yeldarb1983 2 points ago +2 / -0

I can't remember, did they do the "team superman"/"team batman" thing with that?

either way, maybe. <shrug> I honestly don't know.

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