kryptonianCodeMonkey

I think the 1963 picture looks empty and bleak. Between the higher density businesses and homes, a museum, lots of trees, more people walking around, wider sidewalks, no overpass that's more difficult and less safe for pedestrians, and safety measures like a pedestrian crossing with lights and wheelchair ramps (and no median that's impassible for wheelchairs), the 2019 picture looks way better to me.

Every accusation is admission

It's kind of hard to have an incredibly varied and versatile powerset in a video game, simply becuase you have a limited set of inputs. So you would normally have a small set of powers that each serve a purpose. But then doing that and still representing 4 elements means each only gets very limited options.

Thinking about it, I can see two ways to make bending feel powerful, versatile and give a good representation to all elements. 1) maybe the best solution would be to have customizable load outs with various bending powers, and let you switch between those load outs on the fly so you can coordinate a few power sets that work well together but swap them when other sets are more useful to the situation. 2) An interesting idea would be to use situational awareness to execute moves without specific user inputs differentiating the exact power used. For example, you could have a single boost button that uses a different element depending on if the player is on land, water, in the air or dodging (fire rocket!). And you could have a close/melee attack and ranged attack for each element that you can specify, but the exact effect/attack it creates can vary depending on the environment and enemy type of the target. Let it feel a little bit like the character is making decisions, not just you, like Batman in combat in the Arkham games. And of course, there would be a charge up to a special attack that uses the Avatar state and all 4 elements at once.

I mean, the guy had been doing this stuff for decades without any repercussions at this point. To him, he probably thought it was basically normalized. He really wasnt even trying that hard to hide his interest in seducing women with aphrodisiacs/drugs. Hell, years before the Cosby show even existed, he had a stand up bit in 1969 specifically talking about how, at age 13, he learned about Spanish Fly, an aphrodisiac that would make girls go super horny for you. He goes on about how, throughout his teen years, he wished he could find some Spanish Fly to slip into girls drinks, and how the first time he went to Spain as an adult he tried to find some for that purpose. By the time he told that "joke" in his standup, he'd already drugged and assaulted at least one victim in 1965.

Here's that stand up bit: https://youtu.be/LAorIG6MZnc?si=RKKtmGcWLfTf0KZn

I find it far easier to enjoy a work that is written or produced by a bad person when they are not physically in said work. For example, I can still enjoy the Harry Potter books and other various media even though JK is a hateful piece for shit that won't just shut the fuck up and move on with her incredibly wealthy life. Going back to watch stuff that have people on the cast who later turned out to be monsters is certainly harder. Like Cosby obviously, but also OJ Simpson on the Naked Gun films, Brian Peck showing up in various Nickelodeon shows and movies, etc. It takes a level of compartmentalizing that is challenged every time you see that person. I can do it, but I really have to have a fondness for the material, especially if that person has a lot of screen time, otherwise it just taints the whole thing so much it can't be enjoyed anymore. But I really make an effort to not financially benefit those people. If they have an ongoing financial gain from the works, I will either abstain, borrow/share the media with someone else that has it, or pirate it.

I think the faces should be reversed. If you don't know, spook 'em's. If you do know, no spook 'em's.

Two questions.

1. Do you think that this barrage of personal attacks sways anyone to your side or solves anything at all?

2. What is your alternative? Your solution? Vote 3rd party? Green? Libertarian? Vote for Trump? Don't vote at all? Please. Share your wisdom so that we may learn! You shit on me for merely participating in an election, thereby making everything that happened after personally and wholly my fault, I guess. What would you have had me do otherwise? How the fuck do you suggest we fix things, smartass? Or are you just here to rage and attack and be completely useless?

A vote for a third party would have resulted in either the same consequence or worse. The difference is you get to pretend to be detached from it because you didn't directly vote for the guy. Spare me the self righteous bullshit.

Biden and Biden. Voted for Bernie in the primary, couldn't get him to the nomination, then I put on my big boy pants and voted Biden because the alternative was Trump. It's pretty simple.

At that level of co2 production, they were probably right about the timetable. What they couldn't predict is that co2 production would rise so dramatically with automobiles and industry in the decades after that. They were at 7 billion tons a year then. We are over 36 billion tons a year now, over 5 times as much. That has clearly expedited the effects on the climate.

Union(strawberry pie, blueberry pie)

This comment has some real I dont understand or acknowledge the consequences of my actions, vibes.