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#1 WhiteKnight77
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@kittennose said:

@MrGeezer: The distinction between a 15 year old living at home and and 18 year old is mandated adult supervision. The force in the equation that actually prevents teenage drinking.

Living at home with a parent or parents does not prevent teenage drinking. Where do you think most kids get their alcohol from?

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@White_Wolf_Kiba said:
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I do not want to play a game where I know where the enemy is at all times. Seeing through walls is a built in wall hack. Why have walls if they are not gonna do anything. Devs may as well make one big open arena and drop everyone in it and let them shoot as fast as they spawn.

What does this have to do with anything? Wrong topic maybe?

Seriously? Think about it real hard for a minute to see if outlines on a wall you cannot see through normally is not making the game easier.

yeah but as far as I know NOBODY brought up see throug walls or outlined enemies on a wall, you just kinda dropped this concept out of the blue for the heck of it.

Have you not seen Rainbow Six Siege? They should really just drop the R6 moniker.

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If someone is exiting a parking lot or other driveway, they have 2 choices, turn right or find a different way out of the place where traffic isn't so bad, but they need to wait their turn. What I really cannot stand is when I have my right turn signal and am slowing down, yet people sit there like a bump on a log and not pulling out, even if I stop in the damned road for them. **** 'em.

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@Serraph105 said:
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No, Polifact is not owned by the eBay founder. It is in fact owned by the Tampa Bay Times, who is actually owned by Times Publishing, a part of the Poytner Institute for Media Studies. The Principles of PolitiFact, PunditFact and the Truth-O-Meter shows exactly that. Still, Politifact is a biased organization who shows no consistency with its ratings and is discussed at PolitiFact Denies Its Own Left-Wing Bias and Running The Data On PolitiFact Shows Bias Against Conservatives.

“Mostly False” is PolitiFact’s most frequent rating for Republicans who aren’t named Trump (more on that in the next piece). PolitiFact often rates statements that are largely true but come from a GOP sources as “mostly false” by focusing on sentence alterations, simple mis-statements, fact-checking the wrong fact, and even taking a statement, rewording it, and fact-checking the re-worded statement instead of the original quoted statement.

Well maybe they shouldn't lie so much.

My thoughts exactly. When it comes to being honest you can't have it balanced for the sake balance or the site itself would be the one lying. Also The Federalist is a horrible source for information.

Who’s Checking the Fact Checkers? How about US News and World Reports?

Now comes a study from the George Mason University Center for Media and Public Affairs that demonstrates empirically that PolitiFact.org, one of the nation's leading "fact checkers," finds that Republicans are dishonest in their claims three times as often as Democrats. "PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama's second term," the Center said in a release, "despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP."

As the first person to empirically demonstrate the liberal, pro-Democrat bias in the Washington press corps, Lichter's analysis is worth further study and comment. His study – and in the interests of full disclosure, he was once a professor of mine at the George Washington University - "examined 100 statements involving factual claims by Democrats (46 claims) and Republicans (54 claims), which were fact-checked by PolitiFact.com during the four month period from the start of President Obama's second term on January 20 through May 22, 2013." The conclusion: Republicans lie more.

Or do they? As the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has consistently reported, the fact checking business often – too often for anyone's good – turns on matters of opinion rather than matters of "fact." One recent example that drives the point home is the Washington Post's recent fact check that gave President Barack Obama "four Pinocchios" for asserting that he had, in fact, called what happened in Benghazi an act of "terrorism."

According to the Post's Glenn Kessler, Obama did in fact refer to it the next day in a Rose Garden address as an "act of terror," but did not call it "terrorism." Is this a distinction without a difference? Hardly, at least as far as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney might be concerned. It will be a long time before anyone forgets how the second presidential debate turned into a tag team match with Obama and CNN's Candy Crowley both explaining to the mystified Republican that Romney was, in fact, wrong when he accused the president of not having called the Benghazi attack a terrorist incident.

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@MrGeezer said:
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Whether it is a smear campaign or not does not make a difference. The only thing I am stating is that the internet and social media has changed how everything is perceived nowadays. What once was just a small issue of a few people in some city is now an issue everywhere. I don't care if X are doing such and such or are doing this or that in Buffalo, I do not live up there. If store Y wants to sell Z, I really do not care. There are thin-skinned people on both sides of the equation. Maybe it is due to where I grew up and in which time where I am not so appalled at a nursery rhyme (again, that is how I learned it) being on a t-shirt. I also do not get offended for others as we see people do nowadays.

As far crowdfunding, I am not a big supporter of it. While there might be some good come out of it, we also have seen how it can be used for bullshit (a rich woman using it to send her daughter to a camp to make a video game for one). Pay your dues like those before you. If you are good, your work sells or you get a record contract.

Oops, my bad. I confused you for the other guy. Since you weren't the one saying that it was a smear campaign that was trampling on people's free expression, much of what I typed isn't relevant to your post.

Anyway, you're right that the internet changed things. But we could say that for any period. Back in my day, if I wanted to communicate with someone more than 10 miles away, I had to either mail a letter or pick up a phone. And yeah, the phone changed things too. Before the phone, if you wanted to harass someone you had to personally ride up to their place on your horse.

Point being, easier ability for EVERYONE to communicate is obviously going to mean that some people aren't communicating stuff that we like. Still doesn't have anything to do with trampling on anyone's free expression. What it does mean is that people better start getting used to a world in which what they say CAN reach millions of people. It wasn't like that when I was a kid. But it's like that now, there's no going back, and we'd all better start getting used to it. If I can use the internet to my advantage and allow it to give me more means to have a voice, then that obviously comes with the side effect that it also gives a voice to people who I strongly disagree with.

On the topic of crowdfunding, that's a separate side topic. I wasn't even really wanting to talk about that, I was just bringing it up as an example of how the internet can benefit people. But now that you mention it, I don't see the issue with that either. Sure they might not have "paid their dues like everyone else". But why should they when they can just ask for money and people give it to them? Like I said, the times are constantly changing. If someone wants to fund my bullshit without me having to "pay my dues", then I don't see the issue.

I remember 5 digit phone numbers and if you wanted a private line, you paid extra.

I have no problem with people communicating stuff we may not like, unfortunately, there are way to many people that want people to stop saying stuff that they do not like. We see that a lot lately be it a once employed assistant journalism professor trying to stop the student press from covering something to protests over a speaker at a campus. Certain groups are not wanting people to say certain things and these people are calling a different group fascist yet are the ones denying people the ability to speak or say what they want and yell over the top of them. It is sad really.

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Mods are DLC if one really thinks about it, some are free, others are not. I have purchased many different payware mods for FS and official and 3rd party for Train Simulator. I love how people complain about payware mods on Steam possibly making a comeback when they never really went away and were on Steam long before the Skyrim fiasco a couple of years ago.

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@SOedipus said:

Thank you! It takes 3 seconds, and most of the users who are guilty of this have been here long enough to know better.

Sad isn't it? I wish we could still use BB coding. It is easy if you know the commands. See my sig as an example.

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What is it with people requiring others to copy and paste a link in a new tab or window? Here are some basics for doing such here on GameSpot.

Depending on what you want to do, choose one of the options and enter the proper URLs or locations on the following pop-ups:

If you wish to quote someone, just enter the quote in the box.

People tend to ignore links that are just a copy and paste. Put some effort into it.

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@tormentos said:
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Quite impressive.... I'd imagine that Xbox Play Anywhere is a major attraction for them as they aren't confined to a console and can target PC if they wanted to.

MMM so 2 dollar indies count again...Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is from an Indie developer, who is also a PSN developer, and may make it to the PS4.

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Cannibinol or THC does ease nausea from chemo treatments. My Pops was given Marinol, which is a synthesized version of it, so he would also eat more. When he died, he maybe weighed 90 pounds, down from his normal weight of 140-145 Lbs. due to chemo for lung cancer.

My ocologist tried to give me Merinol. I hear it has withdraw effects. I opted for a note to get my medical card. Not only did it help with my petite during less-intensive chemos, it also helped with my pain. My platelets were constantly low, so the last thing I needed was pain killers to make it drop even more.

Sorry for your loss. I was around 135 lbs when I started and dropped to 105 lbs. I was forced to have a feeding a tube. It nearly saved my life.

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Cannibinol or THC does ease nausea from chemo treatments. My Pops was given Marinol, which is a synthesized version of it, so he would also eat more. When he died, he maybe weighed 90 pounds, down from his normal weight of 140-145 Lbs. due to chemo for lung cancer.

Sorry for your loss man :(

At least he was given some treatment to ease his pain. But still, hearing about people having cancer is always saddening.

If people saw what I saw, as well as helped with what I, as well as other family members and friends of his, they would stop smoking. Agent Orange may have played a part also. He ended up with a broken arm after falling in the middle of the night while trying to go to the bathroom and didn't know about it for some time. After getting it fixed, the bone was shot out, he tried to drive to his friends house just down the street. He could barely start the truck and Ma had drive back. It pretty much killed him to lose the freedom to do something without someone's help. The worst part, and I was there when he told his oncologist this, was that he no longer wanted chemo or any other treatments. He was saying that he was ready to die. Not even 2 months later, he died, even after fighting to breathe for hours on his last day. Watching that would be hard any family.

Why put your family through that when it is not needed? Since I smoked as well, I know what I can expect some time down the road, and I do not relish it myself. If it wasn't for the Marinol, I believe he might have died sooner due to not eating. I often thought of getting him some weed so he would get the munchies, but smoking was out of the question and I don't think Ma would have been comfortable baking it.