ShinChuck

Military Vet. Gamer. Reader, writer. Student. Martial Artist. Catholic. Pro wrestling aficionado.

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@MariaGraceVT Oh heck yeah, you're on Side Scrollers? Been waiting for this day!

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@downbadcomment Hot take as a parent: we have an absurd amount of graduations over nothing, and pre-k is especially silly. As a family, we'd skip that stuff, and that would work in this case, because we could go to see future step-mom's actually-important graduation.

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@AweShrimpNGrits Sorry you're going through this.

FFXI and XIV both claim to be the nicest, best communities ever, but having lived quietly in the belly of those beasts for a long time, I can tell you it's ONLY if you toe the line perfectly. Politically, mechanically, socially, hierarchically.

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Oh snap, @MariaGraceVT has made it to Grok summaries. Just keeps movin' on up in the world!

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With 7-8 of 10 recent Amazon orders arriving late after their website pushed "buy in the next x minutes, get it tonight/tomorrow" deals, I'm starting to wonder, at what point does it become false advertising?

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@MariaGraceVT What could be more natural and normal then taking your sperm, using it to fertilize your husband's sister's egg, then forcing it into your own mother and having her give birth to her own granddaughter? Just a good ol' fashioned storybook romance.

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This Mongoose McQueen guy looks familiar, @DarthPaleDim. #SonicTemple #Fozzy

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@Bronymon_ Sir, I've been a member of the Star Fox fandom probably longer than *you've* been alive, and I agree those things aren't welcome in the community.

...I just completely disagree with how our friend Faultt defines those things.

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Honestly? I'd probably enjoy Mixtape for the story, and it's on my wishlist for when it's $2 during a Steam sale, but an enjoyable story doesn't make a 10/10 game. Lord of the Rings with occasional button presses is a great movie, but a terrible game.

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OP is a little frustrated people took this as satire. Devil's Advocate, this CAN be fun, like bobbing to K.K. in ACNH... but that's when it's a fun lil' touch added to a fully fleshed out, playable game, not as the main source of fun.

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If Mixtape was a movie I wouldn't have been able to have so much fun doing this.

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@NesrynVT I've never blocked anyone but spammers explicitly trying to sell stuff. If you're a real person, I want to keep the lines of communication open!

I'm not saying there aren't good reasons to block people, and maybe I'd be better off doing it sometimes, but that's just me.

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@DarthPaleDim https://t.co/TPq4feUOdR

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Thank you for the memories, Gingerbread Man 🥹

@_trickwilliams | @lilyachty

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@oddcrittergirl There, 1000. 💪

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@KirscheVerstahl Maybe it's years of Ohio RINOs and Michigan far-left governors, but Vivek is more conservative than we've seen in a while. I don't entirely understand the dislike. Is it all from this? It's the first time I saw any real Vivek backlash.

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The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@DarthPaleDim Someone looking for a game for his new Xbox 360, a great experience that really shows off current technology. I mention Oblivion.

"That game got guns in it, though?"

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The "retro" shelves have the same stock the shelves hadwhen we worked there, @DarthPaleDim. Ouch.

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She's back, and so are the classics.

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@DarthPaleDim At least, for a brief time, we had our one little location staffed entirely by alpha Chads.

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Part of the problem here is that you assign angelic motives to one side and demonic to the other. That's (generally) a terrible way to look at someone you disagree with, whether they're on the Right or Left.

I believe you want the best for people, even if we disagree vehemently.

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@dumbfrenchrat the right political views: eugenism, enrich the rich, antimigration, racism, bomb other countries

the left: affordable house for everyone, no poverty, rights for everyone, tax the riches

riri, if u support a political side that is made to hurt others so youre not a good person.

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@MariaGraceVT Catholics believe it's the real body of Christ, not a symbol & also need to be in a state of grace to be in communion with God. Similarly, a Catholic with a mortal sin couldn't take communion either. Heavy question for X and way better answers/theologians out there than me tho!