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Slowking wrote:
Does free will exist? Porbably not. Will that insight make us stop punishing people? Probably not.
Well, considering we're already predestined to punish people there's hardly any point in trying not to.
edit: oh haha I didn't even read the preceding post
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As an aside from the main discussion of why everyone sucks, perhaps an ignore feature would help those of us who can't help but read unpleasant things?
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CoolKirby wrote:
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Uh, guys? I thought Cheezwizz's post was pretty obviously sarcastic...<_<
He was attacking the site and its administrators for maintaining the positive atmosphere of the site by keeping a user banned who only wants to cause trouble. Wasn't it pretty clear what he meant?
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If it means anything, I'd vote yes on it. The one thing I normally skip in a SMW movie is bothering to watch the Bowser fight, and there's a reason for me to have watched that. The hack is okay for what it is, just using normal SMW elements to make a balls-out hard puzzle platformer with a lot of trial-by-death. And you guys managed to show off a few of those moments being avoided after being triggered (like, hidden coin blocks over pits) and managed to skip some situations that did look to have more tedious solutions.
I dunno, I liked it. It won't hurt anything by submitting, I don't think.
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At first I thought this thread wasn't serious, based on the first few posts, but as I got further in I started to get the sense that the thread actually is serious and that's pretty depressing.
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It felt fast and wacky, but even so I found myself losing interest a little about 6 minutes in. Then suddenly there was a pac-man boss and I knew this was the TAS for me. That brought me back in, and my interest held firm the rest of the way.
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I vote without posting sometimes if I have nothing to say beyond a token "I liked this" or "I didn't like this". I'm aware that my vote might not be as important as a well thought out argument for or against publication. If I were forced to come up with something to say I probably wouldn't bother to vote at all.
As for the original idea of the thread, it makes sense that only people who want to be involved with the site on some level get to have a say what winds up on the front page. Though a note encouraging people to post as well as vote is probably a good idea.
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Even though funnyhair is right, from South Figaro you can go through mount koltz to the returner's HQ and jump back into lete river. Then you can walk back to Nikeah which I guess is where you parked.
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Inzult wrote:
That said, yes, you are a lot more likely that you will be covered with group benefits because if a certain company has millions tied up in a certain insurance company, they would never risk losing that client.
I believe that to be true, but the problem is not with independent health coverage, but the way health insurance works in general.
The bottom line is that the insurance company should be forced to give you what they have contracted to provide. The fact that they sometimes don't is a problem weather or not you insurance is gained through an employer, so I feel like the solution is to force them to do what they are contractually obligated to do, not use this behavior to prop up this screwed up employer based system.
I'm trying not to make judgments, but rather observations. The way things are set up in the US right now, right or wrong, that's how it is. If the solution is to set up a third party to force insurance companies to do the right thing, who would fund it, and who would have the authority to run it?
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I take some issue with that middle paragraph; it is not uncommon for large scale employers to take life insurance on its employees. In theory it guards against the company's losses in having to hire and train a replacement in the case of an unexpected death. In practice it means that it doesn't matter to them if you live or die.
That said, yes, you are a lot more likely that you will be covered with group benefits because if a certain company has millions tied up in a certain insurance company, they would never risk losing that client.
I'm almost 2 hours into this beast and it's starting to wear on me. It has a lot less human-interest stories meant to work me emotionally but it's replaced with alarmism, which I have a bit of a harder time sitting through.
There's still a lot of interesting stuff in here though and I'll watch the last hour later. Both of these documentaries are getting at more or less the same overall point anyway; the way the pharmaceutical companies, the FDA and doctors interact is flawed and needs fixing.
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I always try to look on the brighter side of TAS. But there is just nothing there. I've watched it 4 times already and I haven't found anything to hang a yes vote on.
What don't I get?
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Inzult wrote:
janus wrote:
actually, everything is useful. I can't miss any part, as the drawing shows.
Here, watch this from a let's play to see what I mean:
needed parts
It takes him 12 minutes or something to do it since he's screwing around a lot but the principle stands.
There may be some reason to pick up all parts that I don't know about though. If so, pardon me.
janus,
I just want to draw attention to this since it was the last post on the previous page and maybe you missed it. Even if it turns out to be faster, one small oversight half way through an 8 hour run is totally not a problem and I still really enjoyed it.
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janus wrote:
actually, everything is useful. I can't miss any part, as the drawing shows.
Here, watch this from a let's play to see what I mean:
needed parts
It takes him 12 minutes or something to do it since he's screwing around a lot but the principle stands.
There may be some reason to pick up all parts that I don't know about though. If so, pardon me.
Well. I guess this more or less sums it up.