This statement assumes that the Presidential candidates have any intention of “serving the country” as far as I can remember, they’ve only been interested in serving themselves, and all benefits and consequences the county saw was purely a coincidental side effect.

Ugh, fine! I’ll change it to “worth money” instead of “valuable.” Will you understand then?

It’s almost like words mean things.

Yeah sure, but they can’t be easily sold for money. If dead flys could be sold for money, humans would kill them to extinction, regardless of the consequences.

And most importantly, not worth money to humans.

Can’t wait to hear about space X satellites falling out of a window.

Wow this is an actually interesting question. At first it kinda of seems ridiculous that a provider of age restricted content put the onus of said age verification onto a completed unrelated company. To say the manufacturers of devices capable of going online are the ones responsible for verifying the age of the user seems backwards, and a little unfair to the makers of the devices.

But on the other hand, they make a good point that if one company is collecting info on users to verify if they are legally old enough to view the content, and if they are required to get legal documentation to prove it, That could be a security concern. If the site collects that information from it’s users and their network gets compromised, the hacker obtains the legal documents of all of its users. However if you have your device get a certification of your age and be able to pass that cert to a site, and a hacker compromised your device, they would only get the information of that one user. In this way it would act like getting a drink wristband at a concert or large event. Instead of having to show your ID to a bunch of different people, you show it to one, and everyone else just sees that you’ve been verified of legal age without needing to see the actual ID.

On the other other hand, since personal devices are fully in the hands of the users, it would be pretty safe to assume that users will be able to trick the device into believing they are of legal age with relative ease, so it’s effectiveness might not be that great.

Idk man, this is kinda interesting.

Oh yeah, the game looks like great fun. Congrats to way forward. Just Konami is a crap company and I have to crap on them when they do their bullshit. Like say Konami’s future us not in video games, but instead in pachinko machines, then come back to producing games a few years later.

I guess pachinko machines weren’t profitable enough to keep Konami from crawling back to video games. With a nostalgia grab, developed by 3rd party studio.

1st fork on the left - I have 1

4th fork from the left - I have 1, this is my favorite fork

Middle fork- I have a handful

2nd to last fork on the right - I have a handful, decent forks.

Not pictured - that piece of garbage that I have no idea where it came from, that’s somehow simultaneously too small to fit in with the other big forks, and too big to fit in with the small forks. And to top it off, its shape makes it terrible at twirling spaghetti. I seriously don’t know why I still have that piece of junk.

What the heck am I looking at? Spaghetti and peas?

That game is so good. Honestly they didn’t really need a release trailer. All they have to do is say “hey, we’re making more golden idol content” and I’m all over it, just tell me when.

That’s backwards, Jesus only cares that’s he’s inside you.

I actually liked .hack//sign

You want to teach a lesson? The only lesson you’re teaching here is that you’re a twat. You get some hardheaded opinion on someone’s suggestion, refuse to listen to anything else, and ban them for explaining themselves. Grow up.

They actually didn’t come with memory cards. Sony back then was just as money hungry as they are now. You had to buy them separately. They were around $20 or $25 for a Sony branded one, but you could get 3rd party ones for cheaper.

In other news, Scientists have done extensive studies and found that water is in fact wet. More at 11.

There’s so many great scenes, like the Intellect Devourers completely ignore the party, and the fact that all of their classes use intelligence as a dump stat. Or how fantastically shot that entire escape from the tower sequence was. Or how clever the intentionally jumping into the gelatonus cube was…

But my absolute favorite scene was when the paladin was walking away and Edgin said oh no there’s a rock in his way, will he go around? And he walks straight up and over it. It had us dying, we had to pause it because we laughing so hard.

Yes, but also no. But as in, not as much. 18-19 year olds in college have a lot of the same inexperience, but at least they are starting to get their first real taste of freedom. Where they are making decisions that actively shape their life, instead of it being decided for them. And a lot of 18-19 year olds go right to work after highschool, and are starting to see what it’s like to try and make a life for themselves. Dealing with jobs, banks, application processes, bills, and otherwise dealing with the systems that are affected by those they would be voting for.

If I think back to my first time voting after highschool, there was a lot I was kinda just going with the few things I knew, which wasn’t much. I didn’t like this guy because what he said, I like this guy because my family seems to like him. (I voted for Bush, because he seemed to do good on his first term and that John Kerry guy seemed shifty. That was literally it.) but I had at least started working and paying bills, and had at least the understanding that the ideas I held in highschool were a bit short sighted.

I think the main issue is that if you reduce the voting age to 16 you get a much larger pool of voters that can be easily convinced to vote based on targeted campaigning. And because the easily swayed, emotionally charged collection of 16-20 year olds is way more votes than the easily swayed emotionally charged 18-20 group is, a politician running a campaign targeted towards that group using extremist ideals, could really gain more traction and sway elections.

So I would be worried about seeing our very limited 2 party system start leaning even more towards the extreme sides than it already is.

yeah not a big fan of that idea. I remember my political ideas when I was 16. I used to believe that social darwinism would be the best policy, to just rod the world of the weak, and the strong would prevail making the world better. I was convinced of this by my other 16 and 17 year old friends, who likely heard about it in one of their classes in highschool. in fact a lot of us believed this, as 16 year olds are really easily convinced of ideas that sounds good when spoken. It didn’t take me long once I got out of highschool and started getting my first adult experience to realize how stupid that idea is.

The problem is high schoolers mainly experience the struggle of navigating social groups and are just trying to figuring out how to fit in with those around them. They are surrounded by peer pressure by those who also don’t fully understand the complexity of social relationships. They are bound to have strong opinions based on little real world experience.

Not only that, it is easy to manipulate large groups of young highschoolers to believe what you want them to. Does anyone remember “The Wave” experiment where a highschool teacher was able to convert almost the entire student body into fascist beliefs before dropping it on them what he had done? I worry that if highschoolers are able to vote, that our already corrupt politicians will absolutely abuse that susceptibility to their own agendas.

nothing mild about this. this is straight enraging. I hate youtube.