Pepperm1nts

Most anticipated Games of 2018-2019

I guess I'm in the minority who thinks the new Spider-Man game looks shitty. Nothing about it looks exceptional to me. It looks pretty, but the gameplay is more of the same. It reminds me of Prototype, except way less interesting.

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That quote is blind patriotism and it's toxic. There's nothing wrong with speaking multiple languages, being proud of your home country, or practicing the culture of that place. No one is any less American for doing those things. I'm all for assimilation and I think everyone who comes into a new country should do their best to assimilate, but if they want to hold on to a piece of their original culture, or their original language, they can do that and it doesn't make them any less American. In my book, if you're an American, you're an American. End of story.

Most anticipated Games of 2018-2019

Cyberpunk 2077 is the only game I'm excited for.

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@Burning Kitty

Dude, if you work retail it's your job to help customers, so if anyone should have put in the effort to facilitate communication, it's you.

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Yeah, nah, a pinkie promise means nothing.

It's definitely great optics for Trump, though. Tons of people who don't understand that literally all Trump got was a non-binding pinkie promise will think of him as the president who solved North Korea, but really he accomplished basically nothing. Calling it a deal is generous.

It's hilarious how the Iran deal is seen as impotent but a pinkie promise isn't. Like, really, get real.

And for the record, I'm all for peace with North Korea. I just find the congnative dissonance surrounding this whole thing funny. The very same people who thought of the Iran deal as having been impotent, now think a pinkie promise isn't. The very same people who thought the Iran deal didn't go far enough and rejected it - finding it preferable to scrap the whole thing because they thought it was that bad - have now adopted the "any deal is a good deal" stance with regards to the North Korea """deal""".

And by the way, what politicians thought of the Iran deal means nothing. They're politicians. Why you are bringing up their concerns as if they matter on any level is beyond me. The Iran deal was working as intended, and while it did not place permanent limitations of the Iranian program, it was the best we were realistically going to get. Now we have nothing and no chance of getting Iran back to the negotiating table, so it's funny how the criticism is always that the deal only delayed Iran. Now there's nothing delaying them or serving as a stepping stone towards something better, so.. uh, great job?

EDIT: Also, again, nothing in the North Korean deal is binding in any way, shape or form. At best, the North Korean "deal" is as useless as you say the Iran deal was. And hell, at least the Iran deal had provisions actively enforced and monitored by the international community.

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That grin you're getting hung up on is one second, literally like a frame in a handshake that, to me, looked completely normal for the most part. The only thing Trudeau did was brace himself from the inevitable pull, and who can blame him? I think you're giving Trump a little too much pity on this. He's not just an old man. He's an old, vindictive, petty man, among other things. You're right though, it's just a handshake. I'm just not going to feel bad that someone came along and countered his bizarre handshake-pull.

Also, sweet handstand/plank/whatever the hell he's doing on that table.

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This is why Trudeau shook Trump's hand that way. Trump does that to everyone who is unprepared. There is no one more petty when it comes to handshakes than Donald Trump.

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Ain't it funny how Obama's Iran deal was "bad" even though it was an actual deal with binding stipulations that Iran was proven, internationally, to have been complying with, but Donald Trump gets Kim to pinkie promise him and all of a sudden that's considered a historic deal?

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The news are very recent, that's why. And those articles were from when the news first broke. The last one doesn't contradict the others. It's just the oldest one, from before they officially cancelled it. I posted it just to be thorough.

And for the record, I am not happy to see it fail. I am amused that it failed just like everyone that isn't a Trump supporter expected, because for the past several weeks I've been told Trump would bring world peace and I'm a librul cuck for not accepting it.

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@mdk

From Israel. Because, you know, they're trustworthy on this issue. /s

Furthermore, the information Israel presented is old. Like, really old. From 2003 to 2004 when Iran was building a spherical weapon of some sort. Development of the weapon ended in 2004 and there is no evidence that they have continued development.

It might be a hint to how useless and outdated the information is, that none of what Israel presented is relevant passed 2004.

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/…

The accurate part is that Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu presented a trove of Iranian documents.

What’s less accurate is that those documents added much to what the international community had known for some time.

In 2008, notes of a Vienna briefing on Iran by the chief inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency leaked out. In a summary posted online, the briefing provided diagrams and documents on the development of a "spherical device," high-explosives testing and missile launch sequences, including an explosion at 600 meters. The notes said that "elements available to the Agency are not consistent with any application other than the development of a nuclear weapon."

However, the briefing notes said the activities continued only into January 2004.

Netanyahu’s presentation, based on documents taken from a warehouse in Tehran by Israeli spies, also exhibited a spherical device and work done on high power explosives. He did not describe activities after 2003. So, much of what Netanyahu offered was already known.

You can't knock an article from a few months ago by presenting evidence of a project from 2003. C'mon, bruh. Even the article you posted mentions that the documents are useless and outdated.

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I think it was a good deal, but regardless of what you think, a deal is a deal. When you break deals you hurt our credibility and our standing. It is not the least bit surprising that North Korea is having second thoughts. Not to mention we had a deal before. Now we have nothing.