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by lurk2 1y ago
It was difficult to read through due to the number of people using it as an opportunity to try and come across as experienced and worldly, which just ends up having the opposite effect, especially when you consider the target demographic of
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The majority of all successful civilizations on earth have done this and even those that did not have the usual patrilineal inheritance we associate with European cultures usually had a mechanism for the inheritance of land, title, and stat
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> We have several thousand years of history recorded where people tried this and the failures vastly outweigh the successes. Tried what?
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I was asking if the “everyone” he was referring to was comprised of children or adults, as it didn’t map to my experience with children who played these games in the 2000s.
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That isn’t what is being discussed here. An inept man could conceivably have a sexually attractive daughter. From a meritocratic perspective, it would be a mistake for a king to install the inept man as an advisor simply to gain access to t
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by lurk2 1y ago
The kids I knew who played these kinds of card games all loved buying booster packs, but they weren’t paying for these packs themselves and most grew out of playing by the time they reached high school. I can see it not being as fun for adu
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> You're saying every last one is a degenerate gambler somehow concealing it totally from me? A person can be generally responsible while still making decisions that are irresponsible. Gambling has a negative expected value, and so
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> Again no one thought that was fun in the 90s, everyone hated that aspect of cards in the 90s How old was everyone in the 1990s? Kids loved this kind of thing in the 2000s.
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> Why isn't it a good idea? I had the same question. > Whatever qualities or services performed by the original person probably didn't pass to the children Maybe if you subscribe to the hard times theory. There’s plenty of r
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Ancient Greek democracy was limited franchise and the average life expectancy figure is pop history and not accurate.
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> So anyone who reports higher numbers than Minecraft is lying, but Minecraft's numbers are all accurate? Minecraft has made press releases detailing active player counts (“Up to”139,000,000 MAU in 2021). See here: https:/&#x2
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Where are you getting that from? Minecraft has been comfortably above 100,000,000 monthly active users since at least 2019. The only comparable figure I can find for Fortnite claims 650,000,000 registered users, which doesn’t seem remotely
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> This is deliberate misinformation. It’s disinformation if it’s deliberate.
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This situation was a lot more common than people might think. If you bought the game before Notch introduced the EULA (late 2011 if memory serves), what they did was also probably illegal, since they didn’t have the legal boilerplate in pla
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Called it.
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> You learn pretty quickly as a kid that the best way to get good items is through trading, not gambling. Not if your dad is the one buying you the cards.
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A lot of gas stations and retail stores sell prepaid credit cards as well as gift cards that you can buy with cash.
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Both of these things can be true.
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by lurk2 1y ago
2000s Era Historical Bro Movie Edit with a film grain filter and nu metal hip-hop music imploring the viewer to embrace the opportunity to die in battle and then you scroll down and it’s a Peter Explains Subway Surfers video.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Controversial take but short form video content is the best thing that ever happened to the internet and if you disagree your memory is failing you or you’re nostalgic for a time you didn’t live through. I have noticed the people who don’t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
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You don’t understand how scale works.
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> Compare that to the the last US presidential election that has statistical oddities in machine-tallied voting results of kinds that have historically been shown to correlate with election fraud. When and where was this?
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> but each time Russia ends up with an advantage. They are fighting against a country with something like 1/5th of their population so this reasoning is completely fallacious. You will use any advantage gained by Russia as evidence
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It’s obvious from the response this garnered that a lot of users haven’t gotten over this period of their lives ending.
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> It’s not just save as many lives as possible at all costs, saving 20 kids but 2 will develop debilitating peanut allergies isn’t worth it. Your math isn’t checking out here.
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Do you have a source for that?
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This is the conclusion I lean towards, but anecdotally one of my grandparents knew something like 3 or 4 kids who died before the age of 15, all in preventable accidents. Disease got at least a few more. It’s possibly just a coincidence but
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By this logic Gavin Newsom is an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
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> now that the Amerikka Oblast answers to mother Russia This is a nearly decade-old baseless conspiracy theory.

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