Silent Hill

I've got my stuff in an unfinished basement and my girls are still toddlers. That said, I figured leaving enough spiders down there would deter girls from even thinking about going downstairs. 

Not the strongest library, but the top-tier games are majestic. I've also never had an issue with the controller like a lot of people who claim to wrestle with it. I will say nostalgia is a driving factor for me since it came out when I was at an age where playing local multiplayer was the best thing on Earth. I can still pick up Goldeneye and THPS, play the entire game in one sitting, and love every second of it. Also has the best wrestling games of all time. 

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Would you mind sending pics of OoT Collector's Edition cart? I'm looking for a super clean one. 

On 5/11/2021 at 6:02 PM, Mijael said:

Just got this 

1 hour ago, CodysGameRoom said:

1 hour ago, phart010 said:

Ok good job you have won the argument. You are right and I am wrong

Just asking for a source man. I don't think that's too much to ask. 

Edit: I tried googling some stuff like "why is celebrating diversity wrong?" or "Is celebrating diversity bad?", and "bad progressive diversity ideas" and I found next to nothing. 

I went out on a limb and googled "society's agreed upon consensus for dealing with race" but nada.

You can find a bunch of articles/studies on why diversity programs fail/backfire and it primarily seems to be based on how the program/content is delivered. Of course diversity is important and a good thing, but the content and delivery can have a negative impact if done incorrectly. 

2 hours ago, Californication said:

3 hours ago, CodysGameRoom said:

It's always semantics and "what about this example?" etc. To them every issue is black and white, no wiggle room, no context, no tone. They can't possibly comprehend that any given situation has nuance to it. It's pathetic and to be quite frank it is pretty scary. 

I think they understand. I think they get off on trying to be cute and not having to directly say their racist thoughts.

It's almost as pathetic as labeling people closet racists because they have differing opinions.

53 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

3 hours ago, fcgamer said:

I do think it's shitty behaviour the whole "This is America, learn to speak English!" thing, but that's honestly not a racial issue, therefore it is not racist.

Curious if anyone else on the board shares this opinion. If so, please speak up, I'd love to get another POV since I'm so out of my league with this argument.

Maybe I'm missing the full context here and my comment is totally irrelevant, but an example of being frustrated with someone who can't speak English well is a judgement on their speech ability, not their race? 

Ex: Two people from India, one speaks very rough English - hard to understand, the other speaks it more fluently and can be understood well. Frustration with both is probably racist since it points to something deeper as speech isn't the cause of frustration, but only being frustrated with the one who can't speak it well isn't racist as the speech is the factor, not the person's race. 

Again, maybe I'm way off-base here....

6 hours ago, FireHazard51 said:

You want to see police discrimination in action.  Pick a rich neighborhood with little population of minorities that has a decent size roadway go through it.  Now look at the rate of cops pulling over people.  Also look at who gets a warning and who gets a ticket.  You can take the "high crime rate" and "poverty stricken" statistics out and you'll still see cops have a bias against people of color. - While I wasn't referring to speeding tickets, I'd be interested to see data around minorities being pulled over and ticketed for the same infraction that white people weren't, on the same stretch of road, by the same officer(s). Also adjusted for driving records. Though any of that data still wouldn't negate my thoughts on why police patrol high-crime areas and have skewed interactions based on race. Not really apples to apples. Again, not denying discrimination exists, but I still believe it's an insanely small fraction of interactions, even more so if focusing on police shootings. 

I'd say it get's amplified when you look at police records in areas of higher minority populations even when you account for income and crime rates.  Because lets be honest here.  Crime and poverty are color blind.  You can fine poor high crime areas that are predominantly white too.  And by crime rates I would go off of murders and over doses.  Not reports of break ins, rape, shootings, etc. where no one died because some times these just go unreported when you don't trust the police - Overdoses aren't crimes, though they can correlate with drug activity in the area, but that's mainly why I chose murder rates as an example, because I think we can all agree that those are at the top of the list. Plus, poor high-crime areas that are predominantly white are most likely patrolled just as heavily, due to the crime of course. If there were two areas of a city, both with equal crime rates, but the area with a heavier minority population was patrolled more, then I could see an argument of racial targeting. Your last sentence confuses me, you mention not going off of reports of certain crimes where nobody dies but then say they go unreported?

On 4/21/2021 at 2:27 PM, Kguillemette said:

We can also reform the law to re-expand early and absentee voting rather than force people to wait in hours long lines on election day. 

I am more interested in hearing arguments about how the law as written is an improvement for all Georgians, not just the white ones currently in control of the state.

Seems like there are some expansions to accommodate voter volume at locations and expand early voting, unless I'm misinterpreting this:

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/03/27/what-does-georgias-new-voting-law-sb-202-do

"One of the biggest changes in the bill would expand early voting access for most counties, adding an additional mandatory Saturday and formally codifying Sunday voting hours as optional. Counties can have early voting open as long as 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., or 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at minimum. If you live in a larger metropolitan county, you might not notice a change. For most other counties, you will have an extra weekend day, and your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer

Another change that was proposed last year and is now law would require large polling places with long lines to take action if wait times surpass an hour at certain times during the day. Those massive polls with more than 2,000 voters and wait times longer than an hour would have to hire more staff, add more workers or split up the precinct after that election. More than 1,500 of Georgia's precincts have over 2,000 voters"

1 hour ago, Californication said:

4 hours ago, Silent Hill said:

Lastly, consider that the discrepancy in use-of-force data by race is multi-factored, one factor being the number of police interactions per race. It's not a fair assumption to claim any, or the majority, use of force by police towards minorities is racially driven. 

The police and politicians decide which crimes they are going to go after. Police stations nationwide think it is more important to over-police poor colored communities, like when Eric Garner was killed for selling loose cigarettes, but the governement put's little to no effort in catching white collar criminals who are often educated and white. That is the definition of racist.

"The police and politicians decide which crimes they are going to go after" - Not sure what this has to do with my comment. I'm talking about police & public interactions, not court cases. 

Police do think it's more important to "over-police" poor colored communities high-crime areas. You're proving my point by solely focusing on the racial makeup of the area's population instead of the volume of crime as well. I'd be interested to see statistics around over-policing an area that has a high poverty/minority population but low-average crime. I think then you'd have a point of targeting by race/class. 

PS: Eric Garner wasn't killed for selling loose cigarettes. That is exceptionally dishonest. 

PPS: Is "colored" not a considered a derogatory term anymore?

3 hours ago, Khromak said:

@Silent Hill you're right I wasn't aware of how he ended up on the ground, but regardless if he was on the ground because he asked to be placed there, there's absolutely no need to hold his head on the ground while he's cuffed and you have 3 of your friends nearby, a taser, and a gun. Are you that afraid of being kicked by this handcuffed guy?

Sure, we can go over examples of white people being killed, I'm certain that it happens. But nothing is proven through anecdotes. That's why people use statistics instead of stories. The stories are only there to emphasize the point. I'm sure if there was a huge problem with people's ice cream melting we'd point to the temperatures outside, but also if you wanted to drive the point home to people, you'd probably point to a video of someone with melted ice cream on their hands, right?

OK so you say that the problem is with the number of involvements with police. Don't you think that's weird? That people of color are involved with the police more than whites? What do you think the reason for that is? Behind door 1: they're just worse people which causes them to be in contact with police more (definition of racism). Behind door 2: police are targeting them disproportionally (the topic of this discussion). If you've got another explanation I'm open to ideas.

Totally agree that once he was on the ground, the whole situation went to shit. That's where Chauvin sealed both of their fates. 

My only point was that his skin color had nothing to do with why he was placed/held on the ground. They initially tried to treat him like a "white guy", as you described.

Door #3 may hold a more reasonable point of data: Police patrol areas of crime more heavily than areas with lower crime, which makes total sense. A majority of these higher crime areas have a larger minority population. Now this can go down the rabbit hole of what's causing the high crime - high poverty/unemployment may increase theft/robbery crimes, gang activity increases drug-related crimes, homicides, etc. but I'm just looking at it from a high-level, statistical standpoint, not the reason(s) behind the volume of crime. That's an entirely different discussion.

Chicago, as an example: Population = ~50% white, ~30% black, ~20% other races.
Just looking at homicide data, ~75% of murder victims are black and ~71% of people committing those murders are also black. 
Police are patrolling these high-crime areas more heavily, which leads to interactions and skews the data and some people may view it as racially targeted, at face value.

Even where I live, ~30% of the population is black and ~60% of the homicide victims are also black. Black males are 14x more likely to be a victim of homicide than white males. I know very well where police patrol heavily in this city, and it's these high-crime areas. Not targeting race, but targeting areas of high-crime. It's just an unfortunate statistic that it's primarily areas that consist of a higher minority population. 

I don't share these to make a blanket statement that black people are "worse people" than other races, that's not at all what I'm trying to convey here. I'm also not trying to say that there are no cops who do target innocent people solely because of their race. I do think they exist, but are in the extreme minority. 

I'm just sharing why I believe the interactions, when broken down by race, are skewed compared to the population size. 

19 hours ago, Khromak said:

The problem isn't any individual case, but in the statistics. People of color are disproportionally affected by this kind of police violence. So when things like this happen it seems (and probably is) racially motivated. I'm sure if I, a white guy, was accused of passing a $20 counterfeit, they wouldn't have tackled me to the ground and put their knee on my neck, they would've had a polite conversation with me. Under the same circumstances, whites are treated differently from blacks. There are hundreds of examples and, more importantly, it's substantiated by the data.

To be fair, GF wasn't "tackled", he asked them to place him on the ground. And this was after many minutes of him refusing/resisting to get in the cruiser. The bodycam footage before he was on the ground shows that they were trying to get him to comply and even offered to place him in the front seat, with the windows down, etc. Anything to get him in the cruiser. Even though GF wasn't white, if he were to have gotten in the cruiser, he would still be alive. Doesn't excuse what Chauvin did, though. I'm not defending his actions at all - just pointing out that you're painting an inaccurate picture of what happened to further push the racial narrative. Also, check out Tony Timpa if you want to see a white man get killed by police in a similar fashion. Lastly, consider that the discrepancy in use-of-force data by race is multi-factored, one factor being the number of police interactions per race. It's not a fair assumption to claim any, or the majority, use of force by police towards minorities is racially driven. 

You guys are a trip. 

God forbid someone brings a bottle of water if they have to stand in a line. Nobody is forced to bring anything. The law even says self-serve stations can be set up. 

"I have to bring MY OWN water, or even worse, get it myself from an unmanned station?! This is racist!"

Just now, Kguillemette said:

Yes.

Ok. Simple enough to bring a water/snack and totally dismantle this "systemically racist" law. 

Problem solved. 

4 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

Silent Hill back again to effortlessly dismiss more systemic racism?

 

Just asking questions, big guy. No need to start labeling me as a racist quite yet. I know you've been itching to though. 

14 minutes ago, Kguillemette said:

The new law affects black people disproportionally compared to whites. White people in the state don't live in areas with congested polling sites at nearly as close of a rate that black people do. No long lines, no need for food or drinks. Barring political organizations from passing out things is asinine. There's no need to do so in the white neighborhood. Black people in GA now have a major obstacle preventing them from voting in their best interests, and I believe that to be unamerican.

I'm still failing to see how this is intentionally racist. Is the law only in effect for specific areas of GA, or the whole State?

Regardless, it's just food and water, and only impacts who can distribute it and within what vicinity. It's not like it's preventing anyone from voting and if you're going to be standing in line for a few hours, bring a drink/food if needed. Is the theory that the predominately black communities won't be able to cast their vote because they'll bail from starvation/hydration before voting? Because they rely on others, especially those who are part of a political organization, to provide them food/water? 

12 hours ago, Kguillemette said:

I am convinced the new voting laws passed in GA are nothing short of racially motivated. The whole "can't pass out food or drinks to voters waiting in line to vote" part is what I simply cannot even give a devil's advocate for. The only places in georgia with a dense enough population to even see lines at the polls of significance are in dominantly black communities. One can make all the changes they want to early voting possible and force people to show up election day and wait in hours long lines. To do so and not allow them to be fed or served water is just inhumane. Quite the coincidence that it affects black people at a considerably higher rate than white people.

It seems the limitation of handing out food/water is only for politically affiliated groups, just so there's no concern of influencing votes? It's not a full ban on food/water, but only for the type of person(s) distributing it. 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/josh-holmes/facts-about-georgias-ban-food-water-giveaways-vote/

I may have a few more for you, I'll check tonight and circle back.

Outside of issues with control/camera, which I eventually got used to managing, it's a wonderful game. Great level design, ability to play as different characters, and fantastic music. I randomly hum the main theme very often. 

I only use change (quarters) at the self-serve Car Wash but I do use cash often at local game stores to work out deals. They love not paying the CC transaction fees. One store in particular doesn't even keep inventory or give out receipts when I buy stuff. Just pockets the cash. 

15 minutes ago, austin532 said:

He then comes back with this snarky comment.




Am I out of line here? It was a simple question. WTF...

Woof. At this point I would respond with *affect and be on my way, never to deal with them again. 

Also love that they use "RARE!" on a majority of their listings...

17 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

And the right wing missinformation isnt aimed  at school age children, that just gets filtered down from the parents. But I dont think many black/latino/minority families watch fox news so if its an “inner city” kid, they probably arent exposed to it anyways

You've hit a very important piece in this puzzle which are the parents. A school like the one described in Baltimore may very well have enough "resources" compared to other schools that have a much better student success, but the parents aren't doing those kids any favors. Listening to his Mom speak on the issue was alarming to me. No accountability to be had. Pepper in school choice within these areas with strong parenting and I'd bet you'd see the trajectory change.