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  1. Eh, he's probably busy eating Shia's cake. Am I correct, Shia?
  2. A molecular bucket to contain an emulsion... S:-/ (sorry, gripes when you study chemistry) Granted, but they're all filled with rotting cake, namely the ones you shot at my face today after they've been laying in the sun for too long. I wish for caramel.
  3. Oh, too bad. But I still think Quagsire would do wonders.
  4. No, she uses Shiny mons, regardless of type. EDIT: I found the gardevoir statue in the library, but can't read the text. I have an Ancient Book with me, though. EDIt2: Oh great, I can't read any of the statues anymore. This is weird.
  5. laggless01

    Banned

    Banned for lack of chili
  6. Tyranitar tends to thief those tenacious things, trying to tear through them.
  7. No, because the cake is a lie. dealwithit Any place left in your cave, guys? (I might have some chips stored somewhere, Shia. It's not pizza, but it's something)
  8. Granted, but now there's an interplanetary war, and we're stomped by the Reapers. I wish for buckets of Haägen-Dasz ice cream.
  9. That requires a story..... TIL if you're typing too long, you can lose all of your work when trying to post, since the site logs you out due to inactivity.
  10. Well, I wouldn't mind...I hope there is enough to say, though. Anyway, perhaps something else wrong with Belgium: Most Flemish people kinda hate Dutch people, although Flemish people wouldn't find that wrong...
  11. I just watch LastWeekTonight to know what goes wrong in America... I'm not saying my country is walhalla (not by a long shot). Things wrong with Belgium: *Prisons are so overcrowded, that we were critizised by Human Rights Watch. We simply don't have enough prisons, nor treat prisoners well enough. (things have improved, but we haven't heard of it lately, so I'm not sure bu how much) *Concerning our government, we have everything two- or threefold, some with overlapping roles, an as such sometimes everyone has to agree to enact something. Result: expensive, (immensly) complicated government that has a hard time to make significant changes. *Did I mention the social flemish party acts anti-social? *The rather okay/poor public transport, and by consequence the MASSIVE traffic jams on our highways. *The roads are not always in a good state. For example: if you drive from the Netherlands to Belgium, you can FEEL when you crossed the border. *Racism, although America somehow outclasses Belgium on that point, is prevalent, although masked. It feels like there's some kind of implicit segregation according to race***...I hardly encounter people from other etnicities, so there's not much that gives a different look than the most apparent people of every group/race: the ones that aren't shining examples of humanity. ***take the wording with a bit of salt Obs there's a lot more, but these are the first things that come to mind. I agree that capitalism is (probably) the best economic system we've ever had, and it can become even better than it is now. Also, based on what catches my ears from America, I agree that gun ownership is often condoned as protection against other people.(..with guns...) However, I do disagree with some other things. Firstly, the notion of people being able to work themselves up is rather limited in reality. There are a lot of people that hardly able/unable to do so, due to inability (like a handicap, for example) or lack of opportunity (for example, during a crisis. Lack of education strikes both). These things are regularly unfair, since not everyone is personally responsible for his own situation regarding these things. Even if you would leave that out, both of those things are hardly dispersed in a balanced way. It takes significantly more effort for poorer people to get richer than for rich people, because money makes money. Over time, if unattended, this leads to enormous wealth inequality, and depending on how much goverment agency you country suffices, possibly an even bigger inequality in life standard, which in some cases is quite unfair. (An apparent example is American Health Care) As a consequence, this causes tensions, most notably expressed in higher crime rates (if you factor out the natural decline of crime in general). Increasing wealth inequality also causes the economy to slow, suprisingly, because the majority of people have increasingly less to spend in comparison to the total wealth of the populace. Capitalism isn't inhumane, though. Neither is it inhumane. It has its own rules, void of opinion. To allign the goals of capitalism with ethics and general welfare, that's on of the roles a government should fulfill, along with its people demanding for it to do so. Secondly, about firearms. You say that owning a firearm is based upon the precedents set by the Colonial Militia. Wasn't that roughly 250 years ago? The world has changed dramatically in that time, so making that argument neglects all social and technological advancements made in that period. Added to that, firearms would hardly be effective against modern military, which the American army possesses. In particular, they wouldn't work against drones, because they're too far off to hit or even to see well when deployed for people on the ground. (Military drones =/= 'commercial' drones, like the ones amazon wanted to use) America uses lots of them, and they already caused many civilian casualties in the Middle-East, probably more than the terrorist targets they're supposed to hit. I don't think it should be forbidden to own a gun, but I rather would argue for a mandatory permit that isn't too easy to require for every gun. Besides that, no, the firearms industry doesn't exist to arm citizens against the possibility of a corrupted government. It is an industry, it tries to make a profit. American weaponry is sold in other countries besides America, which renders this patriotic argument invalid. Lastly, you put three statements at the end to make a rebuttal. 1. What is wrong with hedonism itself? Pleasure is a key to life to sustain itself. Fully chastizing the pursuit of it could be considered equally wrong. I'm not condoning a lifestyle centered around it, because I think that would leave oneself hollow, making life void of meaning we could fill in. But one should at least enjoy life a little. To be fair, blindly following only what you hear around you isn't a good thing, so people should be able to apply critical thought on living such a life. But if they decide to engage in that pursuit after that, I'm not going to stop them unless they cause significant harm to themselves or others. Even then, I might only advise them to consider making some changes. Not everyone needs a community, different people have different needs. 2. It can be if he decides, yes. 3. That's a bit awkwardly phrased, it can be interpreted completely opposite of what you mean. Those are my thoughts on that subject. Please, correct me if I made any errors, or argument any points I made if you want to. (Whew, that's the second time I typed this...the first time everything got deleted because the site logged me out due to inactivity...I really need some sleep now.)
  12. I got a staryu out of my mystery egg...sounds great, until you think about it.
  13. like a pimple:... You assumed correctly. Exploding in everyone's face sounds like a good ending to a sentence, no?
  14. Uh...I guess the party's over. Anyway, I'm not shing, obs. Shia, what happened to the pizza I brought?
  15. laggless01

    Banned

    Banned for being four edgy six me.
  16. ^^^ Yh, the Absol Statue held the dark one, but the only other interactable thing I found was an unreadable book at the entrance. Perhaps that's why I also missed Elgyem? That added info on the ship could explain the strange phrasing at the end of this episode. After our bath of lava, Crescent says 'I can't save you forever', which Is a very weird thing to say for someone 'distant'. I didn't restart the entire game for V6, so that explains my confusion, perhaps.
  17. Feel ya, my driver's license was in my wallet, and I coudn't find the bugger for 2 weeks...
  18. You can also breed Extrasensory on Budew with that Nuzleaf (Shiftry doesn't lear Extrasensory, Nuzleaf does around level 35 or so), eventually getting a powerful Roserade. If you're trying to catch a female Budew in the forest, I wish you good luck, cause I didn't had that when I tried that.
  19. TIL I'll not find my wallet, nor my phone, if I place them on the ground.
  20. TFW you found your phone back after two weeks, only to notice you haven't missed a thing.
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