TheMightyEthan

At first I read this as "The casiting of Prof X and Magneto are terrible" and was like

Having played Skyward Sword twice, once with an original Wiimote with the Motion Plus attachment and once with a Motion Plus Wiimote, I can say that it was only about 50% accurate with the attachment, but the one with the built-in Motion Plus was probably 80-90% accurate, so it's possible that's why some people had a good experience and some didn't.

The problem with that would be that they'd be wrapped up into the MCU, which while I like the MCU I don't want literally every franchise to become part of it.

I thought it was a W with a bunch of random lines added for no reason.

It's so easy to stockpile huge amounts of juice though. I finished the game in 42 days and still had 59 days' worth of spare juice in my hold.

Pikmin 3. Really enjoyed it, best of the series imo.

Yeah, it's really more like they're saying "life begins at insemination" and any interference after that point is abortion.

It's Scar!

What matters is that they say "our religious beliefs prevent us from paying for these 4 methods", not whether their reasoning to arrive at that conclusion is correct. The court cannot consider whether their reasoning is scientifically, philosophically, or theologically flawed, they have to take the belief as the believer presents it. Even religious beliefs that are stupid, arbitrary, and inconsistent are still religious beliefs, and the first amendment protects the right to free exercise of your religion. Some people hold a religious belief that the Sun goes around the Earth, based on certain Bible passages. This belief is demonstrably wrong, but it's still their religious belief.

Yeah, actually after writing that comment I googled it to find out. I had never realized what that logo was supposed to be. Even knowing it's supposed to be a fox I can barely see it.

I noticed that I finished the game with a full blue meter, and a news clip during the credits referred to me as the Fox, and then after that people on the street would call me the Fox too. I was wondering if you finished with different vigilante levels if you would get different post-game names.

Aha, Ruth Bader Ginsburg articulated better than I could (shocking how that works...) why religious nonprofits are okay while for-profits aren't: It's just one part of what I think the justification is, but it's an important part. The other thing I would add is that religious non-profits exist primarily to perform some good or function for others that they believe their religion encourages, whereas for-profits exist primarily to make money for their owners. *Edit* - Source: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/best-lines-hobby-lobby-decision

It refers to "close corporations", not small businesses. Close corporations are essentially corporations owned by a small number of people, and with restrictions on how other people can buy into them (i.e. they're not publicly tradeable). Hobby Lobby does qualify for an exemption under the ruling because, even though they have 572 stores 21,000 employees, they're a close corporation owned all by one family. As far as the thing about their beliefs being wrong, that's just how religious freedom works. It's extremely well established in first amendment cases that you can't look into whether a person's religious belief is correct, or even if it's reasonable. As long as they sincerely believe it you have to accept that that is their belief, and then decide whether the law is permissible or not given that they believe that. The stupid part of this ruling isn't that the court said they had to take their religious belief as they found it, the stupid part is that they said a corporation can have religious beliefs at all.

What the fuck are you even blabbering about? I said overall, I found the whole experience enjoyable, but nothing special. I get that the "actual" game (gameplay) is only one part of the whole experience. The gameplay was highly meh, the presentation was charming, overall the presentation did elevate it over what the gameplay alone would have provided, bringing it up to the level of "enjoyable but nothing special". The presentation was the only thing it had going for it, and was insufficient in my opinion to justifiy the levels of hype the game receives. Learn some fucking reading comprehension and don't assume that everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot.

@Revan: I'm fine with religious non-profits getting the exception, just like with taxes, but I don't think that for-profit companies should be able to use those kinds of benefits.

Corporations aren't people. Corporations don't have religious beliefs. Corporations are legal entities entirely distinct from their owners. That is literally the entire point of corporations, that they are not the same as the people who make them up. I'm fine with not forcing a sole proprietor/simple partnership to do things that interfere with their religious beliefs. However, in the same way no one's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to work at Hobby Lobby, nobody's putting a gun to their head and forcing them to incorporate. They incorporated so they could have legal distance from the actions and liabilities of the company, and that should go both ways. The fact that it doesn't is a fucking farce. What if the owners of a closely held corporation believe that the mixing of the races is an affront to God, so they don't allow anyone who isn't of European descent to utilize their services? I agree with you on the searches and recess appointments. My understanding on the union thing is just that they said home healthcare workers aren't state employees just because they're paid for by state programs, any more than a doctor who accepts Medicare is a state employee, which seems like a trivially obvious ruling to me which I also don't have a problem with.

I have a weird relationship with the Silent Realms: they frustrate the fuck out of me, and make me scream with rage, but I still love them. They're the kind of difficulty where I feel like I have complete control over my success or failure, where if I get screwed up it's because I did something wrong and I know exactly what it is and what I need to do differently to fix it.

FTL: The Boardgame is now a thing that I want...

They actually only objected to two kinds of contraceptives they believe cause abortions: the morning after pill (which doesn't, but thinking it does at least makes sense if you don't fully understand the specifics of the biology), and IUDs (which don't, and there's no basis at all for thinking they do). They're fine with covering the pill and whatnot. The problem is now some other company can come along and say "well I object to all forms of birth control on religious grounds" and under this case they're perfectly able to exempt from the law altogether. That, and it's not your employer's business what kind of birth control you use. *Edit* - Not to mention even more insane things, like "I object to vaccines on religious grounds" or "I object to all formal medical treatment on religious grounds, prayer is the only true medicine!"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/30/us-usa-court-contraceptives-idUSKBN0F51IZ20140630 Today, in a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that closely held corporations can opt-out of Obamacare's contraceptive coverage requirements if it violates their owners' religious views. The lawsuit was a challenge by Hobby Lobby, which is a craft store, and some other company I've never heard of against the requirement that companies with more than a certain number of employees have to provide health insurance that covers contraception. The ruling applies only to "closely held" corporations, which essentially means corporations that are entirely owned by only a few people, and have restrictions on outside parties buying in. It does not apply to publicly traded corporations. The ruling is stupid and wrong. Essentially the court said that in a closely held corporation there's no real distinction between the acts of the owners and the acts of the corporation, so requiring the corporation to provide this coverage is the same as requiring the owners to, and that requiring the owners to would violate their right to religious freedom. The reason this is stupid and wrong is that the whole point of forming a corporation, even a closely held one, is that the corporation is a legally distinct entity from its owners, so its owners are not liable for its debts or wrongful acts (unless the owners themselves actually committed the wrongful acts). This is beneficial because it allows people to form a company to do something without having to worry about the company's creditors taking the owner's individual possessions/money if the company goes under, as well as providing the owners with legal insulation against wrongful acts that may be committed by employees or other agents of the company that they may not be aware of. So essentially Hobby Lobby now gets to have their cake and eat it too: they get all the legal protections of being a corporation, and the insulation from responsibility for the acts of the corporation, because the corporation is a separate legal entity, but as soon as the government wants to require that corporation to do something that they say conflicts with their religion that distinction evaporates and they get to impose their religious views on their employees. *Edit* - Also, in a pole yesterday, 53% of Americans said employers should not be able to refuse health coverage based on the employer's religious views, only 35% said they should be able to.

If you're referring to me, I am evaluating it based on the whole experience. Overall I found it enjoyable, but nothing special. The presentation was, as I said, charming, but that's just one part of the whole experience. I really don't get people who assume that just because you have a different opinion about something it means you aren't thinking about it intelligently.

All it had going for it was a very charming presentation. The actual game was meh.

Appeal was the wrong word. They "hype" is what I don't get.

Last season Nick posted them the day after they aired on TV. Weird that they're not there now...

Been playing Pikmin 3, which I got for free with Mario Kart 8. I really like it a lot. I would say I regret not getting it sooner, except then I would have already owned literally every option for a free game with Mario Kart.