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Super Mega Baseball 3 rules, but I always struggle ranking sports games alongside games from other genres.

Tunic
OlliOlli World
Stardew Valley
Ori and the Blind Forest
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

You don't need to care every time some stranger has a bad opinion screencapped online. You'll be happier.

It's more than most of mine have cost

IdiotMachine posted...

This also feels extremely anti-small government ideals, which is what republicans stand for.

Is that what Republicans stand for?

s0nicfan posted...

that the majority of unions voted to support and only got stopped because of a handful of holdouts?

Note: the holdouts make up a majority of the workers affected

Do we need to know that some guy with a Twitch stream has a bad opinion?

Who are you arguing with?

https://twitter.com/people4bernie/status/1597780063549652993

Culture is much, much more fragmented now than it was during the 50s-00s: even the most obscure music is readily available; you don't have to hope the radio or MTV will air it. There are more TV shows to get into than ever before, consumed at viewers' convenience rather than set times.

In the absence of a singular culture, it's harder for a counter culture to form.

Probably the slavery, bribery, and fraud.

VeggetaX posted...

Unless good original movies are stopped being made because of capeshit then I don't I see a problem

But that's kinda what happens, no? If theater screen time is occupied by the latest item off Marvel's assembly line, where do the other movies go?

In the original Italian

Americans already love soccer. More Americans watched the US play England than pretty much any World Series game in recent years:
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1596959436395913218

The most-watched hockey game of the last decade drew fewer American eyeballs than Mexico vs. Argentina in Spanish.
https://twitter.com/thegoalkeeper/status/1597020809578651650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup_Finals_television_ratings

https://defector.com/what-the-boring-company-does/#coral_thread

The Wall Street Journal had a big reported story on Monday about Elon Musks Boring Companyspecifically, about its habit of making extravagant mass-transit proposals and/or commitments to cities and municipalities, and then delivering nothing. The story is great and you should read it. A particular passage from the article has been making the rounds on (Elon Musks) Twitter since then, thanks to an almost too-perfect irony concerning the name of a drilling machine:

That fall, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was standing at a fenced-off site affixed with Boring signs near Fort Meade and telling a videographer to get ready for a high-speed train from Baltimore to Washington. Mr. Hogan declined to comment.

An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the companys then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Becketts play about a man who never shows up.

The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.

All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.

Boring deleted the Maryland project from its website last year.

That is indeed delightful. But for my money the key word, the crystallizing detail, in the above passage isnt Godot, but rather secondhand. You could miss that on your first pass. Godot is so squarely on the nose, such a perfect encapsulation of Musks and the broader tech startup industrys half-literacy and incomprehension of metaphor, as to be nearly inebriating. And then theres the perfect centrist-politics image of great big worthless shitbag Larry Hogan rehearsing his touchdown dance from the opposite two-yard line because he got a sneering billionaire sociopath to make him an unenforceable promise backed by nothing. But secondhand is what really cracks the whole thing open.

The whole entire premise of the Boring Company is that it offers a revolutionized large-scale drilling process: It famously launched with Musks boast that, fed up with traffic, he was going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging. Its drilling technology would be faster, profoundly faster, than what came before it; it would be able to do things previous drills could not do that would make the process dramatically faster and cheaper and thus available to more municipalities looking to solve their traffic problems. That pitch happens to be bullshit

Boring says it can improve tunneling speeds with fully electrified machines and by digging continuously, rather than stopping to assemble sections of the tunnel wall. The company also says angling machines in from ground level will help avoid the cost of first digging a shaft to launch the machine.

Veterans of the tunneling industry note that tunnel-boring machines have been electrified for decades, and that neither continuous construction of the tunnel lining nor digging in from aboveground is new.

but nevertheless is whats behind all the fawning media coverage and thirsty appeals from sweaty elected officials. It is the basis for tantalizingly low-cost project estimates that persuaded the leaders of, for example, San Bernardino County, to abandon their light-rail plans in favor of Hyperloop. And here we are: Even if the Boring Company ever had actually showed up to dig the tunnel for, in this case, its much-publicized east-coast Hyperloop, it was going to be with some other companys drill.

The Democratic Party is primarily a career advancement organization

emblem-man posted...

I saw this earlier but I'm still confused. Why is the negotiation between unions, Congress, and the rail owners,

Let me tell you about the railway labor act, which makes the federal government a mediator in the industry's labor negotiations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Act?wprov=sfla1

Things would be a lot more expensive if companies couldn't steal wages from their workers or put them in unsafe working conditions knowing that labor laws are unlikely to be enforced in a meaningful way.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/11/28/freight-rail-shutdown-fuel-supply-00070980

President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene to prevent an economically crippling freight rail strike, even though it means delivering a defeat to his allies in the labor movement.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately announced she will call a vote this week to carry out Bidens request, which will mean that paid sick leave for the 115,000 workers involved in negotiations wont be included in the deal.

Biden had held out for months on seeking congressional action, instead opting to give the freight rail industry and 12 of its unions more time to negotiate a contract. But as warnings mounted that a strike could begin as soon as Dec. 9, threatening to interrupt U.S. power and water supplies and devastate the broader economy, the pro-labor, pro-rail president said Monday that he saw no path to resolve the dispute at the bargaining table.

The development came two months after Labor Secretary Marty Walsh held an all-night bargaining session at his agencys headquarters that produced a tentative deal, temporarily defusing the strike threat. But since then, members of three of the 12 unions voted to reject the agreement.

On Monday, Biden asked that Congress act without any modifications or delay to impose the September settlement.

In a statement, Biden called himself a proud pro-labor president and said he was reluctant to recommend Congress step in, but that the economic consequences of inaction were too great. He also included a pointed message to Democratic lawmakers who might be inclined to side with workers who oppose the agreement.

Some in Congress want to modify the deal to either improve it for labor or for management. However well-intentioned, any changes would risk delay and a debilitating shutdown. The agreement was reached in good faith by both sides, he said.

Though a bitter pill for labor to swallow, enacting the agreement would put an end to the cliffhanger deadlines that have loomed every few weeks since summer, and allow all manner of industries that depend on freight rail shipments to stand down from doomsday preparations. Freight rail moves many bulk goods, including grains for people and livestock, energy supplies and even chlorine to ensure communities have clean drinking water.

Nodding to the looming holiday season, Biden said we cannot let our strongly held conviction for better outcomes for workers deny workers the benefits of the bargain they reached, and hurl this nation into a devastating rail freight shutdown.

Soon after Bidens statement, Pelosi issued one of her own, endorsing the move and promising to put legislation on the House floor this week. Considering that key GOP lawmakers have endorsed this approach, it is likely that any legislation would have enough support to overcome Democratic objectors.

https://twitter.com/DyjuanTatro/status/1597575199259402241

They royally fucked up their vaccination program

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1597195362263044096

"law enforcement worker"

God bless

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597165510595989504

The most divorced man on earth

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fin1s_gUcAA1LxY.jpg

If anybody would like to murder me, now's your time

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

You're so right

If I was gaming as much as I was even just a year ago, I'd be seriously tempted

https://twitter.com/Sam4TR/status/1596980982804275200
Lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/27/child-asylum-seekers-detained-as-adults-after-uk-home-office-alters-birth-dates

The Home Office is routinely changing the dates of birth of unaccompanied child asylum seekers to classify them as adults, according to experts who say the practice is now happening on a horrifying scale.

As a result, many children are being wrongly sent to the notorious Home Office site at Manston in Kent, the experts warn, and detained in unsafe conditions for up to several weeks.

The Refugee Council said interviews with 16 children released from Manston revealed that even in the cases of some boys who had identity documents stating they were children, the Home Office changed their dates of birth to make them over 18.

One of the children, interviewed at a hotel in London last week, said they had been attacked by adults in Manston, and others described fights and the police being called.

Sonia Lambert, who works for the Refugee Council, described boys giving their ages as 15 to 17, but Home Office staff not accepting their stated ages. One had his birth date altered by one year, putting him over the dividing line of 18. I cried so much but they still didnt change it back, said an Afghan boy.

Three of them showed images of ID documents or passports on their phones to officials from the Refugee Councils age-dispute project, which had been either ignored or discounted by the Home Office. Some of the boys said they could not understand why they had been given a new age despite their protests.

Update: Canada is no longer leading

What a time to be alive

What made you dust this account off after all these years?

There are reports they're looking at four-team groups:
https://twitter.com/AlexMSilverman/status/1543353642455076864

I agree, three-team groups are silly

Sunhawk-ass topic

bump

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1596672521923088385

More Americans watched USA-England than any non-NFL sporting event so far this year

warlock7735 posted...

Just make a troll world that's all broken tracks and references to other troll levels.

But that sucks

Current project is making a ~30 level Super World from scratch. When that update originally hit, I mostly filled it with levels I already had, but I want this to be a more cohesive whole: recurring themes, limiting the number of different power-ups used, etc.

My ideas so far:
1-1: NSMB basic grassland level featuring Yoshi
1-2: SMB underground level (in the style of, well, 1-2)
1-3: 3DW grassland level with the propeller hat
1-4: SMW underwater level using the p-balloon, focused on finding key coins
1-5: classic SMB3 style airship

World 2: Desert
2-1: SMB level set at night, focused on platforming against the wind
2-2: SMW level featuring Yoshi
2-3: NSMB tower style level, complete with Boom Boom fight
2-4: SMB3 fire flower level with Lakitu and lots of other enemies
2-5: 3DW castle

World 3: Sky
3-1: SMB3 level with lots of moving lifts and the Tanooki suit
3-2: 3DW vertical scrolling level with the propeller hat and Blink blocks
3-A (optional): timed P-balloon "race" with Mario Kart music
3-3: NSMB level set at night with low gravity and Galaxy music, collecting key coins on falling platforms
3-4: SMB style castle

World 4: Snow
?
?
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4-A: Quickfire 3D World level where you're throwing snowballs to hit switches and move on
?

World 5: Forest
5-1: SMB levels with cheep cheeps jumping from below while you run across a bridge
5-2: 3DW Underwater level
5-3: NSMB level featuring seesaws over poison water
5-4: SMW Ghost house level where you're finding key coins
5-5: SMB3 style castle

I don't know why I've typed all this up

Dan_Haren- posted...

Its just not popular though. Fans come out of the woodworks for the world cup. They'll all be back to the woodworks once the cup is over and its back to club soccer.

I'm a multi-sport fan and so I'm always trying to strike up sports conversations with people and soccer might be 3rd or 4th most popular sport,

Setting aside whether anecdotes are useful as data, that's pretty popular! We're constantly having these discussions about soccer as though it's still the 90s and the sport is a complete afterthought.

I loved Eagle Tower, and the way it makes you think I'm three dimensions despite it being a 2D game

I think these sweeping takes about American tastes and soccer's popularity should actually grapple with soccer being popular among Americans

Lord_Shadow posted...

What happens with a tie?

Each team gets 1 point (as opposed to 3 for a win)

Fin_Dawg_004 posted...

Nah they need to win, right? Iran has a win already

Correct

Is that guy in the EDL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/?outputType=amp

Since Rep. Liz Cheney accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosis offer to serve as the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Wyoming Republican has exerted a remarkable level of control over much of the committees public and private work.

Now, less than six weeks before the conclusion of the committees work, Cheneys influence over the committees final report has rankled many current and former committee staff. They are angered and disillusioned by Cheneys push to focus the report primarily on former president Donald Trump, and have bristled at the committee morphing into what they have come to view as the vehicle for the outgoing Wyoming lawmakers political future.

Fifteen former and current staffers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, expressed concerns that important findings unrelated to Trump will not become available to the American public.
The feuding brings to the fore a level of public acrimony within the Jan. 6 committee that previously had largely played out behind the scenes, as public attention was focused on a series of blockbuster public hearings focused on Trumps role fomenting the attack.

Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committees Gold Team, excluding reams of other investigative work.
Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the Blue Team the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence communitys failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.

We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public, said one former committee staffer. But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.

Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler issued a blistering statement Wednesday to The Washington Post in response to the criticisms.
Donald Trump is the first president in American history to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, Adler said. So, damn right Liz is prioritizing understanding what he did and how he did it and ensuring it never happens again.
Adler added, Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committees work. She wont sign onto any narrative that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement, or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist.
Tim Mulvey, the select committees spokesman, said in a separate statement that the panels historic, bipartisan fact-finding effort speaks for itself, and that wont be changed by a handful of disgruntled staff who are uninformed about many parts of the committees ongoing work.

Theyve forgotten their duties as public servants and their cowardice is helping Donald Trump and others responsible for the violence of January 6th, Mulveys statement continued. All nine committee members continue to review materials and make contributions to the draft report, which will address every key aspect of the committees investigation. Decisions about the contents of the report ultimately rest with the committees bipartisan membership, not the staff.
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Some staffers noted that the mission of the committee as spelled out in the resolution authorizing its formation was to discover what political forces and intelligence and security failures allowed the U.S. Capitol Police and its partners to be so overwhelmed and ill-prepared for the attack and to ensure that such an event could not happen again. Leaving any relevant information out of the final report would ignore important lessons for the future and issues that will outlive Trump, they argued.

But in the wake of an NBC News story earlier this month that the final report would not include much of the panels work not directly related to Trump, lawmakers on the committee are now reassessing what to include in the final draft and also eyeing different ways to publicly share more of the investigators work outside of the report. That could include sharing findings on the committees website or releasing internal transcripts.

A senior committee staffer told staff in a virtual conference meeting two weeks ago that none of the work done by people serving on teams other than the Gold Team that didnt focus on Trump would be included in the final report.
Everybody freaked out, the staffer said.

The announcement, this staffer argued, was premature and based on negative reactions from lawmakers who concluded that draft chapters written by non-Gold investigative teams should not be included because they were either too long or too academic in nature. However, the staffer said, while committee members disliked those chapters, they were open to including some of that material in a more concise or streamlined form.

Its not a class project everyone doesnt get a participation prize, said a senior Democratic aide. The Green Team has chapters and chapters of good work, but the problem is theyve learned a lot of great stuff about objectionable but completely legal things.

Tensions among lawmakers on the committee are also high, with some members angry about information being shared with the press regarding internal discussions on what to include or exclude from the final report, according to people familiar with the mood on the committee. Some distrust has been sown between lawmakers and staff over the NBC News story, and some senior staff called complaints about Cheney from committee staff unprofessional and said that ultimately, the members call the final shots.

Ten years from now, most of us are going to think that the work of the committee has been the most important thing weve ever done in our careers, and I think its just very shortsighted to have these kinds of smaller, petty kind of complaints, a senior committee staffer said.

People familiar with the committees work said Cheney has taken a far more hands-on role than Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), who is chairing the committee. She is said by multiple staffers to want the report to focus on Trump, and has pushed for the hearings to focus extensively on his conduct and not what she views as other sideshows.

Two people familiar with the process argued that without Cheneys guidance, the committee would not be on track to submit a cohesive final report by the end of the year. One of these people described some of the output from investigators as being uneven.

They were headed for a worse version of the Mueller report, which nobody read and Cheney knew that, this person said.

Some staff vehemently objected to the characterization that some of the work product was weak or inconsistent, and countered that its long been clear that Cheney deprioritized findings that didnt fit a specific narrative about Trumps efforts to foment the insurrection.