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I mean they should never just admit a state is a lost cause, especially one w/ a 10% margin or less. If only to keep local races alive and force R's to spend money there.
But if they actually intend to focus on FL seriously, then that is fucking stupid and if they think they do need it, then holy fuck are we fucked.

Riou from Suikoden II immediately jumped to mind.

Honorable mention to Sun Ce, the only other character I could think of (other than the X-baton of the entire police force in Astral Chain, if that even counts as tonfa).

Really an underutilized weapon. I think one of the characters in the upcoming Eiyuden Chronicle game uses them?

Abortion is now THE issue for the 2024 election in Ohio.
Every single Democrat running in Ohio needs to constantly hammer the point home that republicans don't give a damn what you voted for, they're taking your rights away anyway.

I took Calc thru Calc 3 and also Differential Equations.
Plus some other high level undergrad and grad level classes on stuff like Probability and Stochastic Signals.
Past Calc 3, it's kinda hard to classify "levels" of math...

Even better example is the Post Office, which is quite literally run as a business.

Republicans want to destroy them, too.

Irony posted...

They're both scum

This.

Kradek posted...

Her daughter is 25 and she repeatedly spreads anti-Hunter Biden hate and conspiracies.

Fuck this hypocritical sack of shit.

If Hunter is fair game so is your daughter.

Also this.

Super Mario RPG was the first RPG I actually enjoyed (sorry, Zelda 2 and Dragon Warrior, but...you ain't it).

But I really don't like the changes in this remake... The stupid attack all enemies and super attack meter, the re-fight bosses that are apparently so strong you need that other shit to balance it back out, the renames.... and no more jiggle physics.

Dreamed of being a video game designer, eventually in charge of everything but starting my way up as a coder.

Gave up on it pretty fast when I realized I wasn't that good at coding.
Was thankful later on when I saw that it's a "dream job" for many people, so the industry abuses and exploits them with massive unpaid overtime and crunch and frequent layoffs.

My job now is pretty dull and boring, but generally low stress w/ decent work/life balance, job security, and healthcare. Wouldn't trade it ever for a "more interesting" job w/o those qualities.

I've taken zyrtec for many years.
It definitely helps, but just like the years of immunization shots, still is far from enough to prevent allergies.

Haven't tried the others to compare to. But the only true "miracle drug" for allergies I've ever had was prednisone. But that's dangerous to take for more than like 5-6 days once in a while, so I only ever get that prescribed during the peak of especially bad spring seasons. But holy shit does that stuff work wonders.

Used to be Sony and Nintendo until 2018, with Sony in the lead.

Now its only Nintendo.

Fuck the Censorstation.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

The damage will be tearing my yard up and not fixing it. These things need court involvement.

If it's a utility running through an easement, you can't really do shit about it and I'd be surprised if you're not forced to pay for it since it's on your lot.

Easements suck. They're necessary, but damn do they suck to have a bunch of them on your lot (like I do).

Australia lost a war against emus.

The titans would annihilate them.

Great news!
Didn't Ohio already do a ballot measure for this and already lost? Could've sworn they did. And even swapped the Y/N options around from the prior time to confuse people.

SimulationSwarm posted...

Ive seen enough evidence that dems should be running on this issue nationally next year as the official platform position

They really need to hammer it home, assuming Trump is the Rep. nominee, that it was Trump's SC justices that ended national abortion rights. Like, to the point where any time someone tries to say anything about Trump, someone interjects, "the guy who tried to take abortion away?"

Unknown5uspect posted...

Yeah nothing there says hate crime to me. Good to note that protestors are terrorists now tho. *Wank*

The terrorist that murdered him is a terrorist, yes.
Thanks for providing yet another great example of reading comprehension, inserting a plural "s" at the end of my word.

ModernPost posted...

Why would it be? It seems like two protestors got into an altercation and the death was the result of an accident. Manslaughter, certainly, but what component leads you to believe it was a hate crime?

"An altercation"

Not one mention of an altercation or mutual violence.
Two sides verbally arguing w/ each other, then one cowardly murderous terrorist scumbag wallops an elderly man w/ a megaphone and kills him.

Smackems posted...

Yeah but they end up slashing with them most of the time. Pointy spears, not edged spears like glaives

Why choose slash or stab when you can have both?

https://i.imgur.com/oJpa0cC.jpeg

Smackems posted...

We need to petition to have more spear wielding protagonists

The Koei Musou / Warriors series welcomes you!

I like both, it would be good to have more spear-using main characters.
And by spear, I mean polearms in general. Lots of options for what the pointy end looks like.

ai123 posted...

Was he literally waving an Israeli flag at Palestinians, or is that a figure of speech?

1. See below.
2. Even if he had been, that doesn't justify murdering him with a megaphone to the head. What the actual fuck?

Foppe posted...

So he went to the Pro-Palestine side and started to wave an Israel flag?

You know...it's really hard to believe it's an honest misunderstanding when the relevant text has already been posted twice and you still act like he was the initiator...
Once again, with BOLD:

streamofthesky posted...

Witnesses say members of the pro-Palestinian group came over and begin antagonizing the other group when it suddenly turned violent.

BlueTigerLion posted...

The nature of the altercation remains under investigation but some reports indicate that before he fell, Kessler was struck in the head with a megaphone by an individual with the pro-Palestinian event.Video from the scene showed paramedics rush to help Kessler. A witness who didn't want to be identified says it was a heated confrontation. "They were both on an even ground, and they were yelling at each other, and then the man brought his megaphone up and hit Paul, and Paul went down," the witness said.

Murder charges

Witnesses say members of the pro-Palestinian group came over and begin antagonizing the other group when it suddenly turned violent.

The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office has determined Kessler's death to be a homicide caused by blunt force head injury. "The Ventura County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident and has not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime," the VCSO said.

How in the fuck would it not be a hate crime?

Wow.... he's been like literally their only draw for many years now.
It's bull shit that he doesn't own the rights to "Zero Punctuation", but he could just title his videos something else and do the same thing. "Sarcastic overly critical stick figure graphic'd reviews of video games" isn't going to be something that can be claimed as intellectual property.

And when Escapist dies a fiery death a few months from now, he can probably buy the name back for cheap.

Evil Zone
Nights of Azure
Deception/Kagero series
Samurai Warriors games
Dynasty Warriors games up to DW 5
Clock Tower 3 (it's more campy than the rest and gets hated on for it, but I loved it)
Super Double Dragon (apparently it "sucks" b/c the Japanese version had more content? Still my fave DD game)

Ok... I'll go w/ a real hot take: The Super Seducer games are actually pretty funny if you don't take them seriously

Revisited posted...

Why do people like vlc more than mpc? Always wondered this

It seems to be the only thing that plays my .flv files.
I even tried to convert the files to mp4 w/ different programs, but only like 20% of them successfully converted.
I agree, it's a terrible media player.

If car prices have returned to sanity, I'd say just get a new car.
I don't think they have yet, so it might be worth repairing, because seriously fuck the greedflation of car prices.

Torgo posted...

What do you think of the base game?

I love the world and the characters models, I find the characters and story much better than the mess that was XC2, but the combat mechanics and class system is absolutely bloated while still being dumbed down and largely pointless.

Honestly, it might be the weakest of the Xenoblade games to me, and apparently I'm alone in that view.
The combat was probably the best part, a good mix of 1 and 2 though more heavily based on 2. Chain attack is laughably overpowered and the heroes that boost it are thus way stronger than the others. I'd say 2nd best combat after X.
Exploration was also pretty good, I'd say again, 2nd best after X.
Story was utter dog shit. Took way too long to build up, made XC2's forced tutorial bloat look quaint by comparison, and there were so many hours of just absolute "nothing" dialogue packed in. Then the ending was just bad. 2nd worst main story in the series after X (except X had great sidequests to save it a bit, and in this one the sidequests are also dull).
Characters were likeable (except "bitch princess" [to use her own phrasing against her] and her "friend"; god were they insufferable) but none really positively stood out. I guess Eunie and Lanz were the best characters, meanwhile Sena's personality was apparently...not having one. Again... similar to X.

Basically, XC3 had a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses as X, except X did combat and exploration better and had some saving graces or (in the case of the music...which while all Xenoblade games excel at, X and 3 have the weakest OSTs, too...the bad tracks in X were so bad they were at least funny to laugh at).

The only thing I might rank it above is FC, but FC barely even feels like a game, it's just a meaningless thrown together bonus chapter. So I usually don't rank it at all.

Overall, I rank the series:
1 > X > Torna > 2 > 3

That said... the DLC for 3 has 1 and 2 characters in it (Shulk and Alvis being the two I'm most interested in) and I've seen people say the story is a lot better than the main game, so I still want to get it. And XC3 is by no means a bad game, it's a solid like... 7.5 or 8 out of 10.

As someone who's owned Switch and a bunch of the titles for years now, it's nice not feeling like a damn fool that paid full price only for it to be 1/3 of that 6 months later.
Nintendo "holds its value", and anyone waiting years for price cuts that'll never come have no one but themselves to be mad about it.

Now the important question... is the Xenoblade 3 DLC on sale? I'm getting it by the end of the year regardless, but since it's now Nov, may as well see if it goes on sale.

Holy shit, the one train sector that's actually profitable and makes the most sense is finally getting some of its stolen fare money back to improve its own service?
MADNESS!

Humble_Novice posted...

...So, how is this even a bad thing again? Who would be against this?

Evil Republicans that vote just to spite blue states and love their own pork barrel spending but will fight tooth and nail to deprive blue states of federal dollars.
Remember, this is the party that changed tax law to (along w/ give cuts to the rich) explicitly harm high tax states and thus hurt Democrats.
They've pushed against spending on the NE corridor for decades.

LSGW_Zephyra posted...

Mostly looks to fix tunnels, which is good but more funding is needed to really bring the current lines to modernity much less add existing infrastructure. It's a good idea, it's a good start. I really hope this is a sign of more things to come and not the end of things.

Well, it's something.
NE should have high speed rail, there's no fucking good reason for it not to. DC - Boston has so many large cities practically in a line over just several hundred miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnLMeotB0c0

Video only briefly mentions the biggest reason: A way for local governments to pocket the same in taxes while offloading the burden of services like road maintenance and trash pickup to the HOAs via additional fees.

HOAs are a scourge upon humanity. Fuck HOAs!

I'd prefer if we just had five 31-day months and the other seven were 30 days. And on leap years, one of the 30 day months (Feb still, for tradition) becomes 31 days as well.

BewmHedshot posted...

???

He means in the swing states that actually fucking mattered. Thanks to the EC, California, the entire northeast except NH and maybe Maine, etc... don't matter at all.
Though I'm pretty sure the margin of the half dozen swing states was more like 100K. I dunno, you have to count the close losses like NC along w/ the close wins.
Still scarily narrow.

Porter > Schiff >>>>> Lee
In terms of who I like.

I don't care which of the two win, I just hope it's decisive early enough that the loser can withdraw and keep his/her House seat. It'd be tragic if either ends up totally out of Congress after this, and Porter's seat is especially precarious since it's a very purple district, I think even slightly red?

So strategy wise, I guess the ideal is Schiff wins and Porter keeps holding that seat that Reps could probably flip if she left it...

Axiom posted...

HSAs are typically only associated with high deductible plans. I never saw one that wasn't

cuttin_in_farm posted...

Yes, but you still need a high deductible plan. Your bank or brokerage firms have HSAs most likely.

Ok, so they're useless.
Shame, sounded like a good "investment" vehicle. Not enough for me to spend like $10K deductible for healthcare, though. Fuck that.

Israel is never nuking Gaza, it would be fucking stupid on so many levels, even putting morality aside.

• Reveals Israel has nukes, when they clearly prefer "strategic ambiguity" of people not knowing but having to assume they do
• Fallout going into Israel
• Fallout going into Egypt (war)
• Fallout possibly going into Jordan, too (war)
• Probably a bunch of other nations sanctioning them for an unprovoked nuke attack

Dude should be fired, he's a monster and him having any position of authority after that just makes the Israeli government look bad.
But no. As awful as Netanyahu is, I don't think he'd ever consider nuking Gaza. And there'd be a fucking revolt in his party if he even tried.
If they wanted to wipe out Gaza, they could literally just fire bomb it like we did to Tokyo in WW2.

uwnim posted...

Reminder, if the one your work offers sucks, you can open one elsewhere yourself.

Prismsblade posted...

I started one on my last open enrollment. Sucks its only limited to the high deductible plan though.

Can someone square these statements w/ me?
I never get an HSA b/c I literally can't. It's only available w/ a high deductible health plan, which I'm NOT doing.
So...can you get a HSA on the private market separate from your healthcare choices w/ your employer?

PiOverlord posted...

I remember everyone thinking DST would be permanent, not realizing only the Senate passed it and it never got through the House before that Congress ended, therefore killing all bills that hadn't passed both yet.

Tis' a shame, but for now, we stick to time traveling twice a year.

The Senate didn't just "pass it". It passed by a unanimous vote, which never fucking happens with anything!
So yeah, we had hope that the tyranny of "standard time" (so "standard" that we spend well under 50% of the year in it) was finally going to end.
But Congress will always find a way to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. :(
Remember today, the clock change wasn't supposed to happen, we should have still been in now-permanent DST. Congress robbed us of that joy.

Were_Wyrm posted...

Standard time should be banned.

THIS!

Euripides posted... Everyone crying about it being dark out when they commute to work are now going to be commuting home in the dark

Today is the first day back on ST and my local sunset is 5:24pm

I vastly prefer it to be dark on my commute in the morning -- I'm barely awake and the BRIGHT SUN in my eyes is painful -- than on the commute home.

I used to grocery shop mostly in the evening, like 8 pm, so it'd be empty of people.
But then ever since COVID, I've had to go morning or mid day, or else a bunch of shit won't be in stock anymore. It sucks.
I miss most of all going out during the Superb Owl and enjoying a totally empty store other than the employees. But if I went there at that time of night now, I wouldn't be able to get stuff.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

That's how it's always been, except now there are more crazy people.

The amount of lanes w/ a human definitely seems to have decreased. It was never great, but at least during busy times pre-COVID, there'd be more lanes open.
Stores are pushing the self-checkout shit HARD. You'd think people waiting 6 deep in line for the one human cashier vs. using the automated station would get the fucking message across, but I guess they don't care.

Orson the berserker from Record of Lodoss War - in a setting where warriors generally obey the laws of physics, he's breaking fucking boulders to pieces with his sword and cleaving people in half in one swing

Kento of Hardrock from Ronin Warriors

Heracles

Samson

Forty_Niners posted...

The problem is, Netanyahu's entire political career is claiming this would never happen on his watch. "Only I can prevent this" then it happened. And it came out he ignored warnings. And then more previous comments came out about why funding Hamas is important.

The fact it happened on his watch is probably a silver lining, if anything.
If someone else was in power when this happened, we'd probably be in an alternate timeline where he wins 80% of the vote the next election and stays in power till he dies or retires.
Whenever he's ousted from office, at least now it should be the end of his career.

legendary_zell posted...

Couldn't this be interpreted as most wanting him to resign only after completing the ongoing ethnic cleansing or never? This isn't a disapproval of the war or the circumstances that led to the war. It doesn't exactly help any Palestinians. But I guess it's better than nothing if it leads to his actual downfall.

Changing government in the middle of Israel's most precarious war in 50 years (which still could easily escalate further) is not so easy/wise in a conventional wisdom sense. So I can understand them saying after the war. Though w/ how badly Netanyahu is fucking things up, maybe it's worth the risk.

Glad he's massively unpopular, I was afraid it'd be like the 9/11 effect was for GWB where it took over a year for him to destroy his bipartisan goodwill for merely being in office when tragedy occurred (not at a fast enough rate to be booted in 2004, sadly).

Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/EnglerYves/status/1720122424753066245

A rally where they were chanting to release the hostages.
Yeah, what they really meant was "kill more Palestinian children". O_o
Real classy.

Antifar posted...

Cuts to the IRS do not offset spending. It's like if McDonald's tried to save money by selling fewer Big Macs.

This.
Republicans' bill is not about cutting IRS to fund Israel.
It's taking a bipartisan supported issue (funding Israel) and inserting a poison pill IRS cut b/c their wealthy donors want to illegally horde as much money as possible.
Giving IRS more budget would bring in more government money and ironically could be used to fund Israel or whatever else.

LightningAce11 posted...

Wait so how much of the art in this topic is actually from the game?

Almost none of it. Basically just trolling the idiots on twitter that are Streisand effect'ing it to massive sales, a tactic I approve of.
Thus far in the game (3rd and final chapter out next year), there's only one really blatant graphic of the two of them I recall, and beyond that a whole lot of suggestive dialogue/flirting.

Not sure, is it fan-created or by the author of the game?

MarcyWarcy posted...

war with iran would be the most unpopular war the US has ever fought. and even if conservatives want it too they will use it to sink biden next year

chaos_knight posted...

Crazy that Biden, of all US presidents, might get us into the worst quagmire of a war since Vietnam.

Biden wouldn't be "getting us into" jack shit.
Iran and Russia are terrorist states and war mongers, itching and begging for conflict in that entire region, and Iran is repeatedly attacking US bases and ships, and arming and encouraging terrorist groups in the region.
Really fucking disturbing that even the left is phrasing this as if it's Biden's fault and feeding into right-wing propaganda.

And it doesn't have to be a quagmire. The US military is EXTREMELY GOOD at fucking shit up. The first several months of Afghanistan and Iraq went fine (for us). It's when we decided to stick around and nation build things truly went to shit.

Just do a fucking reprisal. Bomb the shit out Iran, destroy their military and economy, kill their leaders, dismantle/destroy their nuclear facilities.... tell them, "don't fuck with us anymore or we'll be back and it'll be even worse" and then leave.
Worst case scenario, we set them back at least a decade or so and have to occasionally play "whack a mole" again. Best case scenario, their large youth population doesn't like that their religious leaders dragged them into a war and turned them into a 3rd world shit hole, and they actually chill the fuck out.

YoBlazer posted...

They robbers abandoned their minivan and left in a getaway car. I think the victim was not only targeted, but heavily researched. The robbers needed to be pretty damn confident that their haul would not only be worth the risk, but worth leaving their original car (even if the minivan itself was stolen, police recovering it could lead to evidence helping to identify these guys).

I'm pretty sure BOTH of their cars were stolen.
Car thefts have been on the rise in general, it's likely they used stolen cars for this so they couldn't be tracked afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZULUCkb98I&t=0s

Fucking terrifying. They followed the dude and set all this up to intentionally crash into him and knock him off the road, then swarm on him in masks w/ weapons to rob him before getting away in another car involved in "the hunt".

https://abc7.com/los-angeles-10-freeway-intentional-crash-robbery/13977943/

Footage shot by a witness shows the suspects -- each wearing dark clothing and hooded sweatshirts -- exiting a minivan and running toward a wrecked and smoking car on the right shoulder. The driver of the car is seen kneeling with both hands in the air.

The robbers appear to ransack the victim's car as a man standing nearby appears to record the crime on his cellphone.

The theft happened shortly before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday after the driver of a black Dodge Caravan "intentionally crashed" into a black Alfa Romeo sedan on the eastbound 10 Freeway near Arlington Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP Officer Roberto Gomez said what caught people's attention was when the incident happened: in the middle of the afternoon.

One witness, who didn't want to be identified, shot video of the incident and talked to Eyewitness News. He said the incident seemed like a targeted robbery, and that the attackers had been chasing the black car for a while.

"It seems they knew what he had in his car. I felt really bad for him. I thought it was over for him. He did the right thing. He put his hands up, he let them take what they took," the witness said. "That's the safest way he could've done it."

Sandalorn posted...

JFC. You could write recruitment pamphlets for the IDF. Sickening to use 'Hamas is everywhere so kill away'. Like how does anyone not soaking in evil say that?

I said I want the civilians evacuated. Egypt refuses. It's a horrible situation, and you strawmanning me doesn't help anything.

VFalcone posted...

It's only expected. In a past live thread, I posted that it didn't make sense to tell all civilians to leave north Gaza so they can destroy the Hamas there because they'd obviously have to then get rid of the Hamas that's definitely in the south too. But the north would be gone, so the civilians wouldn't be able to just evacuate back north again lol.

Also surprised BBC is reporting it. They were going hard pro-Israel at first.

Telling Palestinians to evacuate an area to spare civilians is sadly pointless, it just tells hamas terrorists to move away from there as well.
The US doesn't bother with this shit, if we can assassinate a terrorist, we just do it, and if there's a dozen civilians in the same area...'tis a shame, but we still do it.
Hamas will never try to fight with the slightest bit of honor, and they'll never surrender. Unless Biden can bribe Egypt into TEMPORARILY (stress that part) taking in Palestinian refugees so Hamas runs out of children to cower behind, there's no "good solution".