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Voting really isn't that impactful(I mean, unless you do it A LOT, like us Soros-financed supervoters).
Particularly when you account for crap like gerrymandering. If you care, there are much more important things you can do than show up and fill out a ballot.
I mean, you should still do that, but, just saying.

To be fair, it's hard to love the Democrats, since the great majority of Democratic Politicians are mealy-mouthed, lukewarm types. The kind of people who aren't sure what we should do, but certain we shouldn't do much. The kind of people who are maybe nice in a broad sense, but spend most of their time around people who have lots of money and think exactly like they do.

Antifar posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Don't forget the Fox News segment(was it Hannity or Carlson? I forgot) highlighting all the evils of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's platform!

I'd forgotten this one!

https://imgur.com/a/P2kg8Gy
Found it! No answer as to whose show it was.
But just look at how fiendish she is!

Going to do the same, for the same reasons.
Though Rosa DeLauro and Chris Murphy are pretty good, at least.

Don't forget the Fox News segment(was it Hannity or Carlson? I forgot) highlighting all the evils of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's platform!

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Surprisingly its a competitive game too. I was expecting a beat down

You were saying?
I did not watch, because I knew something like this would happen. Something like this always happens.

I mean, Barkley is a stud, but they went all-in on Eli being good again and he went and regressed even further*. Plus, they paid Nate Solder all that money to attempt to shore up the offensive line(good thinking!) but he turned into a pumpkin(damn...)
The Giants now need a quarterback in the worst way, but the good news is that they seem on-pace for a top 5 pick and the Beckham/Barkley tandem should help a rookie out considerably.

*I'm a Bills fan, so I'm an expert on bad quarterbacking and worse personnel decisions, but not quite master-level.

The same reason any obscenely wealthy person does?

Broseph_Stalin posted...

The OJ case happened a couple years after the Rodney King beating and Latasha Harlins murder. His legal team wanted to exploit that. One of the detectives involved in the case was caught on tape using racial slurs against black people and plead the fifth when asked if he planted evidence.

Black people had no reason to trust the justice system.

Yeah, the O.J. case is an excellent example of how damaging poor police conduct is: the rampant distrust created by the LAPD's conduct towards black people in general helped enable a guilty man to get away with murder.

josifrees posted...

All speed is in a madden game is their maximum speed. Acceleration is usually how fast someone is going to run unless you get to the open field.

Anyway this is basically game breaking because quick strong big DTs are so dominant in madden

So...it's a fairly accurate portrayal of Linval Joseph.

Can't beat an aged, smoked gouda.

I've never heard of "Floridaman" before today, but it already makes sense to me. Must be something in the swamps.

Southernfatman posted...

You'd think having your windows covered up like that would be some sort of violation.

Maybe if you were also black.
I just hope they got the right guy/he doesn't have accomplices.

I think Chuck Todd is an idiot.

It is a horrible mess of a game that does a poor job of communicating anything. The economy code is apparently the programming equivalent of the Voynich Manuscripts. The late 19th-century is a sea of blood as communists and fascists see-saw back and forth in whichever major(s) have lost their armies. The economy dies if India is liberated or China civilizes. The best way to progress is by being as horribly oppressive as possible.
In short, it is perfect.

I'm convinced Chuck Schumer is the reincarnation of Ludwig Kaas.

ImmatureContent posted...

Also a good job if you like to eat a lot. Bigger is better.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-player-chargers-nick-hardwick-weight-loss-2015-6
You don't just eat a lot: eating becomes a full-time job. And, of course, it's accompanied by lots of time in the gym and/or on the practice field.

Offensive linemen in general exist pretty much solely to block defensive players. It's illegal, for example, for them to catch forward passes or to be downfield unless a ball-carrier is across the line of scrimmage. There's a lot involved in it, and different offensive schemes utilize them in different ways(different blocking schemes, pulls, etc.). In short, it's very technically-involved, but there is little glory or recognition unless you're a left tackle(traditionally responsible for protecting the QB's "blind-side" on pass plays).

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-131-megacorporations.1125380/
Today's dev diary on how playing a megacorp works. A few major take-aways:
1) More of a megacorps pops produce trade value
2) Megacorps have their own civic picks. If you don't have the Megacorp expansion, the old generic civic will still be available
3) Megacorps suffer more from going over the empire size cap
4) Megacorps can open branch offices on the worlds of other empire's. This is mutually beneficial, and scales according to how populous the world is. Megacorps can build special buildings on these worlds which primarily benefit them.
5) Even if a civ cuts off trade with a megacorp, their branch offices remain open and must be removed via a special CB(Expropriation). Victory awards the attacker with a lump sum of energy credits based on how many branch offices were removed.
6) Megacorps cannot have normal vassals, only subsidiaries. Subsidiaries are mostly independent, but must join their overlord in all of their wars and pay them 25% of their energy income.

There are two special Megacorp civics:

1)Criminal Heritage(cannot be removed)
Yup, you can play as a gang or cartel, and get your Jabba on!
A) Branch offices work differently: a crime syndicate simply opens up shop without asking anyone's permission, and makes profit from crime. They can build buildings to increase crime(and thus their profits). The host civ can either just accept the crime, or use law enforcement to deal with the problem.

2)Gospel of the Masses
You can be a Megachurch and suck those suckers dry in the name(s) of your God(s). They generally increase Spiritualist ethics attraction in addition to normal Megacorp stuff, so they could be quite the pain for Materialists. And, of course, you can combine this with the above.

https://imgur.com/a/kQlHgRt
I'm France. Scotland, Wales, and Aragon are my allies. Going for Better than Napoleon(Control Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow).
England and Castile have been appropriately crippled and will be consumed as convenient, but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is doing well and Austria is just ridiculous. Never seen Austria do this well: Burgundian Inheritance fired, and they inherited Hungary, but they've also been beating the Ottomans consistently. Would probably be rolling them if I hadn't intervened. Their armies are pretty good too. Did I mention The Reformation is fizzling?
Also, why the hell don't the Ottomans do this poorly when I play Ethiopia? I'm used to seeing them have Mesopotamia and most of Hungary by now!

I give the edge to 3, personally, although the Wily Castle levels are a bit of let-down.

Minute posted...

DarkTransient posted...

Does the fact that one's slightly worse, really make the other one still being really bad, okay?

"Sending bombs to people's house is only slightly worse then booing people out of restaurants."

Are, are you, perhaps, Chuck Schumer?

I was waiting for a release date to post about it. But, we can ball-park it!
Leviathans announced 15 September, released 20 October
Utopia 02 Februray / 06 April
Synthetic Dawn 03 August / 21 September
Apocalypse 11 January / 22 February
Distant Stars 23 April / 22 May

Based on that, an early December-January release seems most likely.
It's accompanied by the massive Le Guin patch, which is overhauling the game's economic and demographic systems(tiles have been abolished).

DifferentialEquation posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Right: literally an army invading America, let's hope the hurricane wipes them out

They're not an army, but they did already break down fences/gates in their path and they attacked the Mexican police.

And I haven't seen anyone on the right wishing harm on them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/22/trump-halt-migrant-caravan-many-troops-necessary/1731717002/
What do you suppose Trump wants the army to do?
In any case, these migrants are legally-entitled to come to the border and apply for asylum.

Ugh, there's so much work left to be done.

Oh, I thought of one: that Atahualpa and his army approached Pizarro's men unarmed. That's some "innocent savage" BS. Atahualpa saw the Spanish as interlopers that needed to be taught a (harsh) lesson(they had already sacked a number of villages and killed a bunch of people, because conquistadors), so he was going to slaughter them. He and his generals were encouraged by reports from scouts about the Spanish hiding in buildings, not realizing that what the Spanish were actually doing was setting up cannons.
The cannons(once fired) caused the Incan force to panic and Atahualpa was trapped amidst the crush of bodies and seized by Pizarro.
Atahualpa was only even in the area in the first place because it was his power-base in a succession struggle that he had literally JUST won.
If you wrote that in a novel, people would tell you your plot was unbelievable and relied too much on sheer coincidence.

Been listening to this beauty for about a year now.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/were-back-from-the-future-which-of-these-wildly-different-midterm-outcomes-would-you-believe/
This is a silly post, but the likelihood of both scenarios is ~10%

Hell, a lot of people don't even acknowledge or realize the presence of the rest of the Greek army at Thermopylae, let alone not understanding how the Spartans actually fought.
While we're on the topic of Ancient Greece and the Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta hog all the air time. There were plenty of other prominent city-states in Hellas proper: Corcyra, Corinth, Rhodes, and, most of all, Thebes. Thebes, of course, actually became by far the pre-eminent power in Greece after the Peloponnesian War. And Syracuse, while distant from Hellas proper, was a regional power that was able to hold its own with Carthage and Rome for quite a while.

I will vote for you early and often.

Schumer and Manchin are definitely my least favorites. I expect Republicans to be terrible, and they basically never surprise me(though I admit I find the Jeff Flakes and Ben Sasses of the world more contemptible than average). However, Schumer, and, to a lesser extent Manchin, are horribly damaging garbage heaps who are/will be road-blocks in terms of doing anything good in spite of being members of the "good" party. Like, I seriously believe Schumer would be perfectly happy running a controlled-opposition in a one-party state.

To put a 28% chance into perspective for some, you have a 25% chance of getting two heads in a row if you flip a coin twice. It's really not all that unlikely.

sondast posted...

Alpha218 posted...

I forgot that we were a socialist country the last time the Dems controlled the House

Don't forget that Nancy Pelosi's socialist government also took all of our guns last time they were in power.

Don't forget the FEMA death camps! That's what really happened to Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck.

scar the 1 posted...

"New EU power grab" as if those rules haven't been there all along and Italy is on the brink of a Greece-level collapse

The EU seems intent on pushing the Italians off the cliff, is the problem. Austerity just doesn't work, unless decades of economic stagnation is your definition of "working".

This is why Mars is the place to be, though the Moon will be of use if we ever figure out fusion.

happibivouac posted...

i thought it was just a show about a sad horse.

I mean, there's the sad woman, the sad cat, the sad dog, and the sad man-child too.
OMG, 2/5 of those are FEMALE, SJW much!?

P4wn4g3 posted...

Yeah like Paul Ryan cares during the lame duck phase of his career what a hack celebrity jester has to say.

Yeah, he's already shopping for the exclusive vacation homes his future career as a lobbyist and corporate event speaker will afford him.
Trump turning on Mitch McConnell would be the funniest, Trumpiest thing, because Trump owes that old snapping turtle everything.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1054361906541142021
It's pretty sad we're at the point where one party gaining 5-6% more votes means control of the House is a coin-flip, but here we are.

K181 posted...

Never underestimate the potential of the Democratic Party to blow a sure thing.

They're certainly trying their hardest to dampen voter enthusiasm.
It's also worth noting that Nate Silver isn't as bullish as his model.

Goldeneye is a classic and was a very influential game, but I would expect that even shooters from 10 years ago had it beat in just about every aspect.

DarkTransient posted...

BoJack Horseman.

I don't think I need to say any more.

Yup. I was coming here to post this.

I don't know. Seems like the Jags are dead at least as long as Fournette is out. Also, they were dumb enough to go all-in on Blake Bortles.
Who is still a better quarterback than anything on the Bills roster. If anyone's wondering, that's the 7th-time in 24 games the Sean McDermott Bills have lost by 20+.

Panpour? PANPOUR!?
Jesus, why did it have to be one of the lamest pokemon ever conceived?

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

It's quite telling how the Republicans keep doing this shit.

It's as if they're afraid.

It's because they've quite openly done this shit for over a decade and they've never been stopped until retroactively multiple courts have found them guilty of shady ass tactics to steal elections. It's a fucking farce how corrupt the GOP is

The GOP is that kid who tried to pull your controller out when you were wailing on him in Mortal Kombat or Smash Bros. or whatever.

Metua posted...

Who's gonna be the next right-wing boogeyman when Soros croaks?

Whoever is rich, vaguely liberal, and Jewish

- At this exact moment(The Doors- Riders On The Storm)
In general...
- Kim Petras, Close Your Eyes
- Amy Winehouse, Valery ("Since I've come on home/Well, my body's been a mess" makes me cringe just a little, knowing her struggles. That aside, it's definitely one of her more upbeat numbers)
- Dr. Reverbnik, Scrap Brain Zone Classic(remix)