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Yeah I can most likely count on Sony to put out exclusives I'll want from Naughty Dog and Insomniac and friends at some point. I'm looking into building a PC now but will end up getting a PS5 at some point.

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tbqh the DNC should screw over early state voters

the more I learn about the primary system the dumber it seems

burn it all down and replace it with Canada's 6-week election season so I dont have to look at it anymore

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red sox 777 posted...

I think that would guarantee victory for the GOP. Mitch, you listening?

I mean we already knew the GOP would love that, and why they are the true enemy of the people. I just didn't know you did too, but it makes sense.

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red sox 777 posted...

No, your map shows what a subset of people voted for using different standards. The first map shows the land, although not at its finest grain. The ideal map would go house by house. The electoral college result is a statistical summary of the map.

House by house? So we should go back to the landowning requirement to vote? That is the logical conclusion of holding the land's ability to vote at the highest priority, I suppose.

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red sox 777 posted...

The electors represent the land.

No, my map shows pretty definitively the land voted for Hillary. The electors represent states. You're saying the will of the states trumps the will of both the land and the people.

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red sox 777 posted...

Wrong. The results for the country were:

Donald Trump 304
Hillary Clinton 227
Others 7

That's 56.5% for Trump.

Oh, so you're saying land doesn't vote after all and electors of states do?

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red sox 777 posted...

The map says otherwise.

Of course, but that one is misleading. Here is a better one.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjYdzT_V4AAoLXZ?format=jpg&name=900x900

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I will gladly trade MCU Spider-Man for this movie.

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pretty sure the land as a whole voted for hillary

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Yes. This is why the White House refusing to answer subpoenas is arguably worse than illegal - it's a constitutional crisis. The constitution both gives Congress the authority to use the executive branch against itself and gives the executive branch arguments against this, depending on your interpretation.

Impeachment resolves this. That is why the letter is impeachable.

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Corrik7 posted...

I believe that stating you are waiting for a ruling is a defensible position and wouldn't fall under obstruction. I know their strategy is to not submit to any subpoena's until an actual vote is held, whether or not that is legal or not I suppose would fall to the judicial branch.

Technically it's legal, but is easily enough for Congress to rule they are in contempt. At which point it becomes illegal and Congress is allowed to jail people for obstructing Congress. So it is effectively illegal, though Congress so far has chosen to not make arrests and instead just compile it as evidence of obstruction.

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DeepsPraw posted...

Maybe stop getting all your news from jingoist US sources

https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1004884261051092993

gentlemen, please

the Chinese and US governments are both terrible in their own ways

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South Park is great but it'll make you want to play the sequel as well

Still quicker than a lot of these though

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I think sometime in the mid-80s, the US Government stole the climate and changed it with a decoy. The real climate is being held in Area 51.

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That's...exactly why it's interesting that he's going on his own preemptive Twitter rants

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Well even Lindsey Graham is sounding the alarm on this and threatening some sort of action, whether a condemnation by Congress (which yeah the White House will most likely ignore) or sanctions on Turkey if they invade Syria.

My gut feeling is that if Graham is worked up about it this much, it shows serious opposition at the very least.

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I have not seen enough Ducktales to properly judge but I'll throw in Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. for consideration along with the others mentioned

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Clearly, there is huge potential for a bipartisan anti-corruption bill calling out conflicts of interests arising from relatives of elected officials.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I'm not looking forward to playing DS3 for the second time. It didnt really click with me the first time through. Definitely less enthused than I was to retry DS2.

I replayed DS3 recently. It's honestly kind of a mixed bag. It has some really great areas (Lothric, Cathedral, Irithyll) and some pretty bad ones. The DLC in particular is some of the most obnoxious level design in the series. But I happen to like most of the bosses and there seems to be a decent amount of build and weapon variety though not quote as much as DS2. Though I'm pretty basic when it comes to weapons so maybe not.

It's kind of a toss-up between it and DS2 for me, though I like both for slightly different reasons. And DS2 having way better DLC is a big edge.

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Who has a problem with Goofy's dialogue?

Too many "ga-hyuks," not enough "AAAAAH hoo-hoo-ee," 2/10 game

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You can start with any of them but if you like them you'll probably want to play them all anyways. You do get some benefit by going in order for the main series but it ultimately doesn't matter. Bloodborne is also a great starting point too, and is one of the best ones to boot.

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I did replay KH1 and 2 in the lead up to 3. I agree that they are a lot better made. But I still found plenty enjoyable about what 3 was doing. Despite its flaws, yeah, but I'm talking from the standpoint of this review I don't think the game's specific flaws are adequately discussed.

I was referring more to the standard criticisms of the game that are true for most of the series (convoluted plot, goofy dialogue, bloated cast, overly flashy but ultimately simple combat). It's totally fine to dislike those but I don't think it says much at this level of detail. Even making a point of comparison to the other games is more than a surface-level criticism.

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Scholar of the First Sin most notably changes every normal enemy placement compared to the release edition. If the patterns seem strange to you that's why. These patterns are worse, IMO, because there's a lot more cheap "surprise" enemies (not to mention Bastille which is a whole thing...you'll see), but not too bad if you've already played it before. It seems tailor-made to troll people who knew the old enemy spawns but if you know the area layouts it mostly evens out the challenge. I feel a little bad for people who started with this one, though.

Also there's the DLC of course which is pretty sweet. A little gimmicky at times but some real cool shit too.

Anyways Dark Souls 2 is great and I hope you enjoy your revisit. I think it gets a bad rap among the fanbase that's pretty undeserved (apart from the thing about the world you mentioned which is very true).

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Yeah what dunkey fails to understand is that many of the flaws he points out is why people like the series. He's kind of missing what the game's goals are to be more objective about it. The game does have flaws to criticize but he actually misses a bunch by doing this and not going any deeper. So he mostly isn't wrong, but...he's wrong.

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New Anamanaguchi towards the end of the month after like 6 years

also yes danny brown's album is great

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Because, as much as I think incels are silly, there is something that creates them, which is this extremely individualist and inequal society we live in. It seems the film aims to explain how extremists are created, not by legitimizing them, but by showing the sick world that created them.

damn we really do live in a society

okay serious reply is that there's a fine line on this kind of thing and that makes me apprehensive (but interested) in the movie. That plus seeing if it actually feels like a take on Joker as a character.

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Adam Serwer has been doing some writing on the mindset of Trump supporters and Republicans and I kind of think he nails part of it

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1179816367077376001?s=19

There's more to it in the article but just the excerpt there is the tldr

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What a coincidence, I also got ? Block like 3 days ago

See you again in 2033

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GildedFool posted...

In that situation, Trump isn't doing it for personal gain, he's doing out of a genuine desire to stamp out corruption.

I mean, that's not hard to see.

Only if you remove it out of context of the rest of Trump's administration, which is even more corrupt.

Which I guess is part of the problem, Republicans only have to prove Democrats are hypocrites to succeed. No one actually cares if they also fail these standards.

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Espeon posted...

If that is the case, what exactly did Joe Biden do that Trump has NOT done with regards to this exact scandal? If Biden is corrupt and bad for using his political position as leverage against Ukraine for personal gain...why exactly is Trump different?

trump is breaking the law for good reasons (to dunk on libs) so he's cool like the punisher

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Or maybe it's just as simple as there's 18 gyms in the setting and we might get Minor League gym leaders appear without them having gyms in the game at all. And we'll still end up with around 8 gyms plus version differences accounting for a few more.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Add it to the articles of impeachment

Of course, peoples minds seem to short circuit when wrongdoing is done in the open, so Im not sure this one will have the impact on public opinion that it should.

Yeah this just seems like "Russia, if you're listening..." part 2. Well, probably more than part 2, honestly. But that wasn't a big enough red flag for people so of course he'll try it some more.

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Reg posted...

The primary frustration with the Guyger case is (or at least should be) that she is a cop, and is very obviously getting favorable treatment because of it. Whether you think she should've been sentenced harsher or her sentence should be the fairly applied standard is a debate you can have. But people are absolutely allowed to be frustrated with the system as it currently exists and how certain types of individual get favorable treatment because of it.

Anything beyond that is silly. This trial ended basically as it should have.

Yeah, well said. This case existing alongside other cases where the standard of fairness is not applied is what is frustrating. The Crystal Mason case is one I see brought up a lot, because both are in Texas.

https://www.texasobserver.org/the-casualties-of-texas-war-on-voter-fraud/

5 years in prison for a felon on probation attempting to vote, but she had used a provisional ballot designed for the exact purpose of letting people unsure of voting status to attempt to. The ballot of course was thrown out so she didn't even actually vote! Still convicted and pending appeal.

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It's also worth noting the jury did the sentencing on this one, which makes it a lot better

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I mean sentencing in general should be much lighter than life in prison

But not an ideal place to start

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Holding elected officials accountable is a divisive stance and not part of being a nation, apparently.

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red sox 777 posted...

I feel like "Presidential Harassment" really misses the mark. The problem is no one can relate to it, because only one person in the country can be a victim of Presidential Harassment. Trump says that being Presidentially Harassed is a horrible thing, but how would anyone else know?

I dunno, maybe you should ask Obama, Carter, Clinton, and Dubya about this oddly specific issue.

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Corrik7 posted...

Trump is blasting that alligator and snake filled moat report lol. Says media has gone crazy.

Same thing he did when it came out he wanted to look into bombing hurricanes so unsurprising.

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Alright, that all makes sense to me looking at the messaging aspect. I guess I'm just jaded.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Should have checked before posting that. Sorry.

Looks like Biden, Harris, and Bullock are kinda doing it by asking people to sign a petition, which then links to a donation page:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-2020-democrats-impeachment-drum-fundraising-support/story?id=65836390

Trump, of course, is explicitly fundraising off of it.

Honest question, how is this any different from how they fundraise off literally any other issue? Draw attention to an issue they support, get engagement, ask for money. They don't seem to be literally asking for money to affect the issue (which Trump IS doing for his "defense force") so I don't even see the big deal. This just seems like the normal garbage of money in politics and not a special case worth singling out from the whole thing.

Also you left out Warren, who the article also mentions is running ads promoting impeachment.

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Loved Oracle but DC's abandoned that era of Barbara Gordon for almost a decade now and the fact that there's a Batgirl movie in the works alongside the Batman reboot complicates things even more. I'm not holding my breath.

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I dunno, to me it looks like a heavily edited version of this map to make it more misleading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/30/presenting-the-least-misleading-map-of-the-2016-election/

Tbqh I like the popular vote map proposed in the article, seems most accurate

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I knew beforehand that it has Black Canary, Batgirl (Cassandra Cain?) and I think Huntress but I couldn't tell you who is who based on that trailer except Canary is probably the one in black they show singing a bunch.

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Pretty disappointed in the costuming, I agree it's hard to tell who the non-Harley characters are. Shazam and Aquaman costumes were on fucking point.

I'm okay with a focus on Harley in the advertising but I do hope the rest of the cast shines too.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Cops only shoot to kill right? Thats what we are always told, that shooting to wound them is impractical which is why they dont do that. If she shot her gun, it was intended to kill.

Right but even in castle doctrine in Texas the use of deadly force has to be both reasonable and necessary. You have to establish self-defense, which also means not being the instigating party. So without any de-escalation or reasonable threat, the intent to kill is just murder.

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Apparently she admitted that when she entered the apartment (that she allegedly thought was her own), she already intended to kill the "intruder" inside. That makes it outright murder.

Fucking scumbag. This is how our cops think, go in guns blazing every time and be a hero.

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Hopefully the jury isn't stupid enough to go with that argument. HOPEFULLY.

But I have no real hope.

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I just beat Korrina EX Very Hard using the bug and I don't even know how that fight is winnable otherwise.

The Bronzong ALONE nearly wiped the group after 6 Sandstorms worth of the enemy never attacking and Lucario not getting the sync off.

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Tales series is like the poster child for this imo. The battle systems (generally) improve but the rest of the game doesn't necessarily, so most games in the series age weirdly.

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So PSA, Korrina EX has a bug where you can break her AI and cheese the fight by using Palossand and chaining Sandstorms before her team can use any.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/db9t5z/exkorrina_glitch/

You need at least two for 4 Sandstorms total, the timing is kinda tight, and randos don't always know the strat, but it's easier than doing it normally or relying on Hilda.

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