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Tricky Towers was PS+ or something wasnt it? I know I played it somehow

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Speedrunners is so so so fun with people of similar skill, but when you get a person who wins every match it starts to get much less so.

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I read the walls of text and Im so in at #100.

99 doesnt sound like my kind of game though, Im not into puzzles or score attack games.

Also I hope its not too presumptuous to predict necrodancer for Top 3 if not 1.

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https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Temporal_Transcendence

I transcend time and am unaffected anything by anything that exists within time.

Ill take it.

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One of my biggest regrets of 2019 is forgetting to buy Judgment during GameStops Buy 2 Get 2 sale they just had.

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https://thehardtimes.net/news/dnc-offers-help-drop-ball/

Throwback for the New Year

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Its textbook Corrik that both the Iraq War could have been done better but was also a good thing because the President assessed it was.

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Advokaiser posted...

but it's nice having Netflix's bad reputation of ruining everything being slowly depured,

Wait, when did they have this reputation?

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Thanks for the reminder, I forgot you did this

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ShadowYosuke posted...

Justin Amash

tbh

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I can see something to admire in Obama, but I think that is ENORMOUSLY diminished by his many failures, not the least of which is barely doing anything to prevent his successor from being one of his biggest detractor, who has proceeded to undo a lot of his accomplishments.

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Paratroopa1 posted...

The problem with being President is that I admire people who DON'T aspire to be President

I've said this before, but Biden's seeming reticence to throw his hat into the ring is probably the one quality of his that I find the most intriguing

Hes tried a lot of times, the only time hes been reticent was when his non-failure of a son was dying.


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Trump naturally, accidentally reveals a lot of Democratic beliefs regularly, but his need to be loved and the furvor/herd mentality of people on the right has moved him into Right-wing la la land

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Oh wait, that was the Darksaber? I assumed it was a special vibroblade

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

A Biden/Romney ticket would make the intersectional left explode so I support it 100%.

Jakyl25 posted...

Im not sure what you think the intersectional left already thinks of Biden but I assure you this is right in line with it

Exactly, we wouldnt explode wed say Literally what have we been saying all along?


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Apparently the US launched strikes on locations in Iraq and Syria believed to be controlled by Iran.

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https://tinyurl.com/tg7ygw9

Auuuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhhhhh



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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Holy fuck, Jeff played through loops of Outer Wilds without knowing you could translate and read Nomai messages? I swear thats one of the things they force you to do once before you leave the planet the first time.

I could understand a complete newcomer to games not reading what the guy says when he gives you the launch code, or not noticing the button prompt to translate that pops up every time you look at Nomai text but Jeff really has no excuse.

I literally forces you to bring the translator out when you look at Nomai text.

It straight up doesnt make sense.

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150% yes.

If you beat the game, you beat the game.

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Finally finished it.

Very good, although uh

*episode 8 spoilers*

Did they kill Yen and Triss? I mean obviously they didnt, but wow I think I need to read the books.

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The limited edition controller they sell for it is fucking excellent, though.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

To even remotely approach libertarianism, you need to oppose the civil rights act, so that's a nonstarter in our dumb modern reactive political culture.

Ah, I forgot about this one.

Well Id hope the support for actually following through on that would be pretty non-existent for obvious reasons, but Id need to be sure thats not at risk.

That being said, Bloomberg pushed Stop and Frisk policy, and theres zero chance Ron Paul would support that, so another point Paul.

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Ron Paul is pretty looney, but yeah, Id take a President who supports 100% of the social beliefs I want and 0% of the economic ones over someone like Bloomberg who is like the worst of both worlds, plus wants to ban things like soda.


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Jakyl25 posted...

Who is a legitimate libertarian?

Literally nobody registered Republican, Im referring to a theoretical one.

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Id take a legitimate Libertarian over a Bloomberg any day.

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What the whaaaaT? I love Dead of Winter!

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I played every version up through White 1 and never saw a single shiny ever, lol.

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Wow, Shut Up & Sit Down gave me the impression that Sheriff was great, but nothing about it that's been described so far sounds fun at all.

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It needs a few more years is an utterly bizarre thing to say about any game.

Thats an entire game, dude.

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Hes technically right but also shut up nerd.

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xp1337 posted...

I mean, wait until that actually happens tbqh. I think a lot of the friction between Sanders supporters and the "establishment" for lack of a better term is that it often seems like the Sanders side can't help but take swipes at the Democratic party to the point where it feels overly hostile.

Maybe that's an intentional choice by some, but if it is, those people shouldn't be shocked or dismayed when the natural human reaction of the "establishment" is to act defensively and fire back. honey not vinegar.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Wait, so chicken or egg here? Were these people ever going to vote Bernie? When I see people say theyre #neverbernie, am I allowed to not want to support their candidate in turn?

Like I said, and like @Dancedreamer mentioned, its happening both ways, and yet 99% of the attention is on the vinegar of the Bernie supporters, and I posit that its not only unfair, but more harmful than anything Bernie has done.

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Learn from our mistakes?

Lol who does that?

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xp1337 posted...

And they were wrong too! The PUMA movement wasn't looked on favorably in 2008 either, at least not in the circles I read from!

And, fair or not, the critical difference between the situations is the margin of victory. 2008 Obama won in a blowout, PUMA defectors didn't appreciably change anything.

Sanders -> Trump voters, while only 12% of his primary support from 2016, was well over Trump's margin of victory in each of WI, MI, and PA. More than double in all of them, up to nearly five times as high in MI. If you flip those three states... well I shouldn't need to tell you why such a situation is such a sore spot compared to 2008.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2008_United_States_presidential_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election#Since_convention_nominations

The polling for both elections showed a comfortable Democratic win.

Hillary herself even wrote Bernie a letter complementing all the work he did for her!

You cant really blame Bernie and his (smaller) group of supporters that she absolutely blew it against the most unpopular guy in history.

And its still being blamed, with all context stripped out, on Bernie Bros being selfish and bad, while any other (except Tulsi lol) candidates supporters are good.

Im not gonna lie, I have a fear that Bernie pulls off the Primary and then Dems (hypocritically) dont show up, and then blame Bernie for the loss.

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Wait, the Genesis Classic has WiFi??

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Dancedreamer posted...

The thing is, it also chases people off when people say they'd vote for Bernie but not Warren. Especially Warren supporters! And when people say "Well, I wouldn't vote for Biden!" It makes it like they're trying to hold the Presidency and SCOTUS hostage. Just like when people say "I wouldn't vote for Bernie!" it's trying to hold those things hostage. I think a lot of reasons people don't like Bernie much is in large part because a number of his supporters are douchebags. And they really don't do themselves any favors by pushing this whole "BERNIE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE!" stuff.

Ok so

If (some) Bernie supporters say I wont vote for your candidate if they win, it CAUSES other candidates supporters to not vote Bernie if he wins?

Wait, so chicken or egg here? Were these people ever going to vote Bernie? When I see people say theyre #neverbernie, am I allowed to not want to support their candidate in turn?

Why is all the scorn always on the Bernie supporters?

Dancedreamer posted...

Of course they do, but the problem is that Bernie has supporters who also essentially want to hold the candidacy hostage unless their guy gets it. Which is largely what makes them douchebags. I mean most of Tulsi's supporters are probably douchebags! So it's no wonder a large percent of them wouldn't vote 'blue no matter who'.

Like I said, theres literally a #NeverBernie movement. Why do they want to hold the candidacy hostage?

My only goal for any of this discussion is for awareness that Bernie and his supporters are constantly held to a different standard. There is plenty of evidence for this.

More Hillary supporters voted for John frickin McCain than Bernie supporters voted for Trump, and were expected to ignore that constantly. edit: before anyone talks about me bringing up Hillary, she is irrelevant, its the focus on Bernie supporters that is my point here.

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Thats the thing, there are plenty of people who dont think the Democratic Party is less bad at all, and theyre not Conservative or Republicans.

xp1337 posted...

And again, in all seriousness, most of the replies I see on that thread (I don't know how far you mean for me to, I went like 25-40 replies deep?) were dunking on Gabbard. I did see one or two anti-Sanders ones, yeah. But I'm not downplaying when I say one or two. FWIW maybe it's some algorithm thing? I opened in a private window not logged in (I don't have Twitter).

To be fair to you, Im counting the replies to the anti-Sanders replies that express support as replies themselves.

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xp1337 posted...

Because the reverse side is "If 87 percent of a certain candidate's supporters leave the door open to voting for Trump/third party/not voting doesn't it make sense that there's plausible sense in thinking that should that candidate not win the nomination a significant (even if no where close to the majority) number of their supporters will, one way or another, decide that a second term of Trump and the racism, xenophobia, and the continuing of the generations-long damage to the courts it will bring with it just isn't as important to them as getting their candidate? And that if, say, hypothetically, the race were decided by a handful of votes in a handful of states that this would be a very real problem?"

Ive explained this in regards to other topics, but those 13 percent of Bernie supporters who wouldnt vote blue no matter who are generally people who wont vote at all if its not Bernie.

Its not that they dont think Trump is bad, its that they think the Democratic Party isnt intrinsically good.

As for your second part, look at the replies to the tweet and youll see what inspired my post. Many Warren supporters crowing about her numbers who cant help but snipe at Bernie. Its extremely annoying.

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This was a great season of Space Western fun.

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xp1337 posted...

It also leads to super weird results if you look at the ideology of the candidates. I'm assuming you think Sanders's 87 is a "good" result here. So, logically speaking, Bloomberg's 82 has to be the second or third best result (to Buttigieg on the other side of it), right? In what universe does that make sense? Is Bloomberg among the Top 3 candidates the Democrats could choose?

Its not that simple.

Having a lower number isnt automatically better, but put it this way: If 97 percent of a certain candidates supporters say theyll vote for anyone who isnt Trump, doesnt it make logical sense that any other candidate can count on those voters? It doesnt work the other way around.

That being said, weve had data that weve discussed in this topic that supports Warren having the least crossover appeal.

So then you add in data showing she also has the most Blue supporters, and it compounds the reasons shes a bad strategic choice.


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Oh I know, and its a pretty funny number.

The only Tulsi supporters I know are Trump supporters and one of my dumbass best friends who is Left but barely pays attention to anything.


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xp1337 posted...

I mean, if you're going to read it that way, then isn't the logical extension that Gabbard has by far the best result in that poll lol?

Also no, I think theres probably a threshold where even those #bluenomatterwho people just dont show up, because in the end theyd rather be right than elect not a Democrat.

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Dancedreamer posted...

I've seen way more Bernie supporters talking shit about Warren than Warren supporters talking shit about Bernie.

Do you read any of the Twitter posts tangentially related to Bernie?

There are dozens of anti-Bernie tweets on that last one alone, and not a single (that I see) anti-Warren one.

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Yeesh, all the Warren supporters shitting on Bernie dont understand that these numbers are terrible for her.

Although the irony is many of them have vote blue no matter who on their profiles and then spend every day talking shit.

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Im only near the end of Day 2, Outer Wilds slowed me down.

There are only 4 categories?!

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One of my regrets is that I didn't go for the PS Classic at $20 before it sold out.

I guess they finally sold through.

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Babyboy_Littleman

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I still need to get it, was hoping it'd go on sale for Christmas

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Why not?

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Tag, my board game collection exploded this year even though I have barely anyone to play games with lol

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

"You" isn't referring to foolmo, it's referring to the people who he described as believing Obama could have prevented this "backslide."

Ok that makes much more sense, but still, Obamas (false) image of American exceptionalism is no different than Trump, Dubya, or any other President in our lifetime, so if you think he was especially weak or whatever point youre making, thats straight-up Fox News propaganda about propaganda.

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