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swordz9 posted...

Theres a good chance those people were date changing to abuse raids too. I spent probably 80 hours in the wild area and literally never naturally encountered a G-max that wasnt the promoted special or whatever theyre called. Im starting to believe they didnt want anyone to encounter them until they switched which ones are more commonly featured

The fact that the GMaxes that havent been promoted raids were banned from the online tournament they had while the promoted ones were allowed confirms this. It's better to think of them essentially as unreleased Pokemon. They just have a minuscule chance of being encountered before they're official.

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MalcolmMasher posted...

I think that Joe Biden is running primarily because he, like many other Americans, does not wish to see another four years of President Trump.

Yeah I guess he could just honestly believe he's the only candidate who can best Trump

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Barbie seems like she knows how to be a real doctor. Dr. Mario just seems to overmedicate his patients with super drugs until the viruses die. That's not even how viruses work! Dr. Mario is probably getting rich off of big pharma companies that have developed whatever miracle cure he's using. His other jobs are probably also scams.

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xp1337 posted...

Well, yeah, that's the key point! Biden still seems to be treating Trump as an aberration and that the GOP will go back to "normal" after he's gone and work together with him.

He had a close-up view of "normal" during the 8 years he was VP.

I legitimately don't understand why Joe Biden wants to be president. All politicians want power to some extent, but Biden manages to come across like he's running because he has nothing better to do. He acts less like he wants to be President and more that he just thinks he should be.

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KokoroAkechi posted...

If you want like the indie game that really started things off, I think you can trace it back to Plants Vs Zombies. IMO, thats more or less when I think people really started to take notice of the genre as something that could be substantial.

I'd say Braid is this game

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Jakyl25 posted...

I know its not legally binding.

I just wonder how the CONCEPT was reconciled with the realities of running a nation, even putting aside slavery and patriarchy.

Did they not really mean it?

I'm also not a constitutional scholar but it makes sense if you assume the founders only cared about human rights and liberties as far as they could be used to build a strong Republic.

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I think maybe the dad is discussing Babe Brawl on gameFAQs

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Corrik7 posted...

Sorry the world cannot be the way you want it personally. One day maybe the world will bow down to your will. Until then, law and order deemed by the government that the populace has granted power will be followed.

the government draws power from the populace but individual opinions mean nothing

interesting philosophy

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Jakyl25 posted...

We cant even TALK about the condition of being a pedophile without people demanding anyone with an attraction to children be put down. Its very difficult to advocate for non-offending pedophile rights and rehabilitation; I cant even imagine how hard it would be to argue for those that HAVE offended

Yeah I think rehabilitation for the most violent and sociopathic criminals is a long way off and maybe even impossible from a practical and social perspective. But there are tons of reforms that will work towards it in the meantime that are much easier for people to accept. Rehab and reducing sentences for nonviolent/drug offenses and better prison conditions are easier to sell, even to conservatives (as long as felons can't vote, apparently, which is another issue).

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I interpreted "main trio" as Rey/Finn/Kylo.

And Finn absolutely deserves more interaction with Kylo

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LordoftheMorons posted...

On a related note, Im very skeptical that most rapists/child molesters can be rehabilitated. My basic feeling is that if they made the choice to do it once, the publics safety is more important than their freedom.

I feel similarly about murderers except I think theyre generally less likely to do it again (even if murder is worse).

Maybe not most, but I believe there's a good chunk that can be rehabilitated so it's necessary to try.

In my head there's two problems though: I dont think we have a great understanding of how to effectively rehab these people, and our justice system is already bad at delivering justice for crimes like rape so that has to be corrected first.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Im of the mindset that it professionals believe he has been sufficiently rehabilitated, he should be set free, but thats not an option here really

I agree with most of this. The death penalty is wrong. Rehab + release should be the goal. But in the absence of a better system, life in prison is currently the only valid alternative. It's a lesser injustice but until the entire system is reformed it's all we can do. And even in a reformed system, some people are beyond rehab and will serve life sentences anyways.

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SaveEstelle posted...

So long as he keeps Johnson's team's ace cinematography and leaves the Rey/Kylo/Luke stuff mostly intact I wouldn't mind seeing a version with more fun and less Finn-shafting!

I have zero confidence that Abrams isn't going to retcon Rey's parents specifically in 9

Emperor being back also makes me think the Kylo/Luke stuff is going to end up being some huge master plan too.

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specifically the whole thing smells like Disney being desperate to convince the people that TLJ pissed off that it'll be okay this time and I'm very skeptical about this movie because of that

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Boyega specifically is well within his rights after being given the worst plotline in TLJ but also this tbqh

https://twitter.com/aherman2006/status/1204803740529594368?s=19

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Trump shares a lot in common with the alt-right but they've largely moved past him because he isn't as extreme (see: groypers, CNN inviting Richard Spencer on to talk about how Trump isnt racist enough for him). A lot of the alt-right supports him anyways.

It's kind of splitting hairs though. Trump embodies a lot of the things the alt-right supports but for his own personal reasons.

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Metal_DK posted...

Yang is the only one who can unfuck this mess. Department of the attention economy is a must. The Casual Revolution of 2007 caused every modern problem ever. Social media has caused societal wide destruction

yang owes his entire success to social media shitposting

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Corrik7 posted...

The incidents are important because they are not properly being addressed and they show that anti-zionist campaigns are actually being used to attack Jewish students by association of religion.

The student groups condemned them. The university condemned them. Hate speech is shitty, but it's protected under the first amendment. Even Trump's EO only covers discrimination, not free speech. What do you propose this being "properly addressed" would look like?

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anyways looks like this is moot because the NYT is stupid

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1204794611987832832?s=19

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Corrik7 posted...

Being Anti-Israel doesn't make you anti-Semitic, but the actions you could take in regards to it can be. That's the issue with the Left that is growing is that some can't seem to separate being Anti-Israel from the anti-Semitism itself and resort to that to show they are Anti-Israel.

Bigotry exists on the left just as it exists elsewhere. But a handful of isolated incidents doesn't require that "a lot" of Dems/liberals are actually anti-semitic and that's actually where most of the backlash to this is coming from.

You linked two opinion pieces. One is about a singular incident at a college, an incident that was denounced by the school and various student groups. The other is written with the deliberate intention of getting you to believe that anti-Semitism on the left is a huge epidemic and then goes on to describe scattered handfuls of events. Not that she's wrong about the incidents being anti-Semitic, but her take includes a clear conservative bias against liberals.

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Corrik7 posted...

They are doing it because moderate Democrats are giving issues with the impeachment vote if they don't do it to get heat off them in their district.

I mean, that is what I said except this isn't what a distraction is. It won't distract anyone. It will just help the case that they also passed policies.

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Corrik7 posted...

He really isn't wrong tho. The reason they are pushing to push that right now is to distract from the impeachment.

No, they're doing it because they want to show they can both work on policy and impeach the president. That's not a distraction. This is why Dems always talk about "walking and chewing gum." This is why Trump smears them with "do-nothing Dems." Democrats don't have a ton of policy victories, but the reason for that is most of their bills are stonewalled in the Senate. They do actually want to legislate AND impeach the president and so are jumping at the chance to pass something. But Trump just takes the credit anyways.

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Oh yeah it's also a ridiculous spin but unfortunately the things Trump saying being ridiculous doesn't matter to his base.

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1204530018824654848?s=19

Great example of how compromise is nearly impossible in our current system. Even if Pelosi and company do think the USCMA is good policy, Trump just spins it into an L. And of course if they don't pass it, it gets spun as "do-nothing Dems" again. Bipartisan attempts at mediocre policy are frequently lose-lose.

(also nighttime helicopter press conference is goofy as hell)

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fuck yeah get wrecked tulsi

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god I cant wait to have a different star wars movie to discuss to death in a couple weeks

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This is really difficult because while I feel like 2010s were better on face value for gaming as a whole, I feel like there were way less groundbreaking games like there were in the 2000s. Plus 2010s just has so many games I still haven't played. It's hard to compare!

Might just be nostalgia but I think 00s takes it because it has the benefit of more hindsight, and the games have had a decade to age into being classics.

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that was my most "wtf kojima" moment in the game for a long time

but it gets topped multiple times

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Corrik7 posted...

No I read either here or from a democratic politician today that if this were a jury trial that the jury would come back guilty in seconds. I don't think so. I think there is reasonable doubt and it would be a not guilty or hung jury result.

Even if I buy that there is reasonable doubt on abuse of power (and I don't), what's the reasonable doubt on obstruction of congress?

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Corrik7 posted...

Um, doesnt this create a plothole with Batman having to uncover Wonder woman from the world war?

aww yes HYPERTIME is here

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Corrik7 posted...

But to say Congress should actively just stop American lawmaking because it could give Trump a win is a disasterous stance to take.

This is literally what the Senate is doing with Democratic policies. They don't want Democrats to get a win, even on good policies that would be much better than this one.

Our government is, actually, a disaster.

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Corrik7 posted...

Just want to point out how Team Democrat this is at literally the expense of Americans. Why are you passing the renegotiated trade agreement for our country when it could give Trump a win. Just yikes.

Well a lot of unions seem to oppose the new NAFTA deal and say it's bad for worker's rights, so it might actually be better for Americans to not pass it.

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oh, is that like a groyper?

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Only two??

https://twitter.com/rachaelmbade/status/1204218433971347456?s=21

Very disappointing, but not surprising if that's really all they're going for. It's in line with everything Pelosi has been doing. It just seems like a no-brainer to me to not also throw in emoluments and abusing the office for personal gain, and it would also be great to see one for him just generally being racist garbage (shoutouts to Al Green).

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https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstonecirclejerk/comments/e8aa3f/good_riddance_blizzar_wait_a_new_expansion/

Ulti is now a pinned thread on the Hearthstone shitposting sub

edit: oh he had posted a bunch in that thread though but it looks like he deleted all his posts to get rid of the downvotes

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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Captain Marvel had only token attempts at any sort of female empowerment arc

what

the biggest plot point in the movie is about literally empowering the main female character whose actual (super)power had been suppressed by an oppressive society

it would have to go out of its way to be less subtle and just scream it at you (which is basically what Endgame did)

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Kudos to Brian Fitzpatrick for being literally the only House Republican to vote to restore the Voting Rights Act:

https://twitter.com/public_citizen/status/1203006936049950721?s=21

Also going back to this real quick, Justin Amash voted against this apparently because the VRA makes it so that you cant outlaw straight party voting. Which, as dumb as the two party system is, seems like a pretty bad reason to not support this.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

It is almost why that should be encouraging to vote for Bernie. He literally takes people who would vote for Trump and brings them over to the Democrat! That's not "wtf Bernie voters" that's "Ooooh, Bernie can appeal to people democrats can't normally get."

The problem with that is

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1202997956674293761?s=19

Bernie loses the moderate Dem vote just as hard as Biden loses the Bernie voters, apparently. Fucked up

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Only reason I have any hope for this movie is that Gail Simone has been pretty positive about it and the cast.

She might just be shilling because she works for DC but I'd like to think she probably knows what she's talking about when it comes to this.

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Reg posted...

Not going to take one poll that appears to be an outliar as a "he's leading woo", but it is encouraging and could be the start of a trend.

California has a fair amount of these kind of polls mixed in with ones where Biden is leading so they're all 3 probably tied-ish.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/california/

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

In more positive news, Bernie is leading in California bolstered by latinx voters whooo

https://twitter.com/AriRabinHavt/status/1202581626452168706?s=19

lol

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Thinking about it you could probably make an argument for a minecraft song too. Sweden?

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Yeah Megalovania was my first thought and In pretty much blanking on this question besides that and Skyrim theme.

There is an argument to be made for that one K-pop League of Legends song, not because it's memorable but because that is so supremely a product of this specific decade's trends.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

In the absence of literally any defense of Trump on the merits, the GOP is currently disingenuously melting down over the following innocuous joke from Pamela Karlan that uses Barron Trumps name but is not actually about him at all:

https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1202315090751623168?s=21

She did apologize for this during the hearing too so it's a non-issue

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I looked it up and the writers/producers are two guys from "Shit My Dad Says," (wew) and a third guy who was a co-producer on Arrested Development, iZombie, and Powerless.

What a crew

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This felt a lot like Rick and Morty type humor but with DC characters

....I don't know if that's good or bad

Edit: oh robot chicken is probably a much better comparison

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I think Stacey Abrams is probably the VP play for basically all the frontrunners now that she's admitted she'd be open to the position.

Bernie probably could find someone more to the left but I think he'd rather those people primary someone

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Yang is a weird neoliberal tech bro that only occassionally aligns with the left, why the hell would Bernie pick him as VP?

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Turley appears to be arguing that what Trump did wasn't bribery because of a Supreme Court case (McDonnell vs US) that ruled that merely setting up meetings did not qualify as an "official act" under federal bribery statutes. Except...we already know Trump was attempting to secure an actual official act, of Ukraine announcing an investigation.

He's also arguing that Congress is bypassing the courts with the obstruction charges by demanding evidence that Trump is fighting in courts and proceeding with impeachment. Even though by putting the issue to trial in the Senate, Justice Roberts will likely up reviewing the matter anyways.

This is the best they got?

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https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1202239363666583558?s=19

Reminder that Barr is the worst and cares more about the rule of law than actually following the law.

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