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I finally caught up and while I'm still pretty skeptical of some of the stuff in comparison to the original comic, it is one hell of a wild ride

Still need to read the peteypedia though

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xp1337 posted...

As for Harris, I think her campaign just wasn't ready for this. She had the ability to generate a "moment" and gain momentum as seen with the first debate vs Biden but then... she just disappeared for all intents and purposes and the polling surge that accompanied just vanished with her and she never recovered. She could definitely be back in a future cycle if she gets better campaign people.

People keep saying that Warren and Buttigieg's core base includes a lot of semi-informed suburban middle class types that are indecisive and easily distracted and if that's true it also absolutely applies to Harris. Her whole campaign was centered around appealing to the middle class and they're just moved on to the other flavors of the month.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Harris out!

Only 1 more truly terrifying wannabe authoritarian left in the Democrat field

Well we need them to compete with the Republican ones

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I think so, it's in the chapter that has a couple boss fights

Curious as to your guesses

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https://youtu.be/ypoupqeJc_4

extremely powerful mashup

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If the hat is the part of Hatterene people want to fuck, I guess that's not furry either. Not sure what it is, though.

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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1201496872105467904?s=21

God 538s opinions stink

The data says there isn't a definitive public consensus on impeachment+removal yet, so logically it follows that the evidence must not be very good.

- Nate Silver, probably

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Sounds like the smart compromise is to not impose term limits on Congress but abolish the Senate

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Corrik7 posted...

It's a lot harder to get the Congress to pass a term limit bill than you might imagine!

What about the area Trump has direct and personal control over - appointing of lobbyists to cabinet positions?

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbE2SmV2bs#

Oh my god the cringe

I just realized that this is the same speech that the Corn Pop story came from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihV9yrZRHg

I honestly can't say if that makes it better or worse

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not like, literally furry, but definitely on the "monster fucker" continuum

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Corrik7 posted...

Innocent until proven guilty.

Corrik, did OJ kill his wife?

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Nothing stopping you from two ages in this case. Put both, and if it ever matters for obscure rules cases use the first one because I dont think DnD typically cares about how old souls are except for time after death for resurrections, which obviously isn't a problem for you.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Literally everybody is saying this.

Criticizing things is just ignoring the context of how everything has always been terrible, so it's best not to bring it up at all.

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the joke is on the people in the future calling us terrible people for not giving AIs rights, because the people in the farther future think those guys are even worse since they immorally have bodies instead of existing as a swarm of sentient nanomachines

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The New Deal policies, while very progressive, also had the effect of the state enforcing and creating segregation. So there's that.

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Corrik7 posted...

Well, to be fair, Lincoln's stated policies is why in conjunction with the current climate.

My understanding is that Lincoln was going to preserve slavery but bar it in new states. Which is a power move considering so much of the politics at the time was based around free vs slave states and strategically admitting new states to bolster political parties, but we don't know how it would have gone down...because the southern states seceded. Lincoln may have been the cause but the vast bulk of the blame for secession is still on the states themselves.

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SmartMuffin posted...

Like, EVEN IF (and this is a huge if that you absolutely should not do) you hold Lincoln blameless for southern secession in the first place,

Okay I'll bite

Why is it Lincoln's fault that the south seceded when they didn't like the results of the election and tried to preserve slavery in advance?

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yeah you guys really don't have to defend Lincoln's racism

pro tip you can be a shitty person and still do some good things and that includes being a better president than Trump

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well Lincoln got shot so how good could he have been?

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https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1200227721923760130?s=19

Buttigieg's list of public programs that are bad, actually, because millionaires will use them now includes universal healthcare in addition to free tuition at universities.

Can't wait for him to come out against the roads and libraries these freeloading rich people also have access to.

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https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1199877212767506432?s=19

Ted Cruz has also turned on Chick-fil-A over this so send some groypers his way too

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GANON1025 posted...

Higgs is cool tbqh

I'm on Chapter 6 now, is there a point in the future where it would be "good" to stop and do a bunch of deliveries? Like if I 5-starred a bunch of these mountain guys now, in future will I be like "if ONLY I waited until when this thing happened/unlocked, things would have been easier"?

As long as you have the snow skeleton you're good

Which reminds me of a mechanical quirk from Ch 9: wtf was the deal with the Vog? I used the gas mask for that one mission it's introduced in and never again

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Higgs has Metal Face energy. He is so dumb but I can't hate him and Troy Baker's hammy accent sells it.

WE GOT DOOOOMS, SAM

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I feel like if you need to ask, you already suspect that one of you, the wife, or the husband would be uncomfortable with this, and thus it's a bad idea.

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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-27-led-qhd-g-sync-monitor-black/5293502.p?skuId=5293502

Seems like a really good monitor for the price for anyone looking

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Tommie Earl Jenkins as Die-Hardman was ROBBED

It's Reedus though, mocap saferoom animations too strong

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Biden does better in head-to-heads than any of the other candidates! Nationally polls tend to have him up ~10 points against Trump, and then the NYT swing state polls had him up I think by 2 on average in those states (though those polls are much better for Trump overall than most general election polls).

The national polls are useless for head to heads and up by 2 in swing states is still a toss up.

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pyresword posted...

People in this thread are quick to say that Biden is 2016 all over again, but is there any real reason to suggest that's a recipe for a surefire Trump win?

It's already been driven into the ground that Hilary was uniquely unpopular in ways that other candidates aren't; Trump is substantially more unpopular now than he was when he took office; and I would assume that the Democratic base is much more motivated now than they were in 2016.

No one is talking about a surefire win or loss. What you are saying can all be true at the same time as what Tony said. It's gonna be an uphill battle no matter what candidate but Biden comes with a problem that looks very similar to 2016.

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Also spoils MGSV!

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I'd argue it's more effective than a replacement attack, because it also serves the purpose of advancing Trump's goal of being corrupt as shit. If it wasn't, he wouldn't have gone looking specifically to create dirt on Biden.

It's an extension of the email thing. Trump likes to normalize his own corruption, point to the opposition as also corrupt (which makes his okay), and then pivot to the anti-corruption rhetoric people love. The media won't play along this time, but that's fine for Trump because his base also hates the media.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I don't think so. If Trump has gotten away with it (i.e. Zelensky had announced the investigation before the plot was revealed, even if it was revealed later) then yeah, but given that Trump is being impeached over it few persuadable voters are going to think that this looks better for Trump than Biden.

Well we have to hope the persuadable voters outnumber the ones who aren't, because the unpersuadables are absolutely going to keep talking about Hunter Biden.

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Yeah it's Shine that added "new" in the title. Being actually new isn't a criteria, just being in a game this decade is.

They have Batman and Spider-Man on here <_<

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oh fuck yeah it's my boy Emet-Selch, the best final fantasy villain

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Hbthebattle posted...

Hot take: by deleting the HMs and "saving a lot of data", a DP remake will be automatically better than the originals.

I had blocked Rock Climb and Defog from my memory and reading this was like a code word that awakened them.

SO awful. You basically needed to carry around a Bibarel loaded with 4 HMs for huge chunks of the game.

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I don't think the old Pokemon games have aged well at all so the QOL and mechanical updates alone make ORAS better. There is much less of an upgrade going from Gen 4 -> now though.

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Mewtwo59 posted...

Honestly, with the way the series is going, I don't want Sinnoh remakes, because there's no way they'd hold up compared to Platinum.

Why? They did a reasonably good job incorporating the third version stuff into HGSS and they don't have the version issues that they did with ORAS (which I also think they did a good job with despite that).

They'd probably cut the Battle Frontier again but using ORAS as a model I don't see why they wouldn't keep most of the other third version improvements and turn the Giratina stuff into a postgame story.

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I remember some Pokemon here and there but not whole teams. I've migrated everything I played since Emerald up though and I have them all in a box in XY.

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https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1199720561896636417?s=19

Snorlax raid event soon

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It is a really dumb game but that's kind of what makes it good

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LordoftheMorons posted...

This probably is the better timeline! Even if Clinton does lose in alt 2012, Clinton-Romney-Obama is vastly preferable to Obama-Obama-Trump.

But what if Obama repeals Romneycare

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Kanye 2020

Time to ban premarital sex

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pyresword posted...

It adds up perfectly well to me.

Trump wants to turn the US into a sham democracy or dictatorship in which he controls everything. Conservative politicians would rather cater to him and pray that the problem goes away on its own than directly oppose him and risk alienating their base of voters.

Oh, I mean of course that. And it isn't just Trump but the entire Republican establishment that wants this. It isn't a problem to them because they'll still be in power.

I'm just saying it doesnt add up from like, a hypothetical good faith argument about the constitution or whatever

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It's pretty incremental as all Pokemon games are, but you will probably like it since you skipped the 3DS games if you just really want to play a Pokemon game. Unless it's important to you that every single Pokemon is available, because they cut half of them.

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banananor posted...

I guess that makes sense. it seems like people use stan and shill interchangeably, which I believe should be incorrect

Stans also tend to shill by like bringing their shit up when it's not even relevant so this makes sense to me

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banananor posted...

question- I'm not familiar with Gundy v United states

How familiar are you with it?

This is my first time hearing about it and I'm still reading into it. The gist is that it centers around a sex offender who failed to register in multiple states. He ran afoul of a law passed after his crimes, because Congress delegated some aspects to the Attorney General, who decided it applied retroactively. The courts decided this was reasonable for congress to delegate.

The article's tone is pretty dire but in general I think I agree with the claim that requiring specific legislation would make agencies less efficient, because our legislative system is already extremely obstructionist and slow to react.

Plus I think it is very troubling that conservative judges (or at least the Trump appointed ones) tend to argue for MORE executive power directly to the President, but are arguing for LESS executive power to these other branches of it. This is a theme within the GOP as a whole, which is also how we get people like Barr, who is very clearly in favor of maximum chief executive power. The Trump admin has also been quietly hampering government agencies with bad appointments and doing things like moving HQs across the country to get people to quit, so. It doesn't add up to me.

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Well this seems like it could be bad news in the future

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/11/26/20981758/brett-kavanaughs-terrify-democrats-supreme-court-gundy-paul

the tldr is that the Supreme Court declined to take a case because it was too similar to a previous one, but Kavanaugh went out of his way to state that he agreed with the dissent in that previous case. The conservative justices there are basically arguing that Congress shouldn't be able to delegate broad power to federal agencies, and needs to be more specific. Which is bad, because some of those agencies are important, and a conservative, anti-regulatory SC would simply strike down more specific legislation it is opposed to.

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Lightning Strikes posted...

PW's tapes are codecs basically, same format and all. It actually has some of the best I think! V changes it up a bit but there's no major difference in content.

The writing in V's tapes was generally worse off, though. The format was fine, and I liked being able to play them during gameplay instead of pausing the game or accessing them from a menu.

This the third time I've seen the "Kojima is a way better game designer than he is a writer/storyteller" take in the past day and I have to agree. MGS1-3 really were exceptional for the time.

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Not_an_Owl posted...

So Guiliani 100% has enough dirt on Trump to force a pardon, right.

Yeah Guiliani has already stated he has an "insurance policy" against Trump.

Though, given his general competence, it might not be a good one.

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red sox 777 posted...

He said very clearly a majority of them are not. Hillary said half of them are. Big difference.

Well, even half is pretty generous

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