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| Topic | Fuck the Spanish for burning almost all of the Mayan codices |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 1:05:31 PM #47 | ZeroX91 posted... Fiction existed then too don't wrap your self up in a tizzy over a library burning not like they had documents showing how to fly the pyramids or how to turn on the perpetual energy generator at StonehengeAlso, it's worth mentioning the available evidence suggests the library was aggressive and went to any lengths necessary to acquire materials. It would also hire gangs to "collect" past dues and you had to be wealthy or a member of the aristocracy to access it. It wasn't at all like a modern public library. It came to be associated with the decadent, increasingly failing and hated Roman elite, and that had way more to do with it being burned than some tired take about Christians hating knowledge. Also, there were other, similar libraries, like the Great Library of Baghdad(it got Mongoled) that people should also acknowledge. It still sucks that a literal treasure trove of knowledge went up in flames, of course. |
| Topic | Fuck the Spanish for burning almost all of the Mayan codices |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 11:18:11 AM #14 | JBaLLEN66 posted... no they werent, the Spanish had plenty of native allies to fight them because they were so awful to their subjects and neighborsAnd then they went and treated them worse than any Mesoamerican state would have, both in terms of body count and, oh yeah, the near total destruction of native religion, culture, society, and history. |
| Topic | Fuck the Spanish for burning almost all of the Mayan codices |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 10:55:09 AM #12 | JBaLLEN66 posted... cause the Mayans and Aztecs were all peaceful civilizations that didnt practice violence or human sacrificing whatsoeverYeah, if we're talking the scale of their evil and atrocities, the Mayans and Aztecs were like Division II college football teams, and the Spanish were the San Francisco 49ers. |
| Topic | The President, on allowing mail in ballots |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 10:53:04 AM #7 | masterpug53 posted... He does indeed say it like it is. |
| Topic | Amazon works at Staten Island to stage a walkout today |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 10:51:16 AM #16 | Whole Foods has a sick-out tomorrow, so I'm going to call out. I'm worried about it, but then, I worry about everything. |
| Topic | nancy pelosis opponent thinks coronavirus is a hoax |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/30/20 10:05:17 AM #21 | Oh, you had me worried, I thought you meant Shahid Buttar. |
| Topic | Damn, that Steven Universe finale messed me up |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 9:36:11 PM #4 | "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." That's part of how I feel. But yeah, I shed some tears for this show. It got uncomfortably real, but in a good way. |
| Topic | Strong Biden enthusiasm among supporters lowest for a Dem. candidate in 20 years |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 7:11:48 PM #225 | Anteaterking posted... Neither of them had any hope of winning. They didn't even look like they'd be getting any delegates on or after Super Tuesday besides Minnesota and Indiana.Actually, Bernie would probably win Super Tuesday if not for the carefully-coordinated endorsements of three other candidates and massive media promotion of Biden. Just his victory in South Carolina wasn't enough to pick up Texas, Klob just dropping out wouldn't be enough to flip Minnesota, etc. it was all of it happening within the 2 days between South Carolina and Super Tuesday that made it happen. It was too much too fast for Bernie to even begin to respond or react to. There simply isn't a universe where all that happens and Bernie wins, unfortunately. The media and the Democratic establishment was not and would never be interested in what Bernie was selling, and if you're telling me moderating would have worked, well, the only available evidence for what that looks like is Sen. Warren, who placed 3rd in her home state. |
| Topic | The Dems savior will appear in 2024. |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 7:05:02 PM #8 | No, AOC won't run for president that soon. She'll probably run for Senator, Governor, or even Mayor before that. Many of the front-runners from this primary likely won't be running, either. Biden's brain is already mush, and Bernie would truly be too old to start things. Warren would also be really old by then, and has, in any case, managed to alienate a large chunk of progressives without winning over many moderates. Of the 2020 candidates, only figures like Klob and Buttigieg may have a case to go again. Depending on how he does with COVID-19, you could see Inslee try again as well. |
| Topic | Did Season 3 kill Rick and Morty? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 2:43:33 PM #17 | Milkman5 posted... That episode that parodies the avengers/justice league was so badIt was nowhere near as bad as Raising Gazorpazorp, the episode based entirely on "jokes" that were tired 25 years ago. Nothing in that episode beats the scene of Morty defusing the bomb and Rick commenting how it's like he's done it before and Morty shouts, "Too many times, Rick!" |
| Topic | Did Season 3 kill Rick and Morty? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 2:27:10 PM #7 | Season 3 was really good though? And Season 4 so far has two great episodes in 5, and really only one that wasn't good, IMO. |
| Topic | Strong Biden enthusiasm among supporters lowest for a Dem. candidate in 20 years |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 12:48:58 PM #89 | K181 posted... Man, Sanders must be a really bad candidate to lose to two straight low-enthusiasm opponents.I mean, we could analyze his faults, but the most relevant thing that happened was that James Clyburn endorsed Biden, which increased his margin of victory in South Carolina by as much as 25% and instigated the Democratic establishment to form an anti-Bernie bloc around Biden which successfully put him over the top on Super Tuesday. Also, whereas Republican primary voters generally vote for what they want regardless of how extreme what they want is(or even how much establishment Republicans or even Trump tell them they shouldn't), Democratic primary voters(especially older ones) tend to vote for the candidate they think others will vote for, often even if they would prefer another candidate, and they obviously trust the judgment of the media and the Democratic establishment. |
| Topic | Strong Biden enthusiasm among supporters lowest for a Dem. candidate in 20 years |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 10:54:41 AM #20 | Can't wait for it be 270-268... |
| Topic | Democratic Primary #10 |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/29/20 10:28:21 AM #25 | Ivynn posted... VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHOBuT hE's NoT a DeMoCrAt! Antifar posted... https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1244112969027420161LOL. Maybe it was a bad idea for them to spend a solid year smearing a not-insignificant segment of their base? You just know Biden is going to dodder around, slurringly scolding us to vote for him. |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/28/20 11:19:23 PM #192 | umax555 posted... The next week or two will tell us a lot. We're nearing the 2 week mark of when strong social distancing really started to kick in. Many of the cases diagnosed in the last couple of weeks are likely infections that occurred before social distancing. So we should start to get an idea of how effective our measures have been. Hopefully, the rate of new cases will start to slow. If not, we're in really big trouble. Of course, if we're able to ramp up testing the numbers might increase rapidly regardless.Yeah, our biggest problem is the lack of capability to test. South Korea prioritized the production of test kits back in January(they had their first confirmed case the same day we did: January 27th), and they were able to ramp up production fast enough to catch and trace case clusters and effectively isolate them, mitigating spread while ensuring their public health infrastructure was as prepared as possible for the carnage. They've managed to slow the spread and significantly mitigate the number of fatalities. Really, in the coming week, we're going to find out a lot. How bad are things going to get down South? Can Michigan get a handle on the cluster in Detroit, or is it already too late? Can NYC cope, or will those hardest-hit hospitals have to resort to triage like the ones in Lombardy? How long will the problem keep Trump's attention, and will he ever actually act? |
| Topic | Post Kick-Ass Boss Battle Music |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/28/20 11:11:49 PM #60 | Kircheis posted... Only just killed Walhart and I'm already mentally checked out on the story tbh. I kinda liked Gangrel better as a villain. He could probably carry an entire game on his own, he's fun. Kind of a nutter, and childishly crass in a way I just find kinda funny.They both have their charms. Gangrel is colorful and takes great pleasure in wreaking vengeance upon Ylisse, and from the sounds of it, he's partially justified by what Emmeryn's dad did. Walhart is a cold, practical, hyper-competent conqueror And then there's Validar...*sigh* In any case, this is a topic for music! Donkey Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest - Crocodile Cacophony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_My5_ZZa7JM&t=633s This theme smacks of grim determination. It's time to settle accounts with that troublesome rapscallion Kaptain K. Rool and rescue Donkey Kong! Sonic Adventure 2 - Live & Learn(Finalhazard) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORN9-MfxT0 It's the perfect amount of cheese. |
| Topic | China cashes in on the Corona Virus. |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/28/20 10:51:05 PM #16 | Yeah, the Chinese government is 100% not reporting the true scale of their losses: it would make them look bad, and the CCP is obsessed with appearing hyper-competent, for domestic and international consumption. Of course, they also took the harshest measures and arent afraid to throw their weight around, so they probably did better than Italy(and us) on a per capita basis. Of course theyre going to help out other nations, its great PR, but luckily its also the right thing to do. Cuba has also been dispatching doctors to help affected countries, but they do that as a matter of course. |
| Topic | Post Kick-Ass Boss Battle Music |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/28/20 12:46:46 AM #52 | Kircheis posted... Awakening is actually pretty fun if you don't pay too much attention to how dumb the story gets and just treat it like a eugenics simulator.Oh, it is, but it is also really goddamned dumb. Also, the last act is just...really bad, and it follows on Valm and Walhart. SMT Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker - Threat and Vulnerability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSZ-er5fPg&t=324s This is a fantastically grim bit of map music for fighting the Triangulum. Against the Triangulum(Battle Theme) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EwKV-xgMSk Gotta let loose on these monsters! |
| Topic | Coronavirus 13: Divided States of Embarrassment |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/27/20 11:21:01 PM #19 | Tired-Insomniac posted... Impeached in his first term and a totally botched response to a pandemic leading to thousands of Americans deadAnd yet, he could very feasibly be re-elected! I hate this universe. |
| Topic | Coronavirus 12: Stimulus!? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/27/20 7:54:39 PM #466 | LOL it's way too late to shutdown NYC. It's already rampant in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. The time to lock it down was a week ago, if not even earlier. |
| Topic | Post Kick-Ass Boss Battle Music |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/27/20 5:45:41 PM #49 | Mega Man 7 - Final Wily Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lcv-NA3TQ Welcome to the song you'll be dying to a lot because holy God is this fight tough. His weakness is Wild Coil, so good luck with that. Fire Emblem: Awakening - Mastermind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcdMEpIiyns Boss theme for Gangrel and Walhart. Say what you will about Awakening, but this boss theme is freaking great. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - To Challenge Ashnard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqN_Wqhp5EA&t=60s Yeah, this is PoR's best boss theme, I'm sorry. But I'll end my post with a pairing... Sonic Mania - Metal Sonic Boss Theme (Stardust Speedway Bad Future JPN/PAL Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9HF4hSVKU&t=1345s Sonic Forces - Vs. Metal Sonic (Stardust Speedway Bad Future US Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w3FKbgq3c0 I do think it's cool a U.S. based team remixed the JPN one and the Japanese team remixed the US one. Still not going to get Sonic Forces. |
| Topic | Bernie Sanders goes nuts, has total meltdown on the floor. |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/27/20 4:16:56 PM #13 | He doesn't hate Biden or the others(except for Bloomberg). He probably actively dislikes Lindsey Graham, and what mortal soul is not repulsed by Ted Cruz? |
| Topic | Democratic Primary #10 |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/27/20 4:15:01 PM #8 | Well, I mean, the old one limped its way to 500, so obviously there's still interest. Maeiv posted... HmmmAnd this is happening. Seems weird that the Democrats were hell-bent on getting bogged down in litigating which candidate has committed the less egregious sexual assaults. If only there had been an option that, I don't know, didn't have a lengthy history of being a creep? |
| Topic | Post Kick-Ass Boss Battle Music |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 7:44:13 PM #31 | |
| Topic | Post Kick-Ass Boss Battle Music |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 6:02:31 PM #22 | Let's get some premium Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne sound up in here. Beelzebub Boss Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb6J0-3KTnY Metatron Boss Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtJIMeyzh48 Reason Boss Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0iTlHHLV8 Fiend Boss Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WeimmTGF4 Nocturne is full of great music. Really, all of the SMT and Persona games are. |
| Topic | Coronavirus 12: Stimulus!? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 5:04:39 PM #203 | Man, he was right: I'm tired of all this winning. |
| Topic | You're nothing: Joe Biden rape victim comes forward in brave audio interview |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 5:03:44 PM #98 | Damn_Underscore posted... No, we should look at the evidence and determine from that whether she is telling the truth or not. As has been shown, the only evidence that exists evidence shows she has weird connections to Russia. Not just connections to Russia, but her saying that she loves Putin. Strange. All this does is put her honesty into question.This isn't a court of law, and it's weird how you don't consider Biden's extremely lengthy and well-documented history of inappropriate behavior towards woman as "evidence". Kind of makes me think you're not evaluating the evidence and just justifying your first notion that this is fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVUQ7ii3_4 Krystal Ball interviewed her earlier today. |
| Topic | At what point will the corporations grow sketch at my student statud |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 2:05:12 PM #10 | I graduated from my first college for 11 years now, and I still have access to my student e-mail and their online student services portal. I even used it recently to get my official transcript. |
| Topic | What's stopping the military from taking usurping Trump? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 2:03:35 PM #15 | There's centuries of institutional memory working against that: the U.S. military, for all of its faults, has no record of challenging or voiding the results of elections. That's for starters: there's also the fact that Trump, while unpopular, isn't all *that* unpopular, and there is unlikely to be any support; popular, institutional, or foreign, for Trump's extra-legal removal. Lastly, the top brass tends to skew conservative and around half of the actual troops do too, so good luck with that. |
| Topic | Least favorite burger topping. |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 1:57:36 PM #24 | Parappa09 posted... i was going to vote lettuce since it's a waste of nothing but saw jalapenosYou rarely see raw jalapenos: generally they're fried or pickled, which cuts their heat. They work really well as part of a theme. I voted tomatoes because I think raw tomato is disgusting. Lettuce is generally worthless, especially when it's iceberg. A good lettuce or a generally better green can work really well though. |
| Topic | You're nothing: Joe Biden rape victim comes forward in brave audio interview |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 10:15:18 AM #81 | AlisLandale posted... I wouldnt discount the possibility of this. But a random SoundCloud upload isnt the most compelling accusation. I could make a soundcloud file right now accusing SBAllen of kicking a puppy.It was an interview with Katie Halper, a writer and journalist who has contributed to a number of things. Apparently Ms. Reade attempted to bring the story to Time's Up, but they refused to help her because she was accusing Joe Biden. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/ Coincidentally, their legal defense fund is run by SKDKnickerbocker. The managing director of it is Anita Dunn, who provided pro-bono PR work to Harvey Weinstein, and, completely coincidentally, is a top Biden campaign advisor. She's apparently going to be on Krystal Ball's show today. |
| Topic | You're nothing: Joe Biden rape victim comes forward in brave audio interview |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 1:23:10 AM #61 | I dont see how having dumb opinions debunks her story at all? I guess I shouldnt be surprised though. |
| Topic | Coronavirus 12: Stimulus!? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 12:16:50 AM #47 | https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007052136/coronavirus-elmhurst-hospital-queens.html Alright, back to depressing! Dr. Colleen Smith, an ER doctor at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, speaks about what's going on there, including looks inside the ER(it's a video). BTW, all of the New York Times' COVID-19 coverage is free. |
| Topic | Have you gone to the store this week? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/26/20 12:07:13 AM #24 | I work at the store, so I get to go to the store regularly whether I want to or not! Don't love trusting my health to customers, but I need money. Amazon did give us hazard pay, but we're still screwed if we actually get it. |
| Topic | what was wrong with Jared leto's joker? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 11:59:54 PM #23 | I didn't mind the look, I minded that the Joker does very little aside from trying to break Harley Quinn out. The tone of his character is a bit all over the place, and, at the end of the day, he just feels like he's there because they wanted to shoehorn the Joker in, or perhaps because he is an artifact of a different film. He doesn't belong in the Suicide Squad film and ultimately adds nothing. But, then, that's the first Suicide Squad film in a nutshell: it has no idea what it wants to be and just threw in a ton of ideas and characters without really developing any of them. I did genuinely laugh when his helicopter gets shot down and he just growls, "This bird is cooked." Like, you know, a helicopter crash would freak most of us out, but it's just a minor inconvenience for the Joker. |
| Topic | Coronavirus 12: Stimulus!? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 11:56:19 PM #39 | The bill has passed, 96*-0. It's a very imperfect bill that doesn't do enough for actual people, but it's actually decent considering that the Republicans control the Senate and the White House. *IIRC, there are 4 Senators currently quarantined. |
| Topic | So far in New York, there have been 12.21% as many deaths as happened on 9/11 |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 11:52:17 PM #17 | Also, it bears mentioning that our testing capabilities are lagging, so the actual number of COVID-19 deaths is probably a little higher. |
| Topic | when COVID deaths in the USA surpass flu/car wreck deaths, what will... |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 11:47:16 PM #54 | TimeLady0 posted... This just tells me that cities are hellscapes and there are some very bad outcomes to cramming people into apartment buildings like sardinesFatality rate will likely be higher in rural areas(once it gets out there), since getting access to medical care is much harder and rural hospitals are basically always understaffed, underequipped, and generally struggling just to stay open. Also rural people skew older. What people in this topic can't seem to grasp, for some reason, is that these are deaths in addition to normal deaths. Failing to contain the virus' spread would cause cases(and fatalities) to sky-rocket. So far, no U.S. hospital has had to resort to triage, and that's very good! Let's do our best to keep it that way. |
| Topic | when COVID deaths in the USA surpass flu/car wreck deaths, what will... |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 10:23:57 PM #21 | hyperpowder posted... I really hate how people can downplay deaths from cancer with "it isnt contagious!!".And yet, you wouldn't argue against cancer prevention, would you? |
| Topic | Democrat front runner: 'Those poor people who've... lost... you know, anyway...' |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 10:10:59 PM #2 | So electable! |
| Topic | Democratic Primary #Nein |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 10:07:03 PM #486 | MrToothHasYou posted... https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/1242691746561167360?s=20Seems like the kind of story that will be blared from Fox in the fall and only then picked up by mainstream media. In any case, I would not be particularly surprised if some one with an extremely well-documented and lengthy history of troubling boundary issues with women and girls went further than that. I expect all the usual people to carry water for Biden, but I say he can go to hell. |
| Topic | Trump reaches 49% approval rating |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 2:27:12 PM #15 | MC_BatCommander posted... I genuinely do not understand how his bungling of this entire situation has not plummeted his numbers.Neither the media nor the Democratic Party talk much about that: that would be "politicizing" a tragedy, and it would be terribly rude to do! |
| Topic | No Republican Socialism money until May |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/25/20 10:36:22 AM #16 | BuckVanHammer posted... it isnt specifically stated by any source, just an assumption because of the time of previous packages and limited manpower to process...Yeah, the IRS is a burnt-out husk with a lot of irons in the fire. They don't have the manpower to process something like this quickly. |
| Topic | What will the COVID-19 United States death toll be? |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 10:55:59 PM #7 | We currently seem on pace to beat out Italy, easily. If the dumbest people have their way, this will be a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary #Nein |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 10:44:44 PM #462 | Antifar posted... https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1242571341489934341Totally normal candidate, it's insane to suggest otherwise. |
| Topic | I lost all my taste/smell today. That's probably not good. |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 2:09:34 PM #19 | Yeah, you may have it, and you may already be symptomatic. Its possible for it to be mild. Just treat the symptoms and continue to isolate yourself. Consult with your doctor if you have questions or concerns. As long as your symptoms remain manageable, theres no reason to seek medical attention. If you end up needing medical attention, call ahead and make arrangements with your local hospital in advance, if possible. Good luck, TC. |
| Topic | Pelosi's stimulus plan will give $1500 to every American |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 2:05:25 PM #161 | Dat_Cracka_Jax posted... Holy shit lol!Seems perfectly reasonable to expect companies accepting a federal bailout to have to abide by certain expectations and rules. And to ensure elections will not be impacted by the ongoing pandemic. |
| Topic | Nancy Pelosi's corona bill is filled with an insane grab bag of Dems priorities |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 1:26:58 PM #21 | BlueTigerLion posted... lmao at $15/hr minimum wage. How does that help when many people already lost their job. They need free money now. Worry about minimum wage when people actually have jobs.It helps all the essential grocery store employees? Restaurant workers, etc. etc. |
| Topic | Nancy Pelosi's corona bill is filled with an insane grab bag of Dems priorities |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 1:23:15 PM #7 | Yes, we should have in-person voting with long ass lines during a pandemic, what could possibly go wrong? |
| Topic | ITT, post hot female musicians who are talented |
| ElatedVenusaur 03/24/20 10:44:50 AM #29 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU Bjork is more talented and weird than hot, especially nowadays, but she was really cute back in the day. |
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