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AA4 honestly isn't that bad imo, I replayed it recently and it was fine. It's still the worst AA game but the AA games are all fine

And as for why they hate the game you'll have to keep playing to find out

Although, like I said, now that you know that the series continued and was good afterwards, AA4 might seem more like a weird experimental chapter and less like a franchise ruining catastrophe, so it might not seem as bad

the gen 8 pokemon should be Sirfetch'd. and then the fighter pack that includes him should also include a bunch of gen 8 pokemon as pokeball mons

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I was bored and figured I'd knock out 4-1 and see why people hated Apollo. So far, I don't get it.

I think I already said this a bit ago but you got the wrong idea about Apollo somewhere along the line.

I would have included an option for "tags" if I knew about it btw, but this is my first time hearing that term so I didn't know

Also I love how everyone immediately understood what was going on early in the Banjo reveal

I love the reaction for Terry, it's not quite as overwhelming as the others but I can still dig that there's some definitely FF/KoF stans in the crowd who are psyched as fuck

Reg posted...

Really? Because I hear tags a fair bit often than I hear stickers (Though I do hear both) and I've lived in the DFW area my entire life.

(Also I would totally buy that "tabs" is just some dumbass mishearing/not being able to pronounce "tags" and it caught on in that one very specific part of the country, fwiw)

Don't think so, if it is then it's been that way for at least my entire life.

Just so we're clear, "tabs" is not slang or a colloquialism, the Washington department of licensing calls them tabs over and over here:

https://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/renewyourtabs.html

Eerieka posted...

Spokane, WA. They're ALWAYS tabs

Nice, an eastern washington data point. I figured it was probably state-wide

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Dragon66116 posted...

Most people here (Michigan) call them tabs

you are the first person I've talked to outside of washington who has said this! interesting

Interested in where the "tag" people are coming from

Colegreen_c12 posted...

Assuming your talking about the thing you put on your license plate...

I don't think i've ever heard anyone ever refer to them at all, I would use sticker if i had to describe them. More accurately I would likely say sticker on the license plate

Yes, although I was vague with my wording because in some places they go on your windshield, not your license plate (such as New York)

To be clear, where I'm from (Seattle area), the word is ALWAYS "tabs", and everyone knows exactly what that means, and there is no other word for it

I always assumed that this would be the case everywhere but today I got into a discussion where my assumptions were strongly challenged

Shaduln posted...

I never knew there was another word to use other than tabs.

I KNEW that you were going to say this because I'm in exactly the same boat - but it turns out that Washington state MIGHT BE THE ONLY PLACE WHERE THIS IS TRUE and my mind is blown

I used to think this was a universal concept at least in the US, but now I've found out that it may be a regional dialect thing, so I want to do some science. If you care to share your country/state that'd be neat too.

Necrodancer at #69, nice

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I was one of the other NITW votes

AA4 probably isn't quite as bad as its reputation, just because at the time it was like, series-ruining, but now that it in fact did not successfully ruin the series, now it's like a weird experimental chapter in the franchise so you'll probably see it differently. As others have said though, skipping it is strictly non-optional, its story is a prerequisite for AA5 and AA6.

At what point did you realize that Iris was actually a real person

I would not be surprised at all if GTAV ended up making it as far as the round of 8 with the right draw.

I mean, I get that it's a theme park, but I can't even understand the physical space that it's happening in

Come on down to Cleveland town, everyone! Come and look at both of our buildings! Buy some food that's prepared near the street! Who knows, you might even see this guy!

xp1337 posted...

Yeah, I said no because I believe jobs are a means not an end and that society trying to push the idea that jobs are tied to personal worth/dignity is gross.

100% agree with this. I decided to vote yes though because I felt like it would be a better situation for a lot of people.

xp1337 posted...

Wait, maybe got it?

I said yes to four years of college being free and no to a federal jobs guarantee. If you flip those answers you can get from my results with Steyer+1 to yours. Might be other possible combos too but that's the simplest I think.

That could be it, yeah. I said yes to a federal jobs guarantee but I'm kind of on the fence/neutral about the idea, for various reasons.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Additionally, there is a nightmare scenario where something could be criminalized to target the voting rights of a group of people.

not exactly a nightmare scenario! kind of already happened! many times!

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I do concede at least that the question of where prisoners reside is a thorny one, and a lot of local elections wouldn't really have that much applicability to a prisoner regardless of whether or not you consider the prison or their last home address to be their residence. I think I still lean towards allowing prisoners to take part in the process though - and if you don't like it, well, how about we release a lot of prisoners, I also want to do that

LordoftheMorons posted...

This maybe isn't a reason not to allow current prisoners to vote, but I do worry about how one would ensure that their votes aren't being unduly influenced.

I can't see any good reason not to allow former prisoners to vote in all cases, though.

I mean, fully possible that prisoners will be intimidated into voting in a certain way, which would just pile onto all of the other fucking illegal things that law enforcement does to people, but I don't think that's a reason to not let them vote

xp1337 posted...

If politicians will continue to use prison sites and the prisoners within in the apportionment of political representation when drawing districts rather than their actual residence they should have a voice IMO.

It's really worth keeping in mind that this is a thing that goes back to slavery, by the way

The slave states in the south were none too happy about the idea of their slaves not counting towards the number of electoral votes they received, and fought hard to make sure that non-voting populations counted towards apportionment

There is a straight line that can be drawn from this to our current situation of prisoners counting for apportionment but not being able to vote (in most places)

Kinglicious posted...

I go hard in the opposite direction, hell it doesn't even make logistical sense for the vast majority of instances - what district, the prison's even though they've nothing to do with the community and may not even be residents of that state? Though I also just do not see a reason to allow it: if government is a representation of the people's will and you've actively gone against it in such a way that it's been proven that you've harmed others in a way that violated their rights, you've proven your inability to work in it. Bear in mind, we're talking felonies, not misdemeanours, and I'm in the camp that favors decriminalization of drug offenses that don't hurt anyone else.

I thought about mentioning the district thing, since prisons have a tendency to relocate people out of neighborhood, district, or even state, but I think this problem is solvable by simply having people vote as per their last home address. There are logistical consequences to this, since it could lead to people voting for someone in an area that they haven't lived in a very long time, if they're in prison for life or whatnot. But at the VERY least they should be allowed to vote in federal and probably state elections, in my opinion. And they should be able to vote on positions that directly affect them, such as judges.

As for whether or not people have proven that they can or cannot work within the community, I think that's awfully questionable. We vote on who gets to say what the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor even is in the first place. We have situations in this country where horrible criminals go free every day while others get locked up for crimes that weren't that serious or they may not have committed at all. Restricting their rights to vote is just arbitrary - it takes away the right only from the people who we caught, who committed crimes that we determined to be worth stripping your vote from.

Also yeah I agree on the UBI thing - I said "yes" to "we should CONSIDER it" but had the wording of the question been different I might have said no

xp1337 posted...

Anyway, I'm super late to the quiz party but here we go:

Warren - 15
Yang - 12
Sanders - 11
Steyer - 10
Buttigieg - 8
Klobuchar - 7
Bloomberg - 6
Gabbard - 6
Biden - 4

Total - 79

lol Biden

I will note that if you dig into the weeds on some of these I know you can move some of the numbers around. Take UBI for instance, I said yes but if you went deeper I'd say I oppose Yang's implementation but obviously it counts as a point for him here. Lots of that across the board on different questions.

How did we get almost the exact same totals but with you having +1 on Steyer?

I don't understand why any crime, not matter how horrifying, should ever strip you of your right to vote. It's a non-sequitur. Giving a murderer or a rapist the right to vote on who represents them doesn't harm any of us in any way - it's not like the prisoners are all going to band together and vote for a president who loves crime and will release all the criminals. And, of course, we elected a criminal president who releases criminals WITHOUT the prisoner vote in 2016.

And that's not to mention all of the people who are in there for lesser offenses, or who might have possibly been innocent of the crime they were jailed for. These people should absolutely be voting. Yes, from prison. They need to have a voice in the process that detained them unfairly.

I am a very hard-liner on this. I think it's absurd to restrict anyone's right to vote no matter how bad their crime.

I don't play like I'm inserting myself into the work of fiction, so the first option, except like, meh, I don't really care and I don't think it's creepy, like what you like

Nuclear waste is a problem, but it's a problem that seems so much more manageable compared to how bad climate change is gonna fuck us.

Oh and I broke rank on nuclear power, which I'm pro on. I don't think we should use nuclear power forever, but we need it in the current century.

I've always found it very strange that it seems like there's a fairly large group of progressive left people who support nuclear power, but no candidate really breaks along these lines except for kinda Yang.

Ooh, ooh, a numbers thing!

Warren 15
Yang 12
Sanders 11
Steyer 9
Buttigieg 8
Klobuchar 7
Bloomberg 6
Gabbard 6
Biden 4

Agreeing with Yang so much is kinda funny, but so it goes. I ended up breaking rank with Warren/Sanders on free college (I think the costs should be very significantly subsidized and large amounts of debt canceled, but I don't want to jump to a fully-free program right away - that might be worth doing in the future, but I think there are potentially unforeseen consequences) and on the TPP (mixed feelings about continually accepting all of China's cheap goods like this when I think we should be dialing back manufacturing a bit, but, economically speaking I don't really get why progressives are against this)

I still haven't played the DGS games :(

Underleveled posted...

+18 Splatoon 2
+3 Splatoon

Without me, the original Splatoon outranks the sequel by 15 points. Interesting.

this only makes the exact tie so much weirder

I do actually think PW:AA is a bit of an overrated game, just slightly. It's hard to say, since it's such a seminal work and the rest of the series is only good BECAUSE of how well PW:AA sets up its cast of characters and the world around them and makes you WANT to play the rest of the series. But that said, I do think some of the other games surpass it in a lot of ways, as far as case length/complexity, pacing, and polish are concerned. It's hard to rank though because every case in AA1 is just so memorable.

I gave Spire over half its points by myself lol

the uniformity on which we agree on the bottom 3 games is very funny to me

and also the top game

3 > 6 > 2 > 1 > E2 > 5 > LvW > E1 > 4

I think every single AA game is worth playing to some extent, even the meh ones have their high moments and they don't take that long to play anyway, there's a limited amount of these games so you might as well enjoy all of them I think

And AAI1 is worth playing through to get to AAI2 imo

Taking a break isn't a bad idea though

I love the Watcher. Probably the hardest character to get into the rhythm of playing, but once you get used to entering and exiting Wrath at the right times it feels great. You can really pile on a shitload of damage and get some pretty impressive engines going. Probably my favorite character overall.

Actually I think AA4 and AAI1 are probably the only really maligned games in the series? It seemed like a big deal at the time though, because they were released back-to-back, and then AAI2 was japan-only, so the series was just kind of crap for the 6 years in between us getting AA3 and AA5 coming out

Just in case it isn't clear by the way, AAI1 isn't great, but AAI2 kicks ass, nobody dislikes that game and it's generally considered to be one of the better non-trilogy games

I took Pokemon > FF but man, I don't fucking know

I think I might have taken Super Meat Boy over FF Record Keeper but I couldn't do it for Bastion, I don't know if I'm making a false distinction here but I think SMB would be stronger

I think FFVIII remastered would fail for the same sort of reasons that extremely lame rivalries between one strong character and one nobody-villain failed in the Rivalry Rumble, people just wouldn't respect the entry within the context of the contest. People voted for actual rivalries in Rivalry Rumble - people would vote for actual 2010's games in GOTD2.

I don't think LA would suffer quite as much though since it's so updated and Zelda will kick DS3's teeth in

I took FE:A > LA just on a weird hunch, I think Fire Emblem could be pretty strong on this site right now