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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Woke Twitter is often times not my friend!

Didnt say they were your friends, I said they're not your enemy. You'll still stand in solidarity with them when the revolution comes, right?

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Media scrutiny.

Okay, so why bring "woke twitter" up when your beef is with the media? They're not your enemy.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bloomberg-draws-criticism-2016-remarks-about-trans-rights-midwest-n1132081

Let's see if woke Twitter and other places think this is as bad as Bernie accepting Rogen...!

Obviously yes it's bad? Except no one ever viewed Bloomberg as a progressive hero?

what are you on right now

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pro tip to media outlets: if NYT can endorse two candidates, I'm pretty sure you can declare two Iowa winners

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I keep getting Reese's commercials on Hulu with a fuckin Will Arnett voiceover and it makes me sad

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Grimlyn posted...

on repairing....... it still seems completely worthless and rises more of a need from obsession than actual necessity. good weapons are easy to obtain, including literally any item you specifically want you will be seeing it again. that being said, it's a feature that could in theory at least easily be ignored and not really change beyond those specific obsessions -- although if the game starts getting balanced around *having* to repair weapons (like a Monster Hunter whetstone) that would be significantly more annoying to the gameplay loop than weapon loss is in the first place

Oh yeah I mean, I'm envisioning something that's fairly expensive but not as expensive and obnoxious to do as the Champion weapons, so that you would really only be managing 1-2 things you REALLY want to keep around, if you wanted to.

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I mean all you need to do to balance it would be to both increase the durability substantially but not to a point where it's not an issue, and then add a way to repair items that costs some expendable resource. Like how the champion weapons can be reforged but actually good.

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Grimlyn posted...

if we're wondering when people are dropping I mean the #1 question gotta be Klobuchar

and then I wonder what happens when she does......... which I wasn't expecting to care about but given how she nearly evened up to Biden in Iowa, her share has actually gotten pretty significant now

If you're a progressive I think you hope everyone stays into Super Tuesday to split up the moderates.

Also slipped my mind really but on the subject of Warren "losing" Iowa... she didnt really? She got 5 delegates by the last count I saw and Biden is gonna get 0 or 1. She'd be dumb to drop out because she can spin the hell out of that and try to take votes from other candidates. Unfortunately the Iowa shitshow is distracting everyone which only benefits Biden.

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Yup

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/clog-lines-iowa-caucus-hotline-posted-online-encouragement-disrupt-results-n1131521

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Once you wrap up the tutorial, you can literally go anywhere. You can rush the final boss immediately if you feel like getting your ass served to you.

This is the best part of the entire game tbqh and doing this probably informed my whole experience!

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I've got friends who aren't really into Zelda and they love it as a comfy exploration game. And it's great at that!

I've been criticizing the game but I still put dozens of hours into it when it came out because I'm a big Zelda fan. It's a good game, just not what I'm really in the mood for anymore.

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Suprak the Stud posted...

Sooooo...does a really bad NH performance mean Warren is out? Does she stick it out to Super Tuesday? I don't quite know how she expects to do anything if she gets beaten in Iowa and trounced in NH. Also how low is a "disastrous" performance for Biden?

Warren just announced a bunch of events in Texas so presumably she's gunning for a good Super Tuesday performance, but that seems optimistic. If she stays in she's probably banking on a contested convention.

A disasterous performance from Biden is "too low to get any delegates" (15%?). But I feel like he has a higher floor in the South and is going to come out alright between SC and Super Tuesday.

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Is there really that significant a difference? They both seem to be drawing pretty heavily from modern comics Harley.

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It might just be because the songs were more overplayed but the originals stick in my mind more. Frozen 2's were still pretty solid.

Also hot take: Lost in the Woods is much better as a joke than it is as a song!

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FFDragon posted...

Part of the primary process is the ebb and flow between each set of dates, momentum, like candidates dropping out and so forth.

That isn't a factor in a general.

So hold those multiple rounds during the absurdly long year and a half primary period we currently have

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Not_an_Owl posted...

Just have all the primaries on the same day tbqh.

this and also make it ranked choice

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Lopen posted...

Hmmm. I guess the big difference is when I'm thinking of open world game I'm thinking of more RPG type stuff like Skyrim and Morrowind, or even Terraria (and I mean, I have over 200 hours logged on Skyrim and haven't beaten the main story yet, to illustrate good it as at making me feel like I have ADHD) rather than Arkham City and Spiderman.

I'd imagine fans of BotW would probably like those based on the commentary in here.

I will say I like BotW more than stuff like Skyrim or Fallout. Terraria has a very satisfying mix of exploration, progression, and combat that I love and I wouldn't put it in the same category. That game is basically perfect.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Ive seen it described as Ubisoft tower system that reveals topography and location names, but instead of telling you where everything is, it makes YOU fill in the map

Honestly maybe I'd appreciate BotW more if I hadn't already played 4.5 Assassin's Creed games, the inFamous series, and the Arkham and Spider-Man games, which all use this formula in denser worlds. BotW has great landscape design but I just need more direction.

The Arkham and Spider-Man games are even more fun to move around in!

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swordz9 posted...

Ya 900 of one thing and then NPCs will ask you to go collect 100 frogs, 100 lizards or other such stuff. Theres also like a picture catalogue for taking a picture of every weapon, shield and other such stuff too if you want even more mundane stuff to do!

Game Theory: Is Breath of the Wild the logical endpoint of the N64 collectathon?

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KamikazePotato posted...

A Link Between Worlds is 4th and no one else cared about that a week after it came out.

see, I love that game and a 3D version of ALBW is kind of what I want

let me just buy all the fucking items immediately, give me a bunch of dungeons, and let me stomp around a more compact overworld wrecking shit instead of taking 10 minutes to climb a mountain to maybe see where the next shrine is

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Yeah if you like exploring just to explore then obviously the game is great for that. I just need more structure and meaningful content to engage with. But at that point I might as well play something else because it'd be a different game.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I'm okay with the core Zelda formula but I kinda feel like BotW has all the core Zelda stuff in it anyway aside from like, item progression, which I can live without

Item progression is important! Not only from a perspective of core Zelda (though it is a TRAVESTY that this climbing simulator has no hookshot) but from a sandbox angle, more items = more ways to interact with the sandbox. To me this is the weirdest choice they made by far.

The complaints about there not being any dungeons is confusing to me in a game with four dungeons, I like them more than most of the dungeons in other Zelda games even if they're a little shorter and more compact

I do think the shrines could stand to be a little less repetitive and samey looking though, like it would be nice if there were like, just a few different color palettes to the shrines, maybe based on which part of the world they're in or something.

The four main dungeons in the game were just the right combination of "shorter than usual" and "weird but cool new mechanic" to leave me wanting more. They're very good so of course I'd want a bigger focus on mini-dungeons. I liked doing the shrines but as you say they start to feel repetitive and disconnected from the rest of the game, just things you do to get your "piece of heart" equivalents and unlock fast travel points.

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Paratroopa1 posted...

What do you mean by this exactly?

I feel, like, almost completely overwhelmed with how full of stuff BotW's world and I'm just not sure like, what I would even put in there to make it be more

There's a lot of STUFF but not a good amount of variety. You're combing this huge landscape to find shrines and korok seeds and random enemy loot over and over and over it's fun at first but after a while it just becomes a blur.

The most memorable parts of the game to me weren't when I cleared my 50th shrine or scaled another god damn mountain. It was the more fleshed out parts - the Divine Beast quests, the few mini dungeons, the weirder side areas like the ruins or the giant maze or the survival island, storming Hyrule Castle at the start of the game, stumbling into new towns. Very rarely, you'd find a sidequest that is actually good! You know, the normal Zelda-type adventure stuff.

Put more of that in the game instead of a shitload of collectibles and loot grinding and I'd be much happier to explore the world.

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https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1225285181478707202?s=19

bernie now beaming votes into iowa via satellite and has almost caught up to Pete on state delegates

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GTM posted...

now that's an episode there's no coming back from

People do say the show is much better now than it was at its worst and actually watchable again but I have little desire to verify this for myself

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/

Bernie has officially passed Biden on 538s forecast

So has my favorite dark horse candidate, "no one"!

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

That's crazy to me. The Simpsons was already a show that had classic, supremely dark jokes like Bart laughing because he can't remember his own short-term memory loss.

It's not the dark humor, it's the utter nihilism. It's subverting its own premise at the same time it's subverting that subversion which is clever but comes across as very angry and purposeless.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Im sure this is all just an excel problem, and thats why the County Supervisor is saying they turned in their correct results on time, and is wondering why theyre extraordinarily late and totally wrong.

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1225167351617712128?s=21

Im not even putting intent on this, but I wouldnt be surprised if they lost track of data and decided to just straight up make it up to cover their asses.

https://twitter.com/PhilJamesson/status/1225181352053628930

well someone fucked up the spreadsheet that's for sure and weird that it keeps happening

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Lightning Strikes posted...

Mate, they literally have two Jokers and might get a third... Their whole idea is to just make standalone films.

cannot WAIT for the DCCU adaptation of Three Jokers

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MichelBollinger posted...

It would be insane if this wasn't trash, everything about it looks absolutely REPUGNANT, and that script was SO BAD.

The thing about dumb scripts is that the rest of the movie can still sell it

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This and the Frank Grimes episode both give me the same vibe of the writers trying way too hard to make a controversial episode (and it worked!). The Grimes episode is at least making a point, but it's still so cynical from both perspectives. Principal and the Pauper just felt kinda...dumb.

Still an essential episode, just divisive and I'm personally not a fan

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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/05/texas-democrats-expect-delay-presidential-delegate-totals-super-tuesda/

Texas Secretary of State (so not actually the Democratic party's fault!) saying that they won't be able to officially award most of the delegates on Super Tuesday night but will have the state popular vote. How many more big states need to fuck up in one year until we can get rid of our dumb primary system?

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Snorlax
Ampharos
Metagross
Rotom
Galvantula
Aegislash
Decidueye
Toxtricity

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Wanglicious posted...

WAIT
Pete outdid Warren on minority vote?!
LOL that's fucking incredible. it's not that she does amazing there but his history is so piss poor and she had numbers that weren't too far away, she broke 20k votes too, so there we go again proving who her base really is. he's making inroads.

Warren got 12% in that poll, same as Yang and probably statistically tied with the non-Bernies. Strange that the rose emoji Twitter user omitted her for some reason.

Here's the whole thing though I think it might still be preliminary
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-entrance-poll-buttigieg-shows-broad-based-appeal/story?id=68735140

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Corrik7 posted...

To make their countries better than ours or equal, you need to provide probably 8000% of our total budget in aid a year to them. And that's on just a whim of a guess. Likely more knowing some of the countries south of us.

Do you think people only come to America because it's the best place on earth?

Also, do you currently live in the place you think is the best place in America?

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

An excellent and inspiring detail about those results is that Bernie seems to have claimed a plurality of voters 18-44, and not just the Youth.

That age range is still mostly those god damn millennials though

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I'm actually totally fine with Minoru getting screwed if that's the price he had to pay for someone to finally outsmart Near.

I mean this original the character shows up and outsmarts literally every character in the universe so hard that he pisses off the God of Death who has to cheat to kill him. And he does this while helping a bunch of people, screwing over a world superpower, and not even using the note. That's more than a fair ending tbqh

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I felt like the vampire court was just there to make Carmilla look good and Carmilla kicks ass so I'm good with that

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We now use the machine voting that then prints out a hard copy of the vote you can personally verify and at my surface level understanding that seems like the best solution.

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Corrik7 posted...

"Guilty of sexual assault". He is not guilty of that and is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. Extreme comment.

Is it an extreme comment to say "trump is legally not guilty of sexual assault but almost certainly committed it"?

Or is it just extreme to paraphrase?

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red sox 777 posted...

So what? We disqualify the Democratic Party and have Donald Trump face off against Ted Cruz in the general election?

No, we send Bernie and his communist army in to liberate Iowa and then the country

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https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1224548354144849920?s=19

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That's the same guy I posted. That's round 1 votes. Check the math later down in the thread.

I'm not saying it's a GOOD way to do it but the way they handled it is mathematically correct even though the whole premise is flawed.

edit: although actually looking at the replies it seems like the guy's total vote count didn't add up because it changed or something as people left. which is even more stupid

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Well here's an example:

https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224549120779653120?s=21



It checks out, but math at these small scales is just really stupid to work with.

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Wanglicious posted...

so somebody explain to me why the delegates in this caucus system aren't given proportional to your win but redistributed evenly among those who pass the threshold?
like as a joke i totally appreciate and love the irony of it happening to Bernie but as a democratic system it's quite possibly the dumbest one i've heard yet.

Oh there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that.

You see, each precinct only has a certain number of delegates to give. Candidates don't evenly win enough votes to cleanly distribute delegates, so they end up winning fractions of delegates. They then round these partial delegates to the nearest whole delegate to resolve the issue.

But sometimes there are ties, and so they end up flipping a coin or picking a candidate's name out of a hat.

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metroid composite posted...

South Carolina:

https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1224078403592167425

Biden: 25%
Sanders: 20%
Steyer: 18%
Warren: 11%

that's the most recent poll but it's probably worth noting that particular outlet seems to consistently rank Biden closer to other candidates so it probably isn't quite that close...yet

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/south-carolina/

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Wanglicious posted...

if those results are true, pete's numbers are remarkable and he's gonna take biden's place.

I have very little faith he can spin it into winning momentum. Biden's pretty resilient and the South will be split. Maybe he'll steal enough support for a contested convention though.

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here's bernie's numbers

https://twitter.com/misyrlena/status/1224578150358831108

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cory booker is BACK IN IT

https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1224523194637438977

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FFDragon posted...

guys

guys

we're missing the deep state reality of all this

Iowa broke this year so it reverts back to 2016

it's STILL her turn

oh shit

they say they don't know who owns the app

it's her

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