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It's kind of rocky. After a couple updates I was digging it although this update felt very anticlimactic.

I am very glad they spent last month engineering some CLASSIC Discourse, I'm really getting an authentic Homestuck experience now.

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iiicon posted...

i am not sure how i feel about the desires of a persistent section of online toxic fandom becoming a marketing campaign for a streaming service by one of the largest media companies in the world. bad, probably. but it's also kinda funny. so... i dunno

Yeah I do have to wonder if they would have even bothered with this were it not for the extremely obnoxious Snyder fanbase. It comes across as desperate in a funny sort of way way but really all the streaming services are desperate for exclusive content. This is pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel though.

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One thing I've been lowkey dreading is that since Trump fired a bunch of officials from previous administration and replaced them with sycophants, whatever Democrat replaces him would have to commit to a large-scale investigation of corruption and negligence within the government agencies, and take steps in good faith to fix broken ones and replace corrupt appointees. But obviously, they'll have to do this while weathering criticism from the right that the Democrats are now doing the exact same thing Trump did.

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1262891663971713024

Luckily, Joe Biden is here to replace my imagined bad future with a worse one

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Does anyone play Historic? If so how is it?

I've just been drafting since I came back to the game but with the ladder becoming permanent soon I'm wondering if I should look into it. Standard is pretty wacky right now and Lurrus Cycling is a good enough deck for ladder anyways.

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banananor posted...

I disagree that it failed "because it was transparent." You might be underestimating how many Americans still would not vote for a gay man! The venn diagram of people willing to vote blue and people who aren't comfortable with gay marriage is disappointingly larger than we would think

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/iowa-caucusgoer-pulls-buttigieg-vote-after-learning-he-s-gay-n1130696

https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/

pete struggled with the black vote not just because he was super white or his policies, but also because support for gay marriage is lower among black people. If support for gay marriage is only at 50% in a phone poll, what do you think the support for gay presidency in a private ballot box would be?

I honestly think this issue is way overblown. It doesn't help, sure, but the argument was that Buttieigg would have done much better if he was straight, and that's what I'm disagreeing with. He was a bad candidate for plenty of other, more important reasons. Him being an inexperienced nobody with no accomplishments and having absolutely godawful outreach is more important to him tanking with black voters than him being gay.

The math probably changes in the general but people are gonna be more likely to suck it up and vote anyways and he STILL has more issues compared to the coveted "generic dem."

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If you're 50 and have Ironworks gear just queue up and go. You only need the base 2.0 story done and the earliest the Crystal Tower storyline is relevant is technically the very end of the Heavensward patch story, and isn't directly relevant until Shadowbringers, so you can basically do it whenever the hell you want.

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banananor posted...

it's possible, but that's basically all anybody wants. people keep complaining that 'generic democratic candidate' polls way better than any actual person

i think a youngish, military background test-tube candidate without any bad marks in their background would do extremely well

"Generic Dem" doesn't exist though and Pete's total mediocrity is what happens when you crystallize generic dem into an actual human (allegedly) being. The common wisdom is you want generic dem, and everyone knows you need to run the Obama playbook, Pete did both and it doesn't work because it's so blatantly transparent.

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xp1337 posted...

Oh, since we were talking about it last night, House Clerk site updated so we have the roll call on the remote voting (and HEROES).

The 3 Dem nays were: Larsen (WA-2), Luria (VA-2), and O'Halleran (AZ-1). The Squad were all Yays.

The HEROES Act also passed 208-199. 207 Dems + 1 Republican against 184 Republicans + 14 Dems + Amash.

R Yes was Peter King (NY-2).

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll109.xml

I see Jayapal voted Nay but didn't get the rest of the progressive caucus to follow suit. The Squad is all on the Yay team.

I kinda wanted to see more of a fight since the bill is purely symbolic and has no chance in the Senate, but oh well.

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https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1261119770059046914

"vote for someone else" continues to be the weirdest and funniest biden-ism

Joe "I wouldn't vote for me" Biden 2020

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

This isn't actually true btw. Republicans were allowed to break ranks

Even if this is true and Rs adjust, it's no excuse for Bernie (or anyone else) missing the vote.

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Mega Mana posted...

Less than twenty posts between pages 4 and 5. Hope you'te all having fun!

corrik is a democrat now just fyi

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Mr. Boop is great and he is so lucky to have such a great wife

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Sharinnegan posted...

the persona team is working on the refantasy game which hasn't even been officially announced yet

that game has to come out first (2 to 3 years?) then they'd start development on P6 (3 to 4 years?) ...thats gonna take forever to come out.

FFXVI might be developed by a different team. for persona i really doubt that'd happen.

The Persona team is not working on Re:Fantasy. The director left and formed a third studio, Studio Zero. But P-Studio is still around and doing all the persona spinoffs.

But that means they most likely have not been prioritizing P6 yet anyways

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https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1260580420489445378

Unless these task forces really have a lot of input this is probably going to wind up as a symbolic gesture, but I do like to see stuff like this.

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Perfect end to contest season

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Inviso posted...

The problem is that I feel like this approach requires Democratic VOTERS to become as uncaring about their fellow Americans as GOP voters are. It's easy for the GOP to be uncaring, because they focus entirely on identity politics, mainly in the form of "we're not Democrats, therefore we're good." Which, if that was the way Democrats acted, we wouldn't even have a problem, because Democrats would just all rally together against a common enemy. And at that point, Democrats wouldn't have any real ideology other than "we're not Republicans, therefore we're good"...so what would we even be fighting for at that point?

The Democratic party's main flaw is that we ultimately give a shit about the fate of the American people, and thus we are hamstrung in a way that the uncaring GOP is not.

Well it's not necessarily the dems have to stop giving a shit about the American people, it's that they have to stop giving a shit about being civil to Republican assholes in the government

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xp1337 posted...

I think the difference is I don't think you can "change the rules" in divided government during a national crisis.

You can in a unified DDD government and they fucking better. If they don't move hard on fixing the structural rot in this country if they can get that in 2020 then we're beyond saving. And if we fail to get that - and that's not improbable even with a Biden win! - then we're probably are then too.

I mean even if there's a DDD government you need to get past the courts (lol) and get the states to sign off on constitutional amendments (double lol) so again, you need more than that. Bare minimum you have to start playing political hardball like Republicans.

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red13n posted...

this is why they can play a different game.

So? The game is rigged in the Republican's favor. If you don't change the rules you automatically lose.

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red13n posted...

Yes they are literally advocating Democrats to play the villains her. The optics of the Democrats having to turn down a GOP proposal would have been hilariously bad.

You are merely trying to advocate the Democrats play politics with peoples lives.

Red this is exactly what the frustration is

The Republicans can ALWAYS refuse Dem legislation with zero repercussions, whereas if Dems do the same they're treated as the villains. So the Dems ALWAYS take the bad deal the Republicans offer, because they have no other choice, and they're terrified of the optics. Because of this, the Republicans are now in a position where they can do transparently bad shit like refuse all relief legislation, and they will probably suffer no actual consequences unless more people start dying.

We're trying to point out that it's bullshit, and it will never change unless Democrats adopt different tactics.

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pyresword posted...

What was pressuring the Senate before that isn't pressuring them now?

In March everyone in both parties finally agreed there was a crisis and some relief needed passed.

Now, the Republican position is that we already gave out relief, and actually we're fine now and it's time to reopen. No need to pass anything.

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red13n posted...

You are basically arguing that Democrats saved people for a month and are...debating from a position of strength?

i dont understand your problem if this is your take.

No, I'm arguing that their position is much worse now. What makes you think they have a stronger position here? The article that started this is literally about how Republicans feel zero pressure from the House right now.

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red13n posted...

They did in fact delay people being unable to feed their families, yes.

Was this somehow a bad thing?

And now people have to go back to work to feed their families during a pandemic now that the money has run out.

This could have been avoided with better aid.

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TotallyNotMI posted...

100% this.

And the blame would be getting put on the Democrats.

Isn't that what's going to happen now anyways? All they did was delay it a few months.

Democrats could have saved a lot of time by fighting this in March instead of doing the bare minimum followed by nothing all April!

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I'm with Tony on this one, the Democrats had one chance to get shit done and it was back in March during the initial negotiations. They needed to raise hell and demand more, because the good faith compromise never works out for them. Also, adjourning Congress and doing nothing all April was a dumbass move by both parties, but I digress.

Look at the political reality now. ALL of the legislative power is now in the Senate. The country is starting to reopen. Republicans have no reason to budge because they care more about the crisis's impact on the economy than on the people. They've said as much. It's going to take another spike in cases and deaths for them to move.

And to be clear - the Republicans refusing to entertain more legislation have most of the blame. But the Democrats squandered their opportunity to get more accomplished because they just wanted any action at all. Republicans have been doing this "take it or leave it" style of "compromise" since the House flipped and Democrats never call the bluff.

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Seems to me the Anti-Federalists had some good ideas for some bad reasons.

Votes Federalist

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Btw, Zelda might feel a little more boring if you just rush every enemy with the same melee combo and don't experiment with the world's ridiculous chemistry/physics system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1AO4BmvlFc

There's nothing to do.

All the weird physics stuff in BotW that people do is great, but that's not how I play games. It's legitimately more fun to see other people do this stuff than for me personally to fuck around in a structureless sandbox.

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I honestly think it's FFXVI. Maybe this is tinfoil hat but territory but Square has been recruiting devs for an unannounced next-gen game directed by Yoshi-P for at least a year, probably more. With the "main" FF team busy with FF7R, Nomura presumably wanting to get started on the next chapter of Kingdom Hearts, and FFXIV having settled into a pretty repetitive model for expansions (as well as wrapping up its first "mega-story arc" soon), my gut says Yoshi-P's game is XVI.

Persona 6 would probably be the next safest bet but honestly there is still plenty more Persona 5 to be milked for the next few years. We still don't have Persona 5 Arena or Persona 5 Royal: The Animation. And with a Musou game on the way, who knows which genre Persona 5 could become next???

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Yeah it's also broken for me

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If stuff like Night Trap and Heavy Rain and Telltale games are, then I don't see why not

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It's a pretty bad rate since you have to wait for the item to show up AND it's RNG to get the HQ. All I can say is make sure you have good enough gear to have close to the max base HQ chance (15%) and use skills strategically. It's probably worth gambling with Bountiful Harvest after you use the second +HQ skill just to collect more at once.

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banananor posted...

Of course the concepts of hereditary genetics are real, but the specific concept of race as we use it is an arbitrary heuristic that takes extra care to prioritize visual attributes like skin color.

Yup, nailed it. It's different. What you guys are talking about with the sickle cell stuff isn't race or ethnicity. From a purely scientific genetics perspective, it's ancestry. Ie, tracing allelic frequencies throughout specific populations over time. These populations don't map precisely to what you'd consider race or ancestry. In general they're only loosely related with maybe some more specific overlaps for more isolated communities. There's 3 axes here.

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Uhhh most of the people I went through the story with thought it was Vauthry. People really thought it was the lion? It's a barely edited version of a 60 dungeon miniboss!

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Cannot wait to fuck around with the Mako in ME1's identical copy-pasted hallways in 4K

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I don't think anyone is actually arguing for "stay home with no support" besides Congress, who essentially did that by taking a month off after handing everyone 1200 bucks. Even then, there were plans that got tabled for that.

And the issue with people going stir-crazy is that people don't understand the terms of the lockdown and we are re-opening the wrong things. Going on walks and to parks or whatever is fine as long as it's a low number of people and they're taking precautions, but now that things are "open" I am already seeing more people with less masks and distancing. Getting take-out is fine but Texas has opened bars and restaurant at 25% capacity (which is still unsustainable for the businesses), which ends up just causing big crowds anyways as people flock to them.

But a lot of work environments could reopen just fine with appropriate measures, and are starting to. The service industry is just not one of them, and these are the areas that most need support.

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red sox 777 posted...

How about a candidate that doesn't spend 90% of their time in the top 5% bubble?

how soon you have forgotten about Pete's Wine Cave

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red sox 777 posted...

I don't understand you guys' aversion to Mayor Pete. He probably won't beat Trump, but he actually brings something new to your party. And he doesn't have half the country as firm "no" votes already.

please inform me as to what new thing Pete is bringing to the party. and no, being a robot doesn't count.

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It's got the Moonlight Greatsword, of course it's a Souls game

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Matthew Yglesias is so so so bad, this thread is a mess

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1257702015725158401?s=21

I dont think Yglesias actually believes like 75% of the hot takes he says to rile up people on Twitter like this, and that might be an underestimate

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I voted BOTW on accident but Witcher 3 better game

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metaIslug posted...

And it doesn't suck off DS1 and is self-contained

This is weird because one of the biggest complaints I tend to hear about DS2's lore and aesthetics is that it's kind of a reskin of DS1! I don't agree with it, I think both DS2 and DS3 have good twists on the DS1 themes, but just saying.

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anatman used to have a galaxy brain thing where you'd time it in the opener to get one tick but that was an unintended use so squeenix nerfed it

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Bloodborne > DS3 > DS1 > DS2 > Sekiro > Demon's Souls

all are great games, though. I'm a big Dark Souls 2 apologist. DS3 and 1 I flip on a lot because 3 is just superior mechanically in every way, but 1 just has that special something and more cohesive world that makes it such a tighter experience. Plus I feel like 3 really drops the ball on its DLC, something 1 and 2 smash out of the park.

Bloodborne I think has the best atmosphere and story in the series and even though it's a bit more limited I like the hybrid action/RPG it goes for without going too restrictive like Sekiro. And honestly, Sekiro was a blast to play in terms of action but it didn't grip me enough for me to struggle through the last few bosses.

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Oh god I saw this topic yesterday and it's started happening to me. CURSED

These are new Joycons from around December, too. I thought they fixed this shit

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Oh whoops I think we're thinking of different Lurrus decks. I see the ones that just have a bunch of creatures and very few enchantments. The ones that are now switching to Obosh for Mayhem Devils and Judith. I think I've played against the Hateful Eidolon once or twice but not nearly as much as those.

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The Embercleave version of RDW still seems strong but it also runs 8 mythics and a handful of rares so maybe people are just making other things. Tramples over the cat, too.

I kept running into Yorion Fires decks now. I'm not sure what happened to make going 4-color the build here over Keruga, but it seems to be a lot slower. I think there's gotta be some room for aggro with people running greedy junk like this.

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I mean I actually always liked the interpretation that Jenova is more in control of Sephiroth than he is, so a redemption arc could work without getting into weird time travel bullshit, but I have a feeling that's not actually a popular aspect of the character.

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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

White Mage to 80. Lamitt is an ok Lala. Giott is trash and evil.

please explain, this take is so hot I can't even figure out how it came to be

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I'm also making my way through Il Mheg. I probably encountered the worst healer I've had so far while doing Dohn Mheg.... the rest of the party ended up abandoning it after two bosses. Also I'm very confused about the pixies referring to Titania as a "king." Should Titania be a queen and Oberon a king??

sorry lotm, but in this game we stan our nonbinary king

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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Also are we not getting more Hildibrand? He did get sucked through a portal. They can make it work.

We are, that's the whole reason that even happened. It's just been delayed.

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I like that he's humble enough to give props to Lincoln but not so humble that he'd rank himself below him. A close second though, that's respectable.

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