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This isn't even the first vigilante out for blood since the George Floyd protests started

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Man if every part of the map had the same personality and attention to detail as the Gerudo Village, my opinion of the game would be dramatically higher! You guys say the world is brimming with life but I mainly feel like it's pretty empty and boring outside of the villages.

And I like the villages a lot - one of the best moments I had in the game was discovering a tiny little fishing village when I was 80 hours or so in and getting bored of the game. I just wish they all had as much focus and compelling questlines as the Gerudo Village and Tarry Town, because the rest of it really ain't it for me.

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pyresword posted...

For the most part people are okay with cops shooting people in legitimate self-defense.

....the entire point of the protests is to make people challenge this assumption

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Snake and Otacon

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Heroic Bigpun posted...

Speaking of which, it's not helmed by that creepy guy that did the reboot, right?

No, it's by the Riverdale people

Which should explain everything!

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Like yeah yeah I get the point that progressives are really hungry for any wins for people who support good policy

But wew what totally normal and sane reactions from a teenager who was clearly mature and selfless enough for public office

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

So I keep getting mixed messaging, is this a looter game or not? Or is the Gotham one a looter?

If so, probably a hard pass from me. No interest at all in this genre.

We don't have a gameplay trailer for this one. It's possibly both? Both seem to have squad multiplayer elements. Apparently they have said it's still based on Arkham, but with guns.

We do have a gameplay trailer for Gotham Knights and it looks very much like an Arkham game, just with some weird Diablo/looter stuff tacked on. I dunno. It's really weird.

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I voted Justice League because even though Man of Steel and BvS had some really garbage elements, there was still an obvious plan there being executed badly.

Justice League is like...acceptably bland, but to me that makes it way worse. They played it safe and it was still trash.

Haven seen SS and Birds (though my understanding is BoP is kind of a cult hit?)

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Dancedreamer posted...

We're a secular nation

lmao that's a good one

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Yeah my last 3 AKR drafts were 1-3, 0-3, and 2-3 so I just do not understand how to draft this format. Even when I try to draft aggressive decks they just don't come together for me.

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also free my girl burning tree emissary, she did nothing wrong

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Well, good thing I didn't go all-in on another Field deck yet after they hit Rec last time. I am a filthy ramp player at heart though so I hope they at least leave Uro alone. I'm expecting them to just take out Field and get it over with, but part of me wonders if they'll just hit Hour of Promise to bring its power level back down.

Been mostly maining premier draft this month but AKR...I dunno, maybe I just miss Dominaria but I havent been too inspired by it.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The most recent Alex Jones podcast is basically an historical artifact, truly an incredible watch/listen.

I honestly can say enjoyed the clips as entertainment and it's the second highest viewed episode for a reason, but let's be real, that and the Sandy Hook trial are the only things keeping Jones relevant outside of yelling at people in the streets of Austin.

I know you said Rogan made him denounce the truther garbage but has Rogan followed up on him after Jones went on to keep fighting the lawsuit?

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

that being said, was that the THIRD time rogan has had shapiro on the show? >_>

seriously don't get why he likes hanging out with assholes like alex jones and shapiro so much.

Maybe because they get a shitload of views, have some amount of overlapping fanbases, and we are talking about three multimillionaire podcast hosts who enjoy making more money?

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I'm just posting itt so there are more than two people talking about how the 2018 album by Pusha-T does slap

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Yeah, see

https://twitter.com/benfritz/status/1294343648142745601?s=19

This isn't innovation, they're just desperately slashing costs and flailing around trying to make money doing the same old shit

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colliding posted...

Publishers have gotta go digital singles and limited run TPBs, I think. But they've gotta find a way to get new readers to jump in too. If you're Marvel, I think you gotta create a subscription service that gives you online access and physical downloads to all comics (5 new issues released weekly) for $10 a month or as $5 added on to your Disney plus subscription. That might not be enough to actually make money, but you gotta build up a reader base somehow.

This is exactly my problem with the streaming service. It's a good idea but I dont think they can pull it off because it requires the company to dump tons of money into originals. I mean, look at Netflix. Comics have an advantage because they dont have to worry about the backlog issue, but because their backlog is so niche they're going to have a much harder time attracting that wider audience.

And with them going through layoffs and firing so many people that were taking creative risks if not financial risks...I mean, I just don't have any confidence they have the money or talent to pull that off. Like eddv says, that stuff doesn't sell so they cancel it, but you actually want all this weird shit MORE on streaming services.

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GentlemanGamer posted...

But to piggyback on an earlier discussion, this is the kind of reason that arguments like "her record is very progressive" or "voted with Bernie 93% of the time" do not hold weight with some people. Someone without conviction will always be easily compromised into betraying ideals in favor of the path the leads them to power, which is serving power.

this dilemma goes away if the people take power into their own hands via direct action, forcing those without conviction to serve them!

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

It's a simple numbers game of which side of the party this policy benefits more, though. Also her positions on progressive policies and her attitude towards AOC these past two years says a lot as well, to put further context.

I don't expect anything different from her I just know it is not good in my view.

So is the ideal for the party as a whole to stay out of primaries and endorse whoever wins for the general or for them to be more selective with endorsements?

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

No, I was talking about that too. They brought in a lot of diverse creators when Luke Cage, Black Panthers, etc. were really big. They make books like Vision that are just wildly different than your standard hero fare. But they don't move the needle really. They get canceled faster than most books aside from anomalies like Ms. Marvel.

Vision didn't move the needle? That book won awards! On an anecdotal level, I know of a lot of love for a lot of series that were cancelled prematurely. And I can pretty much guarantee that someone like Tom King or Ta-Nehisi Coates or NK Jemisin is going to sell a lot more books as collected editions than floppies.

So it's a matter of perspective, you are seeing "these issues aren't selling well and got canned" and I see "oh, they didn't actually give these series a chance." It's not necessarily a matter of the creators but the overall Brand Management running directly up against the industry (no one fucking buys floppies, and yet, they determine what gets cancelled).

So what do you expect gets accomplished when they fire a huge amount of people who mostly had no say in the fact that no one fucking buys floppies? Again, the higher-ups sure but you're telling me 1/3 of the people at the company deserve the blame?

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Inviso posted...

I want to add to my previous statement an agreement with HDT. If you are in a solidly blue area, no, you should not have to settle for a moderate. Getting more people like AOC into congress is important, if only to start a conversation about the benefits of progressivism and make it more mainstream, rather than some radical ideology. But on a national level, or even in areas that are more purple than red or blue, there needs to be some work on messaging if you want progressives to succeed.

Sure! And the point I was trying to make is that in these solid blue areas, they would probably identify as "mainstream Democrat" but still manage to elect progressives into office. It's much harder on a national level but I think the potential is definitely there. It's just not being framed that way because the Democratic party is not a monolith and a lot of Democrat politicians are opposed to the progressive side of the party. I don't think this holds as true for the voters, but voters are easily convinced by them.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Is it possible that the easy ability to binge past seasons works in TVs and streamings favor over needing to buy back issues or trades?

Or are the digital back-catalog-for-one-price services like Marvel Unlimited well advertised and performing well?

I think Marvel Unlimited does well enough, obviously DC's is struggling.

I dunno though if serial narratives and binging is the issue, I think it's just at a completely different scale and perception level. There's almost a century of comic backlog out there, and people feel the need that so much of it is required reading and there isn't necessarily a "book 1" to read in a linear manner. People can watch Game of Thrones where they're talking about obscure backstory details or watch Star Wars and shrug in response to the EU, but if a comic book references a past event people seem to think that's total bullshit.

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Because they proved they have no capacity or ideas to improve it. They put a black female at the head of the whole thing now from outside of the industry. It doesn't get more diverse that. Maybe if she can provide a way to actually improve the industry outside of "Well let's just soft reboot again!" Or "What about this event book that changes everything!?" then maybe they can get some more people back into it.

Why give more money and more resources to people who clearly can't run it properly?

And in terms of diversity, they've made a ton of diverse hires and nothing has changed. That isn't the problem. It's that the people in charge couldn't find a way to improve profit and viewership in a time where we have a superhero boom. This should have been done a while ago.

Also, WB is in financial trouble, which is why they slashed a lot of their divisions in the first place. DC Comics aren't the only ones hit, but they've been hit harder than anyone else.

First of all I was talking about not only that but diversity in thought of leadership as you were, but diversity in that sense is a problem too. Namely in terms of reaching a broader audeince and having a wide array of books. Something DC was getting better at but slow to adapt on. Again, I'll bring up that SO MUCH of the money in comics right now is selling graphic novels to kids and young adults and not floppies for entrenched superhero fans, and that's why DC was making a big deal about their YA GN line. But I digress

The main point is that I don't think this is going to solve anything. I think it's a dumb decision and it's bad to defend. As mentioned a little in this topic, the issues comics are dealing with are way bigger than a handful of bad editors and writers. Some of these people at the top like Harras absolutely needed to go. But I can't understand these massive layoffs being justified. The people working for these comic companies know the industry and characters and could help with transitioning to whatever the hell Time Warner is doing so the PR memo just reads like corporate bullshit that's the latest in a long line of comics companies treating their employees like garbage.

To use a frivolous comic book analogy, this is like when they kill off the old team and promise you the ALL NEW! ALL DIFFERENT! version and it's the same shit. I'm highly skeptical that this will solve anything at all in terms of the industry. The holding company is just trying to make a quick buck.

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This whole discussion is silly because moderates don't even really exist.

How Can Moderates Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

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Inviso posted...

The current progressive movement has a lot of good ideas, but the problem is that it's designed to appeal specifically to a younger crowd, and it doesn't do a great job of marketing its ideas to an older audience. And the thing about that strategy is that it relies heavily on picking up the notoriously poor youth vote in favor of casting aside a solid and reliable voter base. That's why Biden was able to swoop in and win the nomination...because the moderates who felt like Bernie's progressives didn't care about them coalesced around a moderate candidate, and those moderates made up a majority of the voter base.

I will say that in heavily blue areas (and maybe not even just heavy blue), progressives have been able to win primaries

It's just that America as a whole is not heavy blue, and also Bernie's campaign in particular really shit the bed on this one

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Looking forward to when the John McCain birther gets to become president

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Progressives suck at building coalitions to win federal elections but that isn't because theyre any more "toxic" than other factions

And I think we are now conflating big social movements with that for some reason but those have been shown to work

I think you are mixing up different issues and then throwing social media chatter in there for good measure

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

My hot take is that all of these industry people have failed to capitalize when super hero stuff is at its most popular with the Marvel movies. That's pathetic and it's clear they needed to bring in someone outside of the industry to make moves to actually get people reading comics because they're all ridiculously insular and don't want to make any actual changes.

so why did Time Warner, a company worth tens of billions of dollars, lay off 1/3 of DC instead of simply hiring a larger and more diverse staff or perhaps put more money into a notoriously underfunded industey?

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Well conservatives hate birthright citizenship in the first place but because it's in the constitution they have to pull some legal gymnastics if they're trying to get around it

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Right but thats what I'm saying. Their solutions to both problems were linked. The anthology comics and graphic novels let them sell books at Wal-Mart and traditional bookstores to a different (and much bigger) audience. I was under the impression this stuff was doing pretty well

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KamikazePotato posted...

Republicans act like they're settling but at the end of the day they will literally always vote GOP. Not only that - they will vote GOP and start acting extremely passionate about their choice, supporting them no matter what happens and acting like they can do no wrong. It's a much different sort of settling than what the Democrats do.

I just don't think this is true, the team sports effect hits both major parties

There are probably MORE D voters that settle or just give up and don't vote at all but reluctant support still happens for Republicans. The disparity between Trump's approval rating and people who say they'll vote for him anyways shows this.

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Yeah, DC had basically found a way to have their cake and eat it too with the continuity issue. They basically made it a feature and not a bug and tied it into their events, and their events since Rebirth have largely been self-contained or restricted to a few series instead of massive things taking up real estate in every series. Meanwhile they also have their OGN and Wal-Mart lines designed to be more accessible and target other audiences. I thought the OGN line was supposed to be doing well but it also got canned from what I hear.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Hillary was a perfect villain for him to battle, so to speak, but they are running very much on Trump being the greatest of all timeeven if its not true, theyre not telling anyone to settle.

I don't dispute this is the message but I DO think a lot of GOP voters are settling.

If you ever read one of the 500 NYT pieces on Trump voters (don't do this I'm about to explain them all) there's always quotes upon quotes from people who think the Democratic platform will actually hurt them, or that they're very concerned about Trump but still feel obligated to vote, or the Christian evangelists who don't like Trump but on the other hand the Democrats are even more ungodly and we could really use more judges to stop abortion. It's taking a global pandemic to peel these people away (they still will probably come back though). I really don't think Trump has as many true believers as he and the media want us to think.

Hate to be the both sides guy but I guess it's very similar to Biden's "most progressive platform in history" thing

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trdl23 posted...

Dont forget how uncomfortably close the American right wing is to theocracy.

always glossed over by the anti "identity politics" crowd isn't it

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I can agree with the lot of that but I can't possibly understand what the expectation is (short of dismantling the government obviously). Everyone running for President is crazy. If Bernie Sanders isn't good enough (and I agree he still has the faults of a politician) then who is out here desperately searching for a principled politician? Maybe I'm just jaded now but I care less and less about "principles" and more about what a politician is offering and the leverage that can be exerted over them.

And while most everyone at the federal level is a career politician this isn't necessarily true at a local level within communities, although it can end up this way. I imagine this type of person is more likely to be involved at this level, and part of the issue is bridging the gap. But to do that we need people in office who will at least pretend to listen to demands.

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GentlemanGamer posted...

People are getting cold feet on Biden because they were hoping the VP would help them feel better about it, but it didn't.

right, so the problem isn't that the VP is bad, it's that Biden is terrible and needs the perfect unicorn VP like Bernie or Warren or the squad members half the country hates in order to cover for him


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Look, you're free to not vote for Biden or whatever, I can't be bothered to give too much of a shit anymore. I'm just asking for a little honesty about it because I don't buy this specific excuse

Biden is also a cop

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if people are getting cold feet on voting Biden can they at least point to one of Biden's many faults instead

like EVEN IF Harris is the last straw, 99% of the straws are still his

I will definitely accept moaning on Harris when Biden dies and she is the frontrunner in 2024 but let's not get it twisted for now

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Bernie endorsed Biden as well despite railing against all of his policies the entire time, I see literally no problem with this. This is what politicians do.

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https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1292900655464677377?s=19

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Jakyl25 posted...

I dont even understand how this is okay to pro-gun people

The man was literally murdered for holding a gun he legally owned when police came to his door before he could even verify it was really police

Groups such as the NRA are always conspicuously quiet about stuff like this so it's almost as if they have some other priorities more important than gun rights. Who can say, though?

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Corrik7 posted...

If police were almost murdered trying to stop a planned riot on social media for returning fire at someone who shot at them, they are bad? They are bastards?

yes

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Seems like a bit of a whimper of a way to reveal, unless I missed something.

https://twitter.com/RocksteadyGames/status/1291720790447136768?s=19

There's some WB gaming event happening later this month where we should get more info and at least a trailer. This is probably a tease reveal meant to hype the event itself.

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Hoarders is AWFUL

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I'm so sick of the FCU, has CNN released the Snyder Cut yet?

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KamikazePotato posted...

Biden's VP doesn't matter to me and it shouldn't matter to anyone here. Biden is already a bad choice so his VP is irrelevant

this so much. I honestly can't imagine how Biden's VP is the decisive dealbreaker at this point. He would have to exert serious effort to pick someone worse than himself

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Also let me attempt to engage with the original question to illustrate the point here

BakusaiTenketsu posted...

So I have a question about defunding and/or abolishing the Police. I lean liberal, but I don't understand this push personally. What exactly is the our proposed action for security and law enforcement if we have no police? I'm legit ignorant here and want to know what happens if the police are abolished from the USA.

The short answer is: we don't know! But that's because we don't possess the social technology needed to definitely say. To draw a point of comparison to climate change, if someone says "we need to stop using ALL fossil fuels" the common response is "how? We have no sufficient energy alternatives." In both cases, the solution is to develop that technology. And activists, community organizations, and indigenous people have been doing work to see what forms community-based "transformative justice" might take.

Here's an article you can read if you have time that might shed some light on that approach
https://www.bustle.com/rule-breakers/police-abolition-domestic-violence

The second thing is, we do know what the process of police abolition looks like, and it's basically exactly what Sir Chris and Reg said - you reallocate resources away from the police towards alternatives that will do a better job of solving the "problems" police aren't equipped to handle. And you keep doing this until you figure out the bare minimum resources you can give to police and have a safe society. Defund and Abolish are in agreement on this - they differ on the endpoint. Police abolitionists are pretty sure that we'll eventually get to the point where the best number of cops is zero, so they do this work with that in mind as the goal.

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Yeah put me on team "yes, I would like to literally abolish the police."

It won't actually be possible without generations of social progress, though. You guys don't have to act so alarmed.

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Squall Battlefield is the best looking map here

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Corrik7 posted...

Well, of course you would compare it to the worst thing you could have instead of something of an equal weight. I mean, you are being pretty transparent here with your aim.

Humor me, Corrik. You seem to agree that murdering people is much more important and weighty than spitting in coffee since you're so offended that Inviso's counterpunch was too hard. So was coffee spit really important enough to post in the first place, or do you have some equally transparent aim?

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