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Well, it's past midnight, so I can't make much use of the early warning.
Obviously, we would wind up killing each other.

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Awesker002 posted...

I miss the part where it explains how a Republican becomes speaker when the Democrats are in control of the house.

No, no. It makes perfect sense: once the completely unspecified malfeasance of the Democratic elite is revealed for all to see, the Congressional Black Caucus which is innocent of the unspecified horrors? I guess? and other unspecified groups will switch to the Republican Party.
Its some premo Underpants Gnomes logic.

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The terrible thing is that global warming makes AC more and more necessary in many places.
What we really need to do is clean up our power grid: solar, wind, and nuclear need to become the base of our global power grid, and we need to reconfigure our grids to best cater to their needs. We can't stop burning carbon soon enough, but late is better than never.

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dj1200 posted...

god, I hope Hillary doesnt mess this shit up. I dont know if Biden will run again or if his health will be good.

Oh, I'm certain Biden will run, and he'll almost certainly win unless the Republicans steal the election, a potentiality the Dems are doing nothing about... because he makes Boomers feel safe and comfortable. I can't imagine any Dem leader ever yielding power until Death pries it out of their cold, dead hands.

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He could win against Kamala Harris. Not because she's black or a woman, but because she's a dark void of charisma utterly dedicated to listening to the worst advice the worst people have to offer.
Then there's the "Hillary beats Harris in the primary and loses to Trump again" comedy option.
Darkly comedic, because we would be really screwed then.

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Yes TC, I am looking forward to SMT V. Itll be interesting to see what direction they take it in.

Another game I would like to stan: Shadowrun: Dragonfall. The series in general is good: small-scale turn-based tactical combat with D&D-like character creation. But Dragonfall stands out as (IMO) being the most tightly plotted. Youre basically solving a pair of mysterious depths and doing missions to pay for the info you need, but it really immerses you in this grim fantasy-cyberpunk world and has an unrelenting atmosphere of anticipation and dread. It even features some good, impactful decisions, great party members with their own stories who feel like a ragtag bunch of runners, and has a few well-executed plot twists. Theres a lot of room for different builds and approaches to things, and the difficulty curve is pretty good though the first real fight is actually really tough.

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The WHO still recommends masking, even for vaccinated individuals. And it will be a while before most kids can get vaxxed, in any case, and the CDC recommends that unvaccinated people wear masks.

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Great! Maybe we should do a lot of something about it!
No? Just crumbs? Yes sir, thank you sir.

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Kanaya413 posted...

Yeah theyre horrible LOL at least Beth tried to stop morty but Jerry barely tried wirh summer

Summer is 17, isn't she? What was Jerry supposed to do, physically restrain her?
In any case, I loved the look they share after Summer and Morty leave, then Jerry sighing and saying, "I'll get the wine."
Part of parenting is accepting that you can't control everything your kids do: they're going to do dumb, dangerous stuff that could get them hurt and sometimes that's the only way they learn.
Especially when their grandpa is Rick.

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I just finished Bad Samaritans by Ha Joon Chang, which is a pretty great debunking of neoliberal economics at least that theyre objectively bad for developing countries.

Right now, Im picking the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin back up. Currently on Book 4. Theyre really good. Its been a while since I read a good fantasy series.

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DW8 XL is pretty good. The one bad thing is that the Historical Story Paths for each kingdom are basically worse versions of 7's which are legit really well done.
Lu Bu's story in 8XL is baller though.

As for me? I would like to call attention to SMT: Nocturne, as I'm playing the Remaster, and it's just a great game. Awesome soundtrack, though you'll need a mod to get HD tracks (LOL Atlas come the f*** on!). Great battle system and the game manages to maintain its difficulty way better than SMT IV or Apocalypse. I also like how active everyone is: whenever you meet a character, they're always doing (or trying to do) something, themselves, in person. Whereas I feel like most of what happens in IV and Apocalypse is because the PC did something. The Remaster is kind of lame, but the one surprisingly great thing about it is the voice-acting: there's not a bad voice job in the entire game, and a few of them really knock it out of the park. Since the game's plot is sparse, it helps give it that much more life.

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I wonder if well ever elect a president under 50 again, or if well end up being governed by septuagenarian and octogenarian liches and their youthful sexagenarian protgs until the country collapses.

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Gotta convince the white moderates we gotta keep cop knees on black necks somehow.

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Planet Fitness is decent. No one has ever bothered me there. Not yet, anyway.

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Yup. Standing by it.

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There really wasn't a good leftist candidate in this race though. You only had two: Maya Wiley, a MSNBC host with little actual political experience who wasn't *that* left(no more left than, say, Liz Warren), who lost by just a few points and Dianne Morales, a former non-profit exec who was the only candidate to pick up "defund the police" but torpedoed herself by creating a toxic work environment and trying to break her campaign's union.
Adams, meanwhile, had the full backing of the NYPD and all kinds of centrist PACs and politicians. Unfortunately, a lot of liberals have a NIMBY attitude about police brutality, or only care about it when it's being done by Republicans.

At the same time, the DSA picked up two city council seats.

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The definitive version of Live & Learn (main theme of Sonic Adventure 2) was gifted to us in the 30th anniversary symphony.
Live & Learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRS-hFX8g

The fact that they skipped it, "ended" the concert, then did an encore (City Escape!) before finally ending on this helped make the Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony incredibly epic. Seriously, look it up: it was amazing from start to finish.

Of course, Sonic is no stranger to guilty-pleasure vocal music! The US Sonic CD OST furnished us with this classic:
Sonic Boom - Pastiche (original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVboYhEe5Q

Sonic Boom - Crush 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCTgPKYOgE

Edit: Ok, let's do one more:
Sonic Adventure 2- E.G.G.M.A.N.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4mPkze9AEs
The idea of Eggman taking this much joy in his goofy ass self makes me happy.

Edit 2: Okay, I just thought of this one:
Passarella Death Squad - Just Like Sleep (Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aG-0XKVrkg

I don't know that I've ever been so hyped for a final boss as this, honestly. Beautiful game.

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They need to do a lot better with outreach, particularly with minority communities. I know a lot of my POC friends and coworkers are distrustful of the vaccine. Availability is also an important issue in some places.
Unfortunately; however, a lot of states just arent going to put in the effort and a lot of people especially white conservatives dont seem persuadable at all, due to the politicization of every aspect of the response to COVID-19 and general lack of trust. Were probably going to get hit hard again in fall and winter.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/haiti-antoinette-duclaire-murder/
Right, before I go to work, let me throw this up. Ironically, I read it last night and woke up to learn Moise had been assassinated. It's about how bad things are in Haiti, and how little anyone was/is doing to fix things.

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We installed Moise back in 2016 and encouraged him to stay in office after his term expired, so I very much doubt this has anything to do with us.
Needless to say, Haitis problems grow, and no one seems interested in helping clean up the mess that have mostly been created by outside meddling by foreign powers since day one.

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HylianFox posted...

You have to remember that HP wizards aren't like video game wizards with world-shattering spells and whatnot.

Yeah, they were afraid of medieval peasants with pitchforks. They would get annihilated.

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

It's because he is still young and vigorous, where as Rick is old and nihilistic.

Also, Rick is sloppy, lazy, and all-around complacent. Morty and Summer are both more humble and vastly less self-loathing.

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I dont know, this show has actual continuity and has had plenty of emotional and/or serious moments before. Hell, last weeks episode was basically character moments connected by over-the-top decoy Smithicide.
IMO, this has been a strong season thus far.

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darkprince45 posted...

That was their own song lol. And its a superhero being not just an adult

Yeah, Planetina *looks* like she could be Morty's age, but the Planeteers all look to be in their 50s: in other words, she's existed 30-50 years, assuming she didn't exist before then.

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Shame, he's one of the few bright spots here.

Middle hope posted...

What if the woman was a survivor of an assault and the sight of a punishment, no matter how feminine, triggers them?

It's interesting your constructed scenario doesn't address the trans woman at all. Trans women are, if anything, even less safe in male spaces than cis women.

I really liked that one.
Morty's life is dominated by Rick, so he craves a relationship that's normal and wholesome. And Planetina was as wholesome as it gets! Except, you know...she's psychically-linked to the Earth and fundamentally inhuman, so without her handlers she resorted to mass homicide to protect the planet. It's not as though Morty disapproves of murder; he's murdered dozens, if not hundreds of people personally, and lord only knows what Rick's body-count is. It's that Morty doesn't want *more* of that in his life. Importantly, he doesn't unsummon Planetina, even though he presumably still has the rings, which shows more regard for her than her "kids" ever had. And Beth did a great job mothering: yet another indication of how much better she's doing personally.
As for the Rick/Summer plot...they really fit together better than Rick does with Morty in some ways, and this was an excellent illustration of that. Summer is perfectly capable of devoting herself entirely to hedonistic, strings-free apocalypse orgies, for example Morty would probably be all Morty about it. More so than Rick, as it turns out.

Next week is teasing us a potential BethxMorty plot. That's promising.

sabrestorm posted...

bo way do you have any idea how many American troops have lost their lives fighting communism, thousands in Vietnam alone

All in service of protecting a way less popular and no less oppressive dictatorship, on the sole basis of our own selfish interests.

4-8 drinks per week for me.

https://www.theroot.com/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1836083536
I think this nails it. I hear people are appreciating Frederick Douglass more and more these days.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
Eugene Debs was pretty cool too.
Uncritically celebrating our nation does it a grave disservice. It cheapens how much work has been put into making it better, while implying it is already everything it will ever be.

It's disgusting that we treat homeless people like vermin instead of treating them like people.

Perascamin posted...

Not all trans men are buck angel

Both the hairy bear trans dude and the smooth bishie trans dude at my work use the men's room.
Because it is for men. In other words, it is for them. Just like the men's locker room.

Hard? Maybe, but it's not so much "good" difficulty as poor camera and occasional shoddy design.
I'm playing it for the first time, actually. Kind of feels like Sonic the Hedgehog or Donkey Kong Country: the design team has something here, they just don't quite get it yet.
Looking forward to getting to the next one.

Damn, everything is on fire.
This is...this is....fine.

Looking good TC!
I started going to the gym. For, like...the first time ever. I just, now that I'm on hormones(and I've seen what they can do for people), I can see a future where I like my body. And I want it to be the best!
I don't know about pics though. Certainly not ATM: I just started Tuesday, after all.

Why would you ever ask her dad? He has no say in the matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/02/swimming-caps-for-natural-black-hair-ruled-out-of-olympic-games-alice-dearing
Let's go for the trifecta!
It just seems like these sports governing bodies have something against black women, for some reason.

He's objectively a much better president than James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.

I'm reminded of a coworker's response when I pointed out that Mayan ruins are part of her heritage: she denied that she was Mayan. And, in a very important way, she was right: even though she has Mayan blood, she is not Mayan: she has not lived among Mayans, nor shared in their experiences. She doesn't exist within their culture, however impressive she may find their ruins.

Booker is great, but he's a Democrat in Kentucky in what will almost certainly be a bad year for Democrats. I think he'll come up short, but he definitely won't embarrass himself like Amy McGrath.

She was an accessory and is very young, she absolutely deserves a shot.
The other girl is probably in jail too long too.

Ive got some Founders KBS in the fridge. Will probably drink 2. Itll be a good night.

modena posted...

What's HRT?

Hormone replacement therapy. Im trans.
Instead of worrying about balding, I get to worry about osteoporosis and breast cancer!

My hair remains super full at 34.
And so it shall always be, now that Im on HRT.

A really vanilla list. Theyll handle this with all the verve and thoroughness with which they handled Trumps impeachment.

Nobody wins Jenga, but somebody definitely loses.
That gets real stressful towards the end.

Nah, hes too dumb to come up with that.

masterpug53 posted...

Look Monky, you gotta *buuurp* you gotta reaaaaally have a high IQ to, you know, appreciate the burping noises, Monky. Don't you *burp* don't you get it, Monky? He burps 'cause he's *urp* 'cause he's a tortured genius, Monky.

Rick is meant to be a God-like being who is nonetheless repugnant, yes, but they dialed that particular tic way down. Rick's intense self-loathing, loneliness, laziness, and insecurity have; however, been explored extensively.

Ummm, TC? I think you meant to say that there had been an "officer-involved explosion".