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*Raises hand*

My ears need to pop

Odyssey is great; I clicked with its mechanics much more than Origins

BignutzisBack posted...

No you don't

Come through security at JFK Airport and fite me irl

It's 4:10 a.m. Eastern

Good morning, CE

Bump

And why is it Remain in Light?

She's always been unwell

Gonna leave this here:
https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how-should-policymakers-respond/

Eat_More_Beef posted...

This the chick in the wheelchair you made several topics about?

If yes, can you give me a name to call her (idc if it's fake, I just wanna stop referring to her as chick in the wheelchair)?

Lol. Unfortunately Julianna said she wasn't feeling it after our second date, which was hugely disappointing for me.

I'm an album listener in general. My commute isn't quite long enough to get through most albums though, so I'm not sure which one I got to the end of recently.

BlueBoy675 posted...

The combat is fluid yet feels really unfocused. It feels like most fights are just spam witch time until you win.

Compared to DMC

See, it's interesting, I felt like the witch time really gave a focus to combat that wasn't there in DMC. I had a better idea of what I was "supposed" to be doing.

I played Bayonetta and DMC5 within a couple months of each other for the first time this year.

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I asked her out for drinks, and she said she wasn't gonna be back in town for a couple weeks, but offered to videochat in the meantime.

It was...fine. It's hard to know how much of the awkwardness was her, and how much was the nature of doing it remotely and missing some of the activities and cues that ease these things in person. Not sure if I'll end up seeing her in person.

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1567196159210299395

Cool

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbpa-gets-more-than-50-percent-of-minor-league-players-to-sign-on-in-favor-of-unionization-per-report/amp/

More than 50 percent of minor-league baseball players have signed authorization cards in support of unionization as part of the Major League Baseball Players' Association, the union announced Tuesday. The MLBPA sent the authorization cards to minor leaguers last month.

"Minor league players have made it unmistakably clear they want the MLBPA to represent them and are ready to begin collective bargaining in order to positively affect the upcoming season," MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said in a statement.

Only 30 percent of minor leaguers need to sign the authorization card to trigger a formal vote for unionization. A majority vote would require MLB to recognize the union under National Labor Relations Board laws, though the MLBPA has first asked MLB to voluntarily recognize minor leaguers as unionized.

Give me advice as someone who has never played a MH game before.

Those octoroks could still be annoying as hell in MM (the most recent one I played)

The Super Mega Baseball series is great, as was the MLB Power Pros series.

SocialistGamer posted...

He wishes it was 1900 again.

Right; there was a time when we had both high birth rates and long working hours - but the other leg of that stool that Musk won't say out loud is it required that women be limited to the duties of caregiving and raising families at home.

Yeah the algorithm is uh, concerning

I mentioned attending the US Open in a topic a few days ago; I get really into these grand slam events, and it's made me consider playing the sport.

Also I really like Mario Tennis, but that doesn't really count.

https://www.google.com/search?q=weather

Wow, it looks like a nice day out there!

For some of you, today is a holiday. I encourage you to find better ways of spending your time than engaging with the bad faith posters ITT. There's probably a neat park in your area that you haven't been to yet.

Eric Garland is a crank who you should not be taking seriously. Maybe there's something amiss here; Eric Garland is not someone to be trusted to suss that out.

Foreigners must tell the Israeli defence ministry if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, according to new rules.

If they marry, they will be required to leave after 27 months for a cooling-off period of at least half a year.

It is part of a tightening of rules on foreigners living in, or wanting to visit, the West Bank.

Palestinians and Israeli NGOs have accused Israel of "taking restrictions to a new level".

The new rules are due to come into force on Monday.

The new rules are due to come into force on Monday.

New restrictions on Palestinian universities include a quota for 150 student visas and 100 foreign lecturers, while there are no such limits in Israeli ones.

Businesspeople and aid organisations say they will also be severely affected. The rules set strict limitations on the duration of visas and visa extensions, in many cases preventing people from working or volunteering in the West Bank for longer than a few months.

"This is about demographic engineering of Palestinian society and isolating Palestinian society from the outside world," says Jessica Montell, executive director of the Israeli non-governmental organisation HaMoked, which has petitioned the Israeli High Court against the regulations.

"They make it much more difficult for people to come and work in Palestinian institutions, volunteer, invest, teach and study."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62730164

Lol

Ori and the Blind Forest

When's He-Hulk history month?

Generations are fake

I'm very much an album listener in general, but
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/02/biden-speech-network-coverage-independence-hall/

While President Biden warned the nation about threats to democracy in a prime-time address on Thursday, ABC was airing a game show, Press Your Luck.

As Biden spelled out his objections to former president Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, NBC was broadcasting a rerun of Law and Order. CBS skipped the speech to show a rerun of Young Sheldon.

The networks rejection of Bidens speech delivered in front of Philadelphias Independence Hall, washed in dramatic red lighting as Marines stood guard marked an unusual moment in the long relationship between the White House and the nations most powerful broadcasters.

Presidents rarely make speeches during prime TV viewing hours, and typically only do so to address a national crisis or matter of exceptional urgency. The networks, in turn, typically carry presidential speeches when the White House requests the time and after previewing the presidents remarks.

However, they have passed on speeches that were part of campaign rallies or events, or when the subject was deemed insufficiently important or newsworthy. The networks, for example, decided not to carry a speech on immigration reform by President Barack Obama in November of 2014.

People involved in negotiations over Thursdays address said the networks deemed Bidens remarks as political in nature and therefore decided not to televise it. These people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive discussions, cited the speechs criticism of Trump who may run in the Republican presidential primaries in 2024 and its timing two months before the midterm elections.

White House officials had earlier tried to counter the impression of partisanship, with one telling NBC News that it was not a speech about a particular politician or even about a particular political party.

Using the acronym for Trumps Make America Great Again slogan, he said, MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. He also referenced the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, saying, We cant be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. Theyre incompatible.

Bidens speech was carried live on CNN and MSNBC, but it was not aired on Fox News, the most-watched of the cable-news channels. Fox stuck with its usual 8 p.m. Eastern time program, a commentary show hosted by conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.

Representatives for the broadcast networks as well as the White House declined to comment for this story.

The networks decision not to carry the speech all but ensured that Bidens remarks will reach a far smaller audience than the millions of viewers who typically watch live presidential addresses on ABC, CBS and NBC.

Some commentators criticized the networks for declining to air the speech. The networks refusing to cover Bidens speech (presumably because it was going to be critical of Trump and/or not newsworthy enough) is precisely the problem democracy faces, tweeted Dartmouth University political scientist Brendan Nyhan, in one of a number of tweets calling attention to the networks decision.

But George Washington University professor Frank Sesno, a former CNN anchor, said in an interview that the speech was framed in very partisan, political terms, and though that may reflect reality, in strictly editorial terms it makes this a close call as to whether networks should interrupt regular programming and provide the White House 30 minutes of airtime.

Sesno added that while he personally believes that all Americans should be concerned about the influence of a people and a party that deny reality [and] seek to undermine elections, he also thinks that networks have to make their coverage decisions based on the newsworthiness of the speech and whether its a true address to the nation or primarily political in nature.

Bad_Mojo posted...

Got any pictures to share?

None that are small enough for GameFAQs, lol.

The lighting was weird though

You know Puppy's just gonna pretend to not know this stuff the next time this discussion rolls around, right?

lennethsoki posted...

At least on Reddit or Kiwifarms or wherever, when there's a cultist mindset of maintaining that status quo of the forum it can be interesting to read.

Why are you on kiwifarms

1. Parties don't just sit idly by between elections; typically they will make an effort at winning over voters they lost the last time so as not to repeat their losses.

2. Given the well-documented failures of the American government when it comes to serving the needs of ordinary people, a lot of people just reflexively vote against the side they feel is in power, the closest thing they can blame for the problems at hand.

3. We have a mass media that in its quest for narratives reinforces 1 and 2; problems that stem from decades of causes get framed as crises for the current administration, and they are eager to give the minority party a platform for explaining why they'd do better.

It'd be weirder if we didn't have shifts in voting habits.

puppy posted...

The weird labeling of the term pregnant people being used throughout government agencies is just strange, but its purpose is there for a reason:

Because not everyone who is pregnant is a woman. For example, a great many of them are merely girls.

Trickfinger posted...

Tell me how politic affect superheroes lol

Stan Lee, on Iron Man

I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military ... So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist ... I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular.

RamboCell29 posted...

That speech was the ugliest speech by a POTUS in my lifetime. The man lumped pro 2A and prolife voters in with Jan 6 rioters.

1. They're all voting for the same people and pushing in the same direction.
2. I don't think he should have, but he explicitly and repeatedly distinguished between the two groups

"I want to be very clear, very clear upfront. Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.
...
"That's why respected conservatives, like federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans a clear and present danger to our democracy.
...
"We are all called by duty and conscience to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else. Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans must be stronger, more determined and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to destroying American democracy. We the people will not let anyone or anything tear us apart.