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literally none at all, what do they have to cry about? I think it was just this morning that NPR ran a story about how enthusiasm for Trump is closing the gap and staving off the potential blue wave of 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/08/626267768/gop-enthusiasm-fueled-by-trump-could-undercut-democrats-midterm-hopes
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nope, sounds like you are, though tc
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sounds awesome
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my mom used to like it a lot, I don't think she watches it much any more though
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voldothegr8 posted...

CableZL posted...

I'm guessing "overhaul" in this case means "increase the price"

AT&T has been the proud owner of HBO for less than a month, and it is already considering an overhaul that would see HBO produce more video that can compete for the attention of smartphone users. AT&T wants to boost revenue both in advertising and subscriptions, even if that means upending HBO's longtime strategy of producing a relatively small number of high-quality shows.

yeah, my take away from what he said is that he would prefer they make more content targeted at mobile users primarily, rather than the typical long form dramas and comedies they usually produce
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I don't think McDonalds is doing it at all
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DarthWendy posted...

Hardware limitations, as you very well put it, cannot put you atop the console generation mountain just because Zelda and Mario.

the gameboy was disproving that beefy specs were meaningful 30 years ago, and if you weren't paying attention then, the Wii proved it again in the last decade

sony also took a turn at disproving it in the mid 90s to early 2000s

basically no generation of console has ever won because of its specs being the best
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CruelBuffalo posted...

So youre throwing shade that Starbucks isnt using its money to find out how to move even quicker than 2 years to change inventory of the 22,000 stores with straws that are not currently recyclable and compare it to Elon Musks engineering team playing in a pool?

he just really loves elon musk
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if anything I guess its good for the US since it lets us negotiatie bilateral trade agreements with the UK more easily

too bad we are just slapping tariffs on everyone
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Worse, getting power armor, a Gatling gun, then killing it . . . it's like starting with the money shot.
Doing this huge cinematic fight right off the bat doesn't feel like an achievement. No progression, no risk/reward, kinda shows that they couldn't think of anything else and wanted to blast you with end game content.

it's weird, what I liked about it is what you all seemed to hate about it

this isn't a new thing, either. RPGs have done this a handful of times -- I think both of the Lufia games start with you basically having end game equipment in an end game setting and then sending you back to the beginning in terms of progression

I like it because it gives you a taste of what you're going to get early on.
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MacDaMurderer posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

Tbh, I just started playing Fallout 4. I'm about 2.5-3 hours in and I'm pretty fucking bored.

Killing one of the most powerful creatures in previous fallouts within the first 30 minutes pretty much sealed the deal for me.

I thought that was a good sequence, myself
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The fact that there are so many ports is actually an upside for me, as someone who hasn't had a new console or handheld in 15 years lol

I actually am tempted to get more than one for LAN play, but that seems excessive. One of my buds said he'd get one if I do though lol
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My newest console currently is my Gamecube, which my mom got me for my birthday when the price dropped to less than $100 whenever it did that -- like 2003?

I haven't even gotten myself a handheld since then. I found a PSP Go in a junkyard once, but I gave it to my dad
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Garioshi posted...

Super Bomberman is 5-player if you have the Super Multitap

yeah, we were playing Super Bomberman 4

also played quite a bit of Battle Lode Runner

I'm really looking forward to trying some of these games next time we all gather though
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Oh, to be clear, I am making the assumption that rural areas will tend to favor conservative politicians while cities will tend to favor liberal/leftist ones

I think that is true every where, but I only know it is true here in the USA
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shockthemonkey posted...

Balrog0 posted...

also, fwiw, the leftist parties almost certainly got more voted overall than the conservative parties, but you know, first past the post systems inherently favor rural areas

Can you explain that more? I dont have much knowledge on how the system works in the UK.

it's not that different from how the congressional systems work here; there are districts (called constituencies) which elect MPs essentially the same way we do members of congress, where the top vote-getter wins, even if they fail to get a majority of the votes from that constituency

the reason this favors rural areas over urban ones is explained partially here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/opinion/campaign-stops/go-midwest-young-hipster.html?_r=0

That imbalance can be explained partly by Republican gerrymandering. But even if district lines were drawn in rational, nonpartisan ways, a disproportionate share of Democratic votes would still be clustered in urban districts, giving Republicans a larger share of seats than their share of the overall vote. Winning back control of state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Michigan could help Democrats in redistricting after 2020. But it would help more if their voters were not so concentrated in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Detroit and Ann Arbor.

It would be awfully difficult to construct a map that wasnt leaning Republican, said the University of Michigan political scientist Jowei Chen. Geography is just very unfortunate from the perspective of the Democrats.

basically, rural districts have a significant but smaller GOP lean while urban districts have very large margins for Democrats -- but with respect to winning the most seats, you want to get a higher number of smaller wins than a smaller number of larger wins
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also, fwiw, the leftist parties almost certainly got more voted overall than the conservative parties, but you know, first past the post systems inherently favor rural areas
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I like the settlement building aspects of FO4, what I don't dig is the multiplayer element involved.

To me, building up your towns going from little outposts to titanic fortresses is very in-theme with the Mad Max style (not necessarily the action sequences, but someone built Thunderdome and the end of the movie shows FO4 style settlement building)

That's not to say you can't overdo it, though. FO4 did need more meaningful cities to interact with, and fewer settlements with no story implications.

But yeah the PVP etc really turns me off
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Darkman124 posted...

shockthemonkey posted...

And that was a special election specifically to get May more power

called for by may herself because at that moment his polls had experienced a short-term dip

its outcome was so bad that they had to ally themselves to the british equivalent of a fascist party to form a government

even if it had been a better coalition partner, it is pretty bad to call a snap election and lose enough seats to need a coalition partner

the fact that the DUP is kinda kooky at best is just icing on the cake
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boris johnson is a surprisingly effective politician
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I'm just saying these boomers arent gonna disappear when they retire

at the very least living in florida is gonna be more and more awful
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I'm a member of a transit-centric facebook group (New-Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens, or NUMTOT) and this topic reminds me of when someone said there should be mandatory speed limiters on cars because slower cars mean less chance of death
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HiddenLurker posted...

Many who died were males, were jaywalking or had alcohol in their systems on multilane roads in urban areas at night. Some might have been distracted, just as vehicle drivers could have been, by texting or talking on cellphones, although data is lacking to quantify distraction.

Tis not a car problem but a stupid people problem.

there hasn't been a 80% increase in stupid people, but there has been an 80% increase in pedestrian deaths
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

it's the local government that makes and enforces those laws, aint it?

enforces, yes, makes, sorta

it is usually state law and localities are allowed to make them more restrictive, but usually not less restrictive AFAIK
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jaywalking laws are bullshit anyway

fuckin big auto industry criminalizing using my own two feet on public spaces
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Lord_Wombat posted...

Where the hell was it $4 a game?

each quarter of the game cost a dollar at my local liquor store iirc

SwordMaster13X posted...

Lord_Wombat posted...

Where the hell was it $4 a game?

Yea I thought arcades were a lot cheaper than that

it definitely depended on the game

dragon's lair for instance I think that was usually at least 50 cents if not a dollar

whereas bust a move was only a quarter
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man I really wasted a lot of money on coin ops back in the day
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Abyssea posted...

just because you're poor doesn't mean you can't get your ass out of the road.

okay? that has nothing to do with what I said
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Antifar posted...

Abyssea posted...

are minorities just more likely to jaywalk then? I mean... how could it be effecting them more statistically?

They are disproportionately likely to live in cities

they control for this and still find a disparity, though

e.g., blacks are 14% of the urban population but 20% of vehicular deaths

the real answer is black people are more likely to be pedestrians because theyre more likely to be poor
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s0nicfan posted...

Oh no, it's certainly harder. I didn't mean to imply that was the easier solution if that's how you read it. But we should be solving the right problems where possible, not tangential ones born from the root problem in the first place.

oh yeah, I agree for sure

I guess my point is, it might be more feasible to regulate the cars than make the necessary changes to our infrastructure and stuff though
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awesome
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hockeybub89 posted...

What is your solution that doesn't involve touching cars? Making it illegal to run people over?

in urbanist circles, the most widely discussed policies I see are lane and road diets (making lanes smaller and/or reducing the number of car lanes, replacing the space with more sidewalks/bike lanes/on-street parking to separate pedestrians from traffic)
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s0nicfan posted...

Sure, but I feel like "we should make it so people hit by cars don't die as often" is best solved by making fewer people hit pedestrians and not by redesigning cars. This would be like dealing with too many people burning their tongues on hot coffee by pushing Keurig to reduce the temperate of their k-cup brews. It feels like a roundabout solution.

The way that you reduce the number of pedestrians being hit requires redesigning streets and laws regulating the streets

Is that really easier than changing how we design cars?

Those are both heavy lifts
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never seen it
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

It was just days before Tennessees July 3 deadline to vote in the August primaries.

. . .
Here's an idea, don't want until the last fucking minute eh?

imagine being so much of a bootlicker you can't even read the article you're responding to before licking a boot
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live in a 4 unit townhouse quadplex type of thing

1 neighbor is a shut in old lady with a cat
the other two are families

my only beef with them is that one of the families literally has 4 vehicles and there's only 8 spots in the driveway, 2 per unit. so that's annoying
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yeah but then instead of boomers booming at work they'll be the new old people boomering it up all over everyone else's work and leisure activities
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no one really thinks weed should be illegal
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man its actually gonna be terrifying when all these boomers retire
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lol
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Darkman124 posted...

to be fair, the 'wet heat' of Washington DC does feel worse, since you can't sweat to cool off and just continuously sweat and just become both hot and wet.

but that doesn't make dry heat 'not bad'.

man, I thought living in Arkansas would prepare me for how much of a swamp DC is, but I was not ready
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tbh we got super competitive about bomberman and mostly played Super Bomberman 4 and Battle Lode Runner lol

I do appreciate the suggestions, though, I need to write these down or something
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it's interesting you only scare quoted 'scorching' and talked about how the hoo-mans were hotter than the weather, given your concern over the wording of 'melting' now
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Oh, I see, she's framing it as though the issue she had with the article was the entirely fine headline, got it
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I can't tell what happened itt

Coffeebeanz makes fun of an article
Is told article is reasonable
Doubles down on it being wrong
Is proven wrong by another article
Insists she knows what she's talking about any way?

Did I miss something?
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huh?
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dont @ me is like one of my least favorite social media phrases tbh
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Milkman5 posted...

Romulox28 posted...

heres how it works when you graduate:

a small portion of the students are hyper-motivated and naturally predisposed to working professionally. they probably had like 3 internships, are presidents of a club, etc. these guys get the six figure entry level salaries with Google, Apple, MS, etc

the rest of you have to work hard to bridge that gap. that means pursuing certifications, self-teaching new skills, networking with everyone you know, practicing interview skills, getting out of your comfort zone and going to industry meetup type events, having people critique your resume, etc.you may also have to consider doing contract work, taking a "lesser" job that will get you to the type of job you want in the future, contacting recruiters, etc.

basically you have to hustle, that's the nature of working for most people in 2018

The bold seems about right. I know people who got 6 figure jobs and people with great internships who have told me they can't believe how easy it is to be successful and I'm just like...

lol

I think you have to be a special type of go-getter person to actually make 100k at your first job.

so did the people who you know who got these jobs have relevant experience (an internship, for instance) but you don't have that experience?

that's more than them just being in the right place at the right time, if so
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