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The Diablo 3 answers are killing me. Except for the auction house it was fucking awesome at launch.

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Phantom Dust.
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Isquen posted...

Starbound. It's fine now but it's the game I point to when I go "I fucking hate Early Access/Kickstarker" with the shit their initial dev team pulled.

Wait what happened with Starbound?

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Phantom Dust.
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I think its No Mans Sky.

The game got mainstage Sony promotion, and then when it came out, like 90% of the major features they promised straight-up didnt exist.

And since then, theyve added them, and more.

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https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1414014730843344896?s=21

Its uncanny how much Boebert is just running the exact Sarah Palin shtick

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Really Anagramd the poll by not putting LISA on it

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kevwaffles posted...

It's from November 2020

The article is actually from July 3rd, Corrik.

No spoilers but do you think those November stats look better or worse now?


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https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1413550337940676611?s=21


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colliding posted...

This game was super underrated and I'm stoked to play it again

This is impossible

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Im gonna turn my angel deck into that, lol.

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Theres a 2 drop blue that makes any creature a 4/4 flying, feels bad to suicide fun creatures against a token.

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Avatar

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My guy, why post two awful sad topics like this

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/us/politics/tony-podesta-lobbying-democrats.html

I dont care about anything in this article but this, lmao:



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My draft went terribly and the first 2 people Ive played had perfectly flowing decks and Im 0-2 rn looool

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I somehow pulled three Demiliches

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Man, I pre-ordered and got a free Lolth and then my 2nd pack had Lolth in it.

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I never do this, and the set isnt even good, but my nostalgia for the companions of the hall made me buy the 50 pack pre-order for Arena last night.

Gonna open them here in a bit.

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Amarant at 66 is way too high

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https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1412435959694741508?s=21

*Red Sox hat* The Capitol reporters deserve VA benefits

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I dont like this

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Oof

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What is it about Embercleave that makes it good against Cycling? Im dumb.

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The Suikoden III opening:

https://youtu.be/d5JnlNtx_mM

It rips me back to a specific time in my life and never fails to give me chills.

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GIRL IN RED PANTS AT KROGER

You were buying milk and toilet paper and we made brief eye contact when I was walking out the door.

I can tell we had a moment, tell me what pants I was wearing so I know its you

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Only 4 characters seems weird, wish Monopoly was fun lol

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Who is she

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Youve made this topic like 15 times my man

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My new car has out then in, and I didnt even know that was a thing.

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Burger King

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https://twitter.com/garbageape/status/1411362283926790152?s=21

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Speaking of, I literally pulled another Expressive Iteration today.

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ChainLTTP posted...

Go to a doctor dummy

It could be a hundred things

Yeah it could literally be a dozen things, a hernia, your gall bladder, some sort of stones, anything.

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Hes far more interesting(and a better speaker) than Jason Schrier.

Hell, I think hes better than Patrick even, Patrick was absolutely KILLING me on the Nextlander stream this year.

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Just let Plum make the next MTG topic and the problem is solved.

Same reason why I try and make the politics topic now.

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As if by cosmic justice, I just played a ranked match against someone with the same red/blue deck, and got absolutely bodied because it took 6 turns to draw 1 red mana lol.

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The mana in Magic is iconic for a reason tbh.

Ive been mana fucked and then mana flooded in the very next match, same deckthats just how it goes.

It doesnt need overhauled, its a card game, there will always be luck involved.

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Yeah!

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Inviso posted...

The message I got from those results was not a resounding "We saw what four years of GOP control looked like, and we want something better", but rather "We think Trump sucks, but we don't want the Dems to have too much control either."

I think this is a pretty big indicator of our differences, ideologically.

You think the gridlock/Democratic struggle is a willful and intentional act by the voters.

The fact is, the system is literally stacked against Democrats. You have to stop taking middling Democratic performance as the intent of the voters, when at best its the realization of the intent of the creators of things like the Senate and gerrymandering, and at worst its the intent of Democrats to not doing anything polarizing.

Like Im sorry, but if you have one party thats way right and moving further, and you have another party (in your pov/opinion) that thinks its their job to appease/find the middle ground, then literally the only place we can ever go is right. Standing still is an active struggle, and most people dont have the mental capital to pay attention any further than One party wants to do nothing, the other wants to crush their enemies.

Fair?

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Where did I get offended for Bernie? Weve moved passed Bernie.

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Also you want to randomly shoot off about horseshoe theory, literally implying people like me are close to the Right, yet Republicans spend their whole time saying you and I, and every non-Republican voter are all Communists, so I guess I just dont understand the way you understand political alignment at all.

Horseshoe brain: Yes, Im obviously the guy who never wants to work with the right ever is nearly a RepublicanI am very smart

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Inviso posted...

Again, they're not intentionally doing nothing. They're doing exactly what their voters want them to do, which is try to get things done without becoming a dictatorial single-party regime like what the GOP aspires to be.

My guy they campaigned on progressive stuff that consistently polls at 60%+ popularity and theyre not doing it?

Tell me please what youre talking about!

Are they afraid to offend these mythical moderates you speak of that voted for them after they campaigned on it?

Inviso posted...

Why is it that you have all these excuses and comebacks for me, yet you can never come up with anything your side could do differently or better to win? Seriously, you keep f***ing losing and your reaction is never "what can we change" and is instead "the establishment/the media is rigged against us". And then you laugh and wonder why people bring up horseshoe theory. Are you just incapable of coming up with an electoral strategy that is able to sell your ideas without openly insulting or discounting the majority of voters you're trying to sway?

Someone please god, back me up on this.

How do I keep losing if the current President and Vice President literally said were going to do what you want and then dont do it? I guess I AM a loser for believing them, but thats not really what you meant.

What part of my strategy needs to change, the part where the head of the Democratic Party says he agrees with me before hes elected, or the part where he doesnt follow through?

Please, Im waiting.

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On one hand, my theory, where Democrats actually push hard to DO stuff, maybe lose the moderates, lose the election, but that stuff meanwhile sticks around, helps people, and forces Republicans to actively take things away from voters.

On the other hand, your theory, Democrats intentionally do nothing, everyone votes for them, they win the election, repeat that for 12 years until THEN we can do stuff?

In the words of Joe Biden: come on, man.


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Let me put this another way, if the group you consider the minority is big enough to swing the election, you need to say and do something to earn their vote.

Thats all there is to it.

You can disagree and say the threat of Republicans is enough, but we all know its not, the party with more apathetic voters loses.

Edit: XPs post is exactly what I was referring to at 263, progressive politicians continually talking about how good a policy is for people has made those things WILDLY popular.

I know this sounds crazy, but when elected leaders tell people something is good, the people who elected that person often listen.

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Inviso posted...

I think the Democratic Party is behaving EXACTLY how the MAJORITY of their voters want them to act.

Inviso posted...

This is the problem, and I've mentioned this before. But the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks at the Republicans and correctly sees them as raging extremists. But at the same time, they look at the progressive wing of the party and similarly see THEM as raging extremists as well (largely because of the combative messaging of both policy, and how to accomplish it). If the Democrats just say f*** it, and start aggressively pushing progressive legislation without the moderate wing's blessing, they stand to lose a lot more, because suddenly the moderates are in the middle of two parties, and they believe neither one of those parties represents their views.

Ok but if you actually believe this, you dont get to complain when people dont play ball.

Youre saying they should be pragmatic and vote for the guys who you say INTENTIONALLY wont give in to their demands (because if they did, theyd lose the moderate wing), but you cant have it both ways, sorry.


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xp1337 posted...

i am just the worst aren't i

I dont blame you for it, for the record.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Voters are not responsible for the failures of Democratic Party strategy. It is not the job of activists making demands of politicians to make sure their demands work as campaign slogans for the people they are criticizing.

Likewise the political reality that Dems are constrained by a s***ty system doesn't absolve them of not even TRYING to placate their base in other ways like Republicans do when things don't go their way. None of this is contradictory or hard.

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Inviso posted...

Well if there is this much "misunderstanding" (and not just with me), maybe you're doing a bad job of your messaging and should consider correcting that.

Its most frequently you, and then the natural obvious game of telephone occurs, my guy.

Proof:
xp1337 posted...

I didn't intend to and had moved on from the topic entirely, but then you brought Sanders into this directly just now

You took us down a path, not understanding my intention, and xp followedI didnt bring up Bernie!


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Inviso posted...

C'mon man. You can't even admit that shouting "Defund the Police" and "All Cops Are Bastards" are poor ways of generating popularity behind the underlying concept implied by those terms. Let's not pretend you understand how ideas generate the support to become laws either.

God you try so under not to understand me.

My argument for that whole discussion was never that they were popular, its that they were policy and ideology, not slogans.

I said that explicitly multiple times.

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