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Dynasty Warriors 7 : Battle of Chi Bi - Wu, Part 2

I still haven't seen any The Force Awakens, let alone The Last Jedi.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Missouri is weird because it's pretty red, yet blue ballot initiatives do often pass. I think Claire actually caters well to conservatives in mo. This time around it didn't work.

Did she? She won election in 2006, a massive wave election, and only won re-election in 2012 because her opponent was Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin. Once she was faced with an opponent who wasn't literally Todd Akin, she lost really decisively(in a Blue Wave year, no less!). To be fair, Missouri has probably gotten redder in the interim, but the kind of centrism McCaskill represents believes that what Missourians really want is less regulation on Wall Street bankers.

It's like he wants Mitch McConnell to stab him in the back.

Kavatar posted...

Trump already took ownership of the shutdown, and Democrats get the House next year. Why on earth would they cave?

Because Schumer is a sniveling collaborationist coward?
Fortunately, Pelosi is made of sterner stuff(whatever else you may think of her.) I would expect the new House will immediately pass a "clean" continuing resolution and dare Majority Leader McConnell to ignore it. Then they'll get down to passing popular bills that don't have a chance in the Senate(some of which Speaker Pelosi will memory-hole in the event of Democratic victory in 2020).

__Cam__ posted...

I really don't want a Diamond/Pearl remake.

It would be nice for them to be remade, but the Switch demands they transition to a new gen(and a new region) first.
Hopefully they don't dump all the best stuff from Gen 7 like they did from Gen 6.

Yeah, we should go back to self-medicating with vast quantities of booze, tobacco, cocaine, and opium and pretend we don't have problems.
The problem, of course, is that our society is cruel.

Makes more sense than most takes I've seen.

What could be more inclusive than that?

rikasa posted...

Is Bernie still relevant?

To the extent that any one person can claim credit for the resurgence of the social democrats in this country, Bernie takes the cake. He would start a presidential campaign with the backing of the Justice Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America, and basically all of the politicians attached to one or both of those movements. Hell, he's already done campaign rallies with a lot of them.
He also helped bully Jeff Bezos into giving Amazon employees $15/hr. and was one of the original co-sponsors for the bill to end American aid to the Saudi war in Yemen.
You know, in case you weren't facetious.

AdviceMan posted...

Bernie and Beto aren't even similar.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/20/beto-orourke-congressional-votes-analysis-capital-and-main

However, a new analysis of congressional votes from the non-profit news organisation Capital & Main shows that even as ORourke represented one of the most solidly Democratic congressional districts in the United States, he has frequently voted against the majority of House Democrats in support of Republican bills and Trump administration priorities.

Capital & Main reviewed the 167 votes ORourke has cast in the House in opposition to the majority of his own party during his six-year tenure in Congress. Many of those votes were not progressive dissents alongside other left-leaning lawmakers, but instead votes to help pass Republican-sponsored legislation.

If Beto wasn't as charasmatic as he is, people wouldn't even like him. It's so strange how certain demographics always get away with this.

Yeah, the truth of the matter is that Beto isn't a progressive, in spite of paying lip service to Medicare For All(which at least makes him smarter than most of his ideological brethren). He's consistently been a very middle-of-the-road Democrat. He's not Bernie's ideological peer: he's much closer to Obama and the Clintons.
It's why I could never support him in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

DrizztLink posted...

I don't understand.

Hue Jackson was fired from the Browns earlier that season. It took less than a week for him to take a job with the division-rival Bengals. Baker Mayfield was and is salty about it. Also, Bake Mayfield owns and Hue Jackson is a bad coach.

Kissinger literally sabotaged Vietnam War peace talks at Nixon's behest to help Nixon win election in '68.
And that's just for starters.

I'm going to give this a bump.

TheMikh posted...

people really will criticize trump for anything and everything

I mean, they should. He's a selfish, incompetent buffoon who screws up everything he's ever done, and this won't be any different. It's quite believable that he's doing this just because he's frustrated about his precious wall not (ever) being built or Mueller being mean to him, but he's managed to stumble into doing the right thing mostly because our political establishment's foreign policy thinking is warped as hell.

We should have left ages ago. Our presence is not creating stability so much as it is delaying the inevitable. We created a government that was less capable of serving Afghans than the damned Taliban. That's the take-away here.
I guess the Afghans can add us to the list of empires they've stymied.

Syria, IMO, is a different can-of-worms where our presence is actually making things better, because we have a stable and relatively decent proxy which we are assisting.

NES4EVER posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Fried Forbidden Rice with roasted garlic and bacon. I'm debating utilizing some of my Sichuan peppercorns.

How is forbidden rice to cook? I bought a pack of it a few months ago but I've been hesitant to make it for dinner because I'm pretty sure my son wont touch it. Sounds delicious though!

Damn we should do a CE christmas potluck.

Oh, it's not special in that regard. It cooks up much like standard rice. It's short-grain(obviously) but not sticky with a nutty, ever-so-slightly sweet rice flavor. I've seen people use it in desserts too.
And, of course, the color is quite dramatic.

Goats posted...

Literally toughing it out through lung cancer to prevent Trump from fucking up this nation even more. God bless that woman, she's a hero bisharp

She really ought to have stepped down during Obama's presidency. If she had, we probably wouldn't be one frail octogenarian's life away from a Supreme Court where Kavanaugh is the swing vote.

SSJGrimReaper posted...

drink every time Geordi gets friendzoned

It's hilarious, because Data gets laid in that one episode. Which means even the asexual android is getting more action than Geordi!
To be fair, the dude is a total creeper.

Fried Forbidden Rice with roasted garlic and bacon. I'm debating utilizing some of my Sichuan peppercorns.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-regulators-could-have-stopped-it
Article link, because all those quotes ate right through the character limit. Have some depression ahead of Christmas weekend, CE!

NPR
It's a familiar tale across Appalachia. Two hours north and east, beyond twisting mountain roads, Danny Smith revved up a lawn mower. He wore jeans, a T-shirt and a white face mask stretching from eyes to chin, and he pushed only about 15 feet before he suddenly shut off the mower, bent to his knees and started hacking uncontrollably.

"Oh God," he gasped, as he spit up a crusty black substance with gray streaks, and then stared at the dead lung tissue staining the grass. Still coughing and breathing hard, Smith settled into a chair on his porch and clipped an oxygen tube to his nose.

NPR
For decades, government regulators had evidence of excessive and toxic mine dust exposures, the kind that can cause PMF, as they were happening. They knew that miners like Kelly and Smith were likely to become sick and die. They were urged to take specific and direct action to stop it. But they didn't.

"We failed," said Celeste Monforton, a former mine safety regulator in the Clinton administration who reviewed the NPR/Frontline findings.

NPR
"You have a much harder time breathing so that you can't exercise," Cohen noted. "Then you can't do some simple activities. Then you can barely breathe just sitting still. And then you require oxygen. And then even the oxygen isn't enough. And so ... they're essentially suffocating while alive."

NPR
But our investigation found that this indirect approach to controlling silica dust didn't always work. MSHA's 30 years' dust sampling data show dangerous levels of silica or quartz where miners were working close to 9,000 times, even after coal mines were required to meet reduced limits for coal mine dust.

"They didn't pay sufficient attention," Weeks concludes. "And ...we've got the bodies to prove it. I mean these guys wouldn't be dying if people had been paying attention to quartz. It's that simple."

NPR
Mining companies also knew they were cutting more quartz, creating more silica dust, and exposing miners to toxic dust. They were not only clearly warned by MSHA in the 1990s; they could see what was going on in their mines. Cutting rock slows mining machines and hurts production. And rock has to be removed from coal before it can be sold.

So NPR and Frontline wanted to know why mining companies didn't act on their own to protect their workers.

"Sure they could have done that," responded Bruce Watzman, the National Mining Association's top lobbyist for more than 30 years. "But ... I'm not going to speculate on why they did or didn't do what they chose."

NPR
"It's [been] eating at me for the last two years," he said, "that I'm going to die over this. ... Of all the things that could've killed me while I did work there, the rockfalls and all that stuff, I lived through all of that. And I find out years later I'm going to die over black lung. And it's heartbreaking."

Smith then mentioned his wife and two daughters and wondered what will happen to them when he's gone. He wondered about the grandchildren he may never see. His voice breaking again, he talked about the excitement of being a young miner, about the hope and promise of good pay and good lives.

"We was all young and strong and stout and they took advantage of us. Every one of us is either crippled or dead. We was all young men," he said, crying softly.

TL;DR modern coal mining is leading to faster deaths from black lung disease because they have to bore through quartz to get coal and quartz dust is even worse for lungs than coal dust.

The Kurds we're backing are even decent. We managed (for once!) to pick a proxy that wasn't completely terrible or incapable of keeping things together, and now we're going to let Turkey do whatever to them(probably genocide).

A cadaver synod would be a hell of a note to end the year on.

Biden's terrible and the only place Bernie belongs is at the top of the ticket(and failing that, in the Senate).
Additionally, it's hard to imagine the 2020 Democratic ticket being two old white men. They would at least go with some one younger(Biden and Bernie both) for VP, and there would also be pressure to have a woman and/or minority on the ticket(women and minorities being the key components of the party).

Macron really is the dumbest, and somehow that's how he's better than Le Pen. I'll take it!

uwnim posted...

Wasn't it just heavily skewed in her favor? Like all the delegates not decided by voting were automatically given to her before anything started and media connections were used to push the idea that voting for anyone else in the primaries was a waste of time.

Yeah. She also had undue influence on the DNC itself. It was arranged to dissuade Biden from running, but proved handy against Bernie. Her victory was never a foregone conclusion: it's important to remember that Bernie was literally just some no-name answer to a trivia question nationally prior to the primary and that he stumbled with certain issues and basically didn't bother campaigning in the South.
All that said, it's absolutely true that Hillary enjoyed unfair advantages. The hilarious thing is that she did not need them and marred her primary victory entirely unnecessarily, but then the 2008 primary was already an excellent demonstration of her lacking political wisdom.

Don't worry too much: FFV isn't very hard.
Here's a tip: characters who can equip rods can use them as an item. You have to go into the item menu and scroll up and select it. Though, of course, you can freely equip a rod via the item menu and then immediately "break" it. Rods can be expensive, but the fire/ice/thunder ones cast -aga level magic, so it's kind of busted.

7(Fire Emblem: No Subtitle), IMO. The story is a strong point, and the supports are good too. Unit balance is mostly good as well(notable exception: bows in general and archers in particular are seriously underpowered). Map design is strong as well.
Sacred Stones is good, but Path of Radiance is my pick for runner-up. Radiant Dawn isn't bad, but the story is dumb and it's both too ambitious and not ambitious enough, if that makes sense.

I buy a 2lb. bag of loose-leaf lapsang souchong every few months. Help.

I didn't have any from that list, but it did remind me to wishlist Total War: Three Kingdoms. To keep track of it, if nothing else. I can't stomach paying $60 for a game these days.

Dragonblade01 posted...

So is watching porn together cucking?

If your wife even looks at another man with desire, you've already been cucked, my friend. It's in the Bible, which has a perfect track record for suggesting common-sense regulations!

lincoln002 posted...

@REMercsChamp posted...

This is a one time $1000 allowance or some sort of bi-weekly payment?

12,000 a year

Oh, the $1,000 is monthly. That's a vital detail. And also that would be good in addition to the rest of the safety net(which needs shoring up, in any case).

$1 tier is great. The Adventure games haven't aged great, but they're enjoyable enough and Sonic CD is good.

The +$6.71 tier is great too, even if just for Generations, which was really good.

And $15 is an excellent price on Sonic Mania, which is great.

On Climate Change? No. But the Green New Deal seems like a good and potentially politically popular way to tackle the matter.

Philoktetes posted...

george orwell was a pseudonym

no one knows who he really was or his true beliefs outside the novelbooks

Eric Blair. Come on, this is all well-known. He was anarchist by leaning and acquired an enduring hatred for Soviets, Stalinists, and Stalin. He fought with POUM(Worker's Party for Marxist Unification) in the Spanish Civil War, which was purged by Soviet-backed elements in the Republican government, so he had personal experience with them. He hated them with the fury only a leftist could muster for another "left" ideology.

HenryAllbright posted...

It's still better than Life.

Getting a root canal is better than Life.

Josh Allen needs weapons. Go deep all day every day.

Kircheis posted...

A Novel Idea posted...

To make Classic more appealing developers should add extra characters and chapters that get unlocked if your earlier characters die. All the GBA Fire Emblems had replacement cavaliers, etc. who were functionally similar to those you started out with, but Shadow Dragon took it a step further by having additional Gaiden chapters if too many people died. I think thats a great way to incentivize Classic playthroughs.

It also kinda helps that Shadow Dragon had a bunch of actually irredeemably bad units in the roster (wtf are you gonna do with that 10% speed growth Roshea?!). So if anything there really isn't a particularly good reason NOT to kill off units for the Gaiden chapters.

Yeah, not only does basically every character in that game have no characterization, most of them are straight garbage.
Like, hmm, there are 6! characters with 10% speed growth(at least in their base classes).
Dorcas and Wallace, from 7, both infamously slow characters, have literally double that.

But, then, you could make several topics about the many ways in which Shadow Dragon is bad.

Ivynn posted...

The main thing that's said to separate Casual and Classic players is that Classic players have to weigh their options if resetting is worth it to save the unit they lost, especially if they spent an hour on the map or are close to beating it.

That never worked on me, because no matter how close I was to beating a map, no matter how many RNG blessed level ups I got, I always reset because I did not like losing units ever.

Yeah, I basically never accepted losing a character anyway. It's not like losing a character is consequence-free on Casual anyway: it's kind of a big deal if one of your front-liners gets gibbed by a crit and exposes some one squishy to axefacitis. And Awakening/Fates are quite as good or challenging to begin with, so making them less frustrating made them more playable for me.

https://static.pokemonpets.com/images/monsters-images-800-800/746-Wishiwashi.png
I'd say you hurt its feelings, but it always looks like it has a Sharpedo bearing down on it.

It has Dogfish Head though.

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1073030060171509761

How about... no. Sometimes political media is too fixated on personalities instead of policies. The whole country JUST went through an exhausting midterm election. We need a break. Can we instead talk about healthcare, a living wage, legalizing cannabis, GND, & other issues?

For what it's worth, that's what AOC herself had to say.
And, of course, Senator Sanders is right there, bullying Bezos and spearheading denouncing the Saudis and our support of their war in Yemen.

GrindcoreShark posted...

Antifar posted...

This was basically lost in the transition to 3D; the upper and lower paths of levels were now just one. Which makes it feel very linear and less satisfying as a platformer.

They had it right with the Adventure games. It was just ruined with Unleashed and their garbage Boost gameplay

You spend a lot of time either figuratively or literally on rails in the Adventure games though. Not to mention the camera is awful and the physics suffer from weird hiccups. I mean, they're not bad, don't get me wrong, but they're not great either.
I actually liked most of the Modern levels in Generations, because it felt like they finally managed to make Sonic somewhat maneuverable. That's one of the huge problems of the Modern formula in 3D: it's really hard to both have Sonic screaming around at the speed of sound and allowing the player to meaningfully control him.
The 2D games have much less of a problem with it in part because there's one less dimension the player has to move in, and also in part because they spend a lot more time on platforming sections and gadgets that encourage the player to slow up a little while usually allowing an experienced player to navigate these things quickly.

It's important to realize that Thanos is a bloody-minded psychopath. Maybe he could increase the resources available, but Thanos views the horrific trauma of all that death as vital to his goals. Thanos himself came to his way of thinking only through trauma, and thus he likely believes that's the only path to "enlightenment".

clearaflagrantj posted...

Smashingpmkns posted...

The age requirement is pretty dumb tbh.

They should abolish it.

Then we could have some believable zany comedy movies about child presidents

It is undemocratic, even if practically speaking(the way our system works), you're unlikely to see some one younger than 35 run anyway, so I'm down for that.

They shouldn't. She needs to save us all from Chuck Schumer first.