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Pretty annoyed Barbara Lee lost the Caucus chair position, because she's to Jeffries's left, but I guess they didn't want yet another septuagenarian in House Democratic Leadership. Will need to see how committee assignments work out to say how good or bad this is.

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1067874999577559040
As expected, the Problem Solver Caucus's attempt at a coup fell flat. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries from NY-8 has been elected as Caucus Chairman, Joe Crowley's old position. The PSC has already signaled it will not oppose Rep. Pelosi in the floor vote, making her election as Speaker of the House assured.

That would 100% be used to punish dissent or any other vaguely deviant behavior.

It even finally got Regenerator, which should be its normal ability given what Wooper is based on.
I've never used it or Whiscash though.

Sonic the Hedgehog --> Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Donkey Kong Country --> Donkey Kong Country 2

I find playing around nomads really frustrating. They can keep a standing horde the size of several (relatively undeveloped) counties but their troops are also way better(to be fair, horse archers should rule, particularly on plains), so dealing with them is hell. And they're frustratingly stable in vanilla!
Naturally, I have Cuman game going(867) to see how the AI likes it. Results suggest not much so far!

Finally...

Legs From Here To Homeworld is part of this, but there's more here(also Blue and Yellow Pearl!)
Spoilers if you're not up to date, obviously.

Be large and in charge. Vote Bowser 2018.

It was a terrible decision, driven by dishonest campaigning and a misplaced sense of nationalism. The modern U.K. is not terribly notable politically, economically, or militarily. It will never again be able to comfortably hold the continent at arms length.

pres_madagascar posted...

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JediMasterTrump posted...

What does this have to do with Thots paying their fair share? Lol.

It means they get to keep not paying their taxes.

Except most of them do pay their taxes

This is probably true. You could report such income as gifts, for example, and the IRS generally doesn't care very much about the specifics of that income as long as it is correctly reported. Nor does it care if you're here illegally or anything else like that. It doesn't have the time or resources, in any case.

By the way, this is the form you're supposed to file in the event you think some one's gotten money via illegal activities: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f3949a.pdf
You may realize that the IRS wants you to give the person's real name, SSN, home address, an estimate of the size of the illegal income and the nature of the illegal income.

Because liberal democracies the world over have largely failed their constituents economically. Most don't want fascism, but the elites view it as preferable to the anger and resentment created by decades of economic mismanagement being directed at them(i.e. where it should be directed).

Guide posted...

Hey, while we're on the topic of pokemon, what's the good shit I can get on the 3ds version of yellow to transfer over to sun/moon? I just got it for my flight, but I haven't played it since. There's fissure machamp, but they can't have no guard and fissure at the same time.

Anything you want, if you use the Mew glitch. Except Mew, unless you use an insanely dangerous glitch to manipulate its Trainer ID.
The TM list in RBY is pretty dire though, and Clefairy/Clefable can't learn Soft-boiled in them. However, anything you transfer from RBY or GSC will have its hidden ability upon transfer.

As far as shinies go, I have time to look things over, and..I'll list a few ones I really like.
Charizard, Ponyta, Voltorb/Electrode, Mew, Yanma/Yanmega, Umbreon, Flygon, Glalie, Beldum/Metang/Metagross , Victini, Serperior, Emboar, Stoutland, Ferroseed, Chandelure, Mega-Gengar, Yveltal, Oranguru, Bruxish, Buzzwole, Blacephalon

It feels like the default is "make it green". If it's already green, make it a worse shade of green.

LightHawKnight posted...

Trump will probably deflect and get out of this with his stupidity like always.

I would be shocked if Trump actually suffers criminal consequences too. This country simply doesn't hold presidents accountable for their crimes. Never has.

I think it's much more straightforward than Mueller intentionally setting up. It's just Manafort tried to play Mueller and he's not even half as smart as he thinks he is. So Mueller figures out real quick Manafort is lying and lets him feed bad information to Trump, information which Trump uses to probably lie his ass off to Mueller, because he thinks he's smart too. Now that Trump has ensnared himself, Mueller gets to nail Manafort to the wall again and has a bunch more material to work with.
All because he's a competent prosecutor facing off with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Pancake posted...

OG All That

og all that didn't have amanda bynes. she came later and ruined literally everything. she was such a poochie.

You realize they revived it in the 2000s, right? I speak of the initial run, which was really good, as opposed to whatever that was.

Darkman124 posted...

tldr: she became bojack horseman

also yeah that site is clearly trying to max loading of their ads

Oh, sorry. I didn't notice because my browser is a fortress.

In any case, I'm glad, because it's easy for these people to go off the deep end. Plus, the fact she apparently was depressed for months over looking like a boy in She's The Man(the entire point of the movie) makes me think she maybe had/has body image issues, which must be absolutely rife in Hollywood.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Phantom_Nook posted...

all of Orange County turned blue.

Democrats haven't won here since the 50s just for everyone's information.

Yeah, the OC is where Nixon was from and powered him into the Senate and later powered Reagan to the governor's mansion. One of the cradles of modern American conservatism. Republicans are doomed to be a permanent minority in the country's largest state without it.

Damn_Underscore posted...

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Damn_Underscore posted...

When Dianne Feinstein is reelected again in 2018, you know that people's actual ideologies and voting records mean nothing to most people.

Yeah. GOP areas voted for the more far left candidate was hillarious. Literally opposite of all their policy positions but they werent voting on that...

Who actually supports Dianne Feinstein's policy positions though?

California voters? They did re-elect her by a healthy margin. Such a shame.

I'm high-strung and generally anxious.

http://www.papermag.com/amanda-bynes-break-the-internet-2621549455.html?rebelltitem=24
I'm happy about it, because I'm old enough that I watched OG All That back in the day. Ask Ashley was one of my favorite segments. /flopic
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I know what you want, CE.

I don't know what the universe where Clinton is elected would look like, but it might have looked something like her husband's presidency. Her recent statements have shown she's not very far from Trump on immigration. She wouldn't be nearly as bad as Trump, we would have Justice Garland instead of Justice Gorsuch. That's what I'm confident of. This past mid-term, however, would have been an absolute blood-bath if the Democrats had to carry the anchor that is HRC and having one of her lackeys running the DNC. Probably the Democrats lose Montana, Nevada, and Arizona in the Senate at least. Probably John Kasich is the front-runner to challenge Clinton in 2020, as his Never-Trump stance would have been vindicated politically, but he's not much better than Trump on anything but tone.
Regardless of what happens with the presidency, Republicans near veto-proof majorities and have an Article V Constitutional Convention in their back pocket.

SSJGrimReaper posted...

Turtles In Time

I played the crap out of that game when I was young. Donatello for life!
It's hard as balls and I can't even get to the time-traveling these days, but it's still great.

Verdekal posted...

What would we have to talk about with them? They have an IQ of 25 or something.

I doubt that's quite true, but imagine something like a horse trying to speak a human language, because horses make cats look like dolphins by comparison.

No, pretty sure homemade ramen is amazing.

-Avocados cook nicely and go well with pasta in a primavera-esque arrangement.
-Properly-prepared turkey is almost always better than chicken
-Cilantro and dill are garbage-tier herbs.

Sen. Gillibrand earned my respect by calling Franken out publicly. Was glad to learn she has some principles.
I'm not the least bit surprised that these donors don't get that actually supporting women means holding the party to an actual standard, but then, it doesn't affect them.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Yeah, it's tied to control of holy sites. There are two ways to do it: one way only requires 3 of the 5 holy sites, but also requires the faith to have a Moral Authority of 50, which might not be feasible. The second way requires control of all holy sites but doesn't have an MA requirement. Both ways also require 750 piety.

There are other ways to get Moral Authority, of course: raiding infidel temples, successful county conquests, paragons of virtue, building temples, certain festivals and successful county conversions all increase it slightly. You can now also build a "Great Pillar" for a cool 5% MA. Conversion rate is affected greatly by the moral authority of the religions involved, but unreformed religions are penalized, as noted.

Speaking of reforming, I'm using a mod that lets you pick 3 doctrines instead of the two, and I did successfully reform Romuva. Unyielding/Defenders of Dievas/Astrology/Stable. I don't really power-game, but the Kingdom of Lithuania will be well-insulated from threats, from within and without.
A note on natures: I've read that they made a mistake insofar as the chances the AI will attempt to convert a county. Only Unyielding and Proselytizing have proper weights: the rest have none, meaning the AI will basically never try to convert anything if you select other Natures. It does sound like they have a bug-fixing patch in the oven though, so hopefully it's fixed soon.

Being exposed to corporate "culture" has pushed me further left.

Ambitious and (to a lesser extent) Envious and Proud are bad traits for vassals. Content and Humble make them significantly less troublesome. If you want to, you can try and game it a bit by offering to educate your vassal's heir(s).

I'm personally fooling around trying to reform a faith. Germanic seems to reform ~90% of the time in the 769 and 867 starts, so I figured I would try my hand with Romuva. I already have 3 holy sites, but moral authority is exactly that high(once you get big, you're basically the only Romuva ruler), so I'm going for a fourth and then scrounging up the last 10 authority. Definitely doing Temporal Power, and not even just power-gaming: I'm the only independent Romuva realm, so it doesn't make sense for their to be another power-base.

Also, good luck if you want to reform Suomenusko or Slavic. The holy sites are scattered everywhere, and the former is on the chopping block from the Germanic blobs. The latter is super-vulnerable to early conversions and getting overrun by hordes.
Still better than Tengri though.

They literally found a fossil with a T-Rex tooth lodged in it where the bone had grown around. That's as definitive as proof gets that T-Rex was hunting live prey.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/t-rex-tooth-found-lodged-in-escaped-prey-1.1401448
In any case, there aren't a lot of animals that make a living purely from scavenging. Even hyenas, the stereotypical lazy scavenger, do a lot of hunting. T-Rex would undoubtedly have done both, the only question seems to be how much it did one vs. the other.

And, while we're on the subject: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes
It's an article about the difficulties of imagining what an extinct animal would have looked like based solely on fossil evidence.

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/46278/image.jpg
Sweet dreams. They're supposed to be swans

Shadowplay posted...

CE is a palace of wisdom compared to the average Facebook feed.

And even that's better than news article comments.

Only between nuclear powers. Powers without nukes still throw down, and nuclear powers go to war against non-nuclear powers(this is literally why Iran and North Korea wanted/s nukes: the U.S. and/or Israel won't invade another nuclear power).

It will be interesting to see. I hope it works out: the NFL has a dire need for a real developmental league and having decent football in spring would be cool.

An incredibly atmospheric dungeon, from the screaming scientist outside to the weird physics and darkness inside to the boss at the bottom.
You can almost forgive it for being a teleporter dungeon. Almost.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

I'm late to the topic but my gatherings from the aether are she is an establishment Dem, and thus tainted in the same way Hillary is. ie she's been around too long and hasn't single handily pass a progressive agenda, and isn't ideologically pure enough. Basically it feels like a lot of ignorant nonsense from Justice Dems that have conned into the years worth of GOP propaganda against her, without realizing it.

I don't really think about her much but the few people I've talked to just have vague criticisms.

But it's the Blue Dogs(*ahem* "Problem Solver" Caucus) who are currently trying to replace her?(hilariously, none of them are willing to stand as a candidate)
Don't really get where you're coming from with the whole Justice Dem rant.

Balrog0 posted...

When you go down the list on an issue by issue basis it seems pretty mixed. Pelosi continues to punt on the idea of marijuana legalization, for instance, while Moulton is an open supporter. Pelosi takes the old school institutional track, essentially saying its a states issue but that the feds should respect state decisions.

What issues is Pelosi notably more liberal on?

The problem is that the only candidate they even bothered floating was Marcia Fudge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2018/11/19/former-judge-brutally-assaulted-his-wife-now-shes-dead-hes-been-arrested/
She, uhh, supported that guy. None of them have even declared their candidacy, they're just trying to make a clumsy power-play and AOC et. all are attempting to use their doomed attempt at a coup to get leverage on Pelosi, because they (presumably) also don't have the votes to depose her(though AOC's tweet definitely suggests she would like to).

Oh, so now they're admitting Palin is dumber than a box rocks?

ORAS is better. Less hand-holdy, more available Pokemon with less hassle. Also, Secret Bases are pretty fun and it's cool to be able to fly around Hoenn even if it's more a gimmick than an actual mechanic.

myzz7 posted...

i didn't buy apoc. i like stell but not as much as EU4. not sure if this is finally the update to make the game more interesting. getting rid of tiles is the biggest, potential, hype for me honestly.

Yeah, it's really exciting. They seem to be replacing it with a lot of interesting mechanics that will allow even "normal"(i.e. non-gestalt) empires to play a bit differently from each other and make planets feel more interesting. And, of course, make room for a lot more pops. And the Galactic Market and slave trade will both be very interesting. Feels like the game is finally on a firm foundation.

I'm pleasantly surprised it's coming so soon. Hopefully they'll have time before their winter vacation to do the inevitably-necessary hot-fix.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

I've been playing a lot of vanilla Stellaris. Haven't even touched any of the expansions yet. Such a fantastic game.

You definitely want at least Utopia. Apocalypse and Leviathans are really good too. Synthetic Dawn has machines. Distant Stars has the L-Gates and some events.

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/on-sale/
It just so happens they have a big sale going on. In terms of Stellaris, all of the expansion packs are on-sale. 33% off on Distant Stars(may be the first time that's gone on sale), the rest 50% off.

ledbowman posted...

Ok but when she rolls over and dies on that reform and says "What could we do" don't be surprised.

Yes, I'm sure Tim Ryan or Marcia Fudge would work really hard on that.
Pelosi needs to go, but no one to her left is willing to run against her at this time. Best to back her and knife the *checks NPR* "Problem-Solver Caucus"? Really?
Anyways, best to knife those losers in the back.

Hey, so the Chiefs and Rams combined to score 13 touchdowns tonight. That's as many as the Bills have scored all season.

Warrior Lodges are awesome. Started the game as the Duchess of Kiev in 769, forged a big realm, became a horrifically-scarred murder machine, went on a legendary journey and got my head crushed by a giant Greek guy. 10/10, would go again.
She totally would have murdered that giant if she was in her prime, but she was, like, 64, and being old hurts your personal combat score.
Seriously though, warrior lodges are the best. Fight everyone, sacrifice random dudes to your Gods, get missions that make raiding extra profitable. My one complaint is that everything seems annoyingly stable in vanilla.

She does a lot of videos on Instagram. She recently did an AMA with the Justice Democrats and also a lengthy video of her just cooking at home and chatting, apparently.
I don't really *get* Instagram myself, but she is innately skilled with social media in a way only a millennial could be. Plus, she's smart and an unapologetic social democrat in a time when most Democratic politicians are uncomfortable with being called "liberals"(to be fair, many of them are such garbage they don't deserve that much).

Oh, and you know, there was that whole thing where she was supposed to be the latest in a long-line of primary-challengers to lose to the 4th-highest ranking member of the House Democratic Caucus by 20+% and won by double-digits mostly because she canvassed her district front-and-back for a full year while Crowley lined the pockets of the party's consultant class and sent out the occasional mailer. People love a good underdog story.

Do the Browns realize that there's a big knowledge gap between an avid fan and even a poor coach? I realize Condi Rice is pretty smart, but does she have an intimate knowledge of schemes and football strategy?

Some walking stereotype uses literal magic in the ring to disorient his opponents. A 500 lb. man with severe cranial deformities is allowed to fight a dude whose a foot shorter and 350+ lbs. lighter.

They stealth-released the next episode at Comic Con or some event like that. They weren't supposed to. It was a pretty momentous episode(Legs From Here to Homeworld).
No official release has been announced.

Doe posted...

ToadallyAwesome posted...

The great Gatsby

Nah TGG is definitely still relevant and important. Besides just being interesting as a piece of literature and the dynamics of characters like Nick.

Plus, it's short and pretty obvious as to what it's about.
Like, contrast that with something like Frankenstein. Or worse, anything by Dostoevsky.

WizardofHoth posted...

Personal experience

Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings is THE hidden gem game for the Nintendo Gamecube.

I do have to chime in. It's a really good, engaging RPG and the magnus system is really unique(they pared it down in the prequel, for better and worse).