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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman says Trump Jr. emails are "almost a smoking cannon." Told me "there's no question this is treason."

https://mobile.twitter.com/Craigipedia/status/884806568319090688

CNN's @evanperez reports (11:25am) that the FBI did not have prior knowledge of this Trump Jr. meeting until recent scoops 6/

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Dark Young Link posted...

There must not be a lot of truly educated people if we've allowed ourselves to be strung along time and time again for so long.

There are definitely not as many educated people as there should be, yes. In general it would be awesome if everyone was!
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Lopen posted...

As someone who took several political science classes in college I'm kinda curious what I was supposed to have learned in there that makes me "more qualified to vote." I have a much better idea of how the government works than a random farmer dude, probably. I have an idea of what past presidents did in their terms. I don't think knowledge of checks and balances helps me lay down an educated vote.

Knowledge of how the government works and knowing what past Presidents did in their terms are both extremely useful skills to have. Knowing how past Presidents acted in their terms, and the situations of how they acted, helps you discern how a current and/or prospective President will act in the future. It's much easier to smell a rat if you've seen rats throughout history (in general, reading up on history is pretty helpful!). Learning about checks and balances helps you understand how the government works which is never a bad thing, although perhaps not quite as essential to voting.

And this is my conjecture, but I think that people who pursue education are also more likely to pursue the independent acquisition of knowledge. If you get your info just from one news channel, you're not forming a very strong opinion.

Jakyl25 posted...

KP heading down the path towards Jim Crow

I don't actually know what this means!
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I mean, we literally just saw this happen where people of lower education voted in someone who tricked them with platitudes and is now fucking them in the ass, but sure ignorance is as good as knowledge let's go with that. Personally I think evolution is a myth myself.
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I'm pretty sure that the guy who went to school and took classes and history and politics would have a better idea of who to vote on then the guy who spent his entire life farming.

Doesn't mean that farmer isn't an important part of society, it means he is less qualified to vote intelligently, and thinking otherwise is asinine. Essentialy as asinine is saying that I would be an 'intelligent' tradesman just because I believe I could.
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I think it's a sad state of affairs when the statement 'educated people are smarter than uneducated people' is something that causes a debate. Yeah it's not necessarily someone's fault if they don't have an education, and they would most likely be just as smart as the educated people if they had gotten one. It also doesn't matter at all in the slightest for the purposes of this conversation. Educated people BY DEFINITION know more and prioritize knowledge acquisition more than uneducated people do. On average, the educated person is going to know what the right thing to do with their vote is more often than an uneducated person would, simply because they know more.

I keep coming back to one quote recently that's always stuck with me - "democracy is saying that my ignorance is as important as your knowledge". It seems pretty damn relevant these days! Ignorance is excused to an absurd degree and it's ridiculous. We live in an age where information is the easiest to come by its ever been. You still have to be careful due to FAKE NEWS (I mean actual fake news) but FAKE NEWS has existed in every point at history.

I'll be blunt - out country is fuckin' stupid and prizes ignorance. There's a reason that we're basically the only major country in the world that didn't agree to the Paris Accords. There's a reason we're one of the lowest believers in evolution in major countries in the world. In the US, ignorance is not only accepted, but encouraged as an alternative to science and reasoning.
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Biggest problem with the movie is that right after Peter screws up by almost getting a lot of people killed through heroics, an act that the movie makes a big deal of, he then proceeds to nearly crash a plane into a city. And no one cares. This is the kind of stuff that Civil War was fought over in the first place! It's not like Vulture getting the weapons was this huge immediate threat either.
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*pops in*

Yeah this discussion is about what I expected. I don't think I've ever seen a fighting game character in Mercs be consistently agreed on. That's what happens when you have gameplay that doesn't match up with story, as well as a loosely-defined story that takes multiple paths and contradicts itself.
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I don't remember the movie that well but does Cloud actually start off battles with LB? He definitely didn't do that with Sephiroth!
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

A) He has free usage of all of his limit breaks except Omnislash. They're all very casually activated (anytime you see him glow blue? That's a limit break).

I don't see how this is different from normal Cloud. I think you're implying that Cloud can Limit Break whenever but in practice I don't agree with that at all. If he could do that he would have done it against Sephiroth right away. Limit Break is always something that needs to be built up to.

B) He oneshots Bahamut SIN, who is tanky as fuck and highly destructive.
C) He cuts buildings in half.

His strength is good, yeah, but I think that's the only advantage he has over Sora (who also cuts buildings in half).

(And Seph is at the peak of his powers in AC, per word of god. Not sure where the idea that he's weaker came from.)

Fair enough if true, but Seph still ran rings around him. I don't think Cloud put up the slightest bit of resistance until he cheesed the fight via OP Limit Break. If Sephiroth had intended to kill from the start...or like, at any point, Cloud would be dead.

Essentially I just think that Cloud would have trouble hitting Sora. Sora is far more agile and attacks much faster. Sora's also got a better magic arsenal. The only advantage Cloud has is higher Attack but it's not that much higher. Cloud is legit but in this matchup it's one I'm confident he loses, even if it wouldn't be a stomp or anything.
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What's so special about AC Cloud? I watched almost all his fight clips and he never seemed special outside of being able to essentially fly. His attacks aren't super fast, he's not especially durable, and he gets rocked by a weakened Sephiroth and only wins because Seph, as usual, screwed around for too long.
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AC Cloud doesn't really seem very impressive to me, relatively speaking. He's basically a Dissidia character and Sora would beat those
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Tom Bombadil posted...

personally I thought homestuck had started up again

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

do you guys want to talk about CNN some more

Yeah I just want to say that Wang's stance on this has slowly transformed from 'wrong' to 'disgusting'. Recent posts on CNN deserving death threats or whatever is gross.
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Yeah, I haven't. I played most of them at some point simply because of all the praise they got, but few of them stuck with me so I haven't been in a rush to get to the others.

If nothing else, I've played Fusion and Zero Mission and from what I've heard the framework is very similar, so I'm pretty sure I'd like the game. It's just not high priority.
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Like I said, not really a fair shake cause the controls felt so bad, also don't remember it well at all! I should pick up one of the rereleases someday,
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Zero Mission is good stuff. I liked it more than Super Metroid from what I played, although I didn't give SM a very fair shot (emulator PC keyboard controls back in the 90s wooo).
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Eddv posted...

Yes it is. Literally every time you waltz in here its to defend some shitlord. You use all the same tactics you used to use when you kept the fucking Gamergate topics going.

You literally dont otherwise come in here.

You should have listened to me last topic! Would have saved us around 500 posts of nothing!

KP on the last episode of Dragon Ball Z:

Wang only posts here to support GamerGater / 4chan / The_Donald / troll / ect. types. Like half his recent posts have been about Milo's book sales. He just has an affinity for those groups.

P.S. Yes, Wang, I understand that not ALL of your posts are 100% about that sort of thing. It's a very disproportionately high amount though.
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I just use the chrome browser that automatically blocks ads.
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Reg posted...

Corrik's attempt at gaslighting is absolutely fucking pathetic.

Damnit was just about to post this
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I think age matters in general. You shouldn't really be going in hard on a 15-year old. 15 year olds are all morons.

As far as internet anonymity goes, while to a degree I want to protect it, it's hard not to enjoy how quickly people backpedal when their name is put to the horrible bile they shit out of the asshole they call their mouth.
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Wang only posts here to support GamerGater / 4chan / The_Donald / troll / ect. types. Like half his recent posts have been about Milo's book sales. He just has an affinity for those groups.
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Whichever year the housing market crashed is the worst, tons of people lost their homes and livelihood

2016 is a close second
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Peridiam posted...

I feel like I picked the worst time to get into this game. I keep getting disconnected, can't even find my character now. Hopefully just a holiday thing, I guess?

Servers are getting DDOSd every now and then. It sucks. Only started happening once the expansion dropped.
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BowserCuffs posted...

Patriotism is absolutely dangerous. Especially since so few patriotism followers qualify as patriots, since they tend to love the country more than the people that make up the country.

This reminded me of one of my favorite comic pages.


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I think my favorite parts of those political cartoons is that he always draws Trump as this Greek god with a perfect physique/hair. I think someone has a bit of a crush!
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Peridiam posted...

this game is pretty dry so far, only level 12 though

do i have to get to like level 50+ for it to be compelling?

Early levels were made really casualized to accomodate new MMO players so it's dry early on yeah. I think stuff starts to pick up a lot once you get hit Level 30 and get your job crystal, and the fights/abilities get better and better as the game progresses. Right now the quality is very consistently high.
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By the way, what servers are you newbies on?
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Yeah I don't think there's an option for that. Best thing I can find is Character Configuration -> Display Name Settings -> Other PCs. Set the Display Name Settings to 'When Targeted' and you'll be able to see their info by left-clicking once. Don't know if there's a hover option.
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This is becoming an extremely aggressive conversation for what is a very unimportant issue.
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Peridiam posted...

is there a button to compare the item i'm wearing to the one i'm looking at?

Yeah. It's an option when right clicking on the item or something.

As far as the tooltip hover goes, I don't know the answer to that but I don't think it matters. Name/guild/class are easily discernable just from looking at people and there's no Alliance/Horde thing to worry about.
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Also I swear at least a few people on the dev team are Skies of Arcadia fans. The Void Ark/Weeping City/Dun Scaith storyline in particular was just overflowing with SKY PIRATE stuff.
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Ugh, again?
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It's been working flawlessly for days and started having some server issues a few hours ago. Bad timing!
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Dark Young Link posted...

It's a forced meme

That part alone sums it up nicely.

Not really. It's actually a very spot on analysis of recent cultural trends, people just don't take it seriously because he presents it in a way that comes off as a meme.

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Also #JerryWasRight
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I really dislike the ending of S3E1. Turned one of the best episodes into something that was just okay.
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I like the Astral Era part of A Realm Reborn more than what came before it because it did a great job of fleshing out the world. The previous parts were more setup. In Astral Era, the world and your character's place in it are more defined. The plot also has a crazy ending which raised the bar for FF14 storytelling.

Heavensward is awesome the whole way through. No drop in quality there at any point.
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Yeah. You'll hit 50 around completing about 1/3 of all available content though, so you'll still have plenty of time to be maining RDM if you want to.
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Healers will never do anywhere near as much damage as the DPS or even the tanks. However, the DPS they do contributes a lot. In tough content it can be the difference between a close victory or close defeat. It also speeds up dungeons by a lot. There's plenty of healers out there that never DPS and playing with them is kind of eh.

If you want to be primarily DPS while also having some healing on the side, Red Mage is your best bet.
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Tales of Berseria
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I actually enjoyed the pre-Heavensward stuff more than what came before it. It does drag on too long, though.
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Yeah the A Realm Reborn (2.0) story, while it sets things up nicely, isn't nearly as good as the Heavensward (3.0) or Stormblood (4.0) stories.

What do you mean by 'hit a wall'? If you're only using one class then the gear you get just from main story quests should be all you need to worry about for a while.
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7 Days to Die is everything you're looking for to the letter.
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Super Sonic maybe solos even without Sindragosa or the rest of his team>
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If you're just looking for a pure casual experience and not push DPS too hard, Bard is far the easiest class to play at the moment. Monk's not far behind. If you're looking to push each class to its limit though, they're all about equally difficult, and whichever one is the toughest to play depends on the fight in question. Dragoon, Monk, and Black Mage like their enemy to stay relatively still so they can build up their meters and hit positionals correctly. Bard and Summoner excel at fights with a lot of movement because they can attack on the go. Stuff like that.

Here's a basic list for you:

Melee DPS:
Monk
Dragoon
Ninja
Samurai

Ranged DPS:
Bard
Black Mage
Summoner
Machinist

Hybrid:
Red Mage
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Leveling a single class in FF14 is super easy because the main scenario quests give tons of EXP. After that if you want to multiclass, you'll have to grind, but it's not terrible because having a single class at max level gives bonus EXP to all the others.

Wedge Antilles posted...

One last question since this seems to be the place to ask.

How would you rank the classes in terms of easiest rotation to hardest?

Out of the DPS classes?
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