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Ackerman was not engaging in a public debate; he was privately strategizing about how to suppress the news. And his fellow journolists, while disagreeing with him, did so "only on strategic grounds":

"Spencer, you're wrong," wrote Mark Schmitt, now an editor at the American Prospect. "Calling Fred Barnes a racist doesn't further the argument, and not just because Juan Williams is his new black friend, but because that makes it all about character. The goal is to get to the point where you can contrast some _thing_--Obama's substantive agenda--with this crap." . . .

Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman's strategy. "I think it's worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he's trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he's not going [to] change the way politics works?"

But it was Ackerman who had the last word. "Kevin, I'm not saying OBAMA should do this. I'm saying WE should do this."

If anybody on the list objected in principle to Ackerman's idea of slandering people, including a fellow journalist, as racist, the Caller missed that part of the story. (We'll be happy to report it if a Journolist member would care to supply us with the evidence.) What Ackerman proposed was to carry out a political dirty trick in order to suppress the news and thereby aid a candidate for public office. That's about as unethical as journalism can get.

The final product of this debate was a pathetic "open letter," which, as we noted at the time, was signed by 41 self-described "journalists and media analysts," nearly all of whom were affiliated with universities, left-wing publications or left-wing think tanks.

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so they don't have to argue with them over effective policy. 41 members of this journalist group signed a letter affirming this is the strategy they will take.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703724104575379200412040286

The "Journolist" scandal has deepened with new revelations that participants in the now-defunct email list for ideologically approved journalists--no conservatives allowed--engaged in efforts to suppress news damaging to then-candidate Barack Obama.

The Daily Caller reports ABC News's "tough questioning" of Obama at a 2008 debate with Hillary Clinton "left many of [the Journolist participants outraged":

"George [Stephanopoulos]," fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is "being a disgusting little rat snake."

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

Most damning is a long quote from a Spencer Ackerman, who worked for something called the Washington Independent:

I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them--Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares--and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

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HylianFox posted...

Why not a show where the commies win
Or a show where Jesus dies and doesn't come back to life
Or a show about Julius Caesar not getting assassinated
Or a show where the dinosaurs didn't go extinct
Or a show where Aquaman is the most popular superhero

I'm almost positive all of those (except the last) already happened.
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As someone who's worked on a cruise ship, no.

It's just a big hotel that you can't leave, and are 1000% more likely to catch a cold in.
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FF_Redux posted...

Ok it does work. But the chocolate milkshake itself is disgusting. Should try with strawberry since I like thst one.

I told ya you done goofed.
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The_Ivory_Man posted...

Todd confirmed you can play privately, even mentioning certain kinds of mods will be restricted to those servers.

He confirmed that, unless you had a private server, you would always be playing on a server with other people. So you can play "privately" in F76 in the sense that you can play World of Warcraft privately.

As for private servers, he described it as a "service", which more than likely means it will be a subscription. So if you want to play on your own or only with some friends, you'll have to pay for it. Seems kind of backwards, doesn't it?

The_Ivory_Man posted...

What shift in tone?

In the case of Fallout 3, the series went from a story-based isometric action-RPG to a story-based FPS action-RPG

In the case of Fallout 76, the series will go from a story-based FPS action-RPG to a survival-based resource management MMORPG.

That's a way more radical shift, don't ya think?
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mario2000 posted...

so whens it gonna be finished

Sooner than Democrats' new "no borders" policy will ever be.
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You're more likely to die on an escalator than by walking up stairs, which is appropriate in a way whoever made that thing probably doesn't realize.
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"Redhats" control every branch of government and are about to make the SCOTUS even more redhat-y.

I think you're projecting your own insecurities onto others so you feel better about yourself.
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Mind Flayers?
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The tariffs
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I understand why people are pissed. I'm slightly annoyed, but I'm hoping it'll support offline too like Conan and Ark. I'm really not interested in a Division dark zone game with crafting...

Todd said there is no offline option.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

It's no different than the leap from 2 to 3 though. It's actually less of a shift.

There was a shift in gameplay between 2 and 3, not a shift in theme.
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FF_Redux posted...

Never done this american custom just ordrd it at mcdonalds drive through.

Got chocolate

>McDonalds

ya done goofed. Wendy's shakes are the only ones worth dipping fries in.
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Chocolate easily
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I love Fallout games. I even put 40 hours into Fallout 4, one of the worst in the whole series IMO. Freedom and exploration are big things for me personally, and Fallout has a really interesting setting that rewards exploration because you never could guess what you'll find next. The Fallout series was always a Mad Max-inspired game where you're this lone dude in a crazy post-apocalyptic world full of wild danger and makeshift societies, and exploring the land was exciting and made you feel like you were Max Rockatansky, stumbling onto dire situations and crazy personalities, with serious moral choices to make.

Remember that part in Beyond Thunderdome where Max builds a house and rigs up a network of lamps around it? And then he plants a garden and decorates the whole thing with pixel art?

I will never understand Bethesda's sudden desire to add construction and interior design into all their games. It was pointless and boring in Skyrim. They made it practically mandatory in Fallout 4, and it was still boring. There was zero motivation to maintain your little settlements; all they did was hassle you to come protect them from bees while you were probably off doing something fun. And the only reward was some extra fast-travel points and sometimes some (usually unnecessary) help in combat.

All they have shown us so far of F76 is that same old construction crap. They also showed us fights with the mythical creatures of Virginia, which pretty much ruins the anticipation of seeing them in-game. The Grafton monster kind of loses its mystique when you see it getting killed in every single trailer they put out.

I know that not everyone has my particular sensibilities here. Maybe you like the construction elements. Maybe you enjoy building the perfect little town with the most efficient electrical wiring and the most appropriate furniture feng shui. Here's the problem though: Fallout 76 is still a massive open-world, right? A world that, presumably, you're meant to explore and find quests in? What, for the love of god, is the point of having a pretty and well-fortified base when you're going to spend a minimal amount of time there? Crafting seems to be the biggest reason you would ever need to return (making restocking a bigger pain in the ass than it used to be), since there's going to be no shops since the only humans will be other players, which brings us to the next problem...

This game looks like just a AAA Rust. Collecting and using resources seems to be the primary focus. That's the major thread in all the interviews about the game. Whereas in all previous games they talked about the story and locations you would get to explore, all they talk about in F76 along with construction is PVP, resource-gathering, and raiding boss monsters for loot. It's fucking ES:O with survival elements.

There's nothing wrong with that in of itself, and there's no reason a new game in a series can't go into a different genre, but given Bethesda's track record of this kind of material, I am powerfully uninterested.

tl;dr: Needs more Mad Max and less Minecraft.
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The mom doesn't look like she gave a single fuck...
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The Emperor was telling him to pick it up...
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A_Good_Boy posted...

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CrimsonRage posted...

imagine disliking a news source because they cover things like racism, sexism, and homophobia.

They cover these things dishonestly.

That's the problem.

How so?

https://notvice.com/fact-checking-vice-a-fiction-2d4821001163
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CrimsonRage posted...

imagine disliking a news source because they cover things like racism, sexism, and homophobia.

They cover these things dishonestly.

That's the problem.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Also, thats how many views all of his videos combined get in a month.

So? It's not like they don't count a unique view of Buzzfeed article from a year ago.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

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What GMG does do is draw a large and growing audience for its journalismaccording to ComScore, it drew 58 million unique U.S. visitors this Marchand make money off it. (Revenues are believed within GMG to have been up by a double-digit percentage last year; Univision declined to comment.) It is leanGMGs staff of about 200 pales in comparison to other digital media staffsand, according to a statement Univision issued in response to questions from GMG, thriving. BuzzFeeds news division alone is about 300 people, and that doesnt include BuzzFeed entertainment and BuzzFeed media brands, which include the likes of Tasty and Nifty. BuzzFeeds total staff is roughly 1,700 people.

Not only is GMG lean, but it is in an increasingly strong position relative to competitors, in part because of its relative lack of reliance on Facebook. According to ComScore, Buzzfeeds U.S. unique visitors were at 67 million this March, down nearly 20 percent from March 2017; GMG traffic is up by a third over the same period.

That seems to dispel the idea that nobody is reading

67 million over an entire month is pretty terrible for a major media outlet

Markiplier gets 3x that per month

Markiplier doesnt get 201 million unique visitors every month. Fucking learn how to read.

Unless every single person who watches a Markiplier video watches it 3 times for some reason, he has more monthly unique visitors than Buzzfeed does.
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Antifar posted...

What GMG does do is draw a large and growing audience for its journalismaccording to ComScore, it drew 58 million unique U.S. visitors this Marchand make money off it. (Revenues are believed within GMG to have been up by a double-digit percentage last year; Univision declined to comment.) It is leanGMGs staff of about 200 pales in comparison to other digital media staffsand, according to a statement Univision issued in response to questions from GMG, thriving. BuzzFeeds news division alone is about 300 people, and that doesnt include BuzzFeed entertainment and BuzzFeed media brands, which include the likes of Tasty and Nifty. BuzzFeeds total staff is roughly 1,700 people.

Not only is GMG lean, but it is in an increasingly strong position relative to competitors, in part because of its relative lack of reliance on Facebook. According to ComScore, Buzzfeeds U.S. unique visitors were at 67 million this March, down nearly 20 percent from March 2017; GMG traffic is up by a third over the same period.

That seems to dispel the idea that nobody is reading

67 million over an entire month is pretty terrible for a major media outlet

Markiplier gets 3x that per month
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Antifar posted...

Here is what they have to say about Univision's management

"Univision is to blame for Gizmodo's failure!" - Gizmodo
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

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Maeiv posted...

Vice and Buzzfeed are still huge

The fact that Vice was co-founded by fucking Gavin McInnes is extremely funny to me.

You'd think that'd be enough for his idiotic followers to realize it's all bullshit and a gimmick he's playing, yet he's still somehow relevant.

Vice used to be fucking awesome. They had their journalists do undercover filming in North Korea and shit.

Now it's all identity politics bullshit. And they're blocking archiving sites so people can't discover their fuckups.


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Get "woke", go broke

http://www.businessinsider.com/univision-selling-fusion-media-group-report-2018-7

Univision Communications now wants to unload Fusion Media Group coming two years after it bought a half-dozen websites from Gawker Media in a bid to boost its reach among younger audiences.

The Hispanic media giant is exploring a sale of Fusion Media Group, the Wall Street Journal reported. (Univision declined to comment.) The strategic about-face comes after Univision cancelled its initial public offering plans earlier this year and has seen broad turnover among its senior executive ranks.

Univision last year had tried to sell a 20% stake in Fusion Media Group for $200 million, but failed to find any investors willing to go in on the deal, the Journal reported. According to the WSJ, potential partners were skittish about working with the Univision ownership group, which includes Haim Sabans Saban Capital Group, Televisa, and private-equity firms Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners and TPG.

In March, Univision CEO Randy Falco announced his exit one day after the company had scrapped IPO plans. This spring, it Univision laid off 150 employees as part of another wave of restructuring.

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Fusion Media Groups Gizmodo Media Group brands are Gizmodo, Deadspin, TrackRecord, Lifehacker, Jezebel, Splinter, The Root, Kotaku, and Jalopnik. In addition, the Fusion Media Group includes the companys interest in the Onion, Clickhole and The A.V. Club as well as two cable networks Fusion TV, a news and lifestyle English-language network, and Univisions interest in El Rey Network and a production studio.

Turns out, nobody likes SJW opinion blogs. Who woulda thought.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

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dirtycommunist posted...

I doubt this is true, but in her defense, she did win the popular vote by a lot.

mostly due to who she ran against. if she ran again i honestly don't see her winning the primary.

If she does run, she had better fucking lose the primary

I dunno, the DNC has done dumber shit.
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Thanks so much for making a hosting site 10000% better than imgur

And I'm sorry for uploading pornography the day you announced it
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You know that Dems can't do what McConnell did, right? They don't have a majority in any of the branches

And in any case McConnell's argument was that a SCOTUS pick shouldn't be made so close to a presidential election. Is it 2020 already?
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But I thought "yes" doesn't always mean consent because the woman may feel threatened into saying yes if the man has more social power or whatever
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inb4 the lock
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Full Throttle posted...

A witness said that he was there with family and said that the 20 second story didn't tell the full story and that moments before the attack, Richard and his friends were making racist comments about HANGING BLACKS and DEPORTING them to Africa and about building the wall with Kino in full listening view.

The man and his family are now getting DEATH THREATS for coming out with that statement.

He said "They were talking about the 4th of July hanging black people from trees, that that would be the perfect party. Hopefully with Donald Trump within the next few years, we can celebrate a white country, a real country without blacks. Maybe we can deport them to Africa"

This totally happened.
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Feminists will complain about the MCU anyway because the majority of the cast is men even though Gamora got more screentime than most everyone else
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Scotty_Rogers posted...

More of the same, pls. Mania was the first proper Sonic game in 23 years. Its gameplay isn't stale yet.

I dunno man, it was pretty stale around the time Sonic 3 came out

Maybe 2 decades is enough time to become fresh again but I don't think it will have the staying power it used to
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Doom_Art posted...

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And he was (almost) never seen again.

Lol he's not in the game much?

Well makes sense I guess. Tywin Lannister doesn't come cheap

I think you see him like one more time

Unless you travel back to his castle to listen to the same repeated convo that doesn't matter
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Doom_Art posted...

Was pleasantly surprised to hear he's voiced by Charles Dance

And he was (almost) never seen again.
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Never

I'm excited for Sekiro tho
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The problem with Sonic Mania is the same problem the original Sonic had

What can they add to the formula? Add new characters? Have differently-colored levels with more loop-de-loops? Any deviation from the original Sonic gameplay has always sucked. In 3D sonic games the only levels anyone ever likes are the ones with the same exact gameplay as Sonic 1.

So what can Sonic Mania 2 do that Mania 1 didn't, and not suck?
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krazychao5 posted...

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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Even people on this very board will still say that calling MS-13 animals is a bad thing.

I wouldn't call MS-13 animals and would say that it is the wrong word for them.

Animals don't generally kill without need.

Now if you want to call them monsters or scum of the earth I'm on board for that, but calling them animals is insulting to animals.

Lol that's a quote from Game of Thrones.

RAY: I was a soldier once. All my superiors thought I was brave. I wasnt. I mean, I never ran from a fight. Only because I was afraid my friends would see I was afraid. Thats all I was, a coward. We followed orders no matter the orders. Burn that village. Fine, Im your arsonist. Steal that farmers crops. Good, Im your thief. Kill those young lads so they wont take up arms against us. Im your murderer. I remember once a woman screaming at us, calling us animals as we dragged her son from their hut. But we werent animals. Animals are true to their nature and we had betrayed ours. I cut that young boys throat myself as his mother screamed and my friends held her back.

Guys...

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/animal

A person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive.
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AssultTank posted...

I wouldn't call MS-13 animals and would say that it is the wrong word for them.

Animals don't generally kill without need.

Now if you want to call them monsters or scum of the earth I'm on board for that, but calling them animals is insulting to animals.

I think you're placing way too much meaning on a really straightforward insult towards people who deserve it.
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Bishop9800 posted...

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I don't think anyone except that lady herself knew she was black before all this shit

So that makes it OK for her to say that?

Saying someone looks like the lady from Planet of the Apes is only really offensive if you refer to a black person

And be honest, that lady doesn't look black just by looking at her



^ Come on now, she looks hispanic more than anything
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I don't think anyone except that lady herself knew she was black before all this shit
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creativerealms posted...

The "intellectual dark web" is eating itself.

ThyCorndog posted...

does he gain his powers or something if he beats him? like one of those meme magic things

Shadowplay posted...

Why do people always frame disagreements between politically incorrect people on opposite sides of the spectrum as some sort of "owning?" Rightys and leftys did this when Ben met Bill Maher.

Did any of you actually watch the video...
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