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| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 11/03/20 6:36:51 PM #226 | Jessamine County Kentucky from Trump +40 to Trump + 21 with 62% in. https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1323768836055830530 Not sure where the 62% number cam from. Got that part of it from another forum. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 11/03/20 6:28:40 PM #222 | Looks like Lexington just dropped a lot of votes, lol. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 11/03/20 6:26:36 PM #219 | Trump appears to be running behind his 2016 numbers in some of the Indiana areas reporting. Early going though. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 11/03/20 5:25:15 PM #206 | https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1323738622923853825 --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 10/27/20 5:09:42 PM #143 | Tom Bombadil posted... I don't get why we have to select specific electors in the first place instead of the votes just....going to whoever earned them. It seems like a needless step in the best case, and a recipe for weird faithless elector controversy in the worst. Electors were not initially meant to represent the popular vote. States are allowed to appoint electors however they want, not just to represent whomever wins the popular vote in their state. Every state just so happens to do that, but it's not required*. When the Constitution was written, it was assumed (and indeed was the case for most states initially) that electors would be chosen by a vote in the state legislatures (similar to how the Senate was initially chosen.) During the 1820's almost every state switched over to using a popular vote to decide electors in an effort for the country to become more democratic, and while the latter goal was achieved it established a disconnect between the Electoral College and the overall Presidential Election which was not really intended. *South Carolina didn't have a popular vote for President until after the Civil War! --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Yesmar_ 07/21/20 11:46:41 PM #351 | red sox 777 posted... I mean of course Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum. The US and UK have influenced other countries' internal politics for like centuries. They, and the EU, are still doing so today. It's really emblematic of nationalistic exceptionalism to act like the US/UK somehow have a right not to be influenced by other countries. And the people of those countries have every right to, and they should, call out the US/UK when they do so. The only one holding anyone to a double standard here is you. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Are Down For Me sites down for everyone or is it just me? |
| Yesmar_ 07/17/20 5:44:28 PM #5 | Well, that answers my follow up question --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Are Down For Me sites down for everyone or is it just me? |
| Yesmar_ 07/17/20 5:30:10 PM #1 | Literally nothing on this results page will load for me. https://www.google.com/search?q=is+it+down+or+just+me --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 55: "Greatest Fictional Rivalry of All Time" |
| Yesmar_ 07/16/20 11:31:58 PM #33 | Mario Vs. Sonic --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 07/16/20 3:04:17 PM #19 | Biden being "off the cuff" has always been part of his appeal as well. Look at the way he was parodied on SNL during the Obama presidency. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Yesmar_ 07/16/20 2:36:06 PM #15 | Tom Bombadil posted... Trump will lose, just like Trump and L-Block and Draven and Undertale I mean... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3295-division-4-final-crono-l-block-pikachu-alucard https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7296-division-8-round-1-amaterasu-vs-draven https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7935-division-3-round-1-undertale-vs-octopath-traveler --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Ever notice..like, dumb random things? |
| Yesmar_ 07/16/20 1:31:27 AM #27 | > "They grossly underfund their Special --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 54: "Game series with the best soundtracks" |
| Yesmar_ 07/15/20 10:09:47 PM #48 | Chrono --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Yesmar_ 07/15/20 4:04:03 PM #13 | Corrik7 posted... https://www.wsj.com/articles/israelis-fear-schools-reopened-too-soon-as-covid-19-cases-climb-11594760001 Yeah, looking at that graph (assuming the scale is not really off between countries) whatever happened in Israel doesn't seem to be linked to schools, or if so there's something particularly off about how schools are opening there. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 9 |
| Yesmar_ 07/15/20 1:26:42 PM #462 | SmartMuffin posted... Yeah and that's exactly what I was saying back in March. That the lockdown would be useless because we weren't doing anything other than delaying the inevitable. And hey, whaddya know, that's exactly what happened. I mean if you're just gonna not bother with precautions afterwards, then yes a shutdown is pointless. I don't think anyone's going to argue with you there. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So I made a 64 Entrant Console Bracket |
| Yesmar_ 07/13/20 11:44:52 PM #17 | Bump --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 52: "Game with the best playable cast" |
| Yesmar_ 07/13/20 11:44:19 PM #48 | FFVII (caps) --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Can you name a song with this rhythm? |
| Yesmar_ 07/12/20 4:59:42 PM #8 | Also Sprach Zarathustra --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Best NES Launch Game Day 1 |
| Yesmar_ 07/12/20 3:21:44 PM #9 | Kind of crazy that 35 years later, we still don't know for certain if SMB was a launch title or not. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 49: "Video game world you'd most like to live in" |
| Yesmar_ 07/10/20 8:31:20 PM #11 | Earthbound. Not sure why that popped in my head. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So I made a 64 Entrant Console Bracket |
| Yesmar_ 07/10/20 6:48:28 PM #12 | SNES and NES got Zelda 1'd in the seedings because the video I used took Metacritic scores into account. GBC being so low was my own thing, I'll admit, since the video didn't include handhelds, but length of support was one of the metrics used, and I figured GBC might be kind of lower since it wasn't around very long. And I needed something interesting for the Xbox One to go up against. Odyssey shouldn't be a 16 seed either, but I thought it appropriate to put it in the first match. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So I made a 64 Entrant Console Bracket |
| Yesmar_ 07/09/20 9:19:26 PM #5 | ZenOfThunder posted... That explains why I thought of it. That doesn't explain why I actually did it. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So I made a 64 Entrant Console Bracket |
| Yesmar_ 07/09/20 9:17:03 PM #2 | Division 1 1) Playstation 2 16) Magnavox Odyssey 8) Sega CD 9) Famicom Disk System 5) 3DS 12) Amiga 4) Game Boy Advance 13) Sega 32X 6) Saturn 11) Pong 3) Switch 14) Capcom Power System Charger 7) Turbo-Grafx 16 10) Commodore 64 2) Playstation 4 15) 64DD Division 2 1) Xbox 360 16) iQue Player 8) Intellivision 9) SG-1000 5) Atari 2600 12) Game Gear 4) NES 13) WonderSwan 6) Gamecube 11) Neo-Geo Pocket Color 3) Playstation 3 14) PC-FX 7) Playstation Vita 10) 3DO 2) Wii 15) Colecovision Division 3 1) PC/Mac 16) N-Gage 8) Ouya 9) MSX 5) Nintendo 64 12) CD-I 4) Playstation Portable 13) Sinclair Spectrum 6) Dreamcast 11) Oculus 3) Android/iOS 14) Virtual Boy 7) Master System 10) Neo-Geo 2) Playstation 15) Satellaview Division 4 1) Gameboy 16) Lynx 8) Stadia 9) Game and Watch 5) Genesis 12) Atari 5200 4) Xbox 13) Sega Pico 6) Wii U 11) Mattel Electronics Football 3) DS 14) Jaguar 7) Xbox One 10) Game Boy Color 2) Super Nintendo 15) Pippin --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So I made a 64 Entrant Console Bracket |
| Yesmar_ 07/09/20 9:15:30 PM #1 | No I don't know why either. In terms of seeding, I was inspired by the below video, which attempts to put together an "objective" ranking of consoles based on factors such as length of support, number of titles, number of games with high Metacritic scores, etc (so blame them for the Xbox One being so low.) I hewed closely to this ranking for the higher seeds, with some changes to make things more interesting, as well as throwing in handhelds (which the video doesn't include), computers, some other fun stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-JPlKROUk And I bow my head in shame in advance of being told that there is a huge console I completely forgot about. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 48: Generic enemy w/ most potential contest strength |
| Yesmar_ 07/09/20 9:02:27 PM #19 | Goomba --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 47: "Most beautiful game ever in a contest" |
| Yesmar_ 07/08/20 7:04:51 PM #5 | Okami --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | So why did the medical community bungle mask advice so badly? |
| Yesmar_ 07/08/20 12:56:40 AM #11 | I think people also underestimated how widespread the virus already was by the end of Feb., beginning of March. Homemade masks, which is what people would have been using initially, are leaky enough that they are only advisable when the outbreak reaches a certain level, and authorities didn't think the virus was at that level yet. Another mystery is why it took NYC so long to start identifying cases. It seems clear now that their first confirmed case was identified much later in the outbreak timeline than in other areas. IIRC, Singapore did not encourage masks at first, and they seemed to be doing well initially , so that might have misled some people as well. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 46: Weakest possible entrant in 'Best. System. Ever.' |
| Yesmar_ 07/07/20 11:17:30 PM #45 | Are systems eligible I they don't have a page on the site? Because this has to be a contender too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Bridge_Companion
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| Topic | Your First Thought 46: Weakest possible entrant in 'Best. System. Ever.' |
| Yesmar_ 07/07/20 10:15:46 PM #5 | 3D0 --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Have you or anyone you know personally tested positive for covid-19? |
| Yesmar_ 07/07/20 12:21:46 AM #23 | Tested positive for antibodies, so looks like I had it myself at some point. If it's when I think it was, I thankfully had just a cough and nothing more. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Fireworks, Dear God! |
| Yesmar_ 07/04/20 11:27:33 PM #12 | Ngamer64 posted... Yesmar! We missed you this year. If I'd known I had a Top 4 ranking to uphold, I would have! I submitted a bracket, but I haven't played many new games the past 10 years, so I felt a little unqualified. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 43: "Most AMERICAN game series of all time" |
| Yesmar_ 07/04/20 9:36:17 PM #48 | Just realized what day this is on. <_> I see what you did there. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Fireworks, Dear God! |
| Yesmar_ 07/04/20 9:33:58 PM #1 | Feels like I'm in Baghdad circa '91. You know that whistling noise fireworks make as they rise in the air? At one point, I could hear that for more than a minute straight. And I don't mean one whistle after another. There was so much being launched, it was all blending into one long whistle. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 43: "Most AMERICAN game series of all time" |
| Yesmar_ 07/04/20 4:57:58 PM #23 | Halo --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 42: "Most AMERICAN Character Battle entrant ever" |
| Yesmar_ 07/03/20 8:34:57 PM #39 | Duke Nukem --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | EA has begun pulling Shadows of the Damned from digital storefronts. |
| Yesmar_ 07/02/20 9:09:42 PM #21 | In terms of films, Looking for Mr. Goodbar has also never been released on home video since VHS/LaserDisc due to music rights issues. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 41: "Hyped character that bombed their first match" |
| Yesmar_ 07/02/20 1:52:41 PM #16 | Kerrigan --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 40: "Strongest game that's not a part of a series" |
| Yesmar_ 07/02/20 10:57:43 AM #53 | Starcraft --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 39: "Noble Nine Breaker" |
| Yesmar_ 06/30/20 4:08:20 PM #28 | Vincent --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 38: Weakest Final Fantasy character not in a contest yet |
| Yesmar_ 06/29/20 9:55:37 PM #45 | Firion --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 37: "Character much stronger than they should be" |
| Yesmar_ 06/28/20 11:43:19 AM #17 | Link --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 36: "Character always screwed by bracket placement" |
| Yesmar_ 06/27/20 6:44:45 PM #48 | When it comes to brackement placement luck/lack thereof, I think it's useful to look at the number of entrants that advanced each round. In regards to Phoenix, I wouldn't really consider 2013 good bracket placement for him. 72 characters made it to Round 2 that year, and he was almost certainly one of the 72 strongest characters in the bracket, so in a nuetral environment he would have been expected to make it to Round 2. In 2018 however, he made it to Round 3, which only 32 (not counting the byes) other characters did. I wouldn't say he was a top 32 character in the bracket, so that was good bracket placement to me. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 36: "Character always screwed by bracket placement" |
| Yesmar_ 06/27/20 6:30:14 PM #38 | Tidus --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 35: "The weakest Zelda game" |
| Yesmar_ 06/26/20 11:58:52 PM #50 | Zelda II --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 34: "The most fun Character Battle match ever" |
| Yesmar_ 06/25/20 7:40:03 PM #26 | Mario Vs. Crono 2003 --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 9 |
| Yesmar_ 06/25/20 2:24:04 AM #31 | I have a technocratic question that I've been wondering about as things reopen. When locations such as a museum open at 25% capacity, what exactly is meant by capacity? Do they mean the literal capacity of the building, or is capacity considered the point at which the museum would normally stop new guests from entering to prevent crowds. Because the latter is done well before the literal 100% capacity number. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 9 |
| Yesmar_ 06/25/20 1:27:30 AM #26 | Damn, there's an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on ME-TV right now about an Anthrax outbreak in LA. Very eerie for something from the early 60's. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 33: Character Battle entrant you'd kiss on the lips |
| Yesmar_ 06/24/20 9:21:46 PM #47 | Link --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | Your First Thought 32: "The strongest incarnation of Link" |
| Yesmar_ 06/23/20 8:19:04 PM #30 | 2007 --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
| Topic | What's the best non-MCU superhero movie |
| Yesmar_ 06/23/20 3:10:01 PM #25 | ninkendo posted... Batman Returns --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
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