Lurker > 1337toothbrush

Not a fan of hibachi.

Angela, Hawk, and Riesz was my party on my last playthrough.

Excited to see the potential of mRNA vaccines getting realized.

bfslick50 posted...

But do you want more liberals appointed to the Supreme Court?

Theres area between amazing effort and coasting. Coasting would be no new gun law, no infrastructure bill, no inflation reduction act no new laws because Republicans blocked everything. What they did may not be amazing but youre intentionally downplaying it.

Coasting doesn't mean doing nothing at all.

Don't both Scarle and Aia have that "bullyable" quality that superchatters seem to love?

havean776 posted...

I'm not sure not voting and helping the Republicans will do great things for that.

I didn't tell anyone to not vote.

havean776 posted...

You don't seem to understand. I'm not about voting for Dems I'm about stopping Republicans.
Because Republicans are planning to harm my friends.
I understand that is not a danger to you so you feel it is a non issue.

I can not think of a single issue that Republicans would be better for America than Dems.

Voting for democrats won't stop republicans because democrats do very little to undo the damage of republicans. Democrats just keep the seat warm for the republicans' inevitable return. If you truly want to help your friends, you'd pressure democrats to actually protect them instead of democrats using them as political bargaining chips.

bfslick50 posted...

So you admit they arent just coasting, did some good but are falling short of your ideals. You said Supreme Court pick was good but theres still too many conservatives on the court it aint going to get less conservative with a Republican in the Oval Office. If Clarence Thomas is able to retire in 2028 and they put a young alt right in that position

Doing basic maintenance to uphold the status quo isn't the amazing effort you think it is. Compared to what they could do, it is coasting. If democrats want to keep appointing supreme court justices then they should be working harder to win instead of running on the same old "we're not republicans" strategy.

Is he the guy wearing the L?

havean776 posted...

People such as yourself convinced people that Woe vs Rade was a non issue

No I didn't. Looking at the rest of your post, it's just you continuing to make things up about me while being angry at me for pointing out that democrats doing a tiny handful of decent things is nothing compared the problems that we face as a society. Sure though, talk about privilege while you ignore the top issue of Americans, inflation, which the democratic strategy is to claim the economy is doing amazing and that Americans' shitty standard of living is all in their head.

havean776 posted...

It does seem that the people who are aghast at voting against Republicans are people in a supremely privliged postion to not suffer the consquences of a Republican presidency. As such they feel that my friends who will suffer greatly from it is a small price to pay so they can feel better about themselfs.

Good for them I guess?

You say from your cushy home while making excuses for a president that fully supports genocide.

havean776 posted...

So your saying that the Democrats have won far more than 50% of the time?
How well have the Republicans done in recent elections after Roe vs Wade?

It took the democrats losing hard for Roe v Wade to be repealed in order for it to be a key issue. If you want to rely on accelerationism to win, I guess that's a strategy, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good one.

bfslick50 posted...

Cancelling a lot of student debt, infrastructure bill, strengthening gun background checks, excellent Supreme Court pick, pandemic recovery better than Europe, efficient vaccine rollout, computer chips bill, stronger pollution regulations, surely some of that is more than coasting and what the people want

Cancelling billions of student debt by enforcing existing relief programs after biden was key in creating the $1.7 trillion student debt problem isn't the huge win that you think it is. The infrastructure bill is good, but amounts to mostly long overdue maintenance. His supreme court pick is good, unfortunately the court is still stacked for conservatives and democrats love picking "centrists" that don't go far enough. The pandemic recovery is thanks to the trillions of dollars printed as stimulus, but it also brought terrible inflation with it.

The computer chips bill is just to spite China, even though working with China would actually be far more effective for things like climate change (their affordable EVs, which biden slapped a 100% tariff on. Their cheap solar panels, which biden slapped a 50% tariff on). His attitude towards China is actually making things worse in terms of inflation (top issue for Americans) and pollution.

Gwynevere posted...

Definitely interested with there being an implied twist

The "dark twist" is so overplayed at this point that it's actually less stale if there wasn't a "dark twist".

havean776 posted...

Of the last 4 elections have they only won 50% of the time? I think you underestamate people. They can see how horrible a Republican party in control is. They will vote.

Is that why trump won in 2016 and why biden and trump are currently polling neck and neck even after trump's disastrous first term? Democrats could capitalize on their wins by giving people what they want, but instead they try to coast on "we're not republicans" every single time. It just doesn't work.

havean776 posted...

Nah it's more like

Republicans "We are coming to fucking screw you! we will reap vengence like never before you are so fucked! Women, gays, all traitors!

Progressives."Yeah but I don't want to just vote against them, you know? Dems gota win my vote."

It should be very easy to win against such a horrible party, yet the democrats still manage to fail do it about 50% of the time. Imagine how incompetent a party has to be in order to do that. If their strategy of having their thumbs up their asses isn't working, maybe they should change it? Mind-blowing concept, I know.

DrizztLink posted...

And you aren't accomplishing that, either.

I'm accomplishing that perfectly fine. You and the others are showing off that you don't have any answers so you make up endless excuses. I'm content with proving my point like that.

It's not just advertising. It costs a lot to develop VR hardware and a software ecosystem around it plus support. They chased an overly hyped technology and flopped spectacularly on execution while anticipating way more demand than there really was. Now they're also chasing the AI hype and pouring billions into buying hardware to develop and run whatever AI models they come up with. They're going to run into the same problem as the rest of the AI chasers, which is monetization. Lots of companies are jamming AI into things, but most people aren't willing to pay for these stupid features, so the companies are blowing lots of money on hardware and the electricity/cooling/etc to run that hardware in the hopes of selling data I guess.

Sonixs posted...

So who are you going to vote for then?

Democrats down the ballot like I do every single election. Doesn't mean we can't expect more than the bare minimum from them (hell, their support for genocide is below that bare minimum).

Voidgolem posted...

hurting people generally costs less money.

But in this case, ceasing weapon shipments to israel would cost way less money. So again, why isn't he doing this?

Voidgolem posted...

Please point to the available option that can be voted for that would behave any differently

Because as it stands, your choices are "Nothing meaningfully changes", and "Nothing meaningfully changes, but fascism at home too"

How can we expect democrats to ever bother improve things if they can lean on the fact that there are only two parties and the only other party is worse? If those are our two choices and republicans are guaranteed to win an election down the line due to our two party system, the inevitable conclusion is fascism at some point.

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This is a discussion board. I'm not planning on accomplishing anything but discussion on it.

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You and the others had plenty of opportunities to offer a simple explanation for why Biden can't easily destroy his support for genocide, but instead you make posts with repeating emojis. I'll let that speak on its own.

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That reason is that they don't have an explanation. Sucks that you ran out of excuses.

Dudebusters posted...

Back pedal not accepted. Do better.

Gee, I wonder how I get a "reputation" when random 14 year old accounts with a dozen active posts and about 200 karma come out of nowhere to make things up about me.

StealThisSheen posted...

I didn't say you mentioned Biden. I made an inference based on your post. Do you wanna explain why you got defensive?

Gee, why would someone get defensive over someone else making up lies about them?!?! Mystery of the century!! Your inference turned out to be bullshit but you continue to double down.

Dudebusters posted...

Girls, girls, behave. This can all be sorted out if toothbrush just explains what he meant by this:

I notice there has been no explanation yet just arguing. Let's cut the cake and just explain it?

Trump talks about "FAKE NEWS" all the time that supposedly comes from the deep state bad guys but him and his administration are among the biggest sources of disinformation.

StealThisSheen posted...

"Tracking?"

Are you really breaking out the "You're stalking me!" defense?

Dude, I just post here. I read your shit.

Try actually reading my post in this topic because I said nothing about Biden.

StealThisSheen posted...

You have a reputation for a reason, and it sure isn't because people don't read your posts. Funny how you're accusing me of being angry, yet you're the one going off in this topic.

I don't even know who you are, but you supposedly have been tracking my posting history and making up a reputation in your mind. Somehow that makes me the one "going off" in this topic.

StealThisSheen posted...

Given your post history? Yes, entirely.

Shows how little you know about my post history then. You probably only notice my posts criticizing Biden because they make you angry enough to care. When I criticize republicans, it's just background noise to you.

StealThisSheen posted...

So, from what I can tell, this started under the Trump presidency, and it was the Biden presidency that ended it. Which means...

This attempted "gotcha" doesn't have much teeth, right?

Do you think I was trying to dunk on Biden?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

You dont even try anymore do you

EPR-radar posted...

Pitiful.

Sonixs posted...

Let's vote for Trump then. Because Republicans have always had a way better relationship with Muslims...

/s

I love how first it was "obviously it's much easier to break things than to fix things!" and then when pointing out that biden could instantly make things better by breaking support for genocide, I get these no-effort responses. It's endless excuses and "but the other guy" any time democrats are pressed to ever improve things. Somehow people still think democrats are going to actually make things better. Yeah, trump and the republicans are worse, no one is arguing against that. Now how about democrats actually improve things for once?

That's impossible, only the bad guys do disinformation.

Get in, Fauna's doing an impromptu unarchived karaoke due to things not working out with her Switch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53P7i6qF-to

She hasn't started singing yet.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Destroying shit and being obstructionist is much easier than creating new things and making the country better

Republicans meet the demands of their supporters by trying to make the country a worse place

DrizztLink posted...

By an absolutely ludicrous measure.

How is that not obvious?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Do you not think its easier to paint every person of a group as bad and then seek to hurt them than to try to fight for their rights as a group to exist?

Even from you this should be obvious. It is much harder to make progress than to stall or disrupt it

Then why can't biden destroy support for israel and its campaign of genocide?

Sonixs posted...

Probably because they're single demand is "we want you to hurt the people we hate" and that's kind of it.

DrizztLink posted...

Demand.

"Bigotry."

Not a difficult request, especially when you're a MAGAt in power.

How is that easier than helping people?

Sonixs posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/36bad089.jpg

This tweet about sums up democratic voters.

Funny how republicans don't have any problems meeting all the demands of their supporters.

I used to leave the game on the title screen since I loved the music so much, even in its MIDI form. Here it is (close to what I heard in my childhood):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgLwI4YXLwY

and then there's the version with a better MIDI device:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huAu17E9Y50

The pyramid scheme is falling apart.

Murphiroth posted...

TC once again spreading misinformation, why do you love doing that so much?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/13773490.jpg

I really do wonder why people come up with this fake shit. It's disgusting, like the "pick up artists" who claim you can just go to Japan and do whatever you want to the women there. There's a narrative being spun here that I can see appealing to certain groups, especially those who fetishize Japan or Asian women in general. It's gross and dangerous.

Oh yeah, I enjoy her streams, they're the perfect thing to put on in the background while I do other things. It's just too bad that they're so late, so I don't really tune in unless I'm staying up, but then they're the perfect late night working stream.

To be fair, she does waste a lot of time on stream. Like the stream will be titled one thing, but she won't get to that thing until 1-2+ hours into the stream and instead just talk about random things. She considers 4 hours a short stream.

She streams like 12 hours almost every single day.

Musk fanboys happily voting to devalue their shares. He's going to dump so hard on them and they're going to be cheering the whole time.

50 cent offers his 2 cents on marriage.

I used to pay $66 a month a couple years ago but now I pay $79, but I had to increase my deductible in order to get it "down" to $79 because otherwise it would've been more like $87. Never had an accident or ticket. It's all bullshit.

Streaming is very flexible in terms of scheduling and physical demands. Also, being part of a large company offers multiple revenue streams. For example, Gura didn't stream for long periods at a time, but there were still merchandising and brand power (e.g. sponsorships) available to continue generating revenue. Every time she returned, viewership numbers were high anyway, so it's not like the pauses were damaging to her career.

Vtubing offers additional flexibility over regular streaming because you don't have to be physically on camera, so you don't have to keep up certain appearances. It's even possible for someone to take over your choreography/movements in a 3D event if you are not physically able. In terms of career, vtubing is very accommodating for older folks, provided you've already built up an audience.

Zikten posted...

do you guys think there will someday be older vtubers? Right now it seems like the oldest vtubers are maybe in their early 30s, but like 90% are younger. I wonder if many of them will retire in like 10 years or less. Or will we have aging vtubers who keep going for many years or even decades. I wonder what the future landscape of the industry looks like

There are already late-30s vtubers, including in Hololive.

I feel like theaters haven't added enough to the experience for me to care enough. When home video equipment was shittier, sure. Now I only go if others I'm with want to go. I won't go out of my way to make plans for it.

They were being ironic.

It's officially pronounced like jiff and I prefer saying it like that anyway, so I go with that. Deal with it

One smart thing that Nijisanji did was separate out their China branch as VirtuaReal so they've got that separation but can make money in the China market.

Why does the official economic data claim that the job market is awesome?

On_The_Edge posted...

the left: goes way too far
*pendulum swings back*
the left: surprised pikachu face

Who do you think the left is in this situation and how have they gone too far?

Hakka 3D showcase started now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIMph0ZPucI

I thought his videos were decent or even great, but the little "podcast" things he did were where his ego really pushed through since the format allowed him to really stew in his own mind canon.

People would be crying regardless. Literally every time a game starring a woman was revealed in the xbox showcase, the twitch chat had a whole bunch of users posting "woman" in it to point it out, as if it's a crime to have a woman as the main character.