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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

The Cons didn't win the seat, the man did as a member of the Conservative Party.

The Cons did win the seat, and they chose this guy as the representative. But then there's an issue of if the Cons kick this dude out of "their" seat - it triggers a special election, and really the only party capable of running an election right now is the liberals (which is why its super weird the Cons are threatening to say no to the budget and trigger an election, but whatever).

Not to mention the party just kicking someone out of their seat is wildly unpopular (for good reason) and the Cons don't have very much momentum right now to begin with. The Cons basically just said "this isn't a hill worth dying on", but also why they're threatening any other cons from changing sides as well. If they just kicked this guy out of his seat, it would probably be much worse for them trying to deal with all of these other cons debating bailing on the party.

The good thing here is that this is sort of a sign the Conservative Party is falling apart (which tbf, it has been fracturing since Stephen Harper left). They're trying to keep people from jumping off the sinking ship.

Its worth noting Canadian politics don't really work the same as American politics - Its kind of a big deal someone was allowed to cross parties like that, because you don't really vote for the person, even at the MP/MPP level. You vote for your favoured party to represent your spot, and that's the guy the party has put there. Add to that, if you go against the party line, the party can literally boot you from your riding and just put someone else in. Because your riding belongs to the party, not to you. This is why when Pollievre lost his seat, he just kicked someone out in literally the safest seat possible (note: Pollievre's seat used to be considered very safe) and took his place.

It'll be interesting to see what actually happens to the conservatives right now - Carney is just governing like a conservative PM would basically, just without the blatant attacks on like, random minorities like the conservatives in the States is doing. All of the conservatives who pretend to vote blue because of taxes should be happy here. They aren't, because they don't actually believe in anything, but that's besides the point.

If anyone doesn't know about Pierre Pollievre, imagine Donald Trump, but without any charisma. Just a boring loser who's never accomplished anything whining all the time.

BlueBoy675 posted...

Interesting. I remember watching a vid a while back talking about how people who go to seminary typically become atheists because learning the actual history of the religion puts into perspective how contradictory and nonsensical it is. The fact the lore can just radically change over time is proof its all bs, to me at least

tbf, a god who actually is super jealous and vengeful would 100% tell his priests and whatnot to change the lore so he's actually all-powerful and all-knowing and everyone should totally like him because he's very cool and whatever stupid evil thing he does is actually totally in the right because he's the biggest most special-est boy who can do no wrong.

We've been just living under Trump forever.

Fox knows they have to please the Trump for anything worth happening now - there is no conservative politics in America that doesn't revolve around Trump anymore.

So they need to suck up, even if it means throwing a pointless award at Trump's "they-clearly-don't-even-like-each-other" wife.

ROBBAN posted...

if it's about Mamdani being born outside the US, i don't remember anyone objecting when Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor

Being born within the US is only a requirement for President.

Now, nobody is suggesting Mamdani run for President of the United States, but it just shows how afraid the republicans are of like... someone who cares about things.

Of course its not what the GOP considers "Law" to be, because "Law" to a republican is "how can we punish a poor/black person?

Hasn't what's been revealed basically gone "Trump isn't just a participant, but was active in helping traffic these kids" - heck Trump in interviews has literally said that Epstein used to specifically take his younger "employees".

How does it get worse than "he's actively helping and supporting the most notable sex trafficking ring of modern society?"

pinky0926 posted...

"Ive seen quite a bit of misinformation crop up surrounding our paper particularly the claim that we (humans) have nothing to worry about, with respect to climate change, since the Earth has been warmer for much of the last half-billion years

It's worth noting that technically, this is true. The world has (and generally has been) a fair bit warmer than it currently is now - but the thing climate deniers refuse to acknowledge is that people can't live in those conditions.

It really doesn't matter if it was warmer in the Carboniferous, since if people made a Time Machine and went back to that period, they'd die in about 10 minutes because our bodies are not capable of handling that much oxygen.

Its one of those stupid points everyone knows is bullshit, but because there's that tiny kernel of a correct idea, climate change deniers will throw it out at every opportunity and hope you aren't thinking hard enough that it'll stick.

Realistically, kids who have just finished a "this is how government works" class will be significantly more informed than the average voter. Lowering the voting age to include those kids is probably not a bad idea.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

What are we mad about, that he didn't mention Mamdani?

Because he specifically mentioned some of more "establishment" democrat winners and not Mamdani makes it seem like its a deliberate snuff.

Which certainly fits the whole story of Mamdani's entire mayoral campaign - that being he's being actively sabotaged by all the establishment dems because Mamdani comes off like he actually cares.

Ivynn posted...

Yeah, but this is an indictment on establishment Dems. Despite everything, they still won't get behind the rising star progressives in the party. They genuinely hate them more than Trump's GOP and that's sad.

Its crazy republicans can run on actively harming people, and still come off better than establishment dems who constantly seem to have an active contempt for their representatives.

A big part is probably just basic media training, but people are also apparently much more willing to get behind you if you actually believe in something, even if that something is just being evil.

Cuomo probably isn't happy he had to be trotted out for no real reason beyond his financiers not wanting someone more progressive as mayor, and then losing anyways.

As the only somewhat-disgraced former governor, he was probably quite happy living as an overly privileged private citizen who never needed to worry about anything again.

Techbros love stuff like terraforming, because its some cool future-tech that makes you sound smart and nobody ever really pushes any further about any of it to realize you have no ****ing idea what you're talking about. It's just the evolution of the 15 year old who insists he's smarter than all his classmates because they don't care about quantum physics. This kid doesn't know math though, he just likes throwing out big words to sound important.

Or the other reason, is that a lot of these tech bros are delusional nut jobs who think because they can get ChatGPT to make them a website they should be kings of the world. So some guy like Elon Musk wants to take a bunch of people to Terraform Mars, when in reality its just Musk wants to be a king, and rule a bunch of slaves somewhere like Mars where they can't escape.

I'm either the very end of millennial, or the start of Gen Z. I'm usually thrown into millennial, but the dates shift around a bunch so sometimes I bounce around. I've also just seen Z-lliennial as well.

I think I typically land in the end of millennial though.

RasterGraphic posted...

A little surprised by this topics reaction, I'm so used to the gen-z/alpha perspective that virtually all age gaps are bad regardless of context or actual ages.

Honestly, I do lean into the "mind your own business" category, especially after like 25.

I still stand by that tinge of discomfort I initially expressed in my self-deleted post. Mostly because there still is a maturity gap, I just think back to when I was 26 and I felt like I knew how the world worked but I just didn't.

IDK, it's probably fine.

I think it's definitely because it's a "life experiences" kind of thing rather than just direct numbers. At 26 you've been more or less a fully grown adult for a while. So a big age gap isn't that big of a deal, compared to someone like 18. And basically every adult over the age of 26 can look at how wildly different they were between 18 and 26.

An Age gap of like 26-18 is way more uncomfortable that 45-26, even though the latter is a much larger gap.

The first kind of Assassins Creed game. I like them way more now that they're like, The Witcher, but in Greece/England/Japan/whatever.

Sort of the whole Souls-like franchise. There's been one or two that I've enjoyed enough, but I'm just not super interested in sweatier kinds of gaming.

This is one of the 12 wars Trump says he stopped.

He also recently stopped the bitter war of Pokemon vs. Digimon.

Isn't that where the "half your age plus 7" thing comes from?

But she's 26, not like 19 so I'm less upset over it. There's worlds of difference between like 19 and 22 and 25, but increasingly less as you become more of an adult.

Its a weird thing where I think its more or less fine, but drop 5 years from both of them (so it'd be 40 and 21) I'd be a lot more grossed out by it.

ViewtifulGrave posted...

Theyre still using the 3DS models and animations so that isnt an excuse.

They change up the models in every game? You can't really see fur or scales in this one like you could with SV.

Its not as obvious as it was when they were pixel sprites, but probably because re-doing every model for every pokemon would suddenly be 90% of the development time compared to some pixel pngs.

Tmaster148 posted...

It's a NYC mayoral election. I don't know why people thought we were going to see endorsements months away from the actual election.

It might just be how heavily featured the whole election cycle has been, when there's really just not been a need to. But also potentially that only "the big guys" like Jeffries and Schumer have been withholding their endorsement. Especially since Mamdani has been widely expected to win by quite a margin since the second he became the democratic nominee.

But Mamdani might also be as popular as he currently is without "the man trying to keep him down" so idk.

Took long enough.

Weird that when someone actually popular becomes a democratic candidate, everyone has cold feet on endorsing them.

RasterGraphic posted...

Still the best Scooby Doo movie.

I just imagine the boardroom meetings at Hanna Barbara "Let's fuck with thes kids but make it kinda awesome at the same time".

The whole era here of weird direct-to-video Scooby Doo slapped so hard (That's Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders and Cyber Chase).

I think it was because at this time the series was basically dead anyways. The last Scooby Doo show before these were like, a decade before, and there just wasn't much Scooby Doo content in the early-mid 90s.

Crazy to think that these 4 direct-to-dvd movies basically brought the whole franchise back to life so well its still going strong.

On one hand, since we've stopped getting every pokemon everywhere, the pokemon that are in the game do so much more stuff. Every pokemon model now has a lot more activity and movement than earlier games, I imagine all that probably takes up a lot of memory, and having filler for 400 pokemon you won't even be able to get in the game to begin with feels like a waste of space.

On the other, I think I'd be more supportive had "dexit" if we get to go some games without like 40-50 of them being the exact same, and then every legend awkwardly hamfisted in through DLC or something.

Be Brave, GF. Have a game without Pikachu/Lucario/Gardevoir/Gyarados/Garchomp/etc...

I mean, still a pretty popular game - I know a couple people that still love regularly going back to it. If it gets some mod support on the Switch, it'll be pretty cool and there will definitely be people who fall in love with Fallout via this switch 2 edition.

Besides, at the rate Bethesda has been making games, we'll get Fallout 5 in 2040, so might as well re-release 4.

Will it be overpriced? yeah probably. So I won't be buying it. I have it on like, 3 other consoles already. But I can see the people this will appeal to. Note its also not a Nintendo game, so its much more likely to get price cuts.

If we want to be very generous (which yeah, isn't quite deserved) back when the court was only slightly conservative, they did rule in favour of protections on the basis of sexual orientation (I want to say 2020?).

The argument of "you aren't wedding two people of the same gender when you would if one of those people were the opposite is quite literally gender-based discrimination" does still hold here, and was a recent enough decision the court would in theory need to justify why its okay there but not here.

Its not going to matter, but literally the current court has its own specific precedent against their own obvious expected decision here.

Cancel Culture has always been a conservative movement. Its such a shame we seemed to just give up and pretend it was something from the Left.

North Carolina, Ohio and Florida Republicans would immediately pass a lot more laws to make sure that a democrat can never really win in their state again, just like Georgia did when it went for Biden.

Otherwise, nothing would really change. Just three more typically-republican states would have more voter suppression to keep the dems out.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

Is that actual text? That's pretty snappy if so.

There's an item you can "upload" onto Mega Man in each game (or at least the later ones) and it makes all of their non-critical dialogue snappy comments to each other. Its pretty fun.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

You literally said if you dont like the game then you can stop participating dawg. That has nothing to do with not playing a game in 10 years, thats encouraging people who dont like it to leave the discussion

No I'm saying that if the product has changed to something you no longer like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with just moving on with your life. Especially if no longer like it to the extent that you're just whining on a message board to drown out any actual discussion.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

If you think gaming forums should only be for positive reactions then lmao. Forums exist for discussion, and it will never always be positive, nor should it be. This is also not the Pokemon nor switch forum youre currently posting in.

Its crazy how often I see specifically Pokemon fans insisting that people unhappy with the games should never mention their displeasure.

I dont care if you like the game, enjoy yourself. But telling people they shouldnt be part of the discussion if they dont have good things to say about a game is frankly ridiculous

I didn't say they couldn't be part of the discussion unless they had good things to say - I said they need to be part of the discussion to have anything to say. There are people on the pokemon boards who brag about having not touched a game that's come out in the last 5-10 years.

There's having negative things to say, and then there's stupid hate-jerk from people who don't care about anything and are literally only there to be negative. That's the one that's a problem. And Pokemon specifically has an absurd amount of specifically this kind of person.

Remember when Diddy was first in trial, he publicly asked Trump for a pardon or commuting his sentence, and his statement was basically "I don't even like the guy, but us child predators gotta stick together"

I guess that worked with Trump.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Equating people unhappy with the direction the franchise has taken as not regular opinions as if disliking the series in its current state shouldnt be listened to is showing some heavy bias from your end

If you don't like the product being put out, you can always... stop participating. That would be a much more valid use of your time than going to a forum for a game you don't like just to complain. It's perfectly okay to just move on to something else.

There's a bajillion pokemon clones out there. Some of them are even good.

Pokemon has a huge section of its "fanbase" that basically just wants to ruin it for everyone else. And by being loud and obnoxious, they tend to drastically over-represent the widespread opinions of the franchise (especially on forums like here, where there isn't a thing akin to a downvote so its easy to drown out the "regular" opinions). This is pretty common with most "popular" things (damn near everything gets hate-brigaded these days), but something like Pokemon has a disproportionate amount.

It's Pokemon, with a fun twist on the gameplay and a decent little story. You'll probably already know if you enjoy the game or not.

A super minor thing I really dislike about ZA compared to SV is that you can't take selfies with the Rotom-phone anymore.

I've never enjoyed games that just like, pause everything for a photo mode, and your character in SV just taking a selfie made that whole feeling go away and I had a lot of fun with it when I haven't had fun in any other games photo mode.

And ZA doesn't have you holding the phone, so it doesn't really feel the same, and feels more like that "stop the whole world because maybe this will make a cool pic" and I just don't think its as fun.

Its still okay and it doesn't completely freeze the world like bigger games, but its not as fun to me having every picture feel like the player asked someone to take a picture for her.

McDonalds, because there's a McDonalds near me and the only Burger King around is enough out of the way it's really not worth going there unless I was already over there to begin with, and Its not a side of town I'm ever over by.

It's a solid brain rot kind of show. When you don't really care that much and just want something that's on in the background.

And then if you pay attention there's still often like, 1-2 decent jokes in the episode.

It's a go-to show for me when I'm like, cooking dinner or something and only 1/2 paying attention.

Don't worry - those farmers that voted for Trump haven't realized that voting for Trump was kind of the problem, and will in all likelihood just vote for him again if they get the chance.

DrizztLink posted...

Because the Russian Far East is such a goddamn growth market for real estate, naturally.

Lotta demand for one of the least populous areas of Russia to finally be able to drive to the least populated area of the USA.

RFE's dropped its population by, what, a good 10% in the last decade?

I don't think this even really hits home how bare this area is. The nearest settlement Google Maps bothers showing up on the American side is Wales, Alaska (an indigenous settlement). With a population of 168. You cannot get there by road. It is 1000 km from Anchorage Alaska, and Google Maps cannot find an existing way to get there.

This isn't even just an issue of the Russia side. In order to even bring materials there, the entire state of Alaska would need a world-changing level of infrastructure investment.

The nearest village on the Russian side I could find with Google Maps was Uelen, on the Russian side of that map, with a population of ~720. The Russian side is actually possible more suited to undergo this development project than the American side.

And as others have said, we could go into the whole "this is not a remotely stable area for anything remotely close to a development of this magnitude" thing.

Another fun part about the early game - The taxi driver you fight in the "promotion battle" tutorial wants to win the Rayale, so he can take the city and outlaw all modes of transportation beyond taxis. The Y-promotion lady wants to make everyone run a marathon.

Just, how can you not fall in love with all of these stupid little things?

Super early in the game so far, but I just did the little side quest to get a Froakie and its so good.

You have to do a bunch of obstacle courses, because the Froakie just wrecked the putting it up at it, and he wants to join team because he like, respects your parkour and respect for Kalos Ninja Warrior.

Its just such a perfect silly little side quest, this is the best filler episode.

voldothegr8 posted...

Well this more than words, he took an action in the positive direction. You don't have to like it but regardless of the reason this deserves some respect.

If Snoop wasn't actually sorry, he'd get more support by going full MAGA and complaining about how he's being cancelled. Taking the action he did hurts his rep with the right-wing because he's caving to the SJWs or something, and doesn't help his rep with the left, who's going to refuse to accept him changing anyways.

Snoop's actions here do not support his public position at all. It's purely a move he would make if he actually learned and reflected about his actions.

darkace77450 posted...

Alternatively, he's filthy rich, famous, and loving his life as a TV producer. The truth is he'd rather be doing lots of other things than writing ASOIAF.

Also, supposedly GRRM gave story beats for the rest of the series when the TV show started drifting from the books. And... everyone hated all the new stuff.

Now, the biggest issue is with stuff like, pacing problems, but still probably another good reason for him to want to just go off and do other things.

FurryPhilosifer posted...

Disaster Movie is a tier even below Epic Movie.

I remember getting to see Meet the Spartans in the theatre when I was like 10 and loving it.

I absolutely refuse to watch it again, because I'm 100% sure that it'll be a miracle that the movie is only terrible.

SwayM posted...

https://youtube.com/shorts/pT4liuX_8pc?si=0MQKvAvcMIoEOtnk

This is what yall are mad at btw.

I think Snoop's just in a bit of a weird situation in this case. Snoop's experiences with gay people at all was probably very sexual because of the people he hangs out with and parties he went to. So if your only experience with gay people are really over-the-top stuff that probably shouldn't be anywhere except the exact environment Snoop is in, he could associate that with just the regular act of being gay.

Not because there's anything wrong with being gay, but because Snoop's experience was that gayness at all was that hyper-sexual hedonism stuff. And Snoop is right that that kind of stuff shouldn't be in a kids movie, but where he was uninformed is that nobody wants that in a kids movie.

But this also would be a really easy mindset to break by like, any effort to change his mind. And I want to think that's what happened, and he learned a little bit and became a bit of a better person because of it.

If Snoop was actually a MAGA-idiot here, he just would have bitched about how he was being cancelled and gotten on Fox News and what not about culture war junk. But he didn't - he made a song for kids about how being gay is perfectly fine, suggesting he has in fact learned something from this whole situation.

Sharknado 2/3

There's just something about the movie being in on the joke that it's a cheap TV movie that just makes it so bad in my opinion. They aren't good movies to begin with, but with these they definitely dropped any attempt at like, a movie with random celebrity cameos that don't serve any purpose besides showing off how little effort they put into this movie.

None of the movies in the Sharknado franchise are good mind you, but at least the first one had them felt like they were trying. It's not entertaining when like, Gilbert Gottfried is winking at the camera while he's being eaten by a shark. The later ones weirdly come like, full circle because the trend is over and most of the celebrity cameos are gone, where it feels like they want to actually put some effort in as they wrap up this super weird bit of 2010s culture.

Yeah, Trump isn't going to cancel elections entirely. We're going to have "elections" like other totalitarian regimes where you aren't allowed to vote for the other guy, and 99% of the population just so happens to vote for the dictator because they're making the numbers up anyways.

I'm perfectly fine without voice acting - bad voice acting (which it will likely be) is worse than no voice acting.

But if we're gonna skip voice acting, GF really needs to stop having musician characters actively perform with no change even in the background music, much less any specific vocals.

Like, its happened twice (in a row). That's just silly.

Really good movie.

the later ones in the series go full like gore-no torture porn style, and that's fun in its own way, but its so much harder to recommend, because you need to sort of have a specific idea going in to like the later Saw movies. Even by the second one its starting to lean into this kind of thing.

The first one is literally just a really good thriller movie. Probably because they didn't have the budget to be as over the top as they later were.

SwayM posted...

When is the last time they walked back anything they did because consumers held their ground?

When have consumers held their ground against Nintendo/Pokemon? Yeah its hard to go to like, a forum without finding a bunch of people complaining, but that doesn't really amount to much.

I'm probably gonna pick it up on my way home from work today - vaguely excited for it, but I'll be playing it on Switch 1 so idk what to think yet.