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Jones is just trying to bail on the sinking ship, especially now that his (likely incriminating) phone records are being made available to the Jan 6 Committee.

Trump is screwed outside of another coup attempt working, and Jones is just smart enough to know that and is trying to ride the coattails of basically the closest thing to a more competent Trump.

I mean, pretty fancy wallet, but idk I don't think any wallet would be worth 200$

Its my favourite one, but Pokemon went in a totally different direction starting in Gen 3, so Gen 2 feels really different even though its effectively "what GF wanted to do with the first one" so many don't like it because of that.

A Warhammer or Star Wars book series

Imagine if in the Cold War, a former president stole nuclear secrets and appeared to have intentions to sell them abroad to American enemies.

They'd be dead before the newspapers could print the story.

I always missed whatever Duncan would do to keep getting banned, so all I know about were his weird pokemon topics where he could never seem to pass like a third of the game.

Everyone bought the version without a disc drive and can't figure out how to put the games in.

I have nothing to add to this, except PETA used to make flash games that were not-so-subtlely taking shots at animal-related games coming out, and its so hamfisted they're basically parodies (though I can't imagine it was intentional)

Legitimately a fun thing to check out if y'all have some time to kill.

https://games.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/

Wait until it turns out as a method of good faith, Obama has been hiding Trumps birth certificate at his home, covering up the fact its actually Trump who's a secret Kenyan muslim.

I remember thinking Zaku's were the coolest gundam when I was younger and they were just like, one of the generic ones in the background.

apolloooo posted...

This argument is really good for this issue:

https://youtu.be/cZ9YAFYIBOU

Tl;dr: sports are never fair. There are always some genetic component that contributes to an edge in competitions. Top basketball players aren't tall because they play basketball, but they play basketball because they are tall.

The same with women. There are cis women born with bodies that produce more testoterone, or just have more muscle growth that is genetic, and these usually give them competitive edge in physical sports so transwomen, while the science says they do still have an advantage over majority of cis women, shouldn't be treated differently than those who are born cis.

Aka this is all just excuse to persecute trans ppl

I don't really like this argument. Suggesting that sports are just inherently unfair gives the impression that trans women in sports are just genetically better off, when there's very limited evidence to suggest that, especially with the amount of HRT that's required often for trans athletes to actually compete (things like NCAA and the Olympics have had HRT requirements for decades)

Using the argument "Sports are inherently unfair" just gives a lot of weight to transphobic arguments that haven't done nearly enough work to earn that. Not to mention it leads to things like "well then why do we bother with women's sports at all?"

The section of HRT is... weird. 2 of the 3 studies are based on trans men vs. trans women, When the actual debate is about trans women vs. cis women or trans men vs cis men. And the only study shared that even comes close comes with the caveat of "this isn't actually how we measure athletic performance". It certainly doesn't do a particularly good job of saying trans women are just empirically better equipped for sports against cis women, which is how they just start the next section assuming.

Remember when Utah banned trans women from competing in sports, and it turned out it affected one person in the entire state?

Its not like politicians have more important things to be doing, right?

I bet they were made fun of in school a lot.

Can't imagine growing up being named "Dick Marx"

Professor Chad in Pokemon Violet is gonna be cool.

But Scarlet has "that legendary that looks like it has a wheel built in but it doesn't" - the violet legendary has wheels like a nerd.

DarthAragorn posted...

Andrew Jackson pretty much exterminated Native Americans

Ronald Reagan turned the US economic system into the complete hellhole it is today, let AIDS run rampant because he hated gay people, and funneled drugs into black communities

Trump is awful but I need to see the long-term consequences of this stuff before I say he's definitively worse than guys like that

It is pretty ****ing indicting though how Trump is legitimately in contention for the worst of all time and we haven't even seen the horrible long-term consequences of the stuff he's pulled yet.

And its definitely going to happen, there's no way strengthening economic inequality or the hyper-partisan Supreme Court is going to end up a net-positive for the American people.

Wordle 422 5/6







Has this one already been a word? I feel like its been done before.

If I count all of the games I have but not finished yet, its really big.

But if you discount stuff from like, Humble Bundles etc... where I don't really have any intentions of actually playing some of these games, or games I tried and just didn't really get into, I could easily cut that backlog in half.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/5/AAaAFtAADj-3.jpg

As if casting has ever been dependent on the "best actor for the role"

Otherwise they wouldn't be trying to make Chris Pratt a serious tough guy.

The 2010 one was pretty fun (Predators I think?).

PoundGarden posted...

The Predator was hot dog s***. Their take on and portrayal of mental health and autism was offensively outdated a decade ago, how in the f*** it got greenlit in 2020 is beyond me. Everything about that movie was pants on head stupid (alien tech? What's it do? I dunno, gonna eat it and hope for the best)

technically the Predator was from 2018.

Though while it definitely has issues, I think it was a fun "turn your brain off and forget about it by the time you've left the theatre" movie. It was very clearly a movie that wasn't trying to be something like, important or anything and very much felt like it was from like the 90s when their awkward view of mental health and similar things would've been more acceptable.

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Man that was a tough one. Only got it the last guess because I pretty much ran out of other letters.

I'll drink on certain situations, like getting the family for X-mas and stuff where everyone will have a beer or something that day, and times where its just the excuse to be social "hey wanna go grab a beer?" kind of stuff.

Outside of those situations, its basically never.

1 mile is actually ~1.6 km IIRC

IdiotMachine posted...

If you call it mileage, is it actually still in miles per gallon or L/100km?

I think its still mpg, but idk, I'm not super in touch with the car crowd, so its always used pretty informally.

Here we just still call it mileage, but Canada tends to just do whatever the States is most of the time.

There's also like, fuel efficiency, and Car ads show it in L/100km instead of miles per gallon.

It's actually Trump's birth certificate, showing that he's actually a secret Kenyan Muslim

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Was running out of ideas, kind of just a guess about what few letters I still had to work with.

ngl was kind of hoping this would just be a link to his suspended twitter account.

Also the US National Archives released a statement saying Trump's random point at Obama doesn't have any merit (because well duh)

https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/1558151577751490561?s=20&t=eau8vG69ioroelPC4FnNBA

saspa posted...

Wait why would her being alive keep homelander from going full-nazi instead of increasing it since that's literally what she was advocating and what her whole deal is?

I thought she killer herself because she was sad that Homelander didn't embrace her nazi master race nonsense and didn't want to live anymore in a world that didn't have racial purity.

I thought Homelander was using her relationship just as an excuse to stay sane, because he kinda knows he shouldn't go full nazi, but his whole life is kind of falling apart here, and because Stormfront is basically a vegetable at that point, she can't advocate and push him over the edge more. But instead of being able to push Homelander over the edge, he's using her to keep him from doing so, which is why she killed herself.

I thought Homelander was basically using her as a Teddy Bear and Storefront was like "lol no, you go be a damn nazi"

saspa posted...

MM's ex dating that white psycho who likes Homelander makes no sense... like what, she can't see that he's clearly a psycho?

I mean, he isn't clearly a psycho, because its kind of just like the people who support general "anti-SJW" stuff - yeah they're assholes and shit people, but they "say it like it is" and stuff like that. If anything I think its part of how The Boys' satire can be a little too on the nose. And its also an avenue for the show to explain why MM doesn't like the supes and whatnot.

saspa posted...

I did find it hilarious that they showed us that they kept her alive in the beginning of the season only to kill her off instantly instead of just being dead in the season 2 finale but them's the breaks I guess

I actually really liked that. Showing that her being alive was one of the few things keeping Homelander from losing his **** and going full-nazi, and then her killing herself because she wants him to go over the edge like that really helped his whole downfall the whole season.

Trump is like, the most obviously corrupt dude on the planet, and many view him as basically a saint, its so strange. Not to mention he's the reason many republicans have stopped pretending they aren't horrible racists/sexists/____phobes whatever and is now like a republican talking point about how they want to actively oppress trans people or whatever.

I think its a little early to call him the worst president ever made, as we are still pretty recent, and some of his most damaging moves could take a long time to appear (like Ronald Reagan's mass deregulations being a big contributor for the 2008 financial collapse).

Not to mention the bar for worst president is actually pretty high, when we have guys like
TheMikh posted...

james buchanan
woodrow wilson
andrew johnson

If anyone didn't read the article, its pretty crazy. Its basically "Trump can do literally whatever he wants because he's president" and ends with someone literally saying "that's not how that works. That's ****ing ridiculous"

Fun quote

"We've told him there's a process and not following it could be a problem but he didn't care because he thinks this stuff is dumb,"

Even Newsmax can't find a way to actually justify this beyond admitting the most obviously corrupt dude on the planet is probably not doing good things.

Weren't there reports earlier that Martin like, gave a general outline of how he wanted the story to end?
Noumas posted...

Does anyone actually blame D&D? Hell I dont understand expecting anything from grrm either. Have you read the books? From the moment he had that s***ty catspaw reveal I knew that this dude couldn't wrap storyline. Oh he could certainly set them up, but then again anyone can set up intriguing plots and mysteries, just look at jj Abrams and lost. It's about delivering on those mysteries and he sure as s*** didn't with what he did attempt to resolve, so forget him ending the actual main plot lines.

The last seasons which were very much bad because D&D didn't want to keep doing the show, so they definitely deserve some of the blame. Especially because the main issue with the ending wasn't really what happened at the end, but rather how it ended. If you told someone at like season 4 how the series ended, they'd probably be like "yeah I can see that", but Seasons 7/8 didn't really do a lot of the work that was required to get to that ending point.

But there's also not a chance anyone would have really been able to wrap up some of these things well, and the books have even more random loose ends and **** that would need to be tied up.

I'm of the opinion there just wasn't a good way to wrap up the Night King and Coming Winter stuff.

saspa posted...

second, how did this same guy have any trouble during the awesome Herogasm fight or even the end fight scene?

I had the exact opposite idea. The idea I got from the first two seasons was Homelander just had OP powers and as a result didn't really need to know how to fight or anything like that. Instead he was just a bully that would crumble the second someone actually fought back - hence why he has any reason to actually care about The Boys and why he was terrified of Soldier Boy for like 1/2 the season.

But then he's just like, beating everyone without a ton of trouble in the last episodes and I don't know if he should've been.

Given Black Noir is one of the most important parts of the comic-ending, I doubt he's staying dead. Though the comic ending was really dumb and I hope they go elsewhere with it.

I think they did lean a bit too much into the whole season being about Homelander's complete mental collapse, and the relationship between Butcher and Hughie. Those are the main points for sure, but it did leave some other stuff underdeveloped.

My guess is they had a real ending in mind (probably season 4 or maybe 5) and much of this season was basically just to get everything into position to start it

Smashingpmkns posted...

I really don't get what people see in this Multiversus game. If this is the best a Smash clone can be I think Smash is pretty safe at the top lol

Multiversus is free (well, free-2-play). So if it keeps getting decent content, the gameplay being basically a worse Smash won't matter much. Its not gonna be neck-and-neck with Smash any time soon, but can easily in the future if it does well.

NoxObscuras posted...

That's the solution? Yeah I would have never guessed that lol. My first thought was that starting a fire in an enclosed space would be a terrible idea

But if you start a fire in the room and die, you go to heaven, which is in fact, leaving the room.

Multiversus is so weird. I don't know who wanted to see Arya Stark fight Velma from Scooby Doo, but like... okay. It works in that way where you don't really get how it works.

AP3Brain posted...

MultiVersus is really good. It just needs more modes and some kind of single-player campaign.

The best Smash-like game I've played outside of Smash.

this. It also needs something to be more chaotic (like smash). It needs like items and stuff to make everything way more hectic, and it would be a pretty fun party game.

Similar: See Neckbeard Peterson

https://youtu.be/V9PEUAbgEBs

He did have a point in the first half - a big part of why he was initially popular was that he pointed to the broken system and said he could fix it. But that was in 2016, not 2022. Nobody really believes that now. That's why people talk about how MAGA is a cult, not a fanbase.

Any reasonable person would hear "Trump's house is being raided by the FBI" and go "What took so long?"

https://imgur.com/KJ8qiOp

Despite "Mental Health" being the excuse whenever something bad happens that would paint conservatives in a bad light, its not like they actually care.

Republicans specifically tend to be against anything positive for society just as a matter of principle.

AirFresh posted...

He's just his manager.

Yeah probably this.

Wouldn't be surprised if Ric wanted to do it again after how badly his last match went.

Target was too much of a coward to succeed in Canada, so Wal-Mart I guess.

Though you can't really be "slightly nicer Wal-Mart" when here, Walmart is the slightly nicer Walmart.

masterpug53 posted...

Somehow they buried the hatchet long enough for Williams to return for the 3rd movie, King of Thieves; Dan Castellanetta filled in for Genie in Return of Jafar.

When Bob Iger (? idk who) took over between Aladdin 2 and 3, he offered (what at least appeared to be) a heartfelt apology about the wrongdoing they did to Robin and that he had every right to be upset. And Robin kind of just accepted it, while the previous guy had been like, sending him art and money and ****.

Robin continued doing the Genie after Aladdin 3 for educational stuff until he died.

Gato DNA digivolve to...

Silphy!