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GranolaPanic posted...

Ken is worse

Hell, Morgana is worse in his own game let alone going into the other games with Rise and Ken.

mybbqrules posted...

Repubs actually switched it, I heard. Either first time around was No on 1 and this time it's yes on 1, or something.

Just more subterfuge from the right because they can't win on the actual merits of their policies. They have to try to trick people.

To clarify. Issue 1 in August was basically an attempt by Republicans to make it so that the actual Issue 1 now wouldn't pass

Issue 1 in August would have raised the requirements for both votes (I believe it'd need 60% rather than simple majority) as well as make it so that in order for any citizen petition amendment to get on the ballot, you would need to collect signatures from every single county in Ohio plus have a % of Yeses for the amendment based on the voting population of the county. It would have effectively destroyed citizen amendments and petitions due to how strict it was going to be.

If Issue 1 had gone through based on the results of tonight Issue 1 for November would have failed, and we would probably never see another petition amendment again.

TimeForAction posted...

I dont see how either ballot measure in Ohio fails. Issues 1 seems a lock. Issue 2 seems to be tightening but has a good cushion

My main concern going into today was how much Issue 1 in August was an abortion issue and how much was a voter's rights issue. The August vote would have broadly ruined petition based amendments, so I thought there was a chance some Republicans would vote against the issue while going against abortion. I am hopeful to be wrong.

Did my duty in OH. I want to believe because of the August issue this has a shot, but I have a feeling a large number of conservatives were willing to shoot down the Issue in August that limited people petition amendments but will vote no on the abortion and marijuana issue.

Honestly this is more interesting me than going the whole ninja route. A samurai from Africa with a historical fiction story is like cooler than random ninja. Like, wasn't that part of what people liked about the original series, the at least tangential connection to the real world history?

Antifar posted...

One small problem with the idea of not voting in order to teach Democrats a lesson is that they are so bad at learning. The lesson they took from Hillary's defeat is that they should nominate even more of a centrist in 2020.

And considering that centrist got more votes than most candidates and has actually been fairly effective in his position and passed a good number of progressive acts says that it was a good idea.

Do I think Biden is perfect? No. But he's better than the alternative and until forced rank choice voting happens I will continue to vote for the lesser of two evils when the other evil is near totalitarian evangelism

Thanksgiving has been pretty meh for me for a while. But with my grandmother's passing earlier this year, and the family united saying they have no interest in meeting for Thanksgiving or Christmas, feels like the Holidays are over. Which sucks as they were one of the few parts of the year I looked forward to.

Butterfiles posted...

Is it time to admit that those two games were boring as shit? Answer: yes

Eh...I think the first one was good and was a good feel for being completely different. The pacing felt fairly crisp outside of having to go back to the Mountain like 4 different times as a fake out.

Ragnarok though yeah...they bloated the shit out of that game and not for the better even if I got the Plat. When the first place I went to was as large as Midgard in the first game and realizing there were probably 5 more of them, my interest waned a bunch

Axiom posted...

Were people excited for it. I only learned about it recently when that topic about the guy being a pedo popped up and all the vids I saw of it looked like absolute shit

When it was first announced like...a decade ago, it was at least a somewhat interesting idea for the novelty of it. There was definitely some bad themes that needed to be removed for sure, but the concept of a Hitman game set in school I think could be fun. Set up traps, get the trust of the targets friends or get henchmen to set up situations and having to do it all in a way that you aren't outed. It'd be a fun balancing act of keeping your suspicion down while getting the job done, and add in getting the affection of your senpai so that the end game wins.

Of course...the dev was awful on multiple fronts and was too arrogant to not hand off the game when a studio literally offered to take it and finish it for him, so here we are.

He's not wrong about Ruth.

She did some amazing things but Obama basically pled with her to step down during his administration so that he could appoint a younger judge that shared her views. She refused and with the obstructionist Republicans in 2015 and beyond it led directly to the SC set up we have today that's fucking over a ton of policies

MorganTJ posted...

I can definitely see why the goblins are an unflattering stereotype, but I never got that from house-elves. I always saw them like brownies in folklore that do housework in exchange for cream, but I guess that's still technically transactional.

...Yeah maybe they should've just had them work for comically low pay, that probably would've been a bit better than just slaves.

It's a sort of combo of Dobby being treated as the "odd one" for not enjoying being treated like a slave, the one House Elf going into an alcoholic depression over it, and Hagrid, the sweetest sort being like "Honestly Hermione this whole advocating for better conditions for a whole race is stupid and out there because it's their natural disposition to be ruled".

Like Hermione being shown as the butt of the joke because she's advocating for racial equality is a little sus we can't lie.

Rest in Peace. But I also can't help but feel sad she spent her last few years as a walking corpse barely cognizant because she refused to step out of the way and basically got dragged along as a political tool.

Octopath 2...depends what class I get and what constitutes "completing the game". My story? I...think I could probably finish at least 1 with the right travelmates. Or I just hope I end up in one of the comfy towns.

rwbonesy posted...

i used to watch dunkey but he started annoying the shit out of me over time culminating in his dog diarrhea prick "review" of dq11

To be fair, and it might have changed, Dunkey is very clear about his views on rpgs. Persona 5 is the only JRPG he's liked basically ever so the quintessential RPG that is Dragon Quest is never going to be liked by him.

I'd rather have less days at longer hours than less hours at higher wage on the same number of days. Give me 12 hours 3 days a week and I'll happily take it.

I want to watch this, just to see the absolute stupidity, but I don't think my blood pressure can handle dealing with most of these people and their answers.

Especially when this all feels absolutely pointless because none of them are topping Trump unless he either dies or gets fully arrested within the next few months and can't run for office. And even then he'd probably win the write in vote.

The woman in the middle looks fine. The man on the right is...young looking but could definitely be 19-20 and just looks young because of the glasses and hair.

There's no justification for the guy on the left. I refuse to believe he's older than high school age, like Freshman High School.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Trump hasn't ruled out attending.

I mean I'd love to see him there. But any reasonable lawyer probably isn't going to suggest he goes on a public debate...

...actually never mind yeah he's totally gonna be there.

Lordgold666 posted...

Why the push for people to come back to the office? Is productivity really that behind?

Companies are trying to justify the massive rental properties of buildings they have. They have leases on empty buildings atm.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Fuck off.

I mean is he wrong? Every poll shows that Trump is so far ahead of everyone else that it would at this point probably take him dying to have a different nominee. Even if he was in prison there would be probably enough votes for him with the supporters saying be was wrongfully imprisoned.

It's gonna be hilarious and sad to see these guys battle against each other and still lose every single primary to Trump by double digits

The maps really do show just how screwed up that 5% of every county poison pill was in the long run. It 100% would have screwed over everyone from citizens doing their part.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/2023/ohio-issue-1/

This shouldn't be behind a paywall, if it is my apologies, but just go down to the Ohio map and hover over the individual counties. All the ones leaning Yes are at like 90% tallied. The major No Strongholds are at like 40% give or take. We're talking tens of thousands of votes that are going to bolster No that Yes can't make up in the other counties.

Strider102 posted...

Oh no

Don't be stressed. This is basically over. The counties voting Yes are not going at astronomical ratios (Most are 60/30 and some are dead heats) and they're almost 100% counted. Cleveland alone is only at 35% and is currently beating the pants off of Yes by a rate of 80/20. That's another 100-200k votes for No right there.

So just to affirm this, Washington Post has a County by County Measurer you can see what % of the vote is in. The majority of the Yes counties are 1) Super small and low voter count and 2) are already mostly 50% already counted.

Cuyahoga County, which has Cleveland, only has 30% of it's vote tallied, and it is currently winning No at a rate of 85%. Montgomery County is currently 70/30 No with only 30% of the vote in. Hamilton county is 78/22% no with only 28% counted.

Ergo, the major cities where No is probably going to feast are currently still under voting compared to the majority of the Yes Counties that are depleting fast.

Humble_Novice posted...

Oh dear...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/0/AAPVm4AAEvJk.png

Really this number going down only is concerning if most of the vote is coming from the cities. The cities are pretty solidly going to be No so if the majority of votes outstanding are from those counties then it's not a big deal. Without more information it's hard to say if the number going down is a good or a bad thing with a 3rd in.

Yeah. I'm gonna cool it for now. As more and more Day of Voting is coming in that % is dropping fast. I know Wasserman is usually good on these but that is a super early call.

I'm happy with what I'm seeing so far, and I know someone announced it's over, but I still just want to hold out a little bit. I can't imagine my state doing something good.

Xenogears15 posted...

Live like a miser and saaaaaaaaave dat dough until you can move.

Plan on it. Honestly my goal is Canada but for that you need like 15k saved up. I figure that if I can save half my paycheck give or take every month and live frugally I should have that much saved up by the end of my time commitment which means the goal at that point is getting out and about.

Honestly, the fact that I'm stuck in this state for at least another year and a half because I took student aid from my work just makes me sad. I know that I won't find much cheaper or better than Ohio but ughhhh

voldothegr8 posted...

Did my part. These democrats are idiots though, stop falling for the trap making it about abortion. Make it about what it really is, Ohio citizen rights as a whole.

They have been to an extent. Most of the commercials I've seen has been more focused on the fact that if this passes almost nothing will actually be possible to get on the ballot. The only time I saw abortion mentioned by Dems is when LaRoche was caught quite literally saying Issue 1 was about abortion. Or saying that if you don't for issue 1 your kids will become trans.

Honestly as someone in Ohio, this whole ballot is fucked on a few levels.

The fact that Republicans originally voted to get rid of all August special elections because they "were confusing" or otherwise dumb, only to force a special exception for this one so they can force this motion through.

The fact that not only does it make it so that special amendments like this would require 60%...it would require that for a citizen amendment to even reach the ballot, it would require 5% of the voters in each county to sign off on it. That means that in order for anything to get put on the ballot, the bum nowhere voters of at least 5% would have to sign off. And that's not taking into account the efforts necessary to get signatures in every county.

This issue would basically destroy the ability of Ohio citizens to adjust their constitution. The Republicans talking up how this is supposed to stop "outside interference" (when even the bill's sponsor outright said it was about abortion)

The problem is, I know my state. It might be slowly getting better, but we literally just voted in Hillbilly Elegy Hack into the Senate because Trump supported him. We are not a smart state.

Ubergeneral3 posted...

here is the thing. I hate trump but I don't like biden either. I was a leftist canidate. People vote for biden because he's not trump. If we keep on doing this nothing will ever change. After donald, it will be the next trump. Its not an election, it's a hostage situation.

I'm not voting for biden. If we keep on voting for mediocre canidates will keep on getting mediocore politics.

Elections aren't the only way to get change.

Elections *are* the only way to get change. I honestly don't know what else you're expecting. And "mediocre" (I'd struggle to call Biden that even, he's been boring but if you look at what he's done he's been highly effective) is still several degrees of separation from what Trump is. We had 4 years of seeing what Trump has to offer; if you honestly think that a man like that deserves to be President again, then you'll never see another candidate again because Republicans will probably destroy any semblance of equal, free democracy this country has.

January 6 shows he'd be willing to do what he needs to in order to become a tyrant, and 50% of the country will follow him.

I really don't say this lightly;

If Trump were to win the presidency and the Republicans keep a hold of the Legislative branch, there's a non-zero chance that they pass some form of legislation and work around laws that would make future elections mean absolutely nothing. We're already seeing it on the state level; States are making laws and putting them on the books that say that the Attorney General has the right to just throw out the vote if they feel like there was a sign of fraud or foul play, and Republican states will happily do that to remove any shot at the purple/swing states going anywhere but R.

This isn't even getting into the questions on if a President is able to pardon himself for crimes. It's one thing to get Impeached/Removed from office, which we know the Republicans will never do if they control both chambers. It's another thing for him to win and then say that the crimes against him are illegitimate and pardon himself.

The worst part about all of this is that this guy can blatantly break every single law, conspire to completely screw the US and destroy democracy completely.

And 50% of the population is still going to show up and vote for him because he was willing to destroy it for their side and "own the libs"

I've commented a lot about immigration, though I'm a bit iffy overall. But realistically if Trump gets elected in 2024 then I am 100% seeking to get out of the country as soon as possible because all I'll have seen is that democracy as an ideal in the US is dead and there is no coming back for it.

As a single male that would be fantastic for me. I figure that with that value I could pay off a 1 bedroom apartment on like a quarter of my monthly wages.

If you're trying to support kids though you definitely need more finances.

Honestly, I've been thinking about this. How soon do LGBTQ and other groups seriously have an argument for movement to another country under asylum for persecution.

I mean, when you have 50% of the voting populace at least and a large number of your own government's officials making it clear through legislation that you shouldn't even exist, and the danger it implies through large swaths of the country....

Sakamoto Days probably has the best shot.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

The EU should tell Russia "Do anything to that plant and our armies join the Ukrainians in driving you out of Ukraine including Crimea"

The fallout could hit good chunks of europe no?

I've heard so many conflicting reports regarding this plant at this point it's hard to honestly say what's going on. On the one hand you've got major concerns. But on the other hand you have people stating that 6 out of the major reactors have been in cool down for months and that the last major one entered cool down a bit ago. You have an international nuclear body with people on site supposedly guarding it, but also that they were able to rig explosives to the roofs that may not actually do anything because of how reinforced the top is.

At this point I don't know and the confusion just makes it worse.

Also for who asked; nowhere close to the plant. I'm in the US, just a doomer of figuring that even any conventional response by NATO is going to be met with a potential nuclear response from Russia.

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Honest question; why are we so sure about this when Russia has up to this point shown to be fairly irrational in it's choices? If in their mind it's the only way to garner a tactical advantage enough to press the war effort, what would stop them outside the risk of triggering MAD, with even that not necessarily being enough at this point?

Putin and by extension Russia has thrown basically everything at this, to just run away now would be almost impossible. They're getting locked into a corner with few options left.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If we're very very lucky, the Russians have stolen enough shit from the plant that it can't melt down.

Reports I've read regarding the plant is that the majority of the fuel cells have been shut down for well over a year at this point, which does limit the potential melt down disaster. There is currently 1 active cell that I believe was treated as "warm" rather than red hot. The real concern is the amount of radioactive waste that might be on premises that could be launched due to an explosion.

Gonna be a long few days worrying about the fallout (unfortunate pun) of whatever Putin gets up to with the ZNPP. At this point I'm just waiting to hear the sirens and tell my family I love them. Might be doomer thinking but this truly is the closest I've felt to nuclear war in my life time.

AOC posted...

Dumb addition to the topic but I played Chess vs a Russian today (st. petersburg) and she said they are being told Ukraine has plans to sabotage the ZNPP.

Yeah, much like everything regarding Syria, this 100% means that Russia has plans to sabotage the ZNPP and are getting ahead of it to make it look like Ukraine did it.

Guess the next week is gonna be...interesting.

s0nicfan posted...

My theory is it shuts down the entire southern offensive without irradiating the parts Putin actually wants. Just look at the predictions from last year on where the fallout would hit hardest and then consider that everything to the west of that (in Ukraine) has been flooded:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/6/AABJX0AAEkGe.jpg

Between the dam destruction and the fallout, Russia would be able to concentrate all of their defenses on the Eastern front while still maintaining a land corridor to crimea.

This is all working under the impression that this wouldn't get NATO involved, and I don't think they can make that assumption at this point. Nuclear fallout of any magnitude ending up in NATO territory is going to be met with overwhelming conventional destruction. The Russian army as a whole will be wiped nearly off the map in a matter of hours.

Jesus Christ, I honestly thought I'd at least live to see 30, but 18 days out I'm not so sure any more.

I mean, part of me hopes that NATO would keep this purely conventional but frankly even a massive conventional response to this would probably force Russia's hand into considering it a threat to their very existence and start the nuclear exchange. At this point I just wish that I could believe we're going to be okay but...

I don't know how to feel that 20% of the top rated games of the year so far are just remasters...