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40. It's a damned grind.

Because it's literally his entire shtick to mess with people?
Though I feel I must note that Bernie seems to take it in stride.

Do you read much? If yes, what kinds of books do you read?

Platinum's the best overall, but it's paired with Diamond and Pearl, which are objectively janky and slow as molasses.

Doe posted...

The rare Earth hypothesis is just a hypothesis and afaik our current understanding of the universe and abiogenesis concludes that there is more likely other life out there.

Hell, the prospect of there being alien life in our own solar system is beginning to seem likely.

Nomadic View posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

That tweet really sounds like it's pro-Trump

Its by Huffpo, so I cant imagine its pro Trump. It reads like someone mocking the left though...or is Huffpo just that nuts that its beyond hyperbole?

That, or they're just really dumb. Possibly both.

https://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/formats/uber/
That's Smogon's ban-list, for reference. As you can see, it's primarily composed of box and secret legendaries, along with some particularly powerful Mega evolutions, as well as Aegislash(Stance Change basically allows it to both be an excellent check on attackers AND a lethal mixed-attacker, but it doesn't actually change stance until you use an offensive move) and Blaziken(Speed Boost is busted).
Regardless, most of the Pokemon involved are not only vastly more powerful than the entire Pokedex, they also tend to be hard to obtain. The purpose of any ban-list(in Pokemon) is create an environment in which the maximum amount of Pokemon are viable.

Also note that that ban-list is for Singles. Doubles is a whole different can of worms.

Chuck Schumer, by reminding them to observe proper decorum while they're deported.

We have that in CT. It's garbo though.

The GOP is only frightened because you're supposed to keep the racism and white supremacism on the down-low.

mistalightbulb posted...

you dont need a criminal lawyer, you need a criminal lawyer

This made me chuckle.
Giuliani's brains are mush, but not as mushy as the idiots who employ him.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-generic-ballot-polls/?ex_cid=rrpromo
The Dems have consistently lead in generic balloting since forever. How much of this they can translate into House seats is another matter, particularly since they're facing an excellent Republican gerrymander in most states.

The thing with the Senate is that the map is ridiculously bad for the Democrats. They have incumbents up for re-election in West Virginia, Indiana, Florida, North Dakota, Ohio, and Missouri. Their best pick-up opportunities are Nevada and Arizona. After those, it's Texas. A good result for them is losing just a seat or two.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

I don't think it will be Kavanaugh, simply because he has the longest track record and worked in the Bush administration. Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to want him, either: perhaps his staff found something that could drag out his nomination process?(that, or he's trying to use reverse-psychology on Trump).
Basically, McConnell most likely wants a candidate who is A) Reliably conservative and B) Quick to confirm(i.e. not a whole big career to go over). He would love to get some vulnerable Democratic senators to vote for the nominee too, to give cover to his own vulnerable senators.

Quoting for posterity, 'cause I'm dumb.
Kavanaugh has ~0% of going Souter on them, unfortunately. He may not straight-up over-turn Roe v. Wade, either, but then that's fools gold for pro-lifers anyhow.

I do miss events, personally. They gave you a feel for what that legendary was like, and what its place in the world was.

I don't think it will be Kavanaugh, simply because he has the longest track record and worked in the Bush administration. Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to want him, either: perhaps his staff found something that could drag out his nomination process?(that, or he's trying to use reverse-psychology on Trump).
Basically, McConnell most likely wants a candidate who is A) Reliably conservative and B) Quick to confirm(i.e. not a whole big career to go over). He would love to get some vulnerable Democratic senators to vote for the nominee too, to give cover to his own vulnerable senators.

I didn't like how 4 and Apocalypse explicitly made one ending unambiguously good, as opposed to leaving things more open like Nocturne did

The creator(Georges Remi) did get better over time, because he listened to reader criticism(Dude, that's really racist!) and eventually made a point of visiting places he planned to set a Tintin comic in beforehand and get to know the people and culture a bit. His racism seems to have been more rooted in ignorance than malice, at least.

No. It would mean, regardless of whether or not Clinton wins, the Democrats(the ones in power, anyway) have learned nothing and we'll simply end up back here again by 2028 at the latest.

Don't have anything new to add, but I love FTL: Faster Than Light, Stellaris, and Mass Effect.

FTL is a rogue-like where you control a single federation vessel carrying vital intel across hostile space. You encounter a host of events, choices, and space battles, which often play out very differently depending on your crew and equipment.

Stellaris is one of this generation's foremost Space 4Xs. You basically create your own race and play as them. You aren't the first to the stars: many have come and gone after you, and left various oddities behind. Darker things still exist, and there is a Worm That Waits(or was it waiting? Or will it be waiting?) You have a lot of lee-way in terms of how to develop your civilization, but if you're looking for a game with well-defined races, this isn't it(unless you bring your own).

Mass Effect is BioWare's space property. It was originally a fusion of BioWare RPG and third-person shooter, but the latter element increasingly superseded the former(for the best, IMO, but many disagree). It's a rich world that stars you as Commander Shepard on your quest to save the galaxy from the mysterious menace known only as "The Reapers".

We just got five new episodes, and a whole hell of a lot happened.
For courtesy, I'm spoilering my OP, so if you enter this topic and aren't caught up, just know that you need to get caught up!

Those were some great episodes. Stephen and Amethyst have come a long way. Pearl and Sapphire crying together was really funny to me. Ruby's little cowboy adventure was sweet, and now we're back in Bismuth. She took things better than I thought she could. Peridot was her amazing self("The flowers have been deployed, Wedding Commander!"). The wedding was beautiful, and the Diamonds crashing it was really tense. Lapis came back, the Cluster took (partial) form and wrecked Yellow's ship, Steven even managed to get the Diamonds to LISTEN.
Which is only a start. The Crystal Gems would almost certainly lose if they had to fight both Diamonds, but they're stuck here and reasonably convinced that Steven is intimately related to Pink. Them hanging around is going to be really, really, really awkward and tense though(and there's a lot they're going to struggle to understand). Interestingly, the promo for the next batch of episodes revealed that they didn't know that corruption is even a thing: they thought they had annihilated all the gems on Earth.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

And yet theyll still vote for him in 2020.

These are the same people who hate socialism but take massive subsidies from the government.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/21/622044032/got-lobster-trumps-steel-tariffs-threaten-trap-industry
I'll quote the end of the article.
NPR

Morris says he's hoping Trump has a strategy that's going to pan out that the tariffs will strengthen the economy in the long run.

"I'm going to bear the brunt of it, I'm going to hope and pray for the best for our country, our corporations like Riverdale and the workers there, the fishermen, everybody. But if it goes awry, I'll stand and I'll be the first one to admit that I was wrong in supporting that."

For now, he says, he's putting his faith in the president.

Their entire world view depends on Trump being some kind of ubermensch chess master who already won 16 moves ago. That, or they don't mind getting screwed as long as the president is white.

"I don't know how to be, Diane."

I love how he was blatantly Henry Kissinger.
Edit:
Have a clip.

Meganium is a defensive pokemon with a poor defensive-typing and without native access to the "typical" Grass-type utility(sleep powder and leech seed). And, of course, the typings of GSC gyms are ridiculously over-tuned against Grass in general.
It's a poorly-realized pokemon.

Eh, I still like Sinnoh better, but Unova was definitely a top-tier region.
Plus, after 3 games of fairly lame villains, Ghetsis was great. I mean, Cyrus talked a big game and all, but when the chips went down, Ghetsis actually followed through.

I would like to, and I kind of do, but it's at odds with my general pessimism about the nature of reality.

Smashingpmkns posted...

They should have just come out and said we aren't getting more than Ridley and Inkling cuz that's kinda what it seems like right now.

This is probably true, honestly.

I wouldn't mind if any of those had been characters, but whatever.
I convinced myself I want Dr. Eggman (Robotnik). And King K. Rool. It's time to get some more villains, IMO.

I wish them all the best. Dude sounds like scum.

If only his next post were prison.

Finally, a political party to represent Wall Street!

Stellaris
Playing a race of Xenophobe/Fanatic Militarist Barbaric Despoilers. All of my neighbors are Democratic Crusaders who hate my guts and declare war on me regularly. I just wiped out some Ruthless Capitalists and have viciously enslaved them, which ensures my best friend in the galaxy is the local Hivemind(and even then, it's like, "Dude, really? That's just messed up.") It's a good thing my tech is finally picking up a little, because there was a while when some of my neighbors had Destroyers and a fleet cap expansion on me.

Fox is the worst, but it's not as though CNN(or MSNBC, for that matter) are very good.

An Oddish from the Safari Zone in Sapphire.
I encountered a shiny Lairon on Victory Road, but it Roar'd me away.

I haven't found another one in a while, but I still get shinies from stuff like Smogon give-aways.

No joke, if the Cold War was decided by national anthems, we'd have been crushed.
I considered the Civ4 mod that modded Stalin's music to be the Soviet national anthem essential(the mod that gave Lincoln The Battle Hymn of the Republic was almost as important).

Final Fantasy V
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhDgbcrWsAAY6zg.jpg:large
That was a total slog of a run. Four Job Fiesta, Black Mage/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon
Basically, Black Mage provided everything. The raw power to nuke things to death before my complete lack of healing killed me(never before have I used so many freaking potions, tents, and cottages. I'd buy Potions x99 at a time. I nearly cried when I could buy Hi-Potions). It powered the Berserker's Rune Axe. It gave Dragoon something to do, because lances and Dragoons are meh. It couldn't redeem Geomancer, but good God, it tried.

In any case, I had to cheese the hell out of Neo-ExDeath as I have never had to before. I spammed Break until I got lucky(after four wipes) and killed the part that casts Almagest. I grabbed the Thief Knife and hunted Crystal Dragons until I managed to get a Dragon Lance so my Dragoon could murder the part that casts Grand Cross. I used the Magic Lamp to kill a 3rd-part with Odin. Even then, my team was bloodied and battered, and Faris ate it to a double Vacuum Wave.
All that after grinding a good half-dozen levels. This party was bad.

A knight in full armor is definitely the favorite against a samurai. This isn't a value statement as much as it is based upon Europeans having more and better easily-available iron to work with, and that being reflected in their respective armament.
Swords were always at least as much a sign of status as a weapon though(they're comparatively expensive to make).

Fam_Fam posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Kennedy wasn't much of a swing-vote. He was basically a typical business-friendly moderate Republican with a soft-spot for gay rights.

well he was at least moderate, and didn't vote along party lines every time. which you can't say for others

Are you David Brooks?

Kennedy wasn't much of a swing-vote. He was basically a typical business-friendly moderate Republican with a soft-spot for gay rights.

CT. This is a blue-state, but we definitely have a little soft-spot for mild-mannered business-wing Republicans and self-funded Democrats. Also our Democratic governor is a living conservative stereotype of liberalism with the charisma of a dishrag.

Yeah, the one problem I have with SMRPG is that the psuedo-3D makes the few platforming sections in the game frustrating, because objects don't necessarily line up like they appear to, and 3D World doesn't have that problem at all.

And it's a damned great game, at that.

Panthera posted...

Roy is pretty ass really, his bases are so bad that without feeding him every kill you can he'll never amount to much. His growths are good, but other characters have solid growths and can actually get shit done reliably on their own.

Not to mention that Roy doesn't promote until the game's basically over, meaning he spends at least a half-dozen chapters as an EXP black hole. Roy is bad, but there are so, so many characters in that game that suck, it's not even funny.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Like it or not Mal is right

Democrats have a strong history of bursts of powerful emotion but never actually organising or voting.

Republicans on the other hand are colder and more calculated but vote in force consistently..

Blue Wavy won't happen
Democrats don't have the skill or patience to keep it up

Yeah, it's not like a Blue Wave happened the last time there was an unpopular Republican president, right?
Oh...

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
Seems likely, but certainly not certain. It's not even July, after all.

Aloner posted...

Biden doesn't match the current tone of the left. He's a party implosion waiting to happen.

And Hillary supporters need to move on.

I'm hoping it's mostly based on name-recognition(but then Bernie is 3rd) and/or their sample sucks.
In any case, the Democratic primary field is going to be crowded.

Biden 1st and Hillary 2nd? That's dire.

What's the old saw? You can't get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it?
That's the vibe I get from establishment Democrats. Most of them will never get it.

I like the idea, but we're definitely not ready. Not even close.