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Poor people generally aren't off weekends though. At least, I'm not.
The solution is to make election day a national holiday and/or have voting occur over multiple days and/or mail-in voting.

Godnorgosh posted...

PanzerElite posted...

Libertarian socialist?

does not compute

Left-libertarianism is pretty old, dawg

Anarchism is quite old.
Personally, I doubt we could get by without a power structure of some kind, but what do I know? Only that which is, which isn't all that can be.

I went to college there. It was chill. I still miss there being a Stewart's in walking distance no matter where I was.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

tremain07 posted...

Tadg30 posted...

tremain07 posted...

Didn't Milo goad nutcases to attack journalists a few days ago? That's a really bad look

2 days ago.

http://observer.com/2018/06/milo-yiannopoulos-encourages-vigilantes-start-gunning-journalists-down/

Wow, he's fucked if this dude turns out to be a fan of him.

Nah, it's actually perfectly legal to call for violence, as long as it isn't specific.
"Some one should break X's legs" is fine. The only way you can get in trouble is by saying something like: "Go break X's legs!" or "Let's break X's legs!" and then they go and do it immediately.
Otherwise, we might have to throw the book at Klan members.

"Will no one rid me of these turbulent journalists?"

The law is terrible, yes.

tremain07 posted...

Tadg30 posted...

tremain07 posted...

Didn't Milo goad nutcases to attack journalists a few days ago? That's a really bad look

2 days ago.

http://observer.com/2018/06/milo-yiannopoulos-encourages-vigilantes-start-gunning-journalists-down/

Wow, he's fucked if this dude turns out to be a fan of him.

Nah, it's actually perfectly legal to call for violence, as long as it isn't specific.
"Some one should break X's legs" is fine. The only way you can get in trouble is by saying something like: "Go break X's legs!" or "Let's break X's legs!" and then they go and do it immediately.
Otherwise, we might have to throw the book at Klan members.

Worse than Buchanan? Get back to me when Trump's cabinet plays a key role in starting and leading an armed rebellion against the United States and Trump just shrugs and goes, "What can you do?"
Hell, he still has some ground to cover compared to the likes George W. Bush and Warren G. Harding, though he'll definitely make it if given a 2nd-term.

FrisbeeDude posted...

Was it worth it, Bernie Bros? Good luck looking any minority in the eye for the next generation while trying to explain why you behaved the way you did, because your political purity fucked them over in ways we cant begin to imagine

FEEL THE BERN

Actually, there were way less of those than there Hillary supporters who refused to support Obama in '08.
But tell us again how we're the sore losers.

I donate to charitable and political causes, and am going back to school for social work.

GreatEvilEmpire posted...

Crowley probably took some pages from Hillary's campaign playbook. Barely campaigned, but expected to win... and didn't.

To his credit, he seems to be taking things in stride: http://m.theweek.com/speedreads/781483/watch-rep-joe-crowley-pick-guitar-dedicate-born-run-primary-winner-alexandria-ocasiocortez

I'm sure he could get a very cushy job on Wall Street if he wanted. They take care of their own, you have to give them that.

And it's pretty much the only good news from today.
It's a solid-blue district too, so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is very likely to win in the general.
She would also be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress(she's 28) if she wins.

Liberals don't want open borders though.

Y2J0_sHBK_Blue posted...

The center allows for compromise which is best for everybodg.

How so?

Yes, truly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of a governor and a White House official, is truly oppressed.

Godnorgosh posted...

Paper_Okami posted...

But most dems are a bunch of cowards with corporate donors in their pockets.

I've never understood the idea that Democrats are cowards. It's more plausible that they're doing exactly what they intend.

That's 100% true of the likes of Chuck Schumer. I mean, he literally looked the other way and let the more conservative members of his caucus vote to water-down the Dodd-Frank regulations(which were inadequate to begin with). This would be hugely unpopular and a cudgel for Democrats to wield against Republicans, except Schumer, Manchin, McCaskill, etc. agree with the idea that Dodd-Frank was too "severe" in its handling of the industries which created the 2008 economic crisis and the resultant Great Recession.(And it was "conveniently" lost in the breathless reporting of Trump scandals 367-813)
Because, really, most of the media is controlled by moneyed interests.
The Republicans are irredeemable, but we're truly doomed if the Democratic Party remains a party where the likes of Chuck Schumer and Corey Booker are front-and-center.

Absolutely not.
It should; however, be offered to everyone at little to no cost.

We could learn much from the Germans in this area.

Basically, once you start heading to Mahogany Town, the amount of trainers you encounter craters and the levels of wild pokemon virtually flat-line. Claire and the E4 each represent minor spikes, but then you get to Kanto and the level-curve is basically flat except for Blue. Then you go to Mt. Silver, featuring wild pokemon in the 40s and Red, who represents a huge level spike.
It's miserable and easily the game's worst aspect. Naturally, they didn't bother fixing it in HG/SS.

The Germans would absolutely have imposed a harsh peace on the French(the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk they imposed on Lenin and the Russians is informative).
Austria-Hungary would probably survive long-term, but the Ottoman Empire probably wouldn't have been able to cope well with the rise of Arabic nationalism or the Saudis.

The criticism I have of Kaiserreich is that it's utterly fantastical to suppose the Germans would plunge themselves into basically every war they could find after a grinding, six-year struggle(yes, the Weltkrieg is LONGER in Kaiserreich). OTL Germany was on the verge of socio-economic collapse in 1918, which is why they launched a massive offensive in spring of that year: they needed to win, and soon. The French weren't any better off. The Imperial German regime wouldn't survive propping up White Russia, an extensive campaign in China in addition to occupying all the restive new territory they acquired.
Kaiserreich is fun, but definitely implausible in many ways.

Ocean Palace and the Magus fight.

I'm biased, of course, but I think Venusaur and Charizard each have strong cases.
Poor Blastoise is left in the cold, one of a billion bulky waters with mediocre offenses and no (good) recovery options. Plus, Gen 3 Kanto practically oozes with strong water types(Starmie, Slowbro, Tentacruel, Lapras, Vaporeon, and Poliwrath all bring plenty to the table.)
Meanwhile, the only fire-type that can hold a candle to Charizard is Arcanine/Ninetails(choose one, they're both worse). The only other competition is Magmar(moar liek Mehmar, m i rite?) and Flareon(lol).
And Gen 3 is a long way from the hey-day of the likes of Victreebell and Exeggcutor too. And a gen too soon for Tangela to be relevant. All while Venusaur was getting good.

My current fiesta run drew Black Mage-Berserker-Geomancer-Dragoon.
I job-faired Dragoon into Samurai. Not because Dragoons are bad(Berserker and Geomancer have that covered for me!), but because they're insanely boring. In any case, Black Mage has been doing the heavy lifting, to the surprise of no one.

Oh, Life Is Strange is a really strong story. Lots of well-textured characters and a good twist. Plenty of dramatic moments too!

Kineth posted...

Nice. 5 is my favorite as well. And 3 is in my top 5.

5 is especially good with the GBA translation. It pretty much throws the usual Final Fantasy seriousness completely by the wayside in favor of being downright silly(and very successfully!), but still manages to give a real sense of the bonds between your party members.
Speaking of FFV, it's Four Job Fiesta season! http://fourjobfiesta.com/

Back on topic, Fire Emblem(a.k.a. Blazing Sword) has an excellent plot. A tale of two friends caught up in a conspiracy dire beyond imagining that is nonetheless well-grounded in human terms. And Lyn is a legitimately tough and interesting character who just happens to be a woman(rather than that being the entire point of her existence, it's largely coincidental).
Plus, Hector. Imagine the one-liners we could get in a Blazing Sword movie.

Some people equate quantity to quality.
That isn't to say grinding precludes quality, but it is often used as filler to pad-out games.

PanzerElite posted...

The hell does a "FtM" dong look like?

It's my understanding HRT causes the clitoris to become significantly larger: as much as 2-3 inches in size.

I thought it was alright.
Dat Dragonfall though...

http://fourjobfiesta.com/
Or donate. 100% of all proceeds go to Child's Play.
Playing is simple. All you have to do is tweet Gilgabot(@ff5forfutures) #reg for your first job.
So, how does this work?

FFV has a job system, and jobs are unlocked in groups(by the four crystals). When you register, Gilgabot assigns you a wind crystal job. Upon unlocking subsequent job sets, simply tweet Gilgabot #water, #fire, and #earth to get your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th jobs, respectively. You may only use the job(s) assigned to you!!! Additionally, you must have at least one of all unlocked classes in your party at all times. Characters may; however, freely use abilities from across all your classes(i.e. if you have Black Mage and Time Mage, the latter can equip the abilities of the former). You win by tweeting Gilgabot an image of your victory over the Evil Lord ExDeath in the Void. Some people also pledge bounties for the two post-game bosses: Omega and Shinryu. If you dare to challenge them and succeed, be sure to tweet Gilgabot proof of your victory as well!

There are also a few challenges, for the brave.
http://fourjobfiesta.com/help.php
Details there.

I just got to the Water Crystal, and my jobs so far are Black Mage and Berserker. I should be fine: Black Mage can carry you far all by itself.

Duncanwii posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

I think Ridley was less of a meme and more people desperately wanting more Metroid representation for some reason

King K. Rool on the other hand....

K. Rool actually has a really big following both here and in Japan. Even if he didn't I would want him because I liked him in Donkey Kong Country and think he'd make a fun character.

Plus, he has a huge assortment of potential moves and 4 different costumes.

Though I admit I've warmed to Waluigi being playable. Imagine a character that plays like an ungainly fusion of Wario and Luigi who throws random sports equipment around, awkwardly stumbling around cackling like an idiot, because he can't believe he's actually, finally made it. Then a fat psychic child beats him senseless with a baseball bat. He knows contentment at last.

Digital Devil Saga. Not many games allow you to literally feast upon the flesh of your enemies. It also has a rad sound-track.

YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Howl posted...

The fruit was a parable for sex. Adam had sex with Eve. Then they realized they were naked and felt shame for what they had done.

What did the snake offer then?

The snake assured Eve that the fruit was good and would make her like God. She had some and found it to be good(at least initially), so she naturally offered it to Adam.
In Paradise Lost, Adam has a whole monologue where he agonizes over whether he should eat it, but he ultimately decides to do so because he doesn't want to be separated from Eve(IIRC).
In the Bible, God had promised to straight-up destroy them if they ate it, and of course doesn't. He doesn't even seem particularly surprised that they ultimately did eat it.
It's a metaphor for transitioning from childhood to adulthood, IMO.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

I just figure the experience is better put elsewhere. Like, I didn't have any issues using Titania and Seth, but I liked them a lot, and used them a lot. I'm not so sure I like Marcus enough to keep him around yet. But I guess I shouldn't be so stingy.

It's true the experience is better spent elsewhere, but there are more considerations in play here, particularly getting Priscilla up and running. I mean, if you're that worried about it, you could always run Marcus down there naked, as suggested above, but that effectively means that Priscilla won't be getting much EXP until the next chapter. Plus, it's not very fun to keep playing the same map over and over again.

CyricZ posted...

So I recently played the Secret of Mana remake.

It's nigh one-to-one mechanically, and it puts into stark clarity how borked mechanics in old games could be.

There's a fair amount of bork in FF7.

If they don't remove the bork, people will complain about it. If they do, people will also complain about it. This whole remake is a lose-lose situation sadly.

The graphics could use an update, and the script would definitely benefit from a better translation(informed by the original, of course).
Mechanically speaking, IIRC Magic Defense straight-up doesn't work(it does nothing), so they really ought to make it work or remove it(the game got along fine without it, after all). Everything could benefit from more clarity, which could be fixed with useful tool-tips. They could definitely stand to put in references to how to recruit Yuffie and Vincent(and make the former less awful). Just, like, have a NPC mention something about seeing some weird girl around, or rumors that there's something in the basement of Shinra mansion.
They could also completely revamp the entire business with chocobo breeding and racing.
Aside from that, add more sidequests(and make some of the existing ones more obvious).
That would all be fairly non-controversial, I think.

I don't think he's capable of caring about people other than himself.

http://thehill.com/latino/392522-ap-about-2000-children-separated-from-parents-over-6-weeks
While it is true that our country has a history of monstrous cruelty in regards to immigration policy, there's been an explosion in these child separations in the past six weeks due to new policies implemented by the Trump administration.
Also, FYI, just because others have done something wrong doesn't absolve you of guilt for doing it too. Especially when you gleefully ramp things up.

More proof the Ivies are utterly unworthy of their reputation.

No monster, no monster, you're the monster!

LockeMonster posted...

xyphilia posted...

Only alcohol existed back then.

That's definitely not true. Tons of other drugs including weed and opium related ones existed.

Yeah, there are plenty of plants that are intoxicating without the need for special processing. Animals even avail themselves of them on occasion(reindeers are quite fond of magic mushrooms, for example).

It wouldn't hurt to break a few states up, I think. Plus, we could combine the Dakotas and partition Wyoming.

Gen 1: Rattata
Would be it, if it weren't so ubiquitous. Its design is as generic as it gets, it sucks, and its evo is no better. At least Pidgeot looks kind of cool and Zubat and Tentacool have cool evolutions.

Gen 2: Qwilfish or Sunkern/flora
Qwilfish is a plain design that is difficult to obtain in its native gen and lost in the tide of of generic fish pokemon that followed. Sunkern and Sunflora are terrible and boring, but not in a way that is notable.

Gen 3: Wurmple
Oh hey. It's like Caterpie, just red and white instead of green and white! It doesn't help that its evos are also generic and forgettable. Everything else has something going for it or is a (terrible) meme.

Gen 4: The Lake Legendaries(Azelf, Mespirit, Uxie)
They all look alike and are all Psychic-types with Levitate. Now, I love Sinnoh and Gen 4, but these guys were sheer bloat.

Gen 5: Patrat
Oh, hey. It's a generic rodent. You know, like that other one, because you just can't have a region without a generic-ass rodent to round-out the encounter tables! It's doubly a shame because prairie dogs are cool animals that deserve better(much like rats).

Gen 6: Flabebe
Oh neat, it's a flower pixie. Wait, what do you mean it isn't part grass?

Gen 7: Comfey
See above.

Virginia has garbage-tier senators. Let's not leave Mark Warner out of this.
Still better than a neo-Confederate carpet-bagger.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-going-to-mars-will-do-to-our-bodies/
But seriously, we should go to Mars. Just because something is hard and expensive doesn't mean it shouldn't be done, to be clear. It's just going to suck for those first few (dozen) trips.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Oh. And Marcus is my Seth, right? Avoid using him until I need him.

Unlike Seth, Marcus has terrible growths. He's useful early(especially in Hard modes), but he'll inevitably be eclipsed by units with good growths. If you don't need him for combat, he can always lug some one around.

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Anteaterking posted...

Rand Paul sounds like a terrible neighbor.

This.

Because he stacked branches on his property? Doesn't seem that offensive to me, but okay.

It's possible that it was part of a pattern behavior, though literally assaulting Sen. Paul over it was very excessive.
Nonetheless, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Rand was a bad neighbor.

Remind me what happened in the mid-terms back then?
Something about the opposition party being swept to power in a historic wave?

shockthemonkey posted...

This isnt a new report at all. Just a story because a Trump PAC wants it back in the news.

Yeah, I remember hearing about this ages ago. It would be unsurprising, given how bankrupt the national Democratic party is(and it was worse then), but old.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
This is a bit old, but it's great. Give it a read! Here are some choice quotes:
Molly Ball

I had a very hard time with that meeting, she(Nancy Hale) finally said. The longer the meeting went on, the more it started to feel to me like just another community that had isolated itself, and it was right and everybody else wasnt, you know? The hippies should have been her kind of people, but the attitudes theyd expressed had offended her sense of the way America ought to be. She had come seeking mutual understanding, only to find that some people were not the least bit interested in meeting in the middle. And now she was at a crossroads: Would she have to revise her whole worldview to account for this troubling reality?

A farmer in the group told Third Ways eager listeners he knew exactly what was wrong with America: his fellow Americans.

Youve got all these parasites making a living off the bureaucracy, the farmer declared, like leeches pulling you down, bleeding you dry. We had been in the state for just a few hours, and already the researchers quest for mutual understanding seemed to be hitting a snag.

Others in the group, a bunch of proudly curmudgeonly older white men, identified other culprits. There were plenty of jobs, a local elected official and business owner said. But todays young people were too lazy or drug-addled to do them.

Politics, though, was not the focus of the Third Way interviewers, who believed there was more to be gained by asking neutral, open-ended questions. In accordance with Third Ways ideology, they believed that political partisanship was not most peoples primary concern. But sometimes the Wisconsinites brought up politics anyway.

The men pinned the blame for most of their problems squarely on Republicans, from Trump to Governor Scott Walker. School funding, the minimum wage, college debt, income inequality, gerrymandering, health care, union rights: It was all, in their view, the GOPs fault. A member of the bricklayers union lamented Walkers cuts to public services: If we cant help each other, he said, what are we, a pack of wolveswe eat the weakest one? Its shameful.

Isnt this underwritten by the DNC? a local cafe owner asked Watson after his just-here-to-listen opening spiel. I read somewhere youre spending $20 million, another man said. Another participant asked about corporate donors.

Im not, like, a jumping-up-and-down Berniecrat, the man said. But what you see in these congressional meetings is a refusal to even play ball with ideas considered too extreme, like single-payer health care. All these centrist ideals, he said, are just perpetuating a broken system.

The report is short, covering only three big takeaways from the seven listening sessions Third Way conducted. The first is the importance of hard work; the second is the need for a strong workforce. The third, described in a section entitled Just Get the Hell Out of My Way, is locals purported antagonism to big government.

TL;DR: A bunch of centrist Democratic operatives tour Wisconsin, find that Wisconsites don't want to come together on nebulous "common principles", decide this all confirms their worldview any way. #TheResistance

This makes me happy.
UnfairRepresent posted...

Prestoff posted...

Seriously, if anything this shows just how much better Christians can be for doing something like this. How many mosques have you've seen done anything like this?

In Palestine it happens all the time.

Interfaith funerals and services are very common when Jews are indiscriminately murdering your family.

Also, Egyptian Muslims have served as human shields for Egyptian Copts protesting their persecution by the Egyptian government(and other Muslims). Goodness is common to all faiths.

Maybe they were having an Inverse battle?

Super Mario All-stars and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past tie.

Israel is pretty terrible though.