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Mega Man wins easily based on sheer quantity. They just cranked them out like Madden or COD back in the day.
But, like, Sonic 1 and Sonic CD are probably better than the median Mega Man game because no Mega Man series holds up for longer than four games at a time, it feels like. Both series have at least one game that was an unmitigated disaster and are now mostly mediocre-to-bad.

Guide posted...

apolloooo posted...

I know the games, but which pokedex entry?

Any of the megas. All of them are about how the mon is in extreme pain, or functionally crippled, or a mortal threat to everyone in the area, including their own trainer.

Except for Pinsir, Pinsir's just super stoked about being able to fly.

That last phone call with Hollyhock where she says she doesn't need any more dads and BoJack looks utterly destroyed for a split second before she says, "But I've never had a brother before" and BoJack just lights the hell up. Like, he really, genuinely smiles. Gets me every time.
Have fun with season 5. It's not as good as 2-4, but it's still real.

Yeah, it gets even better than that.

Yeah, but only long after the fact. The NES was my first exposure to video games: when I was a little kid, I would always look forward to visiting my cousins so I could play Mario.

Antifar posted...

garlic powder posted...

They wouldn't need to do this at all if they had the goods to convince the Senate to impeach

There is no amount of evidence that would convince Senate Republicans to vote to remove Trump from office.

Yeah, this: the Senate is never going to vote to remove Trump from office, because every Republican who does will be torn limb-from-limb by their base.
So it behooves the House to investigate anything and everything for as long as it likes, and certainly Roger Stone's trial provides them with fresh evidence of Trump's malfeasance in that matter.

Spooking posted...

If we enacted every policy that Sanders wants then the US would crash and would never recover.

RIP Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc. etc.

Meh episode. Only the Rick plot was of much interest.

Foppe posted...

Ever read the Book of Job?
They are pals that got no problems ruining the life of a good guy just because of a bet.

That "Satan" is not "the" Satan. In Jewish theology, satans are basically the prosecutors of humanity(the word itself means something like "accuser", IIRC). The closest Judaic equivalents to the Christian Satan would be angels like Samyaza(one of the leaders of the Grigori[Watchers] who knocked up human women) and Mastema, though the latter is still explicitly under God's thumb in spite of being an adversary of humans.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/11/16/nfl-tried-to-put-colin-kaepernick-in-legal-checkmate/

PFT
"Let that one sink in. The league, under the guise of acting out of the goodness of its own heart and/or to assuage the guilt of 32 months of Kaepernick being wrongfully denied an opportunity, set up a workout for all teams (even though any team could work him out at any time) and then, as he showed up for it, asked him to sign a waiver that not only protected the league and the Falcons against a torn ACL or some other injury that could have happened during the workout but also exonerated the league of any and all responsibility for the violations of his rights that may have (have) occurred since he grievance was settled in February."

Just...LOL NFL. The workout was a sham from the start, of course, but claiming that it was Kaepernick acting in bad faith is some Olympic-quality gas lighting.

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BilalPowell posted...

Obama only seems centrist compared to Bernie. He was far left at the time. Compare him to Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

What far left thing did he do or even advocate at the time? This seems like revisionist history to me.

It is! His biggest legislative achievements: the stimulus bill and PPACA, were both designed with appeasing Republicans and relevant industries in mind(in fact, PPACA was basically written by the health insurance industry lobbyists like Tom Daschle, which then opposed it anyway), with the goal of constructing uncontroversial bills which would receive a lot of broad support: both in Congress and from the public.
This led to weak bills that nobody liked, and of course the Republicans hated them both: the stimulus bill got all of three Republican votes, and PPACA got none.
Obama also ramped up deportations and gave both ICE and CBP more power and money to go after undocumented people, in an attempt to appease anti-immigration Republicans and demonstrate that he was a "law-and-order" type who could be trusted.

Obama tried to cut Social Security and Medicare in the name of deficit reduction. Safe to say his opinions are terrible.

Platinum blows HG/SS out of the water, because it doesn't have a level curve that's a bad joke(and Johto is pretty lame).
Black/White and their sequels are very much valid picks too.

codey posted...

Fairy type is just annoying because I never any of it's resistances/weaknesses/what it's strong against besides dragon.

I'm fine with it being a thing, necessary and whatever, but yeah, me too. I forget all the time. Especially what it resists.
Why in hell does Fairy resist Bug anyway? Bug was already pretty meh as an attacking-type.

WerewolfPaws posted...

Yo fuck Princess Bubblegum for real

Marceline does!
And that's Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum to you.

Iowa just wants to mess around with some tax credits and see what happens.

That's a Bo Jackson. He could be done. Hopefully not.
But yeah, that hurts his draft stock a lot. Welcome to the Joe Burrow experience? That's the other guy, right?

It's pretty great.

Hah, listening to the tracks now. It's crazy how tight Sega's dev cycles were back then.

Sounds like a fun place to check out.

refmon posted...

Why is there 300 dollars worth of dlc?

Paradox churned out content for 7 years? Most of it is just cosmetic stuff though.

They're good. My favorite one by far was Dragonfall: it just has an excellent feel to it.

Oh hey, that's a much better deal: The Old Gods is perhaps the best CK2 expansion. Come and get your free stuff people!

Ah yes, I too remember how Democrats won huge victories in the 2010 mid-terms after a difficult and divisive battle to pass a compromise healthcare bill because voters were heartened by how much money PPACA would save them.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/203778/Expansion__Crusader_Kings_II_Sword_of_Islam/
Since the base game is already free, you might as well snatch this up. Basically, it just lets you play as Muslims, who play a bit differently. It appears they're making it free to increase participation in their Ruler Challenges: the latest challenge features a Muslim ruler.

The hammer has fallen:
https://twitter.com/NFLfootballinfo/status/1195383502113509378
-Myles Garrett is suspended indefinitely(most likely the rest of this season+playoffs if the Browns somehow make them)

-Maurkice Pouncey suspended three games and fined.

-Larry Ogunjobi suspended three games and fined.

-Browns&Steelers fined $250,000 each.

More fines could(and should) be incoming.

Yeah, you definitely should say something. Saying something to your boss won't be helpful, of course: if they're enough of a dick to keep misgendering some one, calling them out isn't going to do anything. Bring the matter up with a superior. If you feel intimidated, you could even try to do so anonymously.

Oh, that was one where Crayak tried to tempt Rachel, using David as a proxy.
After Rachel rejects Crayak, realizing that that much power combined with her love of fighting would inevitably corrupt her, David begs her to kill him. It's implied that she does.

Great_Reapette posted...

"we don't like a swing state because it didn't vote for us last time"
There are plenty of reasons to dislike plenty of the political systems but this one just seems a bit... pathetic?

The only pairing of states that's whiter than Iowa and New Hampshire(IIRC) is Utah and Vermont.
Julian Castro is saying that putting them first is sidelining more diverse states that are more representative of not only the Democratic Party's base, but of America at-large.
That's much harder to dispute than a strawman though.

The only way this won't be a trainwreck is if there's an additional bye week. Look at how many teams are limping around after 9 games!
Messing with the playoffs would be the absolute dumbest thing the NFL could do, but they're greedy morons, so of course they'll do it.

darkphoenix181 posted...

She should stream.

It would fund her campaign tbh

A famous female streaming, that is pure $$$

She does stream. On Instagram. I haven't watched any, but once she was literally just making mac&cheese in her apartment.
Most recently she streamed prepping for a campaign event with Bernie Sanders(complete with a weirdly staged scene of Bernie standing alone in a room).

konokonohamaru posted...

How the hell does a US congresswomen have the time to get to Silver 4 ffs

It's my understanding that most congresspeople spend a lot of time on the phone talking to donors, which is time AOC spends doing her actual job(IIRC, she only misses hearings if it's at the same time as another hearing). So she probably has more free time than most of them.

I don't have a Switch, but what I've seen and heard underwhelms.

hockeybub89 posted...

Dress codes are pretty sexist too

The dress code at Whole Foods is ridiculous and enforced in a really punitive manner. It's designed to specifically target stuff like leggings and yoga pants and is enforced really unevenly.
For example, it tends to be enforced much harder on women who are conventionally attractive, which tells you everything you need to know about it(literally they let the chubby white girl wear leggings or whatever without ever commenting on it, but my skinny black coworker got written up and sent home within the hour).

Antifar posted...

This is such a baffling view of politics to me; I don't think anybody owes a presidential candidate consideration for their future job prospects.

It makes perfect sense if you realize the Democratic Party is a professional organization for Democratic politicians that exists first and foremost to facilitate the advancement of its members.
And, for some reason, think that's cool and good.

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ThyCorndog posted...

if it means the PRC loses their grip on order in Hong Kong, then good

If anything this destabilization gives the PRC motivation to come in and sweep Hong Kong up. Xi Jinping has repeatedly shown that he will stop at nothing to contain them and Carrie Lam, the CEO of Hong Kong, is blatantly being Beijing's puppet.

yeah i am expecting a tiananmen square style crackdown soon. I am scared for people who live there

Oh, that's absolutely coming, and would be coming regardless of what the protestors were doing(unless they just went home and accepted the creeping Chinese police state. Then they would just quietly disappear the ones they could identify).

teepan95 posted...

Am I the only one who didn't catch the jabs at the toxic fans? <_<

Fascist Morty insisting on going back to the way things used to be without being able to articulate what he means while Rick unleashes a Meseeks(a season 1 reference) felt pretty on-the-nose.
Edit: Shot like a gearhead in the back seat.

This was easy: I detest raw tomatoes. Maybe an actually good tomato would be good.

Pickles can be really good, but it can't be just any pickle: a mediocre pickle is just going to drag the burger down to its level.

Lettuce is utterly inoffensive. It brings nothing to the table, but doesn't take anything away. It's there, or it isn't, and it never really matters. That bit of green can be nice aesthetically though.

Onions, well, I really don't like raw onions. Pickled onions, caramelized onions, onion strings, and fried onions though? Yes. Please.

Jalapenos are good if they're part of a theme, but I don't know that I would slap them on a "standard" burger. Still good on balance though.

It's important to understand that stages may occur multiple times and/or simultaneously with other stages- it's not a straight line to "acceptance". Some stages may not even occur in every grieving process.

shockthemonkey posted...

More like Fuck Schumer, am I right?

You are most definitely right!

Yeah, that was a really good episode. Wasp reality was pretty hilarious.

ThePrinceFish posted...

reminder that Plutarch's recollection of scaphism comes relayed from a guy who also wrote about how India was filled with demi-Gods and all kinds of golden cities

Yeah, it's not very reliably attested to and seems almost too lurid and involved to be true.

Keel-hauling is something that is though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keelhauling
Basically, you would be tied to a rope and then dragged beneath a ship(either width-wise or bow-to-stern, always beneath the keel). If it was done while the ship was stationary, you would probably suffer serious lacerations(ships are covered in marine life, including barnacles, beneath the water-line) and possibly get a nasty bump on your head if you hit the ship or its keel. If it was done slowly, you would drown. If the ship was in motion, you would basically be brutally ripped to shreds and be hoping you hit your head so you could die faster.

Bad_Mojo posted...

Thanks for the ideas!

I only listed interesting Christians available in 1066(well, mostly. Eric the Heathen is too neat a challenge not to mention), in case people don't have DLCs. I have a few for earlier starts. I'll indicate what DLCs are required for them.

867(all require The Old Gods
-Haesteinn of Nantes
Basically every other major Viking has a firm "home" or at least an obvious direction(and is a fun play. Being Norse owns). Rurik in Novgorod, Haraldr Fairhair in Norway, etc. etc. Haesteinn has a hearty stack of event troops and just Nantes in Brittany, with the boats and martial to go where he pleases. Where you please.

-Khagan Manasseh of Khazaria(+Sons of Abraham, also Horse Lords is recommended)
Khagan Manasseh is the most powerful Jewish ruler you'll find, but you are far from Israel, your faith's sacred but long-lost cradle. With plenty of hungry nomads on your heels and Christian Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate both near, your position is tenuous but provides much opportunity for growth.

-Satrap Vandad of Karen
One of the last independent Zoroastrian rulers. A hefty stack of event troops ensures that you're no push-over, but the Muslim Caliph can crush you as soon as look at you even so. You'll need to manage your many Muslim neighbors carefully if you are to rekindle the holy fires.

-Alfred, Earl of Dorset
Younger brother to the (Petty) King of Wessex, Aethelred. Historically, his brother would die suddenly a few years later, putting Alfred on the throne. Once there, he would defeat the Norse raiders and lay the foundation for a united England, earning himself the epithet "the Great".

769(all require Charlemagne)

-Satrap Jimofuta of Zunbil(+Old Gods)
The sole realm to adhere to Zunism, a faith which centered around the sun and seemed to combine elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism. Your position is difficult and your faith's moral authority is extremely low, but you can expose prisoners to Zun's judgement, and isn't that what really matters?

-King Phineas of Semien/Beta Israel(+Sons of Abraham)
Semien, in modern Ethiopia, was home to Jewish sects for centuries, and at times, independent of or even dominant over the rest of the kingdom. This is not one of the latter times: you'll almost certainly need to bend the knee to one of your Christian neighbors to survive. You'll need the wisdom and patience of Solomon to restore Alpha Israel.

-King Sigurdr Ring of Uppsala(+Old Gods)
Hey, how would you like to reform Germanic and spend the next 600+ years raiding the high seas without a care in the world? Oh yeah, also your son is the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, and he's hard-coded to be decent at absolute worst, and old Sigurdr's breaks 20 in martial himself, so yeah, just roll face.

Honestly though, the 769 start kind of blows. In any case, that's a very incomplete list and also already outdated, probably.

https://crosscut.com/2019/11/kshama-sawant-surges-ahead-paving-way-seattles-most-progressive-council-years
Not related to Virginia, but Kshama Sawant came up earlier, and it now appears rumors of her demise were greatly exaggerated. In spite of trailing her Amazon-backed opponent by 8.4% on election night, she now leads by 518 votes, or ~1.36%. Mail and provisional ballots favored her heavily.

According to the test, I should be in the K-Hive.
So, umm, LOL.

Alpha218 posted...

I like Bernie and think whats been going on wrt to immigrants is insane right now, but Trump is just going to use this as a bludgeon if Bernie wins the primary

Its his signature issue and the one proven most effective in riling up his base

His base is a minority of the electorate and Bernie is the best-positioned to thrash him for failing working class people everywhere. Literally nothing Trump is doing is popular.

I would be much more concerned about the media, honestly, because it's pretty clear they both learned nothing from 2016 and that they have it out for Bernie.

hockeybub89 posted...

The Admiral posted...

Cutting the military budget by any non-trivial amount will never be possible so long as the U.S. has to be the world's babysitter.

We could just... not be the world's babysitter.

If the US is the world's babysitter, we should have been fired and sent to prison for serial child abuse anyway.