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Crono99 posted...

An impeachment is really just a popularity contest. If a sitting president is so unpopular that it would be politicially convenient for his party to detach themselves from him, he'll be impeached and convicted.

I think Bush could've perhaps been convicted if there had been an impeachment in 2008. But right now Trump is too popular for republicans to be willing to risk alienating a large part of their support base

In the end, the facts don't matter at all. It's all about convenience.

For what it's worth, an impeachment trial isn't really a criminal trial.

And Trump has quite a few of those lined up, some of which are felony-level.

Felons can actually run for President, which is kind of strange considering their voting rights.


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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

GOP hasn't even been fiscally conservative in a while

At least since Bush Sr.


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uwnim posted...

So he's saying Trump is totally guilty, but because he's no longer in office, he shouldn't be convicted via impeachment

Let's be honest, it's a Pontius Pilate defense.

Wash your hands of declaring guilt or innocence on a technicality.


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Man, if you're a fiscal conservative but you're appalled by the GOP's antics, you're basically SOL now

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shockthemonkey posted...

Oh absolutely, but most of those people werent put directly in danger by Trump. The fact that the ones who were are still pretending otherwise is even more painful than the ordinary dumbfucks.

The mechanics of government trials require a 2/3rds majority, which means that the people who literally commit the crimes have to essentially vote themselves guilty, otherwise they're immune.

I don't know how we can deal with that if we have a party that has essentially allowed itself to go rogue.


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As someone who is technically still registered Republican, all I can say is that either I was delusional for the past two decades, or the GOP I voted for is basically dead. I can't help but think that they've always been heading in this direction, but the rise of social media-fueled misinformation campaigns really turned it up to 11.

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The most disgusting thing about it is that they think they have some kind of control over their absolute nutcase constituency, all while their constituency is starting to literally win seats in Congress themselves.

By the time they realize they weren't in control, it'll be too late.

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Relient_K posted...

Jakobs are definitely my favorite. Not sure where I put much else. Even if it weren't for the reloading problemz tediore always comes off as weak to me.

The one that becomes the walking brain turret is kinda-sorta useful, but that's the only one I can think of that I'd actually use.

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As a ritualistic reloader, I cannot handle the fact that you throw away the rest of the clip with Tediore weapons

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While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction,

This argument is stupid as shit since Congress literally voted on the legality of this.

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Jakobs > Maliwan > Torgue > Hyperion > COV > Dahl > Atlas > Vladof > Tediore


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The Popo posted...

I think FF2 at least has a decent story for its time, and the mechanic of using key terms that you learn to get NPCs to react differently was good. Same with the revolving door on the 4th character slot in your party. It just had a busted leveling mechanic that was overly ambitious and had way too many moving parts.

I think it deserves a lot of credit for being extremely ambitious and forward thinking, even if a lot of things didn't work out.

And the story is insanely complex for a NES game. Wouldn't be matched again until VI.

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Poor child T_T

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dameon_reaper posted...

NES: 2
SNES VI
PS1: IX
PS3: FFXIV
PS4: FF VII Remake

One of the very few people who liked FF2. I can respect that. It was a ridiculously ambitious game both mechanically and story-wise.

Super broken, but ya gotta start somewhere.


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NES: III
SNES: IV
PSOne: IX
PS2: XII / VII Crisis Core
PS3/360: XIII-2
PS4 / X1: VII Remake

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html

Washington (CNN)In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.

Fucking unbelievable

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Even though I think the answer is obviously Garrus

No character kicked me in the feels harder than Mordin did in ME3.

Godspeed, you beautiful Salarian.

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It's obviously Garrus, I mean come on.

That said, Mordin is a legit bro in his own right. I absolutely adore his deadpan humor.

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the average attach rate for consoles is less than ten games per console.

Except the entire point of GamePass changes that concept.


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I feel awful for the brown one. He wouldn't have gotten sick if he hadn't spent so much effort trying to nurse the white one back to health, and in the end he's the one who died.


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I think the Series S makes more sense than the digital PS5, although both should come with at least twice the storage. Series S at least can store games on a regular HDD.

You can use external drives with the PS5 for everything but PS5-specific games.

And the digital PS5 has twice the usable storage of the Series S. So there's that.


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The boss theme is either the best or worst thing ever, depending on who you ask:

https://youtu.be/HBlsgXKHps0

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creativerealms posted...

I still want to play them.

For what it's worth, it's a completely competent game.

Also, the battle theme is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve7d6nj1kDc&ab_channel=Krystallwolvelt


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pikachupwnage posted...

He also underestimates how bad many peoples internet is in the USA, developing nations, rural areas and many other places.

Not to mention data caps are now a thing, which is idiotic

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This isn't complicated, Trump was warned dozens of times ahead of time that these people were threatening violence on social media. We have the documentation to prove it.

Instead, not only did he call for a rally right next to the Capitol building, he literally paid for them to be bussed to the rally, told them to march to the Capitol, and Giuliani urge them to, quote, "engage in combat."

This Whataboutism False Equivalency bullshit is insane.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Was Bernie using similar rhetoric when his supporter went and shot up the congressional baseball game?

Bernie didn't fucking bus him to the baseball game and give a speech to him beforehand.

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The worst thing about Blue Dragon is that they somehow got Sakaguchi, Uematsu and Toriyama together (basically Chrono Trigger Dream Team level stuff) and produced such a bland, soulless game.

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creativerealms posted...

I still want to play this game and Blue Dragon. Even more then a decade later they are two of the biggest draws to buy an Xbox.

I beat Blue Dragon when it first came out.

It was pretty crap. Despite essentially being made by many of the same people who made Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy - it mostly just felt like a bad DQ knockoff.

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creativerealms posted...

Context is key.

Shut up and don't question anything.


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GOP: Slam dunk rebuttal. We must acquit.


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It's like $6 on Xbox Live right now. IIRC it has Xbox One X enhancements, too.


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It's not being developed by Platinum, which I find a bit concerning. They're the only reason Nier Automata was a great game instead of Yoko Taro's typical pretentious nonsense.

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BignutzisBack posted...

significantly more expensive

Considering the Series S GPU is literally on-par with midrange GPUs from 2015, I'm positive you can Frankenstein a PC around $400ish that would steamroll the Series S as an emulation machine.


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TheGoldenEel posted...

Theres also the fact that A) most people arent playing many games at once so a console that can only hold two games at a time is at worst an inconvenience and B) many people dont care about state of the art graphics so theyre not going to care if they could be better as long as theyre still able to play the games

I think A is a much bigger deal than you give it credit.

Call of Duty alone fills almost the entire hard drive, and nobody wants to delete and re-download a 200 GB game.

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BignutzisBack posted...

They inadvertently made the greatest emulator in gaming history with the Series S

Or you can use a PC.


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hyperpowder posted...

I've always said it was a dumb console. Even worse is the PS5D is only a hundred more dollars for double the storage, power, and exclusives.

That actually is particularly ridiculous, given that the $399 PS5 is literally just a PS5 without a disc drive.

There's literally no sacrifice other than the lack of a disc drive if you choose to save money.


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Let's make a digital-only console with only 300 GB of usable storage, despite the fact that last gen titles averaged 50-100 GB. Then, let's give it a modern CPU but a GPU weaker than your last generation console (One X).

Then, let's make it so that the storage upgrade adds $220 to the price, making the Series S with 1.5 TB of storage actually more expensive than the Series X with 1 TB of storage.

It's just crazy.


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And even more surprisingly, if you don't care about having every character, the free to play mechanics really don't detract from the experience.

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MysteryMan923 posted...

History is not going to treat us kindly at all for how this whole Trump debacle has gone.

Americans will forget it as quickly as they forgot the fact that Trump literally committed extortion for election fraud on a recorded phone call with a state politician.

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

as long as they do it in January it's fine

/s

We wouldn't want to divide the country after all

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UnfairRepresent posted...

For the record it was using the same logic Republicans are using.

A guy realized he was going to be impeached so he quit, then claimed it was unconstitutional to impeach him after he was no longer in office

2 days after that Jefferson and co said its absolutely constitutional to impeach someone after they leave office, took him to trial and convicted him.

Precedent is game , set and match

Not to mention that Congress voted for it to be constitutional prior to the trial. So even if it wasn't constitutional, it is now until the Supreme Court says otherwise.

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nothanks1 posted...

his supporters murdering them

The dumbest thing about this is that his supporters already tried to kill them once.

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Based on their own logic, it's too scary that the successor would be able to punish them.

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If they convict him, he can't run for office again. Grow a f****** pair.

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The GOP created an entire culture of questioning expertise, distrusting objective facts, etc. They never planned on the people they were brainwashing to actually gain seats in government, but here we are, with Marjorie Greene and her ilk. And now they realize they can't win elections without the support of these crazies, even though many of them are legitimately afraid of them.

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You know it's bad when they literally say he's guilty while they vote Not Guilty

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Because the precedent of punishing someone after they're out of office is much scarier than the precedent of literally allowing a president to commit insurrection without legal repercussions.

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CyricZ posted...

FFVI is pretty much "the one" I'd want at this point. Simply because there is no perfect definitive version.

FF6 deserves a remake on the scale of FF7.

That was a game clearly limited by the hardware it was designed for. It was basically a 32-bit RPG stuck on a 16-bit system.

It's not that I think final fantasy 6 is inherently better than Chrono Trigger, but the scope of the game's presentation was more grandiose and was held back considerably by the Super Nintendo.

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