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| Topic | Psychonauts 2 review zone |
| masterplum 08/23/21 6:59:14 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 378: My name is FD(A), and I Approve this Topic. |
| masterplum 08/23/21 2:43:46 PM #2 | My conservative friends have already moved the goal posts and now its how corrupt big pharma is --- |
| Topic | B8 NFL Suicide League: Week 1 |
| masterplum 08/23/21 2:19:08 PM #32 | |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 12:39:19 PM #492 | I mean sometimes I wonder what your objectives are. If your goal is to feel morally righteous you can absolutely just wave off the concerns as illegitimate. I too think the concerns are mostly unreasonable considering Americas current level of government control. But moral superiority is 100% the reason Clinton lost. She campaigned in states that werent winnable because she was obviously going to win and Trumps claims were so ludicrous. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 12:27:47 PM #488 | Dancedreamer posted... Republicans can't even define Communism. Let's not pretend like they even know what it is. To them, communism is anything they don't like. It's nothing more than a buzz word. Your grouping 70 million people into one collective. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 12:18:28 PM #486 | Dancedreamer posted... Big Government as Republicans define it isn't anything to be afraid of. What should be feared is mass incarceration. I mean communism is the end point Republicans warn about, and that has always resulted in autocracy throughout history. I mean you can argue slippery slope and whatnot, but completely disregarding the underlying concerns of Republicans is exactly why Cubans in florida came out for Trump --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 11:07:37 AM #484 | I mean, I think there is a legitimate reason to fear big government. Republics falling into authoritarian rule has happened a hundred times throughout history by now. The disconnect at this point is thinking the current day Republican Party is actually a party that supports small government. --- |
| Topic | What are some of the most recognizable in-game currencies? |
| masterplum 08/23/21 7:19:48 AM #46 | |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 7:18:57 AM #481 | Thought this was interesting https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-some-socially-liberal-gen-z-voters-arent-leaving-the-gop/ Honestly the takeaway I infer here is Gen Z republicans are driven by anti-cancel culture and dont want people to hurt them when they post unflattering things. This makes sense given its the generation that is the most immature. Which is pretty interesting. Im still trying to digest what that means for political strategy --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/23/21 7:08:20 AM #479 | LinkMarioSamus posted... Afghanistan is Vietnam all over again. The timing regarding Presidential administrations even works out. This is really overemphasizing the cost. Sure it was expensive, but at least most of the money circulated back to US contractors and US employees. Vietnam was horrific losses of life both for US soldiers and native residents of Vietnam. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/22/21 11:49:29 AM #459 | With 77% of the country semi vaccinated, making the Republicans the anti vaccine party is a horrendously bad idea if they want to win. Edit, can't find that 77% number now. Might be just adults. Still --- |
| Topic | What are some of the most recognizable in-game currencies? |
| masterplum 08/21/21 1:12:31 PM #33 | Its 100% not zenny Gil or some F2P currency of some mainstream game is more likely --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/19/21 2:51:26 PM #400 | red sox 777 posted... Trump did not present himself as an everyman. He presented himself as an outsider billionaire to fight against the insider billionaires. This. Nobody actually thought he was not a rich person, they thought he was an admirable businessman --- |
| Topic | Anyone playing the new Mega Man X game? |
| masterplum 08/19/21 12:42:32 PM #8 | I really like megaman games, but honestly I think the genre is a bit dated. I feel like good well tuned metroidvanias are megaman games that aren't linear. There's really no reason the megaman stages have to be completely independent of each other besides tradition --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/19/21 11:16:54 AM #383 | Mr Lasastryke posted... that does make sense. same reason why bill clinton was popular, i assume. americans seem to find it extremely important that a president seems like a "lovable neighbor" or "guy who would be fun to hang out with in a bar" (regardless of how based in reality these images are). Yep. Bill Clinton was the exact same way This is also why I eye roll at AOC talking about playing league of legends. It's literally the exact same thing for a demographic 30 years younger --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/19/21 10:19:27 AM #378 | Yeah, people don't remember that George W was extremely personable..my extremely liberal aunt said she hated him as president but would have loved him as a neighbor. John Kerry was just not a good foil to him. --- |
| Topic | Which of these is the worst sin? |
| masterplum 08/19/21 7:18:23 AM #12 | FFDragon posted... Anything past medium and we aren't friends. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/18/21 8:01:33 AM #344 | Reg posted... Which sucks, because he's a great person that got overly emotional after a terrorist attack in his hometown. Like, come on. Howard dean lost his political career by yelling. Politics is a brutal game --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 3:58:58 PM #297 | Peace___Frog posted... I don't want us to assume that every covid death is from an anti-vaxxer lib-hater. There's going to be lower class folks who can't find the time, or public transit to, a vaccine appointment are included in those deaths. About 3 weeks ago I was on the interstate and pulled off at a random Walmart in Georgia to pick up something. The first thing I noticed is it was 98% black. I may have been the only white person in the store The second thing I noticed was it was 98% masked and I was the only person not wearing one because I was vaccinated. Anecdotal evidence, but I think the vast majority of deaths from here on out are going to be brazen anti mask anti vaccines. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 2:24:19 PM #281 | Not_an_Owl posted... Do you honestly believe any Republican voter is going to remember how terribly Trump mismanaged COVID? They're going to point to the numbers of Unless they are dead. 600,000 dead isnt nothing. Im curious if Delta (or worse) keeps up if that might actually change vote counts --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 11:12:56 AM #269 | Corrik7 posted... Actually it is a disaster for Biden if Trump re-runs. Trump will run on how he would have done it better and was winding down troops and withdrawing without this backlash. Biden will state Trump is what let the Taliban foster in the first place, but Trump is gonna have ads of the planes and such to win that amongst independents. Oh, you are already in 2024. I can't imagine anyone remembering this at the time with how whiplash the news cycle has been over the last couple years. The main 2024 debate could be whether to send troops to Taiwan for all we know. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 10:41:54 AM #265 | The good news for Dems is this really isnt a campaignable issue What are Republicans going to do? Campaign on reinvading Afghanistan? --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 9:58:10 AM #262 | Heroic_TuRtLe posted... To be fair, letting in millions of refugees is exactly what got Europe into the situation that it is currently in. It would be political suicide to do the same in the US. Ultimately, Afghanis have to be responsible for resolving their own issues, as clearly we can't fix them for them. Ehhh I feel that isn't a fair comparison. Immigration was an EU issue mainly because the members had such radically different views on it which created a large schism. While immigration is a fairly large issue to the GOP, it really isn't one of the largest ones imo. I don't think the democrats are pro immigrant enough or GOP anti immigrant enough for it to be the flash point it was in the EU, especially with the coronavirus blanketing everything --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/17/21 9:27:46 AM #260 | My guess is Afghan withdrawal approval will go back up after the initial news cycle dies down. The Taliban isnt shooting at planes taking off. They want us gone. I wouldnt expect any particularly newsworthy headlines of barbarianism restoking flames --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/16/21 7:20:07 PM #241 | Leafeon13N posted... Also as soon as we left Afghanistan would just fall to whatever Taliban 2 decided to call themselves. This is the real problem. I think we should jack up our humanitarian aid not our army because this is really the big issue. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/16/21 3:35:47 PM #212 | Heroic_TuRtLe posted... In other news: Sounds like they should do this more often --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/16/21 12:16:24 PM #191 | ExThaNemesis posted... It's crazy to me how many foreign superpowers have now utterly failed in Afghanistan. Anyone trying to take that place over really needs to do a long cost/benefit analysis first Doesn't Afghanistan have the Serbia problem of not actually having a unifying culture among its people? Trying to force tribes to live together peacefully under one non authoritarian government is nearly impossible --- |
| Topic | All 4 Evangelion rebuild movies are up on Prime Video |
| masterplum 08/16/21 11:37:47 AM #40 | This 1.11 dub on Amazon prime sucks. I thought someone said there was a better one? --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/16/21 11:28:00 AM #187 | Nationalism is just a form of tribalism and is a scourge to humanity. It's the reason why slavery was embraced for thousands of years and why genocides occur. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/15/21 6:35:48 PM #160 | Not sure if giving afghan women 20 years of not being under taliban control would be called nothing tbh --- |
| Topic | All 4 Evangelion rebuild movies are up on Prime Video |
| masterplum 08/15/21 9:16:43 AM #33 | |
| Topic | Preordered a Samsung Z-Flip 3 |
| masterplum 08/14/21 11:29:03 AM #6 | DeepsPraw posted... oh you're right. the first search result I saw was apparently the Fold 3 Yeah, tbh I don't get the fold 3 either. It's absurdly expensive for a phone and I don't need an $1800 tablet that's also a phone. I am just extremely interested in a smaller phone I'm not worried is going to fall out of my pocket all the time. --- |
| Topic | Preordered a Samsung Z-Flip 3 |
| masterplum 08/14/21 9:53:29 AM #3 | DeepsPraw posted... I don't get the appeal. The aspect ratio when it's opened up is wack Its exactly the same as the Galaxy S21 --- |
| Topic | Preordered a Samsung Z-Flip 3 |
| masterplum 08/14/21 9:14:51 AM #1 | I cant put in to words how stoked I am to get a small foldable phone again. Reviews have been pretty good so far! --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/13/21 6:15:34 PM #98 | DoomTheGyarados posted... I don't care. People are sick and starving in our own country. That's just bullshit 9 million people starve to death world wide every year. Americans are not special --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/13/21 6:01:09 PM #82 | DoomTheGyarados posted... Not our problem. We have other problems. I don't believe in nationalism. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/13/21 5:54:56 PM #79 | Suprak the Stud posted... where we can actually make some sort of tangible good with it rather than just endlessly treading water. Preventing the Taliban from invading was treading water? We left and this happened --- |
| Topic | So how was Immortals Fenyx Rising? |
| masterplum 08/13/21 7:26:06 AM #6 | PrivateBiscuit1 posted... I absolutely loved it. I loved it a lot more than BOTW though, but I thought BOTW was one of my least favorite Zelda games. My guess is we are polar opposites. I hated horizon zero dawn for instance because it felt like work. I didnt want to collect 20 artifacts on the minimal, but felt I had to because they were there I thought BotW was amazing because it just let me find things, I would see a cool mountain in the distance and get excited that there was probably something cool there, because there always was something cool in weird places. Ive heard immortals is way closer to the horizon zero dawn style of everything being on your map so I noped out hard --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 377: Nonconsent of the Governed |
| masterplum 08/13/21 6:53:25 AM #51 | xp1337 posted... I have an update on this that plum asked for: ok yeah we can crucify him now --- |
| Topic | Spelunky 1 and 2 releasing on Switch on August 26 |
| masterplum 08/12/21 6:45:25 PM #6 | I have tried both games, and just can't get into them. Something about ultra hard roguelites where you can just suddenly die just doesn't work for me. Hell, I even beat all of eternal which was an ultra hard roguelite, but that felt different because it didn't ever feel like I would press one wrong button and lose everything --- |
| Topic | Nindies Direct tomorrow at noon ET |
| masterplum 08/11/21 12:22:34 PM #22 | |
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