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Its a real shame, because the cast has real potential otherwise.
I kind of hope nobody but Mario and Bowser take Bowser seriously.

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nexigrams posted...

It means capitalism with the goal of improving people's lives instead of corporate greed as its underlying function. Which, of course, is total antithetical bullshit which makes no sense whatsoever. In a free and open market that rewards profits above all else, there will always be someone willing to pay less, outsource for child/slave labor, use destructive yet more profitable manufacturing methods, etc. and so on. There's no way to do capitalism without it being a race to the bottom, it's just an oxymoron.

Indeed. When considering what Yang means by it, it's important to remember his plan was to scrap(or was it just a choice? That would be less monstrous, to be fair) most current social welfare programs and "replace" them with his UBI plan.

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Its not a solely heterosexual problem: I had a gay coworker complain about his boyfriend appropriating his clothes for warmth.
Basically, if youre the larger partner in a romantic relationship, the smaller partner steals your clothes. Its an unavoidable law of reality.

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Yeah, Rick 1000% doesn't vote, but he would probably be super bummed if Keith David wasn't president anymore but would act like he doesn't care.

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You mean her pro-choice stance is purely a performance piece to sucker the bluer parts of her state?
How shocking.

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Groudon must be out west somewhere. So I think we need to find Rayquaza. The atmospheric dragon monster is the only one who can fix this!

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What? But I was promised Fully-Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.

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I dont think there good housing deals anymore.

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I was deeply disappointed by our performance against the Steelers, but a 35-0 road victory over the Dolphins is pretty sick. Worried about Josh and hope Rousseau and Epenesa can play like studs against an NFL caliber offensive line.

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Ive never played those.
The series has had consistently phenomenal music though.

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Im in the early stages of transition: Ive only been on hormones a little less than 3 months, so I still look 100% dude though there is stuff happening, trust me;) but Im going to be looking progressively more like a woman going forward.
Sonothings happening. Any straight chicks who might be interested in me now(lol) wont be in 3-6 months, but no lesbian is going to be into me until later on. Its also complicated by all the non-chemical aspects of transition too, of course.

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Link Between Worlds is a brilliant remix of Link to the Past, IMO. Theres a lot of nostalgic call-backs built in, but the game would still be great without them.

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Hey, its not every day you beat a division rival 35-0 on the road.

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Nothing has fundamentally changed on this front.
Promise made, promise kept!

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The classic layout doesnt do it many favors either: its *too* compact. There are no mega routes, not many sizable optional areas, and few good dungeons. It pretty obviously suffered from their desire to revisit Kanto(which itself feels way smaller, with the gutting of Mt. Moon and Viridian Forest and straight-up removal of Lavendar Tower, the Game Corners basement, Silph Co., Safari Zone, Seafoam Islands, Cinnibar Mansion, and Unknown Dungeon).
Likeimagine if Cinnabar was converted into a lava cave dungeon full of Fire type mons and Blaines Gym was in there so he could monitor the volcanos stability or whatever.

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Prime citizen, please return to your Amazon domicile for your Flex meal.

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It has been a difficult mating season for Birdperson.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

We need Cumulative Term Limits of 12 years for the House & 12 years for Senate.

The solution to our system being undemocratic is not to make it less democratic. Term limits just restrict voters options while doing nothing to solve the problem: legalized bribery and power as a means to its own end. That would just kick them into unaccountable lobby groups, party positions, think tanks, etc. that their hand-picked stooges would mostly cater to anyway.

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Wow, hes even more of a dick than in IV:Apocalypse.

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The clit is basically all the nerves found in the head of the penis condensed into a little nubbin.
Or, conversely, a penis is an inside-out vagina with a clit spread along the head and a urethra routed through.

Edit: Also: lol@that being censored when no male anatomy is.

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I think we can correctly characterize our current political elite as a gerontocracy, not dissimilar from the late Soviet Union. Rather than reaching the height their power at the end of their lives, as was usually the case earlier in the First Republic, or reaching it and then passing the torch after a time to enjoy retirement, our modern political class seems to seek and hold power merely for the sake of it, and most cling to it until death finally parts them from it. There is typically only lip service given to the future.

Its by no mean an iron rule, but it is too true regardless. Older people, in aggregate, are more conservative and less decisive. They belong in government, but not as a super majority of power holders.

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GameGodOfAll posted...

The funniest thing about that is that Thane was literally in the end stages of an incurable illness affecting his eyesight and reflexes.
And he still almost kills Kei Lame. Healthy Thane kills him without breaking a sweat.

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The only time I watched it was after Eugene Pride in a room with a gay man, a gay trans man, a lesbian, 2 trans women(myself included), and an enby. We all got Thai food and it was great. The end.

It was one of the all-star seasons. I remember Ginjer Gold and that one of the queens was a trans woman and they slayed the lip sync in back-to-back eps.

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Biggest I had recently was Thimble Island Rum Runners Reserve Mutually Assured Destruction: they took their Russian Imperial Stout and stuffed in Caribbean rum barrels for 6 months.
It was surprisingly smooth, but very obviously high in alcohol lol.

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Thats a really ridiculously detailed fear. Also it would be hard not to pick up on that. You would just see a different therapist who isnt garbage, because therapy is a really active thing that you need to be engaged with.

The field is geared towards teaching empathy, active listening, and understanding different backgrounds. You really want a therapist focused on whatever is causing you to seek therapy though. Thats why I see a trans dude who only takes trans people as clients, for instance.

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Alucard188 posted...

Mara is in a lot of things.

I love that his entire appearance in Apocalypse was him using suggestive language non-stop.

It was super weird they made Demeter a young girl, given that she's explicitly supposed to be Persephone's mother(and older than Zeus, who also makes an appearance). But Persephone is depicted as a young woman. This one makes sense though.

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neverwin posted...

Days of Ruin is the only AW game I liked

I enjoyed all of them, but the old style was really showing its age, and the sheer power creep in Dual Strike was pretty insane. It probably hurt Days of Ruin that it dialed the dark and serious tone up to 10 by opening with a literal apocalypse. Serious tonal whiplash between that and AW1-DS. It's a much better balanced game and the campaign is really good though.

Aren't they remastering the first 2? I hope they back-port the improved AI, even if it would make AW1 Hard Mode even more brutal.

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I've never been bothered by the modern design in the slightest.
Though it's really funny in Sonic Generations, where if Knuckles sees Classic Sonic first, he asks, "Hey buddy...you put on some weight?" and Classic Sonic makes a sad face.

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Yeah, its really weird that the TNG Enterprise is loaded with kids and other non-Starfleet personnel. Seems like it would be super trivial to get a spy on-board which the Romulans literally do at one point.

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Also, his air units having extra defense combined with the fact that the DoR AI actually knows better than to put air units in range of fighters and AAs without reason makes him such a giant pain in the ass to fight.

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He has a terribly narrow definition of what rock is allowed to be lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kuqVySGjL0
This was on one of Obama's summer playlists.

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Absolutely yes. Except for Israel, because Israel would treat them like garbage.

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I didnt become a vampire to be some bureaucratic pencil-pusher! I became a vampire to suck blood and f*** forever!

If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldnt have hot dogs.

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Blackberries. I gorged on blackberries in Oregon because they grow all over place.
Raspberries are a close second though.

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The Christian girl sounds like a potential TERF, whereas the Satanic Femboy will probably be super chill and teach me how to makeup.

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gunplagirl posted...

Ah I can't tag Eevee trainer.

@ElatedVenusaur it's your chance, want security bypass duty?

I, uhhh...I killed my old computer installing new RAM somehow. Will that work?

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Solar_Crimson posted...

No "Twilight of the Gods" from Shadows of Valentia, either.

And Shadows of Valentia has a baller OST even outside of Twilight of the Gods.
But then, they didn't even put in God Shattering Star from Three Houses!

Also, Fates is a horribly bloated mess. Conquest is probably the best iteration, but that's not saying much. Corrin being such a black hole of a character hamstrings even the good plot. They just...clearly had no idea why anyone liked Awakening, I guess.

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Athletic women are so hot. Kind of want to go all fitness lesbian, but I'm lazy...

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It's crazy how potent delta is.
Also must suck to be New Zealand, because New Zealand did everything right from the jump and only still has problems because almost everyone else screwed up horribly.

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Little surprise there.

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Just awful. And to think people thought Captain Planet was ridiculous.

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Then his precious bipartisan infrastructure bill will simply have to be dragged out behind the shed and shot.

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Antifar posted...

If a little more division is what it takes to not have a thousand people dying each day, divide me up

Yeah, it's weird how we're all blase about having a 9/11s worth of Americans dying every day.

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He was extremely prolific and extremely talented. Since he came up, I feel obligated to share his Nixon obituary: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

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Well, if we're getting down to brass tacks...I already summed up Gen 2 to my satisfaction, but..

Gen 1- You have two starters which have been pretty consistently competitively viable in various ways at high levels(Venusaur and Charizard) and one that's been firmly mediocre(Blastoise). They all have stuff going on design-wise that works, a natural progression, good movepools, and they're all respectable options in-game(though obviously Charmander has a bit of a rough time against Brock. But Butterfree or a Nidoran[from Yellow on] patches that right up).

Gen 3- Competitively, Swampert is the star. Blaziken is broken good(to the point of being banned in some formats), but only with its hidden ability(lol Speed Boost). Sceptile is the "weakest" and it's still pretty good. All will be rock-solid as you journey through Hoenn, and, again: they all have pretty strong movepools, allowing them to fill a variety of roles.

Gen 4- Infernape is the clear star here: it was Blaziken 2.0 until they Blaziken got Speed Boost(just lol). But Torterra and Empoleon are both pretty great designs, and blah blah blah. You know what you're getting in this bunch. The fact that they're all dual-types helps make this gen feel a bit different, and only Torterra really has to watch out(it has a miserable time in the ice area with its 4x weakness).

Gen 5- So, yeah. Sometimes dual-typing isn't the best, like when you make the third Fire/Fighting in a row. A lot of people(myself included) envisioned Tepig going in a more quadrapedal direction, but even given its stale typing, Emboar's execution is lacking: its stat distribution is poor, but at least it has a movepool. Serperior is straight trash without its hidden ability(Contrary) to allow it overcome its bizarre stat distribution and non-existant movepool. And Samurott? They made the wrong starter a quadruped, and Samurott's overly-balanced stat spread results in a relatively boring pokemon. They're all good enough in-game, but Unova is full of much better options, IMO.

Gen 6- I'll be real: I didn't really like Kalos at all. But it's not the fault of the starters. Greninja is the competitive darling, but Chesnaught and Delphox are also nifty pokemon. They're all dual-typed, they all fit obvious roles, they all have good stat distributions. They're all great.

Gen 7- I liked Alola better. The starters are also a strong bunch. Decidueye is a lot weird: going from Flying to Ghost...weird. But it works out fine. Primarina is also an elegant design: growing from a clown to a star. I was hard on Incineroar at first: bipedal fire starters are pretty passe, IMO. But just the nugget that it's specifically a heel wrestler and loves hamming it up for the crowd warmed my cold, dead heart. They're all pretty great.

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