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| Topic | Trump is shit posting and threatening Iran on Twitter now... |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/23/18 12:54:18 AM #55 | It would be an all-around stupid and evil thing to do, and Netanyahu and the Saudis would be happy and call him a big man who makes big boy decisions. Daddy Putin might be annoyed, but mostly he'll be amused at seeing the U.S. stick its dick in a blender that will make Iraq and Afghanistan seem nice. |
| Topic | The Atlantic: "The Democratic Party Apologizes to Black Voters" |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/23/18 12:50:10 AM #7 | "Now vote for this candidate who won't comment on police brutality against black people!" |
| Topic | Nintendo Sues Console ROM Sites For 'Mass' Copyright Infringement |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/23/18 12:43:08 AM #30 | Nintendo's incredibly dumb over this stuff. They should adopt Sega's attitude: they've straight-up helped rom-hackers hack their games better. |
| Topic | What's your favorite kind of rice? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 2:50:40 PM #6 | I'm very fond of Forbidden Rice, myself. The flavor and texture is nice, and it's a very versatile little variety. Plus, the color is very striking. Also very fond of this bamboo-infused jade pearl rice I found at work(Whole Foods). Needless to say, it's pricey, but it gets gooey without being very sticky, if that makes sense. At the end of the day, I like rice in general. |
| Topic | Do straight women and gay men actually enjoy sucking dick? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 2:08:47 PM #7 | None of the woman who were willing to discuss it did. |
| Topic | Pence, Bolton, and Kelly all confronted Trump over his Russia comments |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 2:06:53 PM #16 | BLAKUboy posted... GallisOTK posted...Even Pence is sick of his shit? Wow. Pence is probably hoping Trump keels over at some point, and he can coast to an easy re-election by virtue of observing "proper decorum" and maybe ending one or two deeply unpopular policies while doubling-down on the "moral" aspects of Trump's policies. |
| Topic | Poll: 28% of young people say they will certainly vote in 2018 midterms |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 2:02:11 PM #11 | https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-some-early-high-quality-polls-can-tell-us-about-the-race-for-the-house/?ex_cid=story-facebook Still looking good for the Democrats. However, even if they win the House in November and topple Trump in 2020, it won't make much difference long-term unless they aggressively tackle our society's many problems. For young voters in particular, that would entail a plan to bring down college costs and retire student debt. |
| Topic | a caribbean inspired hut did rice and peas with green peas |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 12:15:06 PM #9 | treewojima posted... ew Peas are really good though. They are not; however, appropriate substitutes for beans of any kind. |
| Topic | Trump: The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong! |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 12:09:09 PM #32 | That's not true! FDR interned Japanese Americans and was way too quick to unwind the New Deal. |
| Topic | Was Obama a good president |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/22/18 12:07:53 PM #17 | He was thoroughly mediocre. Which does make him the best president we've had in decades. A low bar, to be sure. |
| Topic | FBI believes Carter Page has been the subject of recruitment by the Russian govt |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 9:41:34 PM #21 | I would've thought even the Russians would give him a hard pass. Dude seems dumb as a box of bricks. |
| Topic | Golden Sun has ridiculously boring characters |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 9:39:50 PM #23 | BignutzisBack posted... Golden Sun is extremely generic in general In terms of writing and characters, yeah. The dungeons tend to be interesting(though you do get some clunkers like Air Rock, of course) and the graphics and soundtrack are really good. Still not sure how they managed that with the GBA, of all things. |
| Topic | Trump: This Democrat excuse for losing the '16 Election never ends! No Collusion |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 9:35:52 PM #10 | At least he spelled collusion right this time? It's storming where he was golfing, so he's probably upset that he lost out on some golfing. |
| Topic | Goofiest part of The Dark Knight Rises? (Spoilers) |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 2:46:15 PM #23 | Bane was so loyal he was going to kill Batman against Talia's orders. |
| Topic | In terms of 'misgendering' people, I think both sides need to take a step back. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 12:49:22 PM #5 | BloodyNate posted... far and away, most people who get misgendered do not correct the person misgendering them for fear of rejection, ridicule, or worse. so no, both sides dont need to take a step back, because one side in particular is in an incredibly vulnerable situation and the other side is just being rude :) Also, if you're unsure of how to gender some one, you can simply, you know, NOT gender them? Or just ask. |
| Topic | Go Team Venture! |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 11:22:35 AM #10 | Cartoon_Quoter posted... lGNORE ME! Oh, right. Wait...I'm not ignoring you now, am I? Uhh... |
| Topic | Go Team Venture! |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/21/18 11:17:36 AM #8 |  Oh hey, they dropped a new trailer. |
| Topic | Go Team Venture! |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 11:44:34 PM #6 |  That's the Season 7 teaser, by the way. |
| Topic | Go Team Venture! |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 11:38:58 PM #4 | Season 6 owned, and I loved it. My favorite one-off, non-spoilery gag is The Monarch riding the subway and deploying his wings so no one could sit next to him. Oh, and I named a Primeape after Haranguetang. |
| Topic | Should I buy pokemon sun |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 11:37:14 PM #6 | USUM is worth it for |
| Topic | New Study Finds Unintended Consequences of CRISPR Gene Editing |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 11:12:18 PM #18 | ClunkerSlim posted... @The23rdMagus posted...So in other words, minus the scary headline, they're uncovering flaws in the process that they need to correct before the technique is ready for human usage. That random guy needs too, if he seriously thinks that's a good idea. |
| Topic | You know, FF7 always had one thing that boggled my mind. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 8:25:58 PM #57 | Laserion posted... I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it. The GBA version isn't broken. Like, not completely. I followed an LP of the NES version once. Nothing works right. Somehow this works out to everything being Toadable. |
| Topic | The President is mad about the NFL again |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 7:11:39 PM #14 | |
| Topic | You know, FF7 always had one thing that boggled my mind. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 5:12:18 PM #45 | Laserion posted... Kisai posted...Despite that, it's probably one of the few Final Fantasy games up until then to not let you custom-build your characters however you wanted. Lots of people complain about stuff like that, but it's kind of a staple of Final Fantasy games to let you customize every character however you want. Aside from FFIX, the only other game I can think of that did that before FFIX was FFIV. So despite being such an homage to the FF series, having the characters be stuck with their classes kinda goes against that. FF2 doesn't really have "classes", per se. Your characters have slightly different base stats and starting equipment, but from then on, their stats increase on the basis of what you have them do, except some things are overtuned, some undertuned, and most of it is unintuitive. FF2 is janky as hell. In FF5, your party members have discreet base stats which are altered(but not overwritten!) when they change classes. It's negligible, but it's there. Also, the stats of the base class(Bare/Freelancer) improve based upon how many and which classes a character has mastered, and certain abilities "carry" stats. |
| Topic | Kansas socialism is brewing! Sanders and Cortez rally sells out fast and... |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 2:22:05 PM #2 | I've heard through the grapevine that James Thompson and Brent Welder are poor candidates who the Justice Democrats hastily endorsed before other, (better) candidates got in. IIRC, the latter is doing especially badly, and the Justice Dems are calling in Bernie to try and save face. The optics are cool though, but this is why I only give money to the DSA. |
| Topic | Maxine Waters supporters burn American flag in front of her office |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 2:13:07 PM #67 | Doom_Art posted... sktgamer_13dude posted...Shes the designated speaker for LIBERALSSSSSSSSSSSS She said mean things about Trump and spoke in support of what the Red Hen did to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Also, she's black. |
| Topic | It's kinda wild how women age a lot less gracefully than men, why is that? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 2:12:03 PM #17 | I really haven't seen that myself. |
| Topic | Most consistently good long-running TV show? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 1:09:50 PM #9 | Long-running as in seasons...or time? Because, if the latter, Venture Bros. It's been consistently amazing since its 4th-season(at the latest) and it's getting Season 7 kicked-off August 5th. Season 1 aired in 2004. The (bad) pilot aired in 2003. Just for reference. |
| Topic | Maxine Waters supporters burn American flag in front of her office |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/20/18 10:57:13 AM #38 | That would have been a great way to troll the Oath Keepers, but they chickened out, so all they got was some poor optics. I'm glad that's the worst that can be said. |
| Topic | Why didn't the galactic government or Ricks do anything about the giant heads? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 5:04:02 PM #4 | Hairistotle posted... If Rick couldn't do anything to stop the heads, what makes you think the government could? He's been shown to be several levels above them. Plus, the Council of Ricks wouldn't care about random planets getting blown up. And they definitely wouldn't care about a trouble-maker like our Rick getting blown up. The Vindicators aren't even in Rick's league. |
| Topic | Israel passes controversial nationality bill into law |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 4:13:22 PM #23 | Solar_Crimson posted... s0nicfan posted...As long as every surrounding country continues to aim for a global purge of the jewish people, they still need shielding. You can disagree with some of Israel's policies without condemning them to genocide, you know. Start one? They're doing a great job of it already. |
| Topic | kaepernick: America has an issue with police brutality. Right Wingers hate him |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 11:52:01 AM #8 | |
| Topic | NPR said these millenails prefer socialism to democracy |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 11:44:17 AM #9 | Antifar posted... That's a false dichotomy |
| Topic | the majority of Republicans approve of the way trump handled Helsinki summit |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 11:43:27 AM #21 | SideshowBob311 posted... Aye posted...SideshowBob311 posted...Darkman124 posted...the 1/3 independent support is what truly astounds me The problem is that there's no reason to believe this couldn't happen again. The weakness and instability of our democracy has been exposed. The extent of the decay is bad, and reversing it will take a lot of bold policy. It's perfectly believable to me that the Democrats could end up successfully quashing their progressive/socialist wing and delivering essentially a repeat of Clinton/Obama presidencies where the Republicans quickly recapture the House and Senate and we basically end right back here. It really can't be emphasized enough how damaging the fact that you can no longer trust American diplomacy beyond a particular president's term. |
| Topic | Toughest boss you've faced in a game? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 11:37:22 AM #18 | Running into Matador for the first time in SMT: Nocturne was a trip, and taught me a harsh lesson in how to play press-turns to my advantage. Neo ExDeath in FFV is typically not very hard, but it was very hard with the Black Mage/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon party I was saddled with by Gilgabot. Had to do some grinding, steal a Dragon Lance with the Thief Knife, and lean hard on the Magic Lamp and a lucky Break just to get by. Also, I wiped to Ultra Necrozma in Ultra Sun. That thing's legit brutal, and it's in a damned Pokemon game. |
| Topic | the majority of Republicans approve of the way trump handled Helsinki summit |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 11:26:39 AM #13 | Darkman124 posted... the 1/3 independent support is what truly astounds me Eh, 1/3 independent support isn't too surprising. Plenty of indies are Republicans-in-all-but-name. Most of the rest are low-information types that don't pay much attention. |
| Topic | Trump administration to cut veterans' health care. MAGA |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 10:57:58 AM #5 | Stiffing vets is basically the norm in this country. WW2 was the exception. |
| Topic | What's the name of that RPG where youre taken to prison and lose all your stuff? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/19/18 12:54:53 AM #10 | Digital Devil Saga does something interesting with the trope. His food is human, because this is a SMT game, what did you expect? |
| Topic | Ace Attorney is very progressive when it comes to gender issues. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/18/18 11:34:22 PM #16 | Nall posted... SoJ Case 5 is one of the greatest in the Series easily. Apollo was fantastic in the case. Yeah, I love what they've done with Apollo over the last two games. He's become a truly great lawyer(and man) in his own right. I hope they give Athena a similar arc. Or at least let her get through a case without needing to be hand-holded. |
| Topic | What's some quotes you guys like? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/18/18 11:32:06 PM #34 | NOM posted... ElatedVenusaur posted..."You cannot win, but you must fight, because you can lose." It's from Europa Barbarorum, the Rome: Total War mod. It's one of the loading screen quotes. I couldn't find anything on it either, and it's also recalled from my (often faulty) memory, as I haven't actually played it in years. However, the mod did have actual historians and antiquarians working on it(and still does, at least on Europa Barbarorum 2 for Medieval 2: Total War.) IIRC, it's from Celtic myth. Back on topic... "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." -Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Topic | California Democratic Party Snubs Dianne Feinstein backs progressive challenger. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/18/18 11:11:50 PM #46 | Sayoria posted... So why is she hated? I don't follow CA's senators. She's really friendly with the intelligence community and generally horrible on stuff like privacy rights and is also super-hamfisted in promoting gun regulations. She's otherwise a fairly milquetoast centrist. She's also in her 80s. In other words, California could do better. A lot better, and De Leon is better. She'll probably still win. Also, term-limits are gross and undemocratic. It just also happens that the current primary systems are also bad like that. |
| Topic | Ace Attorney is very progressive when it comes to gender issues. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/18/18 11:08:21 PM #8 | Yeah, I loved Sarge and I hope she pops up again. |
| Topic | So... how do people on welfare contribute to society? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/17/18 11:41:51 PM #3 | MorbidFaithless posted... Wow are you even trying lmaoooo https://www.savantcapital.com/uploadedImages/Savant_CMS_Website/Blogs/Sample_Blog/US-Income-Tax-Marginal-Rates.png https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BS3cTcBjhEk/UkcdY5vfE6I/AAAAAAAABCI/4zxdP_NGCNw/s1600/AFDC+and+TANF+Beneficiaries+over+TIme.png I would say no. |
| Topic | Reaction: a march on Washington takes place to forcibly remove Trump from office |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/17/18 11:12:04 PM #8 | It depends. If they're leftist and/or primarily composed of minorities, the police and military response will be swift and brutal. If it's rightist(LOL, but we're spit-balling here), not much would be done until people got killed. |
| Topic | Post in this topic anything not about Trump or sexy things |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/17/18 8:49:08 PM #2 | I'm currently reading Malcolm X's autobiography. |
| Topic | Is it responsible to allow pre-teens to breed and tame all-powerful monsters? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/17/18 3:45:10 PM #17 | USUM does have a (creepy) sidequest where you have to track down Dittos who have transformed themselves into people. They can't talk at least, but it's apparently something Dittos do. |
| Topic | Is it responsible to allow pre-teens to breed and tame all-powerful monsters? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/17/18 2:50:11 PM #7 | I mean, if you think about it, Pokemon without the gloss is an apocalyptic hell-scape where going on a hike could end up with you dying from inhaling toxic spores spread by a butterfly and/or ambulatory plant, or being violently stabbed by a different species of butterfly, or being sliced in half by a dino-bug because you happened to wander too close to its nest. And that's probably the safest place to be(outside of the ramshackle settlements). |
| Topic | What's some quotes you guys like? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/16/18 8:33:52 PM #20 | "I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Topic | What's some quotes you guys like? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/16/18 8:28:31 PM #16 | It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. -Alex Karras "You cannot win, but you must fight, because you can lose." ~Cycle of Telam |
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