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The Vault is great, especially at the end where Finn notes just how old PB actually is!
Im sure you noticed Shoko had an animal companion as well.

mehmeh1 posted...

Tbh I wasn't much of a fan of this arc, especially how Finn acted. Cinnamon Bun and FP were the MVPs tho

It was a lot harder to get through as it was airing, because the entire character arc aired over a span of two years or so.

mehmeh1 posted...

^that spoiler is about SU, not AT

Right! Thank you...forgot to specify. It's what happens when I'm phone-posting from work.

James Baxter is a famous animator who is one of Pen Wards idols. The horse is animated and voiced by James Baxter himself.
He also animated Stevens self-fusion in the SU episode Change Your Mind.

Puhoy is a great episode. Adult Finn is voiced by Jonathan Frakes.

An important thing to keep in mind: even the Founders who were against slavery really didnt grasp just how evil it was. They didnt see black people as people, so the stakes seemed much lower to them. It was easy for them to prioritize their collective interest in presenting a united front against the British.
That was also true of basically all of the abolitionists John Brown being the most notable exception. White America was almost united in seeing black people as less. You could argue convincingly thats still a widespread view.

Bluebomber182 posted...

hes probably gonna pick duckworth

A center-right veteran would definitely be hailed by all the right people.

Warren could actually be construed as something of a concession to the left, and the entire reason for them boosting Biden over the top was to crush it and keep us out of their little clubhouse.
It's going to be some one cop or COVID-19 adjacent, IMO.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-secret-police-portland/
https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1284279762140180480
Seems to me they're trying to see just how much you can get away with.

superXY posted...

I don't think rioting and violent protests should be left unchecked, particularly if Antifa (a self-described Marxist group with goals to overthrow government) are involved.

That being said, there should be more transparency than just throwing people in vans.

Posters like this would let them get away with a lot, apparently!

I picked Roosevelt, because Lincoln screwed up hard by having Andrew f***ing Johnson as his vice president. Lincoln may not have been very invested in helping newly-freed black people, but he probably wouldn't have spite-pardoned literally every Confederate. That went a long way in insuring that the South largely remained in the grasp of its incredibly racist Antebellum elite.
Meanwhile, Roosevelt had Harry Truman, who was a pretty competent guy and actually subscribed to most of the same goals.

She really should have stepped down back in 2013 or so, it's terrible that so much is hinging on a dying octogenarian's continued existence.

https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1284279762140180480
Oregon's senators are not pleased.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-secret-police-portland/
It's getting picked up now.

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QSt1kcJWo

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you have to do it every day, that's the hard part."

Yeah, its honestly pretty bare bones and you can feel theyre still figuring out what this thing is/should be in the level design.
Sonic 1 and DKC 1 are both similar in that regard, IMO.

Alteres posted...

As to them becoming a competitor, yes in some ways.

A huge, powerful, and rich nation doing such things is always going to be much more worrying than a smaller nation doing similar things. Especially from a global perspective .

It seems a little silly to ask why people are more worried about a country with massive influence and reach than a smaller one.

Yeah, like, North Korea is probably worse, but its evil is mostly contained within the borders of North Korea and affects the people who have the misfortune of being born there.
Superpowers like China and the United States, on the other hand, have the power(hard and soft) and motivation to meaningfully effect foreign nations worldwide. The U.S. , of course, has a very, very long and sordid history of supporting(and, on some occasions, directly instigating) coups against governments it doesn't like(most recently in Bolivia). China has been building up influence abroad via economic investments in the developing world and, of course, has been clamping down ever-tighter on internal dissent(real and imagined).

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

GameGodOfAll posted...

These are great.

But yeah, a few cities and even some states have taken steps to actually address the protesters concerns. They will need to be watched carefully to insure they don't just backslide, which is probably what they want to do, but the very fact that the image of the "cop as hero" has been shattered is huge. We're going to see a lot of different approaches to reform in the coming months and years and some will be partially successful and others won't be, but even just not pretending everything is perfectly fine the way it is is a huge goddamned process in America.

Paper_Okami posted...

it is far more complex than that

otherwise it wouldn't systemic to this extent

Yeah, there was some pretty terrible prejudice before capitalism, not all of capitalism's failings can be explained by racism, and there will be prejudice after capitalism.
Capitalism is garbage though and basically can't work without exploiting cheap labor and destroying the planet*.
*To be fair, we've only recently come to appreciate that that's a thing that's happening and just how bad it is/could be. It's also true that capitalism creates little incentive for most firms to do anything and a massive pile of perverse incentives for firms invested in oil, gas, and/or coal.

St0rmFury posted...

What about clearing your table after a meal at a fast food restaurant?

I feel like that's the same principle. You get nothing for doing it, but it's easy and objectively the correct thing to do.

Ivany2008 posted...

speaking as someone who just finished a shift in retail as a cart pusher, people in general are idiots. I can understand if you have a handicap and can't move properly, but even with small kids, you have the option of buckling them into their safety seats and spending less than 10 seconds pushing your empty shopping cart into a cart corral. What's worse is that even people who bring the carts into the corral don't do it properly. They will push it in there with no semblence of how it needs to be pushed in. Big carts with Big carts, Small carts with Small carts. It's not rocket science.

My store only has one cart size and people can't even get THAT right. Of course, we used to have two different kinds of carriage(roughly the same size) that didn't play nice together(old silver aluminum ones and grey plastic ones) and most people never even realized they were different, so, yeah. They had different bumpers and everything...
Also people ask if we have smaller carts and get really annoyed to learn we only have standard-sized shopping carts. We have two sizes of basket: a standard hand-basket, and a larger wheeled basket(that is also carriable).

Its not always useful to refer everything to the past. And never helpful to talk about geopolitics in terms of simplistic notions of good and evil.
With that said, China is terrible and actively committing genocide: a hot one against the Uighurs and a cold one against Tibetans, to say nothing of the general repression of the rest of the population.

Mmmm, tuna steaks are luxurious.

Annihilated posted...

Most people do put their shopping carts in the bay but most are either too dumb or too lazy to realize that the carts are literally designed to stack, so they just stick it into an increasingly scrambled heap.

Yeah, I see that a lot, as some one whose job it is to collect the things. But a good many people just leave them in random parking spaces.
The worst people are the ones who leave random trash behind. I'm talking fast food leftovers, used tissues(especially gross and dangerous given current conditions), etc. etc.
Though the most random was literal bags of grass clippings. Just...why?

Lots of people don't get it bad.
Also, my sister's husband got it from work(he's an EMT), but my sister didn't get it(she was tested twice and was negative): it's possible to successfully distance even under the same roof. His symptoms were mostly in line with a bad cold, and he hasn't reported any lasting effects, thankfully. He's pretty healthy though.

Regardless, you need to quarantine yourself hard.

tremain07 posted...

the republicans just want to kill everyone now to avoid the problem later

Just think, if everybody dies NOW, nobody will die later! IT'S BRILLIANT!!!

Antifar posted...

NY's governor election was last year; his primary opponent got about 33 percent.

Also worth noting that New York is a thoroughly-machined state with all kinds of institutional barriers that make it difficult for challengers to get off the ground.
That's one of the reasons AOC and Jamaal Bowman were/are such a big deal: things like that just aren't supposed to happen in the NY Democratic Party. But it's much harder to catch state-level officials off-guard.

The closest I've been to Washington was Portland, OR. I saw a highway sign for Seattle(200+ miles away), on I-105, IIRC.

Proto_Spark posted...

I can't wait to see Washington end up replacing Redskins with something even more offensive.

It'll be hard, but if anyone can do it, it's Dan Snyder.

Glad they're changing the name, hopefully they don't change the colors or uniforms(much). Burgundy and gold is a pretty good combo and also really unique among NFL teams.

Ricardio is voiced by George Takei, which is really fun. Later on, they'll have a few TNG peeps in guest roles.

But yes, Lemongrab is, well, I bet you don't see where that's going, is all I'm going to say.

Not much, it's Really Really Big Man's nipples that are kind of freaky.

https://i.imgur.com/H3ZEPoa.png
https://i.imgur.com/LNUDJju.png
Of course, with a load-out like Blue Mage/Berserker/Time Mage/Ninja , failure would have been entirely on me!
Neo ExDeath was trivial: being able to casually throw up Hastega+Mighty Guard Blue Magic that is Protect+Shell+Float meant the only thing that actually killed anyone was White Hole(Bartz got turned to stone the first time and Death'd the second). !Time powered Lenna's Rune Axe while everyone else spammed Meteor(and Krile threw the occasional Fuma Shuriken.)
Shinryu is a total chump as long as you have a means of berserking him, so the hardest thing about him was catching a good screenshot of him dying(very proud of myself on that count!)
Omega though...I would have to grind a bunch and buy a giant pile of Thunder Rods just to stand a chance. That thing is vicious!

In any case, not sure if I'm going to do another run yet, but I'm glad this one was so successful. Anyone else here Fiesta-ing?

It is extremely gross these companies are quick to blame non-COVID factors for the deaths of their employees. It feels like victim blaming, honestly.

fremdschmen - feeling embarrassed for some one else
That's this topic.

EnragedSlith posted...

Ogre Battle 64 has some pacing problems, partially due to how easy it is once you know what youre doing. But its a 40ish hour long game that becomes a bit of a slog towards the last third of it.

I personally hate the beginning of Chapter 2, which features Crenel Canyon II and Mylesia II. Neither is a very interesting map and the first one introduces one of the games weakest(IMO) plot-threads.

As for me, I feel like most Tales games ramble on, constantly introducing new plot threads and even, sometimes, entirely new villains dozens of hours in. I wish they were a bit more focused and concise.

lincoln002 posted...

1 million deaths? I don't know about that. We're 7 months into this virus and there's been ~140k or so deaths, at it'd take like 5 more years at the rate we're going to get to a million us deaths.

If you're talking global then you might be right, for sure we'll hit 500k more deaths by Christmas at the rate things are going at. So we're looking at about 1 million worldwide reported deaths from covid.

Deaths would accelerate precipitously if the health care system collapses in one of the hardest-hit cities/states. New York City only narrowly avoided that.
It's hard to tell if or how close we are to that point, but with cases growing at this rate, it's unfortunately back on the table.

Oh my God, a female character who presumably spends much of her time running on her hooves has muscular legs!?
Think of the children, people! What if girls get it their heads that women can have strong legs? It would be, an...uhhh...outrage. Yes...

Theyre not worth the materials theyre made of. Destroy them and put the materials to better use.

Any mainline Paradox strategy title.
Just finished off a successful Prester John achievement run in Europa Universalis IV.
As Ethiopia, own and control Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople. Picked up a few others along the way, including the one for having all 5 blessings as a Coptic nation.

My ratings...

Sonic the Hedgehog(GEN) : B
Sonic the Hedgehog(GG): B-
Sonic the Hedgehog 2(GEN): A+
Sonic the Hedgehog 2(GG): C
Sonic the Hedgehog 3: A-
Sonic Chaos: C+
Sonic 3&Knuckles: A+
Sonic CD: B
Sonic 3D Blast: C-
Sonic Spinball: C
Mean Bean Machine: C(it made for a neat Easter Egg though)

Sonic Adventure 2: B
Sonic Unleashed: D+
Sonic Generations: A-
Sonic Mania: A+

Sonic Advance: C+
Sonic Advance 2: C

I have Adventure, Colors, and Lost World, I just haven't attempted to play them yet.

I wear a mask my entire shift at work. The only time we're allowed to remove them is on break, and then only in the back or outside, never on the sales floor.
I'm not going to say wearing a mask is fun, but ya'll are making it out to be harder than it is.

iPhone_7 posted...

Why is it always said that a group is using black people? Democrats are using them, socialists are using them, etc. As if they arent allowed to have their own opinions or political ideology?

Yeah, I know, it's so weird! It's like people who think that are, well...you know...

His deal is insane, and yet, its hard to say the Chiefs are overpaying. Mahomes has just been that good!
Plus, the growing cap will make the deal more affordable as time passes.

nemu posted...

If there's a policy, there's a policy. The only issue is if they subjectively enforce it, but otherwise this is like separation of church and state on public display or religious statues. You either allow the satanists to put up a statue of Baphomet or nobody gets a statue.

Funny you should bring up "subjectively", because they have always enforced the dress code "subjectively". For example, I've never heard of anyone being told to turn their shirt inside-out/change their shirt or go home for any other slogan or logo save for BLM-associated ones(gay pride-related stuff is given a pass as well and always has been). Also, for some reason, they tend to go after black women way harder for dress code violations than white women.
Basically, the dress code isn't some clear, concise, "common sense" thing, but a subjective tool to be used to target certain violations and certain individuals as management sees fit.