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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Of course, it is my son's birthday tomorrow it is Chicago cubs themed

go cubs go

does he have a favorite player?

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banananor posted...

Those of you who think today's situation is fine, where would you draw the line? And what would you do when that egregious line was crossed?

it's definitely not "fine", don't get me wrong

i have no idea where the line is - somewhere around jailing political opponents - and i would most likely do nothing if it was crossed. what can i do? if a real mass movement would rise up then i'd probably join. i wished i was back in nyc for the George Floyd protests

i gave dues to the DSA when Trump won in 16, but like . . . i have mental health and career things i am still figuring out. it would be nice to get involved but idk if I have the time or energy

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paulg235 posted...

If you're doubting he called Trump winning that, you should go back and read the 2015 contest analysis because he was calling it before the republican primaries had even began.

not doubting, wasn't here, just asking

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couple things here

GuessMyUserName posted...

you're just making incorrect meta-commentary for no reason, people can still be frustrated with blatant hypocrisy and call it out even when it's expected

i can't disagree with this on substance, i just don't really like to vent frustration like that. after 2016 i got jaded and just figured that shit's fucked, it always has been to a degree, and i have limited means to change it. but my family does find it cathartic to vent

LordoftheMorons posted...

The savvy takes that of course McConnell is a hypocritical piece of shit is what makes it so easy to get away with it (just like how Trump can get away with hundreds of scandals that would sink a normal politician; hes just meeting expectations).

Like, this take coming from a very large segment of the media makes normal voters think that McConnells behavior isnt really that bad or irregular.

I would actually argue that there has been a constant outrage cycle around Trump, platforms like MSNBC lean into it because they attract the attention of people who want him gone, and it muddies the waters and reduces clarity. for instance, I think Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria would have (deservedly!) gotten more scrutiny had there not been constant outrage in the year prior

Much of this, however, is the product of our current social media and digital media ecosystem, and so I don't think this is solvable.

I am curious what you mean by McConnell "getting away with it" - he's made himself public enemy number 2 among democrats, so he certainly has not escaped scrutiny, he wins elections because he's in a red state. i don't know much about the KY dem primary but my impression from Twitter is that Booker would have been a stronger opponent than McGrath

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so therefore i accept that the game is being played like this and keep my head

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GuessMyUserName posted...

what utter nonsense

"McConnell just does what he wants" isn't at all an argument that what he's doing isn't hypocritical. Nobody's "ignoring" it, that's what enables his hypocrisy.

you described hypocrisy in your denial of hypocrisy, like what

i was not clear

I do NOT think McConnell isn't being hypocritical, he's being blatantly so

I just don't get the shock that results, we've known forever he operates this way

Other than maybe to weaponize it to get votes in vulnerable Senate races / swing states. But a) I don't think the average marginal voter cares that much b) I have very little power to make this happen

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"precedent" similarly does not matter. ppl just gonna do what they want

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i don't agree with attacks on McConnell for hypocrisy . . . i get why they are made, but they ignore that McConnell solely runs on "i have enough Senators to do what I want, try me bitch".

i hope biden wins and the dems pack the court

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UltimaterializerX posted...

There is literally a zero percent chance Trump wins this election. I know elections. It isnt happening.

what was your call in 16?

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Trump started the policy of systematic family separation (explicitly said to be done as a deterrent by Kelly). Any equivalency between the two is ridiculous.

oh i'm not saying "but Obama" here - I do not believe that the Bush-era ICE was only detaining unaccompanied minors

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PerfectChaosZ posted...

Yeah, when exactly can we start to worry you bunch of idiots.

you can be worried about four more years of Trump and still not force yourself to think in such stark good vs. evil terms

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KamikazePotato posted...

We have literal concentrations camps and are moving towards a purely facist government. 'Republicans are Hitler' is close enough.

"fascism" is another word that i think is too extreme for our situation

Trump did not create those concentration camps, BTW . . . as gross as his immigration policy is, it is not unique to him

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Robazoid posted...

Cool, what part of the Trump presidency do you agree with? Locking kids in cages? Blatantly stealing from taxpayers? Cheering the murder of protestors in cold blood as long as they're liberal? Doing nothing to alleviate the damage of a global pandemic? Or is it something else? And, if it is something else, does it outweigh all the other stuff I mentioned and the countless other stuff I didn't?

dude i hate trump too but chill. you can be anti trump and still get that the sensible position is short of "Republicans are Hitler"

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azuarc posted...

That narrow question concerned how long delays in counting and recounting could extend, which is a very real possibility in Pennsylvania this year, which is the state most likely to swing the election accoring to 538.

tbh i think Biden will take PA by 3-4 this year, I don't think it'd be close enough to trigger such a scenario

Florida is a more real possibility

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Robazoid posted...

Anyone who supports Trump and the Republicans after all the evil stuff they've shown they blatantly stand for is someone I'm against, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise to appease Trumpers like Pokewars and redrocket.

hey pokewars and redrocket

are you trumpers

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can't wait for the great court packing of 2021

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Big Rigs

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And I get the Weed Pokemon (Oddish) in Ilex Forest. No more fitting name for him than DION (Waiters, noted edibles connoisseur)

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Just had my second Rival fight. (My rival's name? J.DOLAN)

Man, I have no answer to Water Pokemon. I think I have to level up BIG HONEY the Slowpoke, stat. Sorry VINSANITY.

KENTAVIOUS took out the Gastly first and the Zubat last without a problem.

That Croconaw, though . . .

RON ARTEST the Poliwag is the unquestioned MVP of this fight. Despite being Lv. 12 to the Croconaw's Lv. 16, he still outsped it, and was able to get Hypnosis off three times (with two misses).

My biggest stroke of luck was that the first Hypnosis lasted five turns. I ended up switching to LEBRON the Quilava, getting two Smokescreens up, Leering once, and hitting with one Tackle. At the end, LEBRON got hit with Water Gun once before I switched back to RON ARTEST.

The second Hypnosis I actually tried switching to D ANGELO the Rattata (figured it might pack a punch with Quick Attack - no Hyper Fang yet). But Croconaw woke up immediately and took out more than half D ANGELO's health. Back to RON ARTEST I went.

On the third Hypnosis I switched to Quilava and just Tackled away. lasted long enough for me to be one Tackle away from KO'ing when Croconaw woke up. Got hit with another Water Gun, but not enough to kill (it was a 4HKO on Quilava).

No one went down! But I have work to do before Whitney . . .

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L2: Vikings
Bonus: 4

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The World Ends With You

lol

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Cleveland Browns

rest to come

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Radix posted...

posted tubgirl/h fetus/goatse is the only thing i remember for sure. probably more

Radix posted...

livejournal

Just a vivid snapshot of the internet circa 2003

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I'm counting Slowpoke Well as its own area, for the record, just as I did Sprout Tower - so if I headbutt a tree or surf/fish to get something in Azalea Town, that's valid

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got a slowpoke! nicknamed it BIG HONEY after everyone's favorite NBA slowpoke, Nikola Jokic

This thing was actually quite a bear to catch - RON ARTEST the Poliwag was a godsend as it knows Hypnosis and Bubble, and a weak attack (to safely get it into the red) + sleep is basically the perfect combo.

still it broke out of 4-5 balls before submitting. And it felt like all of them shook three times before breaking for the extra annoyance.

now i'm starting to have more worthwhile mons than my team can hold. Since Crobat can learn Fly I'm thinking of putting Noctowl on the bench and running with two water types - Poliwrath and Slowbro will end up being different enough, and Slowbro has more special atk power for those Ice Punches against Lance. No Slowking bc no trade.

Yes, I'm already thinking ahead as far as Lance, and even Red. Planning on saving both the Master Ball and Earthquake TM for Snorlax - Curse/Rest/EQ/Body Slam should make the Red fight pretty manageable

Of course, this might all be moot. The Red Gyarados looms, and I repelled through Union Cave so the Lapras that appears there on Fridays is still on the table (and is a superior Ice option - learns Ice Beam through leveling and gets STAB).

sidenote there is a "no guide" variation, which given my reliance on bulbapedia might be the hardest of all for me to consider . . .

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banananor posted...

something i've always wondered about nuzlockes- what are the rules about grinding levels?

The only core nuzlocke rules are you can only catch the first new pokemon in a location and if a pokemon faints, it's done for good.

Everything else is optional. There are a ton of possible variants to add challenge. One is that your pokemon have to be leveled relative to the highest pokemon in a gym/E4 (they can't be higher than the boss' highest mon, or maybe they can't be more than 5 levels higher, multiple ways you can do it). Another is that you can't grind wild pokemon at all. But these are totally optional and i'm not playing with them.

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final update for the night: LEBRON just dunked all over Bugsy for Badge 2. As expected. Gotta prep for that Miltank now . . .

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location: i'm in Azalea Town now. Used a Repel I found in Union Cave so I can still get that Lapras there eventually.

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no new badges yet, but i'm starting to reach the point where battles are a bit scary! Had a few instances where if an attack had crit I would have had to say goodbye to one of my mons . . .

Also, I now realize I have no good answer to Water types with my two best being fire and rock/ground. Which doesn't kill me on any gyms, but still . . . and there's no Mareep line in Crystal. Maybe an Oddish in the forest.

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Titans

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yep - i don't see my name there either, plus there has to have been more than 36 people

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man I miss LeBron's first chip run when game by game MWC gradually pulled the whole board toward being Bron fans

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LeonhartFour posted...

Heat beating LeBron in the finals is the maximum amount of schadenfreude remaining in the playoffs

i had not considered this and now i think that is the most hilarious outcome

i am a bron fan so would love to see him get #4 but this is second best

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mccheyne posted...

Allen Robinson asking for a potential trade. For fuck sakes Pace, pay the man!! Easily Chicago's #1 receiver, entirely not a diva (I guess until now, but I don't blame him), and had a crazy catch on Sunday.

yeah this sucks. do we know it's over money?

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kilafer posted...

BBQ Doritos are actually pretty good.
They have a smoky taste kind of? I don't know. It's been awhile. A little hard to describe.
Not top tier, but definitely good for a change every now and then.

yeah I wouldn't think it would be bad just bc Doritos is a huge corp and so any flavor like that would be taste tested. I just couldn't picture it

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Ice Climbers

no more wobbling

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Has anyone actually had BBQ Doritos? That sounds bizarre to me

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although if this is about gfaqs as a whole and not just b8 i had an old account on the pokemon and ssbm boards starting in 04 - it's been a while!

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wow i'm a latecomer here. started posting in 08

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Badges
Falkner

Play Time
4:10 (although some of this was idle time)

Starters
LEBRON - Lv. 14 Quilava (starter)
KENTAVIOUS - Lv. 12 Geodude (Dark Cave)
VINSANITY - Lv. 9 Hoothoot (Route 29)
RON ARTEST - Lv. 8 Poliwag (Route 31)
D ANGELO - Lv. 8 Rattata (Route 46)
PAT BEV - Lv. 8 Zubat (Route 32)

Bench
MUGGSY - Lv. 7 Spinarak (Route 30)
RODMAN - Lv. 3 Gastly (Sprout Tower)
EGG - Lv. 5 Egg (Prof. Elm's friend)

I leveled KENTAVIOUS up until he learned Rock Throw (lv. 11), which makes the Falkner fight a joke. Mud-Slap from his Pidgeotto is super-effective, but did 5/31 damage per turn. Meanwhile, Rock Throw crit and one-shot the fancy pigeon.

I am playing on 3DS VC, so benching RODMAN because I don't want to play with Haunter forever. Shame, too - Gengar is so cool. Between Poison types, I'm leaning towards an eventual Crobat over Ariados.

Next up is Rte 33 and Bugsy. If I go to Azalea now I will guaranteed not run into any Pokemon I don't already have. I can grind a bit or just go into Bugsy knowing that my best two Pokemon both annihilate him.

Thinking ahead to Whitney. KENTAVIOUS is an obvious choice here, but he doesn't evolve until 25, and he is male and thus susceptible to Attract. D ANGELO, on the other hand, is female, learns Hyper Fang very early, and evolves to Raticate at 20. Definitely doable. Maybe the best call is . . . rely on both? Would love to go deathless this run so would rather not sacrifice a mon to Miltank.

Deeply disappointed I did not get Wooper on Route 32. I even went at night! But I learned that surfing in the Ruins of Alph is 100% chance of Wooper or Quagsire, so I'll just have to wait until then. Or get my guaranteed Slowpoke (more Zubats, but I already got one) in the Slowpoke Well in Azalea Town.

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its probably stingers

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Bills

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i was in 3rd grade and they didn't tell us the whole school day.

when I went home my mom was standing at the bus stop, which was weird because normally she'd be at work. then she filled me in.

i didn't get the enormity of the situation at the time. I was most upset that baseball games were being postponed.

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ninkendo posted...

happy 10th anniversary

to the Calvin Johnson Didn't Complete the Process catch

as a Bears fan, I remember this well and see absolutely nothing wrong with the call

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Welp this sure was a debate answer (from an independent candidate for ME-Sen):

https://twitter.com/bangordailynews/status/1304560572084744192?s=21

this was awesome. laughed at every "request denied".

reminiscent of this old Vermont senate debate clip from 2012: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4848120/user-clip-lol

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dupes clause = if you are in a new location and your first encounter is a pokemon you already own, you're not locked into it

so you CAN catch it (and if you do, the route is done) but if you want to wait and catch another mon you're allowed

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i am late!!

Seattle Seahawks
Buffalo Bills
Chicago Bears
Minnesota Vikings
New England Patriots
Philadelphia Eagles
Las Vegas Raiders
Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore Ravens
Los Angeles Chargers
New Orleans Saints
San Francisco 49ers
Dallas Cowboys
Pittsburgh Steelers
Tennessee Titans

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got the urge to play through a pokemon game for the first time in a decade and thought i'd spice it up a bit.

in addition to the core rules, I'm also playing with dupes clause active, set mode, and no in-battle items.

My team, 45 mins into my second try:
LEBRON, Lv. 8 Cyndaquil (starter)
MUGGSY, Lv. 5 Spinarak (Route 30)
VINSANITY, Lv. 4 Hoothoot (Route 29)
RON ARTEST, Lv. 4 Poliwag (Route 31)

Second try because I lost in the first rival battle earlier this evening. Whoops

bit of a theme going. pulling for the Lakers in the bubble with my Bulls being trash. i always liked having names in all caps.

off I go, hoping for a Geodude in Route 46 for Falkner

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L1: Ravens
Bonus: yes

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