Chairslinger

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

 

 

Fun fact: The South crying about how Sherman warred too mean at them is the first documented case of triggered snowflakes in American history.

True story.

28 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

It's ok guys, NK sent him a nice letter.

 

 

Is Kim actually using the "American have such big penis" gambit from South Park?

26 minutes ago, ort said:

Building up your military to bring peace to the world, where have I heard that before??? ...oh right, every movie villain ever.

At least he didn't come right out and say bringing peace to the dark continent is the white man's burden.

On 7/9/2018 at 1:47 PM, Pikachu said:

Yeah, it's really odd that they would create such an expensive SKU for a franchise with fairly middling sales. 

Aren't these special editions designed for the relatively low number of hardcore fans rather then trying to sell 100k copies of a $150 SE?

Personally I would never buy one of these, or SE in general, but if just a few hundred people who are big fans of the series buy this it seems worth it to the publisher.

We all have a few games that most people don't care about, but we might shell out an inordinate amount of money for a SE. Even if it's not my favorite game out there, DS seems like a good enough game series, with the addition of it's unique aesthetic, to have some really big fans.

On 7/9/2018 at 9:20 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

I own the first two games and have never played them. Got the first one cheap and the second for free.

I believe I got Darksiders 1 on PS3 through PS+ years ago. Then I got Darksiders 2 on PS4.

What I played of the original on PS3 was good enough to make me grab the Remastered edition on PS4 during this current sale for 2 bucks. I figure if I ever feel like going through both games now I'll have the Remastered set.

2 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

My favorite part has always been the Morty dance. Look at him go!

 

 

Haha, yeah! *Jazz hands*

1 hour ago, MarSolo said:

How fucking stupid are these people?

I am starting to think everyone in the Trump scandal is assigned a Morty as a lawyer.

3 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Hey.

WWII was from the middle innings

2 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

Trump probably didn't want them born here. Trump - baby killer 

 

Where are the pro lifers ?

Can't restore our civilization with someone else's babies.

1 minute ago, PaladinSolo said:

So Barret isn't in DC and is at home, so prolly not her.  The other 3 are being driven around DC like a shell game or some crap.

I am thinking it's Cavanaugh.

1 minute ago, Boyle5150 said:

All things being equal, sure.  I never said otherwise.  However, if you follow from where this started about "old straight white male" there in lies the problem.  Dismissal of a person based on age, race and gender is the problem.  

So by my count, out of 113 Justices over 200+ years 3 have been non-white, and 4 have been women. And one of those women is also one of the non-whites.(Which, by the way small sample size because 3 of the women were nominated by Democrats, but the one female nominated by a Republican was also vital in joining Kennedy to save Roe in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey).

So that makes 107 out of 113 white men.

But yeah, the real problem is white men facing discrimination. Reminds me of people saying, "Well I am not going to vote for Hillary just because she's a woman!!!"" Yeah, because electing people just because they're a woman is the defining fucking struggle of our time.

I swear, I am not even that big of a proponent of identity politics, but your lack of awareness on the reality of white as a "default" in this society is just staggering. It is easy to say that identity has no effect on ideology when you've never had your very right to exist be the subject of hot button political debate. 

21 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

being white, a man and straight doesn't preclude you to any specific set of beliefs.  The only thing that does, in that list, is "christian" beliefs.  

That is not what I am arguing. 

I am arguing that in the rulings that I have seen SCOTUS make, a diversity of identity is a good thing.

For instance, when they struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that dealt with Southern States with a long history of racism requiring approval, part of their reasoning was literally that racism wasn't a thing anymore. It didn't preclude 4 liberals from dissenting, or Thomas from going with the majority for that matter, but if your ruling is based on what things are like for a certain group on the ground, it helps if someone in the room has lived that experience.

Just now, Dodger said:

So only gay women should be allowed on the Supreme Court?

I dunno, maybe after we've tried it for 200 years to even out the time white men have had a majority of the court we can reconvene and compare notes.

4 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

What does being "old,white, straight" have to do with anything.   This Identity politics crap needs to die. 

I think there are times when identity politics is overused on the left, but not in this case. When you are ruling on weighing the rights of a woman to have bodily autonomy vs. the rights of a fetus or the rights of gays to be treated without prejudice vs. Christian beliefs you're identity weights on that decision. 

3 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Ron White tells a joke about being drunk and being arrested. He quips that they told him he had the right to remain silent.....but he didn't have the ability.

I actually believe Trump has confidence that Kim will follow the deal he thinks they signed. What I doubt is Trump's ability to comprehend what "the deal" really was.

1 minute ago, Jason said:

 

And guy under criminal investigation likely to pick the key vote in letting him off the hook.

Thanks.

I was only banging my head on my desk hard enough to cause pain. I'll upgrade to concussion velocity.

1 minute ago, osxmatt said:

 

This is fine.

Why install the chandelier if you're not going to show it off, amirite?

The media continues its slide back into false equivilence and chasing shiny objects. For a while they seemed to be holding Trump's feet to the fire, but in the past few months they have become a textbook case on the danger of allowing Trump to be normalized so that what he does is just one side of the political spectrum.

I am referring to their near complete buy-in to Trump's SCOTUS rose ceremony.

They are chasing Trump's shiny, "oh, who will he pick?!" object instead of laying out the real story. Old, white, straight man to choose one other old, white, straight man to take away women's right to bodily autonomy and gays rights to exist at all.

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

Who needs strategic reserves anyway? If the US enters a war and needs them it won't be an issue because wars are easy to win.

Trump is using long time, single use U.S. diplomatic currency like poker chips for quick political gain. Examples being moving the Israeli embassy and meeting Un with no preconditions.

Now he's moving on to more tangible things like the oil reserve to maybe bump his poll numbers a couple points.

This man is going to use up the country for 8 years and then leave the mess like a shafted contractor on a Trump building.

I would lament that this will lead inevitably to the next Dem having to patch up these messes, to which the conservative media will blast them for their "apology tour", but that's secondary at this point to the question of whether or not we can even fix the damage we are doing.

2 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

Mexico has oil. Just take Mexico.

*Knock knock*

Hey Canada. We're out of....wood. I don't know how to put this. Get out.

18 minutes ago, Scape Zero said:

 

Right but like, how do you do that?

 

This is the country that sentenced and ultimately killed a man for fucking with a propaganda poster. They don't allow you to take pictures of the military. How do you skirt around their control to accurately report on North Korea?

 

This isn't like moving to England to report on the going ons to everyone outside of England. This is North Korea.

One thing that jumps out at me is that it says she was granted access in 2011. That's the same year Lil Kim took over power. Allowing her in may have been a part of his early narrative of "moderating".

My guess would be that she had minders, and hers comments about everything being transactional between them was precisely on this point. NK wanted her to go places and look at carefully controlled happy stories about North Koreans doing just super. And she wanted access. So she probably wasn't doing hard hitting exposes on government corruption, but pushed where she could.

16 hours ago, Jason said:

 

To put this in perspective, while North Korea  themselves seem to be negotiating in bad faith (as always) the Trump administration is being more dishonest about the progress of the meeting than North Korea is.

The Trump administration is out-propagandizing North Korea.

45 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Duterte is a lot like Trump - To both of them, there is no being higher than themselves.  

Absolutely, the only difference is that Trump still needs his religious minions.

If Trump wins a second term, I could see him making comments like this. Probably not as extreme, but at least going more directly at moralists with whom he has forged an uneasy alliance of pretending his past doesn't exist.

2 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

Don't worry, the Jared Kushner peace plan's gonna get rolled out any day now

The Kushner peace plan is the same as the Isreali peace plan. Methodically, inexorably grind the Palistinians out of existence.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Yup.

And to be clear, it is Roberts relative lack of judicial activism, as opposed to any hint of liberal leanings, that should give anyone any amount of optimism that he might swing with the liberals in the coming years.

Did you catch the most important word in there? Relative. The other 4 are now going to be guys who will have absolutely zero compunction with throwing out 100 years of precedent in favor of telling us they know what the framers really meant in that clause. Maybe on a couple things Roberts won't want to see his court go down in history as a partisan destruction of the institution. That is the only way in which he is a swing vote.

And the horrible reality is even with all that said, it could still get much worse if Trump gets to replace someone on the liberal wing amounting to a majority of mini-Scalias on the court.

12 hours ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

I’ve been listening to podcasts while playing Dark Souls but I wouldn’t recommend that for a first play through.

 

Open-world games like Just Cause and Far Cry are also good. 

Especially for the side missions and collectables. I still remember most of my first listen through of The History of Rome was while doing the bottle searches in Sly 2.

Also the side missions of Saint's Row 3 and the orb collecting in Saint's Row 4 were a blast while listening to podcasts.

1 minute ago, CayceG said:

Support for Trump even in the face of current and imminent economic hardship should put the period at the end of this sentence: These people voted for Trump because they agreed with his racist policy proposals. 

That is my growing impression with these stories about Trump supporters that support him no matter how much he hurts them.

There were policies I supported Obama on because of the principle even if they were neutral or even detrimental to me personally.

But economics is supposedly what these people cared about. They put up with all the other shit because he was a businessman that could fix the economy.

When you start making excuses for that, there's really not many more possible answers for what this is really about other than scared white people.

Apparently OKC is looking to unload Anthony.

His albatross of a max deal is bad enough, but the real problem appears to be how it's pushing OKC over the luxury tax.

They are set to pass the 2013 Nets with a 300+ million bill this year, where Melos contract is responsible for about 100 million of it.