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Mass Effect 3's LGBT relationships could be avoided. This one can't on the nature of the main character alone. Not that ME3 matters to this conversation. Or that video tbh: nobody here is complaining about someone who played through the game and has critiques. We've legitimately figured out review bombs and some web sites have changed their policies on user reviews. The only defense for reviews clearly made by incels and right-wing losers whose penises get smaller when women star in a game and are gay should be coming from straight people who are blissfully unaware of LGBTQ+ issues.

There's really no debate that the 10k review bomb or however many it was within hours of its release are likely from right-wingers, incels, or social conservatives, and I'm sure a bunch of them coordinated it through FB groups or Twitter. The minute that E3 2018 trailer hit, videos were getting lots of views talking about Naughty Dog's "agenda." They lost the Don't Ask Don't Tell battle, they lost the gay marriage battle in the US and in many first world countries, so they try to water it down by talking about "agendas" (and in the US it's "religious freedom"). They used to just call it the homosexual agenda when it was easier to dismiss gay people entirely. Similar to how racists started talking about "busing." Nobody beat the game in a few hours. And I'm willing to bet hardly anyone played for five hours and decided to hit 0. User reviews that complain about the story are likely people who actually beat it since it's been out for several days. I've seen those reactions on ResetEra, which is mostly the "SJW" board those SJW reviews complain about (and plenty of fakers on there). I don't care about that. I haven't finished it and have no opinion on their reactions, but they played the game and formed an opinion. And when you have LGBTQ+, including on this board, who have felt suicidal, it's easy when you're some regular dude to say, "Hey, just ignore it."

I know 2020 isn't 2016 redux (all elections are different), but man, seeing articles like that brings back memories of things like: Confidence Even as Hillary Clinton's Momentum Slows Democrats eye Hillary Clinton's confidence after debate Showing confidence, Hillary Clinton pushes into Republican territory Inside the failing mission to tame Donald Trump's tongue Donald Trump, With Bare-Bones Campaign, Relies on G.O.P. for vital tasks I don't remember the last president who ran the same campaign as the first time and won reelection, admittedly.

The making of Batman & Robin on its DVD was always interesting because all the people interviewed talked about things that went wrong, things they were told by the higher ups, and ended with an apology from Schumacher: Seemed like a sweet guy. Truth be told, he never made anything that I thought I absolutely had to see. Except Number 23, but then my friend told me his impression and I never watched it. One of the issues that I don't hear raised with the Batman films is the addiction to reaction shots when someone bursts through something. Mr. Freezes bursts into the building after the credit car scene, medium shot or close up of the characters moving their heads to look. Batman comes to stop Freeze, go to close-up of Freeze turning to look. Pretty sure Forever had this as well.

Indeed, Kentucky Democrats are endorsing Booker. Pretty sure you posted about Grimes in the other thread. That one was surprising just because she is much more establishment and was the establishment pick in 2014 to face McConnell. Kentucky has shown that moderate Democrats can do well there in state races, and this was even before their gubernatorial win last year. McGrath, though, is polling around the same against McConnell as Booker, and Booker isn't as well-known. I haven't watched their debate, only this clip from his ad: You know, you could make the case that being at a protest right now isn't a good idea (side note: really loved seeing the protesters in masks), but I feel like the way she handled the question -- sounded like she didn't know how to answer until the end, like she found a good reason later -- doesn't inspire confidence against someone seasoned like McConnell despite him being a piece of shit. On the other hand, she was quite competitive in a red seat in 2018. Obviously I hope she wins the general if nominated.

Within hours of its release despite being a 25 hour game, too.

Today, dozens of primaries are taking place. The two most closely watched ones are in Kentucky and New York. Here is 538's summary of Kentucky's Democratic Senate primary: And New York's Congressional primary in the Bronx: 538 has a rundown of many other races, including this one where a Democrat who is considering voting for Trump could win the primary in a safe blue seat for the general:

This is NOT as comprehensive as I'd like right now, but between job, family stuff, and just a ton of video games (can't get around that ), this is what I have so far. This is the current composition of each state's governor, legislature, House representatives and Senators. House composition: Democrats: 233 Republicans: 197 Libertarians: 1 To get a majority, you need 218 seats. Dark blue/red are open Democratic and Republican seats. The light colors are seats against incumbents. Gray means a special election still need to take place. Senate composition: Democrats: 45 Republicans: 53 A majority needs either 51, or 50 plus the vice president. For Democrats to win the majority, they either need 50 seats total and the presidency, or 51 seats if Trump wins reelection. Republicans are defending 23 seats, while the Democrats are defending 12. Democrats have more room to expand their seats, which is the opposite of 2018 when they played mostly defense and had fewer pickup opportunities. Dark red means the incumbent is retiring. Dark blue means the Democrat is. Light colors represent races against incumbents. The rectangle in Georgia represents a special election as both Republicans are defending their seats. Perdue is defending his after winning in 2014, while the special election is a seat that was vacated in 2019 by former Senator Isakson. Here are some of the races getting national attention (challenger vs incumbent): Alabama: Former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville wins his primary against former Alabama Senator and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He'll face Democrat Doug Jones in a race that Jones is an underdog despite being an incumbent. In fact, he's the only Democratic incumbent who is currently an underdog in 2020. vs Arizona: Gun control activist and former astronaut Mark Kelly is running unopposed in his primary and is the likely nominee to face Republican incumbent Martha McSally. Mark Kelly has led McSally by large margins as of this post (7/16). vs Colorado: Former Democratic governor John Hickenlooper wins his primary and faces Republican incumbent Cory Gardner. vs Georgia (general election): Along with a special election for the other Senate seat, Georgia is holding an election for this one as well. Jon Ossoff, an investigative journalist and media executive, is the Democratic nominee to face Republican Senator David Perdue (first cousin to former Georgia governor and Democrat-turned-Republican Sonny Perdue). Ossoff campaigned and lost in an unusually expensive and extremely competitive and close special election for a Georgia House seat in 2017. Despite being a safe seat for Republicans in recent history (it was in Republican hands, many times unopposed, since at least 2000, and easily voted Republican in 2016), the New York Times reported that in that race, Ossoff drove the strongest Democratic turnout in an off-year election in at least a decade. Side note: although Ossoff lost the race to Republican Karen Handel, Democrat Lucy McBath was able to defeat her in 2018. vs Georgia Special Election: This election is to serve the remaining time of former Senator Isakson, who stepped down due to health issues. The top two vote-getters, assuming the likely event that nobody wins a majority of the vote, will go to a runoff. Democrat Raphael Warnock will nearly 100% be the Democrat who goes to the runoff. The two Republicans running are Representative Collins and current Senator Kelly Loeffler, who is mired in controversy involving insider trading. vsvs Iowa: Farmer and businesswoman Theresa Greenfield won her primary to face incumbent Republican Senator Joni Ernst. vs Kentucky: Former marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath won a competitive Democratic primary race to face Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's last competitive election was in 2008, a heavily Democratic year. vs Maine: Democrat and Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon wins her primary to challenge incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Susan Collins' approval ratings have been hurt after her vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which is resulting in polls showing a tossup despite easily winning every election for Senate except for her first one in 1996. vs Montana: Current Democratic governor and former Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock easily won his primary. He faces incumbent Senator Steve Daines in the battle for Steven Supremacy. vs North Carolina: Current Republican Senator Thom Tillis beat former Democratic Senator Kay Hagan in a close race in 2014, a big Republican year. He's a vulnerable incumbent in a state that is still Republican-leaning nationally but has been more competitive since 2008, plus has a Democratic governor who won in 2016. He faces Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, a former member of the North Carolina State Senate and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. vs South Carolina: Former Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Jaime Harrison, faced on primary opposition. He wants to unseat Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham. He's raised $20 million, not much less than Graham's $22 million. Harrison is casting Graham as an out-of-touch Washington insider who has ignored South Carolina's problems and instead played politics for years. vs Texas: Democrat MJ Hegar wins her primary to run against Republican Senator John Cornyn vs Gubernatorial Races Democrats currently control 24 governors' mansions to Republicans' 26. Unlike 2018, only a handful of gubernatorial elections are being held this year, 4 for Democrats and 7 for Republicans. Legislative elections This is the current composition of party power in the states. Blue means Democrats control the governor's mansion and the state legislation. Red means Republicans control all three. Gold(?) means divided government. And gray means the unicameral legislature is non-partisan (in theory). This is the map with just trifectas: And this is how it looked prior to the 2018 elections: And 2016: In 2016, Democrats broke up Republican control of North Carolina and Nevada. Republicans took full control of New Hampshire, Missouri, Iowa, and Kentucky. In 2017, Democrats took control of Washington State and New Jersey's government and significantly increased their clout in Virginia's legislature. In 2018, Democrats gained total party control in Maine, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, Colorado, and Illinois. They broke Republican trifectas in Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. In 2019, Democrats broke Republicans' trifecta in Kentucky and took full control over all levels of Virginia's state government. State races are even more important this year as we have the census. All state and House seats will be redistricted.

That's likely baked into the 40% approval. Hillary won in large part because the on-the-fence Republicans came home to Trump and late-deciders went heavily for Trump. He could get 48% or 50% of the vote. But it's not because that percentage of Americans support him no matter what.

Someone with a 40% approval rating and who won 46% of the vote last time (with a not-insignificant chunk being late-deciders) doesn't have 48% of the country behind him blindly.

Does this mean there's a chance I'm not?

Not quoting @CastlevaniaNut18 because I'm a stupid motherfucker who has quoted people with spoilers marked and I'd see the spoiler text via the quote I'm sad facing for the working the next three nights. My parents have been visiting and I haven't had much time to play besides an hour on Sunday. They said they did it on purpose so we could celebrate Father's Day and I couldn't play my new game. Or not, it's been fun with them, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to really playing some more today!

What killed Joel Schumacher? THE ICE AGE!

This is good. I can't wait to understand what you're talking about.

@Kal-El814 So no spoilers, of course (you're always good at that), but what's your overall impression of the story. I'm reading some non-spoiler Reset impressions, and some are livid at it, and some are saying those same parts that they're livid about are exactly where they think the game transcends the first game. No story spoilers, but as far as what part of the game I'm talking about:

This is how I see it: He put it on himself by calling himself the healthiest whatever, putting his height up one inch so he wouldn't be called obese, spread rumors that Hillary had dementia or a stroke or whatever his cronies were doing and didn't have "stamina," and is running ads saying Joe Biden isn't physically ready. And this: Then you better be actual Rambo or you'll be made fun of for spending a not insignificant part of your kkk rallies talking about how you can drink water one-handed and why the slope was so darn hard when the guy you're attacking for apparently being physically unfit can run up it.

They're not allowed. It's stupid It's also not ableist. I don't think it would matter as much if he wasn't trying to make Biden and Hillary into people with severe health issues, and then try to project himself as a macho man Rambo, when he's less than a beta, and pretends that the slope is so difficult for anybody any age. Because he's too vain to admit that he's fragile and shouldn't lie about others being fragile. Next time don't spend a bunch of time in your rally making up why you're having trouble at an old age. Especially if you're going to go after people for the same thing. I hope they make more of these ads just to piss the meme pages off.

I was one of many who bought the Remasters/Remakes.

I heard every excuse in the book about this in 2017.

God, I hate it when these pages start presenting talking as themselves instead of their shtick. The fun is him saying art/not art and making that the decision instantly, not explaining it and issuing a follow-up tweet.

I can't be the only one searching the comments for @TheArtDecider to see if he/she agrees.

Yup! 20 million on both consoles as of October 2019, likely higher. I was actually a little surprised when I read those figures, though I guess I shouldn't be? Maybe Uncharted just seems like something that would be more successful with a wider appeal. Then again, Uncharted 4 sold gangbusters as well (16 million).

It reminds me of this interview which I really enjoyed. The whole thing is great, but at 7:54, he talks about how much time he has left. This interview was in 2003: And honestly, I can see why he hung on for so long. He was still putting on great matches in the 2010s. Not all of them (even he admits he shouldn't have been in the ring in 2017's WM). But his matches against HHH, his fantastic match with CM Punk, it was good stuff.

Sounds like Undertaker is retiring. WWE star The Undertaker has 'no desire to get back in the ring'