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https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/26/20984478/facebook-acquires-beat-saber-beat-games-vr-modding

I should probably just go to West Knox now, then. I have a feeling it becomes easier and easier to travel, right? Just using the reverse trike was a fun change.

The right-wing infobubble isn't what's brought down M4A in polling. It's now being debated. People know it means the elimination of crappy private insurance but are used to crappy private insurance. The popularity is down but the fact that it's even at a third is damned impressive on its own considering how ambitious a plan it is. And we have fakers like Buttigieg who try to triangulate with a Medicare-For-All-Who-Want-It-Plan, which means it's worked to change the conversation.

God, I have spent a lot of time playing and am still at Episode 2. Just been doing lots of delivery and building right now, and I hear it really opens up more at 4. I should probably get on that.

This article's trending like crazy. Anybody read it?

I don't get the, "Why not forgive mortgage debt?" argument. Maybe that is a good idea; maybe it isn't, but I don't see how, "Why not this?" is an argument? Was it not worth creating Medicare because, "Why not Medicare-for-All?" Was it not worth legalizing gay marriage because, "Why not more kinds of marriage?" Was it not worth eliminating the prohibition of alcohol because, "Why not marijuana, too?" Was it not worth codifying unpaid leave into law because, "Why not paid leave?" There may be a grander idea or another good idea out there, but that doesn't prohibit idea 1 from being good.

@Spork3245 Fuck, every time I think of the Season 6 mid-season finale, I think, "I can NOT wait until my g/f gets to this," but she doesn't want to binge because she wants to do a lot of other stupid shit like both of us exercising so we improve our health so in our older age, we're functional and live a happier life. It's gonna take a while to get to it and it makes me so impatient. Fuck, I wish she'd be down for a binge to at least get further into the story some more.

Here are JJ's specific words on it: "That was probably one of the mistakes I made in that. My thinking at the time was that Chewbacca, despite the pain he was feeling, was focused on trying to save Finn and getting him taken care of. So I tried to have Chewbacca go off with him and focus on Rey, and then have Rey find Leia and Leia find Rey. The idea being that both of them being strong with the Force and never having met, would know about each other — that Leia would have been told about her beyond what we saw onscreen and Rey of course would have learned about Leia. And that reunion would be a meeting and a reunion all in one, and a sort of commiseration of their mutual loss. Had Chewbacca not been where he was, you probably wouldn’t have thought of it. But because he was right there, passed by Leia, it felt almost like a slight, which was definitely not the intention." Emphasis mine. That's what I thought the first time I watched it. Both are strong with the Force; they just have this feeling they know each other. But when people mentioned, "Yo, why'd she not console Chewie?" that's when I noticed the issue.

As a guy who replays many games, I love hearing about this.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/us/baltimore-men-freed-after-1983-wrongful-conviction/index.html

I don't know what this interview is about or why he looks like the villain in Men in Black. But he's had 40 pizzas in the past 30 days.

I've wanted to play Heart & Stone and Blood & Wine along with Witcher 3. I know you have a standalone option for both, but given that your choices affect the game, I've wanted to play it in one lump sum. But the length was soooooooo long when I played just the base game that I've never, ever gotten around to it.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-is-shorter-than-witcher-3-but-more-replayable/

It was after that. I remember when Carrie Fisher died, he met with the writers to figure out what to do for 9.

I don't even know the reason, but the creator seems really happy with how it went down: That said, he's said that he would have had more stories to tell, so another season or two would have been cool. I certainly wouldn't have minded!

First, it certainly is about misery loving company. 100%. It's why a significant minority of people oppose raising the minimum wage. "Why do they deserve $15 an hour and I don't?" "Why can an addict get access to this but this non-addict can't?" The argument should always be, "Why am I not also being paid more?" "Why am I getting stiffed by these rich cats?" Until we get away from the former, it will always, always, always be about misery loving company. Putting that aside, the problem with this argument is that it's full of hypotheticals that can be applied to everything. Should we even do Medicare, or will we eventually have to give it to everyone? Should we allow interracial people to get married, or will that eventually lead to gay marriage and polygamy? Should we do unpaid leave, or will that lead to parental leave? It also assumes someone in debt was irresponsible by default. We're in a society where we tell people to go to college -- and much of this came from a generation who didn't -- and tell people just to look for a bunch of scholarships. We offer few affordable ways to pay off student debt, and few ways to save enough that you won't accrue debt. Let's also get away from the idea that thinking debt should be eliminated is some kind of deep end. The deep end is opposition to it:

Also: Nice!

Part 2 is being developed currently I've been of the opinion that as long as this feels like multiple full-length games, then it'll easily justify the purchase.

I would give Dodger a little slack on that. On this board, it doesn't happen to me much, but on a couple others, I'm sometimes talking with 7 different people, and there's just no way I'm responding to everyone. I don't think he's debating in bad faith here. Exactly. Typically, the candidates proposing solutions like this are proposing many policies to help poor and middle-income people.

My parents didn't pay off my college debt. They set up a savings account for me. I put my allowance money there, then half of my paycheck every week, then some of my scholarships. When I entered school, I had $15,000 saved in my account that was all money I put into it (though it was two digits smaller when I left). It doesn't affect me at all that others are forgiven because it helps everybody -- it stimulates the economy, it allows me to do things with friends of mine who are saddled with debt, and it's also part of many proposals by the progressives candidates to stimulate the middle class. We need to move past this idea of, "This helps Person A, which is unfair to Person B." No, the goal shouldn't be that we leave people suffering because we want them to suffer with us. The goal should be to ask ourselves why everyone is getting screwed over while the rich get away with murder. Everyone needs to be helped -- raising the minimum wage, forgiving student loan debt, Medicare for all citizens (which would likely increase taxes but end up decreasing premiums/deductibles for a net decrease in costs), paid parental leave are all things that go toward that.

I graduated with no debt and wouldn't feel insulted at all. Heck, if there was a national forgiveness program in my 20s, more of my friends could have done shit with me since they wouldn't have been buried in student loan payments. And with the candidates proposing student loan forgiveness being more apt to want to make college more affordable in general, perhaps more people who are worried about future debt would see more avenues to afford college. Many who don't graduate with debt are rich, anyway. I knew all too many of them. Me, I was just lucky that my parents wanted me to set up a savings account in 4th grade. One of the biggest things we need to change is the conversation around these issues. It's the same as the #FightFor15. "Why do they deserve $15 an hour when I don't get paid that much?!" The conversation shouldn't revolve around more people suffering with us. The conversation should be, "Why is everyone getting paid so little while there's a political party fighting to death so that rich fuckers get more and more and more with massive, towering tax cuts?"

There have also been no primaries/caucuses, which will turn all those national polls on their head. Currently, it's Buttigieg-Warren-Sanders-Biden in Iowa as far as leaders, with Klobuchar a distant 5th.

We'll do something like give massive tax breaks to greedy, money-hoarding billionaires in a weird attempt to stimulate the economy because we're counting on rich people to share the money and not pocket it -- and of course that would give rich people even more money -- but actually forgiving debt or massive middle class tax cuts are always considered controversial somehow. "Well, of course it would stimulate the economy," is kind of the point. These ideas are popular and would actually stimulate the economy, and also serve as an immediate reward to people who spent all the money and time studying in college to invest, buy homes, and actually spend money on things instead of paying off debt. Many of these ideas are so obvious that it's always weird that we don't do it.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782070151/forgiving-student-debt-would-boost-economy