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Holy...

I was expecting three pages of updates returning to this thread. =\ Hope Komusha's all right.

Iowa, the biggest supporters of the movement

Watch out for the new one later with the slight alterations in the story.

Early on the < 3 reactions, tho.

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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/maryland-newspaper-shooting/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/us/annapolis-maryland-newsroom-shooting/index.html

When you're walking around the new God of War games and the side dwarves are already there to greet you in every shop in every realm, they said, "Magic," as the reasoning. So magic does work!

Ahhhhh. If that's what he was going for, then I gotcha, though I think many of those games have an infinite shelf life (even when servers go for Bloodborne, it's still a terrific single-player experience, for example). Online-only multiplayer games won't have that shelf life, but just about every game there, save a few, have strong single-player modes and/or allow for couch-coop.

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https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623914419/federal-hate-crime-charges-for-driver-at-charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally?

The state as a whole lags, but I don't know if it broke it down by county/region because NYC vs. upstate would be an interesting comparison, as would places with public transit/things in walking distance vs. places where driving is a must.

That's the problem some of these teams have: they keep the world championship players even if they're older and not as effective.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/health/cdc-exercise-report-study/index.html

Damn, Germany is kicked out of the World Cup, making them another World Cup Champion who did poorly the following tournament.

I'm transferring it to TheHill.

McCaskill and Tester voted no for Gorsuch. The ones to sway are Manchin, Donnelly and Heitkamp.

From former deputy chief of staff of Harry Reid:

Christ, yes, what a terrible headline.

A second playthrough honestly doesn't feel as slow since you quickly get to the first huge boss fight. The first playthrough is a big transition from earlier games, so even knowing that it started slow as reviews I read indicated, it's still a different kind of beginning that I wasn't used to at the time. I thought the game was actually pretty quick with the plot: getting the ashes to the top. It's more character-driven than plot-driven. From a gameplay perspective, it works its way up with some smaller battles, a mini-boss, all the way to the first boss, so I didn't feel the gameplay reveal was slow at all?

It sounded like you were dismissing it as something that did nothing, but it was an impressive and long-lasting movement. Apologies. Anyway, I'm not predicting that the seat won't get filled. I said from the start that I feel that there's a pretty high chance this gets filled unless a Republican surprises me (one that's not running for reelection) and votes no. The reason I brought up Alabama (and it wasn't to remind people I was saying it was competitive even before we found out Moore was a pedophile), the gun control movement, the health care protests, and let's add the #metoo movement as well, is because all of them were probably told, "Good luck with that. We're screwed." Yet Roger Ailes fell in disgrace, Bill O'Reilly was canned, Matt Lauer was let go, Harvey Weinstein was toppled, gun control laws were enacted (yes, I'd like even more enacted, but a GOP legislature/governor being pressured to act was freaking huge down here), gun control groups became more powerful, Democrats are likelier to attack and fight against the NRA, health care repeal was gutted as people protested in even deep red districts, and Doug Jones won Alabama. This very well could go exactly as we're thinking it's going to go, but I'd like to be able to say I exercised my right to contact my Senator, and with future judicial nominations still in play in 2019 and 2020, it makes 2018 even more important (another vacancy opening up but with a Democratic leader of the Senate would be way preferable). If you agree with all this, great. Let's work the phones and do our part even if it's for naught. This doesn't depress me; it just makes me more motivated to vote in even the tiniest elections and referendums. When we tell you you're awesome and welcome here always.

Getting an NRA sellout like Scott to actually sign legislation, growing the gun control organizations which continue to become more organized, better funded, and more eager to take on the NRA, and making it one of the biggest issues in many big elections in Florida. That's the kind of defeatist attitude I'm talking about. The energy here is palpable. Parkland students are touring the state at the moment, and Democratic candidates are seeking endowments from gun control activists. I'm not sure people remember how little this was the case 10 years ago.

Yes, I do like that I knew how to read polls instead of being defeatist and spend large amounts of time sulking on the boards and making bad predictions to nab a few upvotes as others did, not to mention the ones telling me how close 2012 was going to be. And I'm considering bringing it up twice as much as I was seriously bringing it up now to tell you that people gave the same silly, defeatist talk you're giving, and that is what is actually useless; they were told the same, health care protesters were told the same, gun control protesters were told the same. Activists don't just resign themselves to what will "probably" happen, and if it happens, then at least they tried to fight against it. They fortunately don't take cues from this board. To the last part, that's kind of a no shit. I mentioned that to you from the get-go. Yet a blue wave has ramifications for future judicial nominations, redistricting and state-wide progressive initiatives and laws, so this doesn't change the calculus and what progressives should be doing this year.