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Apparently most games I've played this year came out earlier or were released on Switch on this year but came out earlier. Excluding those: Pillars of Eternity 2 Far Cry 5 Shit, I guess that's it or just about!

To your point, I was actually a terrible student in high school. It wasn't until halfway through college that I became serious. Although I may have acted differently in high-school if I knew it would affect my ability to go to college free or not. I'll consider your suggestion. (Even though I'll never have the opportunity to directly act on any of this maybe some day a candidate will come that pushes hard on this kind of thing!)

That's an interesting direction. My motivation was to try and combat paying for people going to college who weren't really working at it, but making it available to anyone who was actually serious about learning. I would absolutely be open to considering other alternatives, or maybe it's a concern that just wouldn't be worth the overhead to try and combat.

The first thing I would do is hire (yes, hire) a panel of experts to challenge me on all of the following ideas and design the actual policy which is beyond my expertise. All policies would be recommended with cause and effect reasoning and forecasts. A second body of experts would be hired to monitor the effects of the policies and evaluate whether they were failing to hit the forecasts or had unforeseen negatives consequences. Upon these events, the policies would be reworked by the original team, or someone other than the evaluation team with a new set of forecasts. My initial draft of goals would consist of the following: Free health care UBI and scrap other welfare programs Cheap government-regulated housing options Increased pay for teachers University full-paid scholarships for anyone above a certain performance and who maintains their GPA and credits in college Free easily-available abortions Legalize and regulate marijuana Legalize and regulate prostitution Decriminalize all drug use Science-based drug rehab covered under government health care Send fewer people to jail with permanent record marks in favor of more community service demands Reduce military funding over some TBD time period by 25%; work with NATO to distribute responsibility. How insane am I? EDIT: adding one more Much stronger gun regulation. Personal ownership would be acceptable for certain kinds of rifles suitable for hunting. All guns released for such ownership would have to be explicitly approved and be more like an ESRB system to avoid people gaming fixed rules. No handguns would be allowed for personal ownership. However, various other kinds of guns (including hand guns) could be "owned" if they were stored at gun-regulated ranges which is the only place they could be used. The security of these ranges would be required to be similar to that of a bank.

amazing!

I'm playing Hollow Knight on Switch. I'm not good at these kinds of games, and I really dislike having to walk back through the same section to replay a boss, but the game is too good not to play. I don't know how I had never heard of this one when it was on PC. I just beat the Soul Master and am going to take a break because my thumb hurts now I'm not a fan of Souls myself, but in general that's a solid line up of games!

That's not actually quite sufficient. It could be new because someone responded to a topic you've already seen but passed on. Or, maybe someone did make a new topic, but then a different one you've seen got bumped above it. Unless you actually go frequently, inevitably you're going to miss something. But since most checks yield no return, frequently checking is a bit silly and annoying. I really don't think you can make this easily disappear by suggesting people just check more frequently or pay attention more. As far as I can tell, it's a pretty common phenomenon on message boards and I don't see why it would suddenly change. If the sub community simply doesn't care about that phenomenon, then that's fine. Maybe you guys have reasons for keeping it small that I don't appreciate that are more important to you. Or maybe you actively don't want certain people responding. But I think that's going to be the effect all the same and it's why I would vote to change it.

I thought I did, but maybe I didn't express it well. I don't end up going to the subboard often because it's slow moving enough that usually there is nothing to new to see. The consequence of not visiting it often is that I end up missing things when there is something new that would interest. Maybe that's just me, but my impression is it isn't an uncommon. I've certainly had it happen in the reverse. Post something in a slow board and it gets little to no attention; post it in an active board and lots more people respond. Clearly there were more people interested than was indicated by the slow board, and it's just that they don't visit the slow board often enough to generate the discussion. Given that, I don't think not visiting slow boards and missing relevant topics is only something that happens with me

I mean, there's a limit to this, right? You can over consolidate something or over fragment it. We could fragment our board into separate boards for different genres. Someone could still argue that there is no reason to miss anything, but it simply becomes more annoying to fuss with all that at a point and that will lead to more apathy in searching in general. Same thing here. We just have different lines where we'd put the cut off. I still play retro games ever now and then. These days, more usually PC retro games, but I did also just buy an NES classic. I've already said it's fine if you guys feel strongly this way--I'll manage to get over it I'm just explaining why myself (and maybe others) might care even though we don't historically post on the board.

Both!

Well. It's been fun guys.

If you guys feel strongly about it, that's fine. But my reason for caring is simply because on many occasions for other boards or subboards I find I've missed topics I would have otherwise discussed. Having MS and Sony, for example, in GG has made it much easier for me to stay on top of all the boards. The same could be true for retro. If D1P was a big as Neogaf/ResetEra, then I would wholly endorse separate boards, because those boards move way too fast to have just one. But we're not. I don't think those threads would get swallowed so quickly, and I'm be more likely to see them and contribute to them. I'll add that without the required tags (as it was before) I could understand why you'd still want the sub, because there would then be no way at all to make sure you see the retro-specific stuff. But with tags now, you can. You can just filter it and it takes about just as many clicks as it did before. Again, if you guys feel strongly otherwise, that's fine. But I honestly think it would be better the other way and I would be more likely to participate (as would possibly others) therby growing the sub community and increasing community discussion in general.

Fine. Do you want to play a game? This one looks fun...

I understand, I just wanted to give the PSA for the rest of us who missed it! (I snagged one for my wife)

Not just the controller, the system is available again too (same wait for 13th though).

Being "proud" about it is odd no matter how well the country is doing. But if you're asking whether I like be associated with America, that is something to which the answer could be yes, but unfortunately is no.

Damn kids with your... old games...

Don't even try and tell me you wouldn't watch that! Fuck, that would even put Kung Fury to shame!

I honestly just don't know what to say anymore. It's absolutely mind blowing to me that there are so many people this fucked up. When people are this far gone, how the fuck do you fix the situation?

I want to offer the hypothesis that these sub topics would be more active in the main board. It's not that I'm uninterested in them, but I'm going to forget to check them and will miss threads in which I would have otherwise contributed. If a topic has enough activity that the parent topic and it fight for attention when together, then you should probably have a whole new board, not just a subboard. But that's not the case, and I think by using the suboard you're relegating the topic to obscurity. Just a thought for those of you who want it separate and are the current active contributors.

Well. Shit.

If subboards showed up on both the main board page and subboard, they would be solid. But they' don't and tags otherwise handles that role with filtering. Spamalot, however, makes sense as subboard since the purpose is to contain spam. What say you Supreme High Chancellor? @SFLUFAN