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Wow. Theres so much to talk about and I’m not even done.

 

We’re going to heal everyone!

On 8/23/2023 at 3:24 AM, Chairslinger said:

 

This is exactly what I was thinking.

 

"Shocking new Trump poll" is as tired a cliche as "This mystery baffles scientists" and " Dems in disarray" stories. But man, every once in a while my cynical self is still a bit surprised how deep the Trump cult runs.

 

And all for a man who, it's worth mentioning, is the biggest liar in the history of politics.

 

 

 

 

You shouldn't be anymore worried than before, but you should be worried.

 

People making noise about the indictments helping Trump are mostly full of shit.

 

It's like any other terrible person who planned to do something regardless but then justifies their wrong doing by saying "Well you did such and such so you made me do it!". 

 

Or put simply, the indictments aren't making more people vote for him. It's just making his voters louder.

 

Show me...show me the guy who voted for Hillary in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020....but then says to himself, "I never liked that Donald Trump, but now that he is under 4 criminal indictments I think I am going to give him a chance!".

 

Bullshit.

 

A lot of it is conservative smokescreen trying to intimidate people from holding Trump accountable or blaming them for his inevitable nomination.

Trump lost 2020 by 50k votes. Biden has far fewer supporters than he did in 2020. Trump hasn’t lost many, and seems to be gaining in some demographics, including black men and Latinos. He’s also killing Biden in swing states in currency polling. 
 

your little screed ignores a lot of things in Trump’s favor. 

Im currently up to 5 crashes. Something that hasn’t regularly happened to me in quite a while. Usually when im moving fast and there are explosions on screen 

8 hours ago, stepee said:

I really do love seeing a game like this on console. It’s awesome that so many people get to play a game that looks this good. 

And is just so fun and smooth to play. It’s the third game, and I’m still giddy about how fun swinging around NYC is. 

3 crashes so far. Otherwise I’m loving it. As far as gameplay, it doesn’t really get much better.

Im a few hours in, and so far I love it. I don’t have a ton of time to play, today is opening day for deer, but so far I’m really enjoying it. 
 

 

22 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I feel like 2023 is such a perfect lesson in this area, too. Zelda and Baldur's Gate have proven that if you take the time to make an amazing game, then people will buy it and talk about it. Both of these games (the only two contenders for GOTY, imo) were the result of thinking like "it will come out when it's finished and we're happy with it." I guess you could argue BG3 came out 1 month too early in order to not conflict with Starfield, but that's relatively minor.

Sure, but even with massive sales, those games don’t make nearly the money a successful live service game does, and that is all the C suites care about. A lot of profit isn’t enough, they want all the profit!

2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

I don’t disagree (a two state solution is basically a fantasy), but I want to clarify that my comment was regarding now, not when colonial powers (mostly the British) decided to draw imaginary lines on maps and completely buttfuck the Middle East. If land was carved out of Germany instead (since Israel’s creation was in response to the end of WWII and the holocaust), maybe things would be different, but world powers of the time wanted to give the biblical holy land (and also probably didn’t want to give up European land). There were Jewish settlements in that region already, and, if I’m remembering my high school history classes correctly, a two state solution was initially offered by the British map line drawers in 1946/1947 but the Palestinians rejected it (and no, I’m not saying the Palestinian’s are to blame), and the (now) Israelis slowly gained control of more of the area via fighting.

My question is now, in 2023, where do these “free Palestine” people want the Israelis to go? I’ve noticed it’s typically no actual answer from these people, or they low-key support genocide. 

Correct, Palestinians rejected the allies original proposal. That certainly doesn’t excuse all Israeli actions against Palestinians in Gaza, but it’s far from the “Israel bad, Palestinians Innocent Civilians” rhetoric I’ve been seeing of leftists online. (Or the “Israel is the godliest state of Godliest states” from the right).

On 10/5/2023 at 3:35 PM, TUFKAK said:

Shouldn’t you be saying strikers should just go back to work so other workers can get paid?

I never said anything like that. I said I understand why someone would feel responsible for the livelihood of those who work for them and aren’t unionized, because those are always who suffers the most. Those people deserve a living as much as those on strike deserve having their demands met. It’s not black and white, the union writers are usually better off than the non union grunt workers holding lights and cameras, and doing craft services, makeup artists. The lead of a show doesn’t just have the union writers to think of.

6 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

The end of that is powerful.

I’m shocked, but not at all surprised. Im more surprised that this hasn’t happened sooner.

 

but im also shocked by the intelligence failures required for this to happen. 

1 hour ago, TUFKAK said:

Saying ordered it back up ignores context 

 

oh noes, old white people had shitty takes half a century ago, more at ten.

 

 

I mean, there has been a fairly recent trend of attacking people for views they held 40+ years ago, which is absurd but not shocking in this climate. 
 

Unless you’re useful to these activists, then you can complain about your kids growing up in a racial jungle, or even be credibly accused of rape at the height of  MeToo, even when the accusers mother called in to Larry King 25 years before she came out publicly about it, and people will call you a liar because it’s politically expedient. People like Alyssa Milano, a self described leader of the movement, will come out and defend you too! 
 

 

On 10/2/2023 at 1:21 PM, TwinIon said:

Here's the Post article about her background.

 

She's the president of Emily's List, an NPO that works to elect pro-choice candidates. She's worked in the labor movement for two decades, serving as president of CA's biggest union and has long been a political consultant at a major firm.

 

Seems like a pretty good pick. She hasn't been in office before, but she's no political novice. As head of Emily's List, she's a strong voice on abortion rights, which is pretty timely. She won't be running for Feinstein's seat.

Except after the labor movement work, she went to work for corporations to screw workers, making a fortune in the process. 
 

Barbara Lee was the only correct choice.

28 minutes ago, chakoo said:

Speaking of goofs, How come we haven't talked about the leader of the opposition saying the N word yet when trying to say someone's name? 

 

On the topic if the speaker. They seriously fucked up on that and who ever's job it was to do due diligence should also apologize.

Because everyone knows he wasn’t trying to say anything hateful. Like, seriously, there’s racism, and tjen theres slips when you’re pronouncing a foreign name and screw up. Nobody is on 100% of the time. Attacking him for it is a bit ridiculous and most people see through it if they read anything beyond “Leader says the N-Word”.

 

of course theres a percentage who are truly outraged, but he was never getting their vote anyway. 

I am playing Romancing Saga 3, which has a great story but is very much a product of very early JRPG design. Also working through FF3, as im going through the early games of the series with the recent collection. I only played 2&3 a single time and they were fan translations that I found on the high seas around the turn of the century.

On 9/20/2023 at 3:50 PM, stepee said:

Amongst everything else I’m playing this indie 3D platformer called Boti: Byteland Overclocked. It is a bit buggy at the moment; mostly with sound I find, but it’s a lot of fun and looks amazing for an indie game.

 

It’s Unreal Engine 5 and has ray traced reflections on top of that. If this is what this gen/UE5 has in store for indie platformers, I’m really excited for the future. The caveat is that UE5 does not seem to scale down well and there will be some adjustment on the lower end to catch up to it. I wouldn’t recommend this game unless you have like a 3060ti, even to run on low, unlike most indie platformers which can run on anything. The ROG can run it well at 40fps, but I don’t think it would run well on Steam deck.

 

It’s pretty cheap so if you want some fun platforming with some great visual design on top of some cutting edge tech (and have a capable pc) I’d recommend it. It’s coming next year to current gen consoles too and probably will play fine there too.

Thanks for that! I love 3D platformers, so I’ll definitely check it out!

 

 

 

 

On 9/23/2023 at 6:10 PM, gamer.tv said:

I wonder if this happens to others, but I seem to either be in a games & movies rotation, or television and reading. For some ridiculous reason, my wife and I have started rewatching Malcolm in the Middle - so I thought I’d have Zelda on the go at the same time. It just didn’t have any stickability with me, same for any Switch games or really anything on the PS5. 
 

The good news (if it’s even that) is that around December the cycle will shift and it’ll be all games and movies. 

All the time. This might be the year I’ve played the most AAA games, but I really haven’t spent a ton of time gaming aside from new big hits. I fell off Starfield after two weeks, and haven’t played a game since. 
 

I definitely game more in the winter. Spring and summer is fishing, Fall is hunting, I just kinda fit gaming in the cracks there somewhere. 

Im really not planning anything right now, but I’ll definitely start Cyberpunk tomorrow. Spidey 2 next month. Then I don’t really know if there’s anything coming before the end of the year. Either way, October is Turkey, Moose season starts tomorrow, November/December is deer, so I generally don’t think much about gaming during those times. Having other hobbies helps with not burning out on gaming. 
 

@gamer.tv also, I’ve been meaning to ask, what is the gaming scene like over there? Is it as widespread with young Brits as it is here? I hardly know of anyone here under 40 who doesn’t at least have a console they play semi-regularly. I ask because we were there a few years ago to sightsee and visit some friends, and I noticed all of them were pretty dismissive of gaming (I had my switch), and most especially when I played it in public, such as your busses or trains. People, especially adults, would give pretty strange looks (no, I didn’t have the volume up, I used headphones). Also, none of the people I knew (which is only two families) had consoles, even though they definitely played when theh stayed over here. Is it still something the country at large see’s as “For kids”?

20 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Again. Your fuckin opinion. Jesus you're ridiculous. 

My opinion is the correct one. 
 

you also think RDR2 is great.

 

If you want to get into ridiculous, we can though. But then you get all defensive

20 hours ago, legend said:

 

By "original trilogy" do you mean The Ezio sequel trilogy (AC2, AC: Bortherhood, AC Revelations), or AC1, AC2+, and AC3? If the former, I'm not sure I agree it's far better, but I can understand that. If the latter, a big nope!

Ezio Trilogy

On 9/22/2023 at 9:36 PM, dualhunter said:

Started Chained Echoes.

That game is incredible. IMO it’s much better than Sea of Stars (even though I truly enjoyed Sea of Stars). 

16 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I disagree with every part of this post with every fiber of my being. 

Well, the fibres of your being are clearly incorrect, because the the last few AC’s were awful experiences, doing the same shit over and over in every area of the game. 
 

 

Also, I got like 20-25 games when I bought mine. I already owned a lot of them, but overall it was a better deal during the first year or so with the free collection. 

20 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Sony and PS5 are just incredible imo. So much better than the XSX and Switch. PS5 is the best console ever. The exclusives are ridiculously good. I wish you could play TLOU part 1. 

That’s a ridiculous amount of praise. 
ps5’s exclusives have nothing on PS4’s so far. 
And it definitely doesn’t have better exclusives than the Switch. 

39 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

I’m loving that this game is open world in a way that XV and XVI could only dream of being.

 

Max’s quote of “XV being just a few towns and a bunch of gas stations” cracked me up.

It’s pretty much true. XV was awful. It’s only redeeming asset is Cindy. 

4 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

 

‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days

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After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for...

 

feeling better?

 

Actually I learned this recently, and yes, It absolutely changed my opinion somewhat 

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Rebirth presentation happening now

 

 

Gameplay starts somewhere around 28m