Bartimaeus

Frozen II. I got through the first fifteen minutes and pretty much wanted to shoot myself and ended up pausing it. Has anybody that's seen this have any words on whether it gets better after that? Does this have to be exclusively watched with little girls (i.e. my nieces) to enjoy? I always try to watch these types of movies by myself the first time so I'm mentally prepared before watching them with anyone else (because I'm weird like that), but I'm finding this really painful.

You can even literally just say the complete opposite, that those without degrees often look down upon those with it for being "liberal-educated" or "wasting 4 years of your life and thousands of dollars getting a worthless degree", etc. People (all of us!) tend to like looking down on each other either way you go - even if there's no logical reason to do so, we'll eventually come up with a rationale. Just one small measure of feeling self-important and better than others.

Four controllers in two years means I'm officially buying knockoffs in hopes for a more reliable alternative: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Xbox-One-Wired-Controller-Version/dp/B07D12RPHX/?th=1 to you, Microsoft. Xbox 360 controllers lasted way longer - really wish I could buy those again.

It was pretty darned good. A friend and I both watched it and we both agreed that it was not really a movie that would be in our interests (and therefore we're both automatically kind of predisposed against it), but it still managed to be great.

In addition to what ShadySands said, this is also a good point. The same incompetency and/or corruption getting more and more entrenched is never a good thing: at the very least we can say we tried to throw the scumbags out, even if it turns out we just put more scumbags in. Then you throw them out the next time, too...and, you know, you'd hope that eventually someone half-decent eventually catches on in the primaries. Somehow though, it seems like we just keep cycling through incompetents or scumbags, if not both. Well, I voted for somebody I didn't think was a scumbag both this time and last, and I got multiple other people to do the same, so I can at least say I tried...I guess.

@algroth Parasite (2019).

Yeah, IMO has like a ~0% chance of occurring. He is all about defeating Trump.

Gee, I really hate it when I get a notification for a new post in a thread I'm following but then I check and nobody's posted since I did. Really annoying bug - wish the forum software developers would fix it.

Looking like it'll be a tough night for Bernie, as Biden is overperforming in the South - he'll have to overperform elsewhere to make it up (aka bigger than expected margins of victories in California and Texas), which probably isn't terribly likely. About what I expected after SC, and especially after everyone that dropped out and endorsed Biden. Biden has been weak with white voters when there were other moderate options, but his strength with black voters became quite the edge when the rest of the moderates dropped out and enough of the white voters came back to him. Looking to be a very similar situation to Hillary vs. Bernie in 2016, only perhaps closer this time. (e): Yeah, things are even worse than I feared, with Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Maine (to a lesser degree) all turning against Bernie. Bernie would need to have an absolutely crazy California to reverse this damage, which can't really be expected. Any bets on a Biden VP? Klobuchar unfortunately makes the most sense to me. (e): I revise my earlier statement: based on what I've seen so far, I think Bernie quite probably will do worse this primary cycle against Biden than he did against Clinton. The difference two days makes, eh? The Democratic Party saw how Trump won the Republican nomination with a heavily splintered field and wanted to make sure that didn't happen to them, and it seems they have succeeded. It's a better plan than arriving at the convention with Bernie having the most delegates and denying him the nomination if your #1 goal was to absolutely make sure Sanders didn't win, but it's still going to super depress youth turnout in the general...which they probably weren't counting on to begin with anyways, as unreliable as it is.

hate the 17th game, but it's likely to pass

Ultimately, if Bernie can't earn 50% of the vote and was only previously the leader because of an absolutely splintered field, then he did not really deserve to win. We'll have to see how much Warren hurts him and how much Bloomberg hurts Biden tomorrow to really see where we stand in the "who screwed who" blame game, I guess.

That was a mistake I thought PoE1 already made, and that wasn't even turn-based. If you're going to slow down combat and make each fight more meaningful through increased difficulty and required strategic consideration (which are fine goals in of themselves), you have to reduce the amount of fighting in order not to bog down the game with random trash fights that take way too much time and effort to get through. I can only imagine the problem will be amplified manyfold with turn-based combat.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting Good old voter suppression.

That's bad news for Bernie. Both Biden and Warren can probably now figure to get above 15% in California, which will hurt Bernie a lot.

what am I doing with my life lmao

Problem with that is that Bernie has earned the most money through this primary season by a bit, and with an utterly ludicrous amount of individual donors - which you would think would translate to turnout and votes, but...hasn't really? The youth turnout has been right about the same or even a little lower than usual. Biden, in comparison, hasn't even had any money to advertise or organize a ground game in Super Tuesday states while Sanders has been hammering most of them with both. Still not really translating to votes, though.

For as much as Bernie swears by and leans on support from youth, they've still been such an incredibly inconsistent and weak voter bloc this primary and last - the bulk of the blame will fall on them for not turning out if he does not win. They all spit rage at Trump and then complain that Democrats like Biden and Buttigieg are hardly better, and then don't bother to show up for the guy whom they overwhelmingly apparently love come primary day.

To be fair, that's 3 attempts now with the first two having ended almost immediately, so not as meaningful as it sounds. We're definitely headed for a brokered convention at this rate, though - looking like an awfully polarized Democratic electorate...

It's probably the closest thing for those of us that haven't played Divinity but have had the [mis]fortune of playing Dragon Age.

Being a superfan of the BG series, I knew that there was no reason to be interested, since these reboots/revivals never go well for the superfans who like how the old games played. It's basically what I expected, though I'm a bit more horrified with the up-close shots of characters than I expected to be. Yikes. That one dude, Gale, looks like he could've actually been modeled after a BG-style portrait...and that is not a compliment in any sense.

Thought it was lumpia at first, until I realized that it was all meat, .

What you said is exactly why he's my preferred candidate. I am not near knowledgeable (or probably smart) enough to know whether his exact plans would work, but Bernie consistently hits on the issues that I think are important, and he does it with obvious passion and conviction - you know these issues are obviously important to him, he's not saying stuff just because he thinks it'll be popular with the particular crowd he has at any given moment*. I think being the type of candidate that talks about those things, and talks directly about them is probably the more important bit of motivating the other powers that be to actually do something about it, even if it's not in the exact way that the candidate envisioned (see: Obamacare). Considering the candidacy of someone like Buttigieg makes me want to shoot myself in comparison: the man is completely devoid of passion and speaks in endless generalities and empty platitudes - when he decides to address anything in particular at all, that is. Bernie might not have the details ironed out, and it's quite possible that for some things he won't ever, but at least his mind is obviously occupied by the important matters and exactly where he'd like to see them go. *The closest he's gotten to this is probably gun control, which he is notably weaker on than other Democratic candidates, which you'd think is especially odd for a self-described "socialist". I consider that a feature, though, not a bug, since his approach to guns is more nuanced than other candidates, and I am not really totally for gun control to begin with. He has tried to straddle the line there as best as he can.

https://earthsky.org/space/new-natural-temporary-moon-for-earth-2020-cd3 Earth has a new mini-moon or "moonlet", a small asteroid that was captured into the Earth's orbit 3 years ago. (...Note: it's really, really, tiny, but since it is a natural body and has apparently been captured by the Earth, it technically qualifies as a moon, as there isn't really a size minimum for a moon).

Virtually none of his grand domestic policies would pass even a 51-49-controlled Democratic Congress anyways, so does it really matter? Has any president's pre-election plans mattered in recent history? Obama got Obamacare, Trump got his tax breaks...that's about all I can think of. There's probably more, but honestly, I'm really not that concerned. Well, I am concerned about the deficit's growth on a long-term basis, but no president will ever willingly deal with it because it'd be too unpopular to do so...so everyone will go on ignoring it.

Nope, no good in New Zealand. How silly. Don't have a server for India, so I can't say for that. (e): Doesn't work in Australia, either. What's going on down there, guys?