Bartimaeus
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Jill Stein: "Democrats are now accusing Russia of manipulating our presidential election... exactly what [the] DNC was caught doing." Hmm.With just the tiniest bit of imagination, I could pretend that it's actually John Elway and that I'm getting revenge on him for Super Bowl 32...The problem is that if he lost he was supposed to lose fair and square. The DNC giving Clinton an advantage nullifies any obligation he had to support Clinton. I don't see how this changes anything from his point of view, though. Sure, it makes us go, "Yeah, screw all that," but from his perspective, he still lost and it's clear the DNC isn't going to do anything about their own corruption, and in his mind Hillary is still the better option out Hillary and Trump, and he knows that if he tried to run third party he would just act as a spoiler for Hillary, which he's said from the very beginning, like so many other things he's said, that he would refuse to do. So I know you didn't say this, but I don't see how this really makes him a sellout as per Volourn.Well, personally, I would instead say something more like, "LEDs are like ketchup, you shouldn't be putting it on anything you actually like."Well, I mean, all of the DLC is "optional", so...the area he is in leads to the second boss of the area, so yeah. Also, I really despised all of the DLC areas. The game was already torturous - the DLC really kicked it up a notch.at this rate, we should just have a "Violent Attacks in 2016" threadIt's my impression that while the DNC cares at least a little about Sanders supporters come election-time, it really seems like Hillary just does not give even, like, the slightest crap - not even the tiniest inkling that maybe she should have been working to unite the two different sets of voters, to unite the party. She just doesn't seem to care. It's a 'bold' strategy...I think Humanoid perhaps got the crux of it - while you may not technically have to grind in modern JRPGs to be able to keep progressing in the main story, if the gameplay is so dreadfully repetitive to some players that even doing the bare minimum in regards to the combat is too much of a slog, then, well, perhaps the complaint shouldn't be "too grindy" but rather "not fun to me, period". People might say the former, but they probably mean the latter, particularly if they haven't played hardly any JRPGs to begin with.Probably because most people are probably older (given the average age of the longtime active posters here) and tried a JRPG(s) when they were younger and they were grindfests and they were terrible. For example, I tried Quest 64 when I was younger, among a couple other ones, and that made me stay away from JRPGs for basically forever, and since I really do not like anime or anime-esque art styles, or the generally horribly written nature of JRPGs, or turn-based combat in general, well, I haven't returned. ...Although I actually like Quest 64, but regardless, there's no denying that it's a terrible game that would turn people off from JRPGs for probably life.Took a short nap, woke up with a serious asthma attack, one so bad I literally started throwing up while choking for breath. Second time that's ever happened to me - hopefully, it doesn't repeat anytime soon. Nothing like waking up and then feeling like you're actually dying for a few minutes, eh? (e): I gotta say, though, the "no air" bit is bad, but the taste of bile rising as you're trying your hardest to breathe, that's just kicking someone while they're down.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-plot-insight-idUSKCN0ZX0Q9 "At height of Turkish coup bid, rebel jets had Erdogan's plane in their sights"wat That was obviously not supposed to go in this topic. lolSpeaking of coups...I think it was too complicated and crazy to be a setup. At one point, the higher ups of the Armed Forces were taken hostage by the coup-ers - supposedly because they were political appointees by Erdogan, and the original higher ups had been purged years earlier. So many bad things could've happened with just that - nevermind the idiots who were blowing up the Grand Assembly, the central lawmaking body in the country...and then with Erdogan trying to gain asylum in Germany and doing the face-time thing while still in his plane. It was just too chaotic and disorganized to be a setup, it seems to me.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/fethullah-gulen-turkey-coup-erdogan "Fethullah Gülen: Turkey coup may have been 'staged' by Erdoğan regime" Erdogan blames Gulen, Gulen blames Erdogan. Hm.I have trouble hearing melancholy in any metal, personally...metal's too high-strung and energetic to be melancholy. But then again, I'm not really a metal person to begin with, so it goes without saying that my opinion on such...lovin' all these unsubstantiated claims about Trump's level of success or lack thereof from you guys Trump hasn't been very successful. Yes, he has. No, he hasn't. Yes, he has. No, he hasn't. Great stuff. As an aside, Trump has spent comparatively very little money on this election vs. Clinton so far. I think the last numbers I saw put Clinton at about 14-15 times as much as Trump (and she had spent somewhere around 50 million). (e): But on the other hand, I'm not sure what criteria those numbers were considering - looking here, where the numbers are completely different, it seems like Hillary has still vastly outspent Trump, but not quite to the effect of 15x as much.
