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Leferd

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  1. Cuz he's too busy banging Jimmy's girlfriend.
  2. Anyways, the moral of the story is to not rely on television news as the primary source to gauge as to who will win an election. They are all about the hot take. Most of the talking heads (whether people literally off the streets or so called "experts") don't know what they're talking and you'll be too confused to filter out who knows their **** from those who don't.
  3. They are fine as news anchors but the guests they allow to opine run the gamut from credible to outright kooky. But mostly, what's on these news shows is utter tripe and their election coverage is garbage. And for emphasis --GARBAGE. Let's be frank, they may live, eat, and sleep politics --but I wouldn't trust them to analyze policy nor would I pay heed to their editorials. Cable news is a game to them where networks and personalities try to one up with each other and their competitors in order to be the first one to report...anything! Who's HOT TAKE and soundbyte will make the cycle?
  4. Not really, Going into Iowa nobody quite knew who was the leader. There was a heavy suggestion of Trump but Carson, Jeb and Cruz all had decent support with everyone kinda laughing off Trump. The reason you got that sense of "Romney was almost the winner" was because that's what SOLD for CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. They wanted you to tune in till midnight eastern time for you to see the results. They did the same in 2008 even though that was a MUCH more lop sided fight. Simply because that earned them ratings that meant money. A lot of the issues we see in our modern political system is because this stupid stuff SELLS, if we actually voted based on who would run the country best, Clinton would be almost a shoe in because she can wheel and deal better than most CEO's. Instead we're told that being able to "have a beer" with your candidate is more important. Funny enough I was in Vegas and I did watch MSNBC and Fox only because we don't get them in SA and yes they both seemed very confidant Romney would win Fox was particular embarrassing ...I promise you they had this guest who was some sort of actuary or economist who came on and "could prove that Obama would lose.....he was 100 % certain " I certainly hope you're not relying on the talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, or FOX News for predictions regarding the Election...let alone anything of importance.
  5. Then you weren't looking at all the right places at all. https://web.archive.org/web/20121029234812/http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/oct-28-in-swing-states-a-predictable-election/?hp 538/Nate Silver had Obama at a 74.6% chance of winning with 50.4% of the vote exactly one week before the Election. He was off by 0.2%, winning with 50.6% of the popular vote. No my memory is fine But I was at a convention and everyone there was saying Romney would win..okay so I'm wrong about that one What about the Iowa Republican caucus....pollsters and media were horribly wrong ? Media was wrong, but most of them are hacks who really don't know anything about how polling works. 538 knows this and they generally throw away polls that have anything to do with caucii, as the polling data leading up to them are full of noise and doesn't accurately reflect the people who are actually going to go out and caucus.
  6. Then you weren't looking at all the right places at all. https://web.archive.org/web/20121029234812/http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/oct-28-in-swing-states-a-predictable-election/?hp 538/Nate Silver had Obama at a 74.6% chance of winning with 50.4% of the vote exactly one week before the Election. He was off by 0.2%, winning with 50.6% of the popular vote.
  7. I put this game on hiatus so Firaxis can continue to patch and optimize the game. Also gives me a chance to wait out a few months for the next gen GPU's since I'll be needing a new one anyway.
  8. Well written source material. Science! Charismatic lead actor Very strong supporting cast Arthur Max as the production designer Ridley Scott I'm not sure what your agenda is, but any one of these factors would prevent this movie from being classified as..."plain awful." If you don't like the movie, that's fine. But, "awful?"
  9. http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10231 Maximized the semi-random snip because it includes Cadegund, the Orlan Detective, Durance, Grieving Mother, and an MCA reference. They seem to be popular topics here... *edit* and ninja'd by Infinitron. Who else?
  10. You haven's seen The Martian or Ex Machina?
  11. My favorite bit in the series involved Gov. Christie and a school chair. *edit - found it. Specific link to the bit: https://youtu.be/KORZ8F--crY?t=427
  12. I loved Mitsoda's work on VtM:B, especially the haunted hotel -probably the single best piece of level designed I've experienced in a crpg. But in my opinion, the graphics and overall art in Dead State was abysmal. If they had gone with a different art design or even better, made it in the style of a Jeff Vogel game, it would have been much more palatable to me.
  13. Super rare original video cut of Purple Rain, with the unmissing third verse. http://uproxx.com/music/watch-prince-purple-rain-original-1983/ Amazingly enough, it hasn't been disappeared yet by Prince's people.
  14. Yeah, but the graphics were dismally bad...for a video game.
  15. I got bored after waking up at the school basement. And the graphics sucked.
  16. There might be a disconnect somewhere... NY Times: Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We’re Sticking With Donald Trump https://t.co/ibKKrpr2fh Then again, leading up to today's primaries, Trump's odds at winning in November have decreased from 9/4 to 3/1 in PaddyPower's books. Whatever the case, Clinton's campaign is salivating at this insurrection of the GOP.
  17. http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/10633/Interview-Josh-Sawyer-on-Wrapping-Up-Pillars-of-Eternity.html hımnn... well, [what I said 3 posts above.] : d Well that's somewhat disappointing. I was hoping they'd jump right in with a sequel. Hopefully they have something similar coming making use of the already established pipeline from Eternity. Pathfinder?
  18. There will be be at least one more additional patch, possibly more. What's beyond 3.02, I don't know.
  19. I agree. In fact, the movie as a whole was boring. But that's the image I have in my head when I think of Gatsby.
  20. Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford are the definitive Daisy and Gatsby to me. Plus there's also Sam Waterston. But the Lana del Ray song in the new soundtrack is stellar.
  21. Yeah, $130' is a bit much. Atleast it also comes with the base game.
  22. Collector's Edition. https://www.beamdog.com/products/baldurs-gate-siege-of-dragonspear-collectors-edition
  23. This is a good exercise. The Departed was better than Infernal Affairs. Haven't seen the original material, but Airplane! had to have been superior. Crossing mediums, but Firefly was a better rewrite to Alien Resurrection, as was Buffy.
  24. Whoops. Posted on the wrong thread. So how about them A's? We haven't traded away any MVP and CY Young candidates in several consecutive months!
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