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It's sad what people will do when they think they have the moral high ground, and even more tragic to realize that in their crass little actions, they're actually giving the moral high ground to Trump, thus giving him supporters who see these attacks as an injustice and a reason to come to his defense. You cannot sit there and say "those people are fascists (gasp!! A hot-button word to provoke people!) and terrible people, so we should get rid of them by acting like fascists and terrible people!" That's not how the world works.

Tell Gary that if he accepts Spongebob as his VP, he has my vote. Otherwise no dice.

I'm still Team Spongebob if it comes to that.

Oh btw everyone this is the best character, just letting you know:

Oh **** I didn't know you could bet on this stuff. I actually might do it. I mean if you've ever seen Neil Degrasse Tyson speak about how you can bet for or against global climate change being a thing by investing in stocks related to oil or cleaner energy alternatives, that's essentially what I did with my grandpa's old stock portfolio (mom doesn't know a damned about managing it so she let me do it) and that's worked out pretty nice. It's easy money. But at any rate I'm not 100% convinced it'll happen, was simply trying to highlight that we have zero reason to NOT believe it'll happen either. It's 50-50, and even your "evidence" is just "most people don't think it will happen." Yes and most people, all of us included, have zero access to the data the FBI has. I will say though that given past Clinton scandals, I have very sincere doubts that this won't bite her in the ass in some way down the line, even if it doesn't do so in the form of an indictment. I do wish it would get more press coverage for that exact reason, because even if you're an avid Clinton supporter, I do find it a bit delusional to believe this is something that can and will be swept under the rug. No, I expect this to haunt her for years, regardless of the outcome.

....Unless she's indicted. Which obviously isn't going to happen so Leferd is correct How is it "obviously" not going to happen? She is not going to get indicted....its obvious? Damn Bruce, your solid, thorough and completely well-thought out arguments never cease to amaze me. I simply can't compete with that.

Last Epic Rap Battle was weird. For some reason they just decided "screw the battle let's just have Fredick Douglass lecture Jefferson about being white."

....Unless she's indicted. Which obviously isn't going to happen so Leferd is correct How is it "obviously" not going to happen?

....Unless she's indicted.

Isn't this going to convention regardless? Neither of them are capable of reaching the neccesary amount without super delegate aid, and superdelegates don't actually confirm their votes until convention, no?

Did we indict Hillary yet

Hodor was a prostitute. #confirmed

Has it ever occurred to you that some people are just not interested in high skill floor games you need to invest hundreds of hours in to master? And that this might have something to do with Overwatch's popularity? No that occurred to me completely. The snippet you're quoting is more or less a nitpicky correction cause I mean wtf he got the class count wrong. It's all besides the point though, cause for me my focus is on how it blows my mind how little the gaming community as a collective seems to care about storytelling. Gameplay completely aside, trust me I've tried criticizing the writing of Overwatch and I've been met with quite a few defensive fans.

But there's a difference between, for example, having the Japanese ninja and having a guy that is legit based off a 14-year-old's edgy internet posts. One of those is indeed ok Tropes are Tools, the other is just cringeworthy. Likewise it doesn't justify the repetitive dialog (as I said, each character tends to have some subject they will NOT shut the **** up about); Mercy for example uses cliche tropes and cliche lines you'd expect from a doctor, sure, but what's McCree's fixation with High Noon? Why won't Symmetra shutup about "the path?" That is lazy writing of the highest order, and as I said I know I'm in the minority here but listening to that stuff drives me nuts. Getting a killstreak and then Reaper starts reciting his poetry about darkness or Soldier 76 has to tell me what a gruff and tough badass he is...? Please just include a way to turn the damned dialog off. And it's not limited to the game either. I compare it to TF2 because both of them seem to have the same media methods: TF2 has SFM videos, extensive in-game dialog and comics. Overwatch has their own animation studio, extensive in-game dialog and comics. You seen the video they made for Genji and Hanzo? One of the youtube comments on that vid said it best: "I come here once a year to pay respects to my brother, who I killed, which I now regret deeply." "I am your brother and I am not dead. I forgive you for what you did." "I'LL KILL YOU." It's just all around very piss poor writing, and I'm surprised to see it praised so much. I'd be inclined to disagree about the "more writing cause less visually diverse" line aswell. To me, part of it is that....saw another guy say his belief is the difference lies in that TF2 knows not to take itself super serious and does this while Overwatch tries to be as srs bsns as possible and does this. Again, nothing wrong with taking itself seriously, but the plotlines themselves are filled with cliches rather than the characters themselves being built upon cliches and expanding past that. TF2 embraces the little oddities like "what the HELL is going on in gameplay" and feeds you a story about two dimwit brothers spending their father's fortune on gravel companies and hiring mercs to attack each other while being manipulated by a mysterious woman to ensure warfare continues, Overwatch I believe the devs have stated that the actual gameplay should just be completely disconnected from the lore as they can't make sense of certain heroes working together. And hell, if the difference is Valve hires writers and Blizzard doesn't? Dear god please let's just have more companies hiring writers. As you yourself said they have a comedian on board. A comedian, possibly a couple more writers, and a comic book guy. That's precisely what I wanna see, cause I'm sick of an industry where people like Chris Avellone are rare because the industry only recognizes writers that can code. Also, completely off-topic, but TF2 has 9 mercs, not eight, and it actually gets stupidly fast-paced at the top level. The best way I can explain it quickly is that for example if you compare Scout to Tracer and Soldier to Pharah...? Scout can dodge and shoot simultaneously while Tracer cannot and her non-blink movement speed isn't all that fast. Scout likewise relies on burst damage whereas Tracer's is DPS. A Scout vs Scout fight can end very suddenly or take a while depending on how meatshots land, a Tracer vs. Tracer would get kinda awkward, I'd imagine, since both have at least one mulligan and the pacing would drastically drop once blinks get used. Ultimately Scout offers more potential control to the player which, when mastered, makes the class very potent. Pharah vs. Soldier? I wasn't joking when I said rocket jumping is a science. TF2 is free, so if you wanna see what I mean, launch the game, search for a server, type "jump academy" in the search results and you'll see what I mean if you try it yourself. Ridiculous amounts of practice needed, ridiculous potential provided. Pharah's air capacity is very steady and reliable as she's pretty much always moving at the same velocity with the exact same potential for movement at all times. This can have issues where for example she is an absolute sitting duck in the air when it comes to snipers. Soldier in TF2? Hell no. Sniper needs to be just as afraid of Soldier as he is of Sniper, because if he cannot land 1-2 headshots as the soldier's in air, Soldier will sure as hell land those rockets on his way down. Takes a ridiculous amount more effort to master Soldier over Pharah, but the pay off is pretty much all to do with movement speed, thus the end-game scenario for TF2 has to be one of the most fast-paced shooters on the market, if not the most. (I'm less familiar with other titles that come up in such discussions, such as Unreal Tournament for example, so can't say)

Have we indicted Hillary yet

Writing can help and amplify ANY product, in my humble opinion. TF2 itself is actually a pretty good example of that. I like playing the game, getting a domination on a Sniper and then hearing Scout's harsh trash talk like this (something the Sniper will hear too) cause it adds to the ambience. I like putting on a hat and being treated to unique dialog like this or this cause it actually adds to my enjoyment of the game just to hear all the stupid voicelines they'll say. They also periodically release TF2 comics for no reason other than just for fun, and they can actually be pretty entertaining to read. It's polish, basically. It amplifies the experience and makes it more entertaining. I dominate a Heavy, Scout says some douchebag line like he always does, the domination feels all the sweeter. I play Overwatch and Tracer will not SHUT THE **** UP about how ****ney (edit: that's supposed to say cawkney, like the british accent dialect thingy) she is or Soldier 76 has to deliver a line about what a hardened badass soldier he is every time he respawns, and it takes me out of the experience as I groan at the bad writing. That game has just been a grim reminder to what I already know: writing is undervalued in the gaming industry, which is painful to watch because I'm one of the few that does care, and as a result of few people caring, I have to play games where characters unironically scream "DIE DIE DIE" while they eat souls and read their latest poem about darkness and how their parents JUST DUN UNDERSTAND.

Ok, serious topic time: Someone explain "Blizzard fanboys" to me. I've never played a Blizzard game cept for Starcraft, I'm completely alien to their community. However, I do play TF2 and recently I've seen the TF2 community scream "noooo Overwatch is gonna kill TF2. I've played Overwatch, and I honestly do not understand the appeal. Like if I'd never played TF2, maybe it'd be decent, but coming from TF2, it is crystal clear TF2 is the better designed game in terms of having more potential (****ing Rocket Jumping is a god damned science for some reason, and takes hundreds of hours to master) and likewise I find it simply more fun. Basic example, a small annoyance is that if you play Scout and you hit a doorway the same moment as a Soldier, you're dead. It's annoying and one of those "I did nothing wrong" deaths, but hey it happens. Overwatch multiplies that **** by ten. You can die to a spiteful ultimate, you can die because omg you saw a Bastion, you can die because omg the sniper sightlines and Widowmaker as a concept are nothing short of ridiculous (just saw a post the other day from a guy with cerebral palsy thanking Blizzard cause Widowmaker is finally a sniper class he can play competently), you can die because you got flanked period. (ALL characters save for maybe two are prone to just dropping dead in a matter of seconds if they take fire without a shield, meaning one flanker can two people before comms even have time to react) But all that is ultimately besides the point. The gameplay of it is more or less still solid, it's just nothing special in my experience. I don't get the appeal of the game, but whatever, it's not some objectively terrible title or anything. What isn't besides the point is the abysmal writing. Seriously, have you guys seen this ****?: I watch that and I cannot for the life of me figure out who the game's target demographic is. It's like Disney Pixar and Marvel's Deadpool attempted to have a baby, and the baby now can't decide if it wants to be child friendly or an edgy badass. There's bad guys, but oh man can't have the soccer moms upset so the bad guys just beat up robutts. There's a badass hero flying in to tell you how amazing he is, but omg think of the children, our stone-cold protagonist better take care to just shoot everyone's guns out of their hands. What I don't get is I watch this and I can't understand it in the sense that this type of compromise of ideas should not work. Surely the same edgy teens that would eat up Soldier 76 as a character concept would get annoyed with the painfully obvious G-rating going on there, right? RIGHT???? And yet the game is popular. I don't know if this is a testament to marketing or a testament to poor taste or a testament to people not caring about writing in video games, or a combination of all three, but needless to say I'm confused. For those that haven't seen this game, this is a game where characters all suffer from one trope and "personality trait." McCree is American and therefore cowboy and for some reason can't shutup about High Noon. Hanzo is Japanese and therefore an archer (don't worry, his brother's the ninja!) and also can't shut the **** up about honor and dragons. Symmetra is from India and therefore she must be all "mystical east" and **** and constantly talk about "the path." D.Va is Korean and therefore a K-pop model in a god damned gundam mech and she can't stop making gaming references. I could go on and on. The most painfully obvious example of trash-tier writing is Reaper. This is a character that runs around in all black with that long black cloak thing going on, he's constantly talking about death and how he's so badass he'll kill everyone, one of his most common dialog lines is literally "DIE, DIE, DIE!!!", and one of his character designs is that he literally eats the souls of slain enemies to regain health. Needless to say I'm stupidly confused about the popularity. From a writing perspective, this game flunks out completely. Despite all that, the hype for the game is huge and good luck trying to state that the writing is awful without defensive responses. So please, someone explain it to me. What the HELL is going on with Blizzard's fanbase and why is this writing given a pass? I've only seen claims Blizzard can write, but I rarely seem to come across criticism despite how amazingly cliché their newest product is.

Spongebob is an SJW nazi who will bankrupt the country giving out Krabby Patties to the poor. The poor in the USA already live off of Krabby Patties. It's the cheapest food available so people buy it and live off of it with their welfare checks. If you just make it readily available for free then you're providing the people with a basic commodity so that everyone has a right to nourishment (however fatty it may be) while cutting out the middle man and avoiding that some deadbeat waste his taxpayer dollars on booze or something before demanding more for the food he should've bought in the first place. Spongebob's got a point with that plan.

Last night I had a dream that it was confirmed as Hillary vs. Trump and that the FBI wouldn't pursue her, and that due to some weird technicalities, the only other person viable to run as a third-party candidate was Spongebob. Then America voted for Spongebob as our next president. I remember being really proud of everyone for making the right decision and helping us dodge a bullet.

Ok here you go: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/494646452320169134/0B9B5F483A11C51E9BB2190933BE29171BC8F1C4/

**** me man, how am I supposed to top that when I die? Blow up Wall Street? AND THEN I WAS IN THE NEWS FOR TERRORISM. AND IT WAS THE BEST OBITUARY EVER.

**** me man, how am I supposed to top that when I die?

More than just one of them... One of my favorite things about my first trip to Europe is that every so often I meet a snotty Canadian that considers himself superior to "those stupid Americans," and for some reason these same dudes often have some fixation with feeling "accepted" by Europe, as if Europe is the Kool Kidz Klub that decides what countries are idiots and which ones are the pinnacle of modern society. I ended up at a party with one of these such Canadians, and the thing is Germans in general seem to have a sort of fascinated approach to Americans. I typically get approached with an attitude of "hey I'm sure you're a great person and as a German I have loads of respect for the USA due to how it's helped steer us away from a bad path in the past, but would you mind explaining why some of the modern problems with the USA persist?" Y'know, a very respectful approach where I'm spoken to as if the Germans are certain there's a good, reasonable explanation for all of the ****-ups in the USA and they'd just like to hear an American put it in perspective. So there I am chatting with a group of Germans and a couple other europeans (off the top of my head, two brits, an italian, a french guy and a spaniard) who all want the scoop, and after I've answered most of the questions, the Canadian chimes in and asks "what do you guys think of Canada?" The answer? "We don't." I kept a pretty good pokerface, if I do say so myself, but inside I was thinking "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S RIGHT YOU LITTLE ****, YOU'RE STILL NOT A REAL COUNTRY, ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE DEAD." The only people who give a crap about us in Europe are the Dutch and some of the French. Maybe some Brits because we have the same Queen. I know the Dutch have a decent relationship with Canada because we liberated them and hosted their royal family in WW2. Not trying to be a **** but experience would tell me "don't get your hopes up." I'm two hours from Amsterdam though, they all speak english and apparently speaking German and English means you "speak" dutch too (no srsly it's trippy as ****) so it'd be easy enough for me to find out if you're correct or not. As for the French, hell nah. Any time I've met a french person they're busy bitching about how Canadians and Northern African countries are butchering their language or some crap.

More than just one of them... One of my favorite things about my first trip to Europe is that every so often I meet a snotty Canadian that considers himself superior to "those stupid Americans," and for some reason these same dudes often have some fixation with feeling "accepted" by Europe, as if Europe is the Kool Kidz Klub that decides what countries are idiots and which ones are the pinnacle of modern society. I ended up at a party with one of these such Canadians, and the thing is Germans in general seem to have a sort of fascinated approach to Americans. I typically get approached with an attitude of "hey I'm sure you're a great person and as a German I have loads of respect for the USA due to how it's helped steer us away from a bad path in the past, but would you mind explaining why some of the modern problems with the USA persist?" Y'know, a very respectful approach where I'm spoken to as if the Germans are certain there's a good, reasonable explanation for all of the ****-ups in the USA and they'd just like to hear an American put it in perspective. So there I am chatting with a group of Germans and a couple other europeans (off the top of my head, two brits, an italian, a french guy and a spaniard) who all want the scoop, and after I've answered most of the questions, the Canadian chimes in and asks "what do you guys think of Canada?" The answer? "We don't." I kept a pretty good pokerface, if I do say so myself, but inside I was thinking "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S RIGHT YOU LITTLE ****, YOU'RE STILL NOT A REAL COUNTRY, ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE DEAD."