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So as things roll on and the dust settles some thots: 1) Total voting looks on track to be more than 10 million less than four years ago. In some ways this feels very much like 2016 again, with two deeply unpopular candidates running and there not being much enthusiasm for the dems while gop is animated with cult adoration. Overall I think a read of this as a broad rejection of the Biden administration (and the continuation of it via Harris) is probably more correct than people generally becoming maga. 2) The momentum from Kamala replacing Biden completely evaporated in the face of the laughable centrism of dem strategists. Dems managed to alienate potential voters with wishy washy nothings on pretty much everything while all outreach to Republicans yielded jack ****. Again I think the dem strategy of taking progressive and minority voters for granted while they chase conservatives is a huge mistake and by God are we seeing that unfold. 3) Things are either going to go to **** or it's going to be a situation where a Trump bi/trifecta doesn't do anything because they only have concepts of a plan, if that. Maybe 50/50 split. Either way we'll probably see Dems really win in 2026. Assuming they don't **** it up by uncritically supporting a genocide or trying to beat Trump on the border. 4) While I don't think Trump goes away with Trump (assuming he does go away), I do think the reorientation of the GOP as a cult dedicated to him is going to collapse because he doesn't have a successor and doesn't care to appoint one. Will be a nasty fight to claim his mantle and even so won't really guarantee Trump level support, in many ways Trump is lightning in a bottle that probably won't be replicated by losers like Rhonda Sanctimonious or Rammyswammy or Lyin Ted.

I think the most likely thing to happen if Trump wins, which I've said I've felt is likely to happen for months now, is that he does indeed go back to tweeting and doing rallies because that's just who he is. At the end of the day Trump doesn't believe in anything but Trump having a fun time, the worst things the Trump White House did the first go around were things that Republican think tanks had been cooking for decades in their dark money hell pits rather than something Trump himself thought of. The problem is that he's going to let an even more noxious gang of ghouls run things for him while he parades around for the next four years, and you can bet your ass they're going to **** things up.

You probably won't. I miss all of my dogs quite a lot, though as time goes on it feels less painful. Just do what you need to do man.

Regardless of the results, Trump will declare victory in about 12 hours. And after the votes are counted and if Trump doesn't have the electoral college, there will be months of lawsuits trying to force recounts or disqualify voters. So maybe over a thousand.

I think the difference is that an expat retains citizenship to the country of origin while the immigrant attempts to gain citizenship in the country they actually live in. But in practice there is clearly a class distinction, you just don't see the moral panic around "illegal expats".

I think the biggest problem with Dragon Age is a lack of consistency in design goals. There's a disconnect between DA1 and future games in the series that seemed to jettison more of the "rpg elements" in favor of more action focused gameplay and cinematic experiences, in addition to jumping between smaller personal story to single player mmo with a multiplayer minigame slapped on. By itself that isn't a problem but I think that Bioware just isn't good enough at either gameplay or cinematics to really make a good action-rpg, looking back now I remember next to nothing about actually playing DA2 or DA3 beyond silly stuff like the "ANOTHER WAVE" yells or spamming the magic sword power to reflect projectiles. While this new one does look like it's doubled down on action it just doesn't look good, like an inferior Dragon's Dogma with less enemy variety or real options.

You naughty But I can't really see this as much of a surprise, Cyberpunk 2077 and BG3 both did this at least a year before (dragonborn genitals are horrifying). I think we all know that a segment of the internet is addicted to being mad, but this is just getting pathetic. Please just let me hate on the game for looking uncanny and having bad combat without getting spammed by videos from some mediocre youtube guy with 100 gigs of CP hentai on his hard drive. It's like NuTrek all over again, let me hate in peace you maidenless reprobates.

I didn't watch this or the DA review, I just know about Mort from the Owlcat Pathfinder games where he'd do relatively in depth videos about content as released. Tbh I rarely watch videos about games beyond skimming for specific content. Anyways, I've done a playthrough of BG3 and DAV just doesn't look nearly as interesting nor does it really want to make me give it a chance to just enjoy the story. If I wanted to sit back and watch braindead action stuff I'd just bite the bullet and put on a cape**** movie or shonen anime. BG3 does a good job of making the most of a janky pnp system and also does quite a lot of out of combat gameplay that is very memorable. Something I'll never forget is failing to intimidate the owlbear and getting attacked by it, in the moment it reminded me of something from Disco Elysium. In contrast, DAV looks like repetitive combat spaced in corridors that is occasionally broken by "epic" cutscenes or very simple puzzles.

I didn't watch the whole thing, or even most of it, but I have to say the characters do look pretty damn uncanny. There's just something off putting at seeing the not-quite-giga chad protagonist awkwardly talk with minimal facial movement. The combat also looks like a Dragon's Dogma knockoff.

Just read it on break. We're so back. No, I like to be surprised.

As someone much smarter than me once said "What Enoch Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after". Kinda sad how regular this seems to be. The wildest thing about that to me is that by the numbers the people who thinks the sun shines out of Israel's fundamental orifice are (white) Evangelicals who are already in the tank for Trump. The radical centrists need to learn they're never going to be enough for such folks, but at the end of the day the radical centrists are those folks with a thin sheen of decorum. Trump will probably accelerate things tbh, but the path of the US into a decayed empire only capable of sowing death has been set since at least the triumph of neoliberalism.

I haven't played the 40k game to know, but that sounds about right. In the Owlfinder games they assumed players would cheese the system, so they inflated stats based around that assumption which makes stuff like heavy armor Paladin have a lot more trouble than it would in pnp. It's not impossible to solve the numbers game but it makes the game feel more like you're managing a spreadsheet than fighting tactical battles. Compared to BG3 it's not near as fun for me, as BG3 managed to make a simpler (and often very janky) system feel much more tactical than WotR, which my last run was prebuffing and steamrolling.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Trump is going to win by peeling at least Michigan. Feels like watching a trainwreck in slow time tbh, but this has been known for over a year at this point and not only are the dems not doing some very obvious things to appeal to voters there that would cinch the state for Kamala, they're actively doubling down by refusing to meet people or kicking out former democratic politicians from events. Frankly it's baffling that Kamala and her team thought it more advantageous to pal around with Liz Cheney than bother to meet with a single Muslim when everything shows the dems are loosing Muslims, who backed Biden by a large margin last time, in droves. But maybe I'm wrong and maybe there really is a massive base of hardcore anti-Trump conservatives out there who will come on out. Seems less likely than winning the lottery though.

I think that my two playthroughs, Azata and Trickster, were pretty much the same. I've heard that those two paths are some of the lightest on unique content but still there just wasn't too much to them beyond managing a new suite of abilities and the ending slides. Guess I'll see if Lich feels different when I finally get the time to play it.

Given the rest of the site, it probably used ai. On Owlcat, I've spent loads of time on both of their Pathfinder games but they definitely tend towards being played as a spreadsheet more than tactically. No idea if the 40k game showed any growth on that front, but based on their track record I think an Owlcat PF 2e game would be pretty much unplayable as that system is very sensitive to numerical bonuses and there just isn't a way to stack the ever loving **** out of your stats.

Dandadan ep 4 - The End of ZA WARUDO Turbo Granny It's a very fast paced action episode that climaxes in a much different way than expected. As has been par for the series so far it's just incredibly visually striking, some of the best animated sequences I've seen in quite some time are in this episode. Though it's kinda telegraphed that there's something wrong with Okarun's..........Manly Essence and I guess we'll see just what that is.

Salem's Lot (2024) I think this is like the third one and it's in the genre of "ancient evil comes to a small town and gets killed after terrorizing the townsfolk". For me it wasn't bad.....it was boring. Generic and forgettable with packaged horror movie scares. I will probably remember nothing of it within a week. I think you're the fifth or sixth person to reccomend this to me, and I've decided to catch it this weekend.

.....What the ****? How the hell did that **** get greenlit?

Is it a pretty even split so that you can just stop or fast forward?

It's very funny seeing the dip**** brigade get big mad when it's pointed out that the Imperium of Man is in fact a dystopia and not something aspirational.

I think it's funny that Republicans spent years cultivating (accidental or purposeful is up in the air, probably both) a group of deranged lunatics who want to spray bullets into crowds for unhinged reasons (in addition to the cops I mean) and now that it's finally happening to their crowds instead of schools or grocery stores people have become so used to mass shootings it doesn't really register more than a shrug. Reap the whirlwind.

My parents love (well loved in my dad's case RIP) shellfish and will eat the hell out of it. I like it when it's been done well, but as a kid my mom would really overcook (and underseason) stuff and overcooked seafood is so bad that even now I am hesitant on shrimp. I do love ceviche and springrolls though. Which I almost had for dinner, but decided to get Indian food instead. Also made sure to hit up the liquor store and got a few months of booze, pretty sure I ruined someone's day by grabbing the last bottle of green chartreuse lmao.

What I remember about the Professor is that he said he hasn't kissed in a very long time and immediately started laughing so hard he broke a beaker. Truly a VolCel king. Sailor Moon, the 90's anime at least, generally worked best with the filler episodes because the canon plot is kinda dumb. Who cares what BLACK LADY was trying to do when you have 20+ episodes of Usagi and the gang being silly gooses? I don't. I'm pretty sure if we get Isekaied we're going to go on a journey to Not-Egypt to fight a hundred year old vampire gym god. Half of us are going to die horribly, but it's the memories we make on the way that count.

They got mad at us for posting in the TV thread and resurrected an AMV dumping ground to seal us away. That just means we haven't been trying hard enough. Have you learned nothing from the many filler episodes of Sailor Moon? Would the professor have given up just because his monster of the week failed to do.....honestly I forgot what he was up to in s3 besides maniacal laughter, but he didn't give up until he was forced to retire. The point is we should continue to try until it happens. As someone once said to Maggie Thatcher: "We only have to get lucky once".

Dandadan ep 2 - Attack of the Sumo Alien-Ghost Still going strong. It's very kinetic and stylish, it would have been easier to make the banana pilfering alien a cgi monstrosity out of a 10-year old videogame like many anime do, but by god this looks so much better. And going to black and white is a power move so I'm happy. Also feels like they did a speedrun on Shinji's multi-saga arc with The Other Ken Takakura in like 2 episodes. We'll see how things go after he reclaims his......manly essence from the Turbo Granny. Given that they're made by the same studio that isn't surprising. Ngl, I very much enjoyed both on a visual level but I did not reccomend Dandadan to you because if you had a seizure I did not want to be held liable or get drug to hell by a demon you summoned.