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Enshrouded added a big update, with a snowy biome, rainy weather, and a ton of new NPC's. NPC's actually wander around your base and need beds now, so it has a lot more personality.

I wonder if maybe Biden stepped aside too early? Kamala had a big bump right when they switched, and it faded. But hey, armchair quarterbacking won't change the results.

The guy is almost 80 and eats McDonalds regularly. Natural causes have a good chance of running their course over the next 4 years. We should probably watch that Vance movie on Netflix to figure out what his deal is.

Kamala is plenty strong as a candidate. She won the debate, she brought energy. Hopefully it really is just the economy that screwed her over. It is starting to look like a woman just can't win, which is sad. Kamala is worlds apart from Hillary, and yet I keep seeing people online bringing the two up together. That all being said, it is a long night, so we will see what happens.

It looks exactly like it did in 2020. There are still a ton of states and counties to go.

As a bunch of people already stated, in California you have a voter roll, so you just show up to vote. I'm not a precinct manager or anything, so I don't know the details. Why would someone risk fake voting as me? Voter fraud is investigated and that would be a pretty easy case to solve. The idea that there are statistically relevant numbers voting fraudulently is a just a big red herring. Florida did a big investigation in the last election and spent a bunch of money to catch like 12 people. Driver's licenses and passports are not free. I don't even have a valid passport right now. The only documents in the US people are really expected to have are your birth certificate and Social Security card. But you shouldn't be carrying those around. The artist formally known as Gorgon already explained that though.

I played DA: Origins a couple months ago, and I was surprised how well the graphics have held up.

I played DA: Origins a couple months ago, and I was surprised how well the graphics have held up.

Thankfully it is typically done on a local level, not a federal level, so it's unlikely that these two will have much power over such things. Which I'm going to repeat, is a big reason to worry less about the Presidential outcome and more about your local measures

That's what I meant, yes. I've always gotten the impression an expat has retired to another country. Plenty of US citizens go to other countries to work, so the voting status would seem to still be important, as the expectation is they will return to the US at some point. Although I suppose an expat may still have financial interests in the US. Taxation without representation, and all that. People love to gatekeep.

Drova - The art style has grown on me, but I am rubbish at the combat. I am trying sword and shield because that is usually easy. It is not in this game.

It is a question I raise with my students every year as a writimg prompt. I start with voting age, which was 21 until the 1960's. They can usually puzzle out why that was changed with a few hints. Then we talk about voting with a criminal record. The last topic is voting and citizenship. Most of my students are either immigrants or children of immigrants, and a fair amount of them have parents without citizenship. So the question is: should a person who is here for years on something like a work visa, who is raising their kids in this country and paying taxes, have the right to vote on issues that affect them? Should a citizen living overseas have the right to vote? Anyways, I don't share my personal opinions on the matter to the kids, but my opinion is typically the more people voting, the better. I want as much input as we can get in these elections. My middle schoolers aren't really less informed than most adults. They should get to vote too.

Great, Inquisition was like a decade ago. All I remember was I had a cool granite table in my castle where I planned stuff.

I wasn't willing to sign up to read the story, but the idea that religious fanatics and terrorists are some sort of cultural group is a fun bit of bigotry. There are 1.9 billion Muslims and 2.4 billion Christians in the world. They aren't all fanatics and terrorists. We are probably going to all figure out a way to get along, just like Protestants and Catholics had to figure it out centuries ago.

I finished The Lamplighter League. I enjoyed the game, but the ending was a big letdown. The final mission was good and my main team was effective, but it was a real blah finish. I think they were setting it up for DLC or something, but it didn't do well enough. I don't typically care that much if a game doesn't end well, but I expected at least some better lines from all these mercs I recruited.

Oh no! Next they are probably going to make you choose some sort of fantastical race like a dwarf or an elf.

I dismissed that headline out of hand, since Dragon Age has never been dark fantasy. Blood splatter does not make a game dark fantasy. Slaughtering refugees in DA2 was pointless and nonsensical, not dark.

Damn, I was going to book your hotel when I retire in 15 years and finally get to travel the world.

You are absolutely correct that there are many statistics that paint a grim portrait of the US. But there is also a tremendous amount of hyperbole that inflates the issues. For example, people have been railing about the US public education system for decades. It is apparently in shambles. But that misses the real complexity of the system. It isn't a federal system, instead it varies by each state, by each county, and by each school district. It has tremendous failures and tremendous successes. It's not on the verge of collapse. I'm in the trenches every day teaching these kids and I can tell you that we are going to be fine. For another example, San Francisco is being made out as some sort of dystopian tent city filled with shuttered skyscrapers and feces laden streets. I go to SF all the time. It's a beautiful city with fantastic restaurants and amazing places to explore. Each neighborhood has its own personality. In reality, there is one area of the city that is struggling to recover, and that is the financial district. I have no idea how to fix that, but it doesn't reflect the city as a whole. Just like DC doesn't really reflects the country as a whole.

You can use Bud Light to roast chicken, or something.

Yes. But I played through the tutorial and it does seem like my jam.

Nah. We already had 4 years of his train wreck. The reality if we have a solid balance of power that tends to wipe out or neutralize a lot of executive actions, for better or worse. Both progress and regression are slow. It's also interesting how far removed the narratives are from the reality. The reality is the economy is doing great and everyone has jobs. Prices are up, but so are salaries. The craziness of national politics don't actually affect what is happening on a local level. I'm not saying things are perfect, but things continue to be better on average than then they were in previous generations.

Almost done with Lamplighters. The story has really grown on me. I'm not sure why I need a roster of 10, since I use the same 4 people for every mission. But hey, they have good backstories.

This game comes out soon? I have so little hype about it despite playing and completing all 3 of the other games. I even read a couple of the books. Huh. Anyways, I've got a bit of a backlog with Drova and USC: Counterforce on my docket.

Yeah. I don't understand how it is close at all. But it is, so I'll just hold my breathe.