Everything posted by Hurlshort
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MLB 2016 - Even Year Magic
The Cavs overcame a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA championship, and now the Indians may have the same thing happen against them. The beautiful narrative of sports.
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What You Did Today
I ordered a microphone, going to give a podcast a try to add to my new website. I was going to call it a Hopcast, but that is already taken.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Sweet, a new podcast to listen to on my way to work.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
I just don't get how these people email like it is private. Nothing you do online is private.
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What are you playing right now
Picked up Wolfenstein: The Old Blood to scratch the halloween itch. It's loads of fun.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
wait what Your decoding skills could use some work. I automatically read that as emaciated because given the context, that was the only word that worked.
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What You Did Today
I've been fighting Wordpress all day. I could start over with my host's website builder, but I'm concerned I'll get in over my head that way. Bleh, it's a mess.
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Favourite RPG cities?
What are your other 19?
- Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
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Personality Test
I'm still ENFP, but a mediator. I guess I'm more insecure or something now.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
What? He asked Johnson sensible questions, and Johnson didn't have answers. This is the sort of thing that should happen at the big debates and usually doesn't. Often the candidates aren't challenged when they respond with no substance to policy questions. Johnson was pressed and he couldn't handle it. He asked about taxation. Johnson told him what would likely happen if he were in office, what direction he would hope to sway the congress, and what would be a realistic scenario. But he didn't like that answer, so pushed further into the "If you were all powerful" scenario, which Johnson gave his honest opinion about taxes in general, namely wanting a federal consumption tax. Then the guy insulted him and continued to badger about abolishing taxes (he says it about 8 times.) Johnson responded with hostility. Hardly a surprise and I don't see how you can accuse him of not having substance when his first answer was very clear in what he would do if in power in regards to taxes. As an aside, the interviewer is wrong about the consumption tax being panned by economists (although really, he avoids addressing it by just harping on abolition.) Greenspan suggested the same thing a decade ago.
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The drinking thread
Picked up this today. Pretty solid spin on an Octoberfest beer. I told my wife it was research for my blog.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
That interviewer is an ass. Ask a question, wait your answer isnt controversial enough, let me badger you until I get a decent sound bite.
- Taking it to the hole. Hoops 2K17 Thread.
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Personality Test
Wow, I am getting old. I forgot that I took it, and I also got different results. Ugh. Actually I was ENFP for both tests, so I guess I'm not that different.
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Favourite RPG cities?
I think we can all agree that Dragon Age just sucks at city building. Although the Dwarf city was pretty solid in the first one. You guys are making me want to play Arcanum again.
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Some love for Arcanum?
I just don't think they necessarily need the Arcanum licence. Obsidian showed they are plenty capable of creating a complex world from scratch. If they want a steampunk/fantasy game, they make their own.
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Some love for Arcanum?
I'd just dig them reviving the character creation options.
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Personality Test
I took this personality test at work today, and it was actually pretty well done. We haven't done one of these around here in awhile, so I thought I'd share: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test I ended up with mediator. Which, after I read the explanation, probably fits.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
If you honestly think its peoples salaries that have broken our healthcare system then I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. I'm not saying it is the salaries alone that are breaking the system. I'm saying it is villainous for these people to reap massive profits off the broken system when they are supposed to be in a position to fix it. They are profiting at our expense. We don't have any choice in the matter, either. Auto insurance has to serve their customers because it is a competitive market and it is fairly easy to jump ship. That is not the case in medical insurance. The customer is in a bad position that only gets worse once you actually need it most. As a comparison, the CEO of Geico makes $1.7 million.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
That's just their salaries and its a drop in the pissbucket. Do you feel you should be docked pay every time a kid fails a class? I would like access to the $156 million pissbucket, please. I doubt that these are the only people in the company making massive salaries while the results continue to get worse and worse for the American people. If my kids got worse and worse every year, then yeah, I'd lose my job.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
They are massively profiting off a broken system. They are in a position of power, and they are lining their pockets while the system continues to get worse and worse for the customers. Not sure how else you would define that.
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What You Did Today
I grabbed a domain and I've started on a site, thanks guys. I'm not sharing it yet though, still needs work. I love that brew cave.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Everyone's complaining about Obamacare, and I get it, but let's not lose site of the real villains here:
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Favourite RPG cities?
Since we are doing images: