these kind of things were always something in my head when i heard "we can pressure them". they're not even listening to their peers who have worked with them for decades. why would they listen to us on this.
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these kind of things were always something in my head when i heard "we can pressure them". they're not even listening to their peers who have worked with them for decades. why would they listen to us on this.
snake. we've given you a sun chips bag for when you want to alert guards and bait them to a position. those bags are loud as fuck. holy shit. they somehow created a bag of chips louder than a jet engine. god damn.
you only have [checks calendar] uhhhh like 29 days for this sale. so... actually, no rush
i'm guessing this last week tonight vid is going around again but The Baileys have been a known thing for awhile. chuck schumer's imaginary middle class family he consults for his political decisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
oh everybody is learning about chuck schumer's tulpas today huh
kinda unreal how much that one super simple guitar riff on Edge Of Seventeen still kicks ass
nba players found transforming into satyrs right on the court
EVIL GOAT MODE
September marks 30 years of the Playstation in North America, so I'm going to spend this month looking at games on the system that played a vital role in its success or influence in one way or another. First up, Ape Escape, which is also a way to talk about the DualShock and dual-analog controllers.
'steampunk flavored'?
[wakes you up by playing the Taz-Mania stage 1 music at you] www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUG...
you only have [checks calendar] uhhhh like 29 days for this sale. so... actually, no rush
he looks so happy
they know their audience because they are their audience
euro truck simulator 2 update: we added some buildings that are unique to germany. you can't interact with them. you can look at them, though. entire playerbase: [going apeshit]
god euro truck simulator 2 updates are so fucking good
baffling. even the DOA games endless DLC at least throws costumes at people.
what's with that kind of DLC for some japanese games, mostly RPGs, where it's like just some game items but not even really great items that let you clear through a bunch. like it's 'here's 20 hi-potions and a decent chunk of crafting materials'. not even pay 2 win, it's 'pay 2 skip an hour maybe'
thinking about stage 1, normal difficulty rage of the dragons again
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here are some of the special move inputs in Weaponlord, taken from the manual note that all of these are negative edge moves, so you have to hold the button during the motion then let go
find it funny to see this when israel is also insistent on not just occupying palestine but also parts of syria, lebanon. would hamas disarming get them to stop that too or what
some kind of anime as hell super robot wars attack where someone unleashes a beam containing one copy of every single Ys, Trails In The Sky, Xanadu, and Sorcerian game
koei tecmo is proud to announce a new Atelier game releasing later this week, and the remaster of that game releasing the week after that. in the weekend between those, there will also be a sequel Atelier game
i feel like the Atelier series is eventually going to get to a point where they're releasing games even they don't know about, lost in a tsunami of other Atelier games
people weren't lying, he's a fucking menace lmao #TokyoXtremeRacer
it truly sucks that general Lays chips is the one that keeps getting the extremely specific kinds of flavors right.
finally got around to trying those korean barbecue doritos: flavor is unfortunately just "eh, s'alright", just like kettle brand korean barbecue chips. it's not even particularly hot, which is saying something, because my tongue doesn't handle heat too well to begin with.
and they won't do it, they can't do it. they absolutely refuse to meaningfully fund the infrastructure and groups who would handle the nitty gritty boring fundamental stuff of winning elections and keeping people engaged with the party. they want it for free, and they want it with no policy demands.
just tearing my hair out for years. the dems wouldn't have to give me healthcare. they wouldn't have to even budge on popular shit like weed. if they would just fucking stop spending the money on fake jobs for family and friends to kiss their ass and gave it to no-name organizers in states.
'sure we cracked the skulls of all the people who just a couple years before were helping us win and registering people and driving them to the polls but surely they'll just get replaced by some other chumps who'll do the same work for us for free' while the war chest goes to more loser consultants.
hell, it was worse than that, it was also repaying all that work with 'oh by the way we fucking love Cop City and we'll arrest your ass if you're against it'. they expect unpaid volunteers to do everything for them, with no investment, no infrastructure, no anything, and even arrest them sometimes.
this is the kind of stuff Georgia volunteers for dems did years back that resulted in those surprise victories. they really put the fucking work in, and they did it early, too. they were registering people at police protests. the national dem response was 'thanks for the free work' and bouncing.
things like the 50 state strategy, OFA, and ACORN did. real basic stuff. more in registering voters. more in making sure people have TRANSPORTATION to the polls, which is incredibly important in a country like ours with atrocious public transportation. helping with early voting, etc.
something i've been on for years, because i'm always told to be Pragmatic and Realistic, is that i believe the dems could win without giving lefties like me much of anything policy wise if they just invested in basic fundamentals and infrastructure vis a vis getting people to vote.
just always on my hobby horse of "obama '08, even when being cowardly about gay marriage and doing Purple America stuff, did not run a campaign primarily fueled by telling his own supporters 'fuck you and eat shit' and palling around with the most extreme right wing people in the GOP"
"every minority will agree to not just vote for us but continue to give us unpaid volunteer labor to help us win even as we treat them like shit to win over a fraction of the leftover squishy republicans we haven't already gotten in the 30+ years we've run this strategy" is not a pragmatic strategy!
just incredibly bad fucking electoral math. the actual people that would vote on 'i'd vote dem if they just got a liiiiiiittle bit more transphobic' are not great in number and they are also not generally in states dems need to worry about losing in the first place.
aiming to win over a well to do suburban massachusetts guy who votes republican locally but democratic for president and has big opinions on public schools and 'just doesn't know about all this trans stuff', and trading a freshly 18 trans voter, their supporting parents, and friends, for it
like they're not just gambling on "everybody we throw under the bus supports us anyway and shuts their mouth about their criticisms", they're also gambling "throwing all these groups under the bus won't depress enthusiasm of organizers, or of voters who are not these groups but support them"
people will say "but they SHOULD vote anyway" and should isn't will. they can bitch and moan and whine about it but there's no enforcement method to make people vote and gutting of vote protections - and groups like OFA that register people and get them to polls - makes voting more difficult.
a thing that gets me a lot is that it's just plain a bad strategy to get votes and generate the necessary enthusiasm for a candidate. it's trying to win with an inside straight, where everyone, for no reason, in trade for nothing, just agrees to get treated like shit and fakes enthusiasm for it
[80s new wave band voice] Smart Watches for Women Men
seth mcfarlane goes fucking apeshit for oldass musicals nobody else has ever watched. it is easily his favorite thing
funniest thing about 'Opposites Attract' is you'd naturally think it was inspired primarily by Who Framed Roger Rabbit. no. its inspiration draws mostly from 1945 film Anchors Aweigh featuring Gene Kelly and a segment where he dances with Jerry Mouse www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHCs...
just mentally slotting vanilla as paula abdul and vector as mc skat kat www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwei...
i like how the basis for the vanilla/vector ship in sonic is pretty much just "both of these fuckers are tall as hell", having almost nothing else in common
he does get pretty racist!
alien leader b'''o'''''b'''''''''
sci-fi authors love putting apostrophes in names to make them 'alien'. now we enter the next step: an alien name that has three letters, but eighteen apostrophes
also, not for nothing, but '08 obama hit hard on not voting for the war and railing on hillary's corporate ties. buttigieg's goal is "how do i talk about something without taking any committed position either way on it" and there's only so far you can actually emulate '08 obama from that goal.
he handles well on fox but bombs when pressed by those among the dems own groups. i ain't forgotten "i'm not asking for your vote" getting immediately hit with "you're not getting it either".
repeating 'root beer kombucha' to myself like a mantra
IPA marketing head laughing like a captain planet villain as they watch a gorgeous package design trick yet another unsuspecting fool into thinking THIS one won't just taste like hops
whole lot of crises that, if you give institutional dems a truly unearned amount of benefit of the doubt on sincerely wanting good ends, their theory on how to resolve them is "maybe one day a magic spell will fix everything in a way that bothers nobody"
as always it's, at best, "if i woke up tomorrow and suddenly there were two states somehow, i would not put all my power into trying to reverse that".
Look, I'll play a free-to-play GAAS Skate instead of Skate 4, but you can't expect me to be too happy about it.
yeah i could definitely suck the life out of brian today ...well what the hell are you talking about then
god remembering axel alonso lamenting the loss of wizard and how they'd talk up artists and comics for them and realizing "oh you guys just really liked having something that operated as a marketing wing for you, but didn't cost you anything, and you're not willing to spend money to replace it"
avoiding making more money simply by taking time and effort to explain the METHOD WHICH ACTUALLY MATTERS TO YOUR SUCCESS, THAT MOST OF YOUR AUDIENCE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT, because you think you shouldn't have to do that, it should be someone else's job (that, notably, you don't pay for).
once even argued with an editor for the x-men line about how opaque and unhelpful the pre-order system is, most readers don't even know about it, and maybe marvel should do more to inform their own readers about it like KSD did for captain marvel and he was "we think the retailer should handle that"
"those fucking pirates killing us-" even your off the rack buyers, the vast majority of the people who buy print copies in fact, don't help you guys be all that successful because their purchase is for stock that has already been 'sold'. what the fuck are you guys talking about.
remembering going crazy on twitter arguing with actual people in the industry about what matters for getting sales, lamenting spoilers affecting them, just "you are a vastly pre-order driven industry via a process most readers don't even know about. what the fuck are you talking about"
you'd think he'd be more bassy with how big he is but he's got this high pitched kind of annoyed squeak-yowl that i think must be due to some kinda health problem from when he was younger before we got him. his voice like, 'cracks'. he's a lot more 'mrrp' when he's laying on a bed
subconscious bugs bunny: i'm having a real renaissance of slutty art of me in girl's clothes and i ain't mad about it
early morning noisy boy
occurs to me just how close travis touchdown's life could've been 'guy doing basically Wayne's World, But For Anime on california public access tv'
punch = hole
congrats dude!
12 french anarchists all doing their best philadelphian accents back and forth with one another, saying 'woo-terr' in increasingly labored, exaggerated ways
beatrice: what if battler new episodes today. battler: (...! where's she going with this...) beatrice, using red text: battler get ipad. battler: hrrrggh!
jimmy olsen/superman silver age comics plots -->->->->-> urkel on family matters time travel and shrinking and cloning and-
there used to be this knockoff of GI Joe toys called The Corps! sold mostly in dollar stores and i'm kind of imagining a whole line of The Corps! but for metal gear solid characters
found it! it was carolyn maloney, former rep for NY's 12th congressional district. nymag.com/intelligence...
remembering people talking about chelsea clinton and potential political office for her
there are even boomer dems in the house who can tell them "please, i wanna bomb iran and give the cops a trillion dollars, i think israel should get to do whatever it wants, i want crypto to be unregulated, can i please just get a leg up in the ladder" and leadership will still go "not your turn".
the saying goes is it's a big club, and you're ain't in it, and that is true. but there is a club within that club of people in their 70s, 80s, who see no reason why they should have to share anything or plan beyond themselves even for selfish reasons. even ghoulish asskissers get nothing from them.
wish i could remember who but a new york dem a couple years ago remarked on their fondness for how much cooler and better funerals are for people who die while still in office, get the state involved and everything
no real infrastructure, no long term planning, no mentoring going on, not even for corrupt reasons, not even to maintain godawful american imperial hegemony and class interests. the 'plan', such as it is, is "we're gonna be here until the icy grip of time takes us out, what's after doesn't matter"
pelosi is one of the few doing some basic succession planning in that's it's incredibly obvious she's been trying to set christine, her daughter, up to take over. however, counterweighing that, is the fact that christine is *59 fucking years old* right now, and nancy still ain't budged.
jeffries was the unwanted b-plan after crowley, and even after handing speakership over it's incredibly obvious pelosi is still a true big wheel in the house. they don't actually like buttigieg or kamala even though they'd do everything leadership wanted. "you get this when i'm dead" and that's it.
every time someone understandably goes "even if we get rid of these motherfuckers they have hand picked successors to take their place" i point to how dem seniority by and large do NOT have any succession planning, much less some basic mentoring or farming for talent. it's just Them, forever
little miss bag girl
I spent two days with Platner and, as you’ll read, was as impressed by his theory of power as I was by his policies. I think it’s FAR more important than the “how do you talk to Trump voters” question.
god, reminding me i once constructed a sort of pyramid spectrum of 'how to respond to those of wealth living with guilt over it', and the three points being: Karl Marx, Jesus of Nazareth, and Diogenes of Sinope
diogenes has two basic points as a philosopher, as a person in general, really -hates the rich more than you can possibly imagine -most passionate hobby/general idea of 'fun' is trying to make people so mad they have a stroke
most likely philosopher to respond to a thought experiment with "i'm fucking your mom"
diogenes closer to sexy murder poet but really just lives on an island of "fuck you, suck my dick"
12 french anarchists all doing their best philadelphian accents back and forth with one another, saying 'woo-terr' in increasingly labored, exaggerated ways
It's Not Gonna Suck Itself. Here's Why That Matters.
chulip gaiden
whether he is truly the real deal or not, i can't say, but at the very least, he's looking a hell of a lot more convincing on being the real deal than 99 percent of the party.
platner is not a Known Name, which might be to his benefit, honestly. what we've seen so far is promising, and he's already staked himself out on being pro-palestine and pro-trans, so he's definitely not listening to the people up top, that's for sure.
this pattern feels most obvious with the people who will admit that the dems have done terrible things, and biden did mess up horribly, and etc, etc, etc, but still want people to shut up. they want the fear to go away, and people criticizing makes the fear rise back up in them.
it is extremely frustrating when many people - including groups dems have thrown under the bus or are eagerly looking to do so - have been dealing with all sorts of fear for years and they're just getting a taste of it, but fear and anxiety is what drives it for a significant chunk of people.
every single vote scolder i've gotten to talk to me like a human being admitted they mostly felt scared and powerless. some people just turn politicians into fandom shit, but some use this stuff as a way to try and want some guarantee that 2028 is going to be Fine, that things Will work out
