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Surely we can learn from this?
  • Do you have a point you want to make? We're both saying that "but primaries!" means nothing to us when we have no voice in the primaries.

  • Surely we can learn from this?
  • Something that happened long before my state's primary.

    What does my vote mean when every candidate has already dropped out anyway?

  • Surely we can learn from this?
  • You and I both know he's a con artist who won't fix anything. But when voters don't feel like the establishment is listening to them, that's when they become desperate enough to fall for a con artist. Because at least the con artist made them think there was hope.

  • Surely we can learn from this?
  • It means that their vote doesn't count. I also live in a state that has one of the very last primaries, after the race is already over anyway. By the time I voted for Bernie, he had already dropped out of the race. My vote meant nothing.

  • Surely we can learn from this?
  • If Kamala was a garbage candidate, what does that make Trump?

    The guy who told voters what they wanted to hear. "I know you're upset at the world, and I'm going to make it great again."

    The best Kamala could do was "I won't do anything differently from the Biden administration."

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th
  • Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I'm still cracked.

    Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

    Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where'd I leave off again?

  • Why are most mobile games trash?
  • Mobile very quickly turned into a race-to-the-bottom. When the market is flooded, any paid title has an incredibly difficult time standing out. So in order to get players in the door, you gotta make it f2p. And in order to maximize profits for a f2p game, you gotta employ all the worst dark patterns, because that's what all your competitors are doing too.

    And this has led to a feedback loop of consumer expectations. People understand that this is just what mobile is now, so people who want anything else have given up on mobile and are instead buying games on other platforms. Releasing a premium title on mobile is basically just trying to sell to the wrong audience.

  • Missing votes sat on their scroats and threw the election to Hitler.
  • It's not enough that the rate of inflation is slowing. The problem is that wages aren't going up to match inflation. When people are working two jobs and still living paycheck to paycheck, do you think it means anything to them to tell them that "um ackshually, inflation is down 0.4% from last year!"?

    This kind of disconnect is exactly why we aren't reaching voters.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2024-11-08
  • Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I'm still cracked.

    Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.

    Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where'd I leave off again?

  • What type of game do you want to see?
  • Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.

    The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.

  • What are your jokes for younger children?
  • What's a foot long and slippery? A slipper.

    What's red and smells like blue paint? Red paint.

    Why did the blind man fall in the well? He couldn’t see that well.

    A man goes to the doctor and says "I think I have hearing problems." "Can you describe the symptoms?" "Sure! Homer's fat and Marge has blue hair."

    Did you hear about the huge sale at the Lego store? People were lined up for blocks.

    I sat down for dinner at a restaurant, and the waiter asked me, "Do you want to hear today’s special?" I said, "Yes please." "No problem sir. Today is special."

    I'd tell you a time travel joke, but you didn't get it.

    I used to work at a toy factory making plastic Draculas. There were only two of us, so I had to make every second Count.

  • True Story
  • You don't have to tell me the other guy is terrible. I know he is.

    But did you actually watch the debate? The fact that he came out of that debate arguably looking even worse than Trump - in the eyes of voters, don't even try to argue this one - was a clear red flag.

    There was never any 'advantage' here, and Biden stepped down because even he knew it.

  • True Story
  • If you want to "do everything you can to win", step one is not running the guy who was borderline incoherent in the debates. Staying by that would've been shooting yourself in the leg.

    Did we watch the same debate here? There was never any advantage coming out of that one.

  • Furukawa Rule
  • What I want to know is if Switch 2 will be able to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed, or if it'll just do what N3DS did. My fear is that every game that ought to be running on Switch 2 already got ported to Switch 1 poorly, and won't get re-ported.

  • True Story
  • I'm basing my analysis on the observable trend that incumbents lose when the economy is poor. As well as, y'know, Biden's abysmal poll numbers after the debate, the reason he dropped out in the first place.

    You're the one who started insisting incumbent advantage would've been a thing here, where's your crystal ball?

  • True Story
  • Encumbant advantage? In this economic climate, it's exactly the opposite. People who are feeling increasingly fed up with a world in which they cannot make ends meet vote against the status quo.

    4 years of Trump got people to vote against Trump. 4 years of Biden got people to vote against his VP.

    Biden himself would lost even harder than Kamala did.

  • True Story
  • I feel justified in being pissed off at people whose first reaction to all of this is to blame the left. Because y'all do this after every election we lose, and learning nothing is how we go on to lose the next election.

    Blame the people who voted for Trump. Think for a minute about why they did, and then think about what we can do differently next time.

    Not learning is what will drag the whole country down.

  • True Story
  • I am just as horrified as you are that more than half the country got excited about a man who's actively aiming to destroy it. But you are blaming the wrong people.

    The question I am asking you is, what lesson will you learn from this? If pointing fingers at the left is all you can do, we will lose 2028 too.

  • True Story
  • They should've, yes. And yet more than half of this country did not.

    I urge you to think more critically about why this happened. The margin by which we lost cannot be attributed to a few leftists making memes.

  • Tokyo High Court rules not allowing same-sex marriage unconstitutional
    www3.nhk.or.jp Tokyo High Court rules not allowing same-sex marriage unconstitutional | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

    The Tokyo High Court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese laws that do not recognize same-sex marriages violate the country's Constitution. This is the second time a high court in the country has handed down such a decision.

    Tokyo High Court rules not allowing same-sex marriage unconstitutional | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
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