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Quote from: EuchreJack on December 08, 2022, 06:34:12 pm

the Fucking banks.

So that's how new banks get made!

Well, yes. But the banks aren’t fucking eachother.

There's that video of him driving pretty terribly that was just released...

But like... I reject the analogy. The presidency isn't like driving a car, and I don't really think the president is the person behind the wheel necessarily. I trust Sanders to build a better cabinet, to build an administration that better reflects my principles and the direction I want the country to head.

Maybe it's because the line that stuff like this isn't palatable to the American public has been propaganda to prevent us from testing that theory all along, and now that someone like this has actually shown up for real, millions of previously non-voters are suddenly interested in politics.

Every year I come closer and closer to the conclusion that this is how you win elections. Sanders has me legitimately hopeful for the first time in years. I regret not voting for him in 2016.

It doesn't matter if she'd be a better president than Sanders or Trump though. That doesn't win elections, that's the same strategy the Democrats have pulled over and over and lost repeatedly with. She's got too much baggage, Trump would eviscerate her in a debate, and she just doesn't inspire people the way Sanders does.

Yeah I've spent the last... oh like seven years defending the good name of clam chowder on twitter. I was just minding my own business when the chowder alarm rang.

Not to be confused with the Chowder^TM alarm, which lets me know if a new episode of Cartoon Network's Chowder drops.

Isn't that just a Hot Pocket?

The way I do it is by focusing on problems and their resolutions. So each successive scene is either going to address an existing problem or introduce a new one. If I still can't figure out where to go next I typically do one of two things. Either I just start with something I think would be fun to write or I list down every possible place I could take the story, elaborate on them a bit, and then choose the one I like the best.

So if I write a scene about a husband and wife who get into an argument, and end the scene with the husband deciding he wants to become a groundhog, well there are two immediately obvious problems there to address in the next scene. It could start with his strained relationship with his wife, how it got that way, maybe change to her POV and show what she does to relieve her stress after the fight, or something like that, or I could address how he is going to turn himself into a groundhog. I could also create a new problem, such as how this affects the children if they have any, maybe their argument causes the next door neighbor to fall off a ladder while changing a lightbulb, maybe the aliens who are observing the family try to grant his groundhog wish and end up turning everyone on Earth into one. And once you have an idea for the core conflict of the next scene you're pretty much set to write it.

I'm really surprised it's getting so much hate, because it's the only show I've had any interest in watching this season. I enjoyed the first episode well enough. The animation is a bit choppy but I didn't have any problem with the character designs. In fact, I actually like how detail slowly fades into them as they approach the camera. The BG art was fantastic and it was nice to hear voice work that sounded like actual Japanese. I don't really see what all there is to hate about the show.

The majority of "girly" games I've seen or played just aren't very well made. Say what you will about Nintendogs (I don't personally like the games) those games are at least well-crafted. By contrast, most other games that would be labeled girly are little more than shovelware marketed towards preteen and younger girls. In general they're games based on an existing IP and I don't think it's sexist to point out that they're typically of lower quality. There are some exceptions, but as a rule there aren't many games marketed towards adult women.