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[mainiac]

But what if you ask it in a gray and blurry tone?

[Loud Whispers]

Trying to clear up confusion whether he might be an atheist or not being clear on that seems legit to me.
Besides, you guys DO know how religious parts of our country are. It may not be a big deal in England or France or whatever, but to some people, it is a big deal. Not one of those people btw.

I'm not making any comments on that, I just love the email title

Brad: My southern baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a jew and an atheist
Amy: No shit

Politics is fun when politicians have fun

[Baffler]

I mean a joke craigslist ad?  What, was this a secret craigslist ad?

It uses the company's real email address, and was vetted and approved by the DNC director of communications, who said it was fine as long as "the offensive shit is verbatim," apparently hoping it'd get picked up on. There's a fair shade of difference between that and some random guy posting it.

You mean the service that is the subject of books and documentaries and whose founder was on NPR doing interviews?  Oh but the internet is beating the mainstream media guys!

Not really implying implications with that one, just thought it was interesting.

Media collusion?  I am shocked, shocked! to learn that the Democratic National Committee was trying to put a pro-democratic spin on news stories.  Do they have no independence as journalists?

There's not really much to 4077 and 8157, I just copied them from a list. The interesting one is 10808, where it appears the DNC vetted an article critical of them.

[Max™]

In other news, man the US looks weird through electoral-college-goggles.

[mainiac]

I like the US in hexes.  I just feels... right.

[Max™]

I like the US in hexes.  I just feels... right.

In the dark future of elections, political battles are not won by campaigns, rather they are decided on the outcome of tabletop games.

[Strife26]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

[mainiac]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

You mean under the current system or in the hexagonal future?

[martinuzz]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

You mean under the current system or in the hexagonal future?

more importantly, can they dig through slade?

[smjjames]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

What do you mean? Also, Trump said that he didn't believe in the whole swing state effect and the last time a VP was actually much help was in the 60's. Obviously though, it's not the only criteria that they use to vet VP candidates, because since when is Alaska a swing state?

[Loud Whispers]

>not taking banter seriously
>2016
The West will die for this

[smjjames]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

What do you mean? Also, Trump said that he didn't believe in the whole swing state effect and the last time a VP was actually much help was in the 60's. Obviously though, it's not the only criteria that they use to vet VP candidates, because since when is Alaska a swing state?

That's two jokes you've missed now mate. You're on a written warning. Have a pint and take your banter seriously in future.

What was the first one?

[mainiac]

Oh man, it turns out that the DNC had information that makes the Bernie campaign look incompetent and not a serious bid for president.  Debbie Schultz (the same woman that was supposedly doing everything to derail the campaign) had to personally make sure that the Sanders campaign bothered to nominate people to the committees they would later accuse of being in the tank for his opponent.  I mean it's not as big a deal as when Debbie Schulz privately lobbied the Clinton campaign for more debates but it came a lot sooner in the process.

No doubt Sanders people will be very attentive to this information.  Even as the Sanders campaign was attacking her, she was sitting mum on information that would have helped her and make them look like jackasses.  Surely now all the supporters of Bernie Sanders will realize how unfairly they treated this woman.

[misko27]

Veep picks are made primarily on the basis of movement ranges.

Noob-trap though. Obviously, a high movement range is useful, when it comes to the nitty-gritty movement ranges have a lowish winrate for a reason. People ignore more important things like synergy with the rest of your campaign. The classic example is McCain having what I consider to be a fairly tanky campaign, but instead going with a hyper-aggressive VP pick that was more of a liability than anything back in the '08 tournament. Terrible choice: forced to spend a lot of resources on defending a magnet for enemy fire when the whole point of his strat was to survive Obama's significantly more fragile build and string it out while poking holes in Obama's defense. And a high point cost to boot. Plus Palin's preferred terrain was terrible; Alaska? And all this for what? Her hyper-aggressive attacks played well enough on their own, but since she didn't fit with the rest of the campaign she was forced to go on her own to do any damage, but that left her vulnerable to counterplay and let Obama dictate the terms of the fight. Palin would have probably been better with Trump, for example, since he runs a hyper-aggressive lightening fast build that focuses on dominating the playfield and not getting bogged down in "fact on fact" fights that he never wins anyway. Biden, by contrast, was another unorthodox choice, but he synergized well enough with Obama's campaign that Biden was brought back for Obama's successful "aggressive defense" strategy as the reigning champion in 2012.

In any case, never pick a VP to dictate the terms of the fight, which is what you want with movement range. The Candidates' intrinsics are what define the battle; the VP's have intrinsics too, but again, it's a noob-trap. The only important stats for a VP are whether they have (USEFUL) favorable terrain bonuses or they synergize well with your build. Other than that you may as well go for a safe pick than one that will require you to go out of your way to utilize and may well do more harm then good.

[mainiac]

McCain had no choice but to try to cheese.  He already did his presidential bid when the housing bubble patch came out and being a war hero got nerfed into the ground while Democratic economy attacks had that ridiculous buff.  He was sitting there with a stack full of nothing but lame ass powers like "suspend my campaign" and had to gamble on a long shot to even have a chance.