talkaline.bsky.social
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As the player, you figure out that it's Ima Killa pretty damn quickly. Phoenix does not. That is by far the most annoying part of AA. It's still enough to make me classify it as a howcatchem rather than a whodunit.
I wish there was Ace Attorney games with the difficulty of, say, Golden Idol.
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I am positive (jokes in ending B revolve around setups in ending A, and jokes in ending C revolve around setups in A and B) that the movie was originally written to be seen as it was on the VHS/DVD release, and the execs decided 'but what if we could make them buy three tickets?'
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Phoenix Wright is also a howcatchem rather than a whodunit. It's an important distinction.
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Do you have any recommendations? When I was a kid Star Wars and not Star Trek was my jam, and there is no way in hell I would unironically recommend 80% of those books. That 20%, though.
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Where and when were the katanas captured? Can you tell us, or not yet? I'm just curious, I can't help. My apologies for that.
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They know on some level that if they let the skeptics into the fold and engage with them honestly, if they allow that people like me might have a point rather than being intrinsically loathsome characters, the entire edifice will crumble
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And you see the distinct cult-like mechanics emerging: group membership is determined by willingness to recite the dogma, internal skeptics and waverers are excommunicated, prominent critics are treated as these villains who must be regularly denounced as a loyalty mechanism
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I can't help, but I like seeing the glimpse of your work. I really hope you find someone who can assist!
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“Absolutely no one wants to see these teams forced to take the field and play 60 minutes of brutal football against each another,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said.
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It's also the fact that they use red arrows in their propaganda videos to indicate people they're targeting.
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"destroy America" is not a workable operations plan unless you are simply planning on plowing the fields for fascists
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"So this Trump thing. Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
"Both. Neither. What's the difference?"
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"So this Trump thing. Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
"Both. Neither. What's the difference?"
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When I was fired, I asked why. He said 'not answering at least ten JIRA tickets in a week'. I pointed out there were three people in worldwide time zones answering tickets and asked him how many tickets we had last week total. "Nine," he said. It was seven, two were misfiled.
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Some of it is the shittiness of existing in a space where a new boss means that you could be 'coincidentally' fired instantly
My evangelical Christian boss found a card for laser hair removal in my cube that I got for myself as a reward for getting a 5% raise from him, I was fired within a week.
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liberals are being pathetic because they think economic conditions essentially foreordain public opinion - this is also what YOU argued, leftists! if you believe this there is no reason to resist trump, you just hammer on egg prices and hope they keep going up or you’re sunk
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I genuinely don't know how alternative options would have shaken out. I really think we got a worst-of-both-worlds situation here, where Democrats were held responsible for radicals making pro-Hamas statements and he got a constant stream of people calling him 'Genocide Joe' depressing left turnout
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By and large the problems with Biden's Israel policy are rooted in what sjshancoxli.bsky.social diagnoses as a broader Democratic fear of power. Leftists seem to maintain that it can only be the result of intentional sabotage, that Biden prefers killing Palestinian babies to winning elections.
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It's complicated because I do believe that Biden's position is reasonably bad and should be different, but I absolutely believe that anyone saying that support for Trump, either explicitly ("Gaza is speaking now, b---h") or anti-anti is arguing in bad faith
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It helps if you were raised in it. I mean, it's a terrible experience, but you can get used to anything. And it makes it feel a little bit like revenge when you do report on them.
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It is impossible that someone think that Biden is bad on Palestine but better on Palestine than Trump, because Palestine is only important as a proxy war for Sandersnista thought against Biden thought.
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Because Will would not agree that Biden was the worst president and possibly the worst human being ever, he therefore must be in favor of crushing every Palestinian baby ever into a cube.
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You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to Noah Smith for anything, but I think his point that the Palestine protestors are not in fact engaged in advocacy for Palestine but a struggle for power within the Democratic party is on point.
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"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
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Not committing crimes doesn’t make murderous scum less likely to kill you. Perhaps someday conservatives will understand that you can’t just smoke a joint and sing kumbaya with a hardened criminal like Kyle Rittenhouse. One day, maybe.
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My threat model is “Some guy decides he can be the next Kyle Rittenhouse and shoots someone I’m with at a protest. I don’t trust the state to respond so I want to shoot him, surrender my weapon, and subsequently be killed by the police.”
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in HEGEMONY HOW TO smucker is *so enamored* of the "we are the 99%" slogan precisely BECAUSE it didn't mean anything, and so you could therefore bring all kinds of people in the door with very different underlying politics
it is Insane
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I remember talking about how MGS3 was written at a dead run as fast away from MGS2 as possible
I actually do want to hear you talk about Halo because I'm just used to it being the meathead game for meatheads in contrast to Marathon, because I'm too damn old
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"It's a war crime if it gives me bad vibes and if it gives me really bad vibes it's genocide" seems to be the standard, which has turned me strongly against leftism and towards 'I embrace shitlibbery'
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It’s “ever since 9/11 I am *outraged* by Chappaquiddick” but from the left.
And I understand it, to be honest! Chappaquiddick was kinda outraging but do you really want to give ammunition to someone who’s using it as a cudgel against your side?
But when it’s not your side anymore…
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“The man actually believed he could spread democracy at the point of a gun” seems to be the actual answer, and upon finding out that his allies were with him because they wanted guns and didn’t want democracy turned him against them hard.
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"Do they not have fraternity hazing rituals on your planet?"
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This is funny, but you nail it.
My trans kid is a scientist. An RNA research biochemist who gets up every damned day and goes to work on cancer cures for people who want them dead. Who is a good and loyal friend.
Who lives by higher morals than fkn Amy fkn Comey fkn Barrett in every fkn way.
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Mystery Men is such a good movie, it just came out way too early.
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Can't, it's a fan project, you know? They don't want to make money off it.