Wyatt Grondin

Then pick the better option in the primaries. It's what they're for. If that fails, it's the lesser of two evils. No one said that's fair, but people also say the right thing is often hard.

I want better candidates too, but it's just as much a mix of bad dems and lazy voters that made this mess.

If you hate swallowing you pride, I get it but also it's an overall problem we all know the solution to but most just aren't fixing.

All elections are important, especially because too many people skip them.

Dislike the bad candidates but please remember non-voters caused this issue too.

I don't like "blue no matter who", I do however know why it's said. The reality is that a crappy blue candidate is still better than anyone in the GOP. Centrists suck but even those are better.

Also, not every voter goes to the primaries. If they did, the best dems would win.

"just make a newsletter"

"just start a worker-owned subscription-funded outlet"

"just-" hey what if existing companies that were founded to produce writing about culture and society stopped firing people they paid to write about culture and society actually

The guests knew that, the audience at home didn't.

PR doesn't have to be real. It's very easy to look like you did something. It's getting harder now, but it's still a thing.

Frank isn't that. He has favorites but doesn't put those above the right thing.

He's knocking Newsom because he's pushing himself while losing the crowd in the process. If Newsom is nom Frank will make it clear to support him even if he hates him.

Time will tell if Newsom gets that far

All I can say is that if you’re still in the corporate games media sphere and don’t have a back up plan if you want to remain in games coverag and not have it just be a hobby… make one.

SEO is dead. People want independent sources. There’s no path forward for corporate owned media.

This is what happens when millions of Americans take their most important civic responsibility about as seriously as an American Idol competition.

For the record that's true for both good and bad friends.

Some good friends are busy, they want to reach out but can't. Some are just neurodivergent so it just doesn't wire to them to reach out.

But, yeah some are just fake. They forgot you but don't want you to know that.

Gray but eh not always.

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

I was wondering why most of the posts I was reading weren't from the people I follow, and then finally noticed there's options on the right hand side and the default was "discover".

Because apparently I can't be trusted to discover on my own? I follow peeps for a reason I'll discover shit later.

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I have a sale going on for all of the literature I sell on Itchio!

That's not a euphemism, I sell actual literature on the indie game storefront Itchio.

And hey they are PDFs you download so buy them for a friend! I have no issue with you downloading to harddrive! Plz buy!

I'm seeing a lot of people have these idea about the secret reason this shutdown has lasted this long.

But like,

it really is just basic anger and incompetence. These people are not as smart as you want them to be. There's no strategy, there never was.

One big lesson from Mamdani's victory:
Don't be afraid of billionaires. Make billionaires afraid of you. Take them on, don't back down.

Billionaires from Musk on down used all their tricks and failed.

Democrats are trained to lust after billionaire money, but courage has tremendous value.

done that exact same thing.

Like Emma basically outright tells you that she has the same info Mabel would be able to tell you but for some reason it would just be better if Mabel did.

And then the Xerneas stuff later which ended up making me wonder if somehow both X AND Y were canon?

She isn't much different than just the average professor, yeah, but then again only if we're talking professors from before the Switch. Sada/Turo and Sonia had far more plot relevance.

I just can't agree with you as Mabel shows up in too many late-game quests that feel like ANYONE else could have

Eh, it’s a fine game and yeah the devs clearly enjoyed making it, but I really think it’s GOTY status is so overblown and it’s all because AAA was weak last year so an average AAA game that half commercial got pumped up as more important than the indie games people actually loved

Free DLCs sucked

I didn’t say it wasn’t explained, I’m saying it wasn’t justified.

All the other Flare members have developed motiives and growth, Mabel is just “lol took a plea deal and stole Sycamore’s job”

She’s a flat character the game treats important but basically anybody could have filled the role

He gets more spotlight later. Probably the best they used him.

Which is still underused but nowhere near as bad as XY.

Fully a half-praise, I enjoy the game enough but the story pacing is off by so so so so so much

They did a surprising amount to redeem both AZ and Lysandre of all people.

But also like, why tf is Mable in the game? She don't feel as important as they act like she is.

Emma's practically a cameo.

And wow I can't even think of anyone else.....

It's strange how likely true this is, since, he's literally just a mayor!

Not a senator, not a representative, a freaking mayor!

But GOP and MSM were so openly scared of him. He became household despite how little the title would usually be.

It's a surprising little shock I really welcome.

If they didn't care, why the hell did they throw a fit?

If they magically have the replacements but didn't turn them on, why did states like mine try and push the very voter suppression you claimed they already have?

Social media didn't break you, you just can't be trusted with anything positive

I've been scrolling today, it's been a while, you know?

And it hasn't come up much, but I have seen people claim that this Tuesday only went well because "Well the GOP didn't care about this one!" Or "they haven't replaced the voting machines yet!"

Bro, stop fucking lying down.

Non-AAA games did great last year too.

Balatro, Crow Country, Don't Fear The Spotlight,

But remember how one of the GOTY was a AAA DLC?

Remember how the winner was a AAA games that constantly referenced other games you could buy right now?

This ain't new it's just less subtle.

Sometimes Frank, you directly reference something and I just plain have no clue what you're talking about.

But today,

yeah no I still have absolutely no idea. It's like this is a me problem or something

Really? Huh, guess it makes sense they wouldn't do something that drastic to fail to cover up anyway.

I stand by both topics would work for deeper discussion

if you're openly a fnaf fan in the modern day you lose your "make fun of harry potter fans" license

Apparently the delay was an attempt to cover up allegations of union busting.

So uh,

"Should people be worried about Rockstar Games?" might be the better topic

But to my massive, and pleasant, surprise:

The amount of votes that leaned blue, were nearly double the amount that leaned red.

My lifelong purple state does not seem to like being in the middle anymore.