And Unreal Tournament. And UT 2K3, 2K4. And Starsiege: Tribes. And Tribes 2. And Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (which was free), and Enemy Territory Quake Wars which wasn’t. And Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2142... and Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, all of which were released until…

Team Fortress 2 was $20, CS: GO was $15 when they released IIRC, and 2014 was still in the middle of general gamer antipathy to the concept of games as service and PC gaming issues with P2P matchmaking.

Right, but this is in the context of the Right using abortion as a cause to rally voters not a discussion of what reasoning the conservatives on the court will use for this case. So the idea that some of those three wouldn’t necessarily be on board is just more reason to keep voting Republican and replace more…

I think for a subset of motivated Republican voters and politicians, personhood could easily be the goal, not that this case will turn on that concept.

It’s possible they’ll just limit abortion to 15 months as a “compromise,” then courts will be back at it when some of the trigger laws kick in or some other state limits it further, death by a thousand cuts style; keeping the issue alive and going for those who see fetal personhood as the goal.

Maybe it’ll finally galvanize liberal-leaning voters to recognize courts are political entities and vote accordingly, so yay for keeping wedge issues alive and well.

There was one poll last week that put him ahead of Abbott, polls being what they are though...

Because Witcher 3 was released and sucked all the air out of the AAA RPG genre for a while. Basically people reassessed Inquisition and realized it didn’t do much new, and played like a single-player MMORPG in terms of open world areas, fetch quests, and other general filler.

I’m confused, were you actually looking for people to argue with you about the U.S. Constitution being sacred? Like, you just called the concept as silly as a divine right of kings two posts ago. What in my pointing out what I thought was an interesting Australian quirk (and pretty much unique to Australia among…

I don’t think discussing whether or not it’s a magical document is productive, a rudimentary civics lesson would show that the U.S. Constitution is amendable, and the small minority of people who think otherwise are ideologically driven to think that way. The whole idea feels like a waste of time, like railing against…

The slightly amusing flip side of the Jim Jeffries bit is that Australia doesn’t have a federal human rights statute or constitutional bill of rights.

And the lore won’t matter since it’s built on the Warhammer Fantasy Battles setting that was discarded to strengthen Games Workshop’s IP rights. 

When they went from Tau to Tau Empire between 3rd and 4th.

Just along the same lines of fun facts, this is the same rep who had his brothers and sisters endorse his 2018 opponent by participating in a commercial denouncing their brother.

Historically based on what timeframe? Virginia only started going with the party that doesn’t hold the White House during Reagan’s presidency, and had bucked the trend with McAuliffe’s first tenure as governor, while New Jersey only started doing it with Clinton. Moreover, throwing that out there as some axiom is…

Except it’s working. The only people paying attention to this are their base, journalists paid to do it, and social media obsessed Democrats looking to get outraged. Independents don’t listen to it, don’t remember last month’s Twitter dustup or CNN news cycle and generally just vote on the basics; the economy,…

Don’t forget the portion of the constituency that gets off on liberals seeing this crap and getting outraged over it.

Why even be a Democrat if you aren’t going to back popular Democratic policy priorities?

Rather than worrying about the GQP overthrow you should worry about declining support from independents and the rest of the Democratic party. If you take the Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races as a bellwether, or have been looking at Biden’s polling, and his favorability vs Trump’s, things aren’t looking great.

Congress said it, in 2005, passed the Senate 65/31/4, passed the House 283/144.