After 2022, I’m much more optimistic about the Dems than I was a few years ago. They’re not evolving as quickly as I’d like, but they are evolving.

Many will read your comment and might assume it’s sarcasm.

This is the part where you post before and after shots.

Gee who knew crawling up Trump’s ass for 4 fucking years would have extenuating repercussions, eh Kev?

Just to add some clarity the new class, Painter, are Lolis. They appear to be children, naturally they’re hundreds of years old in “the lore” (what lore? this is Lost Ark). This is why they have outfit restrictions.

Can you think of any better realistic options? We lost the house we’re not keeping the Speaker. She’s (as far as I know) coherent, not a conspiracy nut and seems reasonably educated & capable. The bar is real fucking low, my friend.

Manchin is a known quantity. The GOP being hostage to their far right wing (which is saying something since the party has spent the last 15 years purging anyone who is an actual moderate, what they call moderates now, would have been solid conservatives in the 2000s and earlier) is not on par. Manchin still voted on…

There are a lot of people behind NFTs in gaming that absolutely see this as how people reacted to microtransactions or, more broadly, any sort of contentious development in how gaming is consumed over the years.

That is to say, if they push hard enough, ignore enough of the criticism and keep making it a thing, people…

For a bit of context, under Japanese copyright law, “fair use” doesn’t exist. At all. Parody, change of purpose and such are standard in the EU and the US IP law, none of it applies within Japan.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

The Schadenfreude is positively delicious.

This is why Democrats should have passed a debt ceiling resolution in the lame duck period. If there wasn’t that at stake, we could just sit back for the time being and enjoy watching them fight over this.

“It’s a shame. It makes us look foolish. If I didn’t know any better, it’s like the Democrats paid these people off... Let’s make it look like the Republicans can’t govern and don’t deserve any gavels whatsoever. That’s what it makes it look like.”

Elect clowns, get a circus.

There’s no one else that has even close to a majority, so the likeliest result is McCarthy gets there on the 20th ballot or whatever after promising what’s left of the scraps of his soul to Boebert and Gaetz et al.

Dems in Disarray! Wait... what?

I miss my childhood of not realizing that Nintendo is kind of a shit company.

It kinda just seems like most major Japan-based game companies actively hate their fanbases, but that seems unlikely. What is more likely is that Japanese intellectual property law is so absolutely turbo-fucked that anyone engaging with the IP outside of approved, carefully manicured channels is perceived as a threat.

There’s an argument to be made that dumbly written trigger laws and/or idiotic responses to the ruling were worse for the GOP than the ruling itself, for sure.