When I heard "You Can't Always Get What You Want," the only thing that I could come up with is that Trump really wants out but his ego won't let him bail so he has to do it through music (and possibly art) a la Tiny Rick on Rick and Morty.

That's a really good point.

While I'm a big fan of Aubrey Plaza and Jillian Bell, I'm not quite on board with you there. However, Nathan Fielder is a fucking genius/inspired bit of casting (I wish I had thought of it).

No, I'm actually not saying that all Nader votes should have gone for Gore but I would be very surprised if, after living through 8-years of the Bush administration, there aren't more than 537 Nader voters, like myself, in FL, that regretted their choice. (The dems that voted for Bush voted for a candidate that had a…

OK, first, I never used the word "stolen" or "stealing" so don't put words in my mouth.

Sure. Go for the George Carlin philosophy:

Bush vs. Nader in Florida came down to 537 votes; 97,000+ people voted for Nader in Florida. You are correct that Gore didn't have a lot of charisma but those Nader voters could have turned things the opposite direction had they been a bit more pragmatic. Hell, they knew FL would be close; Nader could have leveraged…

Um… yes (it was 2000 by the way). I was a young idealist back then and I voted for Nader. Realistically, it didn't make much of a difference as I live in CO and Bush carried the state by a fairly large margin but I still regret that vote and would change it if I could.

I think you're right on X6 (I don't think it was X5 and I never played X7) but for some reason, I found those guys much easier than the original. I guess I need to get better at pattern recognition.

I always used Elec in conjunction with the select trick; was there a better way to do it?

You forgot Cut, but I assume he's between Guts and Elec: this is the order that I run as well.

Nice. That was one of the first things I though of as well.

Looks like I got me some listening to do: I listened to The Bake Sale constantly when it came out and still pop it on periodically but I never actually heard Ice Fishing.

You're talking the original (not the arcade game that was released for the NES)? Yeah, I never took that one down… but I also never owned it myself (I did have a friend that had it and we logged a good bit of time).

Dude, you beat Battletoads but couldn't beat Ninja Gaiden? I was the opposite (NG was a lot of work but Battletoads was fucking impossible).

I just have to tell you: I love her voice.

3-D Christmas. Definitely Christmas.

Wow, they played Coma? That's fucking awesome.

Not really: parents coming over to play with the kids, fire in the fire pit to cook some marshmallows, probably get a few fireworks to shoot off for the kids, maybe some stargazing.

Did you guys ever hear the unreleased Jon Brion produced version of Extraordinary Machine? You could find it on P2P services pretty easily back in the day. When the Pawn… is still my favorite but that is a pretty close second.