In the second one they added like an echo-location sort of ping. You’d send it out and it’d highlight orbs in your mini-map. The location of the orbs would fade away until the next ping.

That is the one mentioned in The Atlantic (which I clearly didn’t read).

Another staging of Julius Caesar with Obama in the titular role (2012):
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/shakesblog/obamas-ides-of-march/

Hey! Remember Line Rider? This reminds me of Line Rider. And the crazy art and music videos people would make.

I think you are too pessimistic. I obviously hope you are too pessimistic and wrong. Again, I’ll grant you could prove to be right. It’s possible the gerrymandering that took place in 2010+ has made the large swings of the past historical footnotes. Incumbency also tends to prevent seats from flipping. A 30 seat swing…

It’s got its warts but the game is so much better than its reception would have you believe. It is unmistakably a Mass Effect game.

I have nothing against the common complaints: the animation nor the writing.

I’m not talking about the Senate. Every House seat is up every election (2 year terms). The Dems would need a gain of 30 seats to take the House. They gained 31 in 2006 (Bush mid-term!), 21 in 2008 (thanks Obama). Republicans gained 63 in 2010 (thanks Obama). What doesn’t mathematically work out here? What am I…

There is better than no chance. There is a real shot the Democrats can take the house. Obviously, more than year out, it’s premature to bet on any outcome but if nothing earth shattering occurs, the Democrats have a number of things working in their favor:

the midterms don’t hold a lot for us. We have no realistic hope to make much ground in the Senate, for example.

The only reason I ended up getting an Xbox One (and not a PS4) was its support for backwards compatibility. I was all set to get a PS4, it has better HW specs and way more worthwhile exclusives. Then MS announced the BC feature, people said it performed well and I was sold.

I might be a statistical anomaly but if…

Trump’s racism should’ve been a disqualifying factor. The fact it wasn’t and motivated people to vote for him is a huge deal. That is probably the most important aspect of the election. It has certainly had the most immediate and negative impact on people’s lives.

I still don’t believe that race was the deciding factor…

My biggest issue with the post election analysis is the obsession with finding The One Thing that got Trump elected. I feel like a crazy person trying to argue that an election in which about 137 million people voted (and about 95 million eligible voters did not) cannot reasonably be distilled down to a single issue.…

Does anyone know if the gun that was supposedly found just sitting in Michael’s lap even registered to her or Sandlin or anyone they knew?

Their argument is that the Hawaii injunction on the EO basically stopped any of the EO from being enacted. It would certainly seem reasonable that law enforcement and/or intelligence agencies could still be working toward “improved vetting”. Since it’s their job and is independent of the EO. Then again, that might…

It probably is total bullshit. But I literally only know what NPR reported and couldn’t easily find any more of the legal argument.

According to acting solicitor general Jeffrey Wall, the Hawaii ruling caused the government to halt work on improved screening:

Whoa whoa whoa. No one’s calling for murdering anyone. In fact, I don’t see anyone calling for any real action. Nolan was calling out people like Bloomberg that are spending an enormous amount of money on garbage that could otherwise do a comparable amount of good. That’s where our thread started, right? HamNo saying…

I don’t think it’s fair to take taxes out of this discussion. Hypothetically, if the US were to return to something relatively high, like over 70% for the highest incomes, then this discussion completely unravels. Having been forced to meet social obligations with their wealth, there’s not much of a good reason left…

That’s exactly HamNo’s point though. The ultra-wealthy aren’t paying an “appropriate amount of taxes” if they have enough excess money to throw at vanity projects like this. Furthermore, because this project will count as charitable giving it will probably decrease Bloomberg’s tax liability. Thus, that money won’t go…