So wait... am I... an extended putter? I’m so lost

Sanders resonated with an idea progressives had of the white working class, and a sliver of voters in a DNC primary, not the white working class itself. If you think Sanders would have overtaken Trump in those Rust Belt states, then I dunno.

You really need to crystallize and freeze all these ‘calm down, they can’t actually do anything!!’ for that point in 2023 when the economy collapses because a Ryan congress stripped a lynchpin financial sector regulation in 2018. Or that point when the Supreme Court rules in a 5-4 decision something absurd that…

People really need to stop trying to talk like this is a thing, it is juvenile and crude and I get the need for hope, but that is an entirely misplaced place to put it.

We barely break half for any election. The last time 60% of the voting age population turned out was 1968 and that was for fucking Nixon v. Humphrey, two titans of charisma who really wooed America with their charm and wit.

They didn’t get ignored, though. Literally like 70% of the election is built around fucking Iowa Corn and Jobs We Had At The Old Steel Mill Back In The Day. From opioid addiction treatment policy, to vocational & college tuition plans, to trade policy, both campaigns tailored these policies to these people.

Okay, but I want to be the one standing there and reminding white liberal nerds to ‘calm down, chill out, it’s not that bad, because history is long’ when a Ryan congress & Trump FCC gut net neutrality (and lol if you don’t think that is absolutely on the docket, it’s already been brought up) and start letting Comcast…

No, the guy made a really valid point about how vulnerable people (white or not) are significantly more impacted by certain political events or not. If you’re a financially secure person who isn’t part of a marginalized group, then, no, you really don’t need to worry about politics much, because you’re insulated from…

Can you elaborate on this? I’m exactly the sort of person who wanders around for hours looking in every corner, and got bitten by it in Deus Ex. I’m about to start playing Tyranny, can you explain what/where the time limit is, how drastic it is?

You know what, I was going to discuss Merkel but I really don’t even care

He meant the ousting of Cameron, I’m pretty sure.

I know I’m never going to convince the ‘I told you so’ Sanders folks of this, but you’re conflating the idea that many progressives and labor folk had of Sanders connecting with white working class rust belters, and the reality of whether or not he did that. Clinton beat Sanders in states with more income inequality…

Get ready to add Marine Le Pen - which will leave Merkel as the last globalist Western leader of a major power. And whatever you hate about NAFTA or the EU or NATO, globalism is an absolutely upward pressure on civil rights in most of the world and contributes to stability and a lack of overt hot wars - an…

Erm, 8% in the right places absolutely would have mattered? She’s likely to still win the popular vote and in some states lost by some pretty narrow margins. It can’t all be leveled at 3rd party voters for sure, but neither can they just wash their hands of it and hold themselves blameless.

Probably shouldn’t let white women off the hook, they elected him too.

Lots of folks still play WC3. There’s still WC3 tournaments, mostly in China and SEA, for real money. Still lots of custom games. There’s still a couple million some odd Dota 1 players in China too. I keep it installed on my PC and play custom games or such sometimes.

An infinitely expanding roster is bad for the game. You can’t just have an avalanche of new characters forever, and League is a pretty good example of that.

I want GTA 70s :(

I mean, no? You can actually sample that sort of thing, and it really isn’t. But if that makes you feel better to believe ‘gosh, they really are just two equally bad people, supported by two groups of equally bad people.’ False equivalency and all that.

I have nothing to say other than that I feel happy whenever I see anyone talking about FFT.