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Even setting aside the prison pipe dream, the guy's likely dead within the next 2-3 election cycles. Even setting aside all the things wrong with him, the party just doesn't seem to be in any position to do anything besides try to prop him up. I mean.. Dems don't seem to be in much better shape right now.. but I'd like to think there everyone at least recognizes the need for making plans for after this election.

S'ok. Nothing truly concerning, more a curiosity. There's just the faintest of gradients around the thread preview box. I can't even really show it off any better, it's so faint. But if you look close careful at the right side of that image, especially around the corners, you can see some rounded off not-as-blackness just outside the preview box (almost touches the corners, and just a bit outside that is another rounded region of slightly-not-as-dark. Maybe probably a desktop-only thing? I have no idea how/if thread previews work on mobile.

Worth noting, this particular ship is roughly twice as large as anything that existed when the bridge was built. Bear in mind, this ship is considered mid-size. Bah, can't re-find the article I'd seen comparing it to train loads. Seem to recall it saying it's carrying roughly the equivalent of a freight train 20-something miles long.

Nobody wants to hear it, nobody wants to say it, but..... The economic cost of putting such restrictions on cargo shipping (probably) far outweighs the cost of the occasional disaster. Capitalism, baby!

I just woke up from a dream of me watching some weird Toonami mashup special.. kinda like that DBZ x One Piece x [that other show] thing.. but zanier, broadly Toonami focused, lots of characters, some incomprehensible plot.. I distinctly remember the music having a bunch of old callbacks to some absolute classic [as] bump tracks. So.... if they ever pull something like that off, I'm going to start calling myself a psychic.

Shut up, scoob. (too cliche?)

I mean.. who do you think owns our government?

*Parents have Neji fight a 3 year old girl* "Man, that Neji kid sure is strong! Look how good he is at beating up someone smaller and weaker than him!"

This is all very sensible... except, there's already precedent with Arizona and Hawaii, so, if Florida is so hung up on this (considering they're constantly the ones proposing an end to it), why don't they just get rid of it in Florida and be satisfied? Or make it permanent, hard to tell which way they want it. In any case, clearly it doesn't have to be country-wide.

They've been "trying to stop it" (or make it permanent) since forever. It never goes anywhere. And then there was the time..

Coworker hasn't been able to smell or taste properly for more than a year now, I think.

A lot of those look pretty damn old. Does steam charge to continue keeping a game available on their servers? Seems fair to drop these if nobody even remembers they exist anymore. I should go play Super House of Dead Ninjas again sometime.. Hopefully at least some of these get preserved somewhere on the high seas.

I don't entirely disagree, however, I'm also willing to take staff accounts that he wasn't really exactly involved so much in the writing and direction of the show. So, I wouldn't rule out the possibility it still wouldn't have reached this point regardless. Especially if you consider the likelihood of him feeling ready to move on or start new projects in this time frame. The man was a machine and surely would've felt the creative pull towards something new. I'll miss his contributions to the show, but I'll miss his contributions to the industry even more. I'll forever wonder how animation could've been changed/influenced as he continued to grow.

Yeah... idk. 10+ years is a damn good run, and... if they couldn't tell the story they wanted to tell in that time, I can't really feel that bad. Don't get me wrong, I loved it at the start. But.. maybe I was too optimistic in thinking they had an idea of where the story was headed.

I prolly oughtta make sure I've gone and gotten whatever DVDs/BluRays I'm still missing.. I've kinda lapsed on collecting that after a while. I think I've not even watched several seasons... but I still felt like it was a good thing to support Monty Oum's final work.

And let's not forget this little gem

It's like you've already forgotten the bullshit we went through once already with a Trump term. That's one of the unique aspects of this election, having seen 4 years of each. Can't really say the last four years have reached the same level of fuckery as the previous four. You're trying to diminish Trump as just someone that doesn't know how to lead, overlooking the fact that he knows full well how to grift. It's not about being a bad president, it's about trying to be an attempted dictator.

You're not paying attention. Read the last part of my post again. Yes, they're both bad. But " looking like he's going to drop dead any moment" is not remotely the same as being actively dangerous to the country. Sure, republicans can afford to gamble on anyone else, if they lose, no big deal, it's just more Biden. Same can't be said the other way.

I don't think it really can/will, at least with this matchup. Dems know they can't afford to risk another Trump term, and the chance of the party inevitably rallying around Trump again is too high. The party thrives on the "screw the libs" platform, and they can always count on Trump to screw everyone. Despite the "both are bad" rhetoric, one is clearly worse. For a "good" third party year, you'd need a "both are bad, but at least neither are dangerous" selection. A losing at the roulette scenario, rather than our current losing at Russian roulette.

Judging from the titles alone, it's fairly clear everything after this is just fluff, filler or not. I still say they just intentionally padded everything out to hit that big 500 number. One feeling that came through with this episode was.. wondering if there was any sort of sense of relief once these chapters had been written and put out. All the ups and down and years and years, build up and retcons and breadcrumbs, on and on leading up to the finale. I can't help but get the impression that there was a huge burden lifted knowing everything came together and it was all over.

An episode where literally nothing important happened. Completely forgot the first half, was expecting a mid-roll when the credits hit.

One thing I'm not enjoying so far is how they seem to be making the black characters sound... excessively exaggerated. Gotta make it super clear that they're totes ethnic and not just a diversity skin tone. And then I realized, yeah, that tracks for being produced by [as]/DeMarco. Seems like everything they've made has had that faint whiff of mid-tier fanfic by a shoddy writer. Can't wait to see how they fuck this one up in the end.

I will admit, back when I first watched this and the previous arc, I was also sorta disappointed in how little ground they truly cover. Both arcs kinda just amount to killing one demon, in a fairly static setting, with very little exposition or anything that truly forwards the overall plot. Sure, the fights might be visually pleasing, decently animated/choreographed, etc. But... end of the day it's a whole lot of eye candy to distract you from the fact that nothing else is really happening.

I only just noticed that the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title) has a weird very faint mis-aligned bubble around it. Has that always been a thing? Oh wait, it's actually two bubbles. There's the thread preview box, then right around the edges is a rounded border that's just a few shades darker than background, and around that is another larger rounded border that's closer to the background grey bit still just slightly off.