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There was the original software default theme and we pretty much immediately flipped it to the UEMB default, and until now that was it so there was no real reason to know.

I have thoughts but I need to sit and type them and I got distracted by life. But once I sit down I'll type something out and draw more attention to the If you scroll to the bottom of the homepage, there should be a little button that says "Theme" that you can use to individually toggle from the default format to the ASMB one. If it makes sense to make more themes we can do that but making the one we did was a massive pain in the ass v because I'm really dumb.

isn't that just what FEMA is authorized to disburse before having to go to congress etc.

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1692579692736397685

they shouldn't have been smoking on board

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1692637579164680244?s=20

popped up in my algorithm, can't speak to whether it's a legit site but it said he recorded a few episodes before he died https://tvline.com/casting-news/johnny-hardwick-death-king-of-the-hill-reboot-returning-dale-1235027891/

We're going to open up a thread just to kind of open the door and discuss what people like, don't like, or want to see happen here. With @scoobdog's ASMB Survivor game complete, we'll be looking to archive the ASMB 20th Anniversary event board in the near future. Props to everyone who participated in the anniversary event, and in particular everyone who popped in to reconnect with the community. June was a pretty great month here - just a refreshing combination of nostalgia, returning faces, and new energy. Anyone who wants to get one last word in should jump over before it closes shop. Some of the threads may be ported out to live boards and we'll probably anchor some sort of shout-out thread in this folder for anyone who missed that boat but still wants to say hi or reintroduce themselves within that ASMB context. But anyways - moving forward! I'm going to open the floor. Setting aside the anniversary itself, we're about a year into the last big site revamp. So how do you feel about UEMB? Where do you think we succeed, and where do we fall short? What could we do better? What should our "voice" and direction be? (I'll add some of my own thoughts in a follow-up reply, once I finish thinking them up and then type them with my fingers.)

My understanding is anyone who was on the US payroll at the time will try to do the same. There's the a chance of rolling some Trump-appointed judges at some point in the process, and it also changes the composition of the potential jury pool.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/nyregion/sam-miele-charged-george-santos.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/meadows-seeks-move-fulton-county-election-case-federal/story?id=102295084

I'd have to do some "Hero's Path" math, but I'm assuming at this point I have well over 100 hours into the game. A lot of game sessions began with specific tasks in mind ("I'm going to explore X") where I play for hours but never actually get to them and the subsequent two sessions begin with the same original goal. But I feel like I'm into more of the "end game" phase, at least with regards to the surface. I've got like 117/152 shrines, 400+ korok seeds, all the glyphs and sky-tablets, and the compendium is near full without buying any pictures, and my mindset I think has organically shifted towards exploring the spaces I've missed or returning to key landmarks I put off (akkala citadel, the labyrinths, coast/islands, things with gleeoks), and I'm trying to gauge how long to draw out remaining quests so I dont burn out on the rote exploring.

Ma'am, that's not for sale. This is my living room. THAT'S MY PURSE AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-georgia-indictment-pardon-board-2023-8

@wacky1980 we're about to level up our friend level, do you care about timing it together to pop lucky eggs?

Oh I just assumed it did lol that's so in character for them

SPACEBABY FOR COMMISH

congrats NYC https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1691132707928182784

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1691257106601508864

It's a consistent argument in Dem administrations (at least the most recent two) because partisan priorities get wrapped up into vague omnibus finance bills and don't take effect for years so they are easy to vilify because their priorities are blocked by the filibuster, and bipartisan priorities still get vilified because the modern political-industrial complex requires it. Are you telling me that if we broke down all the omnibus bills into their component parts instead of referring to the omnibus bills and vague "spending", those component parts wouldn't sell better? Or are you telling me the non-conservative media is already breaking down all the omnibus bills to hawk the component parts but they're not selling? What mainstream media out there is going beyond the general in between talking about Trump indictments and Hunter Biden? Are Republicans taking credit for Biden-funded projects they voted against because it's unpopular? What about the "it's great! oh it's Biden? then it's dogshit" crowd? I'm not saying he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, which he's practically as old as. I'm simply saying that if his legislative accomplishments were broken down into their component parts (and frankly if you hid the names to counter partisan bias), on the whole they wouldn't be objectively unpopular.

The team/solo thing is making it extra hard to vote, I like parts of everyone's

I don't really agree. The problem is the lack of branding, not that the individual policies are broadly unpopular. When everything has at least a two-year lead in and is all wrapped into mega omnibus spending bills because that's the only way around the filibuster, the opposition is apparently the only side who knows how to brand. Like if you break down the IRA or CHIPS or infrastructure or COVID relief or whatever major landmark Biden keystones into their component parts, it's more often than not probably popular stuff (whether universally popular or just popular amongst relevant constituencies varies from policy to policy). But they are just completely incapable of marketing any of it on one hand, not sure if that's just because of the abstractness due to the lead in time or even if it took effect the day of. And on the other hand you've got the "it was a great idea until I was told it was a Biden program" people.

it's based on the 'captain's log' chapter from dracula, which was actually a pretty great read when I divorced it from 100+ years of pop culture

I saw that article this morning and almost shared those exact three paragraphs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump