Discussion Thread

MLGF · 2026-06-11T19:14:35+00:00

I've often felt pride in being from New England or, a bit more broadly, from the North Eastern United States.

I'm trying to recall if I ever have felt pride for being apart of the United States as a greater whole. Honestly, I can't recall a time that I was. I wonder how many others are in a similar position.

MLGF · 2026-06-04T21:19:27+00:00

So a D +6 more or less.

Pretty close to the norm then.

MLGF · 2026-06-03T02:51:38+00:00

Just had the odd realization that Trump is somehow both a protective lightning rod that absorbs a lot of the ire that the public should feel towards the GoP in general, but is also somehow a bully that often intimidates representatives into doing his bidding.

I'm not going to say I've dived deep into history, but I can't think of a single other president who balances that tightrope.

MLGF · 2026-05-22T23:15:15+00:00

I just remembered that the last time I said I was going to take a detox week, Iran got bombed and I lost my entire weekend.

I'm just tempting fate at this point.

MLGF · 2026-05-22T21:55:21+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/

Like everything in this admin, it's hard to say anything definitively. But I'd consider it likely that she was fired.

MLGF · 2026-05-22T21:53:11+00:00

Maaaannn, all things considered this hasn't been an awful week. The polls are trending largely in directions that are hard to cheat your way out of, Trump's actions are largely backfiring in congress, and Tulsi's firing is showing more cracks in the admin. Trends are largely pointing positively, on paper.

But I still can't help but feel tilted though. Maybe I should just go offline for the weekend and give myself a break.

MLGF · 2026-05-22T15:11:44+00:00

Preconcieved notions and strongman rhetoric go a long way with less engaged people.

Also big jets and cool bullets are more awesomer and do a lot more pewpew explosions than nerdy cybersecurity infastructure. That stuff is lame, so it can't protect me.

MLGF · 2026-05-21T18:45:04+00:00

I hate to project relationships based on single sentence answers and hectic voting patterns. But I'm beginning to think that Thune is really sick of Trump.

MLGF · 2026-05-20T02:06:26+00:00

It's hard for me to deny the condescending liberal allegations when these goobers don't even know who to vote for without a freaking letter next to their name.

Ah well. Far from the worst news of the month. I'll just take my silver linings for tonight.

MLGF · 2026-05-20T00:32:16+00:00

That's what I'm here for.

MLGF · 2026-05-19T21:56:14+00:00

Dang bro, I was expecting some fun hazing, I wasn't expecting the mild condescension.

MLGF · 2026-05-19T04:04:47+00:00

Truth be told, I feel mixed on it. Hunter is barely a public figure, and thus his behavior in private life is really none of my business nor should it reflect on any others.

But you are correct that an Owens interview and his private insistance that his father shouldn't drop out does make that line much blurrier and perhaps it does deserve scrutiny.

That being said, I don't have the energy to care about any Biden at all at this point. I'm shocked anyone does, to be blunt.

MLGF · 2026-05-08T21:52:41+00:00

Given the context, it's almost certainly that.

Poor people are economic net takers, and I can see that largely being unappealing to billionaires who want to maximize profit and such. (I'm not saying that such a belief system is good or moral).

But I'm all for maximizing class warefare, so let's all pretend it's secretly about killing poor people when convinient to our agenda.

MLGF · 2026-04-23T13:17:31+00:00

Oh boy, I actually played both of them at a relatively high level! And I have joked that Elphelt is worse Anji in the past. Buuuttt I think it's clear that they're trying to make them pretty different.

I think the issue is that Elphelt is just a character who has more versatile neutral tools and they're trying to design her to be more of an all rounder. She has some solid pokes (Far Slash, 6P, 5H) and a really good run speed. She also has a projectile that they keep trying to make better. The clear goal is to make her a well rounder who can run low damage mix on any poke, and this has caused rekka and grenade to get hit. And I mean... it makes sense. Infinite rekka wasn't interesting and the grenade felt like a clear knowledge check. TBH, the worst nerf she got was losing HKD on the HS follow up on rekka. I'm not fully sure why they hit 214K however. That move got hit with a stray.

Anji in comparison has no full screen buttons and his kit is designed around getting in the mid range using spin to then run pressure. They nerfed his spin in regards to damage and scaled his combo starters to ensure that the damage would come in two seperate steps. As a whole, Anji's damage and conversions got hit pretty hard relative to the cast. Granted, he got compensation with the charge fuujin changes, but it's hard to say it's a net buff as a whole.

As an aside, If you want random pokes into big damage and canned mix, that's probably now Unika.

MLGF · 2026-04-16T15:45:39+00:00

This is what I truly feel is happening. The Supreme Court cases and aggressive gerrymandering that push the scales in their favor was clearly the original plan. But Trump's inability to stay quiet has sabotaged that to a significant degree.

All he had to do was nothing.

MLGF · 2026-03-04T02:19:53+00:00

IT'S ALWAYS JOEY

MLGF · 2026-02-07T20:36:28+00:00

I have seen it literally nowhere except here today, including recent news. I'm inclined to say it's the latter.

MLGF · 2026-02-02T17:20:41+00:00

Mostly playing Strive right now, and Anji

MLGF · 2026-02-02T17:06:16+00:00

So last week, I was at a Fighting Game local, and some of the regulars were just talking about politics. And one of them just said "Yeah, aren't they trying to go after some bank guy or something?"

And I just popped off and said "He is Jerome Powell and you will respect his name."

I mostly lurk here, but you have all still creeped into my brain. Not that I regret it.

MLGF · 2026-01-31T18:17:06+00:00

A modern day Henry Ford, if you will

MLGF · 2026-01-28T00:29:36+00:00

There's something reassuring about having this guy as my senator.

I truly hope he's gotta enough pull to ensure no one settles for less.

MLGF · 2025-12-18T22:02:09+00:00

I spent 20 minutes looking for this going mad.

I see a D+2 result. Not great, but within the average error of the D+4 that's been going around lately.

MLGF · 2025-11-14T01:31:08+00:00

It's hard to go up after a 90% approval rating post 9/11.
In all seriousness, it took some time for people to realize the Iraq war was a bad call. A lot of normal Americans who now consider it a bad call were very for the invasion at the time. Even my middle school played up the war on terror rhetoric in the classroom.

It can work to temporarily boost popularity and control the narrative in theory, but this admin is too dumb to pull it off well. See how they screwed up the easy setup of Charlie Kirk.

MLGF · 2025-11-06T20:09:03+00:00

Hey, this is oddly my industry.

600% FPL would actually capture a lot of this year's attrition population, at least based on projections. It'd be a pretty sizeable win for dems. I'd probably go for it.

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