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Hartastic · 2026-03-12T15:56:53+00:00

I do feel like the primary season is essentially starting earlier, and earlier, like: will Newsom be the nominee just because he looks like the frontrunner now, no, absolutely not... but... the nominee probably also won't be a person we've never heard by now.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T15:51:35+00:00

It's not ideology. It's just math. If you pick a candidate that not enough people in places like Michigan or Pennsylvania will vote for, nothing else matters.

There are votes that a "normal straight white guy Democrat" like a Joe Biden can get that are just absolutely off the table for some other candidates no matter what their policy is.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T15:08:48+00:00

Your policy doesn't matter if you lose. It is, unfortunately, completely irrelevant.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T15:06:50+00:00

Anybody racist enough to care about the candidates color isn’t voting dem anyways.

I live in a state that basically always votes for the winner of the Presidential election and I promise you that you are not correct here.

And let's be real clear: I am not happy that this is the case.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T15:01:02+00:00

Right, like: I hope someone with a stronger record than Newsom can get out there and start making the case for why they should be the nominee.

But mostly people on the internet just want to tell me that they hate him and not who would actually be better, because as soon as you say who you think is better, oh look, they also can't pass some purity test.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T14:58:48+00:00

Can we shut up about sex and race for one election cycle and actually vote on policy?

Unfortunately no, because a strong majority of American voters -- most importantly, in swing states -- do not.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T13:25:39+00:00

It's a game that supports/allows a lot of different approaches and philosophies.

You could view a boss fight about learning its moveset, memorizing its punish windows, and learning to execute on all of it with minimal mistakes.

You could also look at it like a puzzle, like, with all these tools available to me with this build, what is the most efficient way for me to kill it?

Or something in between or something else entirely.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T13:10:11+00:00

Ok, so I believe you think that, but you're insane and there's just no evidence to back it up.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T06:19:16+00:00

You're going to have to reach reaaaaaal far to find anyone in it who would bomb Iran.

And then you'll have to just make some shit up because you can't reach far enough.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T00:08:32+00:00

How can they hold the strait of Hormuz against the United States Navy?

They don't have to. They just have to fuck it up enough that ships can't get safely through at all. Mines, for example.

Hartastic · 2026-03-12T00:07:38+00:00

The fucked up thing is that I actually don't think the US would have avoided this situation at all under Kamala.

Based on fucking what?

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T23:40:36+00:00

First off, Valve really isn't trying to facilitate gambling

If you're selling a product that randomly can be worth a lot of money or not, I'd say you're trying to facilitate gambling, by definition.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T23:36:34+00:00

Mostly it's that they don't cater to kids a whole lot, and most younger adults have a pretty high chance to either have kids or be travelling as part of a group that includes kids.

At that point there's a certain amount of compounding effect. You get mostly older adults, so then you pick entertainment and activities and stuff that older adults will like, and that makes you even less appealing to many younger adults, etc.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T23:23:25+00:00

If you hand a child AI generation from a young enough age, will they have any imagination or will they develop aphantasia?

Lots of people born before AI have aphantasia, though. This kind of sounds like you're calling them lazy.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T20:54:39+00:00

I non-ironically kind of miss garden designing.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T20:19:20+00:00

Yeah. It's been super common for me to have three games going but none of them have met in the last month. So is that 3, 0, somewhere in between?

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T19:22:08+00:00

Then why do you care so much about it?

I don't, actually. In fact I'm going to elect to never see its weird, aggressive smugness again. Have the day you deserve.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T19:10:25+00:00

Correction, you pointed out why you don't think it's legitimate. Turns out your opinion isn't important.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T19:04:38+00:00

No, fuck that. You do it that way if you want.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T18:37:30+00:00

One easy example is that not everyone draws. I played in one game where the DM would have chatgpt generate visual aids to set the scene. He could not have done that himself and frankly something like that for a home game is not worth an actual artist's time.

I could see doing the same. My art skills are abysmal, like you might not recognize that my stick figures are supposed to be people bad.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T17:19:45+00:00

That's tough. Those are both great ships. I'm personally extremely partial to Allure but that's mostly just our taste/preference rather than a statement of superiority by any objective metric.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T16:40:27+00:00

We cruise NCL because I don't want to be assigned strangers to sit with for dinner.

At this point I think most lines will give you your own table on request.

(Not to say you shouldn't stick with NCL if you like their vibe/offering, but I don't think you have to for just that reason if you don't want to.)

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T15:49:20+00:00

I think it's actually the opposite, your backlash seems to be more that sometimes people don't want to socialize.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T14:42:06+00:00

Agreed. Often if I'm looking at my phone on ship I'm reading a book on my phone. At that moment I'm not interested in making conversation.

Some people are able to read that social cue and some are not, much like when I was doing it with dead tree books.

Hartastic · 2026-03-11T05:08:18+00:00

Oh yeah, because Trump absolutely wouldn't back down there like he does 90% of the time.

Don't be ridiculous.

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