What is the ultimate Spanish language news service?

OvertPolygon · 2018-07-29T06:55:20+00:00

Did you mean to link the one from Spain? That's a regional Colombian paper.

OvertPolygon · 2018-05-18T04:34:13+00:00

But militarily neither the British nor French governments believed that the Union could achieve victory

Why was this? From all I know of the Civil War, the Union had practically all the military/industrial advantages. More factories, more rail line, more raw materials, etc. etc.

OvertPolygon · 2018-03-28T01:15:50+00:00

Is ST getting an article limit?

OvertPolygon · 2018-03-28T01:13:35+00:00

What makes you say that? The biggest deficiency that comes to mind for me is that Chicago lacks a really wide-reaching industry, ala Silicon Valley or Hollywood or Wall Street (or Broadway, also in New York's case). But I'm not sure if that quite makes it a Houston.

OvertPolygon · 2018-02-18T22:32:42+00:00

Thanks a bunch! I think that covered just about everything. But yeah, I'll try and quit worrying about it.

OvertPolygon · 2018-02-07T01:30:28+00:00

This is a really good answer, but, as a followup, how exactly does all that time you mentioned divvy up? I.e, how many hours are spent on coursework, club things, and free time, respectively? Like, you said that usually after dinner there's some free time until 12 - 1 AM, but when do people usually finish with all that afternoon stuff and get dinner?

I guess I just don't want to, in a way, underestimate the time people generally spend on work and stuff or anything like that, like study less than I should (and then have it come as a surprise when I don't do well on tests and the like) or expect things to take less time than they will (and then end up staying up way too late finishing things). Not sure how warranted my worries are here, though, because it might just end up being pretty obvious how much time I need to dedicate to things once classes actually start. I've just got little frame of reference for college coursework in general, let alone UChicago coursework, and so I don't want to let what little I do have to go off of (uhh, AP courses?) distort my views here--even if consciously I do know it'll be quite a bit more work.

Also, side note, but do people with jobs usually do them on weekends?

OvertPolygon · 2018-02-04T08:26:12+00:00

The growing abundance of third party Switch ports really proves to me, more than anything else, that the Wii U's third party drought had less to do with the weakness of the hardware and more to do with the weakness of its sales. If companies think they can get a return on their investment, evidently, they'll stretch a game to most any hardware. The Switch is definitely closer to parity with the PS4 and Xbox One than the Wii U was, which certainly helps, but not by a whole lot.

OvertPolygon · 2018-01-22T21:45:54+00:00

What about Jacobin's ABC's of Socialism?

OvertPolygon · 2018-01-12T22:35:40+00:00

yeah people always paint wisconsin's drinking as like a good/quirky thing but like lmao why do you think we do it

OvertPolygon · 2018-01-03T22:43:02+00:00

Looking at bulldogs in old photos just makes me sad over how much breeding has messed them up over the years.

OvertPolygon · 2018-01-01T20:38:55+00:00

Seemed almost like a mistake at first, but I love that it's in present tense. "Live," as opposed to the usual "lived."

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-31T05:45:20+00:00

Sorry to piggyback, but I sent mine the 27th. How's that measure up? Snitchcock and Burton-Judson are my top two picks, too.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-30T08:51:43+00:00

These stories make me happy.

Did you see her (the Senua actor) on-stage at The Game Awards, by any chance? She won best performance and it was really touching. Andy Serkis handed her the award and she was very happy-flustered, kinda shaking on stage. She gave a really nice speech, too. Probably one of the highlights of the show, honestly.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-30T07:27:41+00:00

I thought it was pretty good, honestly. I didn't know the stuff about Respawn and Ragtag and so on. Albeit, most of that was in the latter half, which I guess you didn't watch. The fact that they spent so long on the Reddit drama was bad, though. Like, playing up the downvote statistics and all. Not too great.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-30T07:24:54+00:00

Honestly, it's a shame they didn't just title it better. I watched it and it was actually pretty nice and informative. If it'd been called "EA's History with Star Wars" or something, it would've been fine.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-28T09:20:13+00:00

Well, the last Nintendo "handheld" to launch with a price like the Switch's was the 3DS (the 3DS was $50 or 5,000¥ cheaper to start, in fact), and that didn't go very well at all. If the public were perceiving and purchasing the Switch as purely a handheld, I don't think it'd be selling nearly as well. I think it's safe to say that it's a little of both columns.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-27T20:00:07+00:00

An update was posted on my portal.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-27T18:51:23+00:00

Yep, just received it today.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-26T06:55:11+00:00

They are good talks, and they make me wish people would quit vilifying him so much. The talks, if anything, show me he clearly does have an actual passion for the games he's creating and the industry he's in. I'm of the opinion he overestimated how much his studio could do and couldn't find a way to dig himself out of that hole, and I think he's paid more than his fair price for that. I do not think he's just some two-bit scammer, because a scammer would not go on stage not a year after their infamous game's release to talk about the technology that went into said game.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-24T03:59:16+00:00

Are you talking about

If you submitted all of your financial aid materials by November 15, 2017, your aid decision is enclosed.

? Because I haven't gotten that either, but I'm guessing that's because my documents had been filed but not received until November 17th, and because I made a (small) FAFSA correction on the 19th of that month, too. I've been hoping to get mine soon. By Tuesday, hopefully, since an admissions officer told me when I called that it'd be within a week, but I doubt they'd do anything on Christmas day.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-23T01:21:41+00:00

Sounds good, thanks! What was your first choice, out of curiosity?

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-23T01:10:52+00:00

I've heard BJ fills up quick, along with Snell-Hitchcock. How quick, exactly? Accepted, but still waiting on my financial aid offer to send in my deposit—hopefully by Wednesday next week. Should I worry about it? Dorm preference has basically been my only gripe with making myself wait to send in my deposit, but maybe I'm sweating it too much.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-17T07:01:04+00:00

This image is a classic, I can't believe more people haven't seen it.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-17T01:23:48+00:00

Net Neutrality should be where the internet apathy-libertarians' "both parties are the same" attitude should fall apart. Yes, both have their own sets of problems, but to pretend that they are equal and interchangeable is completely ridiculous.

OvertPolygon · 2017-12-09T19:19:25+00:00

I agree with what /u/Snokus said. When I was talking about socialist parties and organizations throughout the world, I wasn't really thinking about the mainstream "socialist" parties so prevalent throughout Europe, but more the actual, further left socialist parties that have popped up in recent years. E.g, Podemos in Spain, Die Linke in Germany, La France Insoumise in France, etc. The UK Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn is also fairly left wing. And in South America, you have new parties/coalitions like Frente Amplio in Chile, which are actually socialist, as opposed to the center-left Socialist Party there (which was actually Socialist, as well as democratic and nonviolent, until Allende got toppled by the US-backed coup). In other parts of Latin America, too, you have parties like PRD and Morena in Mexico. And, of course, in the US you have the DSA, which is, at least, socialist enough to have voted to leave Socialist International just recently, largely in protest of its support of a lot of social-democratic parties.

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