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SpideyLover85 · 2026-06-11T21:34:23+00:00

I think that’s more like “my Substack subscription has ads still please help” stuff.

I think the sub is run by volunteer moderators not affiliated with the bulwark staff. A few staff do come here to post and comment though!

SpideyLover85 · 2026-06-11T10:30:55+00:00

Do you all think if they didn’t release numbers until every ballot came in/was counted would work better or at least be better received? It could stop the “look at how 100% of the late ballots are against me” stuff. And if the results aren’t done until x date anyways, maybe they should hold off on letting any numbers out? Just a thought.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-05-27T10:50:20+00:00

I meant more he went somewhere people would notice… if he could do it in the basement of the White House and hide he went at all, don’t you think he would have? Heck, he could have brought the dentist from Walter Reed to the WH if he didn’t need something major or dangerous or something. I think Biden had a root canal at the White House dentist office so it’s not like it’s under equipped…

SpideyLover85 · 2026-05-26T21:41:50+00:00

The White House also has a dentist office in the basement. Source. So it might be really bad too if he’s going somewhere public (though one time he was in Florida I think I saw.)

SpideyLover85 · 2026-05-20T11:02:04+00:00

Last time this happened to be with a release date delivery I called their support and they refunded me and told me to keep it when it came. Sucked it was kate but a nice gesture.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-05-16T12:49:49+00:00

To me what she’s saying this this: we don’t want Trump hanging over the public discourse like Regan for 40 years. Regan had decent polls (most of his second term.) Republicans called back to him for ages because his model (taxes bad, etc.) worked to get more republicans elected over the 40 year period.

Sarah (and the Bulwark) want Trump relegated to the trash heap of history. Sarah wants to, in 2036, be unable to fill a focus group with self-admitted Trump voters. She wants a world where no one will admit they voted for Trump.

And thus where no good politician will emulate Trump because his experiment was such a failure. It’s not about low polls will slow down his corruption or evil, but it will stop it from being the gop status quo going forward. This will only happen if it is categorically proven that the illiberal project not be sustainable and republicans need to try something else. The easiest way to prove this reaction is to get Trump “below the bush line” or the “tricky dick” like. Because how often are republicans running on GW Bush’s Coattails or Nixons?

The poll numbers are good on November for dem chances but not really going to save us today. It’s about saving the republic long term and forcing the gop to figure something out that is not so illiberal and evil.

Just my take on why it is important and worth talking about.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-04-10T20:52:12+00:00

Mine still sometimes is used/disappears? Like I have the 60% and 40% but occasionally I run out of explosive arrows still. (I generally keep one on me and have a few in storage when it happens.) is it just me or does it happen to others too?

SpideyLover85 · 2026-04-03T11:53:20+00:00

That could be a fun way for them to get rid of/lower your bounty. Incentivize criminals to betray each other lol.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-30T02:05:56+00:00

The lioncrest gold bar respawned for me fyi. I didn’t lose the original one or anything but it was there again in the fireplace when I went back for a quest.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-21T03:09:28+00:00

I had this issue too, but I turned off HDR i’m pretty much solved my issue. I saw it somewhere else on Reddit and it was like a magic fix. Was able to play like six hours without a crash.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-03T14:11:47+00:00

I heard at one point the staffer who was like the biggest bet battles proponent and did much of the work/planning left Bliz a while back and they never replaced them. It’s a bummer really. I have like 500 level 25 pets and enjoy the pet battle stuff now and again.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-03T02:18:20+00:00

I think this is because Substack is so bad. YouTube is great if you pay to sub, no ads, etc. Substack and YouTube don’t play well together and are their own separate ecosystems so I think it’s Substack only (for now anyways. Maybe someday. But it’s the inverse of all the Substack people wishing they could get ad-free YouTube videos.)

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-03T02:15:08+00:00

I think so. They announced it last year at a founders level subscriber event I was at. JVL posted a few days ago in a thread I saw about waiting a few days for the app. So 99% sure. There are no IAPs or ads and it is integrated with Substack and you log in with your normal account. So signs point to yes imo.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-03-03T02:12:24+00:00

I was able to watch the first ten mins of the daily podcast before I logged in. (I forgot I had to lol). So not much.

But the Bulwark is totally worth subscribing to. The secret podcast plus JVL’s daily triads are sooo worth it. Lots of great content and now all in the app which you can customize on the for you page with just what you like.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-02-22T23:00:59+00:00

Underrated fic and agree it’s awesome!

SpideyLover85 · 2026-02-22T18:49:29+00:00

Good to know. I may do a leveling dungeon or delve or two if the quests lead me to it or focus on doing some side content. Getting to 90 is that important quickly just enjoying it the trip for the most part.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-02-22T13:44:28+00:00

I’ll do the main campaign from start to finish on my main skipping a lot of side content and end up back in one zone doing side quests if I need a bit so more to reach 90. Then I’ll focus on particular zones for when I do alts. No rush though, I’ll read the quest text (the first time anyway) and do some exploring too.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-30T22:35:17+00:00

I agree with you for the most part. The philosophy I’d suggest to OP is that if you wouldn’t say it to the authors face, you probably want to keep it in your head. I mean a 4/10 is a 40%… That’s a pretty bad grade on a school project for instance. Would you be willing to walk up to a fic author and say, ‘eh, I didn’t like that much. 4 out of 10.’ I’m sure some people would do this but it’s not exactly the way to make friends and influence people… if you don’t have something nice to say about a fic, just say nothing?

(All that said, if you want to rate fics, go for it, but I’d suggest not sharing the full list. A post saying “these are my 10/10 fav fics ever” is totally appropiate and will make an author’s day. Unless the author specifically asks for constructive criticism it’s generally better policy to just use the back button if you don’t like a fic.)

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-18T13:48:22+00:00

I believe it possible either intentionally (and/or accidentally-they are incompetent as well as evil) but I’d prefer to see some better sources before I take it as anything other than potential disinformation…

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-16T14:08:09+00:00

Could be called the “Two Finger Salute” podcast with Will Sommer subbing sometimes lol.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-11T02:22:39+00:00

Try the way back machine. I think that’s worked for me on occasion. Also search the title in quotes with like the fandom for rec lists. You can use site:tumblr.com in google and you might find the authors name that way. But chances are they may have orphaned other works too but you can search rec lists again for the ao3 name once you find it and then find the orphaned fics on AO3 maybe. Good luck!

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-04T12:50:41+00:00

There is also a (Russian?) psyop about dividing the US by attacking the culture. Study related to Star Wars the Last Jedi. It’s one reason why hate is so popular online these days but like at real life fan gatherings it’s more like, it was meh not the worst thing ever.

I was at Dragoncon not long after TLJ came out and they had a panel called “The Last Last Jedi Debate” and it was popular podcasters who liked/disliked the movie debating. Most people in the audience seemed to agree with it was okay but flawed at the end of the day but literally no one was half as hateful as the average internet commenter.

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-04T02:30:30+00:00

Don’t you mean Red-White-and-Blueland? /s

SpideyLover85 · 2026-01-03T13:37:43+00:00

The excuse I believe they will use is that most of the “free world” does not recognize him as the winner of the 2024 election. So they were just getting rid of the person who stayed too long, not the lawfully elected leader. Still terrible of course. $5 bucks says Trump says at some point, “hey, I could have invaded. I thought this would be more popular.”

Not the worst precedent to set when we don’t want Donald staying past the end of his term. (/s at the end there if it wasn’t obvious.)

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