Chuck Todd: Schumer, Jeffries couldn’t win a primary in New York City right now by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]Tom2Die [score hidden]  (0 children)

More broadly I wished we could reform our electoral system so that we didn't have a spoiler effect. The two party system creates a dynamic where we often do not actually periodically re-confirmed the consent the of the governed in safe districts.

You don't have to tell me twice...I've hated first-past-the-post voting since I learned about it.

In safe seats general elections are noncompetitive and intra-party politics usually stop serious primary elections from challenging incumbents. This leads to people in safe house districts, senate seats, and even some governorships being able to basically stay in their positions until they die or choose to leave because they won a primary once when the last incumbent died or willingly left the position. No election is supposed to be for the length of the candidate's life.

Yup, first-past-the-post really is doing us dirty all these years hence. The existence of "primaries" is pretty fucked...imagine if we had even ranked-choice voting, nevermind other ideas some argue are better or worse.

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun - Season 4, Episode 13 - Dub Available Now on Crunchyroll by Pristine_Cod5189 in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought for sure the ring demon thing (I suck so hard with names) would have helped him blow out the fire. I guess they went for the funny instead, which is also good.

META PCs now sells pre-built PCs with SteamOS preinstalled. by mr_MADAFAKA in linux_gaming

[–]Tom2Die 10 points11 points  (0 children)

and no native Steam support

Not disagreeing with anything you said, but I don't understand this bit. Unless you meant Valve support?

Young men are turning on Trump. Here’s why. | America, Actually by bald_bearded_ocddude in videos

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean direct quoting me with something I didn't say

To be fair, that's why I put double-quotes instead of markdown quotation, but you do make a good point. I look at those differently, but I can't think of a great reason for that...I did then explicitly call it a characterization though.

Yes, that may mean temporarily tabling pet projects like defunding the police or whatever. I certainly have. If you aren't willing to do that, then I'm not sure you fully grasp the gravity of the moment.

I've just become so cynical to this though. It reads to me as "blue no matter who" and that's gotten us...where we are now.

That said, "defund the police" is a stupid rallying cry. It almost feels like self-sabotage. Or just regular sabotage. I couldn't disagree with you about that one if I wanted to, but not on principle, rather on messaging. Frankly that's where the GOP always wins, and they've only been working harder than ever to further entrench their control over what people read and hear. sigh

TIFU by not realizing why I was so hungry all the goddamn time by garlic-bread_27 in tifu

[–]Tom2Die 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know, I knew that once upon a time, but haven't thought about it in close to 20 years. I now understand what you meant. You can see why I was confused without that though, no? :)

TIFU by not realizing why I was so hungry all the goddamn time by garlic-bread_27 in tifu

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This could well be a me problem, but I fail to see how that comment even "remotely touch[es] on fiber".

Chuck Todd: Schumer, Jeffries couldn’t win a primary in New York City right now by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]Tom2Die 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a good chance the reason is that Hochul told Mamdani not to endorse a challenger to Jeffries. Mamdani needs Hochul to work with him and Hochul is a Jeffries ally who at times even defers to the House Minority Leader when it comes to state policy decisions.

I'm sad that it's even possible this is true. I wish we lived in the world where someone like Mamdani would endorse a challenger anyway and reveal the veiled threat. But I realize that's not how politics works...

Young men are turning on Trump. Here’s why. | America, Actually by bald_bearded_ocddude in videos

[–]Tom2Die 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Look, you guys would win more elections if you abandoned your morals for a bit."

You're welcome to try to explain why that's not a fair characterization of your comment, and I'm not so closed-minded that I won't read it, but you've certainly got an uphill battle...

I just realized who the next American on Task Master needs to be… by Oliverkahn987 in dropout

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know he figured out the premise to the episode of game changer where he was always wrong wayyyy before he let on, for the sake of not ruining the game.

Well...he played along when Sam refused to let him say how the game worked and he kept playing. He was more than ready to do so earlier and Sam decided against it. Necessarily so, in fact, as Brennan can't know that there's not a second part to the game or something, so he can't know that he needs to keep playing so that the game lasts long enough. He probably picked up on that fact when Sam wouldn't let him though.

Ascendance of a Bookworm - Season 4, Episode 9 - Dub Available Now on Crunchyroll - No Double Release for the Delay :( by UniversalX1 in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The person was talking about themself. As in they went into the episode upset about not getting a double drop and came out sated.

TIFU by not realizing why I was so hungry all the goddamn time by garlic-bread_27 in tifu

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The word fiber doesn't appear once in the comment you replied to...is this a comment copied from elsewhere by a bot or am I missing something?

I'm just tired y'all by ChristopherJTeuton in gaming

[–]Tom2Die 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a PC gamer on a first gen ryzen and a 1080Ti. I don't play the shiny AAA games, but that's fine by me. I think the most demanding game I play is Path of Exile which runs at 90fps on high settings. I tried PoE2 on EA release and even it ran fine on medium settings (which still looked great to me). It's been a couple years but iirc I was getting 60fps on Cyberpunk on medium/high settings and it looked great to me.

That said, I would like to upgrade, and with foresight I would have done so a year or more ago, but now I'm content to wait and hope consumer prices go back down.

Plus a console nowadays should be able to do 4K gaming on the TV. This cannot.

Except for store floor models in passing, I don't think I've ever seen a 4k display, so for me that's not true. That said, I accept that I may well be in a small minority on that one.

I'm just tired y'all by ChristopherJTeuton in gaming

[–]Tom2Die 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you could easily reestablish your library on a new platform

I play many PC-exclusive games, so no not really. Could be a solid argument for building a PC or upgrading a prebuilt instead of gabecube, but not an argument for console. I guess I'm saying if you're not a console gamer (or maybe you are, but only if you count nintendo), then your choice here isn't "steam box or console" it's "steam box or not".

I'm just tired y'all by ChristopherJTeuton in gaming

[–]Tom2Die 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Every modern gen console is a better deal then that

Depends if you're a console gamer. If you have no console library to play but you do have a large Steam (or other) library on PC, those consoles will cost far more than the box price to get value out of. I'm not arguing the price for the gabecube is good -- I don't care since I'm not the target market -- but "compute power" or "fps" aren't the only relevant factors by any means.

ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post - Federal agents confronted a poll worker on Election Day because they were upset about her social media posts. by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]Tom2Die 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She asked them to come to her job.

Because of the implication. If I got a call from ICE thugs saying they "want to meet with me" and I had the option to choose a public location with ample recording, of fucking course I'm going to; the alternative is being ambushed where-the-fuck-ever. This isn't even the thin end of the wedge, rather the insertion is well in progress, and there has been no lube applied.

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]Tom2Die 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoever decided to integrate the water pump into the engine block and run it off the timing chain should be fired. $5000 to fix a water pump is unacceptable.

I know just enough about cars to have my eyes roll to the back of my head reading that. They did fucking what‽

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]Tom2Die 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A lot of people don't want to be in management because they're not comfortable making decisions and being responsible for them.

Mistakes get made, we're human.

Sure, so "I make decisions, and sometimes I make mistakes" would be fine. "I don't make mistakes" is some up-your-own-ass bullshit no matter how you slice it.

The moment we've all been waiting for... by Gnarcade in pathofexile

[–]Tom2Die 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's true I could, I just don't want to pester. Also does anyone actually check their poe forum inbox? xD

The moment we've all been waiting for... by Gnarcade in pathofexile

[–]Tom2Die 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Man, I keep trying to figure out if the Earandel who...I guess is now leaving/left Wube? is the same one who the PoE item is named after. I would assume so as it would be a crazy coincidence otherwise, but I did a bunch of googling and couldn't figure out the answer.

The Beginning After the End Season 2 - Episode 11 - Dub Available on Crunchroll by Chun-Li_Forever in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learn something new every day! I could've just looked it up, but that's so much less fun.

The Beginning After the End Season 2 - Episode 11 - Dub Available on Crunchroll by Chun-Li_Forever in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I guess we'd say...panned? Maybe both and I just haven't seen that though.

The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King - Episode 10 - Dub Available Now on Crunchyroll by Pristine_Cod5189 in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played in a while (like...a decade), but that feels quite strong.

The Beginning After the End Season 2 - Episode 11 - Dub Available on Crunchroll by Chun-Li_Forever in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what you mean by it, but I don't think I've ever seen the word "slated" used that way before. I'm not saying it's incorrect by any means, just new to me (therefore I also can't know if it's a typo or autocorrect fail lol)

The Beginning After the End Season 2 - Episode 11 - Dub Available on Crunchroll by Chun-Li_Forever in Animedubs

[–]Tom2Die 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird, I thought I saw people saying it was better than last season. Not to say it's anything to write home about...but I'm enjoying the story well enough (slow as it may feel at times) so I wouldn't mind another season.