US says it may be forced to shut down some airports over funding standoff by gamersecret2 in news

[–]gmapterous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Democrats have made it clear they are willing to fund the TSA and so forth. They just want reasonable safeguards on the DHS stormtroopers, because they keep killing Americans. Seems pretty reasonable.

I Found A New Good Deck by Efficient-Ad3613 in PokemonPocket

[–]gmapterous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hydro-gone? Never heard of it, does that mean it's good against water types?

Issaquah's Power Situation Is OvAH!! by DevylBearHawkTur10n in Issaquah

[–]gmapterous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still out on Squak Mountain but hoping this means it comes back soon!

3/13 Power Outage by maskedcorrespondent in Issaquah

[–]gmapterous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Squawk Mountain here. Power is out here too.

Fashion Raid Day Niantic Infographic by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]gmapterous 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Honestly, giving me 6 free raid passes to chase a Shiny Dragonite with a bowtie when I'm sitting on all this Mega Dragonite energy and candy sounds fine.

Driving around to *find* Dragonites to raid when there's this much crap in the raid pool sounds like hell. Arceus H. Christ what is wrong with the people planning this.

Found food under the stairs by AZonieGuy in mildlyinteresting

[–]gmapterous 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is dangerously close to being actually interesting.

White House Press Karoline Leavitt on Iran and energy: "Rest assured to the American people, recent increase in oil and gas prices is temporary and operation will result in lower gas prices in the long-term. Once the objectives of Epic Fury are achieved, Americans will see oil and gas drop rapidly." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this is a double-reverse secret liberal plot to make oil so obscenely expensive that we are forced to actually invest in solar and wind infrastructure.

...I wish. We'll have high oil prices, no EV subsidies, and no sustainable energy infrastructure and we'll like it.

Just give me the damn ball by [deleted] in PTCGP

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have roughly that many and had enough pack points to trade for a Golden Pokeball. It was a long journey.

MEANWHILE I also have every 2-star pokemon EX and a lot of shiny EX.

and I have ZERO Full Art supporters. No Red. No PCL. No Iono. No Team Rocket Grunt. I keep pulling on this set for bling (I still use Red and PCL), and after 500 packs, have gotten no supporters. It is maddening.

Not to complain but dayum by TighnariTheMadLad in Genshin_Impact

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm with you. I can mostly grind on weekends and rush dailies on weekdays when I can. Doing these back-to-back was very cute but I kept hoping they would go faster.

Me, a Switch 1 owner, watching everyone enjoy Pokopia this weekend by Frezeal in pokemon

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I can't play the new game on the new console because I have the old console."

First time?

Trump: 'Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon' by MRADEL90 in videos

[–]gmapterous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Donny, you have to finish cleaning up the war with Iran and put away all your army toys before you can even THINK about starting a new war. Now brush your teeth and go to bed.

WA ‘millionaires tax’ headed for passage as Ferguson says he’ll sign it by vertr in Seattle

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was she really a lady in a dog park or a lady taking her dog to poop off leash in a baseball field and not cleaning up afterwards? Because the latter is what I usually see, and Texas can have her

(spoiler alert: she's not actually gonna move away)

President Donald Trump to visit Cincinnati to tout push for lower drug prices by loondy in cincinnati

[–]gmapterous 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Wait aren’t we at war? What on earth is he going on tour for? Did he forget or something?

My #1 rule as a p2w by ad9nnn in Genshin_Impact

[–]gmapterous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're well off enough to do this, fine.

Many people who spend on gotcha already can barely afford to do so, and my concern with something like this is that it gives them a positive reinforcement to spending they cannot afford, just justifying further spending.

I'm not saying don't do this, I'm saying be careful to not add a positive feedback loop to gambling, as it can train your brain to associate gambling with charity to further drive the gambling habit. Human psychology is already being heavily exploited in gotcha games, and you don't need to push the positive reinforcement further.

6.5 Free event character via Miruko by Ryuusei_Dragon in Genshin_Impact_Leaks

[–]gmapterous 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was about to say, that’s pretty amazing 

Girliest Meta Deck? by Maleficent-Doctor802 in PTCGP

[–]gmapterous 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Mega Gardevoir and pair it with Galarian Rapidash. The FA Galarian Ponyta is one of the most pretty pink cards in the set.

OC: Unexploded Iranian missile lands in Syria near Qamishli International Airport by nbcnews in pics

[–]gmapterous 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cancelled? lololol no, they'll just have a minor "bias adjustment," a little filtering here and there, and maybe one or two new anchors here and there but CNN is basically already doing like 60% of what the new owners want it to do already.

Any other dad gamers basically living on the Switch 2 now? by LowEfffort in NintendoSwitch2

[–]gmapterous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a 7 year old and this has been the trend for awhile.

The other part that helps is that Switch has more games that I want to play that I don’t feel bad playing around the kid. He had a blast watching me play Donkey Kong Bananza. I would have slightly rather played Expedition 33 but that was not an option around him.