Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

A consequence of cucumbers

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

“woke” is the new caravan.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Their freedom requires your slavery.

In my day, never was longer.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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The girls are focused like a laser on some chew toys:

ZOMG LAZERS! PEW PEW PEW!

Speaking of pew pew, anyone still playing warcrack? I’m thinking I might reactivate just to Cataclysm“>get the Cataclysm Experience. Also, as a reminder, if you order your Christmas gifts through Amazon, click through to amazon through the link in the side column to the right and this website gets a commission.

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  1. 1.

    BGinCHI

    Not sure who recommended it here, but watched “Gentlemen Broncos” last night.

    So damn funny and stupid (what you’d expect from the Napoleon Dynamite/Nacho Libre crew).

    Lasers reminded me of it, as there are laser beams shot out of various womens’ boobs.

    Yeah, it’s sophisticated.

  2. 2.

    singfoom

    I’m still playing WoW and I’ve got cataclysm preordered. Haven’t played in a couple days, but the word is that the capitals are already under attack in preparation for the world change…

    It’s hard to run randoms now though given that the gear in a couple weeks from quests/mobs will be better than all that ICC gear I spent so much time acquiring :(

  4. 4.

    meh

    yup – they reset all the talent trees. Bunch of QQ from trees about lack of healing throughput – Pally healers can now raid heal and are invincible in PvP. Warriors are actually able to hold threat again. Dev’s took the nerfbat to pally threat-gen (boo). Ret dps is up again. Mages got buffed to the sky only to be pulled back down again with a hotfix 3 days after patch 4.01. Lots of neat twists and turns through Cata (I managed a beta key this expansion and have been having a ball). Locks and priests made out ok – as did hunters. They managed to nicely buff some damage, nerf some healing and burst, and make healing a bit more nuanced and intuitive (unless you’re a druid, and if you are, boo hoo stfu). They are giving you a free 7 day trial as a lapsed account if you want to try it out.

  9. 9.

    taylormattd

    Damn already pre-purchased cataclysm. I had been playing on the beta, and the new zones and quests were very fun.

    If you re-activate next week, or maybe the week after, Blizz will have implemented the patch that will “break” the old world. So things won’t be the same. Just this week, they started elemental invasions of Org and Thunderbluff. Kind of fun. I’m kind of psyched to start leveling my toons again.

  12. 12.

    Elie

    those are some cuttie pies you got there…

    love their little faces and expressions — nothing sweeter

  13. 13.

    bookcat

    Coastsider- I laughed so hard at that this morning I was crying. Oh, God that just made my day. I’ve traveled across country with cats and dogs. It ain’t pretty.

  14. 14.

    Kryptik

    Sorry, my crack is Team Fortress 2, not WoW.

    Also, I wonder if Battlestar Galac-Tunch-a has enough shielding against those kinds of lasers.

  17. 17.

    Steve

    @meh: New talent trees are genius, they managed to chop them all down to 31 points so you don’t have to spend forever agonizing over your options. I’ve never been one to worry about which class is rocking and which is getting hit with the nerf bat this week. Course I have 10 80’s so maybe that’s why.

  18. 18.

    Silver

    Good time to get back in, if you like raiding. Expansions are as close to resets as the game gets.

    They did manage to totally fuck up combat rogues. If you were wedded to one of those toons, you’re going to be disappointed.

  19. 19.

    TomG

    I’m done with WoW. I quit back when the RealID brouhaha happened, then rejoined when they fixed it (mostly), but I quit again at the end of October. I just can’t get excited anymore, even for Cataclysm. I was never much more than a casual player anyway, and I only have 2 80s out of 6 characters. Ah well. I play LOTRO now, on and off.

  20. 20.

    Garbo

    Are they cooking the chew toys with those laser beams? That would be cool. Might be a problem if they focus on the Christmas tree, tho.

  21. 21.

    General Stuck

    The girls mean business, looks like. It’s that look they give you, combination of poor little starving orphan, with a give it up asshole demeanor.

  22. 22.

    RobertB

    @meh – if you think hunters made out okay, you’re not playing a hunter. We took a pretty hefty beating from the nerfbat, especially in a) raid boss fights with a lot of movement, b) pvp. On a straight standup fight like Festergut I can just about do what I was doing pre-4.0.1, but any fight with a lot of movement, like Putricide, will cause your DPS to go straight into the crapper.

    As for pvp, hunters at 80 make up for their lack of burst with an inability to regain focus when forced into melee. This equals dead hunter.

    /nerdrage

  24. 24.

    Aet

    I thoroughly approve of Laserdogs.

    And I guess it’s time for a plug for the Daily Kos guild, “Wreck List”, a Horde guild on the Garrosh server.

  26. 26.

    ErinSiobhan

    I still play but really only BG’s and Wintergrasp with my 80’s. I have neither the time nor the social skills to co-operate with others to run dungeons on a regular basis. I’m looking forward to Cataclysm because I’m a dabbler who likes to level different races and classes. It will be nice to see new content at lower levels because I’m really sick of lowbie quests. Can’t face the Barrens again.

  27. 27.

    matoko_chan

    @meh: druid heals rawk in pvp now tho.
    id play wid u guys IFF you are making a ranked 10 man alli bg team.
    and when the worgens come alli will rule bgs.
    @singfoom: if u are lvlin an alt, the rift bosses drop 251 gear.

    laserdogs would be a awesome guild name.
    especially for an all worgen guild.
    jus’ sayin’

  29. 29.

    Bnut

    Didn’t you make fun of RS for rock salt getting them a commission cut? Or was that the point, and I’m an idiot…

  30. 30.

    RobertB

    @Erin

    I have neither the time nor the social skills to co-operate with others to run dungeons on a regular basis.

    That describes about half of my raiding guild.

  31. 31.

    MattR

    My dog is giving me the exact same look right now. Might have something to do with the peanut butter dog biscuits in the oven.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mark S.:

    Vote on Whether This Couple Gets an Abortion
    __
    It seems like some wacky publicity stunt.

    I heard about that over a year ago. I have a slight inkling that it might be a publicity stunt, given the length of human gestation.

  34. 34.

    machine

    Shadow spec got nerfed a little, but more than made up for on the holy tree. My healing is through the roof now, and Inner Fire has a spell buff.

  37. 37.

    Suck It Up!

    Just wanted to share:

    My mother works in a hospital and while she was in a room cleaning up, she overheard a woman telling her son that he must go register to vote because “you don’t want no black man to run this country”. My mother was behind the curtain so they didn’t see her.

    this was Florida.

  38. 38.

    Cat Lady

    The Walking Dead has really gotten under my skin, so to speak, especially now that I’ve placed Rick, the lead, as the guy who loved Kiera Knightley unrequitedly in Love, Actually. He does it for me. I’m just really curious about where this is going to go. It’s great metaphor, but how does one continue to live in a world full of continually reanimating zombies? Or maybe we’re LIVING IT RIGHT NOW ZOMG!?

  40. 40.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Cat Lady:

    how does one continue to live in a world full of continually reanimating zombies?

    One of the things you find out really fast in the comic book is that the living humans are the ones you really need to watch out for. They’ll mess with you far worse than the zombies will.

  43. 43.

    Cat Lady

    @Jay in Oregon:

    I can see that. That guy at the end telling the women doing the washing to all STFU made me angrier than any entrail eating zombie would make me scared. The white men are always going to be the problem, amirite?

  45. 45.

    Sentient Puddle

    Not playing at the moment, but I’m likely to jump back in once Cataclysm comes out. I’ll let someone else figure out logistics of setting up a guild this time.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Thanks for that. Taibbi’s a lot closer to reality than those other losers. There’s no way in hell teabaggers comprised 40% of the voters this election and yeah, they really “think” like Taibbi describes.

  48. 48.

    Mark S.

    @Mnemosyne:

    Was it the same people? Someone in the comments at either Gawker or Jezebel said their domain (shouldwehaveanabortion.blogspot.com or whatever it’s called) has been up since May.

  50. 50.

    ruemara

    @meh:

    I’ve been playing for 4 years and I barely followed that.

    @ Cole.

    Still playing Warcrack and each cata patch makes it more and more unstable on my poor machine. The attacks on the city and the time limited special dungeon/portals are fairly cool, good luck getting the quests that correspond in the dungeons. The crappy quality of people you get through the new group finder does not increase my love for humanity.

    I would join Wreck List, but I like druids pretty and my moo cows in hamburger. Well, really, as dysfunctional as my guild is, I like them.

  51. 51.

    Clockwork Buddha

    ‘nuther WoW raider, here. Druid healer – and at least pre-81 I’m ok with the changes. I like the greater viability as a tank healer (at least in theory). Boomkin’s a blast and a half. Pally tanking alt’s having some AoE troubles but overall still fun.

    From a lore-whore perspective, Cata’s pretty interesting.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mark S.:

    I don’t know for sure, but since an extremely similar website was getting a lot of press last year, I’m suspecting either the same people or a copycat.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @trollhattan: How bout Gergen insisting Obama had to move to the center? As if he wasn’t already there. I long for the day when the villagers cry, “No, this is too far right!” Of course, it will prolly be when their heads are already on pikes.

  54. 54.

    Darkrose

    I’m waiting for Issue 19 of CoX and the new high-level content.

    I’m also incredibly thrilled to discover that http://www.gog.com/ has a version of Baldur’s Gate 2 (including Throne of Bhaal) for sale that’s Windows Vista/7 compatible–for $9.99. For my money, BG2 is still the closest thing to tabletop RPGing that you can get on a computer, and is the standard by which I’ll judge all other PC RPG’s.

  57. 57.

    soylenth

    yeah, been playing on Thrall and Dath’Remar with some Aussi friends. It’s probably going to be worth it to resubscribe and play through the levels and then quit again. Looks like a fun expansion. I’m very excited to make a troll druid myself.

  59. 59.

    mattH

    ALWTF would be glad to have you back, but it’s a small, unexciting group now and horde BG queues suck horribly.

    Still better than that bottom quintile server that Eitrigg has become.

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