Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

Bark louder, little dog.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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Late Night Open Thread: Gaming Founders

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  5. 5.

    piratedan

    not sure what it is, but links from front-pagers on the main post no longer display for me…. probably due to the lack of fiber in my diet. Using Google Chrome and its decidedly weird because I can see links embedded in the comments when people make them….

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    HumboldtBlue

    Adams would play Paradox games

    Sit down, John! Sit down, John! For God’s sake sit down!

    I play “Take Command 2nd Manassas” to this day. One of a gang of Paradox games that have engaged me.

  9. 9.

    Mousebumples

    @emrys: thanks for the rec. They’re my favorite band, and being pregnant, I skipped seeing them in concert on their us tour this summer. (if the videos don’t make it clear, they’re great in concert and put on one hell of a show) ?

    Great way to augment my middle of the night breastfeeding break. Fortunately my little one listened to Queen plenty in utero!

  10. 10.

    Fred Fnord

    I mean I know I have lots of dumb ideas so I can certainly imagine thinking something equally stupid. I just can’t imagine thinking something equally stupid, but at the same time so compelling that it gets umpity-thousand retweets, not all of which are actually mocking.

  11. 11.

    Starfish

    I have no clue who these people are, but I appreciate their faith in me becoming National Security Advisor.

  12. 12.

    Zinsky

    I’m still trying to learn Asteroids, so most of this is meaningless to me. But I appreciate the humor of overlaying our Founding Fathers culture with the electronic entertainment matrix of 2019. My only caution, and I sound like an old-timer here, is don’t let these electronic distractions stymie or prevent the human relationships you have here on Earth. I have seen young people do that. Your time on this planet shouldn’t all be spent staring at a screen.

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    JGabriel

    Starfish For National Security Advisor via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Jefferson would be the insufferable indie gamer type, Adams would play Paradox games, Hamilton would be very bad at FPSs and nurse grudges against Mexican 12-year olds for teabagging him.

    Washington led raiding parties in World of Warcraft. Adams, who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts because he didn’t like the way the press talked about him, was a solitary gamer focusing on big name first/third person action/rpg series like Mass Effect, Bioshock, and the The Witcher.

    Franklin wrote Elder Scrolls mods requiring full nudity add-ons (when he wasn’t playing hentai games).

  15. 15.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Zinsky:
    So it has been unto the first generation of Man, with whatever entertainment is around. Ah, for the ‘Stop reading and go outside’ warnings of my youth.

  16. 16.

    different-church-lady

    …AND WE WOULDN’T HAVE A FUCKIN’ COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY WERE WASTING ALL THEIR TIME.

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    Starfish

    @Zinsky: In some cases, the games are a path to human relationships. Massive Multiplayer Online games have been a thing for a while now, and the relationships that people form in-game are real. That is why we have all the discussions that tell men to quit being crappy to women in online games. Even before the current generation of online gaming, we had Multi-User Dungeons and Dragons (MUDDs), and I took a trip to Canada with some people that I knew from an online game at least 15 years ago.

    @JR: You don’t have to be old to not be into gaming. One of the commenters here writes beautifully about gaming, and I hardly ever have any clue about the game that she is talking about. I read her writing because she writes beautifully. I think it is great when people are so infectiously enthusiastic about something, and I end up reading really broadly because of it.

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    Tim C.

    God Damn it…. Adams is one of my favorite founding fathers and I like Paradox games…. someone called it.

  21. 21.

    artem1s

    Jefferson would buy characters other people grinded.

    kind of a nice polite way of saying, “Jefferson would use characters his slaves grinded.” Spot on otherwise.

  23. 23.

    Another Scott

    I’m watching BBC Click, slowly waking up. They just had a neat story about the SoundShirt. It’s lets deaf people feel music at more frequencies than just a pounding bass. It’s a great idea and should have been invented long ago. It was wonderful to see the wearer’s faces light up in a dance club. :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    Obvious Russian Troll

    @Just Chuck: Trump would rage quit long before he had the skills necessary to be a griefer, and then buy blatantly obvious cheats from some sketchy web site. He’d spend all his time trying to convince people that even though he could survive a direct hit from the most bad-ass weapon in the game and move five times as fast as everyone else that he wasn’t cheating.

  27. 27.

    Another Scott

    @Obvious Russian Troll: Speaking of Rage Quit – Twitter:

    Joyce Alene Verified account @JoyceWhiteVance

    AG Barr was so outraged & angry when he learned Trump lumped him in with Rudy Giuliani on the Ukraine call that he turned around and booked a $30,000 party at Trump’s DC hotel. Timeline: Barr learns about the call mid-August, books the party late August.

    So, very angry, (huff-puff)…!! [/Marvin]

    They all lie about everything. Everything.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    NobodySpecial

    The question is not really “Would Adams play Paradox games?” The question really is “What civics would Adams pick in Stellaris?”

    And aside from being reasonably certain he’d be a Rogue Servitor, I haven’t a clue.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @JGabriel:

    Franklin wrote Elder Scrolls mods requiring full nudity add-ons (when he wasn’t playing hentai games).

    Fraklin would be the founder and chief moder of Loverslab (an infamous site that does adult mods for the Elder Scrolls game and others, or so a friend told me)

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    Tim C.

    @NobodySpecial: Oh….. lovely to meet someone who shares my addictions…. Adams would go for an egalitarian oligarchy in my opinion. Probaly with Mechanistic and pacifist ethics too

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