IIRC there's some patched executables floating around that fix the physics glitches. I remember replaying the campaign a few years ago, though I didn't have the stones to take on Pirate's Moon lol

Don't even get me started on this nonsense.

"Sure, I'd be willing to play games with lower graphical fidelity if it meant less dev crunch!"

Followed by 9000+ videos nitpicking every graphical shortcoming of the latest AAA release by the most tedious people you never want to meet.

Listen, I may have lined up every waterway with fish traps, fully deforested cindersap, and ruthlessly filled every tile of usable soil with my ancient fruit monoculture, but I'm still better for the valley than Joja! I fixed up that rundown community center, I'm a good boy!

People can't grasp that house & senate leadership are not bold visionaries bravely forging the path of the party, they're cat herders finding compromise among broad coalitions.

i dunno, i fear this timeline is cursed enough that this dipshit failson is the person of all people to actually beat collins in the election. who better to rally the aggrieved mediocre white male vote, y'know

Perception of the economy is also gender

Anti-intellectualism, but leftishly

I believe @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social made a similar point some months back - we could be entering a period of 4 year presidencies as voters ping-pong between the parties, desperately looking for someone to magically turn everything into 2019 again.

best guess is that it's slightly misplaced the outer banks lol

I'd be interested to see more on this, 'cause the political circles I follow were very much thinking "yeah Golden is annoying, but he's angling for that ME-Sen run so whatever" and it was very surprising that despite all the support he had for it he just... didn't even bother trying.

objectively wrong opinion, sorry

Average yuri goggles moment tbh

I'm reminded of all those villainess yuri manga that were all the rage, where said villainess' great evil accomplishments were usually just being kind of a bitch, before being quickly sanded down over the story until they barely even register as a tsundere.

hopefully i'm not the only goober thinking of dbza when seeing this

*squeak*
"that's my ribs crushing my lungs!"
*squeak*

To me, it's an inference of insincerity. Bernie getting high off his own supply is pretty much expected, but I'd expect Booker & Warren to know better than this, and I'm reading a lot of this nonsense as giving up on good policy appealing to voters and just going for, well, slop for the masses.

Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC.

Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.

This feels like a terrible evolution of 8.8 from decades ago. Not enough that a less-than-perfect review kills one dude's job, now an entire company faces a financial hurdle for the crime of getting less than 9/10. What are we doing here?

Even that I think undersells that Talarico was a beneficiary of a relatively last-minute media blitz with a bit of Streisand effect sprinkled on top. Sometimes a dude just gets a lucky break, even in politics. It doesn't have to mean conspiracy or nefarious forces at work.

new round of these going out

I think it's at least partially a response to Biden trying to do a new New Deal, become absolutely reviled across the political spectrum for it, and deciding to course correct by running as far in the other direction as possible.

Between the slopulism tax nonsense and now this, ugh, I am so fucking disappointed in her.

Please please PLEASE Maine voters, we do not need Fetterman, Nazi Tattoo Edition in the senate!

okay, but the synopsis of the show & episode in the comments are wild

it really is absurdly funny that the guy who was endorsed by Our Revolution less than a decade ago is now the "AIPAC centrist man" simply because these imbeciles have zero collective memory and just assume any dem in office right now is some establishment boogeyman.

very grim looking man saying "holy shit that's funny"

spare a thought for 'oreo overload'

or don't, probably don't

ah, a fellow former strawberry blondie? i still sometimes think of myself as blonde-ish even though i haven't been for a long time now lol

Yeah, I'm pretty happy the Ryan Grim proxy vote lost the primary if I'm honest.

It's especially funny that it wasn't even that long ago we had the whole BASED KAT FP STANCES that lasted an evening until a rogue staffer got canned.

they don't appreciate that we're the grease between the cogs that keeps this machine running

sounds a lot like that zero-sum mindset common among right-wingers and reactionaries.

the lightbulb moment that makes a lot of contradictory voter behavior make sense is realizing that americans are, for the most part, financially well off and comfortable, and that a lot of posting about poverty & working class struggle is largely cosplay and posturing.