I’m waiting on my The Division key, which annoys me since I’m now not sure if they’ll send it soon enough to pre-load. Also, Trump may very well be the Republican nominee.
Yeah, at least it’s not retail wow. Yaay WOTLK. Gonna try my first raid with my new guild tomorrow. I needs gears.
I’ve been catching tidbits of that on the tv in the break room. Goddammit. I really didn’t want to have to be awake during daywalker hours to vote in november.
Yeah, that’s another weird thing. It’s hard to predict what in the world will happen if Trump actually is the nominee. I’d give him about a one in five chance of winning (solely due to his reversal of his favorability among Republicans), but I honestly hadn’t thought he had a serious chance of making it this far. It’s genuinely surreal, and all I can say is that partisanship has caused too many past cases of crying wolf.
Right now, I’m calling landslide if trump makes it (and it seems he will) in the oppositions favor. There are a lot of people in my boat who otherwise wouldn’t vote at all who will turn out to vote against trump if he gets the nod.
I’ve only voted in one other election and that was to try to keep boucher in office in my area right after the tea party boom. But I would go for that.
Suppose we’ll see, still the convention to go anyways. Albeit at this point the chance of stopping him before then is low. Looks like it might be political fairy tale land though.
Oh well. In other news, deadpool was really good if you’re into that type of thing.
Supposedly an amateur video game musician got music into it, that much I know.
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Given their total budget, this pleases me and does not surprise me.
This is weird to me, in Australia voting is mandatory and unless you have a valid excuse you get fined (theres weeks of postal-voting if you know you cant make it on the day).
Granted I’ve never actually voted since I turned 18 after our most recent election, but still the thought of people NOT engaging in (kinda, sorta) choosing who runs thier country is pretty odd. But the irony of forced participation in democracy is not lost on me either.
I think it’s probably better than what we have at this point.
In which our system grinds the expectation of decent government out of you, starting in your youth, to the point where the only time you vote is when you think someone is so catastrophically ■■■■■■ that anarchy might be a valid option.
Been a few days since I’ve posted here regularly. Hi, people! How are y’all? Couple of things I want to say:
I don’t have any proof off of the top of my head, but I’m assuming mandatory voting would have for worse implications and turnout than optional. I understand your point, though. Good luck getting anyone in this oblivious and complacent society to give a damn about anything other than which celebrity wins ‘x’ award and the nearest shopping mall. At this point, I’m not even remotely surprised by how (arguably) well Trump and Hillary are doing. They’re the perfect embodiment of our society as whole; a society with a goldfish memory that only cares about emotion, entertainment, and shock value.
@TemetNosce, sadly I won’t be able to try The Division any time soon. It is one that I’ll get around to eventually, though.
Ive also been trying to entertain myself by coming up with a paladin playlist.
Pro’s - I play ret, which is pretty ■■■■■■■ metal when you think about it. Holy = Mending the injured. Protection = defending the weak. Retribution = I will put my lord in you with this giant stick.
Con’s - It’s still a jesusy kind of class.
Been trying to stick to holy elements or keywords - judgement, seal, consecration, law.
Dio - Holy Diver
Anthrax - I am the law
Bullet for my Valentine - Saints and Sinners
Sixx Am - This is Gonna Hurt
Thoughts. Badass angel jams?
Why though? It definetly doesnt have worse turnout, no one wants to be fined. 2012 US election had 58% turnout, 2013 Australia Election had 94%.
The only people who vote in US and UK are those who are passionette enough to go and do it, you seem to dislike the people who are getting the most attention, wouldnt mandatory voting push all of the mostly-apathetic people out of the woodwork and they’ll vote for whoever they think is the best (or the first one on the card, but thats another issue).
And in the end democracy is about what the people of the country decide, and IMO getting everyone to do it yields better results than only the people who excited to vote for someone specific.
Australia’s political system is actually pretty good in my opinion, it has measures that stop some of the things that plauge other systems. Shame the people inside it are all absolutely terrible human beings though.
I’m not that into politics but I still vote, I vote blank.
It’s especely importent nowadays as a racist parti is getting a lot of support here in Sweden and the less overall percent they get the better.
What I’m wondering is whether there’s a point when Trump becomes unacceptable, I’m genuinely unsure at this point if people are oblivious, or so numbed from the past decade of partisan insults that what Trump says simply isn’t registering. I suppose there’s also the option that there are simply that many people who agree with his statements. Regardless, I tend to disregard that one, consider it my version of optimism.
Personally currently a bit worried about the site I ordered from. After I ordered I found out they don’t send me my product key immediately, and that they have an atrocious reputation (apparently they pulled the same stunt on Fallout 4 then refunded some people at launch).
That song from the last Dragon Age commercial. Into The Darkness?
You’re why we had Tony, son of a
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Sorry, really bad use of the word turnout there. I meant results. You can’t force people to be interested in somethin’ they’re not, especially not in our country, and I have a hard time believing making it mandatory will make the majority of people do more research. Rather, I think most will just do it to avoid a fine and that will further scew the results in every direction. Try this analagy, maybe? Suppose you wanted to know which car was the best and you had an entire college campus vote on it instead of the engineering/automotive department. Which results do you think are going to more accurately portray which car is in fact the best? I’d rather have 58% of somewhat knowledgeable people representing our interests than everyone because they’re required to.
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What I’m wondering is whether there’s a point when Trump becomes unacceptable, I’m genuinely unsure at this point if people are oblivious, or so numbed from the past decade of partisan insults that what Trump says simply isn’t registering. I suppose there’s also the option that there are simply that many people who agree with his statements. Regardless, I tend to disregard that one, consider it my version of optimism.
[/quote]Given the way things have gone so far, I’m not expecting much of a change going forward.
What 'site if you don’t mind me asking? Did you try getting it cheaper or something?
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I’m not that into politics but I still vote, I vote blank.It’s especely importent nowadays as a racist parti is getting a lot of support here in Sweden and the less overall percent they get the better.
[/quote]I’d rather vote for one of your so-called nationalist far-right parties that are growing all over Europe than the ones that have done so much damage to you already. Never thought I’d say it, but it seems like Eastern Europeans are the only ones that have a head on their shoulders currently. (Literally, too, if you look at what’s happened in the UK, France, and Germany.)
I rather not vote for a partie whos top politicans goes out at night screaming at non Swedes and females and then picking up some iron pipes to threaten people with.
Yes that happend and they filmed it themselfs…
You seem to imply that the 58% who are voting are doing more research. To which I would have to respectfully disagree.
I only have to go to the store about a mile away from home to hear fanciful tales of our kenyan-born-muslim-tyrant who wants to make abortions mandatory and will force everyone to gay marry and how dare anyone speak out against that great symbol of our freedom and heritage, the confederate flag. I assure you, those morons are voting. They’re the same morons who voted out the only candidate to get anything done in our area since coal miners made unions, all because “CAP AND TRADE WILL KILL OUR JOBS BOUCHER DOESN’T CARE ABOUT US” (despite starting several local programs to attract new alternate business and getting a grant to, I ■■■■ you not, rebuild a county capital above a flood plain. Yes, the entire town).
I kind of agree with sandman on a lot of this. Even if you have people who aren’t doing a lot of research, you’re getting people who are moderate into the picture, and at least… something would have to change in how they campaign/conduct themselves.
Hopefully.
Maybe.
Or whatever.
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We’ll see I suppose. I’ll certainly agree about the primary at least though, Super Tuesday may have put paid to Rubio’s attempt to stop Trump pre convention.
Funstock Digital, and yes I got it from Isthereanydeal which means the site is at least legitimate, but apparently just not particularly fond of customers. Got the game for forty bucks instead of sixty.