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14 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

I guess the left only having Trump hate and Identity politics as a platform is taking a toll.  Wasn't there another semi scandal recently with a bunch of longtime DNC people getting ousted for more Clinton loyalists?

Yep, the left wing also got completely purged from the rules committee that will be setting rules for the next primary. Meanwhile Donna Brazile, who abused her position to give Hillary the debate questions ahead of one of the primary debates, has a seat on that committee.

Needless to say the left base is in an uproar.

Reports up to 50+ dead, 200+ injured in Vegas.

tbh I'm surprised Rhode Island is that low, pretty good share of the people I know have a few guns in their homes, and mine certainly does. I do live in the more rural western half though.

3 hours ago, Ramlaen said:

But really, just look at this disgusting display of white supremacy.

 

REMOVE HIPPIE

Picked this up two days ago.

That final 1v1 had my heart pounding, last circle was basically on the side of a low hill with like two trees for cover.

2 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

Who the fuck is Joy Reid, what's she an angry SJW?

Diehard Clintonista, MSNBC correspondent. Us Berniebros have been dealing with her shit since the primaries began.

The Democratic Party is basically screwed on a national level until the entire stunningly incompetent leadership gets purged (since they're not going to give up their grip on power willingly) and replaced with new blood.

Vox, I know, but the numbers are the important bit. Yet more confirmation of how utterly incompetent Hillary's campaign was. If the Democratic Party wants to win, they need to purge the party of everybody involved. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/8/14848636/hillary-clinton-tv-ads

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign ran TV ads that had less to do with policy than any other presidential candidate in the past four presidential races, according to a new study published on Monday by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Clinton’s team spent a whopping $1 billion on the election in all — about twice what Donald Trump’s campaign spent. Clinton spent $72 million on television ads in the final weeks alone.

But only 25 percent of advertising supporting her campaign went after Trump on policy grounds, the researchers found. By comparison, every other presidential candidate going back to at least 2000 devoted more than 40 percent of his or her advertising to policy-based attacks. None spent nearly as much time going after an opponent’s personality as Clinton’s ads did.

 

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Evidence suggests that negativity in advertising can have a backlash effect on the sponsor (Pinkleton 1997) and that personally-focused, trait-based negative messages (especially those that are uncivil) tend to be seen as less fair, less informative and less important than more substantive, policy-based messaging (Fridkin and Geer 1994; Brooks and Geer 2007).

In stark contrast to any prior presidential cycle for which we have Kantar Media/CMAG data, the Clinton campaign overwhelmingly chose to focus on Trump’s personality and fitness for office (in a sense, doubling down on the news media’s focus), leaving very little room for discussion in advertising of the reasons why Clinton herself was the better choice.

Trump, on the other hand, provided explicit policy-based contrasts, highlighting his strengths and Clinton’s weaknesses, a strategy that research suggests voters find helpful in decision-making. These strategic differences may have meant that Clinton was more prone to voter backlash and did nothing to overcome the media’s lack of focus on Clinton’s policy knowledge, especially for residents of Michigan and Wisconsin, in particular, who were receiving policy-based (and specifically economically-focused) messaging from Trump.

tl;dr, does not appear to be great for gaming.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2822-amd-ryzen-r7-1800x-review-premiere-blender-fps-benchmarks

Removing GPU bottlenecking by running at low resolutions, the 1800X gets beaten by the 7700K in most games, which is half the price.

For gaming, it’s a hard pass. We absolutely do not recommend the 1800X for gaming-focused users or builds, given i5-level performance at two times the price. An R7 1700 might make more sense, and we’ll soon be testing that.

AMD defends its position by indicating the ISVs need to begin supporting their product, and has provided us statements from StarDock and Bethesda relating to this. To these statements, we’d remind folks that games take a long time to develop. Buying a CPU now in the hopes that games will better leverage 16T CPUs in a few years is a risky move – particularly with Bethesda’s track record for game optimization.

Regardless, we’ll provide the quotes that AMD passed along:

“Oxide games is incredibly excited with what we are seeing from the Ryzen CPU. Using our Nitrous game engine, we are working to scale our existing and future game title performance to take full advantage of Ryzen and its 8-core, 16-thread architecture, and the results thus far are impressive. These optimizations are not yet available for Ryzen benchmarking. However, expect updates soon to enhance the performance of games like Ashes of the Singularity on Ryzen CPUs, as well as our future game releases.” - Brad Wardell, CEO Stardock and Oxide

Note that the above was in response to poor performance of the 1800X in Ashes of the Singularity.

And:

"Creative Assembly is committed to reviewing and optimizing its games on the all-new Ryzen CPU. While current third-party testing doesn’t reflect this yet, our joint optimization program with AMD means that we are looking at options to deliver performance optimization updates in the future to provide better performance on Ryzen CPUs moving forward. " – Creative Assembly, Developers of the Multi-award Winning Total War Series

This, we believe, was a response to the Total War: Warhammer performance that we observed, given Creative Assembly’s previous partnerships with AMD to promote the FX-6350 CPUs.

AMD’s best wasn’t enough for gaming workloads. If production is your thing, check the relevant benchmark page for more information. The price:performance in that category is the one saving grace for the R7 1800X.

The R7 1700 may prove a better value for gaming; we’ll have those benchmarks shortly. For now, though, the 1800X is a disappointment, and is not a processor we recommend for gamers when considering the price-point. If you were to buy it, disable SMT for gaming. It’s mostly detrimental, likely due to resource contention among threads in gaming environments. Even mixed workload users should consider when and where software acceleration is better than GPU acceleration, if ever for their needs, before purchasing the 1800X. Do the research on your applications. For what we do with media production, it makes no sense to render software-accelerated; that doesn’t mean it never makes sense.

But yes: The 1800X is an impressive competitor to the 6900K in production, and it’s significantly cheaper. We’d recommend the 1800X over the 6900K for folks who genuinely use software acceleration. It’s just not good for gaming, and GPUs kill both AMD and Intel CPUs in accelerated rendering.

10 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

Of course, if we were to follow scripture, we would not have pork sausage on our pizza either.  Also, what about mixing dairy and meat?  That sure ain't cool according to the old testament.  

 

Small Asian child, please present the pressing theological question of our time...

 

 

 

Fine, but the New Testament is very clear too:

So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired.  As a result, they did vile and degrading things with pizza.  Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about pizza, they deliberately chose to believe lies. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires.  Even the women turned against the natural way to eat pizza and instead indulged in pizza with pineapple.  And the men, instead of having normal pizza, burned with lust for pineapple.  Men did shameful things with pizza and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.  When they refused to acknowledge God's culinary rules, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.  Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and pineapple pizza.  They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.  They are forever inventing new ways of fucking up pizza and are disobedient to their parents.  They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.  They are fully aware of God’s death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway.  And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. (Roman's Pizza 1:24-32 NLT)

2 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

Donward, you are wrong concerning eggs with ketchup but right about pineapple on pizza.  Pineapple and ham on pizza is a legitimate sub-species of the greater pizza family.  

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to put pineapple on pizza. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and give you great pizza, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. “The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him.” (Pizzaronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

Just now, T___A said:

Even worse 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anchovies 

Eh... Not a big fan of anchovies but they're, at most, heterodox. Pineapple is outright heresy.

1 minute ago, Sturgeon said:

 au jous.

That's the correct way, right there.

The real question is whether Trump puts pineapple on pizza. If yes, impeach immediately.

We need to restore the Roman Empire, whoever can win over the army and seize power gets to rule. If they do a shitty job, palace coup.

1 hour ago, Sturgeon said:

Skyrim was disappointing but OK (it still sucks dick for a bunch of reasons), but Fallout 3 was a complete trainwreck.

FO3 and 4 are why I think, for the good of the world, the Fallout license needs to be confiscated from Bethesda and given to Obsidian.

2 hours ago, Vanagandr said:

Yeh, a short while after I posted that, I mentioned that I was enjoying FO4 to a friend, and he pointed out a lot of things that had regressed from the previous games. I enjoy the survival mechanics a lot more in this iteration, but I really wish they hadn't fucked with a lot of things that were just plain better in the previous games. 

The shooter mechanics are solid, but it's a terrible RPG. A Fallout 4 with writing and plot on the level of Fallout New Vegas would be fantastic, but that's no surprise, Bethesda have always been shitty writers, especially compared to Obsidian.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/perez-doesnt-rule-out-a-hillary-clinton-run-for-the-presidency-in-2020/article/2615807?custom_click=rss

If I were DNC Chair, any party member who mentioned Hillary running again and didn't immediately start laughing would be publicly broken on the rack, as an example to the others. Only comparably bad candidates in the party would be Reid, Pelosi, or *shudder* Dianne Feinstein.

Some interesting stats from Reuters Polling Explorer, Trump's approval rating among various demographics.

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Filtered to men overall, 47.3% approve, 41.8% disapprove, 10.8% mixed feelings

Women overall, 37.0% approve, 52.0% disapprove, 10.8% mixed feelings
18-29s, 30% approve, 62.0% disapprove, 8% mixed feelings
18-34s, 35% approve, 56.2% disapprove, 8.8% mixed.
35-49s, 45.8% approve, 44.2% disapprove, 10.0% mixed.
50-65s, 47% approve, 42.3% disapprove, 11.1% mixed.
65+, 46% approve, 38% disapprove, 16% mixed
Whites, 53.2% approve, 37.8% disapprove, 9.0% mixed
Blacks, 18% approve, 68% disapprove, 14% mixed
Not enough of any other race surveyed to have a decent sample size.
New England, 34% approve, 57% disapprove, 9% mixed
Great Lakes, 42% approve, 49% disapprove, 9.4% mixed
Southeast, 49.7% approve, 43.6% disapprove, 6.7% mixed
Southwest, 48% approve, 38% disapprove, 14% mixed
West Coast, 29% approve, 42% disapprove, 29% mixed'
Mid-Atlantic, 43% approve, 50% disapprove, 6.7% mixed(edited)
Plains, 44% approve, 40% disapprove, 16% mixed
Less than high school, 42.5% approve, 46.4% disapprove, 11% mixed
Highschool or some college, 45.1% approve, 42.4% disapprove, 12.5% mixed
College, 35.7% approve, 57.1% disapprove, 7.2% mixed
Post-grads, 46% approve, 48% disapprove, 6.3% mixed
Voted for clinton, 6% approve, 82% disapprove, 12% mixed
Voted for Trump, 92.3% approve, 3.4% disapprove, 4.3% mixed
Registered Dems, 22% approve, 69% disapprove, 9% mixed
Registered republicans, 79% approve, 14% disapprove, 7% mixed
Independents, 40% approve, 38% disapprove, 22% mixed
Other parties, 27% approve, 43% disapprove, 30% mixed
Registered to vote, 45.4% approve, 46.2% disapprove, mixed
<25k income, 38% approve, 46% disapprove, 15.9% mixed
$25-50k, 46% approve, 31% disapprove, 22% mixed
50-75k, 46% approve, 49% disapprove, 5% mixed
75-100k, 50% approve, 44% disapprove, 5.9% mixed
100-150k, 52% approve, 47% disapprove, 1.3% mixed
150k+, 46% approve, 44% disapprove, 9.7% mixed
Straights, 47% approve, 44% disapprove, 9.2% mixed
Not enough of other orientations to have a good sample size
Protestants, 61% approve, 26% disapprove, 13% mixed
Catholics, 43% approve, 51% disapprove, 6.3% mixed
Baptists, 52% approve, 42% disapprove, 6.4% mixed
No religion, 31% approve, 58% disapprove, 10.7% mixed
Born Again Christians, 58.5% approve, 33.5% disapprove, 8% mixed
Not enough of any other religious group surveyed for a good sample size.
Never go to church, 35% approve, 53% disapprove, 11.4% mixed
Go every week, 63% approve, 28% disapprove, 8.5% mixed

This is all going to be an... interesting chapter in the history books in 50 years.

Elections are lame, just distribute all the offices in the government in a random lottery to random Americans. It'll work out, trust me.

Too lazy to look it up, but how does this compare to historical instances of faithless electors?

Most faithless votes for Pres since 1808, IIRC.

I don't know your crazy election system works. If the electors don't have to follow the vote, then can they elect one of the crazy third party candidates as president? That would be a hoot.

Hypothetically they could elect literally any random American citizen over 35.

MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X on sale on Newegg for $599 right now, couldn't resist. My GTX 970 wasn't really adequate for 1440p/144hz anyway.