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Just praying that DICE doesn't fuck up the BF1 release like they have with BF3, BF4, and now Mirror's Edge 2. God, who am I kidding?

Too late, France and Russia aren't in the main release and will be DLCs, even though combined they made up 58% of Allied losses.

Too dry and salty to be eaten on their own, definitely are a delivery service for other, wetter things.

Reminder from your local hilary shill

Where is "voted for a terrible war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, destablized the entire Middle East, and spawned ISIS?"

Or "backed a coup in Honduras that turned Honduras into the murder capital of the world?"

Monitors have definitely gotten nice all of a sudden so it's a good time to get one.

Grabbed an Asus MG279Q last Christmas, 1440p, 144hz, IPS panel. It's goddamn beautiful.

Stellaris. I got off home from work at 6:30 and suddenly it's 1:00 in the morning. This game makes time disappear

I'm excited to see what they'll add with expansions in a few months. Obviously more events and anomalies with every one, more endgame catastrophes, more techs. Ground combat seems likely to get an overhaul, very bare bones right now.

It's probably a symptom of them being fucking stupid

 

oh look we have this virtually carbon neutral power source with ridiculous energy density

 

let's not use it

If you believe Jill Stein, nuclear power plants are weapons of mass destruction waiting to go off. I guess we're still building Chernobyl-like reactor designs staffed by imbeciles in her mind.

Irrelevant Green Party candidate Jill Stein hosts AMA on reddit, posts uninformed hippie screed about how nuclear power is bad and should feel bad, gets downvoted to hell.

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Ah, the Green Party, pandering to hippies with ravings against nuclear power and for woo like homeopathic medicine, and accomplishing nothing of any benefit for the environment. Hilarious.

Looks exciting

Yeah, I've been playing the hell out of it. An interesting mix of 4X and grand strategy, with probably my favorite tech system I've seen in a strategy game. Instead of the usual tech tree, techs are more like cards in a deck, weighted based on their rarity, so every game is different and every faction unlocks different things. And being a Paradox game, it's extremely moddable, so I expect complete overhaul mods for Warhammer 40K, Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, etc. to come out within a few months. Highly recommended.

I wouldn't be so confident about Trump's chances against Hillary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/02/republicans-have-a-massive-electoral-map-problem-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-donald-trump/?tid=sm_fb

If Clinton wins the 19 states (and D.C.) that every Democratic nominee has won from 1992 to 2012, she has 242 electoral votes. Add Florida's 29 and you get 271. Game over.

The Republican map — whether with Trump, Cruz or the ideal Republican nominee (Paul Ryan?) as the standard-bearer — is decidedly less friendly. There are 13 states that have gone for the GOP presidential nominee in each of the last six elections. But they only total 102 electorate votes. That means the eventual nominee has to find, at least, 168 more electoral votes to get to 270. Which is a hell of a lot harder than finding 28 electoral votes.

UP WITH CHAIRMAN SANDERS!

Yeah. And they had Cruz ahead until a couple days ago. The Democratic polling seems to have been a bit more problematic in predicting than the Republicans. I'm not sure why. 

Running theory I've seen around is that when the polls have Clinton ahead by a lot, her supporters get complacent and stay home, while the Bernie voters turn out regardless of the polls.

And holy shit, Bernie Sanders is now BEATING the Hillary-Beast in Indiana?!?

538 had Clinton at 90% chance of winning too, ha. The Clinton supporters I've spoken to all seem very confident about Clinton v. Trump, but if Clinton has turned a battle against a relatively unknown 74 year old Vermont senator who openly calls himself a socialist in America into this close of a contest, it does not bode well for her campaign strategy against Trump. If anyone can fail to beat Trump, it's Hillary Clinton.

Citrus is now alkaline (and seawater is neutral).

Not even just the citrus, nearly everything under "alkaline" is acidic. Apples are 3.3-3.9, strawberries 3.0-3.9, bananas 4.5-5.2, grapes 3.5-4.5, pineapple 3.2-4.0, watermelon 5.2-5.6, red onion 5.3-5.8, kiwi 3.1-3.9, peas 5.8-7.0, asparagus 6.1.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/clinton-campaign-says-no-more-debates-until-bernie-starts-be-nicer

 

"Clinton Campaign: No More Debates Until Sanders Starts Being Nicer"

 

Forget about watching comedy shows, I should just keep an eye on this election.

Man if she think "everybody's friendly grandpa" Bernie Sanders is mean, how on Earth is she going to handle Donald Trump in a debate.

 

Vas

 

That is the Labarum, the standard flown by Constantine the Great's army after he claimed to receive a vision from the Christian God before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

Well, looks like Paradox is going to steal all my time this summer with Stellaris and Hearts of Iron 4. Stellaris looks excellent, and HoI4 looks much less wildly overcomplicated than HoI3 was.

My state, Rhode Island, ran this flag from 1882-1897:

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Then switched to the current one:

Definitely a distinct downgrade in quality.

I enjoyed the David Tennant Doctor Who in a turn your brain off kind of way, but the rest of it is unwatchable.

Reading through A Song of Ice and Fire right now after watching the show, on A Clash of Kings right now. Surprising absolutely nobody, the books are better.

I'm honestly missing that mid-2000s "Every Game is WWII" era. Every shooter has been "Five Years in the Future" since CoD4.

Wouldn't mind a Korean War or Vietnam one either.

This video gave me cancer:

 

I remember seeing a video where they had young chinese-americans and their grandparents who grew up in China try Panda Express, and while the young ones were whining about how it wasn't authentic, the older ones who had actually lived in China pretty much universally liked it.

Isn't it possible for someone in the US to become president with a minute amount of the vote anyway, given how screwy the electoral college is?

 

In any case; Brone, for your own sanity I'd suggest that you leave it. Otherwise these dudes will spend all day telling you about the five thousand-and-one rooms of the heavenly maze that is the US political system. You're better off using the neurons to understand transonic flow over non-rotating projectiles.

A presidential candidate could be elected with as a little as 21.8% of the popular vote by getting just over 50% of the votes in DC and each of 39 small states. This is true even when everyone votes and there are only two candidates. In other words, a candidate could lose with 78.2% of the popular vote by getting just under 50% in small states and 100% in large states.

The optimal set of states to take (the one that lets a candidate win with the smallest popular vote) is not the N states with the smallest population. It's also not the N states with the smallest value for (population/electors), which would be optimal if you could get exactly 270 electoral votes that way.

The optimal solution happens to get exactly 270 electoral votes. In this solution, the winner takes DC, the 37 smallest states, the 39th smallest state, and the 40th smallest state. (The winner takes Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.)

They... they realize that if deer aren't hunted, due to the lack of predators they'll enter a boom-bust cycle and suffer even more, right?

Why doesn't anyone just grab some kind of blaster shotgun to fight Jedi? A lightsaber can't block multiple shots at once. Is that anywhere in the EU?

I feel like just looking at a photo of that thing puts you at risk of diabetes.