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The President of the United States stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from kids with cancer and it won't even get a news cycle.
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Rigel posted:I'm going to need to know who it was and why they were bad before I give even the slightest poo poo about who Trump picked for that office Courtney Simmons Elwood http://www.kellogghansen.com/attorneys-Courtney-Simmons-Elwood.html straight from wikipedia quote:Courtney Simmons Elwood is an American attorney. She is a partner with the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. She joined this firm in 1996, after clerking for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.[1] Elwood has served as an associate counsel to the president, deputy counsel to the vice president, and deputy chief of staff and counselor to the attorney general.[2] In March 2017, she was announced as President Donald Trump's nominee for General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.[3] She's a totally fine pick for the position.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:28
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Minecraft is very much a freeform do-what-you-want game that will consume all the time you care to put into it. It has effectively infinite land if you want to go exploring and almost as infinite capacity for construction if you'd rather stay in one place. Not only can you sculpt or assemble almost anything you want, but there are pretty deep dynamic/interactive parts so you can build mechanisms that do things. All this is catnip to certain sorts of personality, especially children trying to escape the real world. The Enterprise model I think was made with computer assistance but crazy people build entire cities one brick at a time by hand.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:28
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the biggest problem is so many of the systems are incomprehensible without referring to external documentation or watching squeaky voiced youtube tutorials. game systems should be simple enough to grasp intuitively, or if necessary explained through step by step tutorials. too many things in minecraft are opaque, from item recipes to how to build hell portals. if a game isn't a puzzle game but it expects you to engage in tedious trial by error just to 'unlock' more game mechanics then that is bad design
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Jun 6, 2017 21:29
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Trump played Minecraft and got killed by a skeleton and now he's president.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:29
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/833863025434251264 Did everyone miss that the tweet calls him McMuffin?
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Jun 6, 2017 21:31
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boner confessor posted:the biggest problem is so many of the systems are incomprehensible without referring to external documentation or watching squeaky voiced youtube tutorials. game systems should be simple enough to grasp intuitively, or if necessary explained through step by step tutorials. too many things in minecraft are opaque, from item recipes to how to build hell portals I agree that most of those things should be in the game, but shared knowledge like that is part of what makes is really appealing to kids - you can collaborate with other kids and share things you found out/figured out. I just think that calling it an "objectively bad game" over that is very, very silly.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:32
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theflyingorc posted:I just think that calling it an "objectively bad game" over that is very, very silly.  thats fine. it is a bad game though from a game design standpoint, but there's a lot of bad games that are popular. tic tac toe is terrible. so is monopoly, and freeze tag. bad doesn't mean unfun
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Jun 6, 2017 21:34
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oohhboy posted:It's pass it's use by date. There are many voxel block builders that do more and better in every way that can fill your specific needs. Which games are these?
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Jun 6, 2017 21:35
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That nom got itself a post on Lawfare a while back: https://www.lawfareblog.com/excellent-nominations-cia-gc-and-dod-gc Cutting her teeth working for Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft or Gonzales doesn't really have me enthused, but she seems qualified, which is decidedly exceeding expectations at this point.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:35
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biracial bear for uncut posted:This is a loving work of art. 
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Jun 6, 2017 21:35
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Rigel posted:I can, the government still needs to function for the next 4 years and most offices have at least some necessary power that can't be delegated to an unconfirmed person. There are career civil service people in all these jobs who I would much rather stay in place than anyone Trump would nominate.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:38
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fsif posted:The President of the United States stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from kids with cancer and it won't even get a news cycle. To be fair that's only because of the ongoing suspicions he's a russian plant. And the massive foreign policy crisis he stepped in. In other words it's a sign of how hosed up the times are, not that it's just being ignored.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:38
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theflyingorc posted:McMullin MIGHT be my favorite Republican The only good republican is Arnold.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:38
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repeating posted:Did everyone miss that the tweet calls him McMuffin? I did miss that and it's pretty hilarious.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:39
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ReidRansom posted:The only good republican is Arnold. As a Californian: ehhhhhh.....
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Jun 6, 2017 21:42
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mcmagic posted:I can't think of any reason any democratic senator should ever vote for a Trump nominee. No matter who it is. RIP Tammy Duckworth, noted ideological traitor.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:42
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? Minecraft is fun as hell (though it's unfortunate you have to line Notch's gross GG pockets but at this point another 30 bucks isn't gonna make a difference one way or the other), but a bit aimless once you get tired of building giant dicks. So, for a Goon, at least 100 hours.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:42
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How the gently caress is it the year our Lord 2017 and people are still asking 'Hey, what's that old Minecraft like'? It's so ingrained in our culture, ever so much in our smaller online goony culture, it's basically as common as solitaire on the pc was.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:42
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GreyjoyBastard posted:RIP Tammy Duckworth, noted ideological traitor. She refused to stand up to Trump. What a waste.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:42
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Family Values posted:As a Californian: ehhhhhh..... Arnold was a pretty lovely governor, but he is actually willing to admit to his mistakes and is basically now a democrat.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:43
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Classtoise posted:Minecraft is fun as hell (though it's unfortunate you have to line Notch's gross GG pockets but at this point another 30 bucks isn't gonna make a difference one way or the other), but a bit aimless once you get tired of building giant dicks. Notch hasn't had anything to with Minecraft for years. Microsoft bought it out from him in 2015.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:44
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fsif posted:The President of the United States stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from kids with cancer and it won't even get a news cycle. What
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Jun 6, 2017 21:46
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GreyjoyBastard posted:RIP Tammy Duckworth, noted ideological traitor. Decent Senator, bad vote.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:46
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Mr. Crow posted:What https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#3f099bb36b4a
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Jun 6, 2017 21:47
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Buca di Bepis posted:Notch hasn't had anything to with Minecraft for years. Microsoft bought it out from him in 2015. He took all the money from his staff and bought a house in the hills of Los Angeles and spends his time in a drunk depressed stupor eating from his candy room.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:47
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Family Values posted:As a Californian: ehhhhhh..... He might not have been a great governor, but I think he's a good guy. And in any other state, he's a centrist Democrat, really.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:47
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Mr. Crow posted:What Trump's son was transferring charity cancer research money to daddy's bank account.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:48
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mcmagic posted:There are career civil service people in all these jobs who I would much rather stay in place than anyone Trump would nominate. You are just the worst. You don't know anything about it but that didn't stop you from forming an unshakable opinion and doubling down. You are our Trump.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:50
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Arnold would be an infinitely better President than Trump. And he'd be a pretty bad President.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:51
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Trump just wants to go home and Notch just wants to leave his. What I'm saying is we need Notch to pull a Dave with Trump.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:52
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ReidRansom posted:He might not have been a great governor, but I think he's a good guy. He cheated on his wife with his housemaid, had an illegitimate child, then lied about it for over a decade.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:54
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Boon posted:You are just the worst. You don't know anything about it but that didn't stop you from forming an unshakable opinion and doubling down. Can you name any Trump appointee who is preferable to a random civil servant?
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Jun 6, 2017 21:55
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exploded mummy posted:He took all the money from his staff His team didn't get a payout?
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Jun 6, 2017 21:55
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ReidRansom posted:He might not have been a great governor, but I think he's a good guy. And in any other state, he's a centrist Democrat, really. At worst he was just bad at it. At least he wasn't malicious.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:56
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mcmagic posted:I can't think of any reason any democratic senator should ever vote for a Trump nominee. No matter who it is. Didn't even have to read the username to know who posted this
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Jun 6, 2017 21:57
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:He cheated on his wife with his housemaid, had an illegitimate child, then lied about it for over a decade. No hiding from this one 
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Jun 6, 2017 21:57
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Looks like another slow news day. Yawn.. Thursday better be good.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:58
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Mulva posted:He's old and in terrible shape, and he's constantly being told he sucks. That's terrible for a narcissist. There's a solid chance he just dies, or the stress accelerates his family tendency toward dementia. Old people die, even rich ones. Rich narcissists actually often hasten their own demises because they can't understand that death and disease don't give a gently caress who you are and it's the one thing you can't just make go away even with your incredible powers. See - Steve Jobs getting a treatable form of cancer, skipping the line for a donor organ, and then dying anyway because he couldn't be convinced that the treatment he preferred wasn't necessarily the best or for that matter even effective one.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:He cheated on his wife with his housemaid, had an illegitimate child, then lied about it for over a decade. That's vanilla these days. Almost quaint in retrospect.
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