- Those who have lists, and have Huddy on them, prepare to cross him off
- This is a fun idea. It also suggests a new Chavvy nickname: Not-Mexican-Enough Elephant.
- Non-Slate-style contrarianism: platoon splits do not necessarily mean what you think they do
- “hmm, I just watched over three hours of a FOX broadcast, and I’m not annoyed”
- xbx haz a sad (I think there’s an argument to be made that taking an unreliable “centrist” such as Bayh out of play in the Senate might have been a good strategic move [though that could also have argued in favor of picking … Lieberman])
- The GOP flying monkey squad has a massive stupid (speaking of which, I really want someone to press Lieberman on the logic of that “but of course I support M&M” cavil from the other day)
- Not Sure
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Re 3: I’m uncomfortable with the 80% regression. Where does that come from?
TWSS
See the comments there.
Ah, gotcha. Looks like I was right.
Re 6: yep. Seniors are pretty much the only non-southern group the GOP still leads in. Pissing them off seems odd. Either they think the AARP will back off or that seniors will turn on the organization.
That, or TMP is full of shit.
They’re doubling down on white males.
And, yes, that’s a euphemism.
Yeah, but young white males are liberal too.
Are they? I thought I had seen breakdowns saying that they were far less conservative-leaning than their older cohorts — the young, broadly speaking, are def. now self-identifying as not conservative.
I’m not sure I understand what we’re saying, but I looked for demographics.
I found this. Unless it’s a crappy source, it looks like my premise was wrong (AARP members are not more republican than 30-49, but those are more conservative than other age groups).
I was assuming that elderly are >50% Republican and others are <50%. Turns out no one except conservatives and churchgoers are >50%. Surprising.
As a note, I have no expertise in poll analysis and I’m sure my methodology is flawed. I’m more than open to better evidence.
I’m saying the young, broadly speaking, trend lib; but that young white males, while less con than older white males, still trend con.
Gotcha. On that chart, though, white and male are 44% and 42%. Young is 32%. As I read it, I don’t see how young+white+male is > 50%. Caveats on value of linked poll still in effect.
Yeah, I don’t get that one either.
Anyone watch the end of the Sharks game last night? I usually really dislike penalty shots, but that was some awesome goaltending on both sides.
NHL.com has a better site than I expected. Still no mlb.com though.
Also, my hockey policy is “playoffs if Sharks are involved, otherwise maybe a finals game or two”
5. Yikes
1. Hunh. Would we have any interest in this guy as a cheap acq?
Depends on how cheap. EGon? Yes. Weurtz? Maybe, depends upon how Beane feels about Gio. B-grade SP Prospect? No.
His name is fun to say.
Happy National Cat Day, grover
Now poison the little bastards!
Heh.
Number seven depresses me. I thought we were a lot closer to being 50-50…
I can’t stop laughing at Jorge Cham’s latest tales from the road:
Looks like eminem had it pegged.
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Customs doesn’t eff around over there.
Heh.
I love the white dude saying “What the f*@#!!”
I like the red asterisks.
Yes – and both ring true for me.
1. From the Chron’s most-commented section: maybe these two superpowers can hammer out a peace treaty.
2. Some incoherent rambling, which Ratto eventually realizes:
Ray likes writing about ownership groups in general (thus the rambling), so it’s hard to say how likely his doomsday scenario is.
“thus the rambling” should really be the name of his blog.
Holy asshole, Batman. (h/t: excellent video game)
is it?
I’ve been tempted. I’ve played Fallout 3 enough to melt the disc and I just burned through Biosphere again in like, eight hours. I bought Castlevania: SOTN and burned through that like there was no tomorrow. I’ve even contemplated buying Madden. I swore off Madden in 2003 when I realized I had bought the same game for eight straight years at that point.
SOTN and Super Metroid are games that I could play any number of times without ever getting sick of them.
And Arkham Asylum is fantastic.
I started thinking about it, and when I first played SOTN, I was not a savvy about GameFAQs or any of those types of sites and for the most part just played it straight. The coolest thing about SOTN was playing deep into the game and being pretty happy about how long the game was, and THEN realizing there was A WHOLE OTHER CASTLE.
I’m not to far into AA, and I hate that games have this “search the game map to randomly stumble upon items” addiction these days, but the gameplay is pretty fun, the graphics are awesome, I like the combat a lot, and you get to be BATMAN.
Plus, it has the voice actors from the animated series. It’s just extremely well made from a Batman fanboy perspective.
I’m okay with the item finding quests as long as they’re not mandatory or unnatural. The whole Riddler thing is believable enough to actually be a depth-adding experience rather than a deterrent.
Are you a BTAS fanboy too? I f—ing loved that cartoon. When it came out on DVD I re-watched it. That show really withstood the test of time.
Definitely a fanboy. I’m actually wanting my daughter to grow up a little already so that she can watch Batman (without getting the s*** scared out of her).
Yeah, B:TAS was simply tremendous. I can’t wait for the little guy to be old enough to watch it. Some of the episodes that featured Rupert Thorne and Leslie Thompkins were major landmarks in children’s television (of that era, anyway).
Yeah, the “not-mandatory” part is the reason I don’t mind so much. I just have to let the “games are fun” part of me win over the “must achieve everything and be power-gamer” part of me, which I resent the game for a little.
Also, the actual Riddles are a clever/fun idea since I don’t have to worry if I don’t get one.
It also has a rather excellent soundtrack (as does Super Metroid). My biggest complaint with current generation games is that with the invent of streaming audio soundtracks, melody and harmony in composition has given way to ambient sound. Game soundtracks rarely have any memorable moments, and they’re almost never hummable.
Technology should be used to make great compositions sound better, not to hide the weaknesses of inferior music.
I’ll take an 8 or 16-bit RPG soundtrack over most anything from the newest games.
I don’t know.
I think the whole ambient noise debate plays both ways. The games are a lot more realistic because of it. There was a scene in the original Silent Hill game that was genuinely fucking scary/creepy/hair standing up on the back of your head, simply because of good use of ambient noise. It was not an entirely unpleasant experience, but it did remind more of a movie and less of a game at that point.
Don’t get me wrong–ambient noise definitely plays a part in setting the mood of a game. Look at Super Metroid (if you don’t own it already, download it illegally or legally and play it): the creepy ambient music certainly makes you feel like you’re on a vast, abandoned planet. But each of those compositions has a memorable melody.
I’m with JL on this one. Betrayal and Krondor blew my mind when I first played it (note: I’m replaying it now, and I miss the “modern” RPG features like quest-tracking but it’s still an excellent game). I haven’t had that experience with any recent game (but then I haven’t played Silent Hill).
I’m not disagreeing, because I clearly remember a lot of games whose soundtracks are etched into my brain, and I do get that the soundtrack is/was something that was pretty carelessly tossed aside. But then again, some games (like the GTAs or the Tony Hawk games, for example) have taken it as an excuse for populating their games with their own soundtracks. Some of those epic Japanese games, though, had absolutely stunning soundtracks.
This cookie appears to be stuck to the cookie underneath, so I guess I have no choice except to eat both.
Yup. It’s Scioscia.
That reminds me: did anybody ever collect the A’s baseball medallion cards in Mother’s Cookies containers?
RIP, Mother’s Circus Animals.
I admit, I chuckled a bit at some of the comments here.
Also, RIP geocities.
Mother’s went out of business?!
You can’t go home.
They were dead to me after they killed their Oakland factory a couple of years earlier.
hmmm. been gone since ’06…
One of my friends now lives in the old factory building. They cut it up into some rather cool living spaces. We roller skated in the giant hallways–perfect for skating.
I wanna live in an old cookie factory…
Oh, that’s a euphemism, for sure!
Does your friend realize how deliciously ironic it would be to make these there?
Not as ironic as making these there.
Logline of the year: A girl has a concussion, wakes up, and a day later they kill her dog.
Nice.
This is a dangerous precedent that threatens to undermine everything we know to be true about blogging.