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  1. Those who have lists, and have Huddy on them, prepare to cross him off
  2. This is a fun idea. It also suggests a new Chavvy nickname: Not-Mexican-Enough Elephant.
  3. Non-Slate-style contrarianism: platoon splits do not necessarily mean what you think they do
  4. “hmm, I just watched over three hours of a FOX broadcast, and I’m not annoyed”
  5. 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])
  6. 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)
  7. Not Sure

64 thoughts on “Not Sure: DLD 102909

  1. nevermoor Oct 29,2009 10:32 am

    Re 3: I’m uncomfortable with the 80% regression. Where does that come from?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 10:33 am || Up

      TWSS

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Oct 29,2009 10:58 am || Up

      See the comments there.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 11:10 am || Up

        Ah, gotcha. Looks like I was right.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  2. nevermoor Oct 29,2009 10:42 am

    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.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 10:45 am || Up

      They’re doubling down on white males.

      And, yes, that’s a euphemism.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 10:49 am || Up

        Yeah, but young white males are liberal too.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 10:57 am || Up

          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.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 11:18 am || Up

            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.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 11:19 am || Up

              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.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 11:20 am || Up

              I’m saying the young, broadly speaking, trend lib; but that young white males, while less con than older white males, still trend con.

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 11:27 am || Up

                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.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Oct 29,2009 11:01 am || Up

      Yeah, I don’t get that one either.

      TINSTAAFK
  3. monkeyball Oct 29,2009 10:47 am

    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.

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    • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 10:58 am || Up

      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”

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. monkeyball Oct 29,2009 11:15 am

    5. Yikes

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  5. monkeyball Oct 29,2009 12:01 pm

    1. Hunh. Would we have any interest in this guy as a cheap acq?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 12:20 pm || Up

      Depends on how cheap. EGon? Yes. Weurtz? Maybe, depends upon how Beane feels about Gio. B-grade SP Prospect? No.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 12:58 pm || Up

      His name is fun to say.

  6. monkeyball Oct 29,2009 12:21 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 1:00 pm

    Number seven depresses me. I thought we were a lot closer to being 50-50…

  8. salb918 Oct 29,2009 1:18 pm

    I can’t stop laughing at Jorge Cham’s latest tales from the road:

    • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 1:25 pm || Up

      Looks like eminem had it pegged.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 1:31 pm || Up

          Customs doesn’t eff around over there.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. mjdittmer Oct 29,2009 2:03 pm

    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:

    The point? If the people who own Manchester United, a brand so large that it makes the New York Yankees seem like the Brandon Wheat Kings, have to get out, the entire underpinning of professional sports is in the kind of jeopardy we haven’t seen since the 1930s, when teams folded as often as they were formed.

    Ray likes writing about ownership groups in general (thus the rambling), so it’s hard to say how likely his doomsday scenario is.

    • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 2:17 pm || Up

      “thus the rambling” should really be the name of his blog.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. nevermoor Oct 29,2009 2:24 pm

    Holy asshole, Batman. (h/t: excellent video game)

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 2:58 pm || Up

      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.

      • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 3:07 pm || Up

        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.

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        • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 3:18 pm || Up

          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.

          • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 3:44 pm || Up

            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.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 4:35 pm || Up

              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.

              az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
              • salb918 Oct 29,2009 5:02 pm || Up

                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.

                • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 5:12 pm || Up

                  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).

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • salb918 Oct 29,2009 5:19 pm || Up

                  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).

              • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 5:18 pm || Up

                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.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 4:39 pm || Up

            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.

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            • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 5:13 pm || Up

              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.

              • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 5:19 pm || Up

                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.

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              • nevermoor Oct 29,2009 5:20 pm || Up

                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).

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 5:34 pm || Up

                  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.

  11. salb918 Oct 29,2009 5:03 pm

    This cookie appears to be stuck to the cookie underneath, so I guess I have no choice except to eat both.

    • monkeyball Oct 29,2009 5:09 pm || Up

      Yup. It’s Scioscia.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 5:10 pm || Up

      That reminds me: did anybody ever collect the A’s baseball medallion cards in Mother’s Cookies containers?

      RIP, Mother’s Circus Animals.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • JediLeroy Oct 29,2009 5:15 pm || Up

        I admit, I chuckled a bit at some of the comments here.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 5:37 pm || Up

          Guess there’s no reason to visit my family on the West Coast now.

      • salb918 Oct 29,2009 5:20 pm || Up

        Also, RIP geocities.

      • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 5:35 pm || Up

        Mother’s went out of business?!

        You can’t go home.

        • andeux Oct 29,2009 5:37 pm || Up

          They were dead to me after they killed their Oakland factory a couple of years earlier.

          TINSTAAFK
          • Leopold Bloom Oct 29,2009 5:39 pm || Up

            hmmm. been gone since ’06…

          • batgirl Oct 30,2009 11:01 am || Up

            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.

            • Leopold Bloom Oct 30,2009 11:14 am || Up

              I wanna live in an old cookie factory…

              • monkeyball Oct 30,2009 11:26 am || Up

                Oh, that’s a euphemism, for sure!

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • nevermoor Oct 30,2009 11:15 am || Up

              Does your friend realize how deliciously ironic it would be to make these there?

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball Oct 30,2009 11:26 am || Up

                Not as ironic as making these there.

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  12. monkeyball Oct 29,2009 5:51 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  13. nevermoor Oct 29,2009 6:55 pm

    This is a dangerous precedent that threatens to undermine everything we know to be true about blogging.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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