And you think voting is zero sum.
It is not necessary to flip voters from Biden to Trump. It's only necessary to flip them from Biden to didn't-bother-to-vote.
This is a "this guy sucks" election cycle (ironically just like 2020 was), and for that to work all you need is a LOT of really bad news that can be dumped on the president's doorstep.
Your predictions are juvenile. There are four things that Biden cannot stop:
- Texas dumping immigrants on the northern cities.
- Israel giving the news a continuous stream of dead Palestinians for the next six months before just straight up annexing Gaza.
- Ukraine begging for more money to accomplish fuck all.
- Housing prices remaining high while boomers stubbornly refuse to die off in the numbers necessary to bring housing prices down.
Trump's "airport stop" campaign method makes it pretty easy to play the whole table. There's no reason not to hit everything when you're going to be out-appearing your opponent many times over.
This election is a referendum on Biden's economy, and I believe there's no way Trump can lose in that regard. There is literally nothing Biden can do to solve the immediate economic problems which he's being dinged for, which is that housing is too expensive and wages aren't keeping pace with perceived inflation.
Just sayin, any system where you can punch a guy so hard their blood pops out and becomes a slippng hazard, and where shooting someone can make all their carried ammo cook off like grenades, and where casting a spell can cause a copy of yourself to appear and try to kill you...
Has already thought of all the things people are trying to get out of the experience.
All you need to make a good RPG is four pages out of Dark Heresy v1. Specifically, the critical effects tables. Like, that's literally all you need. Dig this:
Critical Energy Effects - Head:
7: In a gruesome display, the flesh is burned from the target's head, exposing charred bone and muscle underneath. The target is blinded permanently and takes 1d10 levels of fatigue. Also, roll 1d10. This is the target's new fellowship, unless their fellowship was already 10 or less, in which case nobody really notices the difference.
9: Superheated by the attack, the target's brain explodes, tearing apart his skull and sending flaming chunks of meat flying at those nearby. The target is no more.
10+: As above, except the target's entire body catches fire and runs off headless 2d10 meters in a random direction (use the scatter diagram on page 196). Anything flammable it passes, including characters, must make an agility test or catch fire (see special damage).
Were this any other franchise, I would conceptually understand your reasoning for not wanting to accept the subsequent materials.
If we were talking about Star Wars, we can say with certainty that it was good, and then the later stuff was shit.
But in the case of Evangelion, it was always shit, and Rebuild exists to say: "Yeah it was shit, you were supposed to think it was shit, why did you spend the last twenty years pissing away money on Asuka/Rei figures?".
what do you call the plot point
Flavor text.
What you're not getting is the symbolism of Fuyutsuki turning off SEELE in 3.0.
It wasn't exactly a 4th wall break but there was definitely a metacontext. Sorry SEELE, you contribute nothing to the story (YEETED).
The eventual 4th wall break happens when Shinji is fighting in a cardboard city in a studio in 3+1. If you think EVA is about hot blood and giant robots saving the world, you're in the wrong neighborhood. That's Gundam town.
Uh, well, no...
It's really just Gendo's massive cope about getting Yui killed.
Shinji's whole arc is basically the same as Trevor Hills in American Arcadia... getting mad enough to look everyone in the eye and yell "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"
MiLB gets almost zero viewership
But good attendance. Excepting the covid years, MiLB is profitable. The money isn't blowing the doors off, but its enough to pay the bills. Baseball has LONG recognized the need for developmental leagues to recruit from, because pitching is one of the most physically demanding jobs there is. Once the Cardinals started doing it in the 1920's, EVERYONE had to follow suit because it was a pitching arms race. You couldn't afford NOT to have a stable of pitchers to call up.
It improves the sport overall to have a development pipeline. The NHL has had it for a while, and the NBA is starting to use it too.
The state of college football is a direct result of the refusal of the NFL to create a developmental league like the NBA and MLB did.
There's a huge disconnect between what ought happen and what will happen. What OUGHT happen is that colleges should drop gridiron football entirely; they aren't going to.
Accepting that they're not going to, what should happen is that the FBS should be spun off from the NCAA and established as a developmental league of the NFL, retaining a sponsorship & branding relationship with their host schools but ultimately becoming a commercial enterprise.
Not every program will survive this transition. And some programs will eventually decide to move.
The black vote is the democratic party's weak spot. It's not a bad strategy as long as you're realistic about what you're trying to get out of it.
You're never going to flip a metro. But if you can win over even 5% that's still enough to prove decisive statewide.
Pretty sure he did.
Your problem is, you're making the progressive mistake of taking the president "literally but not seriously". Supporters know to take him "seriously but not literally". The guy has no filter between his brain and his mouth.
Jigg, this is Kia2. You know who OP means when he says .2%.
I do not believe for an instant that you believe the nihilists are right (that nothing is fundamentally moral or immoral). You wouldn't be here if you did.
i know we as humans made it up
If we "made it up" then the nihilists are right.
Look, this is a CHOICE. If you "know" morality is made up, then all your feelings about what is right and wrong are just you. If you "know" some things are fundamentally right or wrong, then that has to transcend you in order to be projected onto others, it can't just be something made up.
It is YOUR CHOICE to acknowledge a higher source of moral truth in order to give your moral judgements greater weight than your own disapproval. Only the divine can transcend you and encompass your enemies.
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It cost them downballot races in 2021 for various city and district attorney positions. Seattle elected their first republican in who knows how long. Similar situation in Long Island.