Godammed SDN

[Aaron]

TEo me3 thread goes as expcted.

[starku]

i'm actually blown away there are only like 5 people posting in it

demo not on pc i guess :V

[Sandman]

I think I liked Bioware better when their latest release was Baldur's Gate 2.

[Zod]

but how can nobody care

like democracy does not work this way

usually because nobody makes a big deal out of it

or people who do make a big deal don't actually have the ability to do anything

[Losonti Tokash]

course people care

occasionally a law will get proposed to outlaw that outrageous shit

but it's not in the interests of the people in charge and they can effectively neutralize your vote through any number of shit so it never happens

[adr-admin]

it is kinda a self sustaining thing

the way it works is at the census time the states redraw the districts to deal with the changing populations, meaning to equalize them. not the worst idea ever


but the problem is the same people who draw the maps

are elected by those maps



so they fuck it up to reinforce themselves then use that power next time to do it some more



now people bitch about it every time it happens


but complaining is about as far as it gets

[starku]

in au one of our states hadn't changed in ages and so the rural vote was hugely dominant

and he was amazingly corrupt but his opponents were powerless

but the system changed them anyway

[RedImperator]

The weirdest thing is that New Jersey, which is about as corrupt and rotten as it's possible to be, has a constitutional amendment mandating sensible legislative districts.

SCOTUS has ruled political gerrymandering is just super, btw. Which is why I tell people that you shouldn't rely on the Supreme Court to fix all the legislature's mistakes, just in case they forgot about Dred Scott (black people aren't citizens; implied bans on slavery in the north were unconstitutional) or Plessy v Ferguson (separate but equal) or the string of 19th century rulings that overturned child labor bans.

[adr-admin]

Timeline: A New Kind of Profile
Basics » Explore Popular Features » Timeline

Explore Popular Features

this strikes me as the same thing as FAQs that nobody but the idiot author ever wanted to ask

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Thanas confirmed for liking yandere characters

[Civil War Man]

Where I live is an interesting case. The local districts are gerrymandered to Hell and back (the town I live in is split between 3 districts).

But when you get to the federal level, it's pretty much impossible to pull off any shenanigans.

Tiny state, two congressional districts. Basically just draw a line that puts about half the population on either side and call it a day.

The fact that the Republican party is so weak in this state that there's no point to trying shenanigans helps.

[Bakustra]

The weirdest thing is that New Jersey, which is about as corrupt and rotten as it's possible to be, has a constitutional amendment mandating sensible legislative districts.

SCOTUS has ruled political gerrymandering is just super, btw. Which is why I tell people that you shouldn't rely on the Supreme Court to fix all the legislature's mistakes, just in case they forgot about Dred Scott (black people aren't citizens; implied bans on slavery in the north were unconstitutional) or Plessy v Ferguson (separate but equal) or the string of 19th century rulings that overturned child labor bans.

Or, for that matter, Muller v. Oregon, which declared that women's reproductive health is the domain of the state in the course of upholding the ten-hour-workday.

But anyways, gerrymandering benefits everybody. Democrats use it to marginalize old people, Republicans use it to marginalize blacks and Latinos, and everybody's happy, except for whoever is losing out at the moment. It's like "state's rights"- they only really matter to whoever's currently out of power in the US, though the Republican party may have claimed it completely in recent years.

[Bakustra]

man who is this fucking guy with reasonable arguments concerning morality, a fire emblem av and handle, and mtg meme sig?

he won't last, will he?

[adr-admin]

his first post was praising the great adr

can't be all bad

[adr-admin]

so my wrists are hurting like hell right now

i suspect it is from all the typing i've been doing these last few days for w0rk

i should sue my employer for workmans comp

wait i am my employer

shit

[Zod]

the kidnapped for christ thread is hilarious

"i know a guy who went from being gay to being straight in one of these camps, so clearly homosexuals can be cured!"

the backpedaling would be great

[adr-admin]

wait i am my employer

so somebody on the internet caled the employee/employer split of payroll taxes a brilliant illusion

that implies to me that if the employer didn't pay the tax, they'd actually raise people's pay (and then of course the government would tax it so the worker breaks even)


but somehow i really really really doubt that.

[Veef]

i need to stop going to /m/

it's the same ten people bitching over and over

forever alone

[Bakustra]

do any of them ever talk about tokusatsu?

[Veef]

did you know moot said it was the best board one time?

i guess that was back before torrents, blogs, scanlations, direct access to Japanese artists, file servers, and everything else totally marginalized them

they just whine and complain

they don't enjoy anything

[Zod]

y'know i think i liked rage better when it was called borderlands

what's the deal with megatexture

[adr-admin]

lol i was just emailing someone

no idea why it isn't working for you but here's an alternate solution

literally after i hit send

wait right after i said no idea, an idea came to mind

try it now

apparently, i should give up on things more often

[xon]

y'know i think i liked rage better when it was called borderlands

what's the deal with megatexture

It is where they put massive detail in the texture which would normally be computed at runtime if the GPU it was designed to run on wasn't +5-8 years old, and they could be bothered to write a few cases of the code running on the GPU. This as a concequence takes up massive disk space, lots of graphics memory, and imposes harsh consequences for graphics quality if the stupidly sized textures can't be streamed by the time someone looks at them.

It's a horrible hack and completely ignores advances in computational graphics in favour of not actually using the hardware they have at the expense of a fucking massive commitment in artist time. As if AAA games wheren't expensive enough due to the level of detail.

[adr-admin]

he's gonna take you back to the past
to play the shitty games that suck ass
he'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear
he'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a roadkill skunk and down it with beer

he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
he's the angry nintendo nerd
he's the angry atari sega nerd
he's the angry video game nerd



when you turn on your tv
make sure its turned to channel 3
he's got a nerdy shirt and a pocket pouch
although i've never seen him write anything down
he's got a power glove
and a filthy mouth
armed with his zapper he will tear these games down


he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
he's the angry nintendo nerd
he's the angry atari sega nerd
he's the angry video game nerd


he plays the worst games of all time
horrible abominations of mankind
they make him so made he could spit
or say cowabunga

cowa-fucking piece of dog shit


they rip you off and don't care one bit
but this nerd he doesn't forget it

why can't a turtle swim
why can't i land a plane

they got a quick buck for this shitload of fuck

the character's names are wrong
why's that password so long
why don't the weapons do anything

he's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
the game sucks so bad he makes up his own words
he's the angriest most pissed off gaming nerd
he's the angry atari amiga cdi colecovision intellivsion sega neo geo turbographx 16 odyssey 3do commodore nintendo nerd

he's the angry video game nerd

[Zod]

oh hey you can't pick up weapons from dead enemies either

lolwut