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Technically that’s already happened. You’ve owed your friend a playthrough since like 2003.
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Cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, other factors I can't think of right now.
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
Deranged X-Mas Figure
Sheer Goddamned stupidity?
Can't forget that one 
That, too.
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Edited by BearyScary on Aug 17th 2018 at 4:17:33 AM
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
Being too lazy to do the research
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
x8 The first two Army of Two games are pretty Narmy. The third, Devil's Cartel, however, is pure shit. The only thing interesting about it is it has a Canadian weapon (the C14 Timberwolf sniper rifle) and a Mexican weapon (the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl assault rifle) in it.
Can confirm, Devil's Cartel is just bad. It will insult your sensibilities. There are reasons why it's the Franchise Killer.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
You'd be surprised at what people will believe in order to justify their feelings. When you're fed straight bullshit for decades it probably doesn't sound that implausible.
Oh, bother.
When you have built the foundation of your very identity on something, you will be willing to swallow just about anything that supports it. Likewise, you will be willing to reject everything that challenges it.
This is why facts often do not help convince people.
Disgusted, but not surprised
It's weird how much some people love Fox News.
My father watched it 24-7 and it became like football to a lot of people. I remember our last vacation together, I kept changing it and he got mad. I was just so damned SICK OF IT.
He was confused by my reaction, like I was hating Bambi.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Figure of Hourai
If Mueller is Clyde, then who is the Bonnie? Omarosa?
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Probably whatever female Democrat Trump is angry at most recently.
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
No they were talking about the two who had an affair who haven't been on the council for months AFIAK.
Over at West Virginia, it's clear the Republican Party is confused and unaware of how to proceed.
The ads are still about Hillary and promoting the "pro-Trump agenda."
Because they don't have anything to do but go against her. Because they forgot to make a platform.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
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Isn't that pretty much the Republican party everywhere?
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
It is, but all the same it's nice to know that West Virginia is not an exception.
Well, we've got our first shooting on school grounds for the 2018-2019 season, as two adult non-students were shot during a High School pre-season football game, prompting a panic to the point that even the players and cheerleaders fled the field. Suffice to say, the game was cancelled.
The most heartbreaking part has to be this - "People just scrambled again, This time in the other direction. Young child in the press box just said, 'I hope I don't die.' Another said, 'This happens daily.' Unbelievable," [Palm Beach Post reporter Ryan] DiPentima wrote, adding the game was canceled.
Edited by ironballs16 on Aug 18th 2018 at 6:17:24 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Oh, bother.
I've become so jaded to this sort of news that my first reaction to it was "well at least nobody was killed."
Disgusted, but not surprised
Same, shootings happen all the time and aren't really news.
Wake me when 5+ people die.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
This is the new normal. It shouldn't be, but it is. It's awful that even little kids are so resigned to the fact that deranged (usually) white men have free reign to carry any weapon they want.
To be fair, this particular case sounded like a more personal issue rather than a spree killing, so the ethnicity is completely up in the air. That said, there's zero way to know that in-the-moment, so the level of fear remains the same.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Oh, bother.
I once posted here the idea of someone marketing and selling bulletproof backpacks or something.
It still wouldn't be the most depressing Kickstarter out there.
Disgusted, but not surprised
So fox news was on the TV at the gym today, and holy fuck you would need a damned web chart to follow the naritive there trying to spin, its like entering some kind of bizaro world
Acusing Muller of collusion himself.
Saying the probe is unconstitutional.
Calling people the "Bonnie and Clyde of collusion"
Ranting about something called "Fusion GPS"
Going back to the Muller probe and saying it is going to end soon, and that they would totaly talk if brought up before congress.
Admitting that the trump tower meeting happened....
and then immediately denying that it happened.
I just.... what the fuck, how do people belive this.