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At home i keep Facebook, Gmail, Feedly, BBC News and Idle Thumbs Slack pinned and open. At work I keep Hangouts and Idle Thumbs Slack pinned and open. Its the best.

This expansion may well get me back into this game: "Paradox say the Natural Disasters expansion “features a catalog of catastrophes to challenge mayor-players everywhere, including planning with early warning systems and emergency routes, devastating and destructive disaster effects, and caring for the populace as they struggle to rebuild.” Expect infernos, falling comets, and other things that can happen naturally or be triggered whenever you want to cause trouble." https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/18/cities-skylines-disasters-expansion/

I am interested but not sure how much time i will have

Watch your mouth son! Serious eats just posted this: http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/08/how-to-make-omurice-japanese-omelette-fried-rice.html Omurice is fantastic! I also plan on making a cake next week. I have been traveling the past four weekends so I haven't had time to cook much.

I have decided that the new cake picture has the same cake as the first one, just after the birds ate most of it, got fat and tried to cover it up In all seriousness frosting has always been my nemesis, I always reach a point where I don't want to smooth it anymore and start eating.

My headset lives around the corner from a window to prevent this. I remember seeing mention of keeping it out of the sun somewhere in a manual or tutorial

I climbed a mountain in Montana over the weekend and took some fun panoramas. I love how easy smart phones make it. https://goo.gl/photos/tcybtuNu9XFC5FeS7 https://goo.gl/photos/mawFKs6ccaWXPu7t5

"Of course, our plan is to have three seasons. Although Season Two hasn't been confirmed yet." https://www.destructoid.com/io-interactive-has-plans-for-three-seasons-of-hitman-379205.phtml

Interesting: "Doom VR takes this same tact but ends up feeling far more elegant thanks to a few subtle yet crucial tweaks. Rather than instantly shifting the camera from point A to point B, Doom makes you feel like you're dashing through the world with super speed: when you hold down the trigger of HTC Vive's left handheld controller, the world slows down, the audio drops into a deep rumble, and a bright blue aiming cursor appears. When you release the trigger, you see the world rush past as you dart to your selected destination. Being able to see how you got to where you're going while feeling like a time-bending badass in the process feels worlds better than the instantaneous, unceremonious perspective shift found in other VR games." http://www.gamespot.com/articles/doom-may-have-solved-vrs-traversal-problem/1100-6442439/

I don't remember it being a thing, I think Mr. Pizza is just being its weird self.

Korea was great and weird

I don't really miss the pizza in Korea:

Today is the last day for free Windows 10 upgrades if anyone is still holding out http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36923149

Everquests corpse run mechanic was the worst, I remember multiple times where I had to pay people to drag my body back to somewhere I could get back to.

Prey had an interesting respawn mechanic, you went to the spirit world and shot some weird flying things to get some HP back before returning to the regular world. I also remember some of the early Rainbow 6 games had an Xcom like death mechanic, where new squad members were recruitable if some died on a mission. However there was a very short name list and eventually you started getting numbered anonymous soldiers.

I am excited for the dating sim that is created from this title in the next wizard jam

I would point out that all the counter examples are parliamentary systems, I always thought it was FPTP plus presidential system that lead to two parties.

The problem with internal party coalitions and more moderate candidates is that it stifles debate. If a more liberal senate candidate loses in a primary they are not going to be asked by the media to comment on policy frequently. I have serious issues with how parties and the media in the US treat any ideas outside the mainstream party lines like its insane policy only idiot follow. We don't have a major anti-war party in this country, there is no debate about our bloated ineffective national security apparatus in this country. I could go on, but I believe that if we had more parties that were allowed to represent a broader range of views then just the centrist parties we currently have, maybe we could have a more elevated discussion. I hate that there is really only major debates on party direction every 4 years, once there is a presidential nominee I am supposed to just shut up and fall in line.

This is the same with voting for a major party candidate, there is no way to know if you 100% support them, or hate their guts but are terrified of the alternative. I wish we had a 'I object to the system' box.

Its pretty unlikely Ross Perot got almost 20% of the popular vote when he ran and zero electoral votes.

Our politics are too focused on personalities, we need to get better about separating policies and people. Just because Bernie didn't win doesn't mean we can't keep pushing for the policies he supported. Similarly don't vote for or against someone just because you like or dislike them. I suppose it's a problem related to our system of people owning their own legislative seat and directly elected executives.

I assume its either 12% of people that previously voted for Clinton or 12% of people voted for Bush and then democrats down ticket. The Nader blame is so annoying, Gore won the popular vote, but lost the election because of the electoral college. He actually won in Florida but messed up how he requested the recount. Florida had these horribly designed ballots that ended up having tons of people accidentally vote for the wrong candidates. The supreme court ended up deciding the election by ending the recount even though it is unclear if they actually had the power to do so. Gore also didn't run a particularly inspiring campaign. But sure its 100% Nader's fault. (Not saying anyone here was blaming him, its just something that bugs me and I don't even really like Nader.)

I've had this argument in Slack a few times, but I wanted to chime in here. I live in a blue state where Trump came in 3rd during the primaries. If he wins the state it will because of a massive failure of Hillary's (Obama won Minnesota by 10% in 2008 and 7% in 2012). Because of this if I vote for her it will be effectively pointless, she will be well beyond the 50%+1. As a result I would much rather put my vote where it could actually have some, even tiny, effect and that is why I will vote green. I will be voting for democrats in down ticket elections, unless they have no opponent and I will for sure vote yes on our two citywide ballot initiatives. Professional insurance requirement for police and a $15 minimum wage because those two are where my vote will have the greatest impact.

It also displays some of the issues with our democracy, the parties are already gatekeepers as to who is able to have a 'serious' run for the White House, if a few people at the top of the parties are messing with the rules and prematurely favoring one candidate over another then the primaries are pointless and the parties should just go back to anointing candidates without voter input.