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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.
Samsung announce they're not going to make any more explode-y prone Galaxy phones
New Doctor Who spinoff "Class" gets new trailers at NYCC
Professionalk clowns hit out at creepy clowns craze (In a moment of supreme irony, Stephen King, creator of fricking Pennywise in "It!", appealed for calm.
The second Presidential candidate debate took place, and I'm not linking to any part of it because why should I make you suffer? Though I will note that noted UK pillock and architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage spoke glowingly of his friend Trump's performance in stalking around the stage, comparing him to a silverback gorilla dominating HRC a mental image I will now never be able to get out of my head dammit. In happier news, Trump has now been rejected by Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, the most senior Republican elected official in the USA.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.
Samsung announce they're not going to make any more explode-y prone Galaxy phones
New Doctor Who spinoff "Class" gets new trailers at NYCC
Professionalk clowns hit out at creepy clowns craze (In a moment of supreme irony, Stephen King, creator of fricking Pennywise in "It!", appealed for calm.
The second Presidential candidate debate took place, and I'm not linking to any part of it because why should I make you suffer? Though I will note that noted UK pillock and architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage spoke glowingly of his friend Trump's performance in stalking around the stage, comparing him to a silverback gorilla dominating HRC a mental image I will now never be able to get out of my head dammit. In happier news, Trump has now been rejected by Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, the most senior Republican elected official in the USA.
We can all accept that Marvel's current villain is a Toyota Aygo that became a man, right?
Date: 2016-10-11 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-11 12:15 pm (UTC)Unfortunately for the Trump campaign, and the Russian 'news' outlet Sputnik, who originally publicized it, it wasn't as they claimed, an email from Sydney Blumenthal admitting fault...it was a Newsweek article that Blumenthal had passed on...about how the whole debacle was making the Republicans look bad. The quoted lines were from the article, with the context twisted beyond recognition.
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Date: 2016-10-11 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-11 03:09 pm (UTC)http://i-am-an-adult-i-swear.tumblr.com/post/151455908552/hillary-clinton-lets-be-honest-black-men-in
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Date: 2016-10-11 12:39 pm (UTC)Just wishing I could hibernate for a decade and skip the whole... whatever it is going on right now.
Apart from all that, I'm just waiting for some daffodil bulbs I ordered from ebay to turn up then I can finish planting my spring bedding.
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Date: 2016-10-11 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-11 01:47 pm (UTC)The diaries have the email address of the author.
What should I do with them?
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Date: 2016-10-11 01:54 pm (UTC)If through a letting agent, just pass them on to the letting agent for sending on to the old occupant via their own methods, it's what they charge commission for after all.
Pass it to the building owner/supervisor.
E-mail the person to let them know you found some paperwork when you moved in and what would they like done with them.
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Date: 2016-10-11 01:56 pm (UTC)The other choice I can think of is destroy the letters, preserve the privacy of the time, and move on. Maybe someone else here would have a better idea than me? I dunno. But you asked for opinions, so there's mine.
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Date: 2016-10-11 02:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-10-11 02:47 pm (UTC)My brother is going to be so disappointed. He was over the moon that Ryan hadn't denounced Trump, as he's always thought Ryan to be a creep and a perv and thus felt quite validated.
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Date: 2016-10-11 02:52 pm (UTC)I'm still of the opinion that a good old fashioned, uncomplicated sex scandal is something that the GOP has been praying for to come to light right about now, so they can all drop Trump like a radioactive apricot with a, relatively, clear conscience.
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:04 pm (UTC)Speaking of Ryan, Trump is pissed and is bashing him like hell in public and on Twitter.
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:10 pm (UTC)Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location made it's debut. It's the fifth game in the franchise, but a spin-off that goes in its own direction. Having experienced the game, it's more of an experiment by Scott Cawthon, the creator, trying out lots of different types of games and upping the atmosphere & horror element. The story is far more direct (though still up to interpretation in some areas), features tons of voice acting, and rarely ever repeats the same bit of activities it has you doing
While perhaps the weakest in terms of gameplay, it's the strongest in terms of story, character, and horror. If you want to see what it is like, here's a video of HarshlyCritical's attempt at Night 1 & Night 2.
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Sigh. Have to buy it again one of these days. Been kinda waiting for release, but that seems to be taking its time.
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:25 pm (UTC)Now they need to bring Soundwave back and actually let him stay this time. Here is hoping it doesn't end up like Combiner Wars, which started out with tremendous potential and quickly jumped the megalodon pack to become the worst TF cartoon ever made (I'll give it a pro, though, it made for some especially hilarious wiki articles).
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:47 pm (UTC)On the plus side, murderising interesting characters is pretty in keeping with TF: Prime's ethos, so props to the writers for keeping that tradition alive.
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Date: 2016-10-11 03:38 pm (UTC)I enjoyed it.
(As an aside note, it's so damn nice just to have a protagonist who isn't a white guy.)
Though I am thinking that after the high bar its precursors have raised, Iron Fist probably has its work cut out for it.
So long as we actually see Danny fighting Shou-Lao, and not just rapid match-cuts of the actor fighting some claws while most of the dragon remains in the shadows, it's good.
One of the problems I do have with the series, and this applies to all of them, is the length. Thirteen episodes of at least forty-five and sometimes nearly an hour and a half each is a hell of a slog to get through.
(Though at least Defenders is only ten episodes. Har-har.)
That, and there's so little interaction between the series at the moment.
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Date: 2016-10-12 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-11 04:29 pm (UTC)- Trump still is audibly sniffing into his microphone, like he did in the first debate.
- Trump still repeatedly interrupted Clinton, 18 times in this debate.
- Trump argues with moderators who press him about trying to evade questions, gripes when they stop him from interrupting, and whines out loud about getting equal time (even though he spoke longer than Clinton).
- Trump wanders around the stage aimlessly, including when he creeps right up behind Hillary Clinton while she’s speaking to attendees asking questions.
- Trump appears to start molesting the stool provided for him to sit in (which he doesn’t use for sitting).
- Trump turns off some of the undecided voters present so much that they start glaring at him with visible loathing.
- Trump never smiles. Not once.
- Trump said nothing when Hillary Clinton said he hadn’t paid income taxes in 20 years, apparently conceding the point.
- Trump defended the actions of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, before turning around and contradicting his own -running mate on a proper strategy for handling the crisis in Aleppo.
- Trump states that he “thinks Aleppo has fallen” (it hasn’t).
- Trump, during the question about Aleppo, starts talking about Mosul, which is in Iraq, and wondering out loud why the military would announce an attack there ahead of time, leading moderator Martha Raddatz to give him obvious examples like, “psychological warfare” against the enemy or “to warn civilians to get out”.
- Trump threatens to, if president, appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton, and see her thrown in jail, like a madman dictator in a banana republic.
- When confronted about his comments about “grabbing women by the p****" by Anderson Cooper, Trump lied about what he actually said and meant, and Anderson Cooper had to ask him if he understood he was actually describing sexual assault. Trump repeatedly tried explaining it away as “locker room talk”, and ignored the numerous reports of women alleging he kissed or groped them without consent, as he bragged about doing in the video.
- Trump repeated his ridiculous claim that “nobody has more respect for women than I do.” Which demonstrates a complete lack of self-awareness, or understanding of what respect actually looks like.
- Trump was tasked with giving the first answer to what could be done to help stop the rise of Islamophobia from an undecided voter who was also a Muslim woman, and then proceeded to give an Islamophobic answer where he talked about “radical Islamic terror” and being suspicious of Muslims who might carry out terror attacks.
- In that answer, he lied about the San Bernardino shooting, claiming other Muslims knew about the couple’s plans to commit murder, saying, “In San Bernardino, many people saw the bombs all over the apartment of the two people that killed 14 and wounded many, many people…Muslims have to report the problems when they see them.” (Nobody saw bombs in the home of the terrorists.)
- Lied when he said, “I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.” (There are no Michelle Obama attack ads against Clinton, and former ’08 Obama campaign chairman David Alexrod took to Twitter to correct Trump.)
- Lied when he claimed that Hillary Clinton had “viciously” attacked women who made accusations of sexual impropriety against her husband, Bill Clinton. No evidence of any such retribution exists, unless you count Clinton disbelieving some of the accusers in interviews.
- Trump lied when he said, “We have the slowest growth since 1929.” (The economy is growing. According to CNBC, it contracted in eight individual years since 1930.)
- Repeated a lie he submitted in the first debate, that “ICE just endorsed me. They've never endorsed a presidential candidate.” (Trump was not endorsed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the government, but by a union of its employees.)
- Lied when he said, “She is raising everybody’s taxes, massively.” (Clinton’s tax hikes are for very wealthy people. Says the Tax Policy Center: “Nearly all of (Clinton’s) tax increases would fall on the top 1 per cent; the bottom 95 per cent of taxpayers would see little or no change in their taxes.”)
- Lied when he accused Clinton of laughing at a 12-year-old rape victim: “Her client she represented got him off and she's seen laughing at the girl who was raped.” (Clinton laughed at various points of a 1980s interview about the case – but never at the victim. For example, she said that her client had passed a polygraph lie test, and she added, with a laugh, “which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.”)
- Lied when he accused Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal of starting the Birther Conspiracy theory, saying, “You know very well, your campaign Sidney Blumenthal … he's the one that got this started along with your campaign manager and they were on television just two weeks ago, she was, saying exactly that.” (There is no evidence that Blumenthal or Clinton’s campaign manager started the conspiracy theory that Trump promoted for years.)
- Misrepresented Clinton’s stance on healthcare, saying, “She wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster. Somewhat similar to Canada.” (Clinton wants to add a “public option” to the current system, but is not calling for a single-payer system like Canada’s.)
- Trump also lied when he claimed most Canadians were unhappy with their healthcare system which, according to actual polls, is not the case. His claim that Canadians were coming across the border for U.S. healthcare has no basis in reality, for years, the opposite was true, and Americans were sometimes going to Canada for cheaper healthcare. Today, less than 1% of Canadians come to the U.S. for healthcare. Suffice to say, many Canadians online told him he was a hoser as a result.
- Trump lied when he said Bill Clinton “paid an $850,000 fine to one of the women, Paula Jones who is also here tonight.” (Clinton paid a $25,000 fine to Arkansas authorities, but his $850,000 payment to Jones was a settlement, not a fine.)
- Trump told two lies about Syrian Refugees, lying when he said, “Hundreds of thousands of people coming in from Syria when we know nothing about them.“ (He inflated the number of Syrian refugees by at least 8 times to put it over 100,000 so far, as the U.S. has accepted about 12,500 Syrian refugees at this time. And of course, those refugees are subjected to an extensive vetting process.)
- Lied about the U.S. trade deficit (that he also adds towards by having many of his company’s products made in China or other countries in Southeast Asia), saying, “Last year, we had almost $800 billion trade deficit. Other words, trading with other countries. We had an $800 billion deficit.” (The trade deficit last year was $532 billion. It was $746 billion when trade in services, at which the U.S. excels, is excluded from the count.)
- Incorrectly said, “Just today policeman were shot — two, killed.” (Two officers were shot and killed the day before the debate, not that day.)
- Lied about his own tax plan when he said “I will tell you we are cutting (taxes) big league for the middle-class.” (The vast majority of Trump’s tax cuts go to the rich, and some analyses suggest the middle-class will actually pay more taxes. The Tax Foundation found that the middle quintile of earners would get an income boost of 1.3 per cent.)
- Trump again lied about his support for the Iraq War, saying, “I was against the war in Iraq. Has not been debunked.” (Trump expressed only support for the war before the invasion. His claim has been repeatedly debunked.)
- Repeated his lie about statistics on American tax rates, saying, “Our taxes are so high. Just about the highest in the world.” (The U.S. has below-average taxes for the industrialized world. It is among the highest with regard to corporate taxes alone, but Trump did not specify.)
- Lied about his tweet about Alicia Machado: “No, there wasn’t ‘’check out a sex tape.’” (That is precisely what Trump wrote in a post still online, and not deleted, just over a week ago: “Check out sex tape.”)
- Trump tried insinuating that Hillary Clinton did not pull off a “3 AM phone call” because of what happened in Benghazi. Which is incredible, because Benghazi happened at 3:45 in afternoon, Eastern Time and Clinton was kept informed as the situation unfolded.
- Again lied about murder statistics when he falsely said, “Chicago; you take a look at Washington, D.C., we have an increase in murder within our cities.” (Murder is down in D.C. this year. There were 106 homicides as of Oct. 7, compared to 120 at the same time last year.)
- Falsely said of Clinton, “She made $250 million by being in office. She used the power of her office to make a lot of money.” (Forbes magazine found $230 million in combined income for BOTH the Clintons between 2001 and 2014, but the majority of that was income Bill Clinton earned after he left office. “Hillary didn’t bring in the sort of money her husband did until 2013, when she left her post as Secretary of State,” Forbes wrote.)
- In discussing energy policy, Trump began talking about “clean coal”, which isn’t really a thing.
- Repeated a lie he's been telling when he said he was “pretty much self-funding” his campaign. (This was not true even early in the primaries, but especially not now. Trump has accepted tens of millions in donations from others.)
- Lied when he said of Libya, “ISIS has a good chunk of their oil. I'm sure you probably have heard that.” (ISIS has not done so. “They wanted to disrupt it, destroy it, not to run it," energy analyst Matthew Bey told CNBC in September.)
- Lied when he said Clinton is pledging to leave the carried interest tax loophole untouched: “Very interesting why she's leaving carried interest.” (Clinton is even vowing to get rid of the loophole by executive action if she has to.)
- Trump alleged, quite stupidly, and showing a lot of ignorance about technology when he said that Clinton went through a “very expensive process” to “acid wash” or “bleach” her deleted emails. (The emails were deleted with a free software program, called BleachBit, that involves neither actual acid, nor bleach.)
- Repeated a lie about the Iran deal by saying, “It's a one-sided transaction where we're giving back $150 billion to a terrorist state.” (As the Washington Post explains, the deal allowed Iran to get access to its own money that was frozen in foreign bank accounts, estimated at about $100 billion. The U.S. didn’t give Iran $150 billion.)
- Outright lied when he said of the DNC hack, “Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia.” (There was hacking. The U.S. intelligence community last week accused Russia of responsibility, as independent cybersecurity experts did previously. Trump was specifically debriefed about Russia being responsible in September, and there is no evidence cyber-security experts are mentioning Russia to insinuate anything about Trump.)
- Repeated his lie that he has no business dealings in Russia, even though there is evidence, and he and his son Donald Jr. have both previously boasted of Trump business dealings in Russia.
- Lied about the U.S. and Russia trying to negotiate a ceasefire in Syria, “Just take a look at Russia, and look at what they did this week where I agree, she wasn't there but possibly she's consulted. We sign a peace treaty. Everyone's excited.” (There was no “peace treaty” about Syria, nor any agreement this week. The U.S. and Russia agreed to a temporary ceasefire in September.)
- Trump repeated two lies he tells regarding Bill Clinton signing NAFTA, which he says “is the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world”. President George H.W. Bush actually signed NAFTA, and it did not create any of the job losses or economic losses Trump claims it does.
- Lied about the Affordable Care Act, saying, “…some horrible things like Obamacare, where your health insurance and health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical, 68 per cent, 59 per cent, 71 per cent.” (It is a major exaggeration to suggest that most people will see such increases. While a small number of Obamacare plans may spike this much, the vast majority will not. Estimates of various kinds put the increase at 5 per cent to 25 per cent. And non-Obamacare premiums are rising slower than they did under George W. Bush.)
- Repeated his lie about Clinton and Obama being responsible for the creation of ISIS, saying “Her and Obama, whether you like it or not, the way they got out of Iraq, the vacuum they've left, that's why ISIS formed in the first place.” (ISIS was formed long before Obama’s troop withdrawal; it even started using the name “Islamic State” during the Bush presidency. At least Trump did not refer to Clinton or Obama as the “founders” of the group, sarcastically or otherwise.)
- Outright lied about the Benghazi attack, “Ambassador Stevens sent 600 requests for help. And the only one she talked to was Sidney Blumenthal who is her friend and not a good guy by the way.” (The Washington Post, which looked deeply into the “600 requests” claim, found that “few if any” of the messages were from Stevens himself, and that many of the 600 were identified as “concerns,” not “requests,” which have different meanings in bureaucratic parlance. The requests did not go directly to Clinton, and not all of them were denied. As for Blumenthal, the New York Times wrote, “It is manifestly untrue to suggest, as Mr. Trump did, that he was only person she listened to on Benghazi.” This bizarre conspiracy theory apparently is from… Russian news website Sputnik, run by Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.)
- Repeated a lie he tells about his hotel development in a historic building near the White House, “The United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office…one of the primary area things, in fact, perhaps the primary thing was balance sheet.” (Trump did not win the project primarily because the government approved of his balance sheet, numerous news stories from the time of the decision make clear.)
- Lied when he said “jobs are essentially nonexistent” in the “inner cities.” (Of course, millions of people living in urban cores are employed; many inner cities are thriving.)
- Falsely said, “African- Americans now 45 per cent poverty in the inner cities.” (It has never been clear how Trump defines “inner cities” – he appears to use the phrase synonymously with “black neighborhood” – but he appeared to be mangling the statistic he usually uses in his speeches: “45 per cent of black children under the age of six live in poverty.” That statistic is also grossly incorrect, as overall black poverty is 24 per cent; it is well under 45 per cent even in several cities with a significant black poverty challenge, such as Memphis (35 per cent). What’s really more alarming is that when fielding a question from an African American, Trump immediately dove into talk of inner cities.
- Trump seemed confused about what power a U.S. Senator has, when he slammed Clinton, claiming she could have changed the tax code “years ago” had she tried to do so. (Clinton was correct that her powers on such issues were very limited with a Republican president in office.)
Holy crap, that's a lot of crap. :(
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Date: 2016-10-11 05:16 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-C4qqsgs8w&feature=youtu.be
What do you think?
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Date: 2016-10-11 05:27 pm (UTC)Not outraged by it. It just looks like it's trying too hard to be "serious", taking it to a ludicrous level.
But... there's no sign of Tommy, or Bulk, or Skull, or Alpha. Not even Squat and Baboo!
So what's the point? What is the point?
... on a side note, am I the only one that thinks the actress playing Kimberly actually does look a little like Amy Jo Johnson before she cuts her hair?
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Date: 2016-10-11 05:45 pm (UTC)And in happier still news, Trump has pretty much declared war on the Republican party in response, which affects House and Senate races nationwide.
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Date: 2016-10-12 05:59 am (UTC)I'm also approaching the beginning of the repayment period for my massive student loans. Coincidentally, I'm thinking about cutting down my pull list again.
In lighter news, I've been playing Grow Up, a largely relaxing game in which you're a little climbing robot, the sequel to Grow Home. So that's been nice.
I'm surprised their weren't any celebrations for the 10th Anniversary of Transformers: Cybertron
Date: 2016-10-12 09:09 pm (UTC)