Open Thread for Non-Personal Stuff: Nov 2015 Baby Needs Jelly Edition

@wwth: Jesus.

@wwth

How awful. And what a surprise, the main character in his book (the ‘perfect princess’) is based on a letter he wrote on Valentine’s day to a woman whom he was ‘benevolently stalking’, who eventually had to contact the police about his behavior. Ugh. Just Ugh.

@justlikeheaven

Phantasy Star is actually pretty cool like that (and it’s a great game too).

The character designer for Phantasy Star I and II was a woman, Rieko Kodama. She was also the team leader for Phantasy Star IV, which is in my opinion the best game in the series.

It also had a woman game designer, Miki Morimoto. She also directed the original Ys.

@dhag85

Ive never played the Ys games Ill have to check it out.

I’m watching 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown and I’m paraphrasing but Jimmy Carr uttered the most absolutely perfect thing ever — I feel like that was very much an IKEA sentence, all the parts were there, just not in the right order.

I am so stealing “IKEA sentence”, that’s everything that NWO said — the words were there, they just made no sense in that order; also works for back ways forwards slips, and Yoda.

On last night’s Republican debate:

– Jeb is fucked. He made no impression at all, once again.

– Kasich is fucked. He was booed.

– The audience was laughing at Trump when he went into his usual script about “we’re losing to blah blah, we’re losing to blah blah, we don’t win anymore” and “I’ve created bilions and billions and billions of jobs”. He’s also fucked.

– Rand Paul got both massive cheering and boos, like always.

– Winners of main debate: Carson, Fiorina, Rubio.

– Rubio will probably be the nominee.

– Cruz was pointless.

– As far as I can tell, Christie promised to go to war with China and to let the police kill as many innocent people as they want.

– Huckaburger did ok in the kids table debate.

– The early debate was nothing but tedious bickering and repetitive nonsense.

– Biggest boo of the night was in response to the moderator accurately stating Hillary’s resume. They’re booing facts.

I’m sorry, I don’t know if this is the right thread for this. I just wanted to give you a PSA.

Do not put install the Photobucket app on your phone. They advertise it as a photo backup app, but PB is a photo SHARING site, and their default settings are to make everything you upload totally public. Even if you make a library or album “Private”, the photo still shows up in PB’s “Recents” page, it just makes it so a person can’t follow the link and see the rest of the album. There is a subreddit with thousands of subscribers that watch the “Recents” page for people who upload things they don’t realize are public, then repost them elsewhere like Imgur. It’s sickening. Neither Reddit nor Photobucket seem to care. And even if Reddit did close them down, they’d just go somewhere else. The problem is Photobucket. So please, spread the word. Do not use PB to backup your personal photos.

@Falconer re: sharing gaming with your SO: It’s the best 😀
And I look at it this way: It’s a helluva lot cheaper than going out! Especially if you have to factor childcare into the equation.

re: a console: There’s apparently a PS4 bundle out right now that includes Fallout 4 😡
But post-holiday / tax return specials are good, too.

@dhag: Games really are a time suck, but, meh, gotta have some vices.
Mine include playing videogames and a teeny touch of sloth, at least if that sloth involves brewing some coffee and curling up under a blanket to read for entirely too long…or wishing that that could happen more frequently.

@dhag85:
I got the same impression. The fanatics have shifted from Trump to Carson, which is both worrying and annoying: worrying because he’s less openly absurd and so stands more of a chance, and annoying because I have a bet riding that Trump will win the nomination.

This is fun:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sht-ben-carson-says-the-complete-collection/#0

^ Yeah.

Trump (who I’m far from a fan of) when asked about the Starbucks cup thing (*eyeroll*) to laugh, “I dunno – boycott them? I don’t really care.”

Carson’s the type to start in on a…very…slow…and…monotone…spiel about the War on Christmas and Christians and the need for people to fight back, etc, etc – and he’d mean every world of it.

Trump’s a showman.

Carson considers himself to be a righteous warrior.

The second’s more potentially damaging.

So what would a Trump presidency actually be like? That’s the part I can’t figure out. His campaign promises are of course horrifying, but on the bright side, we know he’s a man who feels absolutely no obligation to keep his promises. He’s used to be socially liberal and I doubt his heart is really going to be in going after Planned Parenthood in a big way. The obvious role model for him would be Bush W, but I don’t think that playbook flies any more. If he antagonizes the Republican theocrats, then what? Work with Democrats?

Like everyone else, I at first thought the campaign was a money grab / publicity stunt because I didn’t think he was a viable candidate. Then he did well and it looked like he was taking it seriously, so I thought no more of it. But now I realize there’s another reason I thought his run was for publicity: because I can’t imagine why he would actually want to be president.

Thoughts?

Trump would, in my opinion, be a very long way from George W. Bush. Bush was a lightweight, elected as the “MBA President” who would get out of the way and let the corporations make money, not rocking the boat of the post-Clinton boom. He wasn’t a huge showman or a huge personality, but was good at getting along with the business interests. Trump is… none of those things.

I believe he wants to be president because he wants to see how long the ride goes on for. As Orion points out, I think he did it for shits and giggles at first, but when he realised just how weak the opposition was, kept going.

As dhag85 points out, Trump would make a terrible President. I think that’s why people support him: they are now so divorced from reality that nobody sufficiently in touch with reality to govern, is acceptable to them. What they want is the Platonic ideal of an unreasonable egotist, and they found one.