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[dramatis]

The sixth Democratic primary debate is taking place at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, produced by PBS NewsHour, Milwaukee Public Television and WUWM 89.7 FM.

The debate will held today, Thursday February 11, and start at 9PM EST. It will be broadcast live on PBS and streamed at PBS's site.

The Debate

Just finished my abridged debate video: 2 hours compressed to ~32 minutes.

https://youtu.be/Ozm1ansFfLM

Enjoy!!

PBS has the full debate and a debate with closed captions up on their Youtube channel.



The Story

The Republican Empire sought to destroy the United States by summoning a giant moon to crash into the region of America, but instead Obama burst out of the moon, blew everything up, and brought about a thousand years of darkness.

Obama as Bahamut

Our brave adventurers will now e-sports on public television in hopes of reviving this very much destroyed and awful country.


Presenting the job classes:

Hillary Clinton as Warrior: this job is supposed to be a tank, but instead bleeds in pursuit of a more aggressive attack style.

Bernie Sanders as Black Mage: this job consists of endless loop spells of two types and is fairly immobile.

This debate is brought to you by the debate moderators, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff.

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Cheers and enjoy the debate.

(For those who are confused, the theme is the MMO Final Fantasy XIV.)

 

[Alucrid]

so what politician is the dragoon of the primaries?

 

[Psychoward]

laughed at "oh shit, first female president" and "uh, my iraq war vote"

strap in fam(s)

edit: over/under 2 pages in we get someone saying they support bernie but would vote trump over hillary

 

[B-Dubs]

Fantastic, bravo good sir!

 

[SolarPowered]

Let the blood flow.

 

[User1608]

Love it!

 

[zeitgeist]

Using FFXIV for this is the coolest thing I've seen today and I just finished Yeezy Season 3.

 

[Killthee]

Never expected to see a FFXIV edition debate OT...LOVE IT!

 

[Ashodin]

I'm in. This stuff is so much fun.

 

[BoboBrazil]

There's a bill up to help end citizen's united. http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/democracy-for-all-amendment

There are links there to send automated emails to your senator asking them to support it. This is one of the big talking points for the democratic party to help them succeed in what they want to do so please do it if you can. You will hear them talk more about citizen's united tonight I'm sure.

 

[K.Sabot]

This is actually the best thing I've seen all day.

 

[AlphaDump]

Well done OP. These threads make me laugh out loud everytime.

Bernie Sanders as Black Mage: this job consists of endless loop spells of two types and is fairly immobile.

Watch out for the jumpshot critical attack tho.

 

[Coriolanus]

I support trump but would vote for bernie.

Just sayin

 

[Mecha]

CNN is also showing it, right?

 

[BoboBrazil]

CNN is also showing it, right?

Yep.

 

[Protein]

The final showdown should be Marvel: CIVIL WAR themed. It would be perfect.

 

[Cyan]

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

 

[User 463088]

This thread is everything. I wish I could watch the debate. I can't, unless someone wants to be my sugar daddy and support my ass so I don't have to work.

 

[Mecha]

Yep.

Can't wait for every talking point they say appear under the screen with "BREAKING NEWS" slapped on it.

 

[Gruco]

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

Minecraft. Pretty sure.

 

[Izuna]

I bet this is exactly like last time. Pfft, might skip and only watch the GOP debate.

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[Jenov]

The fact that you integrated this with FF14 is god-tier debate OP. Great job, dramatis ))

Love the Bernie BLM, it's especially apt, haha

 

[Paskil]

Your charts are incredible. I now know how to politician. Hyped for this! Also, I love Gwen Ifill.

Also, I call bullshit. I'm looking out my Window and Madison looks nothing like that. I was in Milwaukee two weeks ago and can say the same.

 

[RustyNails]

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

Bahamut = final fantasy

 

[Chariot]

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

Bahamut and Blackmage smell more like Final Fantasy.

 

[docbon]

You're using defiance instead of deliverance.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

 

[aspiegamer]

Possible wildcard tonight is the location and crowd. Milwaukee is a very segregated city. Among the worst in the country.

I can confirm that this is an accurate visual representation of this state in February.

 

[studyguy]

Jesus this thread.
Whoops misread. This is what happens when the game doesn't get a patch for so long.

 

[Wilsongt]

Needs o'malley off in a corner drawing AST cards.

 

[BitStyle]

Nice OP

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

Final Fantasy 14

 

[Paskil]

Possible wildcard tonight is the location and crowd. Milwaukee is a very segregated city. Among the worst in the country.
I can confirm that this is an accurate visual representation of this state in February.

I will fight you. Seriously though, I love this thread and wish I could have gotten tickets. I tried to get tickets for the Republican debate there last year and also failed.

 

[vicissitudes]

Oh God, those flowcharts. So good.

 

[Ashodin]

so many hours away.. I'm ready!

 

[Makai]

I missed the last debate. Watching now to catch up! :U

 

[zoozilla]

I'm hyped for moderators who might not be total garbage.

Don't let me down, NewsHour peeps - I have faith in you.

 

[Geist-]

Neogaf rarely disappoints. Very nice OP.

 

[mjc]

Hyped.

I go to UWM but luckily my courses are online this semester. It's a shit show down there.

 

[FutureZombie]

Those flow chart are amazing.

 

[NeoXChaos]

Hillary is going to go after Bernie hard tonight.

 

[dramatis]

Don't get the references. WoW? LoL?

I tried to keep it as little 'MMO' as possible and made some aspects as obvious as I could. Sorry.

In MMOs, jobs/classes usually have 'ability rotations' that refer to the order in which you execute abilities. To optimize damage output, players put out flowcharts similar to the one I made up to show other players the sequences and situations where abilities should be used.

The icons and general theme here are less important than the idea of the flowcharts themselves, basically the idea that the candidates are relatively scripted themselves, just like MMO rotations.

 

[stupei]

Fantastic OP. Trying to figure out when I can time leaving work so that I don't miss any of the debate.

 

[Ashodin]

Fantastic OP. Trying to figure out when I can time leaving work so that I don't miss any of the debate.

This is when working from home has its merits.

 

[Makai]

I hear Hillary has more EXP

 

[studyguy]

So would the Super Delegates be like the ESUNA PLS, PACIFICATION INCOMING for Hillary?

Genuinely curious if the John Lewis bit will come up tonight.

 

[Wilsongt]

Hillary is going to go after Bernie hard tonight.

She's going to {Overpower} him using her {Raw Intuition} while maintaining her {Equilibrium}.

All Bernie can do is {Transpose} those attacks into some sort of {Manawall} or and maybe {Fire} back once or twice.

 

[kirblar]

Hillary is going to go after Bernie hard tonight.

Would wager she's planning to use that Rubio line that was tweeted out earlier tonight.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Hilary going to dominate the debate. Just remember though, whoever wins is the much better option in November than anyone on the republican side.

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Would wager she's planning to use that Rubio line that was tweeted out earlier tonight.

That would be amazing.

 

[Ashodin]

Hilary going to dominate the debate. Just remember though, whoever wins is the much better option in November than anyone on the republican side.

No doubt, any of the Republicans in this election's offering are just terrible candidates all around.

I think Trump did his damage to the party as a whole and they're not going to recover.

 

[gutter_trash]

It being PBS makes it a watchable.

PBS are smart enough to get into a wider variety of issues