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[Retro]

RETRO'S CANNED SONIC POST:
Sonic was never about speed, it's about momentum. Every game since the series made the transition to 3-D has made that mistake though. Sonic is not a roller coaster, he's a pinball (you'd think having a whole fucking game built on that premise would make it obvious...) . You don't just rev him up and press forward until you beat the level (outside of the intro stages and later iterations); you have to maintain that momentum by avoiding obstacles because the more divergent routes through the levels require you have enough speed to get into them. You're meant to launch out of a half-pipe, see something you never noticed before and try to get enough speed to make it up there, not just pop a sick flip, shout "GOTTA GO FAST!" before grinding on a rail for reasons. Sonic, for the most part, is about memorizing / anticipating things that stop / slow you so you can avoid them, granting access to more rewarding / safer routes.

Also; Castlevania > Mario > Sonic. Come at me, I got Castlevania posts for daaaaaaays.

RETRO'S OBLIGATORY(?) SEMI ON-TOPIC POST:
Samantha Bee's show has grown on me a lot. Comedy Central needs to ditch Trevor Noah and break some glass ceilings of their own.

 

[AntoneM]

You don't think SWM and Chrono Trigger were great games

Spoiler

lol

 

[User1608]

A bit old but I hope Elizabeth Warren ends up supporting legalizing marijuana here in MA. Hell, I hope the proposition wins out. I support people's access to the green.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/08/26/elizabeth-warren-marijuana-question/

I have all of y'all in my prayers. Maybe sweet caramelized baby Jesus can come down and take off his baby sandals and slap some taste into you people.

Pffttt. I'll no sell that slap. I got good taste already!

 

[User 463088]

why not just donate $50 to both

Look, you don't know my struggle. I was raised by these streets, okay? I didn't see a drag queen until I was already a man.

And, ya, that didn't dawn on me....I'm not a smart man.

 

[Debirudog]

I support legalizing weed but damn, I can't stand the smell. It's like funky cheddar brocolli.

 

[Retromelon]

RETRO'S OTHER SONIC POST
So many crazy sentiments flying around
- sonic games are bad, wtf? They had intricate level design, classic tunes, and a unique sense of speed that no other platformers at the time could offer.
- the snes had an amazing library, it was not all "collectathon crap"
- kirby's epic yarn is devoid of challenge, regardless of its artistic merit
- bernie should have won

 

[Crayons]

I support legalizing weed but damn, I can't stand the smell. It's like funky cheddar brocolli.

weed smells great

I love smelling that smell

 

[ampere]

So, tell me fam, should I give more money to Strickland or send it to Ross instead?? I got $100 that needs to go to someone right now.

And, for Kev, $100 is a small denomination of currency us poors use.

Angie Craig needs some dough too fam.

I support legalizing weed but damn, I can't stand the smell. It's like funky cheddar brocolli.

I'm not big on smoke near me. People can smoke, but do it way over there!

 

[Retro]

OTHER RETRO'S SONIC POST

Fixed that for you. =)

Also, maybe it's just me but I've always felt like Kibry's niche is meant to be exactly how the character looks; soft, fluffy and fun. I'm convinced that Kibry games aren't really challenging by design, and that's okay because every now and then a fun little bit of cotton candy is good for the soul. Epic Yarn is literally out to give you the warm fuzzies. I was grinning from ear to ear the whole time I played it.

Also, I'm kind of glad _Retro got banned, it was confusing to see the weird comments about his polarizing posts where people forgot the underscore... not that our paths crossed often.

 

[Amir0x]

The Bannon call out I think will probe the most damning thing going forward because now they can't fire him along with the fact that even if they could it would be the third campaign shakeup further cementing he has no idea how to run this. It also was the perfect time to deflect away from the Clinton Foundation

The mosy illustrative thing about this all was how much these endless campaign fuck ups put to death thr lie that trump only hires the best ppl. He is a joke and a half

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Hannity keeps saying half of the people Clinton met as Secretary of State were donors. Why does he keep lying? How do I regain my sanity?

 

[jiggle]

What does weed smell like?

 

[sc0la]

The mosy illustrative thing about this all was how much these endless campaign fuck ups put to death thr lie that trump only hires the best ppl. He is a joke and a half

I like to deconstruct his list of fuck up hires like in the goonies where they run down all of chunks bs stories.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

What does weed smell like?

Wipe your finger on your taint and then smell it. Now smell sod. Now smell both at the same time. That's what weed smells like.

 

[User 85168]

What does weed smell like?

Jill Stein.

 

[User 463088]

I support legalizing weed but damn, I can't stand the smell. It's like funky cheddar brocolli.

While I would never purchase or partake in marywanna myself because, you know, Drugs are for Squares and I would never, ever, ever do that....

But, theoretically, if I did from time to time enjoy some of the pot, I would only partake in edibles, because my allergies make it impossible to smoke it. Plus, I hate smelling like it. If I had a recipe for pot brownies with marshmallow that were delicious, I would use something like that.

Angie Craig needs some dough too fam.

$25 bucks her way. And I'm tapped out for the week.

What does weed smell like?

Cat piss and bad decisions.

 

[sc0la]

Wipe your finger on your taint and then smell it. Now smell sod. Now smell both at the same time. That's what weed smells like.

In a car that you ran a skunk over with 100 miles back

 

[AntoneM]

What does weed smell like?

True answer: it smells unique like any other burning herb.

 

[Crayons]

since all of you here seem to not be of the pot smoking persuasion, not all weed smells the same! don't be a weedist.

 

[HK-47]

PoliGAF's gaming talk may be the most consistently awful thing this campaign season.

Its easily the hardest thing to read in this thread. And thats with Trump running for President.

 

[shinra-bansho]

You poors and your weed and CoD.
Opiate of the crasses.

 

[GutsOfThor]

What does weed smell like?

My friend said that good weed smells like the asshole of a skunk. Didn't ask him how he knows what a skunks asshole smells like....

 

[Iolo]

What does weed smell like?

Cook some spinach, but accidentally burn it. Voilà

 

[Sibylus]

I live in BC. The constant smell of weed all over the neighborhood has been a formative part of my development.

Spoiler

I don't like it.

 

[Chichikov]

Why the fuck are you guys talking about Sonic?

Anyway, White Fragility Workplace Training Video.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Because Sonic's eyes are actually brown. And he wears coloured contacts.

 

[User 463088]

When I used to work at the low vision clinic, there was a guy who smoked pot like in his car before he would come in to the office. I was in a tiny little room with him for an hour at a time. I got a contact high everytime he came in. That, and the whole room had to be fumigated after he left. It smelled soooo bad.

 

[Grief.exe]

What does weed smell like?

Most posters are probably referring to how it smells when smoked, which admittedly is bad, but it actually smells incredibly good prior to being smoked. I was surprised how good it smells

While I would never purchase or partake in marywanna myself because, you know, Drugs are for Squares and I would never, ever, ever do that....

But, theoretically, if I did from time to time enjoy some of the pot, I would only partake in edibles, because my allergies make it impossible to smoke it. Plus, I hate smelling like it. If I had a recipe for pot brownies with marshmallow that were delicious, I would use something like that.

My wife and I had these phenomenal chocolate key lime edibles. Of course, they are playing with dosages in Colorado since we opened Pandora's Box and the dosage was so high it was actually a bad experience.

 

[jiggle]

My friend said that good weed smells like the asshole of a skunk. Didn't ask him how he knows what a skunks asshole smells like....

Cook some spinach, but accidentally burn it. Voilà

True answer: it smells unique like any other burning herb.

Cat piss and bad decisions.

Wipe your finger on your taint and then smell it. Now smell sod. Now smell both at the same time. That's what weed smells like.

Jill Stein.

So which one is Jill?

 

[Retro]

So which one is Jill?

The smell of half-baked political ideology.

I stole this joke from American Dad.

 

[Piecake]

PURCELLVILLE, Va. -- Mike Pence definitely chose the wrong place to give a stump speech.

Trump's VP nominee railed against Hillary Clinton in northern Virginia Saturday afternoon -- but he chose to do it at an evangelical Christian college with a history of anti-Trump sentiment. Students protested outside, while inside students stood in silent protest until they were ejected mid-speech.

The protests and poor attendance at the speech at Patrick Henry College illustrate the challenges that Trump has appealing to evangelical Christians, especially younger ones, who are turned off by his tone, his campaign ideas and his personal history -- and are not at all assauged by his choice of Pence for his running mate.

"The PHC student body as a whole is very anti-Trump. A lot of them say, 'I don't like him but I'm going to turn up my nose and vote for him because I like Hillary even less.' But overall there is a severe disgust with Trump,” said Sebastian Lopez, a junior studying political theory at the school who was protesting the speech, holding a sign for hours outside in the blazing mid-day sun.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/27/trump-campaign-bombs-in-virginia-again.html

 

[User 463088]

Why the fuck are you guys talking about Sonic?

Anyway, White Fragility Workplace Training Video.

Because Sonic is going to build the wall and Dr. Robotnik is going to pay for it! I'm calling on a freeze on all immigration from the Mushroom Kingdom until we know what the hell is going on. Believe me.

 

[Crayons]

Because Sonic's eyes are actually brown. And he wears coloured contacts.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/27/trump-campaign-bombs-in-virginia-again.html

White Evangelicals are Trump's strongest demo, he's doing better there than Romney or McCain were.

 

[User 85168]

So which one is Jill?

asshole spinach burning piss and sod

 

[eBay Huckster]

So which one is Jill?

"One"?

 

[Spoiled Milk]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/27/trump-campaign-bombs-in-virginia-again.html

Good article, but I have to ask: shouldn't Trump and Pence be campaigning in places that don't like them? Trump got criticized for making African-American outreach speeches outside of black areas. But if Trump makes a speech in an evangelical area that doesn't like him (I thought evangelicals were overwhelmingly for him) then it's the "wrong place to make a speech".

Liberal media bias! Or whatever.

 

[User1608]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/27/trump-campaign-bombs-in-virginia-again.html

The protests for the swing area of Loudoun County continued out in the street outside Patrick Henry College’s main entrance, where students held signs reading ‘PHC is Not Trump Country,” “Immigrants Make America Great” and “For Christ and Liberty, Not Bigotry And Idiocy.”

This warmed my heart.😃 Good to see some truly sane and sensible students over there. Such a disaster though, hah.

 

[Slizeezyc]

I don't check PoliGAF for like a day and I come back to SONIC!?

But yo, anything y'all are DIABLOSing about? I saw Nate's prediction only had Clinton at 81 percent chance of winning, that new? DIABLOS!?

 

[Piecake]

White Evangelicals are Trump's strongest demo, he's doing better there than Romney or McCain were.

http://radiofreegop.com/democratic-convention-recap/

You should listen to that podcast. Two Cruz campaign workers found out that there are two groups of evangelicals. One group goes to church every week and basically lives the evangelical lifestyle, but the other self-identifies as an evangelical and doesnt go to church every week. The first group overwhelmingly supported Cruz while the other supported Trump

This college is obviously filled with some hardcore evangelicals.

 

[User 463088]

I applied to Patrick Henry College when I was a senior in high school. I can't remember if I got accepted or not. I was accepted most places I applied. If I had it to do over, I'd have gone to Flagler College. But, whatever.

Good article, but I have to ask: shouldn't Trump and Pence be campaigning in places that don't like them? Trump got criticized for making African-American outreach speeches outside of black areas. But if Trump makes a speech in an evangelical area that doesn't like him (I thought evangelicals were overwhelmingly for him) then it's the "wrong place to make a speech".

Liberal media bias! Or whatever.

I mean there are so many places that hate them it'd be hard to not go somewhere where people don't like them!

Evangelicals are a complex group of voters, especially the young ones.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Nate Silver is the Sonic of pollsters.

 

[Suikoguy]

Why the fuck are you guys talking about Sonic?

Anyway, White Fragility Workplace Training Video.

This is way better than I expected, especially to anyone who has seen a similar workplace videos.

They nailed the presentation, and the conversations are a bit too close to the target.

Nate Silver is the Sonic of pollsters.

Sometimes gets it right, but most of the the time is an abject failure?

 

[Sibylus]

Nate Silver is the Sonic of pollsters.

wow personal attacks

 

[Slizeezyc]

http://radiofreegop.com/democratic-convention-recap/

You should listen to that podcast. Two Cruz campaign workers found out that there are two groups of evangelicals. One group goes to church every week and basically lives the evangelical lifestyle, but the other self-identifies as an evangelical and doesnt go to church every week.


The first group overwhelmingly supported Cruz while the other supported Trump

This college is obviously filled with some hardcore evangelicals.

So is that just a white person, like, saying he believes in the G-O-D and so he puts himself as evangelical?

ALSO, you have got to be shitting my balls with that Jill Stein tweet from a little back. That's not real, RIGHT!? She didn't tweet about dank memes and then push her followers to follow a new person, tell me 2016 hasn't hit that level and become the even darker timeline.

 

[Holmes]

weed smells great

I love smelling that smell

Get a haircut hippie

 

[TheAbsolution]

Please not Lester Holt. Not in the Presidential debate, at least. He's never hosted a debate before. Plus, I find him tiring. Maybe give him the Veep debate to get his feet wet for 2020 or something.

In what world is Lester Holt tiring?
Lester is bae.
No, but seriously, I think he would make a great debate moderator from what I've seen of his interviews and anchoring on NBC.

 

[sc0la]

I have fragile white coworkers. It is sad. And infuriating.

 

[Piecake]

So is that just a white person, like, saying he believes in the G-O-D and so he puts himself as evangelical?

If I remember right, the podcast makes the point that to get into the right country clubs and interact with the community it makes a lot of sense to simply identify as an evangelical even though you simply might be a 'normal' Christian. Hell, they might even believe it.

Who knows, evangelical might be similar to socialism. Both have definite definitions, but people broaden it to the point of confusion and worthlessness.

 

[shinra-bansho]

They've used the same moderators forever. Why are they mixing it up this year. And not even with diverse options.

wow personal attacks

That gif looks nsfw. Like Sonic.