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Never been to Kings Island, but I've been to its twin location Kings Dominion many times. They have a lot of the same attractions.

I can kind of appreciate the minimalist aesthetic and unified designs of the master system games.

I'm glad there are still people who know how to fix these old machines

I'm going to abstain, because I'm not into it and don't want to skew the results downward. I don't care for them, but I still think they are one of the most important bands of the last 20 years

I can link you to at least 3 videos of cops caught on camera planting drugs while searching a car.

The corporate approved terminology is "LEGO® bricks". LEGO is the name company, not the name of the product. I heard an interview with Rob Schrab shortly after he had been hired to direct The Lego Movie 2, and part of his training was to never call them "Legos". I think it has something to do with the law as it applies to brand dillution when a company name is used as a generic term for the product, they run the risk of losing their trademark. This is why Band-Aid must say "Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages" and can never refer to their own product as "band-aids"

1943 Adventures of Lolo Battletoads Castlevania Ducktales Excitebike Faxanadu Gumshoe Hogan's Alley Ice Hockey Jackal Kid Icarus Legacy of the Wizard Metroid Ninja Gaiden Operation Wolf Punch-Out!! Q*bert RC Pro Am StarTropics Trog! Ufouria Vice: Project Doom Wild Gunmen Xevious Yo! Noid Zoda's Revenge

My kids love it. I tried it and I can understand why it's popular, but it's not for me.

the hand-cranked scrolling is a cool feature:

some of the super rares are just impossible to find.

I just created an account

This chart is joke. So many of these are horribly misplaced. MSNBC for instance, is a center right bastion of a neoliberalism

Card game: The Great Dalmuti, Magic the Gathering, Brawl Dice: King of Tokyo, Perudo Board: Phoenix, Trogdor, Splendor, Twixt, Survive! Escape from Atlantis, RoboRally Other: TokTok Woodman, Kingdomino

I like their hits, but musically its kind of yawn inducing

Incarceration in this country is already a huge problem. People don't need to be grateful for being allowed to live where they were born. Grateful to who? You? Confederate statues are an insult. I'm happy to see them torn down.

I don't know what the percentage is. The problem is you can't read the cops mind, so you don't know what their intention is.

I'm pretty sure that piece of advice (in addition to whatever personal experiences he had) was also referencing this viral video:

this one includes a save system, in game map on the pause screen, and adds the ability to combine ice/wave beams http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1186/

I love the music and atmosphere of Metroid. It could be better, but its still deserves a lot of credit. I think it was the first game that scrolled in four direction?

this was a very interesting essay written by a former cop, explaining how some of the systemic/cultural problems within law enforcement are reinforced and perpetuated: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759

I think the Senate should be abolished. We only need the House of Representatives. The constitution probably needs to be redone from scratch. The world has changed a lot since it was written and it can only be patched and plastered so much. I also think Supreme Court appointments should have term limits.

I really hate our two party system. I think Biden is a terrible candidate, but Trump is an existential threat. In an ideal world I could just vote my conscience with some third party, but in this situation, I really don't know if want to risk a second Trump term. Reworking our electoral system would be one way to fix this problem of always being forced to pick "the lesser of two evils"... National popular/ranked choice voting. There's a reason no other democracy in the world has ever tried to imitate our convoluted electoral college system... Because it makes ZERO sense! yes, yes... I know that would mean California and New York would have more power than Nebraska, but if you are making that argument, you are still thinking of it in terms of each state making a choice and deserving equal representation, rather than viewing it as one country. The fact is smaller, less populated states don't deserved to represented equally to a state with 20x their population. Democracy is simple to understand. One person = one vote. Every vote is counted equally. Ranked choice would eliminate the problem of "throwing your vote away" on a candidate you really want, or having to worry about "splitting the vote" among a popular majority group, and losing to the unified minority.

I just beat Leisure Suit Larry 3

love reading about the process. nice write up.