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The objectively correct "peak gaming" year is 1998.
Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Pokemon Red & Blue, Resident Evil 2, Half Life, Starcraft, Banjo-Kazooie, Grim Fandango, Tekken 3, Thief, Gran Turismo, the list can go on and on and on
American agriculture is one of the most egregious examples of private monopolization in the country I can think of, the government subsidizing key sectors of the economy doesn't mean they're nationalized. Would you consider the fossil fuel industry to be an example of nationalization?
Anyone who treats federal level politics as not a farce or thinks Congressmen get it too rough when people get mad at them for not doing anything while they see their lives get materially worse is being willfully obtuse out of some obligation of institutional reverence imho
If you're a senator and you're not making as much money as you can in your cushy job then you're doing it wrong.
Manchin is a coal baron and his daughter is a literal demon that price gouged epipens btw
It's significantly gone down from Trump days for sure, we're still participating in some insane nonsense like the Yemen blockade and the AUKUS nuclear subs.
Isn't Richard Spencer super loaded because of his family?
We've been screwing with Africa for quite awhile now, not to the extent of Latin America or the Middle East but still quite a bit. The most notable example of this in modern times would be how we disposed of Gaddafi and plunged Libya...
The Guardian is phenomenal until they're covering something that isn't about North America or Western Europe.
In other news, there's been a lot of protests going on right now demanding the end to the US inflaming tensions and supporting the TPLF over in Ethiopia.
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This guy is an absolute monster this game. Besides being the best rocker for offensive oriented teams, Rapid Spin's buff also turns Excadrill into the nightmarishly fast hard-hitting mole that he is in the sand by just doing his job as a Spinner. He's able to switch into 2/3 of LO Clef's...
I'd like to say Jellicent also took a bit of a dive with this ban. Part of his appeal was role compression as reasonable answer to both Darm and Vish. Being able to withstand Icicle Crashes and Flare Blitzes and retaliating in return with a sap or burn was very nice, though he does struggle...
Agreed. If anything that can stand up to it is chipped, he just starts bowling through the entire team. Literally the only way you can beat Scarf Darm lategame is if Icicle Crash misses
Shofu seems to be a reasonable guy, not the absolute greatest player in the world but he knows his stuff and would most likely understand that Darm just isn't okay in 6v6 singles
source: met him at a smash tournament
Just ban him already lol, 95% of this thread is saying he should go. The other 5% is arguing he's not broken by saying shit like not being able to run Life Orb or that you can "counter" him with some niche mon that has zero use outside of staving off a scarfed Icicle Crash
1) Yes, I'm for a ban 100%. I'd honestly prefer Gorilla Tactics to be the one to go as I've stated a couple times in this thread already, but there's no doubt in my mind that this mon is just a carnage machine that warps the meta in a way very mons do in Gen 8.
2) Let's make this fast and...
The anti-Gorilla Tactics ban argument would be better if there were ANY other mon with the ability. As it is, G-Darm is the only one with the ability and it's currently tearing OU a new one while its other ability Zen Mode is a manageable high-risk high-reward set up sweeper whose counterplay is...