Pigeon wrote on Sep 28, 2016, 14:21:
I notice a lot of sorta fast food restaurants have a place for a tip on the receipt or order screen now. I can't help but feel like this is just trying to squeeze extra money out of people or a way to keep advertised prices down while making it up in tips. There is no server like in a traditional restaurant, you order at a counter, get your own drink, and seat yourself. Maybe someone brings your food to you, or buses the the table after you leave, but not always. So I'm hard pressed to figure out what you're tipping for. That they make the food you already paid for? Or, considering you tip before you receive any service in these circumstance, is it 'don't spit in my food' protection money?

El Pit wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 13:23:
It's good to see Divinity: Original Sin 2 up there. If it is as good as the first one, I will be very happy with that they have done with my kickstarter money!

Redmask wrote on Sep 24, 2016, 08:38:
I don't like "The Donald" but given the choices here people don't have much to work with. Clinton represents even more years of the same political malaise, corruption and financial deregulation that people often blame the republicans for. No fucking thank you, between the pair of them I'm not sure there's one human heart that can relate to you or I. You can't even say Clinton stands for anything, shes all over the place on her voting record and has been involved in numerous scandals. "The Donald" stands for Not Clinton which is enough for many people.

It is a real shame we did not get Sanders, it's a fucking depressing state of affairs.

Slick wrote on Sep 24, 2016, 08:16:

Ulster wrote on Sep 24, 2016, 07:23:
There is little doubt that we are heading for real civil unrest. The signs are all there - the absolute and curious inability to find common ground, the wars against police, and the general hatred you see in threads like this all across the internet. You know, Trump supporters are retards and Hillary supporters are liars, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

How did we get to the point where 33% of our population hates another 33% of the same population to this degree? I can assure you that we in the remaining 34% are shaking our heads in disgust.

I swear, it's almost like trolling has become mainstream.

It's really because the president for the last 8 years has been (half) black. That's really it. HE, like Bill Clinton before him have generally improved the big picture stuff like the economy, the environment, and social justice. The fact that when the country was ACTUALLY falling apart back in 2008 after 8 years of Bush Jr, this level of civil unrest didn't exist. Sure people were pissed, but they were optimistic, hopefully for a better tomorrow. Now after 8 years of slow progress (GOP blocking Obama at every turn), there's some real metrics to compare how the country was doing in 2008 and how it's doing in 2016. But for some reason the mass shootings have skyrocketed, the right has gone off the deep end, the left is more neutered than ever (not to mention the new breed of college liberals who are just the worst), and people "feel" like everything is unravelling.

Look at the numbers.

Not everything has been fixed, but Obama got the ship back on tack, that much in undeniable. Well, if you care about facts.

The republicans said that Obama's plans would skyrocket the unemployment from 11% to 20%. During the Republican 2012 primaries, the competitors were claiming that they'd get it down to a whopping 6%. it's now under 5%.

Also what's funny is in the 2012 election cycle, all of the republicans were attacking Obama for the price of gas being so high, and that he would make it $10 a gallon. Today it's $2 a gallon. It's the lowest it's been in a couple decades. I know he had nothing to do with it, it's OPEC, the President doesn't actually control everything. But still, it's just funny how little facts the GOP has to argue with against Obama's policy platform. And since they're stubbornly unwilling to evolve or change with the times, they're backed into a corner, and the only thing they can come up with is outrage, blind fervent outrage, mixed with a healthy helping of racism, bigotry, sexism, and xenophobia.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 13:48:

ItBurn wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 13:19:

Why are you even on this site if you're not a PC gamer?

Presumably because you can enjoy PC games while simultaneously thinking many self-identified "PC gamers" live in an echo chamber of their own making. I don't own a gaming console, and haven't since the N64/PS1 days, but Pachter definitely described PC gamer "culture" to a T.