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[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 191 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tim stop! I already voted for you, I can't vote any harder!!!

Do Jet Grind Radio next and I'll steal the election for you!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want your Dreamcast babies!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

I know it's jet set radio future, but...UNDERSTAND, UNDERSTAND, THE CONCEPT OF LOVE

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

I'm happy that game didn't die with the dreamcast and got ported elsewhere

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 138 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would take a VP that streams himself playing games for 4 years. It would be far better than whatever Vance's plans are.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Vance will be Dick Cheney, but domestically.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Poor couch got shot in the face while hunting

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I suspect that couch has taken plenty of shots in the face already

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well it better apologize then!

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Even Dick Cheney is afraid of what these two will do.

That's gotta mean something...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Fascism is imperialism applied at home."

A ruthless neocon war criminal like Cheney, in a time honored tradition going back to the Romans themselves who viewed the Republic as something for Rome and not its territory, is upset that the inevitable termination of the path of liberalism will be applied to American citizens instead of brown people living on top of the resources he wants.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

If anyone knows what you can get away with in office, it’s Dick Cheney.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, Cheney was a top-notch strategist. Evil, but smart. Vance is just an opportunist with no morals.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I disagree. The only difference in the openly corrupt opportunism between Cheney and Vance is that Cheney owned a construction and oil company.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe I didn't communicate well. I agree they're both openly corrupt opportunists. The difference is that Cheney is also a good strategist.

If Cheney wasn't evil and corrupt, he could have made a really positive impact on the country. Vance doesn't have any useful qualities that I can see, unless you value shamelessness.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What makes you think Vance is a bad strategist and Cheney a good one? Cheney's strategies were unmitigated disasters if you view them as having a goal beyond personal enrichment.

If nothing else the fact that he has to come out in opposition to his own party a decade after his vice presidency proves he made major miscalculations on domestic and party politics.

Vance might be a creepy fascist weirdo but he didn't fall out of the coconut tree as it were, he's part of a political network and directly tied to MAGA strategy. I don't know how personally responsible he is for any of it but dismissing him as completely irrelevant to strategy seems a mistake. Even if he just repeats the strategies of others he's still made himself a part of the process.

I'd even argue that Vance is more of a strategist than Trump is himself, if only because he's provedly literate. He has direct connections to the kingmakers of the modern American fascist/technocrat movement and presumably wasn't just chosen for servility.

Tl;Dr the existence of Vance as a relevant figure in MAGA proves Cheney was bad at strategy, and if it was only about personal enrichment Cheney wouldn't have bothered to say anything.

Tl;Dr;Dr: Was Cheney actually good at strategy, or did people just say he was because they thought Bush was an idiot?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheney wanted to start a war in the middle east for personal enrichment, and he made that happen. That's a huge deal, especially given he was just VP. Yes, terrible for the country, but really quite an accomplishment. I have seen no evidence that Vance has skills beyond just saying what he thinks people want to hear (regardless of accuracy).

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see what you mean, but I think you're sleeping on how much Vance's personal influence has expanded by becoming a national name and counting some chickens before they hatch. I, for one, don't count him out yet as the potential legal successor to an obese old man with cognitive decline and I don't have enough remaining faith in America to consider making that play a bad one.

Here's hoping I'm wrong, and their side will have lost votes by saying the quiet points out loud, not gained them.

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

WMDs found in every Democrat's house.

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Vance would streams himself on a couch.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Vance would streams himself inside a couch.

FTFY. On Onlyfans.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vance would stream casting couch, except in his streams the couch would do the "casting".

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Does that mean the couch-on-Vance action would happen... on another couch ?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 105 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I don’t remember exactly how that story went,” Walz explained of the discrepancies in the narrative, before worrying playfully, “I probably should: The Republicans will, like, accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something, you know how they are.”

Someone told me they imagine me as Tim Walz the other day, and now I see it too.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

I've never seen you and Tim Walz in the same place. So the jury is still out.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what your saying is there's a chance for Presidents Playing Minecraft to actually happen

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That was the best brainrot trend

[–] a_robot@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Why was this down voted? I want to see that happen, it would be hilarious.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He should be going on car talk podcasts and such.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Car Talk stopped making new episodes 12 years ago.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BREAKING NEWS: Tim Walz refuses to build Time Machine, appear on Car Talk. What is he hiding?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The Time Machine. Duh.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

They were finally shut down by Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I’m not a car person but I’m betting there are other popular car podcasts. And in Michigan.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Speaking of which, does anyone know the best way to play Crazy Taxi on PC at 4K? The official PC port is so bad and so outdated that it's completely unplayable.

Dreamcast emulator. Flycast is pretty good.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Emulators with upscaling are almost always the best way to do this. Bonus points if they support dumping textures so you can shovel them through an upscaling algorithm and build an HD texture pack.

[–] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

https://i.imgur.com/H9hrmAM.png The fuck. I'm not gonna infest my feed with this shit, YouTube.

Edit: JFC they now block ALL private browsing. What in the actual fuck?! Freetube isn't working anymore either. I guess I'm done with watching YT now.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s a late 90’s gamer. Golden Eye.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Mario kart 64.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah. I need to see him sweaty in ranked League. That'll bring out the worst in anyone.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Tim Walz would play support and would never rage at his top laner for feeding.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait is the new one out already?!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Nah son, Dreamcast.

[–] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

!andfinally@feddit.uk

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